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Date Sent: 2009-05-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 19, 2009 AM edition |
'US special squad murdered Benazir' -- FBI and police conduct terrorist attack … drill
U.S. to Expand Immigration Checks to All Local Jails -- Our US Ambassador to Afghanistan switches sides -- Small Banks Face $100-200 Billion in CRE Losses over Next 18 Months -- Database of all children launched
-- Ventura: If waterboarding is fine, why don’t cops do it? -- The Case
of the Missing H-Bomb -- Obama to tap consumers for emission, mpg
standards -- Christine Smith on the Freedom Works! Radio Show (audio)
-- American capitalism gone with a whimper -- Court: Sept. 11 detainee
lawsuit cannot proceed -- Audit the Fed, Then End It! - by Ron Paul
AZ: Thursday Breakfast topic Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture?
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News Link • Bush Administration
'US special squad murdered Benazir'
05-18-2009
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The Nation
Story pulled based upon Seymore Hersh's denial: American journalist Seymour Hersh denied news reports quoting him as saying a ‘special death squad’ working under former US vice president Dick Cheney had killed Benazir Bhutto.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
FBI and police conduct terrorist attack … drill
05-18-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
Militarized police swarmed all over a college campus in LA in a mock terrorist attack last weekend.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. to Expand Immigration Checks to All Local Jails
05-19-2009
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Washington Post
The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every person booked into local jails. In four years, the measure could result in a tenfold increase in illegal
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Our US Ambassador to Afghanistan switches sides
05-19-2009
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NY Times
Zalmay Khalilzad, who was President George W. Bush’s ambassador to Afghanistan, could assume a powerful, unelected position inside the Afghan government under a plan he is discussing with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, according to senior Americ
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Copyright Office Bogged Down by New System
05-19-2009
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Washington Post
A new $52 million dollar system installed to speed up granting copyright protection has instead tripled the length of time required and created a huge backlog at the US Copyright Office. Ah, government....
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Attorney: Kick to Suspect's Head a Justified 'Distraction Blow'
05-18-2009
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FOX News
"Unfortunately these things never look good on video. Sometimes officers have to use force when dealing with bad guys," Dammeier said. "The officer initially came upon the suspect alone. [lying prone, splayed out on the ground surrende
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Small Banks Face $100-200 Billion in CRE Losses over Next 18 Months
5-18-09
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
The WSJ analysis showed that about two-thirds of the banks, under the "more adverse" scenario, will be below the "level considered comfortable by regulators" without raising additional capital.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Database of all children launched
05-18-2009
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BBC
A controversial database which holds the details of every child in England has become available to childcare professionals for the first time.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists
05-18-2009
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National Geographic
The glittering "grills" of some hip-hop stars aren't exactly unprecedented. Sophisticated dentistry allowed Native Americans to add bling to their teeth as far back as 2,500 years ago, a new study says.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Ventura on The View: If waterboarding is fine, why don’t cops do it?
05-18-2009
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Rawstory
“If waterboarding is okay, why didn’t we waterboard [Timothy] McVeigh and [Terry] Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved? What’s your answer to that? We only seem to waterboard Muslims.”
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons
05-18-2009
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Alter Net
60 years have passed since a damaged jet dropped a hydrogen bomb near Savannah, Ga. " and the Pentagon still can’t find it.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama to tap consumers for emission, mpg standards
05-18-2009
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AP
President Barack Obama plans to propose the first-ever national emission limits for cars and trucks as well as average mileage requirements of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 " all costing consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 Lessons From Star Trek
05-18-2009
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Youtube
[mashup] Brilliant video by ThoughtCrime7 - ThoughtCrime7's channel: .From the Star Trek episode "Day of the Dove". It seems that Gene Roddenberry knew something about false flag operations. (Very Cool)
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Monsanto’s Terminator Making a Comeback? Enter the Zombie!
05-18-2009
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Farm Wars
Monsanto and its cohorts in crime promised us that they would not be using Terminator technology called GURT, or genetic use restricted technology. So we’re safe, right? Wrong.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Environment
LILYPAD: Floating City for Climate Change Refugees
05-18-2009
The Lilypad, by Vincent Callebaut, is a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
American capitalism gone with a whimper
05-18-2009
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Pravda ( from Russia :)
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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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Libertarianism and the U.S. Constitution
05-18-2009
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Nick Coons
...the Constitution was agreed to by the people that were alive at that point, and why should it bind the people that are alive today, as they never entered into that contract voluntarily. However,...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Libertarian activists visit ASU Obama fans, hope for real change
05-18-2009
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www.examiner.com
In an effort to reach out philosophically to all ASU students, Andrew, his wife Gwendolyn Strimic and other members of Freedom’s Phoenix have been passed out roughly 16,500 DVDs, which have two documentaries on them, around the campus for the last se
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
List of Banks Who Have NOT Taken US Government Bailout Money
05-18-2009
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ownthedollar.com
Banks that have not taken bailout money are sound, secure, and have practiced safe lending practices all along. They are well capitalized and have very little exposure to the sub-prime mess. As of last count, there have been 555 banks in the United
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Drug War
Bodybuilders flee drug testers; event canceled
05-18-2009
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AP
The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled. A doping official says bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • World News
Numbers USA ADVISORS REEKS OF NWO!! and has Pro Abortion Connections
05-18-2009
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Numbers USA
Numbers USA had help from groups that are pro NWO notice the highlighted groups which are pro-global warming groups and radical environmentalistsand pro abortion.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Activism
R CALF Explains Why NAIS is Flawed
05-18-2009
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R CALF
Cattle producers are fighting for their lives to protect themselves and their families from the devastating costs, flawed duress, over-kill and destructive enforcement fees of NAIS.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Torture
Court: Sept. 11 detainee lawsuit cannot proceed
05-18-2009
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AP
The Supreme Court ruled former attorney general John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller may not be sued by Arab Muslims who were seized in this country after the 2001 terrorist attacks and allege harsh treatment because of their religion and et
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Housing
Audit the Fed, Then End It!
by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
I have been very pleased with the progress of my legislation, HR 1207, which calls for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve and removes many significant barriers towards transparency of our monetary system. This bill now has nearly 170 cosponsors
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News Link • Agriculture
Cattail Biomass
05-18-2009
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arclein
Cattails offer a natural solution to multiple environmental concerns. Dynamic growth potential, global adaptation, remediation benefits and starch and sugar rich concentrations bring cattail to the forefront as an exemplary biomass resource. Sometime
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
"Liberty Rider" Michael Maresco Coming to a Town Near You! What Can you Do?
05-18-2009
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Campaign for Liberty and LibertyRider.com
Most of us are now aware that our good friend, and fellow patriot, Michael Maresco is preparing for another historic trek, of the two-wheeled variety, across this great nation of ours.(You didn't know!?!)
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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