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Date Sent: 2009-06-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, June 1, 2009 AM edition |
Kennedy plan to outline US healthcare overhaul -- Late-Term Abortion Doctor Shot, Killed in Kansas
Judge Clears Way for Sale of Chrysler to Fiat -- The US Government is becoming the banker of bankers -- Democratic congressman subpoenaed over lobbyist ties -- The Video Shell Oil Desperately Doesn't Want You to See -- Sotomayor Supported Douche Bags -- Alleged NY police sodomy victim seeks $220 mln dollars -- Italy's Prime Minister blocks publication of his nubile girl party photos -- Rep. Charles Rangel: President Obama not safe in Harlem ... from the cops -- Cuba criticizes Microsoft blocking Messenger -- The Southern Avenger on “Lincoln as Hitler” -- For all the debate about interrogation, little research exists -- Obama administration sides with Saudis in 9/11 suit -- Flu Vaccines in Corn -- Mish: Mortgage Meltdown, More Pain To Come
-- "Just a Child With a Temper" - by Will Grigg -- McCAIN: "Evidence
is Overrated" -- Naomi Wolf: Why The Photos Probably do Show Detainees
Sodomized and Raped -- Commercial Real Estate: Receiverships grow amid
foreclosures
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Kennedy plan to outline U.S. healthcare overhaul
05-31-2009
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Reuters
Democratic plans for revamping U.S. healthcare are taking shape, with Senator Edward Kennedy soon to announce a proposal which could form the core of the nation's new health system. Kennedy will include both a new government program to provide medical coverage for all as well as a mandate that every American acquire some form of health insurance.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Late-Term Abortion Doctor Shot, Killed in Kansas
05-31-2009
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USA Today
Doctor George Tiller, a prominent advocate for abortion rights wounded by a protester more than a decade ago, was shot and killed Sunday at a church in Wichita where he was serving as an usher and his wife was in the choir.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Transportation
Judge Clears Way for Sale of Chrysler to Fiat
06-01-2009
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NY Times
A federal judge on Sunday night cleared a path for Chrysler to exit bankruptcy by approving a sale of most of the carmaker’s assets to a new entity to be run by Fiat of Italy. Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the government-backed plan after three days of marathon hearings on the proposal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Democratic congressman subpoenaed over lobbyist ties
06-01-2009
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Rawstory
Indiana Democratic congressman Pete Visclosky has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury over his ties to The PMA Group -- a lobbying concern whose staff members contributed $150,000 to his campaigns since 2001. The group's clients netted $23 million in earmarks for 2008 alone.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The US Government is becoming the banker of bankers
06-01-2009
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Forexcare
We have Uncle Sam owning hundreds of billions of dollars worth of preferred stock in banks around the nation. And giving them long term calls on common stocks of these same banks - the distinction between public and private ownership is quickly slipping away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Alleged NY police sodomy victim seeks $220 mln dollars
06-01-2009
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AFP
A man who last year said he had been sodomized by New York police with a truncheon is seeking $220 million dollars in damages. Tattoo parlor employee Michael Mineo says police held him down on a subway station platform October 15 and raped him with the baton, tearing his rectum.
His attorney, Kevin Mosley, told AFP he was filing a complaint against New York city, the police force and four officers “based on civil rights violations. Federal law prohibits the excesses.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
The Video Shell Oil Desperately Doesn't Want You to See
06-01-2009
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HuffPo
For over thirteen years, multinational oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has done everything in its power to stop a trial from taking place at which the company must answer to charges that it colluded with the Nigerian military to commit serious human rights abuses to quell peaceful resistance to its operations in the Niger Delta region called Ogoni, including conspiring to bring about the conviction and execution of Ogoni l
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Italy's Prime Minister blocks publication of nubile girl party photos
06-01-2009
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Reuters
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has succeeded in blocking publication of photos of his New Year's Eve party after reports said guests included a teenage girl whose relationship with him has caused a scandal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Sotomayor Supported Douche Bags
06-01-2009
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MSNBC
Avery Doninger was disqualified from running for school government at his High School in Burlington after she posted something on her blog, referring to the superintendent and other officials as "douche bags" because they canceled a battle of the bands she had helped to organize.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Rep. Charles Rangel: President Obama not safe in Harlem ... from the cops
06-01-2009
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NY Daily News
President Obama better watch his back if he's walking around Harlem without identification, Rep. Charles Rangel said. Rangel issued the warning after asked what President Obama should do during his visit to New York.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barack and Michelle Obama's NYC Date
06-01-2009
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Politico
[it's good to be king] President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama landed in New York Saturday afternoon, and after taking a helicopter from JFK into Manhattan, drove up the West Side Highway, where the northbound lanes were shut down by police for their visit, past Ground Zero, into the Village for dinner at the Village's Blue Hill restaurant. From there, they went north to Times Square, where they went to to see a production of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at the Belasco Theater on West 44 Street.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
American capitalism gone with a whimper
06-01-2009
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Pravda OpED
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Cuba criticizes Microsoft blocking Messenger
06-01-2009
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AP
Cuba criticized Microsoft for blocking its Messenger instant messaging service on the island and in other countries under US sanctions, calling it yet another example of Washington's "harsh" treatment of Havana. was disabling the program's availability in Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea to come into compliance with a U.S. ban on transfer of licensed software to embargoed countries.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"The Village" - a film recommendation
05-31-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
The “us” versus “them” mentality is prevalent in American culture, as is the need for an “enemy” to which the people look to government to protect and save them…never questioning that the government may have motive to keep its subjects in fear.
