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Date Sent: 2009-04-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 9, 2009 PM edition |
6 years on, huge protest marks Baghdad's fall -- Moody's strips Berkshire Hathaway of top rating
Iran declares new progress in nuclear drive -- Judge gets $10,000 bribe, innocent man get 23 years on death row -- Kevin Phillips: The "Disaster Stage" of U.S. Financialization -- The Government Is Already “Geo-Engineering” The Environment -- Fewer Americans Support Stricter Gun Control -- Assistant Police Chief Threatened Phoenix Detective For Whistleblowing in 2007 -- Bank Stress Test: To fool the people they built a Potemkin village -- America: a superpower no more -- Invited by Saddam: Iranian opposition members refuse to leave Iraq outpost -- UK's top anti-terror officer resigns after blunder -- Cop Saves Man from Burning Car -- ETHICAL MEANS AND ETHICAL ENDS - by Bob Podolsky -- Man arrested in threat to blow up police station
AZ: PHX Objectivist meeting tonight; Checkpoint USA In Tucson Court Tomorrow
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News Link • Iran
Iran declares new progress in nuclear drive
04-09-2009
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Reuters
The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Gholomreza Aghazadeh, said it was now running 7,000 enrichment centrifuges. In February, Iran had said the number was 6,000.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge gets $10,000 bribe, innocent man get 23 years on death row
04-09-2009
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Chicago Tribune
The courtroom was silent when Circuit Judge Vincent Gaughan acquitted Nathson Fields of murder, a quiet final act for an infamous murder case involving judicial corruption unprecedented even for Chicago's sordid history of graft and greed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Kevin Phillips: The "Disaster Stage" of U.S. Financialization
04-09-2009
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Jessescrossradscafe.blogspot.com
This is a much grander-scale disaster than anything that happened in 1929-33. Worse, it dwarfs the abuses of debt, finance and financialization that brought down previous leading world economic powers like Britain and Holland (back when New York was
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Gay Groups Gaga Over White House Egg Roll
04-09-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
In another example of the collective hype gripping the nation, gay rights organizations are heaping praise on the White House for being so inclusive and diverse in this year's annual Easter Egg Roll"but they know it is really no change at all.
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Becky Chandler
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Reference Link • Videos by 4409
4409 -- Tesla owns Scottsdale judge
Youtube rp4409
Tesla received a coupon.....errrrrr, I mean bill.....errrr, I mean ticket from officer johnson a month ago. This so called ticket looked like a home depot receipt so we decided to have a little fun at our military tribunal......errrrrr I mean city co
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News Link • Gun Rights
CNN Polling: Fewer Americans Support Stricter Gun Control Now Than Did 8 Years ago.
4-9-09
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CNN
54 percent favored stricter laws in 2001, compared with 50 percent in 2007. Now, a recent poll reveals a sudden drop -- only 39 percent of Americans now favor stricter gun laws. (Could sanity be returning/)
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Chip Saunders
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Opinion • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Our Troubled Country: Coming Mega-Traumas
04-09-2009
Frosty Wooldridge
“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another, but ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself millions upon millions, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is
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News Link • Climate Change
The Government Is Already “Geo-Engineering” The Environment
04-09-2009
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InfoWars.com
Reports of chemtrails, jet plumes emitted from planes that hang in the air for hours and do not dissipate, often blanketing the sky in criss-cross patterns, have increased dramatically over the last 10 years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Patriotic Americans Denounced As Terrorists While Criminals Embraced
04-09-2009
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InfoWars.com
The government is completely out of control and desperate to send a chill down the spine of millions more Americans who are thinking of joining the burgeoning liberty movement, by smearing members of peaceable political movements as criminals...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Geologic Climate View
04-09-2009
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arclein
Most geologists, including those in the energy business, take a REALLY long view of the earth's history including global warming and cooling cycles. Within the framework of geologic time, i.e. the earth's history, man is a very late entry and
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Improving Wind Generation Efficiency
04-09-2009
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arclein
The device works much the same as a traditional generator, except that fast-acting electronic switches can engage individual generator coils as needed to harvest energy effectively at different wind speeds. An intelligent controller turns
