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Date Sent: 2009-03-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
UN panel touts new global currency -- Military Escalation and Obama's "War on Terrorism"
Financial Rescue Approaches GDP as U.S. Pledges $12.8 Trillion -- PETA Killed 95% of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008 -- Brazil builds walls around slums -- Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists -- Surveillance box to track drivers is backed -- Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries -- Obama's Marijuana Mistake Followed By Ron Paul -- The railroading will be televised -- Freedom for man who shot at cop -- Obama's DEA raids San Fran Medical Marijuana Clinic -- The Internet Is Infected -- The Collaborator's Song - by Will Grigg -- Mysteries of Logical Reasoning - by Glenn Greenwald -- Sheriff Arpaio Used Taxes To Pay For His Reality Show -- Joss Whedon and the Real Girl -- China, Argentina to settle trade in yuan -- Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve crisis -- VA: At Least 16 Patients From Clinics Infected -- Idaho Teacher Sells Advertising Space on Tests -- "Mandatory" text in Slavery Bill removed, but replaced in HR 1444
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Fall, Paring March Rally, on Policy Skepticism
03-30-2009
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Bloomberg
Asian stocks fell, paring the regional benchmark index’s rally this month, amid concern government stimulus plans worldwide will take longer than some investors expect to revive global growth.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Rescue Approaches GDP as U.S. Pledges $12.8 Trillion
03-30-2009
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Bloomberg
The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or guaranteed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008
03-30-2009
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Consumr Freedom
The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals killed 95% of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the a
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop who lost his sense of smell gets fired
03-30-2009
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AP
The township near Pittsburgh says his lack of smell created a safety hazard. It says officers patrol alone and need to be able to detect drugs, alcohol, hazardous materials and natural gas leaks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Brazil builds walls around Rio de Janeiro slums
03-30-2009
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Reuters
[our future] The government of Rio de Janeiro is building concrete walls to prevent sprawling slums from spreading farther into the picturesque hills of this world-famous tourist destination, an official said. Construction has begun in two shantytown
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
The man of system will now fix the auto industry
03-30-2009
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Russell Roberts
The President spoke today about his latest attempts to save the auto industry. You could teach a semester-long class in economics from this speech. So many errors and insults to the intelligence of the citizenry.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists
03-30-2009
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The Independent
The program, run by the Association of Chief Police Officers, asks teachers, parents and other community figures to be vigilant for signs that may indicate an attraction to extreme views or susceptibility to being "groomed" by radicalizers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Big Brother is watching: surveillance box to track drivers is backed
03/31/2009
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Paul Lewis, The Guardian, guardian.co.uk
The government is backing a project to install a "communication box" in new cars to track the whereabouts of drivers anywhere in Europe, the Guardian can reveal.
Under the proposals, vehicles will emit a constant "heartbeat" re
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Economy - International
UN panel touts new global currency reserve system
03/26/2009
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BreitBart.com
A UN panel of expert economists pressed Thursday for a new global currency reserve scheme to replace the volatile, dollar-based system and for coordinated steps by rich countries to stimulate their economies.
"A new Global Reserve System -- wh
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The Worst Airline Company In the World
03-30-2009
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Michael J. Totten
I purchased my ticket from the worst airline company in the world " Italy’s national carrier Alitalia " and that a two-hour layover in Rome would turn into an ordeal that lasted longer than a week. [insane story]
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • China
China's hi-tech 'death van' where criminal's organs are sold on black market
03-30-2009
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Daily Mail
But Yong, a portly, bespectacled figure, was caught by the Chinese authorities during a purge on corrupt local officials last year. He confessed and was sentenced to death. China executed 1,715 people last year, so one more death would hardly be rema
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
03-30-2009
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NY Times
A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Obama's Marijuana Mistake Followed By Harvard Professor & Ron Paul 3/26/2009
03-30-2009
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Youtube
Obama ignores the People and liberty by ignoring the negative externalities of prohibition.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The railroading will be televised
03-30-2009
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Rawstory
And then, there's Congressman Ron Paul, the most kindly, grandfatherly elder statesman to ever advocate for the peoples' right to get stoned. (Or have unfettered access to medicine, depending on your purview and present bill of health.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Freedom for man who shot at cop
03-30-2009
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Raw Story
In Austin, something rather extraordinary just happened. A man who got into a shootout with a police officer -- who had apparently opened fire without announcing he was law enforcement -- is going to get off scott free.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
That didn’t last long: DEA raids San Fran Medical Marijuana Clinic
03-30-2009
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Blog of Bile
One week after President Barack Obama’s top law enforcement official seemed to indicate the feds would no longer raid pot clubs, DEA agents busted a medical marijuana facility in San Francisco.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Internet Is Infected
03-30-2009
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http://www.cbsnews.com/
Lesley Stahl reports on computer viruses that propagate on the Internet and infect PCs, which enable their creators often called "cyber gangs" to learn the information they need to electronically rob bank accounts.
