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Date Sent: 2009-10-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, October 8, 2009 AM edition |
Health bill costs $829B, cover 94% -- Final est. US budget deficit: $1.4 trillion
NYC mayor unveils $1.5 million gunshow sting -- Banned From Churches, Sex Offenders Go to Court -- Federal SWAT Raid Over . . . Orchids -- Goyette: Obama, White House & DC fixing US economic crisis? -- Hotel defaults, foreclosures rise in CA -- IL Finances A Mounting Crisis -- Reverse mortgages ripe for abuse -- Pakistanis Balk at US Aid Package -- Gold may hit $1,500 soon -- Code Pink rethinking anti-Afghan War stance -- Wall Street Titans Use Aliases to Foreclose on Families -- Mom & Pop US Pot Growers Beat The Mexican Cartels -- Continental Congress 2009 - by Howard Blitz -- Alan Grayson And Ron Paul Ask Whether Bernanke Is "Fit To Serve" -- Congressional land grab for developers? -- DHS Funds Body Signals Scan -- Obama under fire over falling dollar -- Rep. Waters: 'Many members' suffer from disclosure problems like Rep. Rangel -- The Obama Justice Department's Secret Blogging Team… Is it Illegal? -- If Your Bank's on This List Your Money's Not Safe -- Calif. Chief Gets His Guns After Restraining Order Confusion
AZ: Breakfast today with Talk Show Host Jeff Farias; Vaccine Meeting tonight at Warehouse
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News Link • Healthcare
Health bill would cost $829B, cover 94 percent
10-07-2009
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AP
Health care legislation drafted by a key Senate committee would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-year cost of $829 billion, congressional budget experts said Wednesday, a preliminary estimate trumpeted by the White Hous
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Final estimate for U.S. budget deficit:$1.4 trillion
10-07-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. government spent a record $1.4 trillion more than it collected in the fiscal year ended September 30, congressional analysts said. Bank bailouts, stimulus spending and declining tax revenues due to a deep recession led the government to post
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man arrested for Tweeting, which leads to raid on home
10-07-2009
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Photography is not a crime
In what may be the first of its kind, a man was arrested for using Twitter to notify protesters of police whereabouts in a case that shockingly violates First Amendment rights.
Elliot Madison, 41, was arrested along with another man during the G-2
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Oklahoma trooper once again accused of using excessive force
10-07-2009
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Carlos Miller
It was only a matter of time before Oklahoma State Trooper Daniel Martin would make headlines for losing his temper.
The trooper who made national headlines in May when he assaulted a paramedic on video for not yielding is now being accused of usi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Weeks before election, NYC mayor unveils $1.5 million gunshow sting
10-07-2009
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Rawstory
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg released videos at 2 p.m. Wednesday that show violations of gun laws in three other states in a sting operation he authorized that cost city taxpayers $1.5 million and comes weeks before his bid for re-election.
Th
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News Link • Police State
The Hardin Saga: Waiting for the Punchline
10-07-2009
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Pro Liberate
Thanks to the less-than-visionary "leadership" of its municipal government, the friendly residents of the beautiful town of Hardin, Montana are burdened with $27 million in debt for a huge, empty prison and a business deal with a shadowy mercenary gr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Banned From Churches, Sex Offenders Go to Court
10-07-2009
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AP
Convicted sex offender James Nichols said he was trying to better himself by going to church. But the police who arrested him explained: The church is off-limits because it has a daycare center.
Now Nichols is challenging North Carolina's sex-offe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Scenes From a Crackdown
10-07-2009
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video The Agitator
My crime column this week is on the police response to the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Check out this video. Everything up to the macing is terrifying enough. But then there’s the macing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Federal SWAT Raid Over . . . Orchids
10-07-2009
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The Agitator
You don’t need to know. You can’t know.” That’s what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her home to a furious search.
The agents who sp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Roundup of New Police Professionalism
10-07-2009
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The Agitator
Eighth Circuit panel upholds qualified immunity for Missouri police chief sued for sexual assault and tasering the husband of the woman he was assaulting when the husband objected. It’s the third time the chief has been sued for inappropriate conduct
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Not 'Just Another Casualty'
10-07-2009
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Washington Post
Even before the body of 1st Lt. Jonathan Brostrom reached the United States, his brigade commander was on the phone to the young officer's father in Honolulu.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Books
Goyette: Obama, White House & DC fixing US economic crisis? (Part 2)
10-07-2009
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Youtube
Can Obama, Washington, DC & Congress fix US Economic crisis, recession, Dollar & economy? Will Obamas bank bailout, stimulus, Republicans, Democrats, Ron Paul fix recession? Read The Dollar Meltdown, Charles Goyette.
