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Date Sent: 2009-11-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 2, 2009 AM edition |
Ron Paul: Federal Reserve Audit Legislation "Gutted" -- US boots up unified cybersecurity center
H1N1 Vaccine "60 Minutes" -- Obama's Vietnam moment -- FBI documents reveal secret CIA prisoners ‘manacled to the ceiling’ -- Gitmo detainees set to receive swine flu vaccine -- Beijing snow ‘artificially induced’ -- America's Medical Cartel - by Mike Renzulli -- Flex spending accounts face hit in health overhaul -- 8 years later 911 Victims Still Stored in "Temporary" Tent -- Why Activism Inspires and Spreads like Wild Fire! -- CIT files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection -- Sacked for Telling the Truth About Drugs
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Policy Audit Legislation ‘Gutted,’ Paul Says
11-01-2009
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Bloomberg
Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who has called for an end to the Federal Reserve, said legislation he introduced to audit monetary policy has been “gutted” while moving toward a possible vote in the Democratic-controlled House.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
US boots up new unified cybersecurity center
11-01-2009
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AFP
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity efforts. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center brings together various government organizations
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
FBI documents reveal secret CIA prisoners ‘manacled to the ceiling’
11-01-2009
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Rawstory
FBI officials visiting an overseas prison run by the CIA found prisoners 'manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around the clock', according to the documents.
Handwritten notes attributed to Justice Department officials discuss th
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Vietnam moment
11-01-2009
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Financial Times
In the next 2 weeks, Mr Obama is likely to bring months of agonized deliberation to a close when he decides how many more troops to send to Afghanistan. The decision, much like the one by Lyndon Johnson to step up involvement in Indochina, could prov
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Bats Find Fellatio Beneficial
11-01-2009
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LiveScience
There have been few evolutionary reasons given for oral sex to date, and fellatio is largely thought confined to humans. Now scientists find the short-nosed fruit bat routinely engages in oral sex, the first time fellatio has been seen in adult anima
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Divers probe Mayan ruins submerged in Guatemala lake
11-01-2009
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Reuters
Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters.
Samabaj, the first underwater archaeological ruins
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Chinese media claims Beijing snow ‘artificially induced’
11-01-2009
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RawStory.com
"We wont miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from the lingering drought," the report quoted Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, as saying.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Gitmo detainees set to receive swine flu vaccine
11-01-2009
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NY Times
A spokesman for the U.S. jail facility in Cuba, said the doses should start arriving this month, with guards and then inmates scheduled for inoculations. There may be an "emotional response" from critics who argue terror suspects should not be alloca
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Healthcare
America's Medical Cartel
11-01-2009
Mike Renzulli
The truth is that "healthcare reform" has been going on for many years and our present-day "public option" has slowly lead to the erosion of individual choice and depreciation of care due to government intervention and not private industry.
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News Link • Transportation
Largest Cruise Ship Squeezes Under Danish Bridge
11-01-2009
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AP
5 times larger than the Titanic, the $1.5 billion ship has seven neighborhoods, an ice rink, a small golf course and a 750-seat outdoor amphitheater. It has 2,700 cabins and can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew members.
Accommodations i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Flex spending accounts face hit in health overhaul
11-01-2009
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AP
Those tax-free spending accounts that you and your co-workers use to help pay for dental work, insurance copayments or over-the-counter drugs face a hit under the health overhaul bills in Congress " unless a coalition that includes a powerful union,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
911 Memorial Park Arson: Fire Reveals 911 Victims Stored in Temporary Tent
11-01-2009
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Ginn
A man set fire to the New York City 911 “Memorial”, revealing that, despite, millions in funds for “planning”, eight years after 911, the victim’s remains and the place to pay respects is a temporary tent next to the Coroner’s office.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CIT files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
11-01-2009
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AP
CIT's move will wipe out current holders of its common and preferred stock. That means the US government(TAXPAYERS) will likely lose the $2.3 billion it sunk into CIT last year in return for preferred shares to prop up the ailing company.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Communications
Intelsat Secures ProtoStar-1 in Hotly Contested Auction
11-01-2009
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SpaceNews
It was far from a two-company competition, with as many as 11 satellite operators expressing interest in the auction, which was organized by UBS Securities LLC. The in-orbit ProtoStar-1 telecommunications satellite sold for a $210 million all-cash of
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Continental Congress 2009
CC 2009: HISTORIC VISION AND AGENDA
11-01-2009
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www.givemeliberty.org
124 citizen-elected Delegates representing the free people in 49 states are now registered to attend CC 2009 at the Pheasant Run Conference Center in St. Charles, Illinois from November 11-22.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Drug War
Sacked " for Telling the Truth About Drugs (UK)
11-01-2009
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Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com
The (UK) Government's drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.
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Ed Vallejo
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