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Date Sent: 2009-10-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 28, 2009 PM edition |
Car bomb kills 90 in Pakistan as Hillary Clinton visits -- US may end up discarding unused H1N1 vacc
Taibbi: Goldman Lobbies Senate, Says Full Transparency Sucks -- Push to
Legalize Marijuana Gains Ground in California -- NASA Launches Ares I-X
Test Flight -- Bill would give leverage to federal medical marijuana defendants -- The Subprime Student Loan Racket -- New Homeland Security building price tag...$3.4 BILLION DOLLARS!!!!
-- States mismanage student information -- Drug-War Assassinations - by
Jacob Hornberger -- Two Lanes on the Road to Freedom - by Thomas L.
Knapp -- Flu-wary telecommuters may clog Web networks -- Anything Less Than Full Disclosure is Unacceptable - by Ron Paul -- Ron Paul on H1N1 Emergency -- Sibel Edmunds: The Makings of a Police State-Part III National Security Letters -- Ex-FBI director Freeh granted Italian citizenship -- Companies reap the swine flu windfall -- Iraq archives lost, damaged after US invasion -- The WHO Flu Scam 2: Exposing the Lies
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Car bomb kills 90 in Pakistan as Hillary Clinton visits
10-28-2009
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Reuters
A car bomb ripped through a crowded market killing 90 people in Pakistan's city of Peshawar on Wednesday, just hours after Washington's top diplomat arrived pledging a fresh start in sometimes strained relations.
Wednesday's bomb, the latest urban
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
U.S. may end up discarding unused H1N1 vaccine
10-28-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. government may end up throwing away unused doses of swine flu vaccine if people cannot get it soon enough, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Taibbi: Goldman Lobbies Senate, Says Full Transparency Sucks
10-28-2009
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TrueSlant
For some market participants, however, the openness and transparency of the equity market actually mean they are unlikely to achieve the best price. The risk, particularly for large transactions such as those undertaken by pension funds or large mutu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Push to Legalize Marijuana Gains Ground in California
10-28-2009
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NY Times
These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California " and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government toward medical marijuana.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Launches Ares I-X Test Flight
10-28-2009
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CBS
NASA's newest rocket blasted off on a brief test flight Wednesday, after a day's delay due to poor weather. The flight is the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could be shelved by the White House.
The 327-foot-tall rocket roared to lif
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Bill would give leverage to federal medical marijuana defendants
10-28-2009
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Rawstory
The "Truth in Trials Act," "enables individuals facing federal prosecution for marijuana-related offenses to provide evidence during trial that the activities they were engaged in were performed in compliance with their state’s duly-enacted medical m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Subprime Student Loan Racket
10-28-2009
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Washington Monthly
With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Why Fully Informed Jurors are Important
10-27-2009
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http://nothirdsolution.com
FIJA activism represents possibly the only opportunity for citizens to fight the government on its own turf: as a juror, you may have to be a slave, but you don’t need to participate in the perpetuation of your own bondage. Better still, you may help
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David Zemens
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Feature Article • Drug War
Nick Sand the man who made Orange Sunshine.
Thomas Costanzo
Nick Sand served hard time for running a productive underground LSD operation - and he has no regrets. Nick your a hero in my book! [ED]
Nick Sand was one of the foremost LSD scientist in the world and was the creator of the famous "Orange Sunshine
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ancient 'Unicorn' Fly Had Five Eyes
10-28-2009
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LiveScience
An ancient fly sporting a horn on its head topped with three eyes would have easily seen predators coming where it lived in the jungles of what is now Myanmar some 100 million years ago.
The fly was also equipped with a pair of large compound eyes
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
New Homeland Security building pricetag...$3.4 BILLION DOLALRS
10-28-2009
Washington notables broke ground on the future home of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, symbolically starting construction on the biggest federal building project in the Washington area since the Pentagon 68 years ago.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Alan Mollohan: Corruption, Cronies and Crocks of Earmarks in WV
10-28-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Dubbed the "instant millionaire", Congressman Alan B. Mollohan is a self-made political creature. He’s been representing WV’s-1 since 1982. Along the way, he’s picked up some powerful committee seats, lots of personal cash and a lot of questions. We
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
States mismanage student information, study concludes
10-28-2009
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Washington Post
States collect far more information about students than necessary and fail to take steps to protect their privacy. The dossiers include Social Security numbers, poverty data, health information and disciplinary incidents.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Drug War
Drug-War Assassinations
10-28-2009
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FFF / Jacob Hornberger
The Pentagon now has an assassination list for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan. No arrests. No hearings. No attorneys. No judges. No trials. Just kill them.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
TRANSCRIPT FROM JUDGE DAVID CARTER HEARING 10-5-09
10-28-2009
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sodahead.com
Excerpt at mid-level page in case you don't want to read the whole thing - Ed.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Political Theory
Two Lanes on the Road to Freedom
10-28-2009
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C4SS / Thomas L. Knapp
What’s your priority: Building that society for yourself and with others who want to live in it? Or waging an eternal battle to seize monopoly power and impose your unrealized vision on everyone?