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
Daily Show: Obama will tackle ‘The Gay After Tomorrow’
10-07-2009
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Rawstory
President Barack Obama's advisors say he can't end the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy because he has so many other important issues on his plate.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart believes the president needs a bigger plate.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Hotel defaults, foreclosures rise in California
10-07-2009
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LA Times
More California hotels are being pushed into foreclosure as tourists and businesses alike scale back their travel plans and owners are unable to pay their mortgages.
Statewide, more than 300 hotels were in foreclosure or default on their loans as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
IL Finances A Mounting Crisis
10-07-2009
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CBS
The State of Illinois' pile of unpaid bills has grown to a record-breaking $3 billion. Comptroller Dan Hynes said. Some social service agencies that rely heavily on state reimbursement warn they will soon be forced out of business.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Pakistanis Balk at U.S. Aid Package
10-07-2009
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Washington Post
The Obama administration's strategy for bolstering Pakistan's civilian government was shaken Wednesday when political opposition and military leaders there sharply criticized a new U.S. assistance plan as interfering with the country's sovereignty.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Code Pink rethinking anti-Afghan War stance
10-07-2009
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Rawstory
The anti-war group Code Pink, which rose to prominence with high-profile protests against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over the past 7 years, is softening its stance against the war in Afghanistan over concerns that a troop withdrawal could harm wom
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
DPS Corrupted from Photo Radar Cash?
10/7/2009
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CameraFRAUD
Exclusive " Two serious accidents. Two remote areas. One common link: a photo radar van was there.
As DPS prepares to hail photo enforcement as the savior of Arizona’s highways once again, they may be covering up violent and deadly accidents actua
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News Link • Housing
Reverse mortgages ripe for abuse, consumer group says
10-07-2009
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McClatchy News
Consumer advocates say a growing number of older homeowners and a new crop of eager lenders could steer the reverse mortgage industry down the same financial course that toppled the subprime mortgage market and left taxpayers footing the bill.
In
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Poll: Almost half of Americans won't get H1N1 vaccine
10/07/09
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Wink News
A new survey finds nearly half of Americans do not plan to get the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine.
The numbers came on the same day the government introduced a new checklist to help people figure out if they have the illness.
ER doctors at Fawcett Me
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's freak show
10/06/07
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Worldnet Daily
I hope all you folks who voted for "change" have learned your lesson.
I, too, was happy to see George W. Bush go. I was also happy we didn't get another Clinton in the White House. And, it's no secret I didn't like John McCain.
But this guy,
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Books
Thoughts on "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
10-07-2009
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Thinkactlive's Blog
I recently read “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe. This book is about a group of people back in the 60’s who used LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) and wanted to share the experience with the whole world. A friend who knew about my daydre
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Anita Barnett
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News Link • Precious Metals
Investors cling to gold as prices surge
10-07-2009
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Financial Times
“The selling is not materialising,” said James Steel, echoing a view held by other analysts and traders. Jon Spall, gold specialist at Barclays Capital in London, added: “No one is saying ‘this is enough, let’s sell’.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Wall Street Titans Use Aliases to Foreclose on Families While Partnering With a Federal Agency
10/07/2009
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GodLikeProductions.Com
A federal agency tasked with expanding the American dream of home ownership and affordable housing free from discrimination to people of modest means has been quietly moving a chunk of that role to Wall Street since 2002. In a stealth partial privati
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
What It Feels Like To Be A Libertarian
10-07-2009
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John Hasnas Professor Georgetown University
I’ll tell you. It feels bad. Being a libertarian means living with an almost unendurable level of frustration. Imagine spending two decades warning that government policy is leading to a major economic collapse, and then, when the collapse comes, wat
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chaos at Cobo: Detroiters turn out for federal help
10-07-2009
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The Detroit News
Thousands hoping to get applications for federal help on rent and utility bills turned Cobo Center into a chaotic scene today. They came by foot, wheelchair, bicycle and car. About six left by ambulance after tensions rose and people were trampled.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Immigration
Sheriff Joe Press Confernece
10-07-2009
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YouTube - AZGOPcomm's Channel
Sheriff Joe Arpaio holds a news conference reacting to the Dept. of Homeland Security's decision to strip deputies of their ICE agent status. Maricopa County Andrew Thomas and Attorney Eric Dowell also make comments.
