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Date Sent: 2009-04-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 8, 2009 |
Judge orders criminal probe of Stevens prosecutors -- Iranian nuke plot vaporized in NY city
GM in "intense" preparations for bankruptcy -- Judge: U.S. hid witness's mental illness in Guantanamo cases -- Obama's economic dilemma: How to convince Americans to spend? -- Fusion center declares nation's oldest universities possible terror threat -- Treasury to bailout (some) life insurers -- Mish: Treasury To Delay Reporting Bank Stress Test Results -- Sexting is Nobody's Business Except the Sexters - by Paul Levinson -- AZ AG Ballot recount - fixed -- Eleven-year-old Girl Charged with Rape -- MN ELECTION JUDGES COUNT FINAL BALLOTS; FIND FRANKEN WINS -- More than 1800 Tea Parties on the 15th! -- Taxation With Representation Still Sucks - by Thomas L. Knapp -- Small-Town Anarchy - by J. L. Bryan -- How Freedom Was Lost - by Paul Craig Roberts -- The “best” 2008 Muzzlers of Free Speech -- The Ballad of John Singer - by Will Grigg
AZ: Thursday Breakfast: John Stuart, Murder or Self Defense? & Phoenix Objectivists meeting
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM in "intense" preparations for bankruptcy
04-07-2009
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Reuters
If the plan goes through, the new GM would be expected to assume some previous creditor debt from bankruptcy proceedings, such as secured debt, said the second source, adding that GM bondholders were likely to lose substantial value in bankruptcy.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter
04-07-2009
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NY Times
A crowd of more than 10,000 young Moldovans materialized seemingly out of nowhere on Tuesday to protest against Moldova’s Communist leadership, ransacking government buildings and clashing with the police.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama's economic dilemma: How to convince Americans to spend?
04-07-2009
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Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama needs to convince Americans to spend now and save later in order to get the U.S. economy back on solid footing.
With consumers fearful of losing their jobs and retirement nest eggs, this is no small task at home or abro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: U.S. hid witness's mental illness in Guantanamo cases
04-07-2009
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McClatchy News
The Justice Department improperly withheld important psychiatric records of a government witness who was used in a "significant" number of Guantanamo cases, a federal judge has concluded.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Treasury to bailout (some) life insurers
04-07-2009
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Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to extend the Troubled Asset Relief Program to certain life insurers. The Treasury is expected to announce within the next several days the inclusion of life insurers that are bank
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Fusion center declares nation's oldest universities possible terror threat
04-07-2009
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Rawstory
A newly leaked terrorism assessment from a law enforcement fusion center in Virginia highlights US universities as potential "radicalization nodes" for terrorists.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Harvard Student Takes On Barney Frank Over Economy
04-07-2009
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RealClearPolitics
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and a conservative Harvard law student debated over how Frank should have handled his role as the House Chairman of the Financial Services Committee. Frank was at Harvard University for a speech at the Kennedy School of Gover
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge orders criminal probe of Stevens prosecutors
04-07-2009
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McClatchy News
"In 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said in dismissing the case and voiding the verdict.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iranian nuke plot vaporized in the city: NY banks unwittingly aided in material transfers, says DA
04-07-2009
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NY Daily News
The Manhattan district attorney's office has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks, the Daily News has learned.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Renee Houlihan Show with guest Morpheus
04-07-2009
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Youtube.com
The Renee Houlihan show hosts Morpheus, the Sales and Marketing Manager for FreedomsPhoenix.com and they talk about the Website Freedoms Phoenix and how anyone can report the news on it.
