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Date Sent: 2012-03-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, March 28, 2012 AM edition |
LISTEN: Obama's Lawyer Had A Meltdown Just 25 Seconds Into His Supreme Court Argument Today
President Obama vs. the Individual Mandate -- Simon Glik Wins $170,000 Settlement From Unlawful Arrest Recording Police -- Video, 911 Call Detail Ansonia Pit Bull Shooting -- Private Jets, Buffett and Taxes --
Homeowner, 80, charged in shooting of burglar: 'Unjust that I can't
protect me' -- JetBlue flight diverted to Texas after ‘incoherent’
captain subdued (VIDEO) -- 03-28-12 -- Anand Gopal - Susan Lindauer - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Cuban Official Rules Out Reforms Urged by Pope -- Australia Open to U.S. Spy Flights From Indian Ocean Island -- Cyberattacks should require presidential authorization, official says -- Former MF Global CFO describes her concerns that clients’ funds were at risk -- Ever Heard of the SWIFT System? -- Lawrence Summers Discovers a New Meme: Contingency -- THE DANGEROUS MESS IN SYRIA GROWS MURKIER -- Ron Paul First GOP Candidate to Appear on Ballot in All 50 States -- Three More Troops Are Shot Dead By Afghan Allies... -- House Democrats Have Proposed Raising Taxes By 40% -- ROBERT
SHILLER: Suburban Home Prices Will Not Rebound In Our Lifetime --
LISTEN: Highlights From The Heated Discussion Over Obamacare At The
Supreme Court -- Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in 'Butler' -- Gas
Prices Expected To Continue Rising This Spring -- China unveils new legislation on police powers of detention -- Terrorizing Palestinian Youths -- OK
House approves income tax phase-out -- Insane Michigan
government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair
color -- TSA Blocks Security
Expert From Testifying To Congress -- The Pesky Details of
Prospectus Disclosure -- Lincoln Mortally Wounded the Constitution
-- New York City Department of
Education Bans References To Dinosaurs To Avoid Insulting
Creationists -- 03-27-12 -- Cecile Pineda - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon
(EST) -- Retired military officers cash in as well-paid consultants
-- How to Handle the Coming
Dividend Tax Hike -- Gas Prices Expected To Continue
Rising This Spring -- We Have One Last Chance To Restore The Bill Of
Rights -- Support in U.S. for Afghan War Drops Sharply, Poll Finds
-- Paul on Bloomberg TV...Drop
out? No way! -- Dr. Paul on Piers Morgan 3/26: Ron Paul "A
National Treasure" -- UN Warns
Against 'Land Grabbing' -- Top 5 Banks Hold 95.7%, Or $221
Trillion, Of Outstanding Derivatives -- Ron Paul Upsets Santorum in Missouri Caucuses Buoyed By
Huge Youth Turnout -- DHS Raids Home To Seize Deadly Hair
Straighteners -- Ron Paul: ‘I Am
Trailing but the Race Isn’t Over’ -- Gas Leak Forces
Evacuation of Oil Rig in North Sea -- 'A Test You Need to Fail': A
Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students -- Students Protest
Debt as Student Loan Debt Collectors Make a Billion -- ‘Russia is Public Enemy No. 1’ – Mitt
Romney -- US missile shield branches into Asia, Middle
East -- US’ plugging up of
WikiLeaks axes free press -- Syrian troops battle rebels
as clashes spill into Lebanon -- Human
Rights Violations: America versus China
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News Link • Healthcare
LISTEN: Obama's Lawyer Had A Meltdown Just 25 Seconds Into His Supreme Court Argument Today
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli got off to a remarkably bad start during today's landmark Supreme Court arguments, devolving into a coughing attack within the first 25 seconds of his opening remarks.
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News Link • Healthcare
People Are Saying That Obama's Healthcare Law Got Massacred At The Supreme Court Today
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
According to reports from the courtroom, the four liberal justices seem inclined to uphold the law. But it is still unclear if the Obama administration's legal team will be able to get a fifth vote.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
LISTEN: Highlights From The Heated Discussion Over Obamacare At The Supreme Court
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
SCOTUS - questions for Solicitor General Donald Verrilli on Obamacare " the most important case the court is hearing since Roe vs. Wade. Listen below as Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia and Justice Grinsburg are tearing Verrilli apart.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
President Obama vs. the Individual Mandate
03-27-2012
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Reason magazine
President Obama wasn't always a defender of the individual mandate requirement. On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama opposed a mandate, and used his opposition to differentiate himself from his chief opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Simon Glik Wins $170,000 Settlement From Unlawful Arrest Recording Police
03-27-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Simon Glik, the attorney who last year forced the First Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm that recording police in public is not a crime, will receive a $170,000 settlement from the City of Boston, stemming from his 2007 arrest for recording police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video, 911 Call Detail Ansonia Pit Bull Shooting
03-27-2012
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Video surveillance shows that a 1-year-old pit bull was standing still and wagging his tail when an Ansonia police officer shot him. Police this week said it’s what happened off camera that prompted Officer Jonathan Troesser to shoot the pit bull, na
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Private Jets, Buffett and Taxes
03-27-2012
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New York Times
The US is suing a unit of Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, seeking $366 million in taxes and penalties. The Berkshire division at the center of the suit is a private-aircraft company that caters to the nation’s wealthiest " the people Mr. Buffett sa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Homeowner, 80, charged in shooting of burglar: 'Unjust that I can't protect me'
03-27-2012
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Chicago Tribune
An 80-year-old tavern owner believes it's "unjust" that he is facing charges after shooting a burglar, but believes he will prevail in court. "It's wrong," Homer "Tank" Wright said as he walked into his bar after being released from jail. "Unjust tha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
JetBlue flight diverted to Texas after ‘incoherent’ captain subdued (VIDEO)
03-27-2012
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The Sideshow
Passengers told the paper that the captain "raced inside an airliner screaming obscenities and shouting about threats from al-Qaida and bombs aboard the aircraft."
