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Date Sent: 2009-03-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, March 14, 2009 AM edition |
U.S., U.K. try to avert political collapse in Pakistan -- Berkshire Loses AAA Rating
Push to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Would Put a Price on Emitting Pollution -- As Economy Plummets, Cashless Bartering Soars on the Internet -- U.S. Retires 'Enemy Combatant,' Keeps Broad Right to Detain -- N.C. senators offer alternative to FDA regulation of tobacco -- Obama's economics guru defends deficit spending -- Investigator uses phony documents to get passports -- Big Pharma CEO Fakes Cancer while Pill-Pushing Doctor Fakes Clinical Trial Results -- The Second Mexican War -- Immigrants, Terrorists, and Omnipotent Government - by Jacob Hornberger -- American Revolution and the Specter of Anarchy -- Madagascar: Troops Defy Orders To Put Down Opposition Protests -- Japan Warns It May Shoot Down North Korean Satellite Launcher -- "Supermercado de Walmart" coming to Phoenix and Houston!?!
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tired of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own
03-13-2009
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NY Times
Alex Andon, 24, a graduate of Duke University in biology, was laid off from a biotech company last May. For months he sought new work. Then, frustrated with the hunt, he turned to jellyfish.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Push to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Would Put a Price on Emitting Pollution
03-13-2009
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Washington Post
President Obama's endorsement of climate legislation to clamp down on greenhouse gases has set off a lobbying rush in Congress and made the air thick with rival proposals.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Trade
As Economy Plummets, Cashless Bartering Soars on the Internet
03-13-2009
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Washington Post
"In this climate, when everyone's concerned about their money, this is a cracking idea," said Quinn, 49, a father of three who found his plumber on http://swapaskill.com, a bartering Web site based in Britain. "It's a great way
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. Retires 'Enemy Combatant,' Keeps Broad Right to Detain
03-13-2009
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Washington Post
The Obama administration yesterday jettisoned the Bush-era term "enemy combatant" but maintained a broad right to detain those who provide "substantial" assistance to al-Qaeda and its associates around the globe.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S., U.K. try to avert political collapse in Pakistan
03-13-2009
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McClatchy News
The United States and Britain made a last-ditch effort to avert the collapse of nuclear-armed Pakistan's government, calling on the country's 2 major political parties to reach a compromise and avoid what many fear could be a violent confront
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
N.C. senators offer alternative to FDA regulation of tobacco
03-13-2009
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McClatchy News
Tobacco has a powerful influence over politicians from traditional leaf-growing states, and the industry won't go down quietly even as Congress moves closer to adding tobacco to the list of products the Food and Drug Administration can regulate.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama's economics guru defends deficit spending
03-13-2009
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McClatchy News
Lawrence Summers broke a long public silence, asserting that today's economic problems stem from an unsustainable financial model, and he defended heavy deficit spending as a necessary evil to restore the economy to health.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Obama's new detainee policy: Break from Bush, or the same?
