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Date Sent: 2009-02-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 25, 2009 AM Edition |
Supreme Court upholds conviction in gun case -- Obama to lead US from dire 'day of reckoning'
Like Having Medicare? Then Taxes Must Rise -- 'There will be blood' -- AZ AG Covering Up Vote Fraud with the Help of Some Black Robes -- MOST U.S. Troops Out of Iraq by August, 2010 -- Ammo imports for civilians to cease - State Dept. seeks ban -- Paul Krugman: Obama's Mysterious plans -- Obama is Right! We need a Civilian National Security Force!!!! -- AZ Legislature Attacks Free Speech With HB 2380 -- Zack de la Rocha Endorses Anti-Arpaio Rally -- Mish: Bernanke's Hide and Seek Delaying Tactics -- Soldier Doubts Eligibility, Defies President's Orders -- Obama's first Blunder
AZ: Thursday Breakfast, "Economist Discussing the Fed"
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
New York Times' Self-Inflicted Insolvency
by Eric Englund
02-24-2009
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Lew Rockwell
The truth of the matter is The New York Times sits on the brink of bankruptcy due to incompetent and destructive financial management which has left its balance sheet in tatters.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
A Second Payola at Calming Bank Investors
02-24-2009
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Washington Post
So far, investors have not been swayed. To them, the government aid doesn't look like reliable capital. It looks a lot like a loan that the government wants back.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
One Crook Tells Another to Quit
02-24-2009
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NY Times
Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, met privately Tuesday with the state’s junior senator, Roland W. Burris, to suggest that he resign but was rebuffed, Mr. Durbin said.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Supreme Court upholds conviction in guns case
02-24-2009
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Washington Post
The Supreme Court affirmed the use of a federal law barring people convicted of domestic violence crimes from owning guns, the first firearms case at the high court since last year's decision in support of gun rights.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Like Having Medicare? Then Taxes Must Rise
02-24-2009
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NY Times
Americans have made it clear that they want a certain kind of government, one that can field a strong military and also maintain popular programs like Medicare. Yet we are not paying nearly enough taxes to maintain those programs.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Senate votes closer to giving DC a CONgressman
02-24-2009
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NY Times
The District of Columbia took a significant step toward winning a full vote in the House on Tuesday as the Senate cleared the way for legislation that would permanently expand House membership for the first time in almost a century.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Citing Cost, States Consider Halting Death Penalty
02-24-2009
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NY Times
When Gov. Martin O’Malley appeared before the Maryland Senate last week, he made an unconventional argument that is becoming increasingly popular in cash-strapped states: abolish the death penalty to cut costs.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Photo Evidence: Soldiers Marching in Hayden, Idaho
02-25-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
My son in law today saw about 20 army guys with full combat gear walking down the street in Hayden, Idaho. He took pictures and asked them what they were doing. ‘They said they were just training.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama vows to lead US from dire 'day of reckoning'
02-24-2009
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AP
Standing before the nation on a "day of reckoning," President Barack Obama summoned politicians and public alike to forge a path out of the worst economic disaster by embracing shared sacrifice and costly new endeavors
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'There will be blood'
02-24-2009
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Reportonbusiness.com
Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson predicts prolonged financial hardship, even civil war, before the ‘Great Recession' ends
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
(Video) Attorney Bill Risner explains how AG Terry Goddard blocks transparency at every move
02-13-09
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http://www.fatallyflawedthemovie.com
Attorney Bill Risner speaks to Bud Foster of KOLD Tucson
after learning that Attorney General Terry Goddard
may risk chain of custody of the ballots in a private requisition.
(Video by JT)
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Reported by:
Drew
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Attorney General's Office now has court permission to take control of the ballots from the 2006
02-24-09
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Arizona Daily Star
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge granted the permission, though the details have been sealed, including whether the move came in a subpoena, a court order or some other form, said Anne Hilby, spokeswoman for Attorney General Terry Goddard.
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Reported by:
Drew
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News Link • WAR: About that War
MOST U.S. Troops Out of Iraq by August, 2010
02-24-2009
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AP
President Barack Obama plans to remove all US combat troops from Iraq by August of next year, administration officials said, ending the war that helped define his upstart presidential campaign - although a little more slowly than he promised.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
So Cal Real Estate: Lisa Ling on Trashing Out Foreclosed Homes
02-24-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
From Lisa Ling at KCET. Last year she did an excellent report "Foreclosure Alley". If you missed that one, it is worth watching ... This video gives you a good idea how quickly the life of a family can be ripped apart.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ammo imports for civilians to cease - State Dept. seeks ban
2-25-2009
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Virginia Shooting Sports Assn.
No more cheap ammo from abroad, and with the war taking up production capacity here,...ammo for you will be almost nil.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Obama Administration
Paul Krugman: Obama's Mysterious plans
02-24-2009
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Krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
I just don’t get it. And my sinking feeling that the administration plan is to rearrange the deck chairs and hope the iceberg melts just keeps getting stronger.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Obama is Right! We need a Civilian National Security Force!!!!
02-24-2009
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Jim Palmisano
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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Reported by:
Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Legislative Alert - AZ Legislature Attacks Free Speech With HB 2380
02-24-2009
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Arizona Legislature
Arizona House Bill 2380 will make it unlawful to post the personal information of any current or retired peace officer, justice, judge, prosecutor or public defender on t
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • World News
Hoax alert: Is your DTV converter watching you?
02-24-2009
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Yahoo News
the creator of the videoâ€"a 28-year-old software engineer named Adam Chronisterâ€"who now admits that yes, it’s just a hoax. No tiny camera, no microphone
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Zack de la Rocha Endorses Anti-Arpaio Rally
02-24-2009
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News Times blog
National Day Laborer Organizing Network has announced that firebrand frontman Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine fame is encouraging people to join the march and rage against Sheriff Joe Arpaio's treatment of the undocumented o
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Reported by:
Mike Dugger
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News Link • Humor
Taxpayer's Clearinghouse Prize Patrol
02-24-2009
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Youtube
They could be coming to your house, anywhere in Amerika. If that 1040 form arrives in the mail, don't forget to mail it back for your chance at receiving The Taxpayer's Prize!!!! Celebrity Barak Obama official spokesman paid endorsement.<
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Mish: Bernanke's Hide and Seek Delaying Tactics
02-24-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The game Bernanke is playing will allow the Fed to slowly bleed taxpayers to death by 100 tiny cuts. Each cut will allow the Fed to inject taxpayer blood (capital) in drips to the banks while pretending the cancerous patient is in good health.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Soldier Doubts Eligibility, Defies President's Orders
02-24-2009
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WorldNetDaily via e-mail
"As an officer, my sworn oath to support and defend our Constitution requires this" (It's ABOUT DAMN TIME!)
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Anthropology
Legacy Landscapes of Amazonia
02-24-2009
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arclein
Most encouraging to myself is that the consistent application of terra preta and terra mulato soils allows us to ultimately map truly settled lands like nowhere else in the world. We will ultimately get a measure of optimum population at the time of
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama's first Blunder
02-24-2009
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arclein
This second round is merely a flushing of cash into government programs and fixes little. It does not restore the collapsed credit system. Firstly, the US government must intervene to rewrite all outstanding mortgage contracts to properly release
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robert klein
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