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Date Sent: 2009-12-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 2, 2009 AM edition

Pin The War On The Donkey -- Transportation Secretary wants to raising gas tax

Va. instructors: Yoga regulations unconstitutional -- Gold Sets New High, and Stocks Rise -- Tempers rise as Senate moves toward health vote -- UN Documents Outline Plan To Use Climategate Crooks In “End Run” Around National Sovereignty -- Jim Rogers: Budget Deficits Pushing Up Gold Prices -- Ventura says MSNBC nixed his show for not supporting Iraq War -- Sighted: A Secret US Aircraft in Afghanistan -- Illegal immigrant gets $48,000 in suit against border agents -- Lawsuit Demands Answers About Social-Networking Surveillance -- The U.S. Government Is Taking Us Down - by Jacob G. Hornberger (FFF) -- New IDF unit to fight enemies on Facebook, Twitter -- An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore -- Giant Shadow Army Of Contractors Set To Grow In Afghanistan -- The Hollow Politics of Escalation - by Norman Solomon -- GM's new CEO quits -- Co. Attorney Launching Racketeering Lawsuit Against Judges and Board of Supervisors -- Commission "may" clamp down on gifts to public officials' families -- Copenhagen: Shake Al Gore’s Hand for $1,209 -- Former Congressman Hansen loses case, faces judgment of more than $700,000 -- Baltimore’s Mayor Is Convicted

AZ: Movie premier, "For Liberty: The Ron Paul Revolution" documentary Tomorrow. Ron Paul's "Campaign for Liberty" Friday at ASU. 2009 Freedom Summit starts Friday.

News Link • WAR: About that War
It's The Democrat's War Now!
12-01-2009 • Washington Post
President Obama announced Tuesday that he will send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer, making his case to the nation that Islamist extremism in the region remains an enduring threat to the security of Americans. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TAXES: Federal
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood discusses raising gas tax during Texas trip
12-01-2009 • Houston Star-Telegram
Congress should consider raising the federal gas tax for the first time since 1993, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Monday during a visit to Fort Worth. LaHood pledged to work with Congress on passing a five-year transportation bill in 20 Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Government
Va. instructors: Yoga regulations unconstitutional
12-01-2009 • AP
Three Virginia yoga instructors say the state's plans to regulate and license would-be yoga instructors is an unlawful infringement of free speech. The three instructors are filing a federal lawsuit in Alexandria against state regulators on Tuesda Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
FACT CHECK: Obama overlooks some tough realities
12-01-2009 • AP
President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night did not always match the reality on the ground in Afghanistan. The president raised expectations that may be hard to meet when he told Americans his troop increase in Afghanistan will accelerate the train Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Healthcare
Tempers rise as Senate moves toward health vote
12-01-2009 • AP
A Republican senator asserted Tuesday during a rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will shorten the lives of America's seniors by cutting Medicare. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Environment
Climategate Ringleader Phil Jones to Step Down
12-01-2009 • PrisonPlanet.com
CRU’s Phil Jones will step down from his position as director of the unit that cooked climate change data to hide global cooling. Britain’s East Anglia University says Jones will relinquish his position until the completion of an independent review. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Sets New High, and Stocks Rise
12-01-2009 • Reuters
Spot gold rose 1% to $1,208.70 amid a broad rally in commodities on expectations of rising global demand, fueled by upbeat US home sales and analysts' forecasts that China's economy could grow by 10% or more this quarter. Gold was also supported by w Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • United Nations
UN Documents Outline Plan To Use Climategate Crooks In “End Run” Around National Sovereignty
12-01-2009 • PrisonPlanet.com
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the regulatory body that established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the politicized organization that has attempted to slam the lid shut on global warming skepticism by claimin Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Afghanistan Speech LIVE: Watch Video, Twitter Analysis
12-01-2009 • Huffington Post
President Obama briefs the nation on his Afghanistan strategy on Tuesday evening from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Follow the events live through our curated Twitter lists. Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Economy - International
Jim Rogers: Budget Deficits Pushing Up Gold Prices
12-01-2009 • David Lew for LewRockwell.com
What is the real reason behind the historic rise in gold prices? Futures and spot prices of gold across global commodity bourses and bullion markets have been surging for the past few months. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Ventura says MSNBC nixed his show for not supporting Iraq War
12-01-2009 • StarTribune
Ventura, who has been doing the media rounds promoting his new venture on TruTV, told the paper that MSNBC cancelled his show "Jesse Ventura's America" in 2003 because he did not support the Iraq War. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Media: Print
FTC to Examine Possible Support of News Organizations
12-01-2009 • Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON �"The head of the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday the agency will study whether government should aid struggling news organizations, which are suffering from a collapse in advertising revenues as the internet upends their centuries-ol Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Military
Sighted: A Secret US Aircraft in Afghanistan
12-01-2009 Since April, a steady string of reports have detailed sightings of a mysterious, unidentified UAV prowling the skies above Kandahar. Grainy, Loch-Ness-Monster-like photos revealed a flying-wing-type aircraft with stealth features. Now, the French Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Environment
Ecovative Design EcoCradle
12-01-2009 • PopSi
Your next toilet may come packed in fertilizer for your garden. EcoCradle is the only treeless, biodegradable shipping material that can be molded into as many shapes as polystyrene, a.k.a. Styrofoam, so it can protect objects of any size or weight. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Immigration
Illegal immigrant gets $48,000 in suit against border agents
12-01-2009 • Seattle Times
The federal government has paid an illegal immigrant $48,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging he was assaulted and illegally arrested by two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents while waiting for his 6-year-old son at a bus stop. The violent and publ Read Full Story
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Reported by: Terry Bressi

