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Date Sent: 2009-05-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 29, 2009 AM edition |
Russia fears Korea conflict could go nuclear -- Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals
U.S. Urged to Relax Cuba Policy to Boost Regional Relations --
Allotting of Iraqi Oil Rights May Stoke Hostility -- Pentagon Plans New
Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace -- Exploding debt threatens America -- Again, May God Forgive Us - by Will Grigg -- New Murder Trial Ordered After 3 Former and Current Police Officers Take the Fifth -- Pocket Machine Guns! -- Presidential Fundraising Trips Leave Taxpayers With Hefty Tab -- Cop Involved in Hit and Run Given 4 Hours Before Taking Breathalyzer
-- The "Water Cure" for Mancow Disease - by Will Grigg -- CHEAPO,
ONE-JET AIRLINE KEEPS IT PLANE & SIMPLE -- "Dealergate" is Just
Business as Usual - by Thomas Knapp -- Strategy and Tactics - by L.
Neil Smith -- Where have all the millionaires gone? -- Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa -- Castro criticizes Cheney's defense of US torture -- Jekyll Island Project Media Blackout; Bob Schulz Refuses Press Coverage -- Sen. John McCain confronted at a Town Hall -- Ron Paul gets an hour in front of a High School class -- Cannabis Tax & Deregulation: Cutting out the Middle Man - by Brock Lorber -- Video Now available of State Trooper Assaulting An EMT
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News Link • World News
Russia fears Korea conflict could go nuclear
05-28-2009
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Reuters
Russia is taking security measures as a precaution against the possibility tension over North Korea could escalate into nuclear war. A stand-off triggered by Pyongyang's nuclear test could affect the security of Russia's far eastern regions,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals
05-28-2009
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NRC Handelsblad
The Dutch justice ministry has announced it will close eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty. (HMM, didn't they do something with drug policy there)
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. Urged to Relax Cuba Policy to Boost Regional Relations
05-29-2009
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Washington Post
The U.S. government is fighting an effort to allow Cuba to return to the Organization of American States after a 47-year suspension. But the resistance is putting it at odds with much of Latin America as the Obama administration is trying to improve
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Allotting of Iraqi Oil Rights May Stoke Hostility
05-29-2009
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NY times
Sheik Habih Shawqi Hamakan peered through his binoculars on a recent afternoon at a sight he considers, despite the rising columns of black smoke that blot out the sun, pure beauty.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace
05-29-2009
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NY Times
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare. The military command would complement a civilian effort to be announced
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Exploding debt threatens America
05-28-2009
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Financial Times
Under President Barack Obama’s budget plan, the federal debt is exploding. To be precise, it is rising " and will continue to rise " much faster than gross domestic product. The federal debt was equivalent to 41 per cent of GDP at the end of 2008;
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Again, May God Forgive Us - by Will Grigg
05-28-2009
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Pro Liberate
When I heard screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn't covered and I saw [name withheld] who was wearing a military uniform, putting his [male appendage] into the little kid's [anus] ... and the female soldier was taking pictures.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Murder Trial Ordered After 3 Former and Current Police Officers Take the Fifth
05-28-2009
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Jon Turley
What happen when you hold a trial and the police are the ones who take the Fifth? That question was answered by Cook County Circuit Judge who ordered a new trial for a Gangster Disciple member who alleged he was forced to confess during beatings in c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Illinois Police Official Gets Cherry New Wheels
05-28-2009
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The Agitator
In January 2007, state police in Illinois seized a shiny new, souped-up Dodge Charger after arresting the car’s owner on drunk driving charges. The state apparently passed a law in 2006 that allows police to take and keep the cars of repeat drunk dri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Pocket Machine Guns!
05-28-2009
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Turner Radio network
Preparing to clean-up the social, cultural and political filth in the United States has spawned many terrific creations which PATRIOTS are making use of. The video below shows one such nifty creation: a pocket machine gun!
