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Date Sent: 2009-10-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for October 10, 2009 Saturday edition |
MA House approves quarantines -- Telephone Co. Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit
Justice officials won’t take oath before briefing -- Cop who beat student for untucked shirt jailed on rape charges -- Gerald Wall Announces He Is Challenging Incumbent Ron Paul -- 2012 forecast : food riots, ghost malls, mob rule -- Have a Nice Apocalypse! - by Will Grigg -- When Public Power Is Used for Private Gain -- Central Banking: A Blight on Humanity -- Cash Binge to End as Central Banks Jive to Exit -- Kremlin aide sees value in possible non-dollar oil payments -- Census Bureau Hires Criminals -- "New York health workers protest mandatory swine flu vaccinations" -- Revenue shortages in most US states "unbelievable" -- Rewriting The Rules Changing the face of urban SWAT engagements
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Mass. House approves bill allowing quarantines
10-09-2009
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WHDH
Public health officials would have the power to isolate individuals and order quarantines to contain the outbreak of serious contagious diseases under a bill approved by the Massachusetts House. Supporters say that while the bill has been in the work
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News Link • Surveillance
Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit
10-09-2009
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Wired
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: The nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government " at least when it comes to secret spying.
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News Link • Gun Rights
50% Oppose Stricter Gun Control Laws
10-09-2009
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Rasmussen
ust 39% of Americans now say the United States needs stricter gun control, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to review the constitutionality of state and local anti-gun laws.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Trending Towards Hyperinflation
10-09-2009
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MarketOracle
even short steps to the cost of living doubling or more inside 3 years...
HYPERINFLATION is widely accepted as a period of out of control price rises, doubling the cost of living inside three years.
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News Link • Government
Baucus' cooked books
10-09-2009
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NY Post
Before "fixing" health care, maybe Washington should focus on educa tion. Because it looks like no one in Congress ever learned basic math.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Justice officials won’t take oath before briefing
10-09-2009
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AP
A House intelligence committee meeting was abruptly terminated when Justice Department officials refused to be sworn in before briefing the lawmakers. They were to brief the committee on the 2001 shootdown of a plane over Peru that was carrying Ameri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop who beat student for untucked shirt jailed on rape charges
10-09-2009
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The suburban Chicago cop who was caught on video beating a 15-year-old student for refusing to tuck his shirt is being accused of raping a woman while holding a pillow over her face. He also killed his ex-wife’s new husband last year by shooting him
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gerald Wall Announces He Is Challenging Incumbent Ron Paul
10-09-2009
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Fort Bend Now
In a bid to unseat incumbent congressman Ron Paul, Gerald Wall yesterday announced his bid to seek the Republican nomination for Congress in Texas District 14. Wall, who works in the petrochemical maintenance industry, said he is a strong conservativ
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News Link • Future Predictions
2012 forecast : food riots, ghost malls, mob rule,
10-09-2009
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WND
A trends forecaster says the current economic "rebound" from last winter's Wall Street collapse of banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers is an artificial blip created by 'phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing."And
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Have a Nice Apocalypse! - by Will Grigg
10-09-2009
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Pro Liberate
Detroit, Riot City: In scenes better suited to a Third World country tens of thousands of desperate people assemble in the hope of receiving $3,500 emergency welfare aid disbursements. Unemployment in Detroit is 29%.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Innocence Roundup
10-09-2009
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The Agitator
A roundup of wrongful conviction-related stories from the last several weeks:
• Wisconsin court dismisses charges against rape and murder after the prosecutor withheld evidence of his innocence. Ralph Armstrong was convicted in 1981. In 1995, a wo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - by Glenn Greenwald
10-09-2009
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Salon
When I saw this morning's top New York Times headline -- "Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize" -- I had the same immediate reaction which I'm certain many others had: this was some kind of bizarre Onion gag that got accidentally transposed onto the
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News Link • Activism
Code Yellow - by Justin Raimondo
10-09-2009
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AntiWar
Right on time for the somber eighth anniversary of the Afghanistan war and occupation, Code Pink founder and primary spokeswoman Medea Benjamin has announced that her organization " which made so many headlines and newscasts protesting "Bush’s war"
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Exceptionalism - by Justin Raimondo
10-09-2009
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AntiWar
"President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said. The officials, who spoke on t
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Warning to Teens: "'Sexting' Will Ruin Your Life"...
