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Date Sent: 2009-09-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 14, 2009 AM edition |
British government cuts secret deal with Libya to block trial for cop killer
Blagojevich's Major Fundraiser dies before he could talk -- Arming police with syringes to "stop drunk driving" -- Swine Flu Shots to Start in Three Weeks -- Obama To Be First President To Chair UN Security Council -- Bin Laden warns U.S. on Israel, Neocon ties -- China Moves to Retaliate Against U.S. Tire Tariff -- Obama to push financial regulation on Lehman anniversary --
Five Reasons Healthcare is so Expensive - by Scott Decker -- The 9/11
Commission Rejects own Report -- China Probes ‘Unfair Trade’ in U.S.
Chicken and Auto Products -- Tea Party Prescott, Arizona 09-11-2009 -
Ernest Hancock -- I am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now - by Leonard Peltier -- Fed May Have to Raise Rates Early in 2010 -- Did Ben Bernanke really save America's financial system?
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News Link • World News
British government cuts secret deal with Libya to block trial for cop killer
09-13-2009
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London Times
The Libyan killer of a British policewoman will never be brought to justice in Britain after a secret deal approved by Jack Straw.
The Foreign Office bowed to Libyan pressure and agreed that Britain would abandon any attempt to try the murderer of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Blagojevich's Major Fundraiser dies before he could talk
09-13-2009
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AP
The investigation into the convenient death of the former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich intensified as medical examiners completed an autopsy and detectives looked into whether drugs found in the trusted aide's vehicle mig
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
U.S. to Expand Detainee Review in Afghan Prison
09-13-2009
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NY Times
Some of the detainees have already been held at Bagram for as long as six years. And unlike the prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba, these detainees have had no access to lawyers, no right to hear the allegations against them and only
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving
09-13-2009
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AP
When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he'll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver's arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Senator's death in duel prefaced Civil War carnage
09-13-2009
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AP
Nearly two years before the first shots were fired in the U.S. Civil War, simmering hostilities over slavery erupted on a "field of honor" in California, where a pro-slavery judge mortally wounded an anti-slavery senator in a duel.
The duel showed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Swine Flu Shots to Start in Three Weeks as U.S. Cases Spread
9/13/09
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Bloomberg
Swine flu vaccinations may begin in three weeks, earlier than previously anticipated, after the first U.S. tests found a single shot to be effective in eight to 10 days, U.S. health officials said.
The first shots may be available by the end of t
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama To Be First President To Chair UN Security Council
9/09/09
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Rightsoup
Some unprecedented news today, folks. Never in the history of the United Nations has a U.S. President taken the chairmanship of the powerful UN Security Council. Perhaps it is because of what could arguably be a Constitutional prohibition against doi
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bin Laden warns U.S. on Israel ties
09-13-2009
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Reuters
"The time has come for you to liberate yourselves from fear and the ideological terrorism of neo-conservatives and the Israeli lobby," Bin Laden's latest tape said.
"The reason for our dispute with you is your support for your ally Israel, occupyi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China Moves to Retaliate Against U.S. Tire Tariff
09-13-2009
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NY Times
China unexpectedly increased pressure on the United States in a widening trade dispute, taking the first steps toward imposing tariffs on American exports of automotive products and chicken meat in retaliation for President Obama’s decision to levy t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama to discuss financial regulation on Lehman anniversary
09-13-2009
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AP
President Obama plans to use the first anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse to talk about plans to wind down the government role in a financial sector that needed a Washington bailout last year, an administration official said.
Obama's speech
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
The 9/11 Commission Rejects own Report as Based on Government Lies
Sep-11-2009 23:46
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http://www.salem-news.com
Farmer states...“at some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened... I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The [Norad air defense] tapes to
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Charles Gillespie
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
FreedomWorks Rally in DC
09-13-2009
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C-Span
The grassroots group FreedomWorks sponsored a march & rally in Washington to protest "big government." Soeakers include former House Majority Leader Dick Army (R-TX), FreedomWorks Pres. Matt Kibbe, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and many others.