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Invitation: 12 Million illegal aliens to become US citizens
04-09-2009
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mercurynews.com/
"It just doesn't seem rational that any political leader would say, let's give millions of foreign workers permanent access to U.S. jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs," said Roy Beck, executive director of Numb
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Bank Stress Test: To fool the people they built a Potemkin village
04-09-2009
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finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/
“There is no real purpose [of the stress test] other than to fool us. To make us chumps,” Black says. Black says Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is now essentially saying: “’If we lie and they believe us, all will be well.’ It’s Orwellian."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Assistant Police Chief Threatened Phoenix Detective For Whistleblowing in 2007
04-09-2009
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Photography is Not a Crime
In 2007, assistant police chief Tracy Montgomery wrote, “Dave Barnes is a repeat offender and it is my hope that his specific conduct be addressed formally, rather than informally...Mark my words, if Dave is dealt with, others will think twice about
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Foreign Policy
America: a superpower no more
04-09-2009
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Chrisian Science Monitor
Two American icons, General Electric and Berkshire Hathaway, lost their triple-A credit ratings. Then China, America's largest creditor, called for a new global currency to replace the dollar just weeks after it demanded Washington guarantee the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moody's strips Berkshire Hathaway of top rating
04-09-2009
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Reuters
Moody's Investors Service cut its credit ratings on Berkshire Hathaway Inc from AAA, the top rating, saying the recession and investment losses at insurance operations of investor Warren Buffett's holding company reduced its ability to suppor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Invited by Saddam: Iranian opposition members refuse to leave Iraq outpost
04-09-2009
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Christian Science Monitor
Kiamanesh is one of some 3,400 residents, including several hundred Westerners, in the middle of one of the strangest episodes in the dramatic shift in relations between Iran, Iraq, and the United States. In the 1980s, in the midst of Iraq's bitt
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Six years on, huge protest marks Baghdad's fall
04-09-2009
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Reuters
[why they love us] Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad to mark the sixth anniversary of the city's fall to U.S. troops, and to demand they leave immediately. "Down, down USA,'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
UK's top anti-terror officer resigns after blunder
04-09-2009
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AP
Britain’s top counterterrorism officer resigned from London’s Metropolitan Police a day after his major security blunder forced police to move up a major operation in northern England. He was photographed clutching confidential documents that could c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
How To Turn a 2-liter Bottle Of Water Into a 50-Watt Lightbulb
04-09-2009
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wisebread.com via FND newsletter
It's not often that I'm taken aback by the simplicity and power of an invention, but this one does it for me. It's cheap, anyone can make one and it literally changes lives. Welcome to the water-bottle lightbulb.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Capitol Visitors Center Evacuated Briefly 2 Days In A Row
04--09-2009
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POLITICO
The Capitol Police just sent out an All House email telling everyone to evacuate the Capitol Visitor Center. This is the second evacuation on CapHill in 24 hours.
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Jim Stachowiak
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Opinion • Philosophy of Liberty
ETHICAL MEANS AND ETHICAL ENDS
04-09-2009
Bob Podolsky
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distinguish here four categories of unethical acts and note that the most harmful in our society are those in which the decision to act unethically is the result of ignorance or misunderstanding concerning basic ethical principles. In particul
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News Link • Science
Crustal Shift
04-09-2009
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arclein
I also want to observe that the clear reality of plate tectonics is not an answer either. This provides completely ironclad evidence of mass transfer from one side of a continental plate to the other side. Even allowing it to be forced by heat transf
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robert klein
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News Link • TERRORISM
Man arrested in threat to blow up South San Francisco police station
04-09-2009
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Daily Journal
A man was arrested Monday night for threatening to kill police officers and blow up the South San Francisco Police Department, Sgt. Joni Lee said yesterday.
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Jim Stachowiak
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