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Date Sent: 2009-04-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 3, 2009 |
Foreclosures and Unemployment Are Rising -- US "Advisers" Enter AfPak Conflict Theater
U.N. Sees Falling Middle East Fertility Rates -- Officer Convicted in Shooting of Driver in Bronx -- Fannie and Freddie Detail Retention Bonuses -- S.C. Governor Caves to Stimulus Funds -- Obama's Ultimate Agenda - by Charles Krauthammer -- Obama to bankers: "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks." -- Helicopter Ben "extremely uncomfortable" about bailouts -- Hannity, Morris Agree with Conspiracy People About New World Order -- Generational Theft Act of 2009 has been passed -- Iowa Supreme Court rules gays can marry -- TAX DAY TEA PARTIES in Arizona (and your state?) -- Chemical in Rocket Fuel Found In Baby Formula and Drinking Water -- N. Korean Threats Grow as Launch Eminent -- GMO Proliferation Bills - Stephen Lendman -- Libertarian is the New Black -- White House Reporters call in to talk to Hillary…Get Phone Sex Operator Instead!
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow, Marc Victor and Shelton win a big case
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures and Unemployment Are Rising
04-03-2009
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Mark Yannone
The rising foreclosure counts and the unemployment forecast point to one thing: This is the time to abandon the income tax.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Advisers Enter AfPak Conflict Theatre
04-03-2009
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arclein
In a March 27 announcement outlining America's new regional strategy in the "Afpak theatre," President Obama vowed to send an additional 4,000 troops under cover of "training" recruits for the Afghan National Army. The Pentago
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fannie and Freddie Detail Retention Bonuses
04-03-2009
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NY Times
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-financing giants the taxpayers rescued, outlined plans to pay an additional $159 million in bonuses to retain employees in 2009 and 2010, on top of the nearly $51 million already paid out last year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: America
TAX DAY TEA PARTIES in Arizona
04-15-2009
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Arizona Chapter of AFP
The AZ chapter of American for Prosperity (www.aztaxpayers.org), KFYI 550 AM, Prop 13 Arizona, Arizona Tax Revolt, AmericanPoliticalAnalysis.com, many other allied pro-taxpayer organizations, a thousand-plus taxpayer activists from around the state,
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Renee Houlihan
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
U.N. Sees Falling Middle East Fertility Rates
04-03-2009
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NY Times
Eight of the 15 countries that experienced the biggest drop in population growth since 1980 are in the Middle East, led by Iran, United Nations population experts say. “In most of the Islamic world it’s amazing, the decline in fertility that has hap
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer Convicted in Shooting of Driver in Bronx
04-03-2009
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NY Times
An off-duty police officer who said he shot a drunken driver to death to spare his own life was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter Friday in State Supreme Court in the Bronx.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S.C. Governor Caves to Stimulus Funds
04-03-2009
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Washington Post
South Carolina's Republican governor will break his political logjam with the White House over stimulus funds today, his aides said, becoming the last governor in the nation to officially seek billions of dollars in federal economic recovery fund
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Ultimate Agenda
by Charles Krauthammer
04-03-2009
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Washington Post
The last Treasury secretary brought the 9 largest banks into his office and informed them that he was their partner. His successor is seeking the power to seize any financial institution at his own discretion. I remain more amused than alarmed
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Climate Change
Current Sea Ice Report 2009
arclein
I am including the link to my most useful current sea ice map here for future reference. It usually updates every week or so and the lower map is a comparison map. Make for a great reality check.
http://www.socc.ca/seaice/seaice_current_e.cfm
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robert klein
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News Link • Bailouts
Obama to bankers: "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."
04/03/2009
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Politico.com
“These are complicated companies,” one CEO said. Offered another: “We’re competing for talent on an international market.” But President Barack Obama wasn’t in a mood to hear them out.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Helicopter Ben "extremely uncomfortable" about bailouts
04-03-2009
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AP
Credit provided under the bailout accounts for only 5% of the Fed’s $2 trillion balance sheet. Still, "these operations have been extremely uncomfortable for the Federal Reserve to undertake and were carried out only because no reasonable altern
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Hannity, Morris Agree with Conspiracy People About New World Order
04-03-2009
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http://spktruth2power.wordpress.com
So, it’s a conspiracy theory right up until the time it happens, eh? We are nuts right up until a stamp of ownership is placed on each and every person’s head stating: Property of the IMF.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
Cold Fusion vindication Heralded
04-03-2009
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arclein
The world owes Fleischmann and Pons a huge apology: The cold fusion technology they announced in 1989 -- which was blasted by arrogant hot fusion scientists as a fraud -- has been proven true once again by U.S. Navy Researchers
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robert klein
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Opinion • Immigration
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Our Troubled Country: Environmental Refugees
04-03-2009
Frosty Wooldridge
If you look at the results on the world stage, environmental refugees stream into Europe from Africa and the Middle East. If you look at Central and South America along with Mexico, those same refugees stream into the U.S. at an accelerating rate of
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Chemical in Rocket Fuel Found In Baby Formula and Drinking Water
04-03-09
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AP
Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, as well as several cities water supplies.
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Melinda Carey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Layoffs rise despite hope recession is easing
04-03-2009
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AP
Employers are laying off workers at a faster pace despite a few hopeful signs recently that the recession could be easing. If economists are right, it would mark a record 4 straight months that job losses topped 600,000 each month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
N. Korean Threats Grow as Launch Draws Near
04/03/2009
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By Blaine Harden, Washington Post Foreign Service
Amid reports that it is fueling a missile for launch as soon as this weekend, North Korea escalated threats on Thursday against a worried neighbor, warning that it would attack "major targets" in Japan if Tokyo shot the missile down.
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Phoenix police raid home of blogger whose writing is highly critical of them
04-03-2009
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waronyou
In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department.
Jeff Pataky,
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War Onyou
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News Link • Constitution
Libertarian is the New Black
04/03/2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Just like the well known police exception to the Fourth Amendment known as Driving While Black, law enforcement is now detaining libertarians boarding airlines, especially if they have cash on them and a few Ron Paul stickers.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Science
Pleistocene Mega Lions
04-03-2009
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arclein
Large lions roamed North America and Europe as recently as 13,000 years ago, according to a new study published in Molecular Ecology. "These ancient lions were like a super-sized version of today's lions
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robert klein
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News Link • TERRORISM
ARIZONA - QC schoolyard explosion injures 4 children
04-03-2009
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EastValleyTribune.com
Eight students were treated for chemical burns " and four of them were hospitalized " after a 15-year-old boy blew up a plastic bottle filled with
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Jim Stachowiak
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