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Date Sent: 2010-02-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 26, 2010 |
Supreme Court Puts Expiration Date on "Miranda Warning" -- China To Purchase Half of IMF's Gold
Ethics panel finds Ways and Means Chairman Rangel broke House rules -- Senator McCain Attacks Your Access to Supplements -- ("Obama's") Missile Defense Agency -- Gold, the IMF, and Dirty Jokes - by Jeff Clark -- Obama's Plan to Kill the Mortgage Industry -- Held In A psychiatric Ward & Called "Delusional" For Saying 9/11 Was An Inside Job -- Police escort student out of class for refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance -- Bernanke: We Are Looking at Goldman Sachs role in Greece -- Ex-Cop Pleads Guilty In Hurricane Katrina Killing Probe -- E-Verify misses half of illegal workers
AZ: John Stuart hearing today at 8:45am
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News Link • Corruption
Supreme Court Puts Expiration Date on "Miranda Warning."
02-25-2010
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LA Times
A crime suspect who invokes his "right to remain silent" under the famous Miranda decision can be questioned again after 14 days...and if he freely agrees to talk then, his incriminatory statements can be used against him.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • China
China To Purchase Half of IMF's Gold
02-25-2010
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Pravada
China has confirmed the intention to purchase 191.3 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund at an open auction, Finmarket news agency said.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Ethics panel finds Ways and Means Chairman Rangel broke House rules
02-25-2010
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AP
US Rep. Charles Rangel, the most powerful tax-writing lawmaker in Congress and a 40-year veteran of Capitol Hill, acknowledged an ethics panel has accused him of accepting Caribbean trips from a corporation in violation of House rules.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Bill of Rights
Refuse To Bow To The Illegitimate Power Of The State
CPS: True Domestic Terrorists
02-25-2010
Sharon Secor
The facts are there for anyone who cares to view them. By the government’s own numbers, the rate of child assault, rape, starvation, and murder is far higher among children in state “care” than it is in the general population.
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS accomplices face legal liability
02-25-2010
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Papers Please
But if the TSA, Border Patrol, & other DHS agencies won’t engage in formal rulemaking or issue publicly disclosed regulations or orders that can be reviewed by the courts, the next best thing is for those who enforce those non-regulations & non-order
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Surveillance
Feds Wanted Private Data on Visitors to Liberal News Site - Oprah vomits on Britney Spears a little
02-25-2010
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DailyCensored.com
Rights? WHAT RIGHTS?!!
"The subpoena was a blatant violation of Indymedia’s Constitutional rights, since the company was unable to consult an attorney due to the Justice Department request that the subpoena be kept secret."
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Reported by:
Charles Gillespie
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Is the Five Second Rule Bogus?
02-25-2010
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The College Times
Remember that pizza crust you picked up off the floor and instantly shoved in your mouth because of the long-trusted, mystical "five-second rule"? A new study might make you think twice about doing so next time.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Nutrition
Senator McCain Files New Bill That Attacks Your Access to Supplements and Repeals Key Sections of th
02-04-2010
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Alliance for Natural Health
McCain’s bill is called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). DSHEA protects supplements if 1) they are food products that have been in the food supply and n
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Reported by:
Keith Hamburger
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Karl Denninger: Bernanke Is Not Going to Inflate, So Prepare Yourself!
02-25-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
If you expect Bernanke to "hyperinflate" the economy you need to listen to this 7 minute video. All is not as you have assumed.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Obama's Plan to Kill the Mortgage Industry
02-25-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
Contract rights don't matter, law doesn't matter, we'll just ignore all of that pesky stuff when we don't like it.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
("Obama's") Missile Defense Agency
02-25-2010
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http://www.mda.mil/index.html
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is a research, development, and acquisition agency within the Department of Defense. Our workforce includes government civilians, military service members, and contractor personnel in multiple locations across the Uni
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
God Bless Justin In Albany; Won't Be Bullied In Phoenix; You Can Speak Out Too!
02-25-2010
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Mish Shedlock
This is how it all starts. One person inspires another to act. Please consider the following Email from a reader in Phoenix. Won't Be Bullied In Phoenix
Alan who lives in Phoenix was inspired too. Alan Writes ...
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Gold, the IMF, and Dirty Jokes
Jeff Clark
How many IMF officials does it take to change a light bulb?
