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Date Sent: 2009-05-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 5, 2009 |
House Dems seek $94.2 billion in emergency war funds -- More Crap From the "Libertarian" Party
Murtha's Nephew Got Defense Contracts -- FDIC screws community banks -- Court Bars Identity-Theft Law as Tool in Immigration Cases -- Jackson breast case verdict to be revisited -- SIBEL EDMONDS: In Congress We Trust...Not -- Black Markets -- ‘They kill people like us,’ says gay Iraqi -- Justices Agree to Take Up Sentencing for Young Offenders -- Sec. Rice gets punked by 4th-grader -- No bailout for newspaper industry: White House -- Condi pulls a page from the liar Nixon's script -- US state attorneys to rape Craigslist -- On Taxation, Militarism, & Immigration - by Christine Smith -- A 16GB DVR video camera for your car -- Precrime and Punishment: The FBI’s New Era of Terror
Cinco de Mayo today which every gringo should know means special dishes at Mexican food restaurants
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News Link • WAR: About that War
House Democrats seek $94.2 billion in emergency war funds
05-04-2009
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Reuters
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will seek passage of $94.2 billion in emergency money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other programs, including $2 billion more to prepare for an influenza pandemic.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
More Crap From the "Libertarian" Party
05-04-2009
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Roderick Long
Either the Libertarian Party needs to be retaken by actual libertarians, and all these bozos purged " or else the Party needs to be fought tooth and nail as an enemy of libertarianism.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Corruption
Murtha's Nephew Got Defense Contracts
05-04-2009
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Washington Post
Last year, Murtech received $4 million in Pentagon work, all of it without competition, for a variety of warehousing and engineering services. With its long corridor of sparsely occupied offices and an unmanned reception area, Murtech's most stri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
FDIC screws community banks
05-04-2009
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Scholars & Rogues
By requiring all banks, large and small, to pay a one time charge of 20 cents per $100 of deposits; this unbudgeted expense will cause some smaller banks to fail while larger banks, with the assistance of federal TARP funds, will survive.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Court Bars Identity-Theft Law as Tool in Immigration Cases
05-04-2009
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NY Times
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a favorite tool of prosecutors in immigration cases, ruling unanimously that a federal identity-theft law may not be used against many illegal workers who used false Social Security numbers to get jobs
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Jackson breast case verdict to be revisited
05-04-2009
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AFP
The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to re-examine its verdict in favor of the CBS network that aired a 2004 broadcast in which pop superstar Janet Jackson bared her breast.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
Mr. Greenwald Gets a Letter… and Writes One
05-04-2009
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FiredogLake
It has come to our attention that you accepted an "Izzy "Award from the Park Center for Independent Media, named for I.F. "Izzy" Stone. You called Stone an "independent" journalist. You must know, I.F. Stone was exposed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Students Surprise Scalia with Dossier of His Own Data
05-04-2009
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Boing Boing
Reidenberg's class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia's home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife's personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Japanese scientist claims breakthrough with organ grown in sheep
05-04-2009
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London Times
Guided by one of the animal’s lab-coated creators, the visitor’s hand is led to the creature’s underbelly and towards a spot in the middle under eight inches of greasy wool. Lurking there is a spare pancreas.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
SIBEL EDMONDS: In Congress We Trust...Not
05-04-2009
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Brad blog
Sen. John Kerry: "It's a sad day when you have members of Congress who are literally criminals go undisciplined by their colleagues. No wonder people look at Washington and know this city is broken."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
‘They kill people like us,’ says gay Iraqi
05-04-2009
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MSNBC
Iraq’s gay population is being targeted by militia groups in a wave of killings that has claimed the lives of up to 25 young men and boys in the past month. "They know I am gay. I don’t know if I am going to be killed, this is up to God," s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Black Markets
05-04-2009
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Drug WarRant
Yes, there will be black markets, but the prohibitionist argument is as stupid as saying "Sure, this treatment will cure your cancer, but you'll still have a runny nose, so we probably shouldn't do it."
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justices Agree to Take Up Sentencing for Young Offenders
05-04-2009
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NY Times
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether the reasoning that led it to strike down the death penalty for juvenile offenders four years ago should also apply to sentences of life without the possibility of parole.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Sec. Rice gets punked by 4th-grader
05-04-2009
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Rawstory
Asked by a fourth grader about the Bush administration’s torture techniques, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared to stumble this weekend, repeating the same phrase three times. (video)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
No bailout for newspaper industry: White House
05-04-2009
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AFP
The White House expressed "concern" and "sadness" over the state of the ailing US newspaper industry, but made clear that a government bailout was not in the cards. "I don't know what, in all honesty, government can do ab
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Libertarianism vs. Statism
05-04-2009
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FFF / Jacob Hornberger
While Republicans and Democrats [and Libertarians, and Constitutionalists, and Greens, and...] wage wars against their scapegoats, the real war is between libertarianism and statism.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
US state attorneys to rape Craigslist
05-04-2009
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AFP
US attorneys general have a date with Craigslist to discuss concerns the free online classified service is being used to advertise prostitution. Missouri attorney general said he plans to eliminate "Erotic Services" ads that amount to offer
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To
05-04-2009
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C4SS / Thomas Knapp
When the Libertarian Party issues a press release calling on the US government to exercise more power than even Janet Napolitano thinks is called for " something is obviously rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Libertarian Dialogue - On Taxation, Militarism, & Immigration
05-04-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
My article, “When Government Replaces God and Family” appearing online recently resulted in about 20 email communications sent to me...Two of the recent letters posed questions on taxation, militarism & immigration.
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Christine -
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News Link • Police State
Precrime and Punishment: The FBI’s New Era of Terror
05-04-2009
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Pacific Free Press
A chilling new report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reveals the breadth and scope of the FBI’s Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW), the Bureau’s massive data-mining project.
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Jim Stachowiak
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