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Date Sent: 2009-01-09
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, January 9, 2009 |
Obama Taps CIA Veteran Torture Fan As Terror Adviser -- NYPD wants to disrupt cell phones
U.S. Plans Border ‘Surge’ Against Any Drug Wars -- AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble -- Obama Picks a Conscience for the CIA - by Ray McGovern -- Pakistan fires official who confirmed Mumbai gunman's identity -- Obama Selects 4 More Senior Defense Officials -- Obama Recommends Delay in Digital TV Switch -- Pressured by I.R.S., UBS Is Closing Secret Accounts -- Average Mortgage Rate Hits 5%, Lowest in Decades -- Ill. House Panel Votes Unanimously to Impeach Blagojevich -- Obama to face Iran nuclear crisis in first year, ex US official warns -- Citigroup Reaches Deal With Lawmakers on Home Loans -- Calif. court rejects lawsuit against tax increases -- The Myth of Aggregate Demand - by Brock Lorber -- Ron Paul/Dick Armey on Cavuto (FOX) on Obama's Economic Plan -- Greeks Reject NWO; Globalists Aiming to Capitalize on Unrest -- Inquiry launched into 'UFO attack' on wind turbine -- Hackers take down ring of key progressive blogs -- The Economic Collapse of 2009 (Part 4) - Dave Hodges -- Is China Losing Its Taste for US Debt? -- Sheriff locked up over measly jail meals -- Best And Worst Of 2008 - Chuck Baldwin -- WaMu’s New 'Bend Over Fool' Mortgage Modification Program -- Oil below $43 after 12 percent fall -- Attack on Israel from Lebanon threatens 2nd front -- Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new capitalism -- Obama Warns of Dire Consequences Without More Stimulus -- Continuing jobless claims rise more than expected -- US had unrealistic goals in Afghanistan
AZ: Bob Schulz in Phoenix Today - Continental Congress 2009
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. Plans Border ‘Surge’ Against Any Drug Wars
1-9-2009
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NY Times
Homeland Security said the plan called for aircraft, armored vehicles and special teams to converge on border trouble spots, with the size of the force depending on the scale of the problem. Military forces would be called upon
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble
1-9-2009
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AP
I live alone in my office. My wife and young children moved in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighborhood mosque, where I have prayed since I was a child, had its roof blown off. After days of Israeli shelling, the city no lo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Pakistan fires official who confirmed Mumbai gunman's identity
1-9-2009
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McClatchy News
The Pakistani government abruptly fired its national security adviser after he confirmed the surviving gunman captured in the Mumbai attacks is a Pakistani, a key piece of evidence contained in a dossier amassed by India on alleged Pakistani complici
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Taps CIA Veteran As Adviser On Terror
1-9-2009
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Washington Post
[change] Barack Obama has picked John O. Brennan as his top adviser on counterterrorism, that will give the CIA veteran a powerful voice on the government's use of security contractors and on other sensitive issues in which he recently has played
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Selects 4 More Senior Defense Officials
1-9-2009
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Washington Post
[change] President-elect Barack Obama yesterday announced his picks for four senior defense officials, including two who served as top Pentagon budget officials under President Bill Clinton.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Obama Recommends Delay in Digital TV Switch
1-9-2009
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NY Times
Six weeks before the nation’s television stations are scheduled to convert to digital transmission, an aide to President-elect Barack Obama is asking Congress to consider a delay.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Pressured by I.R.S., UBS Is Closing Secret Accounts
1-9-2009
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NY Times
Under pressure from federal authorities, the Swiss bank UBS is closing the hidden offshore accounts of its well-heeled American clients, potentially allowing their secrets to spill into the open.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Average Mortgage Rate Hits 5%, Lowest in Decades
1-9-2009
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Washington Post
What is not clear, however, is whether rates are attractive enough to lure a significant number of home buyers back into the ailing housing market. Interest rates on conforming mortgages dropped to an average of 5.01 percent for the week ending Jan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Impeachment
Ill. House Panel Votes Unanimously to Impeach Blagojevich
1-9-2009
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Washington Post
The full Illinois House of Representatives is expected to vote as soon as today to impeach Blagojevich and send the case to the state Senate, where a two-thirds majority is required to remove him from office.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama to face Iran nuclear crisis in first year, ex US official warns
1-08-09
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Rawstory.com
"I'm motivated ... by a strong belief that the gravest danger facing our nation today is a terror group detonating a nuclear bomb in one of our cities," Perry said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Citigroup Reaches Deal With Lawmakers on Home Loans
1-9-2009
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Washiington Post
