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Date Sent: 2010-04-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 5, 2010 |
S.3081 - Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010
Karzai rallies tribes, distances self from West -- Thai authorities struggle to end mass street protest -- Millions in Calif., Ariz., Mexico feel 7.2 quake -- Dozens of miners pulled alive from China mine -- Andrew Maguire exposes systemic fraud by CFTC and JP Morgan -- 3 Baghdad suicide blasts target embassies; 35 dead -- Updating Lynne Stewart's "Love Struggle" - by Stephen Lendman -- Texas LE tells farmers to lock and load -- NJ city say cops worse than criminals -- Police: Teaching Kids to Mistrust Government Makes Couple ‘Unsuitable’ Parents
-- Indian Guru fails to murder man on live TV -- Obama's 17-minute,
2,500-word response to woman's claim of being 'over-taxed' -- Russia
Warns US Communist Threat Endangering Entire World -- Geithner: Fannie, Freddie Debt Isn't Sovereign Debt -- Casey Research: More Political Math - Incomes Drop 1st Time in 40 years --
Obama: 'All Evidence' Supports Allegations Iran Developing Nukes --
NBER’s Hall Says Payrolls Make It 'Pretty Clear' Recession Over -- China's Documentation of US Human Rights Abuses - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Mises Institute comes to Arizona Saturday; Nationwide: Learn to shoot a rifle coming to a range near you in two weeks.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Karzai rallies tribes, distances self from West
04-04-2010
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Reuters
President Hamid Karzai, under fire for anti-Western remarks, distanced himself from his foreign backers in a speech on Sunday, telling tribal elders Afghans need to see their leaders are not "puppets."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Mexican cartels cannot be defeated, drug lord says
04-04-2010
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Reuters
Mexico's war on the drug trade is futile even if cartel bosses are caught or killed as millions of people are involved in the illicit business, a senior drug chief said in an interview published on Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Thai authorities struggle to end mass street protest
04-04-2010
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Reuters
Thai authorities will seek a court order on Monday to arrest leaders of tens of thousands of protesters occupying Bangkok's main shopping district, hoping to derail an increasingly bold four-week rally to force elections.
Despite repeated warnings
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Major League Baseball starts up for 2010 season
04-04-2010
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AP
Kevin Youkilis scored the go-ahead run on a passed ball after his third extra-base hit and the Boston Red Sox rallied to beat the New York Yankees 9-7 in the major league opener Sunday night.
Boston erased a 5-1 deficit against CC Sabathia and def
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Millions in Calif., Ariz., Mexico feel 7.2 quake
04-04-2010
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AP
One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Southern California in decades shook tens of millions of people in two countries and three states on Sunday, swaying buildings from Los Angeles to Phoenix to Tijuana. At least one person in Mexico was killed an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
At least 115 miners pulled alive from China mine
04-04-2010
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AP
Dozens of miners have been pulled alive from a flooded coal mine in northern China more than a week after 153 workers were trapped.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
ABC15 Coverage of Photo Radar Egging!
04-04-2010
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ABC15
(Top story!) "The Easter Bunny, I guess he was hopping mad about the photo radar so he took an egg and put it on the photo radar scamera," said Shelton."
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Reported by:
David Alpha
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Karl Rove: I Was A Conservative; Yeah, that’s the Ticket
04-04-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Karl Rove’s attempt at rewriting history begins immediately in his book's title: Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. The fact is: Rove never met a Big Government program he didn’t like"long as it meant getting a few more
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Andrew Maguire exposes systemic fraud by CFTC and JP Morgan
04-04-2010
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D Rutter SOTT GATA
Andrew Maguire exposes the largest financial fraud in human history (except for the Federal Reserve) and is almost killed in car crash shortly thereafter.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Drug War
Never get busted gets raided
04/04/2010
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vanversive.net
If you keep up with the drug war then you should know the name Barry Cooper. He and his wife have started the website nevergetbusted.com and kopbusters.com. Cooper was also running for Texas attorney general in the 2010 elections. Cooper is a hero am
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Jason Van Gilder
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News Link • Activism
Marching for right to bare breasts, women faced with sea of cameras
04-04-2010
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AP
The point of the march was that a topless woman out in public should attract no more attention than a man walking around without a shirt on, said Ty MacDowell, 20, of Westbrook, who organized Saturday's event and promoted it on Facebook.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Water Bills Go up in Down Economy as Usage Drops
04-04-2010
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AP
Many water utilities are raising rates because water use is down, in part because manufacturers have closed or are cutting back, tourism has fallen and the real estate market is in the doldrums. Water sales for the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Wa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FORT LAUDERDALE DEPUTY ACCUSED OF OVER 70 CHARGES OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MEN IN CUSTODY!
04-04-2010
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CBS4.COM
This piece of human garbage was a seven-year veteran of the agency who targeted illegal immigrant men in their late teens and 20's. Once he had them in custody he would 'search' them, you know...inside their undies and around the 'do not touch' spots
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Reported by:
Charles Gillespie
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News Link • Eugenics
None Dare Call It Genocide
04-04-2010
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Dr. Stanley Monteith
There are evil people in the world who would rather see most of us dead.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Corruption
Captain and his Wife Skimmed U.S. Contracts, Feds Say
03-05-2010
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NICK MCCANN, Courthouse News Service (CNS)
A Marine Corps captain and his wife skimmed $1.75 million from government contracts intended to spur economic development in Iraq, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles claims.
