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Date Sent: 2009-04-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 29, 2009 AM edition |
U.S. Sets Fight in the Poppies to Stop Taliban -- Top lawmaker wants mileage-based tax on vehicles
Milan Police seize UBS, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank Funds -- Official Defends Signing Interrogation Memos -- Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade -- Global Financial Collapse - Experience from Argentina -- Ron Paul's Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009 -- GOP lawmakers propose taking impact fees -- Swine-flu outbreak could be linked to Smithfield factory farms -- Online Gambling Law Coming: Rep. Franks -- The Root of All the Crises - by Christine Smith
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Sets Fight in the Poppies to Stop Taliban
04-28-2009
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NY Times
American commanders are planning to cut off the Taliban’s main source of money, the country’s multimillion-dollar opium crop, by pouring thousands of troops into the three provinces that bankroll much of the group’s operations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Top lawmaker wants mileage-based tax on vehicles
04-28-2009
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AP
A House committee chairman wants Congress to enact a mileage-based tax [in addition to the gas tax] on cars and trucks to pay for highway programs now rather than wait years to test the idea. [and track you with mandated GPS recorders]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Milan Police seize UBS,JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank Funds
04-28-2009
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Bloomberg
Milan's financial police seized 476 million euros($620 million) of assets belonging to UBS AG,Deutsche Bank AG,JPMorgan Chase & Co and Depfa Bank Plc amid a probe into alleged fraud linked to the sale of derivatives.
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bailouts
Corporate CFR Members Get Most of the Bailout Money
04-29-2009
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The New American
The man in charge of administering the bailouts is Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who served as a staff member of the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Torture
Official Defends Signing Interrogation Memos
04-28-2009
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NY Times
Judge Jay S. Bybee broke his silence on Tuesday and defended the conclusions of legal memorandums he had signed as a Bush administration lawyer that allowed use of several coercive interrogation practices on suspected terrorists.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade
04-28-2009
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Reuters
"Playground," which premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, looks at the child sex trade in the United States and discrepancies in laws and the perception of the exploitation of foreign and U.S. children.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Camera tickets generate big bucks for Tempe, Redflex
04-28-2009
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www.azcentral.com/
Tempe City Council wanted to make it clear Thursday that the $2.9 million increase in Tempe's contract for speed-enforcement cameras was funded with ticket revenue, not city dollars. The council unanimously approved increasing the cap on the amou
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Thomas Costanzo
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Feature Article • Activism
The Motionless Movement by Larken Rose
Thomas Costanzo
First, the good news: The pro-freedom "movement" is seeing a dramatic growth spurt. All sorts of people, from all walks of life, are coming to realize that our "protector" government is the main thing that we need to be protected
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Global Financial Collapse - Experience from Argentina
04-28-2009
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Revolutionary Politics
In 1900, Argentina use to be one of the richest, most promising countries in the world. The bankers destroyed it in the end.
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Reported by:
istvan lettang
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News Link • Agriculture
The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009
04-28-2009
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www.examiner.com/
Texas Republican Ron Paul, along with ten co-sponsors, is once again seeking to allow for the commercial farming of industrial hemp. House Bill 1866, The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009, would exclude low potency varieties of marijuana from feder
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Internet
The Wayback Machine: lets you check out what was on a website at any point in the past
04-28-2009
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http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The res
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Food
Seed Viability and Germination Testing
04-28-2009
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Expert Village
Learn how to test your saved seeds for viability before planting.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
How one state cheats its taxpayers to award the wealthy
04-28-2009
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Capitol Media Services
Tax credits designed to lure Hollywood producers to make their films in Arizona actually lost the state $6.3 million last year, a new report states. [But can we cut this tax credit?...heck no!]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
10 year old Holly Steel - I Could Have Danced all Night
04-28-2009
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Youtube (Britain's Got Talent)
10 year old ballerina Holly Steel singing "I could have danced all night," from My Fair Lady on Britain's got Talent. [nice]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Charges Now Filed Against Baxter Labs- Plaintiff live tonight (04-29-2009) on Plains Radio Network
04-29-2009
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Plains Radio Network
The person who has filed charges against the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday will be live on the Plains Radio Network’s - Freedom Fighter Radio Show..8-10 pm central, 9-11 pm est.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School resource officers will stay armed
04-28-2009
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AZ Republic
The Tolleson Police Department and Tolleson Elementary School District held a community meeting at Arizona Desert Elementary School, where Officer Ray Granillo shot himself in his right middle finger during early dismissal last week.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
GOP lawmakers propose taking impact fees
04-28-2009
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East Valley Tribune
Republican legislative leaders are proposing to fix part of their budget problems by taking $210 million that cities have collected from developers. All it does is put the burden back on the rest of the taxpayers â€" taxpayers whose own home prices inc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Swine-flu outbreak could be linked to Smithfield factory farms
04-28-2009
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AP
The outbreak of a new flu strainâ€"a nasty mash-up of swine, avian, and human virusesâ€"has infected 1,000 people in Mexico and the U.S., killing 68. The World Health Organization warned the outbreak could reach global pandemic levels.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Online Gambling Law Coming: Rep. Franks
04-28-2009
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Reuters
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, said he would introduce a bill next week to overturn a 3 -year-old U.S. ban on Internet gambling. The legislation, likely to be opposed by anti-gambling Re
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Hates Americans for their Freedoms
04-28-2009
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Daily Newscaster
Seems employees at the Department of Homeland Security can’t get enough of sending hate mail from their DHS computers.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
LA Times: Two L.A. County deaths possibly related to swine flu, coroner says
04-28-2009
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LAtimes.com
Updated at 9:30 a.m.: Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said his office would collect specimens from the deceased and send them to the county public health department, which would determine whether either person died from the swine flu.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
The Root of All the Crises
04-27-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
Fearful of the unknown future, many people look to anyone promising comfort. This, of course, plays right into the politicians’ hands.
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Christine -
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News Link • Food
Monsanto's Global Pollution Legacy
04-28-2009
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SourceWatch
Do we really want to eat food created by Monsanto and sprayed with Monsanto’s chemicals? Before we take another bite, a bit of research is in order.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Housing
Case Shiller Index: Phoenix Home Prices Have Fallen More Than 50%
04-28-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Home prices in Miami and Los Angeles have fallen back to the first half of 2000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
DEAR SANTA CLAWS: HERE IS WHAT I WANT FOR THIS YEARS SOLSTICE CELEBRATION. A WISH LIST FOR FREEDOM
04-28-2009
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deadlinelive.info/
Dear Satan, er I mean Santa, First of all I have always wanted to know… Why the red suit and free toys? Are you a commie dude? And what’s with these lists you keep? Naughty or Nice? If your not with Santa your with the terrorists? Speaking for myself
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Thomas Costanzo
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