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Date Sent: 2009-07-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 27, 2009 AM edition |
Tax on 'gold-plated' health care plans gains ground -- US Eyes Private Guards for Afghanistan Bases
More change in U.S.-Cuba policy won't come soon -- U.S. admits it has no case against teen held at Guantanamo -- Iran activists work to elude crackdown on Internet -- Distrust of government blunting Obama's pursuit of new programs -- The Great Reset: United States on the verge of a Soviet style collapse -- Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war comes home
-- Hundreds volunteer for SLU swine flu vaccine study -- Iraq's Kurds
Prepare to Vote and Prove Their Democracy -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.:
The Police Report
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Tax on 'gold-plated' health care plans gains ground
07-26-2009
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Politico
White House officials are embracing a plan to tax "gold-plated, Cadillac" insurance policies, giving momentum to an idea that is receiving bipartisan consideration on Capitol Hill.
"A premium charge on top of the most expensive packages is one of the
ways to ensure that there's a lid on health-care costs," a top
administration official told POLITICO. "The president believes this is
an intriguing idea."
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Eyes Private Guards for Bases in Afghanistan
07-26-2009
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AP
U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan may hire a private contractor
to provide around-the-clock security at dozens of bases and protect
vehicle convoys moving throughout the country. The possibility of awarding a security contract comes as the Obama
administration is sending thousands of more troops into Afghanistan to
quell rising violence fueled by a resurgent Taliban. As the number of
American forces grow over the next several months, so too does the
demand to guard their outposts.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Why are U.S.-allied refugees still branded as 'terrorists?'
07-26-2009
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McClatchy News
Almost every day for three years, prison guards at one of Saddam
Hussein's most notorious prisons tortured Sami Alkarim.
Now, in a cruel twist of fate, the accomplished Iraqi artist is being
treated like a terrorist by the U.S., the country where he sought
refuge. U.S.
officials have told him they can't give him permanent residency in
Denver because of messenger work he did as a teenager for the same
political party that counts the current p
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News Link • Corruption
Senate confirms Rep. Clyburn's daughter to FCC post
07-26-2009
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McClatchy News
The Senate on Friday unanimously approved Mignon Clyburn's
appointment by President Barack Obama to a five-year term on the
Federal Communications Commission.
The Senate
confirmation vote places the eldest daughter of a powerful congressman,
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, on a key oversight agency at a
turbulent time for media and other telecommunications industries.
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News Link • Corruption
Former Florida House speaker seeks delay in probe
07-26-2009
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McClatchy News
Former Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom insists he did not misuse
his position when he funneled tens of millions to a state college that
later hired him, but he wants a legislative panel to delay its
investigation until after his criminal trial.
"Rep.
Sansom denies all of the probable cause allegations'' outlined in a
report by an investigator hired by the House, reads a letter delivered
Friday to Rep. Bill Galvano, the Bradenton Republican who will oversee
the tribunal.
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News Link • Corruption
Some Florida officials using lobbyists' private planes
07-26-2009
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McClatchy News
Rather than drive or fly commercial planes, a small group of
lawmakers has billed taxpayers for the convenience of getting to
Tallahassee on private planes -- some of them linked to lobbyists and
companies with a stake in the decisions legislators make.
The 19 Democratic and Republican legislators took private flights
totaling more than $37,000 during the recent legislative session, state
records show. That represents a fraction of the state's $66.5 billion
budget, but it raises questions about the relationships between
lawmakers and the groups seeking their votes. And in a time of deep bud
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama: More change in U.S.-Cuba policy won't come soon
07-26-2009
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McClatchy News
President Barack Obama said Friday that he's open to more overtures
to Cuba, such as lifting restrictions on academic travel to the island,
but not without signs of changes from the government in Havana.
"We're not there yet,'' he said. "We think it's important to see
progress on issues of political liberalization, freedom of the press,
freedom of assembly, release of political prisoners in order for there
to be the full possibility of normalization between our two countries.''
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News Link • TERRORISM
New direction in terror fight may stem from case
07-26-2009
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AP
When the American-born al-Qaida recruit Bryant Neal Vinas was captured
in Pakistan late last year, he wasn't whisked off to a military prison
or a secret CIA facility in another country to be interrogated. Instead, the itinerant terrorist landed in the hands of the FBI and was flown back to New York to face justice.
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News Link • Iran
Iran activists work to elude crackdown on Internet
07-26-2009
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AP
"I think the Iranian government is learning quickly how to control
and contain these things," said the executive director of
The Tor Project whose free
downloadable Tor program allows Internet users to work through a
network of relays run by volunteers around the world to access blocked
sites and hide what they are doing on the Internet. Active sessions
using Tor in Iran have jumped from a few hundred before the election to
thousands after, the nonprofit group said.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Distrust of government blunting Obama's pursuit of new programs
07-26-2009
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McClatchy News
If President Barack Obama got anything indisputably right at his
news conference this week, it was this: The American people don't trust
the federal government.
That's a major reason he's having
such a hard time selling his plan to overhaul the nation's health care.
Even if they like Obama himself, people just don't think that the
government can handle anything big, let alone something as personal to
them as their health care.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war comes home
07-26-2009
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Colorado Springs The Gazette
Before the murders started, Anthony Marquez’s mom dialed his sergeant at Fort Carson to warn that her son was poised to kill.
It was February 2006, and the 21-year-old soldier had not been the same since being wounded and coming home from Iraq
8 months before. He had violent outbursts and thrashing nightmares.
He was devouring pain pills and drinking too much. He always packed a
gun.
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
Fema Sponsored Multi-National Martial Law Training to Begin Soon
07-26-2009
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www.iammilitia.org
Mark
your Calendars from July 27th to July 31st, for FEMA's Martial Law
testing. The following information can be found on the FEMA site.
Members of the militia should raise your alert status during these
operations, especially in the area of operations. Multi-national
forces will be participating.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Iraq's Kurds Prepare to Vote and Prove Their Democracy
07-26-2009
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Time Magazine via Yahoo news
The Kurdish provinces of Iraq
are a world apart from the country inhabited by their fellow citizens.
Basic services like electricity and fuel are good and increasingly
available to all Kurds.
Booming foreign investment has created a business culture complete with
plans for a golf course as part of a gated-community outside the
capital city of Erbil. There have been no U.S. combat fatalities in the
autonomous Kurdish region since the fall of Saddam Hussein,
in 2003. But there's one thing the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG)
can no longer lord over the struggling central government in Baghdad:
democracy.
"The KRG has a democracy gap with Baghdad," says Quil Lawrence, author of Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East.
"After years of counting on American support because of its
pro-Western, secular and, most importantly, pro-democratic image, the
Kurdish parliament looks like a rubber stamp s
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Police Report
07-26-2009
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Smoking Gun
Here is the police report detailing the confrontation
between Harvard professor Henry Gates and Cambridge cops,
who were condemned by President Barack Obama for acting
"stupidly" in arresting the African-American scholar. Cops responded to
Gates's house after neighbor Lucia Whalen reported spotting "two black
males with backpacks" trying to gain entry to the home (Gates,
returning home from a trip overseas, and his driver were contending
with a stuck front door). The Cambridge Police Department reports,
authored by Sergeant James Crowley and Officer James Figueroa, quote an
incensed Gates yelling, "This is what happens to black men in
America!," and, when asked by Crowley to speak with him outside the
residence, Gates replied, "ya, I'll speak with your mama outside." A
disorderly conduct rap was filed against Gates, but quickly dropped by
prosecutors. Gates is reportedly considering legal action against the
Cambridge polic
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