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Date Sent: 2009-05-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 1, 2009 |
Justice Souter retiring -- Obama to give Fiat $8 Billion to buy Chrysler
Senators want to expel junk food from U.S. schools -- With New Software, Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors -- Obama and ACORN GPS Marking EVERY Front Door in America? -- Arizona budget faces massive fiscal black hole -- Swine Flu Case in Spain May Point to Global Pandemic (phase 6), WHO Says -- Mexico Shuts Down as Flu Pandemic Imminent
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Souter retiring
04-30-2009
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AP
Justice David Souter is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court, giving President Barack Obama his first chance to fill a vacancy on the high court.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama to give Fiat $8Billion to buy Chrysler
04-30-2009
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
The government would provide up to $8 billion more to carry the company through bankruptcy, said senior administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity. The government will also help appoint a new board of directors.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senators want to expel junk food from U.S. schools
04-30-2009
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Reuters
U.S. schools with vending machines that sell candy and soda to students could soon find the government requiring healthier options to combat childhood obesity under a bill introduced on Thursday by two senators.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Africans have world's greatest genetic variation
04-30-2009
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AP
Africans have more genetic variation than anyone else on Earth, according to a new study that helps narrow the location where humans first evolved, probably near the South Africa-Namibia border.
The largest study of African genetics ever undertake
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Former 'enemy combatant' pleads guilty in Illinois
04-30-2009
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AP
Al-Marri's attorneys said their client, a married father of five from Qatar, chose to plead guilty to avoid the risk, if found guilty, of spending 30 years in prison. "We thought (the plea) was the right approach to take based on the evidenc
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
With New Software, Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors
04-30-2009
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NY Times
The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online, using elaborate technology to block millions of Web sites offering news, commentary, videos, music and, until recently, Facebook and YouTube.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
2 Chandler schools Closed as Swine Flu cases confirmed
04/30/2009
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By Ginger Rough, The Arizona Republic
Maricopa County public health officials have closed two more schools, both in the Chandler Unified School District, after confirming that children there had been ill with the H1N1 swine flu virus. The schools, Tarwater Elementary and Hartford Sylvia
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Reported by:
Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Immigration
Amid protesters, Tancredo blasts illegal immigration
04-30-2009
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Pawtucket Times
Referring to the protesters, who were also chanting, “racist, sexist, anti-gay, Tom Tancredo go away,” Tancredo insisted his stand on immigration “has nothing to do with race. It is always perceived as some sort of racial thing."
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama and ACORN GPS Marking EVERY Front Door in America?
04-30-2009
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Canada Free Press
Obama’s Census Bureau has hired 1000s of new temporary employees, equipped each with a handheld GPS computer, and given them 90 days to mark GPS coordinates “within 40 ft of every front door” in America.
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Reported by:
Adam Burke
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News Link • Philanthropy
Missing Person
04-30-2009
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C4SS / Thomas Knapp
The essence of government “scheme[s] of philanthropy or humanitarianism,” however, is encapsulated in the “made to do” clause in Graham’s formula. This clause makes C no more, and in some ways, less, forgettable.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona budget faces massive fiscal black hole
04-30-2009
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AZCentral.com
The preliminary April results include 30 percent more in tax refunds issued in April from a year earlier and 30 percent less in payments received, the budget staff said.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Swine Flu Case in Spain May Point to Global Pandemic (phase 6), WHO Says
04-30-2009
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bloomberg.com
“We have been preparing all along as if this is going to stage 6,” Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland Security secretary, said yesterday at a news conference in Washington.
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Reported by:
Xander Holman
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
What do you do with 26 million doses of expired H5N1 vaccines?
04-30-2009
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http://revolutionarypolitics.com/?p=479
According to the Washington post Nov. 2nd 2005, ’President Bush yesterday asked Congress for $7.1 billion to help prepare the country for a global epidemic of influenza, telling a high-powered gathering of scientists and public officials at the Natio
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istvan lettang
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Flu: Fort Worth becomes the nation’s first major city school district to close
04-30-2009
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nytimes.com/
About 80,000 students are expected to be kept out of their classrooms through May 11 in that city, adding to the 53,000 pupils already out of school in Texas, where 26 people have been confirmed with cases of the swine flu.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Mexico Shuts Down as Flu Pandemic Imminent
04-30-2009
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AP
Mexican President Calderon ordered government offices and private businesses to stop work to avoid further infections.On Wednesday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon ordered citizens to stay home,
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Maturation of Solar Technology
04-30-2009
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arclein
The industry is targeting grid parity and looks well on the way to achieving just that and it sounds like it will all be very quick. My guess is that technical maturity is just around the corner as the new solar cell technology begins to flood the ma
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Eden Climatics
04-30-2009
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arclein
Yet anyone who looks at the globe knows that the present well watered ecosystems are a small fraction of the globe’s land area. The Sahara leaps out, but so too does Western North America and most of Asia. Well watered is not how you would describe m
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
How to Produce Carrot Seeds
04-30-2009
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P.W. Simon
Here are the instructions for producing your own carrot seeds. Carrot seed production requires two years, unlike crops such as lettuce, tomatoes, and squash, etc.
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Barbara Peterson
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