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Date Sent: 2012-04-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, April 28, 2012 |
Federal judge blocks release of bin Laden death photos
Lawyer for Anti-Illegal Immigrant Group Gets SWAT Raid for Son's Graffiti -- Police Labor Unions Beset Chief Burton -- Newark Targets Newsstand After Owner Talks to Newspaper -- ACLU sues over Border Patrol stops in Pacific Northwest -- Will a gold bar buy a case of beer? -- Tarp Overseer Debunks Bailout Myths: HAVEN’T Repaid Tarp Funds … -- U.S. seeks to modernize NATO, deepen partnerships -- Falling home prices drag new buyers under water -- What 'Gutsy Call'?: CIA Memo Reveals Admiral Controlled bin Laden Mission -- U.S. ban sought on cell phone use while driving -- New Mexico Sheriff Faces 2 Probes for Trying to Block DWI Arrest --
Moneylith 2012, Onward to PorcFest! (video) -- Happy Arbor Day! --
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News April 29, 2012 Edition -- Why Did
Russia Ban The Use Of Microwave Ovens?
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News Link • Obama Administration
Federal judge blocks release of bin Laden death photos
04-27-2012
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CNN
A federal judge has turned aside calls to publicly release video and photographs of the U.S. military raid and aftermath that left al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden dead.
Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, had asked the Department of Defens
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Lawyer for Anti-Illegal Immigrant Group Gets SWAT Raid for Son's Graffiti
04-27-2012
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Reason magazine
Washington Post story about attorney Michael M. Hethmon, who is general counsel for Immigration Reform Law Institute and who is a supporters of the various tough on illegal immigrant bills seen in Alabama, Georgia, and of course Arizona. According to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Labor Unions Beset Burton
04-27-2012
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The paid director of the local police labor union renewed and doubled down on her attack on Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton. Burton has done his best to reform a troubled department despite the foot-dragging of veteran officers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Newark Targets Newsstand After Owner Talks to Newspaper
04-27-2012
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Reason magazine
Last week, the Star Ledger’s Barry Carter wrote about the plight faced by a local newsstand owner in Newark, NJ who was having trouble getting the city to renew the license on his nearly 40-year-old business:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
ACLU sues over Border Patrol stops in Pacific Northwest
04-27-2012
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Reuters
The Border Patrol is unjustifiably stopping people based on their skin color in Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, just across the water from Canada, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.
Two Latinos and a blac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Will a gold bar buy a case of beer? " Felix TV
04-27-2012
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Reuters TV
Gold bugs claim gold is better than cash, so Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon took to the streets of New York City to try to buy something " anything " using one gram of gold. (April 27, 2012)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bailouts
Tarp Overseer Debunks Bailout Myths: HAVEN’T Repaid Tarp Funds …
04-27-2012
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ZeroHedge
After 3½ years, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”) continues to be an active and significant part of the Government’s response to the financial crisis. It is a widely held misconception that TARP will make a profit. The most recent cost estim
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NATO
U.S. seeks to modernize NATO, deepen partnerships
04-27-2012
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Rawstory
The United States will push to modernize NATO, deepen alliance partnerships and hammer out details of the Afghanistan withdrawal at an upcoming summit, White House officials said Thursday.
“The alliance needs to be more deployable and more adaptab
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Falling home prices drag new buyers under water
04-27-2012
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Reuters
More than 1 million Americans who have taken out mortgages in the past two years now owe more on their loans than their homes are worth, and Federal Housing Administration loans that require only a tiny down payment are partly to blame.
That figur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
What 'Gutsy Call'?: CIA Memo Reveals Admiral Controlled bin Laden Mission
04-27-2012
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Breitbart
Today, Time magazine got hold of a memo written by then-CIA head Leon Panetta after he received orders from Barack Obama’s team to greenlight the bin Laden mission. Here’s the text, which summarized the situation:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
U.S. ban sought on cell phone use while driving
04-27-2012
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Reuters
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Thursday for a federal law to ban talking on a cell phone or texting while driving any type of vehicle on any road in the country.
Tough federal legislation is the only way to deal with what he ca
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Mexico Sheriff Faces 2 Probes for Trying to Block DWI Arrest
04-27-2012
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ABC News
New Mexico's attorney general and a county district attorney are investigating to determine whether criminal charges should be brought against a sheriff caught on audio tape trying to force a deputy to release his friend from a DWI arrest.
"We are
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Happy Arbor Day!
04-27-2012
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My Videocam and YouTube Channel: psychictaxi
My Grandson Joe and I plant a tree for Arbor Day.
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Ed Vallejo
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
April 29, 2012 Edition
04-27-2012
John Semmens
EPA Official Regrets Remarks
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 administrator Al Armendariz apologized for boasting that the Obama Administration's approach toward environmental enemies was to “crucify them.” Armendariz attributed his
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News Link • Food
Why Did Russia Ban The Use Of Microwave Ovens?
04-27-2012
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Zen-Haven via rense.com
"Humans are the only animals on the planet who destroy the nutritional value of their food before eating it."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Torture
Hollywood's glorification of torture so military officials appeal to tone it down
04-26-2012
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how the new Hollywood is far more grotesque than the famously dark Hollywood of the '50s. No other modern society has so glorified torture, Unz says, and glorifying torture in media has real world consequences.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Neoconservative Marco Rubio wants to rule the world
04-26-2012
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Daily Telegraph
Rubio is top of Romney’s list to be the Vice Presidential nominee " and the press was struck by its statesmanlike tone and attempt to bridge the partisan divide. But while the sound of the talk was moderate, its content was not. This was the most haw
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
New Secret Service scandal centers on strippers, prostitutes in El Salvador
04-26-2012
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U.S. Secret Service agents brag they routinely use third-world prostitutes while conducting out-of-country security detail for Presidential visits
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Former TSA boss: Resentment of agency ‘dangerous to security’
04-26-2012
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The Daily Caller
Former Transportation Security Administration Administrator Kip Hawley told The Daily Caller that the threat of terrorism “is not going away” and that widespread public mistrust of TSA agents is “dangerous.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Seniors get the TSA runaround, lose $300
04-26-2012
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Petti, who is 95 years old, has two artificial knees and Woodward, at 85, has had her hip replaced. But they sure didn't expect to be subjected to accusations, extreme pat-downs, and to be missing $300 in cash.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Illinois is running out of time and money
04-26-2012
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Washington Post
After trying to tax Illinois to governmental solvency and economic dynamism, Pat Quinn, a Democrat who has been governor since 2009, now says “our rendezvous with reality has arrived.” Actually, Illinois is still reality-averse
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Arizona Immigration Argument May Lead to National ID
04-26-2012
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Bloomberg
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the issue -- and from what the justices said at oral argument, it seems the U.S. might soon be getting more European. Or at least one step closer to requiring a national ID card.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Climate Change
"If I wanted America to fail"
04-26-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by FreeMarketAmerica
The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism"it's become an economic suicide pact. And we're here to challenge it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Real' trading in US markets is down to 16 percent; the rest is machines
04-26-2012
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GATA
(Can you say Plunge Protection Team) Trading by "real" investors is taking up the smallest share of US stock market volumes in more than a decade, according to a recent study. The findings highlight how US trading activity is increasingly being fuel
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Jean Carbonneau
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