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Date Sent: 2010-09-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, September 14, 2010 AM edition |
Hundreds Of Marijuana Plants Stolen From Police -- Corruption on US Border Is Rising
Confessing to Crime, but Innocent -- Civil Rights Photographer Unmasked as Informant -- US state steps in to meet city’s debt cost -- Paul says GOP shares blame for deficits -- New Medicare chief speaks out against rationing -- Attack On SC Prison Guard Renews Phone-jam Debate -- Impeachment trial of federal judge gets under way in U.S. Senate -- Thousands held without trial in Iraq: Amnesty -- Doomsday warnings of US apocalypse gain ground -- Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare --
Board may give Joe Arpaio access to RICO funds -- Doctors often fail to
disclose company payments -- Cuba to cut 500,000 gov't workers, reform
salaries -- When Society Thinks Torture is Funny – Have We Crossed the Line? -- THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING -- Colombian paramilitary leaders extradited to US, where case files are sealed -- Audit: Los Angeles Dept. of Children and Family Services Covering Up Child Fatalities -- Call me Noah! Hancock vs Wooldridge Radio Debate: Readers React
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News Link • Drug War
Maine: Hundreds Of Marijuana Plants Stolen From Police
09-13-2010
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Toke of the Town
It's the feel-good story of the day. About 750 marijuana plants were stolen from a Farmington, Maine law enforcement storage building overnight last week. The storage facility is only half a mile from the police station.
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Reported by:
Richard Deyoung
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News Link • Corruption
Corruption on U.S. Side of the Border Is Rising
09-13-2010
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Slate.com
Cartels are now "employing Cold War-era spy tactics to recruit and corrupt U.S. officials," reports the Washington Post.
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Reported by:
Sheila Dean
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Confessing to Crime, but Innocent
09-13-2010
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NY Times
Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: he confessed.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Civil Rights Photographer Unmasked as Informant
09-13-2010
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NY Times
But now an unsettling asterisk must be added to the legacy of Ernest C. Withers, one of the most celebrated photographers of the civil rights era: He was a paid F.B.I. informer. Mr. Withers, who died in 2007 at age 85, had collaborated closely with
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
US state steps in to meet city’s debt cost
09-13-2010
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Financial Times
The state of Pennsylvania has stepped in to help its capital city Harrisburg avoid a default by advancing next year’s state aid so that the money can be used to make a $3.3m bond interest payment due this week.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul says GOP shares blame for deficits
09-13-2010
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AP
Kentucky Senate hopeful Rand Paul chided fellow Republicans on Sunday evening for contributing to the massive federal budget deficit, candidly telling tea party supporters in his hometown that GOP lawmakers took "the easy way out" by failing to cut s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
New Medicare chief speaks out against rationing
09-13-2010
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Washington Post
The nation's health-care system cannot be transformed by rationing medical care, President Obama's new Medicare chief said Monday in his first major speech.
Donald Berwick's appointment this summer without Senate confirmation was contentious becau
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Attack On SC Prison Guard Renews Phone-jam Debate
09-13-2010
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AP
South Carolina authorities who have helped push for permission to block cell phone signals inside prisons say an officer in charge of keeping out contraband was nearly killed at his home - in an attack planned with a smuggled phone.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Impeachment trial of federal judge gets under way in U.S. Senate
09-13-2010
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AP
The judge is accused of corruption and accepting kickbacks, as well as lying about his past to the Senate and FBI regarding his nomination to the federal bench. In March, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to impeach Porteous, making him
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
News rater, anti-Palin group get govt Gulf work
09-13-2010
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AP
The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Thousands held without trial in Iraq: Amnesty
09-13-2010
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AFP
Tens of thousands of detainees are being held without trial in Iraqi prisons and face violent and psychological abuse as well as other forms of mistreatment. 30,000 are held in Iraqi jails, several are known to have died in custody, while cataloging
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Doomsday warnings of US apocalypse gain ground
09-13-2010
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AFP
Economists peddling dire warnings that the world's number one economy is on the brink of collapse, amid high rates of unemployment and a spiraling public deficit, are flourishing here.