News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Optical Sensors in Robots' Skin Give Them A Softer Touch
12-01-2009 • PopSi
Unlike the mechanical sensors currently used to regulate robotic touching, the Belgian researchers used optical sensors to measure the feedback. Under the robot skin, they created a web of optical beams. Even the faintest break in those beams registe Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Super Earths May Be Superior at Fostering Life
12-01-2009 • Space.com
Astronomers have discovered hundreds of Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. However, a handful of the planets found orbiting distant stars are more Earth-sized. This gives hope to astrobiologists, who think we are more likely to find life on rocky pl Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Internet
Lawsuit Demands Answers About Social-Networking Surveillance
12-01-2009 • Electronic Frontier Foundation
Government Agencies Withholding Information on Data-Gathering from Facebook, Twitter, and Other Online Communities Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • WAR: About that War
The U.S. Government Is Taking Us Down
12-01-2009 • by Jacob G. Hornberger via AntiWar.com
The decision to treat the 9/11 attacks as a military problem, rather than a criminal-justice one, has turned out to be one unmitigated disaster, a disaster that seemingly has no end. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Israel
New IDF unit to fight enemies on Facebook, Twitter
12-01-2009 • Haaretz via AntiWar.com
Benayahu told Haaretz the new program would be up and running in a few months. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Debt-Induced Revolt of Free Enterprise?
12-01-2009 • dailyreckoning.com
12/01/09 London, England �" US personal income rose in October. But it was boosted by government benefits, says David Rosenberg. Take away the free money from the feds and income actually went down. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • WAR: About that War
An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
12-01-2009 • Michael Moore via commondreams.org
Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war presiden Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • WAR: About that War
Giant Shadow Army Of Contractors Set To Grow In Afghanistan
12-01-2009 • commondreams.org
While contractors allow the U.S. to fight wars with fewer American troops -- which may be good or bad, depending on who you ask -- they also present serious transparency and security concerns Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Reference Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Anti-War.com
Antiwar.com
Thankfully someone is out there advocating for peace... and from a libertarian perspective. Even better!
Entered by: Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Hollow Politics of Escalation by Norman Solomon
12-01-2009 • commondreams.org
day before president's Tuesday night speech, the New York Times quotes an unnamed top administration official saying: "He wants to give a clear sense of both the time frame for action and how the war will eventually wind down." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • WAR: About that War
In Afghan Debate, Few Antiwar Op-Eds
12-01-2009 • commondreams.org
In September, 51 percent told the Washington Post/ABC News poll (9/10-12/09) that the war was not "worth fighting"; only 46 percent said it was. So where's the wide-ranging Afghanistan War debate in the media? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Feature Article  • Economy - Economics USA
Today... Another Day to Watch
Ernest Hancock
   Gold now over $1200. Does $1500 look so far away now? Look for more talk of "Bank Holidays" and new currency and civil unrest and hunger and... solutions that people come up with for themselves... and governments will not be consulted.
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News Link • Activism
World AIDS Day: How to Make a Real Difference on World AIDS Day
12-01-2009 • Irony Curtain
How to make a real difference on World AIDS Day--and it doesn't involve watching a live Alicia Keys concert. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Illegal Immigrant Aunt: Obama Hasn’t Reached Out to Gravely Ill Relative
12-01-2009 • Ginn
The AP scoops the Natl Enquirer with this interview of Obama's aunt: still gravely ill and living in public housing in Boston. Surprise moment: she's says she's thankful--for George Bush. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • WAR: About that War
War Pigs
12-01-2009 • Boing Boing
Without comment. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
The State is a Maginot Line
12-01-2009 • Fr33 Agents / Kyle Bennett
Its true that the purity of free markets cannot be achieved while the state still exerts its influence. But that does not mean that free markets are unavailable to us entirely, only that they carry risk. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
GM Reliever Sent to the Clubhouse
12-01-2009 • CNN Money
In a surprise move, General Motors chief executive Fritz Henderson [and his massive 5.91 ERA] resigned Tuesday, giving the battered government-owned automaker its third boss in less than a year. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
First hotel opens at CityCenter project in Vegas
12-01-2009 • AP
Murren said during a short ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Vdara Hotel & Spa that after five years developing the CityCenter complex, it's time to celebrate what more than 10,000 construction workers built and what 12,000 employees will run. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

