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Date Sent: 2010-02-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
Pentagon Explores De-Citizenship of US Citizens -- Obama Goes for Total Control of Healthcare
Justice Department clears Bush lawyers for 'torture memos' -- Details posted on alleged CIA-flights to Poland -- Sen. John McCain: I was misled on bailout -- Lawmakers Consider an Animal Abuse Registry -- Newest GOP senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill -- 50 Turkish commanders held over coup plot -- Fugitive Hot Dogs On the Lam, Killing Children --
Marc Faber: Buy farmland and gold -- Gun Dealer Won't Sell To Medical
Marijuana Patients -- China's Commercial Real Estate Market: A New
Tulip Mania? -- Mish: Commercial Real Estate Apocalypse in 2011-2012 -- Peaceful Rebellion: Pot use among seniors rises -- Obama Raises Health Penalty to 2.5% -- Surveillance Drones May Soon Carpet the Sky of The United Kingdom -- 86% of Americans Think the Government is Broken -- American Genocides: Is Haiti Next? - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Quietly Explores De-Citizenship of US Citizen Terrorists
02-22-2010
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BlackListedNews & TPM Muckraker - Steve Clemons
At the highest levels of the US military, a quiet discussion is going on about putting in place a legal framework that would permit the US government to strip American citizenship from terrorists.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Goes for Total Control of Healthcare
02-22-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Seeking to revive his stalled health-care legislation, President Barack Obama is proposing a new idea to address health costs, giving the federal government authority to block insurers from making premium rate increases, reports WSJ.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Justice Department clears Bush lawyers for 'torture memos'
02-22-2010
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McClatchy News
Two former high-level Bush administration officials who provided legal justification for harsh interrogations of overseas terror suspects are likely to escape any formal punishment now that the Justice Department has concluded they should not be held
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Interest in China school after Google hack report
02-22-2010
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AFP
A Chinese school accused last week of links to cyberattacks on Google that have strained Sino-US ties has since received a flood of calls from students interested in attending.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Details posted on alleged CIA-flights to Poland
02-22-2010
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AP
A 2005 Human Rights Watch report, based on leaked logs of CIA-linked plane flights to Poland, claimed the U.S. spy agency housed a secret prison in Poland where it allegedly held and brutally questioned Al-Qaida prisoners. Poland has denied the
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sen. John McCain: I was misled on bailout
02-22-2010
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Arizona Republic
Under growing pressure from conservatives and "tea party" activists, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government's massive bailout of the financial system.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gilbert firearms maker admits to illegal sale of weapons
02-22-2010
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Arizona Republic
A Gilbert firearms manufacturer will cease its gun operations after the company's owner pleaded guilty to illegally selling rifles, shotguns and handguns. Cavalry Arms Corp. says it has been "engaged in an ongoing dispute" with the Bureau of Alcohol,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Daughter says pilot in Texas IRS crash was a hero
02-22-2010
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AP
The daughter of a man who crashed his small plane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service called her father a hero for his anti-government views but said his actions, which killed an IRS employee, were "inappropriate."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Plastic bags in US " to pay or not to pay?
02-22-2010
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AP
For decades the standard question at grocery store check-out counters has been "Paper or Plastic?" But since January, consumers in the U.S. capital have faced a different question: "Will you pay 5 cents for a bag?" Europeans have long accepted the id
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Lawmakers Consider an Animal Abuse Registry
02-22-2010
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NY Times
California may soon place animal abusers on the same level as sex offenders by listing them in an online registry, complete with their home addresses and places of employment. Would be the first of its kind in the country and is just the latest law g
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Newest GOP senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill
02-22-2010
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Reuters
A modest job-creation bill advanced in the Senate on Monday as the chamber's newest Republican bucked his party and sided with Democrats on a $15 billion package of tax cuts and highway spending.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
About 50 Turkish commanders held over coup plot
02-22-2010
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AP
Turkish police detained 50 military commanders planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the Islamic-rooted government. The nationwide sweep highlighted the ongoing struggle between the secular establishment an
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Fugitive Hot Dogs On the Lam, Killing Children
02/22/2010
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USA Today
The American Academy of Pediatrics... would like to see foods such as hot dogs "redesigned" so their size, shape and texture make them less likely to lodge in a youngster's throat. (Nanny State is alive and well... I propose a Hot Dog License, or
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Archaeology
Archaeologist sees proof for Bible in ancient wall
02-22-2010
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AP
An Israeli archaeologist said Monday that ancient fortifications recently excavated in Jerusalem date back 3,000 years to the time of King Solomon and support the biblical narrative about the era.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marc Faber: Buy farmland and gold
02-22-2010
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business.timesonline.co.uk
The world’s most powerful investors have been advised to buy farmland, stock up on gold and prepare for a “dirty war” by Marc Faber, the notoriously bearish market pundit, who predicted the 1987 stock market crash.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banks Continue To Pull The Rug Out From Under The Economy
02-22-2010
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businessinsider.com/
As you can see, this measure is still falling like a knife -- a bad sign for the ongoing health of the economy. (And also not what we were promised when we bailed out the banks.)