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • WAR: About that War
3 Baghdad suicide blasts target embassies; 35 dead
04-04-2010
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AP
Suicide attackers detonated 3 car bombs in quick succession near foreign embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing more than 40 people in coordinated strikes that Iraqi officials said were intended to disrupt efforts to form a new government.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Michelle Obama admits Barak is from Kenya
04-04-2010
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youtube
At about 45 seconds into the video...speaks for itself IMHO. The birthers are having a good time. (h/t ralbaii)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Texas LE tells farmers to lock and load
04/04/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
EL PASO " Texas law enforcement officials are bracing for a bloody weekend along the border, advising farmers to arm themselves as signs across northern Mexico point to a new escalation of violence after coordinated drug cartel attacks against the mi
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Humor
Congressman Hank Johnson: Guam May Capsize
04-03-2010
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YouTube
While questioning Admiral Robert Willard during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) expresses his concern that Guam may tip over and capsize.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Police: Teaching Kids to Mistrust Government Makes Couple ‘Unsuitable’ Parents
04-03-2010
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TrueSlant
Texans, beware: If you teach your kids that the “government is out to harm them,” police in Williamson County might just deem you an “unsuitable” parent. That startling claim, leveled by officers in Child Protective Services documents detailing an in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Residents of NJ city say cops worse than criminals
04-03-2010
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AP
Josephine Skinner's grandson Dequan was 11 or 12 years old a few summers ago when she says he had a run-in with a Camden police officer who neighbors claim terrorized them for years.
As the youth crossed the street to buy a soda at a store, she sa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman's claim of being 'over-taxed'
04-03-2010
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Washington Post
Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman asked the president whether it was a "wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care" package. "We are over-taxed as it i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Indian Guru fails to murder man on live TV
03-24-2010
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Skeptic Blog
With all the religious nutbaggery going on in the US of A, it’s sometime easy to forget that there’s a whole planet of wackiness out there.
The outspoken and hard-working Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku had enough. When the "guru" Pandit Surend
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G Cone
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News Link • Obama Administration
Russia Warns US Communist Threat Endangering Entire World
04-03-2010
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EU Times
Putin in his aforementioned remarks stated that he never would have believed that the United States would take the Iron Curtain surrounding the former Soviet Union they had helped to destroy, pack it up, and the re-erect it around America...
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Rasmussen: NCAA Final Four Poll Results
04-03-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Rasmussen Reports took some time off politics and recently conducted a national survey on the NCAA Final Four and its teams. Duke's the pick to win it all, though not by much. One surprise: only 34% of men said that they were in a betting pool. A loo
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Afghan corruption: How to follow the money? Some of it may be going to the Taliban
04-03-2010
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Karen DeYoung, Washington Post
The likelihood that U.S. money is finding its way to the enemy as well as lining officials' pockets . . . is "one of the many very important things that came to light" during last fall's White House strategy review, an administration official said.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Politico-journalists: New American Criminal Class
04-03-2010
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Mondo Frazier
A new report that there's a crime wave in America from journalists and politicians. It’s revealing. It’s also one likely reason that both groups have registered near the bottom in groups the American people trust.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Casey Research: More Political Math - Incomes Drop 1st Time in 40 years
04-03-2010
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caseyresearch.com
If a sustainable U.S. economic recovery hinges on an upturn in housing, neither is likely to happen if incomes in America continue falling, especially in the states most challenged by the crash in home prices.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner: Fannie, Freddie Debt Isn’t Sovereign Debt
04-03-2010
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blogs.wsj.com/economics
Debt from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shouldn’t be considered sovereign debt, but there should be no doubt about the U.S. government’s support for the two firms, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a recent letter to a U.S. House lawmaker.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: ‘All Evidence’ Supports Allegations Iran Developing Nukes
04-03-2010
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AntiWar.com
Speaking today in an interview broadcast on CBS, President Barack Obama alleged that “all the evidence” available to him showed that Iran’s civilian nuclear program was secretly aimed at developing nuclear weapons.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSM Coverage of Tea Party Protests: Blueprint for a Smear
04-03-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Was there collusion among the MSM in establishing the narrative labeling the Tea Party protesters as "racists"? Could be. Doug Ross contributes some interesting discoveries in "Tale of Two Time-Stamps."
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NBER’s Hall Says Payrolls Make It ‘Pretty Clear’ Recession Over
04-03-2010
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Bloomberg.com
The biggest increase in employment in three years makes it “pretty clear” the deepest U.S. recession since the 1930s has ended, said the head of the group charged with making the call.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve's Veil of Secrecy Is Being Taken Down, But Slowly
04-03-2010
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
The Fed must be audited, and it role as the 'master regulator' and as the place where the Office of Consumer Financial Protection would be located is a farce, a cruel joke. Chris Dodd must either be senile, entirely cynical, or believe the American..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Obamacare: States fear that five words will open door to lawsuits
04-03-2010
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dailycaller.com/
States have in the past been required to provide payment for services to physicians. Now, under the new definition, states will be liable for ensuring provision of “the care and services themselves.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oops, Jobs Didn't Grow Enough
04-03-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The average monthly U.S. population growth over the last ten years has been 211,000. Thus the U.S. economy has to create jobs at a higher rate than its population growth, or more precisely its workforce growth...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Mauldin: Is This A Recovery?
04-03-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
But optimist though I am, I can't rule out disaster. So, either we have a slow-growth economy for 5-6 years, or we hit the wall all at once. Think depression if it's the latter. Either way, it's a tough investment environment.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Brewer gets final OK to sue federal government
4/01/10
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East Valley Tribune
Gov. Jan Brewer signed legislation Thursday giving her the power to sue the federal government over the new health care legislation.
Brewer sought the authorization, contending Congress and President Obama overstepped their legal authority by requ
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Anonymous Watchman
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