The startling turnaround reflects the changed political and economic realities of the nation's deepening recession. Citigroup abandoned its long-standing opposition to let bankruptcy judges modify the terms of mortgages
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Calif. court rejects lawsuit against tax increases
1-9-2009
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AP
Citing separation of powers, the state's 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled it could not intervene because the Governor did not signed the bill into law. The Democratic majority acted illegally when it passed the tax increases becau
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
NYPD wants tech to disrupt wireless communications
1-08-09
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Rawstory.com
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly revealed that his department is seeking technology that can disrupt cell phone and other wireless communications in the event of a crisis.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bush Administration
Famed Prosecutor/Author Vows President Bush
Will Be Brought to Justice for Mass Murder
01-09-2008
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http://www.americanfreepress.net
The former Los Angeles County district attorney who put Charles Manson and his followers behind bars for life is not finished with outgoing President George W. Bush. Indeed"rough though the road may be"Vincent Bugliosi sees the upcoming post-Bush per
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul/Dick Armey on Cavuto (FOX) on Obama's Economic Plan
1-8-2009
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Youtube
FreedomWorks Chairman and former House Majority Leader, Dick Armey, and Congressman Ron Paul, discuss Barack Obamas stimulus plans on Fox News.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
SDXC memory cards promise 2TB of storage, 300MBps transfer
1-8-2009
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egadget
SDXC (SD eXtended Capacity) stores more than 4,000 RAW images, 100 HD movies, or 60 hours of HD recording with a transfer rate of up to 300MBps. The first batch of retail cards will hit before March with read/write speeds up to 104MBps in unknown cap
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Greeks Reject NWO; Globalists Aiming to Capitalize on Unrest
01-08-2009
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http://www.americanfreepress.net
The Greek state is decomposing, though the riots are merely the most recent manifestation of a series of social disorders that have globalization as their source. In Greece, almost 75 percent of the population is opposed to globalization, making it t
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Properly Screwed
01-08-2009
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Mark Yannone
Most people are aware that they are getting a royal shafting from their government, but their own sex lives are taking a beating. Fortunately, these two guys intend to do something about that.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Conan O'Brien: Arpaio show 'sign of apocalypse?'
1-08-09
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AZcentral.com/
"It's either a brilliant idea," O'Brien told Arpaio, "or the true sign of the apocalypse, that things are coming apart in this country."
Later he said: "I really don't know what's happening to America."
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Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • Palestine -- Israel
Inside The Mind of a Terrorist
Tom Westbrook
“There’s no such thing as a measured response to terrorism,” said Mayor Bloomberg. Am I understanding this correctly? Is Mayor Bloomberg providing a justification for a Palestinian "unmeasured response" to the terror brought by Israel?
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
2009 NBA All-Star Game to be Held in Phoenix
01-08-2009
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NBA.com
The 58th All-Star Game will be played at the US Airways Center on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009. Video of Amar'e, Shaq, and Goober.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Constitution
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts Agreed to Hear My Case
01-08-2009
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Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq.
Good news, Chief Justice John Roberts agreed to hear my case Lightfoot v Bowen, challenging eligibility for presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. He distributed the case to the full conference of
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Weird: London Times - Inquiry launched into 'UFO attack' on wind turbine
1-08-09
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timesonline.co.uk/
An investigation was under way today into how a 65ft blade was mysteriously torn off a wind turbine amid reports of “strange lights” in the sky
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Rocket attacks jolt Israel as Gaza war blazes on
1-08-09
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Rawstory.com
Rockets fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Thursday jolted efforts to end the war in Gaza where Israeli jets carried out mass strikes on smuggling tunnels.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Media: Internet
Hackers take down ring of key progressive blogs
1-08-09
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Rawstory.com
"Never mind the nature of the views being expressed on these sites - this attack was a naked broadside aimed at the very infrastructure of public speech and discourse in America, just as surely as if vandals had destroyed the presses used by the
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Congress Meets to Formally Shred the Constitution and Burn the Flag
01-08-2009
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Yahoo!