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Food
GMO Clones, the FDA, HR 875, and Congress
04-07-2009
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Surviving the Middle Class Crash
It’s one thing to go to a farmer’s canola field and take samples back to the lab for testing to see if they contain the patented GM gene, but a whole cow? Not likely.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Phoenix Objectivists 1st April Meeting
04-07-2009
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first April meeting being held Thursday, the 9th, Phoenix Objectivists leader Mike Renzulli will give a lecture titled: "Hank Rearden: My Hero".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
The 5 Most Popular Safety Laws (that don't work)
04-07-2009
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Cracked.com
Really, is it ever possible to be too safe? Actually, yes. Especially when the rule or law intended to make us safe is so poorly thought-out that it either does nothing but suck up public money, or creates a ripple effect of unintended side effects.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
Mish: Treasury To Delay Reporting Bank Stress Test Results
04-07-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
It's earnings season and banks are going to pretend they are making money (or losing less than they are), and the Treasury does not want to interrupt those lies with stress test results.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Free Speech
Sexting is Nobody's Business Except the Sexters
04-07-2009
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Paul Levinson
The arrest and prosecution of sexters not only violates the First Amendment, but distacts police for going after real predators.
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Eleven-year-old Girl Charged with Rape
04-07-2009
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Zanesville Recorder
Zanesville, OH law enforcement deals with sex offenders almost daily, but in the past couple of months, Zanesville police have dealt with one of the youngest cases officers can remember - an 11-year-old girl charged with three counts of rape.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Internet Camera Streams Completely Useless as AZ Crim' Investigation Ballot Hand-Count Begins
04-07-2009
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BradBlog.com
Goddard's restrictions on political party observers --- just one per party, selected by the AG, not by the parties themselves --- was the cause of criticism by all of the involved parties (Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, etc.).
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
MN ELECTION JUDGES COUNT FINAL BALLOTS; FIND FRANKEN WINS, COLEMAN LOSER!
04-07-2009
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BradBlog.com
Author and former radio talk show host Al Franken, the Democratic challenger for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, will be the state's next U.S. Senator, according to a final tally by the bi-partisan three-judge panel overseeing challenger Norm
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Events: America
More than 1800 Tea Parties on the 15th!
04-07-2009
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http://www.teapartyday.com/Locations.aspx
There are more than 1800 Tea Parties scheduled for the 15th - use this link to get to a site with location, contact, and map info (go to state pop up at bottom of
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Tax dodgers multiply as underground economy cushions job cuts
04-07-2009
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Bloomberg
"The reason people can live here, can bear it without a social explosion, is that there's this underground cushion that allows people to earn, to live," said Steinko, the sociology professor. "We could call it a safety net."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fox News Strategy Room w/ Judge Napolitano, Ron Paul, Peter Schiff
04-07-2009
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youtube.com
Judge Andrew Napolitano's Great new show called Freedom Watch airing every Wednesday from 2pm - 3pm EST. Regular freedom loving guests include Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Lew Rockwell, Cody Willard, etc.
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration quietly expands Bush's legal defense of wiretapping program
04-07-2009
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Raw Story
Obama has broadened the government’s legal argument for immunizing his Administration and government agencies from lawsuits surrounding the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping efforts.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Taxation With Representation Still Sucks
by Thomas L. Knapp
04-07-2009
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Center for a Stateless Society
By 1776, the American Revolution was about many things. The list of grievances produced by the Continental Congress in its Declaration of Independence " “a long train of abuses and usurpations,” as Jefferson put it " included complaints about
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Small-Town Anarchy
by J. L. Bryan
04-07-2009
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Lew Rockwell
What if a small, libertarian-minded town passed a law decreeing that town police and judicial services would be supplied entirely by the private market? Naturally, the state (or the federal state) might oppose such action, but we shall
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
How Freedom Was Lost
by Paul Craig Roberts
04-07-2009
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vdare
Freedom has been lost to envy. Americans no longer know what freedom is. Historically, the definition of a free person is one who owns his own labor. Serfs and slaves do not own all of their own labor. An income tax is inconsistent with the definitio
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Political Parties
The Democratic and Republican National Parties top the list of the “best” Muzzlers of Free Speech
04-07-2009
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Thomas Jefferson Center
For their deafening silence over the severe restrictions on, and actions taken against, protesters at their respective conventions in Denver and St. Paul, the Democratic and Republican National Parties have been awarded the dubious distinction of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Ballad of John Singer
by Will Grigg
04-07-2009
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Pro Liberate
5 years later, the same Val Edrington who embraced John Singer and tearfully thanked him for saving the life of his son would call for Singer to be murdered under color of "law" for the supposed crime of protecting his own children from the
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Powell Gammill
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