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Date Sent: 2011-09-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, September 9, 2011 |
Obama announces $447 billion plan to boost economy
Settlement Said to Be Near for Fannie and Freddie -- The Cost of Wars
Now at $5 Trillion -- Proposed changes in military benefits worry troops
-- Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution --
Renton Police Drop Cyberstalking Investigation of Cartoon Creator,
Pursue Harassment Claim Instead -- A Closing Argument - by Marcus L.
Schantz, Chicago criminal defense attorney -- 2 cops fired over videotaped brutal beating reinstated -- Passport to the Total State - by Wendy McElroy -- David Galland: The System Is Coming Unglued -- National Archives sits on 9/11 Commission records -- Iraqi Kurdistan: Does Oil Play A Role In Request For US Troop Extension? -- Assange: Why WikiLeaks was right to release raw cables
AZ: TRUTHERS wanted this Sunday, 9-11-11,
for a 10th Ann. of 9-11 "Truth" street action -- Arizona State University Law School
Debate - "Should Marijuana Be Legalized?" Sept. 12@ noon
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Obama announces $447 billion plan to boost economy
09-08-2011
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Washington Post
President Obama made an impassioned appeal on Thursday night for $447 billion in tax cuts and government spending to boost the nation’s lagging economic recovery, calling on lawmakers to put politics aside and work together to solve the jobs crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Settlement Said to Be Near for Fannie and Freddie
09-08-2011
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NY Times
Regulators are nearing a settlement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over whether the mortgage finance giants adequately disclosed their exposure to risky subprime loans, would include no monetary penalty or admission of fraud,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Cost of Wars Now at $5 Trillion
09-07-2011
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GoozNews
Before 9/11, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had promised a leaner, meaner war fighting machine, with fewer soldiers bearing better high-tech weapons at less cost. That vision was quickly replaced with the biggest build-up of military hardware sinc
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military
Proposed changes in military benefits worry troops
09-08-2011
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Carmen Gentile and Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
The plan unveiled last month would end the time-honored, lifetime pension for those who retire at 20 years from the military, and replace it with a 401(k) program that pays benefits after turning 60 to 65. Offered by an advisory panel to the Pentagon
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Anthropology
Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution
09-08-2011
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LiveScience
Fossils of the extinct hominid known as Australopithecus sediba were accidentally discovered by the 9-year-old son of a scientist in the remains of a cave in South Africa in 2008, findings detailed by researchers last year. The fossils' mix of human
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
A Predictable Coda to the Jeremy Hill Case
09-08-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Wendy Olson, the “Justice” Department’s commissarina for legal affairs in Idaho, has dropped criminal charges against Jeremy Hill, the heroic father who shot and killed a grizzly bear that threatened his family. This wasn't done in recognition of Jer
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Renton Police Drop Cyberstalking Investigation of Cartoon Creator, Pursue Harassment Claim Instead
09-08-2011
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Reason magazine
Mr. Fuddlesticks, the pseudonymous creator of YouTube cartoons mocking the Renton police department, no longer faces a "cyberstalking" investigation. Judge Cayce had approved a search warrant demanding information about Mr. Fuddlesticks from Google,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Late May Mean Never or Not Much
09-08-2011
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Lew Rockwell
An example today is a report of recent origin concerning the CIA torture chambers in various European countries. One would think that this would be major news, and maybe it will be later today. We shall see if Google and others pick it up. (The Afgha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
A Closing Argument - by Marcus L. Schantz, Chicago criminal defense attorney
09-08-2011
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My client was found not guilty by a Chicago jury on 2 counts of attempt first degree murder [on cops] with a firearm, 2 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm to a police officer [whom he shot], and 4 counts of Armed Violence. My client was 23 a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
2 cops fired over videotaped brutal beating reinstated
09-08-2011
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NBC News (video)
On Tuesday, a panel of civil service hearing officers ordered that two officers who were fired after a highly-publicized beating in April 2009 in LoDo be reinstated to their jobs with back pay, 9Wants to Know has learned from city officials. Denver's
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Passport to the Total State - by Wendy McElroy
09-08-2011
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Ludwig von Mises Institute
"Your papers!" In old movies, the demand is barked at trembling travelers by a Nazi with a guttural accent. If the demand is made in the opening scene, then the audience knows immediately that they watching a totalitarian state in which travelers are
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
National Archives sits on 9/11 Commission records
09-08-2011
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Reuters
Ten years after al Qaeda's attack on the United States, the vast majority of the 9/11 Commission's investigative records remain sealed at the National Archives in Washington, even though the commission had directed the archives to make most of the ma
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What Did Keynes Explain?
09-08-2011
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cafehayek.com
Even if everything Lord Keynes wrote about a capitalist economy is right, Nicholas Wapshott is wrong to write about Keynes that “we owe our understanding of how an economy works to him”
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why Inequality is the Real Cause of Our Ongoing Terrible Economy
09-08-2011
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www.ourfuture.org
THE 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest research from Moody’s Analytics. That should come as no surprise. Our society has become more and more unequal.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan: Does Oil Play A Role In Request For US Troop Extension?
09-08-2011
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original.antiwar.com
During a televised speech today, Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani publicly requested Baghdad retain U.S. troops beyond a Dec. 31 deadline to withdraw.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Assange: Why WikiLeaks was right to release raw cables
09-08-2011
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www.newscientist.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has defended the organisation's release of all 251,000 secret US diplomatic cables that it held without the redaction of the names of informants mentioned in them.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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