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Date Sent: 2009-05-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, May 7, 2009 AM edition |
Obama expresses regret for Afghan civilian deaths -- Justice drops case against Lt. Watada
Ambush by an Ally Chills Trust in Iraqi Units -- Obama seeking to trim 2010 budget by $17 billion -- Stress Tests to Show Banks Need Billions More -- For sale in NYC: Torture devices from 16th century -- Senate Aims to Overhaul Troubled Foreclosure Prevention Program -- Bush attorneys who wrote terror memo face backlash -- Abusive Power and the Culture of Obedience - by Bretigne Shaffer -- FBI's Lapses on Terrorist Watch List Put Nation at Risk, Report Warns -- Hillary's Deep Regret? - by Christine Smith -- Bilderberg Group Plans Economic Depression -- HR 814 Supports CAFOs and Restricts Individual Animal Ownership -- Free Ashton Lundeby! - by Will Grigg -- Big Hearing at the Tenth Circuit Today on Painkiller Issue
AZ: John Stuart "Movie Night' Fundraiser this Saturday Night!
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Now Obama expresses regret for Afghan civilian deaths
05-06-2009
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AP
[that he caused] Flanked by the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Barack Obama expressed deep U.S. regret Wednesday for civilian casualties in a deadly incident this week in western Afghanistan, promising "every effort" to avoi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Justice Dept. drops case against war resister Watada
05-06-2009
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Raw Story
The DoJ has dropped its case against 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a war resister who refused Iraq deployment in June 2006 and denounced President George W. Bush’s decision to invade as illegal and immoral.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ambush by an Ally Chills Trust in Iraqi Units
05-06-2009
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NY Times
Sergeant Davis, a member of a small team of American military advisers embedded with an Iraqi Army battalion in this remote town, was dead. Minutes later, Captain Keneally learned that a soldier in that battalion, with whom the advisers had lived and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Hidden Auschwitz message hailed as rare find
05-06-2009
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AP
A note hidden in a bottle by Auschwitz prisoners 65 years ago in a desperate attempt to preserve a small piece of themselves was added Wednesday to the archives of the Polish state-run museum dedicated to the memory of the former Nazi death camp'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama seeking to trim 2010 budget by $17 billion
05-06-2009
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Reuters
[whoopie again] U.S. President Barack Obama, facing criticism over huge budget deficits, will propose on Thursday shaving $17 billion from a 2010 budget that will still hover around $3.5 trillion, administration officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stress Tests to Show Banks Need Billions More
05-06-2009
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AP
Some of the nation's largest banks will be scrambling to demonstrate that they can raise capital after results of government stress tests leaked out, showing many need more funds. The Treasury Department will officially release results later Thur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
For sale in NYC: Torture devices from 16th century
05-06-2009
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NY Times
[let Obama know] For sale soon: a variety of torture devices from the 16th century, including shame masks to enforce silence, a 14-foot table-like rack to stretch the victim's body, and a tongue tearer to punish blasphemers and heretics. Even an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Senate Aims to Overhaul Troubled Foreclosure Prevention Program
05-06-2009
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Washington Post
The Senate today approved a housing bill aimed at addressing the country's growing foreclosure problem, including revamping a troubled government foreclosure prevention program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush attorneys who wrote terror memo face backlash
05-06-2009
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AP
John Yoo, a constitutional law professor at UC Berkeley, is fighting calls for disbarment and dismissal, while Judge Jay Bybee of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals faces calls for impeachment. [then disbar his ass]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Budget Islands For Sale -- Prices Slashed
05-06-2009
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Reuters
Dreaming of a tropical paradise to call your own? Several Australian islands off the Great Barrier Reef are on sale, and thanks to the global recession, they're cheaper than they used to be.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Abusive Power and the Culture of Obedience
05-06-2009
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By Bretigne Shaffer for Campaign for Liberty
Along with this increased authoritarianism come the deeper cultural changes that have every bit as real an impact on the quality of our lives. For the costs brought by the loss of freedom cannot be fully accounted for...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
FBI's Lapses on Terrorist Watch List Put Nation at Risk, Report Warns
05-06-2009
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washingtonpost.com
The FBI has retained almost 24,000 names on the nation's terrorist watch list without current or proper justification, while failing to include people who are subjects of terrorist investigations, according to a Justice Department report...
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Xander Holman
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Deep Regret?
05-06-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, is repeatedly expressing “regret” on behalf of the U.S. government when civilians die because of our military actions.
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Christine -
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News Link • New World Order
Leaked Agenda: Bilderberg Group Plans Economic Depression
05-06-2009
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prisonplanet.com
Elitists divided on whether to quickly sink economy and replace it with new world order, or set in motion long, agonizing depression.
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Reported by:
Xander Holman
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News Link • Food
HR 814 Supports CAFOs and Restricts Individual Animal Ownership
05-06-2009
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Farm Wars
HR 814 - A traceability system to "safeguard our food supply" that applies to individual animal owners that no one other than CAFOs can reasonably comply with.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Police State
Free Ashton Lundeby!
by Will Grigg
05-06-2009
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Pro Liberate
It's been said that a lie is a poor way to say "hello." It is also the standard greeting one receives from government employees, particularly those who carry guns...the pretense was dropped and roughly a dozen armed men in body armor st
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Big Hearing at the Tenth Circuit Today on Painkiller Issue
05-06-2009
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The Agitator
[unbelievable!] A case in Kansas where the government seems to be targeting not only Stephen Schneider, a physician specializing in pain treatment and his wife, but also Siobhan Reynolds, who heads up a pain patient advocacy group
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Star Trek's Warp Drive: Not Impossible
05-06-2009
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Space
Some physicists say the faster-than-light travel technology may one day enable humans to jet between stars for weekend getaways. The science is complex, but not strictly impossible, according to researchers studying how to make it happen.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Star Trek's Warp Drive: Are We There Yet?
05-06-2009
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Space (video)
Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, explains how physicists approach the intriguing possibility of faster-than-light travel.
Credit: Imaginova Studios
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Synthetic Chemical Induces Drought Resistance
05-06-2009
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arclein
For years, scientists have contemplated spraying ABA directly onto crops to enhance their protection in times of stress. But ABA is a costly, complicated and light-sensitive molecule that has not found use in agriculture.
Now new research from the
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Preserved Dinosaur Protein
05-06-2009
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arclein
The end result was a total of eight collagen peptides and 149 amino acids from four different samples, sequences that held up when multiple validation steps were performed, including comparisons with synthetic peptides using a spectral comparison alg
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
WHO Will Ask for Two Shots for Swine and Seasonal Flu
05-06-2009
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Bloomberg.com
The United Nation’s health agency will ask drugmakers to start producing a vaccine for swine strain once they finish making shots for seasonal flu, said Marie-Paule Kieny, director of the WHO’s initiative on vaccine research, in an interview.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Panic Mode: Gun owners running into gun shows to buy ammo?
05-06-2009
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Prisonplanet.com/
Gun owners are also concerned that Obama, despite claiming before the election that he wouldn’t target the second amendment, recently bemoaned the fact that he didn’t have the political power to ban semi-automatic weapons...
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