10-09-2009
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by Radley Balko (Reason)
The latest case comes from Iowa, where the state's supreme court just upheld the 2005 conviction and sentence of Jorge Canal. While he was 18, a 14-year-old female friend asked Canal to send her a picture of his penis. Even the Iowa Supreme Court ac
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News Link • Eminent Domain
When Public Power Is Used for Private Gain
10-09-2009
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Reason
In December 2003, Bruce Ratner, a New York real estate tycoon and owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, announced his long-simmering plans to build a 22-acre "urban utopia" in central Brooklyn, featuring more than a dozen office and apartment
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Central Banking: A Blight on Humanity
10-09-2009
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Gold Seek
Impeccably reliable sources have informed me that as recently as Sept. 30, 2009 - the last possible day of trade in the Sept. 09 futures - a number of well-healed market participants "bought" substantial tonnage worth of gold futures on the London Bu
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Cash Binge to End as Central Banks Jive to Exit:
10-09-2009
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Bloomberg
For bingers who claim that they’re not ready to leave the party yet, central bankers are jiving hard to convince us that they know where the exits are. My bet is that they’ll bail sooner than financial markets think.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Kremlin aide sees value in possible non-dollar oil payments
10-09-2009
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Ria Novosti
A Kremlin aide said on Thursday it could be advantageous to switch to non-dollar oil payments, but that he had not heard of any discussions on the issue.
Britain's Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday that Russian officials had held "secret mee
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News Link • General Opinion
SEIU ADVOCATES THE COUNTING OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN CENSUS
10-09-2009
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Breitbart
The decision to team up with advocacy groups and unions like the SEIU make clear that the intention is baldly political."
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News Link • Identity Theft
Census Bureau Hires Criminals
10/09/09
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Judicial Watch
In an appalling example of government negligence, the U.S. Census Bureau has hired hundreds of serious criminals to enter the homes of unsuspecting Americans to gather statistics for the 2010 count.
The astounding information was made public this w
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Healthcare
“New York health workers protest mandatory swine flu vaccinations”
10-09-2009
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Russia Today
She added that even pregnant women and others who feel that they would be at risk if they took the swine flu vaccine are being forced to accept the treatment.
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News Link • Government
Barbara Boxer: Michael Steele As Harsh As The Taliban!
10-09-2009
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You Tube
Really?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Revenue shortages in most U.S. states "unbelievable"
10-09-2009
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Reuters
"It's crazy. It's really just unbelievable," said Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers, who called the states' revenue situations "close to unprecedented."
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News Link • Government
‘STICK IT UP YOUR …’: DEM CURSES ON HOUSE floor
10-09-2009
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Breitbart
Comment I know these PIG POLITICIANS are sticking it up ours with taxes and I would like to tell them to stick the taxes up theirs!
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News Link • Police State
School Children Banned From Maryland Public Parks
10-09-2009
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WJLA News
The tyrants of Kensington just passed a new rule that bans kids over five years old from playgrounds during the daytime.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Carl Ichan: It Could Be a Bloodbath
10-09-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
Billionaire investor Carl Ichan gets it. He sees the volatile nature of the current markets, and the potential for a double-dip recession.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Heavy-Handed Feds Screwing The "Most Important Tax Whistle-Blower Ever"
10-09-2009
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The Business Insider
Critics say not only does Bradley Birkenfeld deserve reward for making the tax-evasion case against UBS, his former employer, but his harsh treatment is a bad example for those who want to expose fraud.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
All hail king Barry O'! Nobel Peace Prize winner & Chief War Czar on Earth!
10-09-2009
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San Antonio Civil Rights Examiner
Oxy-moronic? Imbecilic? Dialectic? This guy just keeps milking his occupation of office with the kind of fervor that only a homeless renegade from Kenya given the keys to the kingdom and a mega-ton of power would understand...
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Charles Gillespie
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News Link • Government
F.H.A. Problems Raising Concern of Policy Makers
10-09-2009
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NYT
Problems at the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages with low down payments, are becoming so acute that some experts warn the agency might need a federal bailout.
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News Link • Corruption
Derivatives Lobby Links With New Democrats to Blunt Obama Plan
10-09-2009
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Bloomberg
As President Barack Obama vowed in a Sept. 14 speech in New York’s Federal Hall to correct “reckless behavior and unchecked excess” on Wall Street, Mike McMahon and Barney Frank sat in the audience discussing how to ease proposed rules for the $592 t
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Rewriting The Rules
Changing the face of urban SWAT engagements
10-09-2009
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Officer.com
There are moments when SWAT team personnel approaching a tense, urban stand-off with a barricaded, possibly armed suspect in a home, hotel room, office building, gym, school or mall admittedly feel a little exposed - mostly to the unknown.
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Denies Appeal for Information on Recovery.gov Contract with Smartronix
10-08-2009
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Pro Publica
We appealed the GSA’s decision, noting the administration’s commitment to transparency in general, and its promises of transparency in the stimulus in particular. We also wondered whether the arguments used to defend the redactions " especially the p
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