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Police State
The Collaborator's Song
by Will Grigg
03-30-2009
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Pro Liberate
After taking a moment to catch his breath and collect his scattered wits, Bates offers an answer he knows will please his masters, and probably lead to the death of some former friends.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Mysteries of Logical Reasoning
03-30-2009
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Glenn Greenwald
Why is most everyone capable of understanding the illogical stupidity of [X] -- while so many people embrace the equally illogical and stupid reasoning of [Y] as though it so self-evidently true that it requires no discussion?
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
This Week in Innocence
03-30-2009
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The Agitator
New DNA testing from rape kits implicates 3 separate men in the 1991 “Yogurt Shop Killings,” in which 4 girls working at an I Can’t Believe It’s Not Yogurt were raped and murdered. Unfortunately, none of the 3 tests match the 2 men convicted of the c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Rebuttal to Pastor Preaching False Message About Freedom & 9/11
03-30-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
"I find it particularly offensive when someone in the clergy uses their position to spread what I regard as both false and harmful political messages..."
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Sheriff Arpaio Used Taxes To Pay For His Reality Show
03-30-2009
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KPHO TV (CBS-5)
The sheriff's office in Arizona's largest county used taxpayer money to offer up sworn deputies, office space, equipment and helicopters to Hollywood producers without being reimbursed. It's unclear how much money the Maricopa County Sher
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Joss Whedon and the Real Girl
03-30-2009
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The Atlantic Monthly (h/t Wendy McElroy)
In the second episode of Joss Whedon’s new Fox series Dollhouse, an FBI agent who has been obsessively pursuing a human trafficking operation gets a tip from a co-worker. “We got a call,” his colleague says. “Couple of kids found a house in the woods
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
China, Argentina to settle trade in yuan
03-30-2009
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Marketwatch
China and Argentina have agreed to set up a 70 billion yuan($10.24 billion) currency swap system that will enable trade between the two nations to be settled in the Chinese currency, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Dirty Dozen
03-30-2009
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Rollling Stone
Meet the bankers and brokers responsible for the financial crisis - and the officials who let them get away with it.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve crisis
03-30-2009
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Telegraph
Arkady Dvorkevich, the Kremlin's chief economic adviser, said Russia would favour the inclusion of gold bullion in the basket-weighting of a new world currency based on Special Drawing Rights issued by the IMF. Chinese and Russian leaders
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Glenn Jacobs' (Kane) 2009 Liberty Forum speech (video)
03-30-2009
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Blog of Bile/Homeland inSecurity
One of Freedoms Phoenix's editors explains what has happened to our economy, our country and our freedom, and why libertarianism is a hard sell. (This is really good! - Powell)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
VA: 16 Patients From Clinics Infected
03-30-2009
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CBS News
Veterans Affairs officials say 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at its medical facilities have tested positive for viral infections, including hepatitis.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • China
China denies spying allegations
03/30/2009
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BBC News
China has denied involvement in the electronic spy network which researchers say infiltrated computers in government offices around the world. The spokesman of the Chinese embassy in London said that there was no evidence to show Beijing was involved
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Idaho Teacher Sells Advertising Space on Tests
03-30-2009
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2NEWS.TV via a Dotblu.com question! LOL
School officials were not wild about the idea, but Pocatello High School Principal Don Cotant relented after Harrison explained the advertisements could help illuminate such topics as the Great Depression.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gun Rights
Arizona: Big Business Attempting to Dismantle Our Second Amendment Rights!
03-30-2009
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NRA-ILA website
NRA is working hard to pass House Bill 2474... which would permit law abiding citizens to keep a firearm locked in their privately owned vehicle when parked on their employer’s publicly accessible parking lot.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Tired of Fighting? Looking For a New Home? New Zealand Ladies Want YOU!
03-30-2009
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stuff.co.uk via Rense.com
Dating culture is dead - instead, young New Zealand women are regularly getting drunk and cruising around in packs looking for men to have sex with.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Military Escalation and Obama's "War on Terrorism"
03-30-2009
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globalresearch.ca via Rense.com
The New York Times, citing anonymous "American government officials," have belatedly "discovered" that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI) is aiding the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • TERRORISM
IOWA - Soda Pop Machine Explodes - Bomb Squad Inve
03-30-2009
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KCRG -TV9
The Cedar Rapids Bomb Squad say an explosive device was placed inside a pop machine between two apartment complexes at 5651 and 5643 Kirkwood Blvd SW. It exploded around 6:00 a.m. No one was injured, but three nearby vehicles were damaged.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
Prospect of Barack Obama Show Causes UK to Clear its Decks
03-30-2009
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Guardian.co.uk via Drudgereport
More than 500 officials and staff will accompany the president on his tour this week... (I saw another article that said 200, so I posted this - Ed)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
"Mandatory" text in Slavery Bill removed, but replaced in HR 1444
03-30-2009
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CONgress
The latest draft of HR 1388 has the "mandatory" words removed, but a new bill is looking to put them back in. See section 4 (b) lines 5 and 6 of HR 1444
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Trouser Chili
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