Feature Article  • Charles Goyette Show Archive
Parallel Universes: A Winter's Tale
Charles Goyette
   "Shut up," Jack screamed at the crows, waving his arms wildly. "Shut up, shut up!" Only he really didn’t utter a sound. And he didn’t dare flail about either. But gawd, he hated crows. And he hated hearing their grating "caww, caw" sound twice a w
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Thomas Launching Racketeering Lawsuit Against Judges, BofS, and Law Firm
12-01-2009 • Phoenix New Times
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas ramped up the fight against county leaders on Tuesday, announcing a federal racketeering lawsuit against "leading" judges, the Board of Supervisors, and a private law firm. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

Opinion  • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
LET’S PACK AMERICA WITH ANOTHER 100 MILLION PEOPLE IN 26 YEARS: JUST TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS!
12-01-2009
Frosty Wooldridge
   While Colorado adds 100,000 new residents annually, net gain, America’s overpopulation poster-child State of California adds 1,700 people net gain daily on their way to adding 20 million in 30 years! They add 400 vehicles 24/7!
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Rising debt could derail Congress on just about everything
12-01-2009 • McClatchy News
The Senate began a debate Monday over the future of health care in America that's likely to go on for weeks, but behind the scenes, lawmakers are struggling to resolve an even more explosive issue: how to pay for all their [desires.] Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Corruption
Commission "may" clamp down on gifts to public officials' families
12-01-2009 • Sacramento Bee
Free tickets to ball games, spa visits or other treats for California officials' spouses or children should be reported and counted toward annual gift limits, according to the staff at the California Fair Political Practices Commission. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Activism
Cindy Sheehan, peace activist, visits Fresno area
12-01-2009 • Fresno Bee
"Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan and members of CodePINK Women for Peace rolled their protest against the use of drone aircraft in the war in Afghanistan into the San Joaquin Valley on Saturday. Sheehan, a Bay-area mother who gained national attention w Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Corruption
Former Congressman Hansen loses case, faces judgment of more than $700,000
12-01-2009 • McClatchy News
The Idaho Supreme Court ruled former U.S. Rep. George Hansen owes more than $700,000 for defrauding an Idaho couple in an investment scheme Hansen called the "Congressional Accountability Project." The court ruled unanimously against Hansen, 79, a Re Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Climate Change
Copenhagen: Shake Al Gore’s Hand for $1209
12-01-2009 • Mondo Frazier
Have an extra $1209? Travel to Copenhagen for the UN Climate show and shake Al Gore's hand for DKK 5,999 (about $1209). Price includes a drink and light snack. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Corruption
Baltimore’s Mayor Is Convicted
12-01-2009 • NY Times
A jury convicted Mayor Sheila Dixon on one count of embezzlement for stealing gift cards that were meant for poor residents, but it acquitted her of three other charges, including the most serious felony theft charge. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

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