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Christine -
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic Completes First-Phase Rocket Tests
05-31-2009
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Space
The space tourism firm Virgin Galactic has successfully test-fired the rocket motor designed to boost a passenger spaceliner on suborbital joy rides into space. The hybrid rocket motor would launch Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo spacecraft into suborbital space at speeds of over 2,500 mph (4,000 kph) to send ticket-carrying passengers soaring to heights of 65 miles (110 km) above the Earth.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
For all the debate about interrogation, little research exists
05-31-2009
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McClatchy News
The heated debate in recent weeks about harsh interrogation treatments at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere highlights what some scientists have been warning the U.S. for years: that almost no research exists to tell interrogators the best way to get information out of suspected terrorists.
Two years ago, the Intelligence Science Board told top intelligence officials, in a report that ran nearly 375 pages, that more behavioral research needs to be done into the art and science of interrogations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Here Comes Light Rail Photo Enforcement
06-01-2009
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CameraFRAUD.com
Redflex, the beleaguered automated ticketing firm from down under, has signed a new contract with the City of Phoenix to pilfer drivers accused of… well, just about anything. The accompanying press release gleefully brags that “solution expansion” is all-but inevitable...
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama administration sides with Saudis in Kristen Breitweiser's 9/11 suit
05-31-2009
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RawStory.com
Relatives of 9/11 victims who filed a lawsuit seeking to pin blame on the Saudi royal family for financing attacks against the United States just acquired a significant new opponent: the Obama administration.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Mish: Mortgage Meltdown, More Pain To Come
05-31-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Certainly we are closer to a bottom than two years ago but I am betting the bottom is still years away although the rate of decline is slowing.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Florida - The Stupid State
05-31-2009
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Turner Radio network
Back in the year 2000, the people of the State of Florida proved they were collectively too stupid to vote, when the nation had to suffer weeks of recounts over “hanging chads” and the like. Here we are, 9 years later, and the people of Florida clearly remain, stupid.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • History
Last survivor of 'unsinkable' Titanic dies at 97
05-31-2009
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AP
Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was 97 years old, and she died where she had lived
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Those dirty stinkin' Free Staters!
05-31-2009
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Keene Sentinel OpEd
Free Staters say they are similar to but not identical to libertarians, but I can’t tell the difference. Both favor limited government regulation, especially of guns and mind-altering substances. There is some legitimacy to these viewpoints.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Question Raised In Trooper, Paramedic Dispute
05-31-2009
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News on 6
There are more details about a confrontation earlier this week between an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper and a paramedic in Okfuskee County.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Just a Child With a Temper"
by Will Grigg
05-31-2009
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Pro Liberate
Irma Marquez, who was not abused by Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes, recuperates from the non-abuse she didn't experience at his hands. Marquez stood accused of "disorderly conduct" and obstruction of governmental administration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
And Now… Flu Vaccines in Corn
05-31-2009
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MEATPOULTRY.com
Iowa State University researchers are putting flu vaccines into the genetic makeup of corn, which may someday allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination simply by eating corn or corn products.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Racism
It's a great day for victims and chillens
05-31-2009
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Mark Yannone
Myth buster Albor Ruiz, no relation to the inventor of the Internet and Global Temperature Changes, has invented High Self-Esteem By Association With Low-Lifes.
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News Link • Precious Metals
The Great Silver Mystery
05-31-2009
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24hourgold.com - Bix Weir
Many have claimed that the price of silver has been repressed. Here is a speculative scenario as to how that may have been achieved. One would need a LOT of silver to meet physical demand for a decade or more. It would require an operation as secretive as the Manhattan Project to accomplish the feat.
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Mike Dugger
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Denninger: Do You Believe This Lady?
05-31-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
Investigate the facts for yourself before believing Susie Orman playing "mouthpiece" for a clearly-desperate regulatory apparatus that has allowed the wholesale looting of the American Taxpayer to occur
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Mish: More Prime Foreclosures; More Re-Defaults
05-31-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
She said that in talking with servicers, she's hearing other debt is so high that most of today's troubled borrowers cannot afford any loan payment at all, even at a very modest debt-to-income ratio. 'Just getting the house payment done doesn't mean their lifestyle...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Naomi Wolf: Why The Photos Probably do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped
05-31-2009
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informationclearinghouse.info/
Well, America? Do you want to live with this? Remember: history shows categorically that once the state can lock `them' up without a fair trial, torture, rape them or sodomize them - well; sooner or later it will be able to do the same to your children or mine; or to you and me.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate: Receiverships grow amid foreclosures
05-31-2009
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AzCentral.com
Because the expected commercial real-estate crash is still gathering momentum, a number of notable Phoenix-area projects have gone into receivership in recent months. Those include Wigwam Golf Resort and Spa in Litchfield Park; Century Plaza high-rise...
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