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Date Sent: 2009-05-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 20, 2009 AM edition |
Gun Rights Are Poised for a Victory -- CA Voters Reject Schwarzenegger Budget Balancing Remedy
Little New in Obama's Immigration Policy -- Arms From U.S. May Be
Falling Into Taliban Hands -- Japanese Economy Shrinks at 15.2% Annual
Pace in 1Q -- Blue collar males lose more ground -- Obama Considering a
National Security Court For Some Terrorism Prosecutions -- Rumsfeld was
even worse than you thought -- Obama administration reins in FBI's
NSL-related gag -- Web Attack That Poisons Google Results Gets Worse --
Ron Paul: States Have Right to Legalize Marijuana -- The U.S.
Government Has Become Patently Anti-Christian - by Chuck Baldwin
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Arms From U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands
05-19-2009
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NY Times
Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
California Voters Reject Schwarzenegger Budget Balancing Remedy
5-19-09
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Bloomberg.com
California voters appear to have rejected a package of budget-balancing measures that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said were needed to keep a $15 billion deficit from widening to $21 billion.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Justin Raimondo: American Death Squad
5-20-09
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Antiwar.com
It is hardly inconceivable that what we saw at Camp Nama " beatings, degradation of prisoners, and outright, cold-blooded murder " is going to be replicated on a nationwide scale.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Little New in Obama's Immigration Policy
05-19-2009
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Washington Post
President Obama, on immigration enforcement, has embraced several Bush administration initiatives, and the changes he has promised to make are couched in nuance.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Advocates of Gun Rights Are Poised for a Victory
05-19-2009
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NY Times
To the frustration and discouragement of many Democrats, it now appears likely that President Obama will this week sign into law a provision allowing visitors to national parks and refuges to carry loaded and concealed weapons.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Japanese Economy Shrinks at 15.2% Annual Pace in 1Q
5-19-09
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NakedCapitalism.com
Exports plunged an unprecedented 26 percent last quarter, forcing companies from Toyota Motor Corp. to Hitachi Ltd. to cut production, workers and wages....
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan's GDP Continues Rapid Decline
05-19-2009
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Washington Post
Japan's export-addicted economy shrank during the first quarter at the fastest pace in more than 50 years, continuing a dismal trend that since last year has made it the worst performer among major countries.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New alloys offer alternative to chrome
05-19-2009
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MIT
Ever since the 1940s, chrome has been used to add a protective coating and shiny luster to a wide range of metal products, from bathroom fixtures to car bumpers. Chrome adds beauty and durability, but those features come at a heavy cost.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Blue collar males lose more ground
05-19-2009
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Reuters
Rodney Ringler is an unemployed blue collar male without a college degree. He's hardly alone. Men like him have been the main victims of the current recession in the United States.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Obama Considering a National Security Court For Some Terrorism Prosecutions
05-19-2009
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The Public Record
[soon for everyone] President Obama is considering the creation of a national security court to try cases in which there is enough reliable intelligence to hold a foreign terrorism suspect in preventive detention, but not enough to bring a case in fe
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Rumsfeld was even worse than you thought
05-19-2009
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Salon
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is not a popular guy, and his tenure during the Bush administration isn't generally well-regarded. He even became the fall guy for Republicans' disastrous losses in the 2006 midterm elections
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Obama administration reins in FBI's NSL-related gag orders
05-19-2009
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ARSTechnica
The Obama administration's decision not to ask the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision will force the FBI to justify to a judge the gag orders that it routinely puts on the targets of its national security letters.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Web Attack That Poisons Google Results Gets Worse
05-19-2009
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PC World
A new attack that peppers Google search results with malicious links is spreading quickly, the U.S. Computer Emergence Response Team warned. The attack, which has intensified in recent days, can be found on several thousand legitimate Web sites, acco
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Ron Paul: States Have Right to Legalize Marijuana
05-19-2009
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Air America (audio)
In a interview on Air America Radio, Ron Paul took a strong stand in support of the Constitution and State Sovereignty - by stating that laws and regulations of Marijuana should be on a state level. “If California wants to legalize it, let ‘em legali
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Internet
'Parasitic' new media beats old media to the punch
05-19-2009
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Disloyal Opposition
Yes, that means partisan media outlets give up the idea of appealing to everybody. But "objective" operations that lose readership with each passing year have given up that aspiration anyway.
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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