Edwin Sumcad

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Edwin A. Sumcad has been a publisher and a hard-hitting journalist in investigative reporting and editorial writing for more than 45 years. He a recipient of excellence awards in journalism. His editorial insights appear in numerous publications and published in several websites. As a writer and columnist, Ed has written and published editorials, essays, feature articles, novelettes and short stories. Ed’s educational background includes degrees in literature and journalism, philosophy & letters [Litt.B. Journalism]; master in development economics, and master in civil law [M.A. Economics and LLM]. He was a UN-World Bank-ILO scholar that specialized on monetary and fiscal policies, multilateral trade negotiations and regional economic cooperation. His careers in private and public life cover long years of experience as a journalist, lawyer, Finance Attache, ASEAN specialist, retired diplomat and former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.


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    Let’s not be headless chicken destined for dinner. Monopods should go to the high court to declare Patriot Act, as amended, unconstitutional if “torture” of terrorists by the military is “illegal”, instead of asking for the neck of former president Bush for dinner.

   

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     Error-prone Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s innocence [oops! I bungled … “innocence” is the misspelled word of ignorance – or is it spelled innuendo?] -- on the latest CIA waterboarding report, jet log  and “Signing Statement” are wet and damp.

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In the Summit, the United States was attacked. It muted Obama into a deep disquieting silence. U.S. was not defended. Instead, Obama “acknowledged” U.S. debauchery in Central America that caused so much misery as “errors”.

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In the Summit, the United States was attacked. It muted Obama into a deep disquieting silence. U.S. was not defended. Instead, Obama “acknowledged” U.S. debauchery in Central America that caused so much misery as “errors”.

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We need to answer this question to clear up the confusion generated by victorious socialist Democrats now publicly perceived as intoxicated by their newly found power, whether or not to hang Bush and Cheney for “war crimes”, real or imagined!

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Freedomsphoenix.com is one of Internet’s lamplighters through which the light of knowledge could be shared with those in the dark who longed to see the light – my way of knowledge-sharing while greeting everyone A HAPPY NEW YEAR for the Year 2009.

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