Washington,
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
China Probes ‘Unfair Trade’ in U.S. Chicken and Auto Products
09-13-2009
Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- China announced dumping and subsidy probes of chicken and auto products from the U.S., two days after President Barack Obama imposed tariffs on tires from the Asian nation.
Chinese industries complain that they’re being hu
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Damn Libertarians....
9-12-2009
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orlandosentinel.com
Kaiser, pulled over originally because his car's license plate was not valid, reportedly told the officer that he had neither driver's license -- because he was a Libertarian -- nor Social Security number. He also used that excuse to explain why he d
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Jim Kaiser
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News Link • Propaganda
Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of...
9 yrs. old but KICK
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The Innernet
"Truth cannot live on a diet of secrets, withering within entangled lies. Freedom cannot live on a diet of lies, surrendering to the veil of oppression. The human spirit cannot live on a diet of oppression, becoming subservient in the end to the will
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Charles Gillespie
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News Link • Obama Administration
Tyler Cowens Hits a Home Run
09-13-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
...with a slight stumble around third base, but it looks like he has even learned how to hit the curve ball for power.For years now, many businesses and individuals in the United States have been relying on the power of government, rather than compet
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News Link • World News
12-Year-Old Child Bride Dies In Labor
09-13-2009
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Jezabel
Fawziya Abdullah Youssef, a 12-year-old child bride from Yemen, has died of severe bleeding after spending three days in labor. She was married to a 24-year-old last year; the child she struggled to deliver was stillborn
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News Link • Immigration
Texas governor sends Rangers to Mexico border
09-13-2009
Perry accuses federal government of failing to ‘adequately secure’ zone
HOUSTON - Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growin
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Military
Leo Church: Imprisoned for putting family first
09-13-2009
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Courage To Resist
Leo Church has been transfer to Ft Lewis, Washington to serve the reminder of his eight month prison sentence for being AWOL while taking care of his family.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
American Traffic Solutions, Inc. (ATS) Acquires Steaming Pile of Crap
09/13/2009
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CameraFRAUD
American Traffic Solutions, Inc. (ATS), the second largest provider of automated ticketing and extortion systems in North America, announced the acquisition of Nestor Traffic Systems, otherwise known as a steaming pile of crap.
ATS acquired what w
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News Link • Agriculture
Nobel-winning agricultural scientist Borlaug dies
09-13-2009
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Reuters
Norman Borlaug, the U.S. agricultural scientist who received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing high-yielding crops to prevent famine in the developing world, has died at age 95, Texas A&M University said.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
To Hell With the Economy!
09-13-2009
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Infoshop News / Collin Sick
An economy in which crisis is the normal way of functioning doesn’t fall quite that easily. But when you see the big boys running scared, you know that it’s tottering like a dizzy drunk who has had one too many… and that is the time to push!
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
I am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
09-13-2009
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Counterpunch / Leonard Peltier
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
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Brock Lorber
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Opinion • Motivation
Farm Wars
With the Stroke of a Pen
09-13-2009
Barbara Peterson
With the stroke of a pen, nations are formed, and with the stroke of a pen, they are destroyed. With the stroke of a pen, ideas are also given birth, and hope reborn.
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News Link • Propaganda
Throwing Caution to the Wind
09-13-2009
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Chris Martenson
The number of articles out there in the mainstream press that are designed to create the impression that all is well practically constitute a deluge at this point.
One thing I like to do, especially when an article comes out in a reputable paper l
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News Link • Obama Administration
Taylor Say Fed May Have to Raise Rates Early in 2010 (Update1)
09-13-2009
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Bloomberg
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said yesterday that the government is moving to withdraw some of its support for financial markets.
“He’s right to be pointing out that it’s time to be thinking about it,” Taylor said today. “The Fed’s balance s
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Up
Did Ben Bernanke really save America's financial system?
09-13-2009
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Washington Monthly
Wessel begins with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, as the crisis climaxed. We see the government acting as the ultimate investment banker, an ur-manager for the too-big-to-fail. Bernanke, Geithner, and Paulson shuttle between New York and Washington
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