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Date Sent: 2009-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, April 18, 2009 |
EPA takes first step toward climate change regs -- IMF warns over parallels to Great Depression
Psychologists Helped Guide Torture Interrogations -- Sheriff Arpaio to miss border hearing to appear in TV comedy show -- U.S. Citizen detained by I.C.E. -- Efforts to control border violence target 'straw' gun purchases -- Traders, Not Investors, Fueling This Stock Rally: NYSE Chief -- Conyers, Sanchez, Ron Paul: Obama Torture Decision Wrong -- Chinese spies may have put chips in US planes -- Ron Paul says he should have punched Sasha Baron Cohen in the nose -- Turley: Torture investigation would ‘go directly to the doorstep of President Bush’ -- E.P.A. Clears the Way for Regulation of Warming Gases -- The Southern Avenger on “Tea Party Terrorists”
AZ: Potluck and DVD assembly at the Freedom's Phoenix Workshop; Pastor Steven Anderson Legal Defense Fund
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News Link • Torture
Psychologists Helped Guide Torture Interrogations
04-17-2009
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Washington Post
When the CIA began an "increased pressure phase" with captured terrorism suspect Abu Zubaida in the summer of 2002, it first limited the detainee's human contact to just 2 people. One was the CIA interrogator, the other a psychologist.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Arpaio to miss border hearing to appear in TV comedy show
04-17-2009
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AzCentral.com
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won't be attending Monday's border-violence hearing with local and national political figures because of a scheduling conflict. That conflict's name? Stephen Colbert.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
George Jonas: Want a gun permit? Tell us about your sex life
04/15/2009
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By George Jonas, Full Comment, National Post
'What’s your topic?’ my editor wanted to know. “Guns once more, with feeling,” I replied, although I could have saved a syllable by saying simply “Guns more with feeling.” The late opera composer Tibor Polgar urged his librettists to save syllabl
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Reported by:
Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Immigration
U.S. Citizen detained by I.C.E.
04-17-2009
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KTAR (NBC TV12)
Richard and Linda Zuzueta vow to fight their son's deportion despite a recent legal blow. In March a federal judge ruled 24-year old Bradley Zuzueta is in fact a U.S. citizen. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyers appealed that decision
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Traders, Not Investors, Fueling This Stock Rally: NYSE Chief
04-17-2009
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CNBC
Wall Street's stunning 6-week rally has been fed by traders looking to take advantage of quick swings in the market than investors with a long-term view, NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer said. The rally likely is to run out of steam
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Efforts to control border violence target 'straw' gun purchases
04-17-2009
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Yuma Sun
The bilateral effort of the United States and Mexico to stem the flow of illegal firearms across the border has brought the "straw" purchase of firearms into the forefront. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, an estimat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF warns over parallels to Great Depression
04-17-2009
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Daily Telegraph (+ video)
The International Monetary Fund has warned of "worrisome parallels" between the current global crisis and the Great Depression, despite the unprecedented steps already taken by central banks and governments worldwide.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
EPA takes first step toward climate change regs
04-17-2009
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AP
The Environmental Protection Agency concluded greenhouse gases linked to climate change "endanger public health and welfare," setting the stage for regulating them under federal clean air laws. The action marks the first step toward imposin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Life thrives beneath Antarctic glacier
04-17-2009
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AP
Researchers have discovered a new kind of microbial life flourishing in a dark, icy-cold pool underneath an Antarctic glacier. The finding has implications for how life might have survived on Earth during the coldest, grimmest epochs.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Conyers, Sanchez, Paul: Obama Torture Decision Wrong (AUDIO)
04-17-2009
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HuffPo
"That's endorsing disobedience to the law," Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said. "I think some of the people who helped Obama get into office might be a little bit disappointed. And they might be disappointed about Afghanistan and marijuana
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Chinese spies may have put chips in US planes
04-17-2009
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Times of India
“We’re also seeing counterfeit routers and chips, and some of those chips have made their way into US military fighter aircraft.. You don’t sneak counterfeit chips into another nation’s aircraft to steal data. When it’s done intentionally, it’s done
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Ron Paul says he should have punched Sasha Baron Cohen in the nose
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Politico
"I was expecting an interview on Austrian economics. So, that didn't turn out that way. But, by the time he started pulling his pants down, I thought, What in Thunder is going on here? I ran out of the room."
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Police State
Baptist pastor beaten + tazed by Border patrol - 11 stitches
04-16-2009
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YouTube
That wasn't enough. They wanted to search the car, and I invoked my 4th amendment rights. I DID NOT RESIST OR FIGHT BACK. YET I WAS TAZERED REPEATEDLY AND SHOVED IN BROKEN GLASS REPEATEDLY!
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Turley: Torture investigation would ‘go directly to the doorstep of President Bush’
04-17-2009
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RawStory.com
“It’s very hard to say,” Turley replied. “But what is really disturbing is that … he’s equating the enforcement of federal laws, that he took an oath to enforce … with an act of retribution in some sort of hissy fit or blame game.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Environment
E.P.A. Clears the Way for Regulation of Warming Gases
04/17/2009
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International Tribune
Obama, Brzezinski and Al Gore have worked closely with Communist backed environmental fronts...to promote the falsehood of significant global climate change...to scare the world and the US into paying such a global tax to “save the planet.”
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • World News
Live tonight on the Plains Radio Network Tom Mercer and lead actor Tony Grocki of Uncivil Liberties.
04-17-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
Tonight 8 pm central (9 pm est) The producer Tom Mercer and lead actor Tony Grocki of Uncivil Liberties.We will discuss the film and the politics of Civil Liberties and National Security
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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