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Candidate Interview " Rich Davis, LD-11 Senate (straight from Homeland Security)
10-28-2009
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Sonoran Alliance
...my background in the Department of Homeland Security has given me unparalleled expertise... I was asked by President George W. Bush to work at the White House as the Director of Terrorism Prevention Policy for the Homeland Security Council... (etc
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Flu-wary telecommuters may clog Web networks, GAO says
10-28-2009
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Washington Post
[Central planners scramble to vaccinate the Internet for H1N1 as] a federal report warns that all those people logging on to the Web from home could overwhelm Internet networks.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Makings of a Police State-Part III
National Security Letters: In Peril or Deep Trouble?
10/28/2009
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Sibel Edmonds
“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth then all Americans are in peril.” Harry Truman. I wish we could bring President Truman back to life and ask him the following question: “Mr
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Mrs. B
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News Link • Pandemic
CDC notes change in ethnic pattern of H1N1 impact
10/28/2009
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Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
(CIDRAP News) " The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has seen a change in the ethnic distribution of fatal pandemic H1N1 influenza cases, a CDC official reported at a meeting of its vaccine advisory committee today. In an update on epidemiologic pat
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Mrs. B
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News Link • Government
Ex-FBI director Freeh granted Italian citizenship
10/28/2009
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Google AP News
WASHINGTON " Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, is now an Italian citizen. Officials at the Italian Embassy in Washington say Freeh was made a citizen at a ceremony Friday. An announcement on the embassy's Web site says Freeh was granted citize
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Mrs. B
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News Link • Pandemic
Companies reap the swine flu windfall
10/28/2009
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Reuters
CHICAGO - Healthcare companies are reaping the benefits of a global swine flu pandemic, brightening what might otherwise have been a dismal third quarter and bringing new focus on the market for vaccines. Large European pharmaceutical companies are r
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Mrs. B
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq archives lost, damaged after US invasion; Some Iraqi documents reach Israel via US.
10/28/2009
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Middle East Online
BAGHDAD - Iraq on Sunday accused countries of stealing vast sections of its national archives, including documents dating back centuries, after the 2003 US-led invasion of the country. Some 60 percent of the archives, amounting to tens of millions o
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Mrs. B
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
One backpack at a time, smuggling ring packed thousands of pounds of marijuana through Tohono O’odha
10/28/2009
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The Sierra Vista Herald
Local and federal law enforcement officers said they have broken up a drug transportation ring that was bringing 60,000 pounds of marijuana into Arizona one backpack at a time. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said the operation came to light with a r
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Mrs. B
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News Link • Activism
The WHO Flu Scam 2: Exposing the Lies
10/27/2009
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The Flu Case
The WHO Flu Scam 2nd edition weaves documents and text reports with video news, exposing the lies behind the current pandemic and vaccination program. This brand new production by filmmaker Phil Segrave features an interview with Austrian medical wri
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Mrs. B
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News Link • Energy
Microgrids
10-28-2009
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arclein
Pike Research forecasts that over 3 GW of new microgrid capacity will come on line globally by 2015, representing a cumulative investment of $7.8 billion. North America will be the largest market for microgrids during that period, capturing 74% of to
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Heat Boomerang
10-28-2009
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arclein
earth is no longer threatened by the catastrophic global warming forecast by some scientists; warming passed its peak in 1998-2005, while the value of the TSI by July - September of last year had already declined by 0.47 W/m2
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hydrogen Boron Fusion
10-28-2009
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arclein
Positive Mainstream Reviews of Dense Plasma Focus Fusion and IEC Fusion
The Economist has positive coverage of dense plasma focus fusion.
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robert klein
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