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Date Sent: 2009-04-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 15, 2009 PM edition |
Obama may keep some CIA torture details secret -- Ron Paul's plan to fend off pirates
Why I did not go to the Tea-Party Protests -- The Bush Six to Be Indicted -- U.N. spent your tax dollars on shoddy projects -- CIA documents shine light on secretive Air America -- Stone-throwing Afghan crowd swarms women’s protest -- Is America the New Russia? -- SoCal Home Sales Increase: Foreclosures are 55.4% of Sales -- United To Charge Heavier Passengers Twice To Fly -- 'Thousands of Ballots' May be 'Missing' from AZ's Criminal Investigation Ballot -- California Foreclosure Filings Rise to Record High in March -- McCain's Speech at his home Legislative District Meeting -- Vote probe raises fears -- Libertarians say Republicans have hijacked tea party movement -- Auction of Foreclosed Homes in Tucson, AZ Sees Prices Fall 55 to 61% -- Industrial Production Crushed in March: Decline Unmatched Since 1946 -- Sales-Tax Revenue Falls at Fastest Pace in Years -- AVIAN FLU - FEMA TRAIN CONNECTION! UPDATE
Nationwide Tax Protests today! Don't just get mad. Join in.
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News Link • World News
A look at vessels still held by Somali pirates
04-15-2009
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AP
At least 15 ships and nearly 300 crew members are believed to be currently held by pirates off the coast of Somalia, according to the International Maritime Bureau, NATO and others. A look at the ships still being held Wednesday:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taliban execute teenager, man for eloping
04-15-2009
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AP
Taliban gunmen executed a young couple in southern Afghanistan for trying to elope, shooting them with rifles in front of a crowd in a lawless, militant-controlled region, officials said Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
The Bush Six to Be Indicted
04-15-2009
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The Daily Beast
Spanish prosecutors will seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking Bush administration officials for sanctioning torture at Guantánamo.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California bailout road projects
04-15-2009
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LA Times
A list of 57 transportation projects totaling $625 million has been adopted by Caltrans as the first in line to receive federal infrastructure money. The projects include: $75 million to repave 3 miles(!!!!) of rough pavement on Interstate
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. spent your tax dollars on shoddy projects
04-15-2009
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USA Today
Two United Nations agencies spent millions in U.S. money on substandard Afghanistan construction projects, including a central bank without electricity and a bridge at risk of "life threatening" collapse, according to an investigation by U.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA documents shine light on secretive Air America
04-15-2009
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AP
Former naval aviator Don Boecker isn't too proud to say he was scared out of his wits on that July 1965 day in Laos when he dangled by one arm from a helicopter while enemy soldiers took aim below. Boecker had spent the longest night of his life
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Stone-throwing Afghan crowd swarms women’s protest
04-15-2009
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AP
Hundreds of Afghans swarmed a demonstration of more than 100 women protesting today against a new marriage law they say restricts wives’ rights. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
SoCal Home Sales Increase: Foreclosures are 55.4 Percent of Sales
04-15-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Regionwide, foreclosure resales accounted for 55.4 percent of March's resales activity, down from a revised 56.7 percent in February and up from 35.7 percent in March 2008
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is America the New Russia?
04-15-2009
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Financial Times
Yet Prof Johnson makes a stronger point than this. He argues that the refusal of powerful institutions to admit losses " aided and abetted by a government in thrall to the “money-changers” " may make it impossible to escape from the crisis.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
United To Charge Heavier Passengers Twice To Fly
04-15-2009
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CBS2Chicago via Drudgereport
If "beefy" or "curvy" describes you, here is a word of warning: United Airlines will begin aggressively enforcing a new policy that allows it to charge heavier passengers twice to fly.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions
04-15-2009
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WSJ via Drudgereport.com
...the world's first life-size replica of Noah's ark, built to biblical specifications off the coast of this recession-struck Chinese financial center.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Boudreaux on Scottish Enlightenment
04-15-2009
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arclein
The 18th century gave us history's most momentous advance in the social sciences. I speak here of the Scottish Enlightenment, led by David Hume and Adam Smith. These thinkers were the first fully to grasp the fact that complex and productive soci
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stem Cell Advance for Diabetes
04-15-2009
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arclein
Patients recently diagnosed with type 1diabetes who received transplants of their own immune stem cells were able to go without insulin injections for nearly five years after the procedure, scientists report today.