The guru of this doomsday line of thinking may be economist No
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare
09-13-2010
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Townhall
"There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases." That was actually from a letter sent from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to the president of America's Health Insurance Plans
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Board may give Joe Arpaio access to RICO funds
09-13-2010
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Arizona Republic
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office could start to receive $2,430,000 in racketeering and jail-enhancement funds under a proposal expected to appear today before the Board of Supervisors.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Third Light Beam into NYC Night Skyline on 9th Anniversary of September 11th
09-13-2010
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www.prisonplanet.com
1,280 Architects and Engineers Launch Third Light Beam into NYC Night Skyline on 9th Anniversary of September 11th
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Study: Doctors often fail to disclose company payments
09-13-2010
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USA Today
A study of orthopedic specialists earning $1 million or more from medical device companies found that doctors often fail to disclose lucrative company ties in medical journal articles, researchers reported Monday.
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Richard Deyoung
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Cuba to cut 500,000 gov't workers, reform salaries
09-13-2010
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AP
Cuba announced Monday it will cast off at least half a million state workers by early next year and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs " the most dramatic step yet in President Raul Castro's push to radically remake
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Richard Deyoung
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News Link • Torture
When Society Thinks Torture is Funny " Have We Crossed the Line?
09-13-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
According to Amnesty International USA :
Since June 2001, more than 351 individuals in the United States have died after being shocked by police Tasers. Most of those individuals were not c
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Reported by:
Marti Oakley
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Nancy Pelosi, Wicked Witch of the West
09-13-2010
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youtube
Slick campaign ad. Throw some water on Nancy Pelosi! ....John Dennis is running against Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, CA. See his website for details on his platform and issues.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Colombian paramilitary leaders extradited to US, where case files are sealed
09-13-2010
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Rawstory
But outrage over the extraditions reached a boiling point earlier this year, when U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton blocked public access to seven of the paramilitary leaders' cases, erasing virtually every trace of their existence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Family
Audit: Los Angeles Dept. of Children and Family Services Covering Up Child Fatalities
9/2/10
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www.fathersandfamilies.org
It seems that the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has been covering up child deaths that are known or suspected to have resulted from abuse or neglect. That’s the conclusion of a recent audit of the agency completed by t
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Insider Selling Outpaces Buying By Over 650-To-1 In Past Week
09-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
According to Bloomberg, for the week ended September 10, corporate insiders bought $0.5MM in shares in 4 different companies. This was offset by sales of $332MM in 72 different companies, a ratio of 651 of sellers to buyers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
British Teen Hurts Obama’s Feelings, So Now He’s Banned from the US
09-13-2010
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Nanny State Liberation Front
Upon receipt of Luke Angel’s [angry email], the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), acting on behalf of President Obama, asked local police in Angel’s town of Bedford to inform him that he is officially banned for life from entering the United Sta
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Richard Deyoung
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News Link • Propaganda
Warren Buffett: "We will not have a double-dip recession at all"
09-13-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
“I am a huge bull on this country,” Buffett, Berkshire’s chief executive officer, said today in remarks to the Montana Economic Development Summit. “We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
A Bloodbath Awaits: Up To 67% Of Phoenix Homes Are Underwater
09-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Jay Butler, head of Realty Studies at ASU, was interviewed by ABC15 in Arizona saying that the number of underwater homes in Phoenix may be as high as 66-67%. This means a complete bloodbath for housing prices is still just beyond the horizon...
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Immigration
CONNECTING THE DOTS
40 Million Americans Subsisting on Food Stamps
09-13-2010
Frosty Wooldridge
A whopping 40 million Americans subsist on stamps, yet the U.S. Congress imports 180,000 legal immigrants every 30 days to add to the number of people dependent on the Federal Government, i.e., your tax dollars. At the same time, those 180,000 immi
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News Link • Internet
Scottsdale-based GoDaddy for sale
09-13-2010
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Scottsdale-based GoDaddy.com, a website that registers Internet domain names, is for sale.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Government
Presidential Documents
09-13-2010
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, including section 4001 of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111"148), it is hereby ordered
as follows:
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Privilege and Prejudice
09-13-2010
“(L)anguage communicates the rules of our culture and has the power to restrict behavior. It reiterates(repeats) the social patterns of our culture and thereby perpetuates cultural norms. Children’s minds are molded by language so that they think lik
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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