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Date Sent: 2009-11-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for November 14, 2009 Saturday edition |
Judge Rebuked Over Ferdinand Marcos Money -- Improving Homeland Security at the State Level
Ex-Louisiana Congressman Sentenced to 13 Years -- Russian Deal on Afghan Supply Route Not a Deal Yet -- Is Michael Moore a Jesus Freak? --
Permanent DHS Checkpoints Planned For Arizona Highways (special report
- part 8) - by Terry Bressi -- JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon: End "Too Big
to Fail" -- Mandatory Gun Ownership an Idea Whose Time Has Come -- Health Care Freedom in Virginia! -- 2009 Continental Congress: First Thoughts and Impressions - by Szandor Blestman -- America Follows Japan Off a Cliff - by Bill Bonner -- Slow Down… or Else - by David Galland -- Everyone in Britain Could Be Given a Personal 'Carbon Allowance -- Modern-day Cattle Rustling Reaches Record Levels -- Cocaine Vaccine
AZ: "Fatally Flawed" to Play at Crossroads Theaters, Tucson, Monday; VP Biden to host Phoenix fundraiser Monday
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News Link • Corruption
Judge Rebuked by Panel Over Ferdinand Marcos Money
11-13-2009
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NY Times
A U.S. District judge's lax oversight of more than $30 million tied to the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos is ''curious,'' a federal appeals court said. A 3 -judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that a new judge gi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Ex-Louisiana Congressman Sentenced to 13 Years
11-13-2009
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NY Times
Former Representative William J. Jefferson, a New Orleans Democrat whose political career once seemed to hold high promise, was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for using his office to try to enrich himself and his relatives.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Marijuana Moves Into the Open in a Ski Town
11-13-2009
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NY Times
High-altitude partying is a deeply carved tradition in ski country, where alcohol in the open and illicit drugs in the shadows have been intertwined for years. Even before last week’s town vote here that decriminalized the possession of small amounts
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Universities preferentially taking out of state students for the money
11-13-2009
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Washington Post
Many of the nation's top public universities accepted nonresident students in greater numbers this year, hoping to increase -- or at least sustain -- a pool of incoming freshmen who pay two or three times the tuition charged to locals. At some school
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russian Deal on Afghan Supply Route Not a Deal Yet
11-13-2009
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NY Times
When he met Russian President Medvedev, President Obama sought an important new supply corridor for Afghanistan by flying American troops and weapons through Russian airspace. As many as 4,500 flights a year, in a “substantial contribution” to the wa
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Left nor Right embracing liberty
11-13-2009
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Clovis News Journal
Mostly American conservatives support free markets but not so much civil libertarianism. On that score the American Left is more like the libertarians, although mainly for opportunistic reasons.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Is Michael Moore a Jesus Freak?
11-13-2009
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The Atlas Society
The theme of Michael Moore's latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" is that the free market is evil. But unlike most on the extreme left, Moore attempts to justify his views based on his Christian Catholic religion.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Is Michael Moore a Jesus Freak?
11-13-2009
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The Atlas Society
The theme of Michael Moore's latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" is that the free market is evil. But unlike most on the extreme left, Moore attempts to justify his views based on his Christian Catholic religion.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
When the Border Is Everywhere: Examining the Resistance to Speed Cameras and Border Checkpoints in A
11-13-2009
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Phoenix Class War Council
By Phoenix Insurgent
The last couple of years has seen two interesting convergences in Arizona politics. First, the constantly expanding control grid, consisting of cameras and other measures for the regulation of movement, has finally burst into
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John Riley
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Attempted robbery victim: Univ TN players should stay on team (VIDEO)
11-13-2009
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WATE TV Knoxville
A victim of an attempted armed robbery by three UT football players told 6 News Thursday he thinks they should stay on the team. "I think they should still be able to play football, regardless," he said. "Tennessee is my place. It's my football team.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Arizona's Top News
Jim Kaiser's Court Hearing
Powell Gammill
Jim goes to court expecting to be arrested. The other side expects to get Jim arrested. Sheriff Joe's truncheons show up. It is Friday the 13th and I expect everyone is going to get arrested. Hilarity punctuated by boredom will ensue as always.
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News Link • New World Order
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon: End "Too Big to Fail" - Just Don't Shrink MY Bank
11-13-2009
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Washington Post via Huffington Post
..."ending the era of "too big to fail" does not mean that we must somehow cap the size of financial-services firms."
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Biden to host Phoenix fundraiser Monday
11-13-2009
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AZCentral.com
Vice President Joe Biden will visit Phoenix on Monday to host a fundraiser...at the Wyndham Phoenix hotel.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mandatory Gun Ownership an Idea Whose Time Has Come
11-13-2009
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Mondo Frazier
A truly novel idea for our time: mandatory gun ownership. If the government is so intent on ordering citizens around, how about ordering them to protect themselves?
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Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Continental Congress 2009
2009 Continental Congress: First Thoughts and Impressions by Sznador Blestman
11-13-2009
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Handed to me personally by SB himself!
Szandor lives here in Illinois and I got to give him a BIG HUG!
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Healthcare
Health Care Freedom in Virginia!
11-13-2009
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Josh Eboch
The Campaign for Liberty has stepped to the plate big time in Virginia, getting out ahead of the feds and finding a sponsor for the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act, to be introduced in 2010.
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Reported by:
Michael Boldin
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News Link • Humor
Take a Moment To Laugh(TMTL): iPhone, the new God?
11-13-09
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JordanMichaels via libertyshock.com
A short, funny story about the iPhone and its MANY wonders.
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Reported by:
Nick Visperas
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Feature Article • Economy - Economics USA
America Follows Japan Off a Cliff
Bill Bonner
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be Japanese. Management consultants used Japanese words to describe commonplace insights. For example, instead of saying that businesses always need to try to do things better, they referred to “kaizen” as if it were t
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Slow Down… or Else
David Galland
On a whim following our Denver Summit " and despite truly abysmal weather " Casey Research CEO Olivier Garret and I cabbed it down to a local public golf course for a quick nine holes. Afterwards we were returning to the hotel through a neighborhood
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News Link • TAXES: State
The Ten States Which Are the Biggest Financial Messes
11-13-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Which 10 states are in the deepest financial trouble? They got that way through mismanagement, high taxes and irresponsible spending. Hint: NY is not among them, even though NY has said it will go broke within the next 30 days.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • New World Order
"It's Orwellian." Everyone in Britain Could Be Given a Personal 'Carbon Allowance
11-13-2009
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London Telegraph
It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing products that contribute to their carbon footprint, such as fuel, airline tickets and electricity.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Depression
Modern-day Cattle Rustling Reaches Record Levels
11-13-2009
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NBC Dallas/Fort Worth
There were 6,404 cattle thefts in Texas in 2008 and only 2,400 thefts in 2007, according to the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Drug War
Cocaine Vaccine
11-13-2009
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arclein
But one trial participant says he does know. He left Daytop after receiving all three shots and immediately started injecting megahits of cocaine with a lady friend over the course of a weekend"to no avail. This report is, of course, what scientists
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robert klein
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