As you probably read, the International Monetary Fund announced they would proceed with selling the remaining 191.3 tonnes of gold from the 403.3 tonnes planned. The money is to be used fo
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Held In A Psychiatric Ward & Called “Delusional” For Saying 9/11 Was An Inside Job
02-25-2010
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By Clare Swinney
I was wrongly diagnosed as delusional by the psychiatric staff of Ward 7 at Northland Base Hospital in Whangarei and held hospital picagainst my will for 11 days in mid-2006, because I maintained the attacks of 9/11 were orchestrated by criminal elem
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Healthcare
Hey, Obama " Health Care Is Not A Right! We Don’t Want Socialized Medicine In America
02-25-2010
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Joel Turtel, author
Why there is NO "right" to health care, and why marxist Obama's attempt to enforce that alleged "right" will destroy our health care, and our health-care freedom.
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Reported by:
Joel Turtel
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News Link • Housing
Housing Demographic Hell: Boomers Downsizing for the Next 35 Years
02-25-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Remember the baby boomers? You know, the ones with all the money? As they downsize from McMansions to condos to assisted living facilities, their net shrinkage in demand for housing is going to be in the tens of millions of square feet per year.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
How Long Does it Take A Homebuilder to Scrounge Up a Buyer?
02-25-2010
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businessinsider.com/
Suddenly the collapse in lumber prices is making more and more sense.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama to Put Your Eyes Out: Bye Bye Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
02-25-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Through this voluntary act of blinding, the Obama gang will manage to save all of two million dollars a year, which in Pentagon parlance hardly qualifies as “budget dust.” Lost will be a reckoning of how the country is measuring up on the economic fr
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Bad Trip Back to the 1970's
02-25-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Just when you thought policy-making couldn't get more bizarre...the President wants to revisit a disastrous economic idea that failed when it was tried in the 1970s.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 496,000
02-25-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
In the week ending Feb. 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 496,000, an increase of 22,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 474,000.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Police escort student out of class for refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance
02-25-2010
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RawStory.com
The right to sit silently during the Pledge of Allegiance has been held up by the US Supreme Court, and is enshrined in Maryland state law and Mongtomery County Public Schools' own policies, reports the Washington Post.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke: We Are Looking at Goldman Sachs role in Greece
02-25-2010
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Reuters
The Federal Reserve is examining the role that Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs played in helping Greece arrange credit default swaps, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said. "We are looking into ... their derivatives arrangements with Greece,"
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Is Texas About To Execute Another Innocent Man?
02-25-2010
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The Agitator
Henry Watkins “Hank” Skinner was supposed to be executed, but a judge pushed the date back to March 24. Skinner has been on Death Row in Texas since 1993, awaiting execution for the murder of his girlfriend and her 2 sons.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Ex-Cop Pleads Guilty In Hurricane Katrina Killing Probe
02-25-2010
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HuffPo
In Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath, police shot six people " killing two " as they crossed a bridge in search of food. On Wednesday it became a mark of shame for the police department.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Taxpayers Underwrite Prosecutors' Negligence; Prosecutors Get Promoted
02-25-2010
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The Agitator
Who won’t be paying? Former prosecutors convicted Masters on flimsy evidence. They were actually censured by Colorado Supreme Court for not bothering to look into evidence undermining their case and for withholding exculpatory evidence
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
E-Verify misses half of illegal workers
02-25-2010
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AP
The system Congress wants employers to use to curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half the number of unauthorized workers it checks. The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man Got Eight Years for Deaths From Accelerating Toyota
02-25-2010
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The Agitator
Koua Fong Lee, a Laotian immigrant serving 8 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter. Lee was driving a 1996 Toyota Camry, when he accelerated to 90 mph, ran 2 stop signs, then struck another car, killing 3 of its occupants. Lee says the car accel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
US refuses to back UK grab for Falklands oil: UK Desperate for Oil?
02-25-2010
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timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
“We have built a massive runway. We have emplaced forces on the ground, we have sophisticated early warning systems. It is a different package. To compare the way we dealt with the issues in 1982 with today is nonsense,” he said.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Sea Ice Escape Route
02-25-2010
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arclein
Kwok and colleagues found that ice arches were missing in 2007 from the Nares Strait, a relatively narrow 30- to 40-kilometer-wide (19- to 25-mile-wide) passage west of Greenland. Without the arches, ice exited freely from the Arctic.
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Owned Banking Gaining Momentum
02-25-2010
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arclein
While bank bailouts fatten Wall Street, states continue to battle the credit crisis. In the search for innovative solutions, some political candidates are proposing that states generate their own credit by setting up their own banks.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Organic Feed Influences Chicken Gene Expression
02-25-2010
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arclein
But if you consider the fact that the cultivation method is the only difference in the feed, this is in fact a big difference. Moreover, seven of the 49 genes are involved in cholesterol biosynthesis, when only thirty genes are involved in total in
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robert klein
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