He "went to a restroom, then emerged, shouting, 'Iraq, al-Qaida, terrorism, we're a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Cuba
Cuban Official Rules Out Reforms Urged by Pope
03-27-2012
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New York Times
The vice president of the Council of Ministers and the official overseeing the steps toward a freer market, amounted to a rebuttal of sorts to the pope, who in recent days has portrayed the political system here as unworkable and has laced his commen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Australia Open to U.S. Spy Flights From Indian Ocean Island
03-27-2012
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Reuters
Australia could one day allow U.S. spy flights to operate from a remote Indian Ocean island, Defense Minister Stephen Smith confirmed on Wednesday, supporting the U.S. pivot to Asia but likely upsetting Australia's biggest trading partner, China.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Cyberattacks should require presidential authorization, official says
03-27-2012
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Washington Post
Cyberattacks on enemy computer systems should require presidential authority " and not be launched at the discretion of individual military commanders " the nation’s top cyberwarrior told Congress on Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Former MF Global CFO describes her concerns that clients’ funds were at risk
03-27-2012
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Washington Post
Jon Corzine, the former U.S. senator and New Jersey governor who presided over the collapse of the commodities brokerage MF Global, testified he cannot explain what happened to “many hundreds of millions of dollars” that the firm was holding for cust
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • WAR: About that War
Ever Heard of the SWIFT System?
King World News
The US has pressured SWIFT, the international financial messaging service, to drop Iran from its network. According to legendary gold investor Jim Sinclair this will backfire with dire consequences for the dollar.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Economy - International
Lawrence Summers Discovers a New Meme: Contingency
03-27-2012
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www.thedailybell.com
This is the conversation over whether a handful of people should have the moral and legal right to preside over the disbursement of trillions of dollars via central banking.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
THE DANGEROUS MESS IN SYRIA GROWS MURKIER
03-27-2012
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ericmargolis.com
Syria’s murky, multi-level conflict continues to grow worse. So does public confusion here in the west as the US, British and some European media keep depicting Syria’s civil war as a simple passion play pitting the evil Asad regime in Damascus again
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul First GOP Candidate to Appear on Ballot in All 50 States
03-27-2012
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Ron Paul Campaign
Ron Paul is the first candidate among those vying for the GOP nomination to appear on the ballot in all 50 states, and the only candidate aside from moderate-establishment Mitt Romney to have any prospects for 50-state ballot access.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Check Out Kate Beckinsale In This 'Total Recall' Teaser Trailer
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
A teaser trailer for the "Total Recall" remake premiered today. The film, based on the '90s classic featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, stars Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The 7 Most Important Things We Learned From Bernanke's Interview With Diane Sawyer
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sat for an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, and we dug through the transcript for the most important details. We found these seven points to be the most enlightening:
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News Link • Energy
CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CEO: In A Few Years, We'll Be Able To Say 'To Hell With OPEC'
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
In a debate at The Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics forum, McClendon and Atlas Energy CEO Edward Cohen debated the costs and benefits the fracking revolution have yielded.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
The Coolest Military Gear From Skunk Works, Phantom Works And DARPA
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
DARPA, along with Boeing's underground Phantom Works unit and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, all make it their business to cook up designs from the Pentagon's wildest dreams.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House Democrats Have Proposed Raising Taxes By 40%
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Even though Obama was elected along with huge Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, he didn’t really get everything he wanted in 2009 and 2010. If he had, the stimulus would’ve been twice as big
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News Link • Entertainment: Night Life - Night Clubs
BURJ AL-ARAB: Take A Tour Of The World's Most Luxurious Hotel
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Prospective guests at Dubai's Burj Al-Arab, the self-described "most luxurious hotel in the world," are shown a ten minute video. This glamorous footage is supposed to convince people to spend up to $2,500 per night.
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News Link • Housing
ROBERT SHILLER: Suburban Home Prices Will Not Rebound In Our Lifetime
03-27-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Many young people are choosing to live at home for a longer period of time instead of buying. Moreover, would-be homebuyers are settling into modern apartments and condominiums, further hindering a housing rally.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in 'Butler'
03-27-2012
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http://www.variety.com
Based on a Washington Post report by Wil Haygood, pic follows Eugene Allen, the White House butler whose career started with Harry Truman in 1952 and ended in 1986 with Ronald Reagan.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Silver Circle Movie Releases Official Trailer
03-27-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
The year is finally here! Join the Rebels this fall as they fight the Federal Reserve in the animated thriller-romance, Silver Circle.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Video Update: NY Fed President Dudley at Hearing on Eurozone Aid w/Ron Paul 3/27
03-27-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ron Paul, will hold a hearing to examine the Federal Reserve’s assistance to the Eurozone and the impact that assistance has on the U.S. monetary system and the dollar.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul on Bloomberg TV...Drop out? No way!
03-27-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Dmart
It saddens me that they start the interview with "you should drop out"..But they do give him a chance to teach them a bit of economics.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Gas Prices Expected To Continue Rising This Spring
03-27-2012
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http://baltimore.cbslocal.com
BALTIMORE (WJZ)"Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, gas prices are up again this week.
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Feature Article • Ron Paul Says...
A Fistful of Euros - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
Examine how the Federal Reserve bails out European banks, propping up spendthrift European governments in the process. Unfortunately this bailout comes at the expense of American citizens, in the form of higher prices and diminished savings down the
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