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robert klein
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal Alien Supporters Attack Tancredo Event At UNC Chapel Hill
04-15-2009
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ALI-PAC e-mail from Bill Gheen
"I never got to hear Congressman Tancredo speak, neither did the thirty plus other people who gathered in room 103 in Bingham Hall."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
'Thousands of Ballots' May be 'Missing' from AZ's Criminal Investigation Ballot
04-15-2009
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BradBlog.com
the attorney for the Pima County (Tucson) Democratic Party has expressed a concern that thousands of ballots from a disputed 2006 special election, which should be in the AG's possession, may instead be "missing".
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
California Foreclosure Filings Rise to Record High in March of 54,268
04-15-2009
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thetruthaboutmortgage.com/
Meanwhile, auction sales decreased 41.4 percent from February, with just 10,040 properties sold in March, a 36.6 percent decrease from a year ago.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
John McCain straight talk express in Arizona
4-14-09
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WeAreChangeArizona.org
John McWAR gave a Talk to Republicans in central Phoenix on 4-14-09 his straight talk was little more than fear mongering and hypocrisy, stay tuned to the end of the video for a up close confrontation by WeAreChange AZ activists.
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Drew
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama may keep some CIA torture details secret
04-15-2009
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RawStory.com
"Among the details in the still-classified memos is approval for a technique in which a prisoner's head could be struck against a wall as long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was controlled by the interrogator...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Libertarians say Republicans have hijacked tea party movement
04-15-2009
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RawStory.com
Speaking on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show Tuesday evening, Rep. Ron Paul's (R-TX) media coordinator Steve Gordon decried what he characterized as an attempt by mainstream conservative Republicans to hijack a long-cherished libertarian cause.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Vote probe raises fears
04-15-2009
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AZCentral.com
The primary objective is to determine whether someone rigged the election by tampering with the optical-scan polling machines in Pima County, transforming "no" votes into "yes" votes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Auction of Foreclosed Homes in Tucson Sees Prices Fall 55 to 61 Percent
04-15-2009
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AZStarnet.com
Pace offered under the listing price. The bank countered at a price higher than the listing. He offered $275,000, and the lender did not reply, instead sending the property to auction. The brochure claimed a previous high value of $718,000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Industrial Production Crushed in March: Decline Unmatched Since 1946
04-15-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Industrial production is down 13.3% since the recession began in December 2007, the largest percentage decline since the end of World War II. ... Factory output has fallen 15.7% during the recession, also the largest decline since 1945-1946.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sales-Tax Revenue Falls at Fastest Pace in Years
04-15-2009
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Wall Street Journal Online
The declines have continued through the beginning of this year. In the first two months of 2009, the 41 states that have reported tax revenue saw total receipts decline 12.8%, versus the same period a year ago.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Ron Paul's plan to fend off pirates
04-15-2009
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Politico
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and a growing number of national security experts are calling on Congress to consider using letters of marque and reprisal, a power written into the Constitution that allows the US to hire private citizens to keep internationa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Solar Croissant
04-15-2009
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arclein
Vourlidas says he is not surprised that CMEs resemble French pastries. "I have suspected this all along. The croissant shape is a natural result of twisted magnetic fields on the sun and is predicted by a majority of theoretical models."
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robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
EMERGENCY - SPREAD THIS VIDEO! AVIAN FLU - FEMA TRAIN CONNECTION! UPDATE
04-14-2009
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YouTube
(Publisher: Keep an ear to the ground and let me know what other information you may have,... nothing surprises me any more)
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Ernest Hancock
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