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Seat Swapping in the Arizona Legislature - One lawmaker is betting his future on it.
02-22-2010
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http://sonoranalliance.com
Alas, herein lies the latest effort by Representative William Konopnicki to remain relevant as his final term in the Arizona Legislature draws to a close. Representative Konopnicki has launched a campaign to pressure Senator Allen into seat swapping
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Seriously?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: 'Men, When They're Out of Work, Tend to Become Abusive'
02-22-2010
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The Hill
Reid said that the effects of joblessness on domestic violence were especially pronounced among men, because, Reid said, women tend to be less abusive.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Drug War
Gun Dealer Won't Sell To Medical Marijuana Patients
02-22-2010
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Toke of the Town
Morphine or Klonopin? No problem. But if you use medical marijuana, no gun for you! Redding, California gun dealer Patrick Jones -- who happens to also be mayor of the town -- refuses to do business with known medical marijuana patients.
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Reported by:
Steve Elliott
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News Link • China
China's Commercial Real Estate Market: A New Tulip Mania?
02-22-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Marc Faber says China is overdoing it. “It does not make sense for China to build more empty buildings and add to capacities in industries where you already have overcapacity, I think the Chinese economy will decelerate very substantially...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mish: Commercial Real Estate Apocalypse in 2011-2012
02-22-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Decreasing values also reduce the amount of tax revenue and fees to state and local governments, which in turn impacts the amount of funding for public services such as education and law enforcement.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Peaceful Rebellion: Pot use among seniors rises
02-22-2010
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RawStory.com
Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Democrat's Smell Blood, Their Own: Obama Raises Health Penalty to 2.5%
02-22-2010
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FireDogLake.com
Raising the insurance mandate penalty just gives more ammunition to the John (SS) Shaddegg argument for Republicans to use.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Eat Your Happy Meal Already: Where Is the President's Health Bill?
02-22-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The stuff posted at the White House site is nothing but propaganda fluff. It has nothing but nonsense happy talk, it's sort of like a McDonald's Happy Meal, except it is aimed at adults. Eat your french fries and shut up.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Justin Raimondo: Ron Paul! - That's All I Have To Say...
02-22-2010
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AntiWar.com
The Paul movement is well-organized, activist-oriented, and well-funded: more importantly, it has a well-grounded ideology, one that offers an alternative to the brain-dead neoconservatism of Republican party hacks...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link •
Surveillance Drones May Soon Carpet the Sky of The United Kingdom
02-22-2010
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telegraph.co.uk/finance
The European Defence Agency has hired aerospace and defence group EADS to research how communication via satellites can be used "for the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into European airspace", with the goal of...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Honda makes a big drive into solar power
02-22-2010
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business.timesonline.co.uk
Solar panels comprise one part of the system that Honda hopes will be created to make a new generation of zero-emission, hydrogen-powered cars.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
CNN Poll: 86 Percent of Americans Think the Government is Broken
02-22-2010
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Americans overwhelmingly think that the government in this country is broken, according to a new national poll. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Sunday morning, also indicates that the public overwhelmingly holds out hope tha
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Environment
U2 " The World’s Greatest Hypocrites
02-22-2010
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http://www.papatodd.com/
Last year, U2 got in big trouble with fellow tree-hugging greenies over the size of their carbon foot-print for their 360 world tour. Eco-groups were quick to point out that the 360 tour required a fleet of 189 trucks and buses, a crew of 500, and th
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Todd Detry
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News Link • Constitution
Jury nullification
02-22-2010
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
John Jay, co-author of the Federalist Papers and first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, may have been a bit ambivalent on this topic, but he, too, tipped his hat to the juror, writing in a 1794 jury instruction "that on questions of fact, it
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Reported by:
Steve Freedom
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
To All You Fuzzy Socialists Out There
10-29-2009
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Joel Turtel, author
Why liberal socialists are either truly stupid or useful idiots
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Joel Turtel
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