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Date Sent: 2009-04-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, April 26, 2009 Sunday edition |
Obama Passing New Law To Allow Searching of PC's, Laptops, and Media Devices
Drug Prohibition: Law Enforcement Is The Problem -- Shots Fired by Cops on Kent State Students (2009) -- The Impossibility of Healthcare Reform -- Ron Paul Didn't Expect This From Hillary Clinton -- Baxter working on Swine Flu Vaccine -- Steve Anderson at the AZ Breakfast Club video -- Protesters, Police Clash Near IMF Meetings in DC -- TSA claims new powers of detention, search, and interrogation -- Drugs: To Legalize or Not -- Carbon Cap and Trade Inconvenient Truths -- Venture Capital Firm Set To Reap Rewards On Swine Flu
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Obama Passing New Law To Allow Searching of PC's, Laptops, and Media Devices
04-26-2009
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AfterDowningStreet.org
This bill is meant to be a dagger through the heart of the blogging community and all those who share files over the internet.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Drug Prohibition: Law Enforcement Is The Problem
04-25-2009
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Darren Wolfe - The International Libertarian
The problem is not the War on Drugs, that is merely the symptom. The problem is that the government has the means to enforce laws like the drug prohibition.
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Reported by:
Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Shots Fired on Kent State Students
04-26-2009
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Ohio.com
Students said the fire was started because police were harassing students on their front lawns and firing rubber bullets. Police assembled into a ''skirmish line,'' dressed in riot gear, with night sticks and ''rubber bullet
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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Reference Link • F.E.M.A.
US FEMA Camps
Global Research
The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency has numerous detainment camps throughout the United States. Some camps have been recently constructed and / or renovated and are fully staffed.
Entered by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
The Impossibility of Healthcare Reform
04-25-2009
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Bill Sardi - Knowledge of Health
The race to provide every American with health insurance is leading to a medicine chest that is bare. The Administration in Washington has fashioned an unproven plan to improve the efficiency, coordination, convenience, accessibility and affordabilit
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Reported by:
Darren Wolfe
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Ron Paul Didn’t Expect This Response From Hillary Clinton...I Almost fell out of my chair!
04-25-2009
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http://ronpaulrally.org/protecting-our-liberty/ron
Having campaigned in the last pres election, You had the most enthusiastic supporters of ANYBODY, I have EVER SAW. My Goodness literally everywhere I went, they were running down highways holding your signs. I have never had a chance to tell you that
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Housing Lockdown
04-25-2009
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arclein
Leading the market down to find a bid or two is vastly damaging. The inventory is carried on the books as worth a certain market price. Selling a house below that price means that you write down the entire inventory. How stupid is that?
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Cyclones Water Jet Stratosphere
04-25-2009
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arclein
Our finding that tropical cyclones are responsible for many of the clouds in the stratosphere opens up the possibility that these storms could affect global climate, in addition to the oft-mentioned possibility of climate change affecting the frequen
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EEStor Earth Day News
04-25-2009
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arclein
EEStor feels this is a huge milestone which opens the advancement of key products and services in the electrical energy storage markets of today. The automotive and renewable energy sectors are a few of the key markets that would benefit greatly with
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Keith Olbermann offers Sean Hannity $1000 for every second he can endure waterboarding
04-25-2009
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www.msnbc.msn.com
Sean Hannity volunteers to be waterboarded April 23: MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell discusses why the Fox News host would volunteer to undergo this torture practice. He is soft just like Dick Cheney is soft they have never been to battle. They both wou
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Healthcare
Ill-based Baxter working on Swine Flu Vaccine
04/25/2009
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Associated Press, Forbes.com
DEERFIELD, Ill. - Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. will work with the World Health Organization to develop a vaccine that could stem an outbreak of a deadly swine flu strain in Mexico.
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Reported by:
Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Protesters, Police Clash Near IMF Meetings in DC
04-25-2009
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KOLO TV
More than 100 protesters upset with the way world leaders have handled the economic crisis clashed with police Saturday outside the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico’s Calderon Declares Emergency Amid Swine Flu Outbreak
04/25/2009
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By Thomas Black, Bloomberg.com
April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an emergency in his country’s swine flu outbreak, giving him powers to order quarantines and suspend public events.
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Reported by:
Lauren Roseman
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News Link • World News
Students Fall Ill in New York, and Swine Flu Is Likely Cause
04/25/09
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., The New York Times
Tests show that eight students at a Queens high school are likely to have contracted the human swine flu virus that has struck Mexico and a small number of other people in the United States, health officials in New York City said yesterday.
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Reported by:
Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA claims new powers of detention, search, and interrogation
04-25-2009
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Papers Please
Once again trying to legislate by press release & blog posting, the TSA has asserted it has general authority to detain would-be airline passengers, seize their possessions, & compel them to answer questions â€" for reasons unrelated to aviation or sec
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Drug War
Drugs: To Legalize or Not
04-25-2009
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Wall Street Journal / Steven Duke
We can try to deal with the Mexican murderers as we first dealt with Al Capone and his minions, or we can apply the lessons we learned from alcohol prohibition and finish dismantling the destructive prohibition experiment.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Mexico
Mexican Flu showing a 7% mortality rate
04/25/09
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Veritas Vincit, http://sonoranalliance.com
It’s considered a strain of swine flu but also combines genetic material from birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before. Evidence emerged Friday that there is a new flu virus to which many people may have little or no immunity - key
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Welfare: Social
The power of mobile phones to end poverty
04-24-2009
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Ted.com / Iqbal Quadir
Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development.
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Reported by:
Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Police State
Audio & Video and PDF Transcripts from the National Constitutional Convention
04-25-2009
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www.amoreperfectconstitution.com
The convention, moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS's "Face the Nation," offered a wide range of topics for discussion such as presidential election reform, checking the powers of government, and national service among many other topics.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Immigration
CONNECTING THE DOTS
LORBERâ€"BLIND STUPIDITY IS AN EMOTION, TOO
04-25-2009
Frosty Wooldridge
Renzulli and Lorber constitute the kind of dudes who would have cast stones and hurled names at Gandhi, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Jefferson, Mandela, ML King, Barbara Jordan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir and other historical greats.
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News Link • Environment
Carbon Cap and Trade Inconvenient Truths
04-25-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Facts have a funny way of getting in the way of good ideasâ€"take Carbon Cap and Trade for example.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • World News
Swine Flu Found in Mexican Outbreak
04/25/2009
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By Rob Stein and David Brown, Washington Post
An unusual strain of swine flu has been detected among victims of a large outbreak of a severe respiratory illness in Mexico, prompting global health officials, fearful of a potential flu pandemic, to scramble yesterday to try to contain the virus.
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Reported by:
Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Healthcare
Venture Capital Firm Set To Reap Rewards On Swine Flu
04/24/2009
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By Alexander Haislip, Reuters UK
LOS ANGELES, April 24 (Reuters) - The swine flu outbreak is likely to benefit one of the most prolific and successful venture capital firms in the United States: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Thomson Reuters Private Equity Week reported on Friday
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Lauren Roseman
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