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Date Sent: 2009-03-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, March 16, 2009 |
Red Cross Described 'Torture' at CIA Jails -- CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets -- Obama Enlists Campaign Army In Budget Fight -- U.S. Challenged On Sealing of Detainee Files -- Ex-Detroit Mayor's Former Top Aide Out of Jail -- John Stossel: 20/20 - Bailouts and Bull**** -- North Ireland riots after police arrest 3 over killings
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Individualism and Self Defense
by Michael Gaddy
03-15-2009
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LewRockwell
Today’s economic problems have revealed the true purpose of most law enforcement personnel in our country: revenue collection. Apprehending killers, rapists and robbers does not contribute to the coffers of law enforcement and their governing bodies
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets?!?
03-15-2009
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TechDirt
Plenty of folks are quite concerned about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations are being negotiated in secret. This is a treaty that is quite troubling. It likely will effectively require various countries, including the US, to update
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bracing for a Bailout Backlash
03-15-2009
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NY Times
The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street, worried that anger at financial institutions could also end up being directed at Congress and the White House and could complicate President O
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Enlists Campaign Army In Budget Fight
03-15-2009
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Washington Post
President Obama will kick off an all-out grass-roots effort today urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget, activating the extensive campaign apparatus he built during his successful 2008 candidacy for the first time since taking office.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. Challenged On Sealing of Detainee Files
03-15-2009
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Washington Post
[secret charges] The Justice Dept. has filed "unclassified" records in federal court outlining the government's cases against more than 100 detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, but the records are not being made public
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Red Cross Described 'Torture' at CIA Jails
03-15-2009
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Washington Post
The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated inter
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Ex-Detroit Mayor's Former Top Aide Out of Jail
03-15-2009
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NY Times
The former chief of staff to ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released from jail early Monday after serving 69 days for obstruction of justice. Christine Beatty, accompanied by her attorney, pastor and others, walked out of the Wayne County Jail
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years
03-15-2009
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PressTV
The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Stossel: 20/20 - Bailouts and Bull**** Pt. 1 of 6
03-15-2009
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Youtube
Originally aired on March 13, 2009. Whether the government should fix the economy; the attainability of the American Dream; a proposal for universal pre-kindergarten; fencing in the U.S. border; increasing traffic and killer commutes; medical marijua
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech
03-15-2009
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TED
This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
North Ireland riots after police arrest 3 over killings
03-16-2009
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AP
Irish nationalist gangs hurled gasoline bombs at police after three alleged IRA dissidents were arrested on suspicion of killing two British soldiers in an attack designed to trigger wider violence in Northern Ireland.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Immigration
North Carolina Latinos say too much emphasis on illegal immigration
03-15-2009
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The Times News
Saying too much focus is placed on illegal immigration, Latinos from across the state are gathering in Charlotte to talk about their positive contributions and power as a unified community.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paul Volcker and the Mother of All Finanical Crises
03-15-2009
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InfoWars.com
But what they’re now telling me is that the economic meltdown is merely a means to an end. It is being done deliberately, they say, at the very highest levels to achieve a well-planned outcome. What outcome is that? Global rule over all banking, of c
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Three Indicators: Has the Economy Hit Bottom Yet?
03-15-2009
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Ritholtz.com
Home prices have fallen by nearly a third from their peak in 2006, adjusting for inflation. But they're still higher than they were in the booms of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Arizona Real Estate: Foreclosures Outpace Resale Homes
03-15-2009
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AZcentral.com
The median foreclosed home value of $164,470 was higher than the median resale price, which ASU Realty Studies Director Jay Butler said was due to higher-end homes going into foreclosure while the resale market focused mainly on less expensive homes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
A question for our Founding Fathers
03-15-2009
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Mark Yannone
If Jefferson were around, I'd say, "Tom, just between us terrorists, would you answer this simple question?"
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Opinion • Depression
Farm Wars
Why I'm Planting a Garden
03-15-2009
Barbara Peterson
They say dark days lie ahead for the economy. But, whatever happens, we don’t have to go hungry. We can feed ourselves. Come on my Beloved Country, let’s get organized. Let’s start digging. Let’s do something economically beneficial, wonderful, brill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Credit Cards: Cutting people's limits below outstanding balances
03-15-2009
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finance.yahoo.com/
Risk-averse card issuers are getting slash happy. And while many cardholders gripe that such cuts slice razor-close to their balance amounts, for an unfortunate few the cuts go far deeper: below what they currently owe.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama to China: "Don't Worry about US Debt"
03-15-2009
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Rawstory.com
"Not just the Chinese government, but every investor can have absolute confidence in the soundness of investments in the United States," Obama said
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Las Vegas: Home prices drop to less than half 2006 peak
03-15-2009
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lasvegassun.com/news
Based on the new listings in February, it appears prices will continue to decline. The median price of the new listings was $160,000, which is an 8.5 percent decline from $174,900 in January.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski on The Oil Factor - Blood for Oil?
03-15-2009
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Is it another coincidence if U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Central Asia are based near Central Asian oil and natural gas?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nouriel Roubini: "Reflections on the latest sucker’s rally"
03-15-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
We have already seen this Groundhog Day movie at least six times over and over again in the last year or so: the market starts to rally â€" this time around about 8% in a week - and the chorus of optimists starts to say that this is the bottom...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Dollar Crisis In The Making: Before the stampede
03-15-2009
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AsiaTimes.com
Increasingly ominous clouds are gathering in what could soon be the perfect storm against the United States dollar and against the present dollar-centric global financial order.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Florida Congressman Attempts To Close Barn Door After Horse Has Fled
03-15-2009
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World Net Daily
A freshman representative has introduced a bill to the U.S. Congress that would require presidential candidates to provide a birth certificate and other documents to prove their eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Florida Congressman Attempts To Close Barn Door After Horse Has Fled
03-15-2009
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World Net Daily
A freshman representative has introduced a bill to the U.S. Congress that would require presidential candidates to provide a birth certificate and other documents to prove their eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Environment
The Emerging Sunspot Cycle 24 and a Weakening Magnetic Field
03-15-2009
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http://afterarmageddon.blogspot.com
This is why other planets in the solar system, like Mars, Neptune, and Pluto are also warming up. Temperatures have been seen to rise on virtually all the planets in our system. This seems quite apart from any local phenomenon like greenhouse gases e
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Torture
Tales From Torture's Dark World
03-15-2009
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NY Times
2 years ago, Mr. Bush said, “the C.I.A. used an alternative set of procedures. These procedures were designed to be safe, to comply with our laws, our Constitution and our treaty obligations. The Department of Justice reviewed the authorized methods
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