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Date Sent: 2009-03-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 5, 2009 |
FED: Recession Deepening Across Regions, Industries -- Deal Clears Rove, Miers to Testify
How savers could doom the economy -- GOP: Documents, Fannie Mae's CEO Statements At Odds -- Hospital Accused of Harvesting Organs While Patient Still Alive -- Modified Genes Contaminated Mexican Corn -- Supremes: Drug Approval Is Not a Shield From Lawsuits -- China decides it too must spend its way to prosperity -- Clampdown on Tibetans -- Taxpayers Milked to Delay Foreclosures on Overpriced Homes -- Police Chief wants more stimulus cash for cops -- AZ Governor wants $1 BILLION in new taxes -- Professor Called Cops on Student Who Discussed Guns in Class -- Church Document Encourages Congregation To Obey Government -- Blueprints for a Police State -- The great De-Stimulus Package of 2009…and Some Rational Thought - by Barry Hess
AZ: This Saturday, Arizona Breakfast Club PhotoRadar Enforcement
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News Link • Bush Administration
Deal Clears Rove, Miers to Discuss Prosecutor Firings
03-04-2009
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Washington Post
Attorneys for former president Bush, the House of Representatives and the Obama administration reached agreement to resolve a long-running dispute over the scope of executive power that will allow lawmakers to question Karl Rove and Harriet Miers
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Sudan Ousts Aid Groups After Court Pursues President
03-04-2009
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Washington Post
Reacting swiftly to the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for the Sudanese President, the government of Sudan expelled at least 10 foreign aid groups that provide food, water, medical care and other assistance to
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How savers could doom the economy
023/04/2009
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MSN
Pramod Kadambi wakes up every morning fearing the world has come to an end. He and his wife don't spend money on anything but essentials. Friends who have lost their jobs visit and cry. He sees war or revolution coming. Gold coins and guns are ne
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Ken Demyen
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Recession Deepening Across Regions, Industries, Fed Says
03-04-2009
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Washington Post
The U.S. recession is dragging down almost every industry in almost every part of the country and businesses do not expect conditions to improve until late this year at the earliest, according to a Federal Reserve report released yesterday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Republican Says Documents, Raines's Statements At Odds
03-04-2009
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Washington Post
Franklin D. Raines, the former CEO of Fannie Mae, used a special program at mortgage lender Countrywide Financial to receive a below-market rate on a home loan, contrary to sworn testimony he made to Congress according to the top Republican on the Ho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Hospital Accused of Harvesting Organs While Patient Still Alive
03-04-2009
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NY Times
The suit said the Center for Organ Recovery and Education benefited by obtaining Jacobs' organs ''for transfer and sale to other individuals, who then paid money, a portion of which went to CORE, for the wrongful procurement of the organs
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Modified Genes Contaminated Mexican Corn
03-04-2009
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AP
[finally reported by MSM] Genetically modified material did contaminate native corn in the crop's birthplace in southern Mexico, scientists said. The controversy started in 2001 with an article in the journal Nature, which said that biotech genet
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Amid N.Y.’s Budget Crisis, a Scramble to Spend Billions
03-04-2009
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NY Times
[worth a read just to see how screwed it is] Every project must navigate a labyrinth of regulations or risk being challenged by federal overseers. And if Mr. Paterson moves too slowly, New York could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Drug Approval Is Not a Shield From Lawsuits, Justices Rule
03-04-2009
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NY Times
In a major setback for business groups that had hoped to build a barrier against injury lawsuits seeking billions of dollars, the Supreme Court said state juries may award damages for harm from unsafe drugs even though their manufacturers had satisfi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China decides it too must spend its way to prosperity
03-04-2009
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Bloomberg
Premier Wen Jiabao said China will “significantly increase” investment in 2009, widening efforts to meet the 8% economic growth target that it says is needed to protect jobs. “We face unprecedented difficulties and challenges,” Wen told delegates to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
50 Years After Revolt, Clampdown on Tibetans
03-04-2009
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NY Times
Enraged nomads stormed through this windswept town on the Tibetan plateau a year ago this month, raiding a police compound, setting fire to squad cars and forcing police officers to flee. To the north, Tibetans on horseback galloped into a schoolyard
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Taxpayers Milked to Delay Foreclosures on Overpriced Homes
03-04-2009
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NY Times
Administration officials estimate that the plan will help as many as four million people avoid foreclosure, at a cost to taxpayers of about $75 billion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Chief Bratton wants more stimulus cash for cops
03/04/2009
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SF Chronicle
Bratton said he wants as many as 100,000 extra police officers hired nationwide over three years, at an estimated cost of about $8 billion. This would return the country to police hiring levels last seen in the President Bill Clinton era, he said.
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Ken Demyen
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Gov. Brewer's 5-point plan includes $1 BILLION in new taxes
03-04-2009
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AZ Capitol Times
Gov. Jan Brewer today laid out the framework of a five-point plan to bridge massive state budget shortfalls that includes slashing state spending by $1 billion and temporarily raising taxes to generate another $1 billion dollars.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Professor Takes Heat for Calling Cops on Student Who Discussed Guns in Class
03/04/2009
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Fox news
A professor in Connecticut reported one of her students to the police after he gave a class presentation on why students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Now, free speech activists say the professor’s actions are w
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Reported by:
Ken Demyen
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News Link • Transportation
DPS vs. Prof.: At Odds Over Cam Locations
03-04-2009
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CameraFRAUD.com
If you’re part of the government/surveillance-complex in Arizona (the extensive collaboration of private companies corrupting law enforcement with the prospect of bucketfuls of money), it sure does seem like it’s hard to catch a break these days.
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The headset that will mimic all five senses and make the virtual world as convincing as real life
03-04-2009
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk
A virtual reality helmet that recreates the sights, smells, sounds and even tastes of far-flung holiday destinations has been devised by British scientists.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
Church Document Encourages Congregation To Obey Government
03-04-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
A shocking document has come to light from a church in Ohio which educates its congregation that Barack Obama’s presidency is appointed by God and that Obama himself is “God’s minister,” (Reminds me of Ministers in New Orleans when they took Guns)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Blueprints for a Police State
03-04-2009
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Counter Punch - Marjorie Cohn
Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the President with power to override the Constitution. The memos provide “legal” rationales for the President to suspend freedom
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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