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Date Sent: 2009-04-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 10, 2009 AM edition |
Treasury asks banks to keep quiet on stress tests -- Obama seeks $83.4 billion in special war money
Fed says plan now to avert inflation -- More Squatters Are Calling Foreclosures Home -- Sabotage attacks knock out phone service -- Inside the Fed's Trillion-Dollar Decision: Crisis Outweighed Inflation Fears -- President Obama has the power to shut down the Internet -- Pelosi: Says she wants gun registration -- Mr. President, It's Time To Talk About Marijuana -- Welcome to DraftKokesh.com -- Ron Paul on Marijuana Radio -- Police chief fired, jailed for allegedly using Taser on his wife -- 4409 -- Tesla owns Scottsdale judge -- Iran declares new progress in nuclear drive -- New Plastic AR-15 receivers coming
AZ: Terry Bressi trial in Tucson @ 1:30PM
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Treasury asking banks keep quiet on stress tests
04-09-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. Treasury Department is asking banks not to mention the regulatory "stress tests" as part of their first-quarter earnings results. Many of the top 19 U.S. banks who are undergoing regulatory stress tests have already completed inter
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
C.I.A. to Close Secret Prisons, Scenes of Harsh Interrogations
04-09-2009
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NY Times
The Central Intelligence Agency said it would decommission the secret overseas prisons where it subjected Al Qaeda prisoners to brutal interrogation methods, bringing to a symbolic close the most controversial counterterrorism program of the Bush adm
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Fiji's president assumes power, fires judges
04-09-2009
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AP
"I hereby confirm I have abrogated the 1997 constitution and appointed myself as head of state in the new order," Iloilo said. The move came a day after the country's second-highest court ruled that armed forces chief Commodore Frank Ba
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Sabotage Causes Widespread Phone Outage In Santa Clara And Santa Cruz Counties
04-10-2009
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Mercury News
Santa Clara County officials have declared a local emergency after they said someone intentionally cut an underground fiber optic cable in south San Jose, causing a widespread phone service outage
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Housing
More Squatters Are Calling Foreclosures Home
04-09-2009
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NY Times
Michael Stoops, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, said about a dozen advocacy groups around the country were actively moving homeless people into vacant homes " some working in secret, others, like Take Back the Land, ope
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed says plan now to avert inflation
04-09-2009
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Reuters
The United States economy will skid more deeply into recession in coming months, Federal Reserve policy-makers warned, but it is time to start planning how to wind down spending to avert an inflationary surge.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Inside the Fed's Trillion-Dollar Decision: Crisis Outweighed Inflation Fears
04-09-2009
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Washington Post
Worries about a prolonged economic slump and a lack of progress in thawing frozen credit markets persuaded Federal Reserve leaders last month to inject more than a trillion dollars into the economy, according to meeting minutes released yesterday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama seeks $83.4 billion in special war money
04-09-2009
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AP
President Barack Obama asked Congress for $83.4 billion for US military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for special troop funding he opposed 2 years ago when he was senator and George Bush was president.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
The First Garden Gets Its First Planting
04-09-2009
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Washington Post
"The number one question I got as the first lady from world leaders -- they were excited about this garden," Michele Obama said. [Oh yes, she looks quite at home in a garden --- not!]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Sabotage attacks knock out phone service
04-09-2009
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SFGate
Vandals cut fiber-optic cable lines at two locations early today, knocking out phones and access to 911 emergency services to thousands of California customers. [buried lede of the year nominee - the real meat is at the end.]
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Florida sues seller of Michael Vick dog chew toy
04-09-2009
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Reuters
Florida sued a company that sold dog chew toys depicting a football player imprisoned for dogfighting and dolls modeled after a murdered child, alleging it committed a "disgusting" deception by falsely claiming charities would benefit.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
Words Eye View
Pausing to Remember
04-09-2009
Greg J Dixon
Friday, April 10 is universally recognized as ‘Good Friday’ as a memorial of His death on the cross for the sins of mankind. In respect for that great act of redemption, it is only fitting that once again we all should remember that One Solitary Life
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News Link • Drug War
Mr. President, It's Time To Talk About Marijuana
04-09-2008
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Eyes On Obama
Ever since marijuana erupted into popular consciousness back in the 1960s, to support reform or repeal of harsh anti-pot laws has been considered political suicide. But a huge shift is underway in public perception that will eventually and inevitably
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Reported by:
Steve Elliott
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News Link • Internet
President Obama has the power to shut down the Internet
04-09-2009
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http://www.internetnews.com/
That's the concern of some digital rights groups, who fear that last week's sweeping cybersecurity bill could give the government overly broad power to regulate the Internet in times of crisis -- or even pull the plug on it entirely. One grou
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Drug War
Ron Paul on Marijuana Radio
04/09/2009
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Marijuana Radio
Ron Paul starts uncomfortably in an interview with a handful of stoned doofuses on Marijuana Radio. He clearly states that he is "Anti-drug" but, as we all know, Dr. Paul obviously pro-choice and pro-freedom.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Gun Rights
Pelosi: Says she wants registration; Holder says 2A won’t stand in their way
04-09-2009
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Canadian Free Press
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on April 7 acknowledged that gun registration is on her agenda, days after Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters in Mexico that the Second Amendment would not “stand in the way”
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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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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Forty Four O Nine
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News Link • Events: New Mexico
Welcome to DraftKokesh.com
04-09-2009
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E-mail from The Ron Paul Rider (Thanks Mike!)
The purpose of this site is to gather together a grassroots group of people to convince Adam Kokesh to run for congress in 2010. (GO ADAM!)
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
Police chief fired, jailed for allegedly using Taser on his wife
04/09/09
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khou
OAKWOOD, Texas -- The chief of a small Central Texas town’s police department has been fired and jailed for allegedly using a Taser gun on his wife.
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Reported by:
Ken Demyen
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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
New Plastic AR-15 receivers coming. Mass produced Plastic stronger than Aluminum.
04-09-2009
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YouTube
AK-47 receivers made from super-secret molded sythetic using a reinforcement matrix. "What is that", you ask? Just the same stuff the military is planning on using to armor their next generation war-fighting vehicles.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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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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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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