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Presidential Fundraising Trips Leave Taxpayers With Hefty Tab
05-28-2009
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FOX News
President Obama left Tuesday for a two-day fundraising tour in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The Democratic National Committee is expected to pick up part of the cost, but if history is any gauge, taxpayers will pick up most of the tab.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Involved in Hit and Run Given 4 Hours Before Taking Breathalyzer
05-28-2009
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Jon Turley
Chicago Police Officer Richard Bolling was charged in a hit and run that killed a 13-year-old who was riding his bicycle. Standard procedures calls for a breathalyzer as soon as possible. Bolling’s colleagues gave him 4 hours and, when they administe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
The "Water Cure" for Mancow Disease - by Will Grigg
05-28-2009
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Pro Liberate
It took all of 6 seconds to exorcise the unearned and unwarranted self-regard that had possessed Chicago rant radio personality Erich "Mancow" Muller: All that was necessary was a brief application of the "water cure," a torture p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
CHEAPO, ONE-JET AIRLINE KEEPS IT PLANE & SIMPLE
05-28-2009
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NY Daily Post
At nine bucks, a flight to Toledo now costs less than a drive across the Verrazano Bridge. The no-frills startup airline JetAmerica -- which currently owns only one airplane -- started offering the absurdly discounted one-way tickets on flights
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
"Dealergate" is Just Business as Usual
05-28-2009
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C4SS / Thomas Knapp
When the state gets involved in the market, politics gets involved in the market. And when politics gets involved in the market, it should be no surprise that that politics proceeds to impart its distinctive taint to “market decisions.”
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Strategy and Tactics - by L. Neil Smith
05-28-2009
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Each morning I find a dozen messages in my e-mail concerning evil plots by the current administration or some other enemy of individual liberty to take away our guns, our money, our homes, our children, our cars, our land, our gardens, our right to s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Where have all the millionaires gone?
05-28-2009
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J.D. Tucille
[FUNNY] Last year, Maryland deliberately slapped an (even more) onerous tax on higher income state residents in order to try to soak up some of the red ink in which state books are awash. State politicians and newspaper editorialists gloated
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa
05-28-2009
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AP
Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus.“This one is really, really aggressive” he said of the virus.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Torture
Castro criticizes Cheney's defense of US torture
05-28-2009
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AP
Fidel Castro criticized former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for defending American interrogation methods against terror suspects, saying that torture should never be used to extract information.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Jekyll Island May 2009
Jekyll Island Project Media Blackout; Bob Schulz Refuses Press Coverage
05-28-2009
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Allison Bricker - smargus.com
However, in the end, my loyalty lies with the Constitution, reporting of the facts, a desire to see this Republic restored, and human liberty expanded, not to an organization.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
GMO Food Banned
05-28-2009
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The Zimbabwean
A consumer rights group has started raiding shops and supermarkets found selling Genetically Modified Foods (GMO) on grounds that it is unhealthy.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
Over/Under Shotgun/Rifle Combos
Ernest Hancock
"It seemed like I always had a rifle when I would've done better with a shotgun, and when I had the shotgun, it seemed like Id always get a couple of easy-takers that were just outside the shotgun range."
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Your Middle Name Could Be Trouble
05-28-2009
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Chicago Tribune
If your passport or driver's license includes a full middle name that you don't normally use, you will have to include that name on your ticket the next time you fly within the United States and by December if you fly overseas.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • World News
BILDERBERG AGENDA EXPOSED
05-28-2009
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AFP
Major goals remain exploiting the global recession and an imaginary “swine flu pandemic” to establish global departments of treasury and health under the United Nations.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Mafia cash increases grip on sinking Italian economy
05-28-2009
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Bloomberg
In the southern Italian port city of Palermo, home to bustling outdoor markets and Arab-influenced architecture, prosecutor Roberto Scapinato has hunted Mafia money for two decades. Now, as the rest of the world tightens its
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video Now available of State Trooper Assaulting An EMT
05-28-2009
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Photography Is Not A Crime
An Oklahoma State Trooper pulled over an ambulance on its way to the hospital Sunday, resulting in the police officer placing a chokehold on a paramedic as a patient lingered in the back.
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Terry Bressi
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