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Continental Congress 2009
Continental Congress 2009
10-07-2009
Howard Blitz
On September 5, 1774 fifty-five individuals from twelve of the thirteen colonies met at what is now called Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The meeting is known as the First Continental Congress. These individuals met for almost a full two months
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News Link • Drug War
Mom & Pop U.S. Pot Growers Beat The Mexican Cartels
10-07-2009
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The Business Insider
Mexico may have more pot, but we've got the good stuff.
Small U.S. marjuana farmers grow small but potent strains, some of it for legal medicinal use.
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News Link • Media: Television
Why Is Goldman Advising CanWest On Its Programming Line Up?
10-07-2009
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Zero Hedge
When a few weeks ago we presented the concept of certain banks stealthy encroachment into the media world we were half joking. After all, the FCC would never allow Wall Street entities, even with equity control, to have a say in program line up and c
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Alan Grayson And Ron Paul Ask Whether Bernanke Is "Fit To Serve"
10-07-2009
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Zero Hedge
Even as Grayson fights for transparency (see full letter below) which would only be beneficial to U.S. taxpayers, of whom Maria Bartiromo
You think you and your colleagues in the Democratic party are going to slow down the spending? Perhaps that co
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News Link • Race Baiting
When a pot calls a kettle “black,” is that “racist”?
10-07-2009
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Newsreal
Those irony-deficient “senior fellows” at Media Matters are at it again. Today they’re pretending to be outraged by the Washington Time’s “fabricated” accusations of “racism” " which is a little like Vice President Joe Biden accusing someone of plagi
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News Link • Corruption
Piracy on Treasure Island
Congressional land grab for developers?
10-07-2009
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Washington Times
Politicians with ties to land developers are trying to force the Navy to hand over one of the most valuable pieces of property in the country for free.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Recession-Hit US Falls Further Into The Red
10-07-2009
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SKY News
The US has fallen even further into the red, with its budget deficit reaching a record level.
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News Link • Surveillance
FAST: DHS Funds Body Signals Scan Project
10-07-2009
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Mondo Frazier
If a Dept of Homeland Security-funded project is successful, airport travelers in the near future will be scanned for body signals. It’s being touted as “convenient”, and it will be"if your signals are just right. But if they’re too high or too low,
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Corruption
Rep. Waters: 'Many members' suffer from disclosure problems like Rep. Rangel
10-07-2009
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The Hill
"Many members" of Congress suffer from the same disclosure issues as Rep. Charles Rangel (D.N.Y.), one of his allies said Wednesday.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) downplayed the seriousness of allegations against Rangel that he failed to disclose
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News Link • Currencies
Obama under fire over falling dollar
10-07-2009
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Financial Times
The sharp fall in the US dollar is giving ammunition to the critics of the Obama administration and fuelling broader concerns about the erosion of America’s reserve currency status.
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News Link • Climate Change
Arctic Ice Thickens: NYT Environment Writer Commits Global Warming 'Heresy' Again
10-07-2009
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Newbusters
Remember the artificial panic pervading the CBS "Early Show" just a little over a year ago that, for the first time in history, the North Pole may not be covered with ice sometime during the summer of 2008? Well, not only did it not happen but eviden
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News Link • Constitution
The Obama Justice Department’s Secret Blogging Team… Is it Illegal?
10-07-2009
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Publius Forum
Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda.
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News Link • Corruption
Ethics Now Tops Economy As #1 Issue
10-07-2009
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National Legal & Policy Center
When former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was heard on FBI wiretaps selling President Obama’s Senate seat, Obama first called for a special election. When it looked like a Republican might win, Obama acquiesced to Blagojevich’s appointment of lau
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Revenge of the Golden Goose
10-07-2009
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American Thinker
Unfortunately, current debates over these hikes obscure a key fact for those uneasy with Obama's plans: the goose the lays the golden eggs will fight back, and though not a betting man, I'd bet on the goose.
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News Link • General Opinion
If Your Bank’s on This List Your Money’s Not Safe
10-07-2009
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Daily Reckoning
You may want to pull your money out immediately if your bank is on this updated unofficial list of troubled banks.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Calif. Chief Gets His Guns After Restraining Order Confusion
10-07-2009
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Officer.com
"Now there's no order restricting him from going near my clients," Thompson said. "Now there's no order preventing him from calling or investigating or doing whatever he can to put my clients in fear."
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Pandemic
Are you prepared for flu season? Attend a free presentation on H1N1 & emergency planning. Various da
10-07-2009
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Scottsdale, AZ Fire Department
[Interesting Opportunity?] Scottsdale Fire Department is offering free community presentations to help residents and businesses prepare for the H1N1 flu. Discussion topics include steps to take to stay healthy, signs and symptoms of the flu, when to
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