If no U.S. Senator or Representative stands up and DEMANDS PROOF of Mr. Obama's 'Natural-Born Citizen' status, just what does that say about 'law in America'?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • History
Bull horn owned by Alex Jones going for thousands on eBay
1/8/2009
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Daily Newscaster
Collectors of pop icon memorabilia and fans of the stalwart radio talk show personality Alex Jones will be interested in an item up for auction on eBay.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • History
And So It Begins...
1-08-09
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
If you depend on that government deficit spending I hope you've been paying attention to my warnings and doing what you have to in order to solve that problem in your personal life. Time may be running out at a much faster rate than I had though
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Bull horn owned by Alex Jones going for thousands on eBay
1/8/2009
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Daily Newscaster
Collectors of pop icon memorabilia and fans of the stalwart radio talk show personality Alex Jones will be interested in an item up for auction on eBay.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Is China Losing Its Taste for US Debt?
1-07-09
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/ & NYTimes
"All the key drivers of China's Treasury purchases are disappearing," said Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist in the Hong Kong office of the Royal Bank of Scotland. "There's a waning appetite for dollars and a waning appetite for
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Sheriff locked up over measly jail meals
01-08-2009
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Yahoo News
The sheriff was in federal custody Thursday after a judge ruled he purposely fed inmates skimpy meals so he could make money from an unusual system that lets sheriffs turn a profit on their jail kitchens.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WaMu’s New 'Bend Over Fool' Mortgage Modification Program
1-08-09
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Mrmortgage.ml-implode.com
This mod takes exotic lending to level I have never witnessed in my 20-years of mortgage banking. This makes a Pay Option ARM looks safe and cozy
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Oil below $43 after 12 percent fall
01-08-2009
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Yahoo Finance
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil hovered below $43 on Thursday after tumbling 12 percent overnight, its largest percentage drop in seven years, as a U.S. government report showed crude stocks rose much more than expected in the world's top energy consum
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
First Test Flight of Jet Using Algae Based Fuel
1-08-09
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News.BBC.co.uk
The flight was the first by a US carrier to use an alternative fuel source, and the first in the world to use a twin-engine commercial aircraft (rather than a four-engine plane) to test a biofuel blend.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Attack on Israel from Lebanon threatens 2nd front
01-08-2009
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JERUSALEM (AP) on MyWay
Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with a bloody offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 700 people.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new capitalism
01-08-2009
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AP Business via YahooNews
The head of Europe's biggest economy said Thursday that world leaders should be looking at the massive U.S. deficit and other economic imbalances, not just problems caused by financial markets, as they debate a new global order.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Just as Obama begins, huge deficit could hamper plans
01-08-2009
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McClatchy Newspapers
"But I'm always leery when people start thinking too much of politics and not (economics). . . . Giving everybody a little bit of money. I don't know that will have a stimulative effect." Republicans are a tougher sell, even with Ob
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama Warns of Dire Consequences Without Stimulus
1-8-2009
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AP
President-elect Barack Obama said the recession could "linger for years" unless Congress pumps unprecedented sums from Washington into the economy. "I don't believe it's too late... but it will be if we don't take dramatic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Continuing jobless claims rise more than expected
1-8-2009
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AP
The number of people continuing to seek unemployment benefits has risen sharply, according to government data indicating that laid-off workers are having a harder time finding new jobs as the recession enters its second year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US had unrealistic goals in Afghanistan
1-8-2009
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AP
The US have shortchanged Afghanistan by focusing on short-term goals pursued without a cohesive strategy or a clear understanding of the way the decentralized country works. Should think of the project as the work of a decade at least
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Defense wants conviction dismissed in Web hoax
1-8-2009
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AP
Contending it's not a federal crime to violate the service terms of a Web site, a defense attorney asked a judge to dismiss the conviction of a mother in a cruel Internet hoax on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Living in a World Gone Mad!
01-08-2009
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Catherine Abbitt
Should Americans begin erecting billboards along all the borders that read: ¡Cruce la frontera en su propio riesgo! (Cross the border at your own risk!)?
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Time To Tell The Truth About Israel ... Without Fear Of The Mind Police
01-08-2009
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http://www.rense.com/general84/isz.htm
So, yet again, the people of the virtual-concentration camp, known officially as ‘Gaza’, are being bombarded from the sky by the bully-boys of Tel Aviv.
State-of-the art Israeli jets, paid for by the United States, bomb civilian targets in this tr
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Jim Stachowiak
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