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Date Sent: 2009-06-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition, June 27, 2009 Saturday edition |
Obama Reasserts Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely -- House Passes Climate Bill
Arizona HCR2014: National Health Care Nullification -- Is Global Warming Part of Earth's Natural Cycle: MIT Team Says "Yes" -- Harrisburg chapter of NAACP urges martial law -- Sanford: King David Didn't Resign, So Why Should I? -- Five Banks Are Seized, Raising U.S. Failures This Year to 45 -- How Bad Is the Recession? Check New Home Sales -- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms -- Jobless Claims to Force 30 States To Borrow Funds from Fed. Govt. -- Retirement: Is 80 the New 65?
AZ: Charles Goyette at the Arizona Breakfast Club this morning
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News Link • Bill of Rights
White House drafts executive order to allow indefinite detentions
06-26-2009
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RawStory.com
Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
In Close Vote, House Passes Climate Bill
06-26-2009
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Washington Post
The House narrowly passed an ambitious climate bill that
would establish national limits on greenhouse gases, create a complex
trading system for emission permits and provide incentives to alter how
individuals and corporations use energy.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Final House Vote on Cap-and-Trade
06-26-2009
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Campaign for Liberty
Since this is such a high priority issue for the Obama administration,
it's amazing that the margin was this thin. Incredibly, 44 Democrats
voted against the legislation. That would not have happened without
your efforts.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Obama Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely
06-26-2009
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Washington Post
Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that
could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are
crafting language for an executive order that would reassert
presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely,
according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White
House deliberations.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona HCR2014: National Health Care Nullification
06-26-2009
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10th Amendment Center
Right on the heels of a successful state-by-state nullification of
the 2005 Real ID act, the State of Arizona is out in the forefront of a
growing resistance to proposed federal health care legislation.
This past Monday, the Arizona State Senate voted 18-11 to concur
with the House and approve the Health Care Freedom Act (HCR2014). This
will put a proposal on the 2010 ballot which would constitutionally
override any law, rule or regulation that requires individuals or
employers to participate in any particular health care system.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Is Global Warming Part of Earth's Natural Cycle: MIT Team Says "Yes"
06-26-2009
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Daily Galaxy
A team of MIT scientists recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide
increase in methane levels -the first increase in ten years. What
baffles the team is that this data contradicts theories stating humans
are the primary source of increase in greenhouse gas. It takes about
one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern
hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Harrisburg chapter of NAACP urges martial law
06-26-2009
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Patriot News
[beggin for it] The Harrisburg Chapter of the NAACP is calling on Pennsylvania Gov. Ed
Rendell to suspend some civil liberties and impose martial law in the
city to halt the wave of recent lawlessness.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sanford: King David Didn't Resign, So Why Should I?
06-26-2009
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TPMuckracker video
And the South Carolina governor started out by using an interesting
comparison to respond to calls for his resignation. King David didn't
back down after his own sex scandal, he told his colleagues, and
neither will I.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Five Banks Are Seized, Raising U.S. Failures This Year to 45
06-26-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Five U.S. banks with total assets of about $1.04 billion were seized by regulators, pushing this year’s tally of failures to 45 as a recession drives up unemployment and home foreclosures.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Greenpeace Opposes Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
06-26-2009
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ecoPolitology
[a little late] A day after President Obama threw his support
behind the American Clean Energy and Security Act, one of the world’s
most prominent environmental advocacy organizations has come out in
strong opposition to the bill, which is set to go to a full vote on the
House floor as early as Friday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Lure of Sex Can Drive Roaches to Their Deaths
06-26-2009
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LA Times
In the long and seemingly futile quest to build a better roach trap,
researchers have finally identified the come-hither chemical of the
female German cockroach and produced a synthetic version that makes
males come running in less than nine seconds.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Woman Alleges Rape at Georgia Police Station
06-26-2009
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Officer.com
A woman is suing the city of Woodstock and a narcotics officer she said raped her at a police station. She said the incident happened after she agreed to work as a confidential informant after a drug arrest.
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Reported by:
Justin Tyme
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Washington Officer Indicted in Man's Death
06-26-2009
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Officer.com
A police officer was indicted on federal civil rights charges over a fatal confrontation with a developmentally disabled man who was struck and Tasered in 2006 at a Spokane, Wash., convenience store.
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Reported by:
Justin Tyme
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News Link • Housing
How Bad Is the Recession? Check New Home Sales
06-26-2009
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NYtimes.com/
There have been bad housing markets before, but never in post-World War II history has the market for new homes suffered as badly as it has in this decline.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
06-26-2009
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ARM
A declaration by the representatives of the united colonies of North America, now met in Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Climate Change
A Damn Good Rogering
06-26-2009
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Paul Driessen
Only a world-class narcissistic lunatic could take credit for the sun and empty your wallet for the privilege of being slapped silly.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobless Claims to Force 30 States To Borrow Funds from Fed. Govt.
06-26-2009
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CNBC.com
"We are setting the stage for big pressures for states to restrict eligibility and benefit levels," McHugh said. "Those type of restrictive actions undercut the (Depression-era program's) economic and social stability purposes."
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Retirement: Is 80 the New 65?
06-26-2009
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CNBC.com
It’s largely due to two things: “Their retirement nest eggs have taken a hit,” and they are increasingly aware that “they might be one of the people who lives to " not just 80, but " 90, 95 or 100,” Zultowski explained.
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Jack Gregson
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