03-13-2009
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McClatchy News
The Obama administration abandoned two key aspects of President Bush's policies on suspected terrorists, setting off a wide debate on whether the move undercut the government's rationale for holding at least some of the men who are now detain
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Investigator uses phony documents to get passports
03-13-2009
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AP
Using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year-old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security. Despite efforts to boost passport security since the 2001 terror attacks, the investigator
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain Scans Can Read Memories
03-13-2009
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LiveScience
"Surprisingly, just by looking at the brain data we could predict exactly where they were in the virtual reality environment," said a neuroscientist at the University College London in the U.K. "In other words, we could 'read'
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Google Mars 3-D
03-13-2009
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Space
NASA and Google, Inc., joined forces to launch the Mars add-on for the popular Google Earth platform includes new features such as watching orbital tracks of spacecraft in real-time, peeling back historical globe maps of Mars and taking a guided fly-
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Test Flights Ahead for SpaceShipTwo Mothership
03-13-2009
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Space
The skies over California's Mojave Air and Space Port are serving as the proving ground for the WhiteKnightTwo, the massive mothership being tested to air-launch commercial spaceliners on suborbital flights.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Big Pharma CEO Fakes Cancer while Pill-Pushing Doctor Fakes Clinical Trial Results for Bextra, Effex
03-14-2009
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Natural News
The culture of deceit and fraud that permeates conventional medicine as vice president of a pharmaceutical company named Biopure, faked his own cancer and even impersonated a doctor in order to convince a federal judge that he was dying from colon ca
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Drug War
'Socialize' it? Oregon may grow, tax and sell medical marijuana
03-13-2009
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RawStory.com
Submitted legislation would impose $98-per-ounce tax on cannabis
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Berkshire Loses Top Rating on Investments, Buffett Role
03-13-2009
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CNBC
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was stripped of its 'AAA' credit rating by Fitch, barely hours after S&P cut General Electric's top-tier rating, as the global financial crisis pummels America's corporate titans.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ginsburg: Possible court opening soon
03-13-2009
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Breibart.com
In a question-and-answer session, she said the nine justices only take pictures together when a new member is added. She said: "We haven't had any of those for some time, but surely we will soon."
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Emergency Broadcast! New World Order Ahead!
03-13-2009
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YouTube
Please do everything you can to circulate this video far and wide. Post it in blogs, bulletins, forums, chain emails... Upload it to your YouTube channel... Use your imagination...
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Constitution Revolution 2012
03-13-2009
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Constitution Revolution 2012
"We are coming together to make it clear that as a movement, we are young, we are strong, we are calling for no less than a revolution, and we are not going anywhere until we get it." Adam Kokesh
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
More evidence the gov't hates you.
3-12-2009
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www.jpfo.org
With prices for ammo already at record highs, the military is carrying out administration orders to stop selling surplus used ammunition brass casings to the commercial market.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Well, Your Husband Married a Dodo
03-13-2009
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Popehat
[Vice-chair of the Agriculture Committee] Larcenia Bullard became agitated during a legislative debate when someone used the term “animal husbandry”. "People are taking these animals as their husbands? What’s husbandry?"
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Drug War
The Second Mexican War
03-13-2009
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Samizdata
Drugs are money and all that it buys. We put drug entrepreneurs outside of our then liberal legal framework... so they adapted and operated by the old fashioned rules of Feudalism.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Immigration
Immigrants, Terrorists, and Omnipotent Government
03-13-2009
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FFF / Jacob Hornberger
To keep us safe from terrorists, wouldn’t the next logical step be to stop Americans from going abroad where they could be infected with terrorist propaganda? In other words, seal the border in both directions.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
American Revolution and the Spectre of Anarchy
03-13-2009
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Roderick Long
The American Revolution was not, on the surface, a conflict over anarchism. Nevertheless, the theme of anarchism " sometimes implicit, sometimes overt "
runs throughout the contemporary public debate over the Revolution.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Activism
Madagascar: Troops Defy Orders To Put Down Opposition Protests
03-13-2009
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Marxist.com via Rense.com
"We no longer take orders from our hierarchy, we are following our hearts. We were trained to protect property and citizens, not to fire at people. We are with the people."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Japan Warns It May Shoot Down North Korean Satellite Launcher
03-13-2009
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Guardian.co.uk via Drudgereport
Officials in Tokyo said they reserved the right to destroy any threatening object in mid-flight, despite North Korean warnings that it would consider such a move an act of war.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Conspiracies
Brain Attack!
03-13-2009
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Mark Yannone
Opposition to the current agenda has been preempted. No additional force will be required.
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News Link • Relaciones entre Mexico y los EUA
"Supermercado de Walmart" coming to Phoenix and Houston!?!
03-13-2009
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Financial Times via Drudgereport
Wal-Mart plans to open its first Hispanic-focused supermarkets this summer in Arizona and Texas as the largest US retailer continues its drive to expand its dominance of the US grocery business.
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Ed Vallejo
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