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Date Sent: 2009-11-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
Millions may have to repay part of Making Work Pay tax credit
Obama's Afghan Dilemma: Missing
Security Forces -- 2100 ATMS in 280 Cities, 3 Continents
Drained of $9 Million Cash “Nearly Simultaneously” -- Obama's Stimulus Creates New Congressional
Districts -- Op-Ed: Reasonable
Gun Control? A Law Enforcement View on Gun Control -- Training Cops to Lie - Pt 1 The
tangled web of police deception
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Millions may have to repay part of Making Work Pay tax credit
11-16-2009
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LA Times
More than 15.4 million Americans soon could learn that what the tax man giveth, the tax man can take away.
Those people surprisingly could owe taxes for 2009 because of complications in the Making Work Pay tax credit, a cornerstone of the $787-bil
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
AMD Powers Cray To Fastest Supercomputer Title
11-16-2009
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NewsFactor Network
AMD six-core Opteron processors powered Cray Systems' Jaguar supercomputer to score tops among the world's fastest 500 machines. AMD supplied the high-performance computing chips for 4 of the 5 fastest supercomputers.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Monsanto Pulls GM Corn Amid Food Safety Concerns
11-16-2009
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SMCC
Rather than provide documented research that its new GMO product was safe, Monsanto chose to pull the product, and remove all test results from further inspection.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Future of Linux is Google
11-16-2009
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PC World
I used to think Ubuntu was destined to lead Linux into the mainstream, but now it's looking much more like Google--not Canonical--will be the first Linux vendor to truly challenge Microsoft.
Google's migration into the operating system business ha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama's Afghan Dilemma: Missing Security Forces
11-16-2009
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Time magazine
President Obama's plain-speaking Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, on Nov. 12 summed up the Administration's Afghan dilemma in a single question: "How do we signal resolve and at the same time signal to the Afghans and the American people that this is
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Has Lymphoma
11-16-2009
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PC World
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with lymphoma. The 56-year-old Allen was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma earlier this month. It is a non-Hodgkin's form of the disease. Allen left Microsoft in 1983 after being diagnosed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Drilling for Scotch whiskey in the Antarctic
11-16-2009
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AP
A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
2100 ATMS in 280 Cities, 3 Continents Drained of $9 Million Cash “Nearly Simultaneously”
11-16-2009
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Ginn
The FBI is calling the global ATM caper a “highly sophisticated and cleverly orchestrated crime plot”. You think?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Judge Andrew Napolitano in negotiations for an 'On Air' Fox spot
11-16-2009
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FoxNews
(Publisher: for the 'r3VOLution' to take a moment and email Fox viewerservices@foxnews.com that we are paying attention to what they do has many side benefits :)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Stimulus Creates New Congressional Districts
11-16-2009
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abc news
In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • How To
Tips: How to Light and Smoke a Cigar
11-16-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Okay, this is more a “Beginner’s Guide to How to Light and Smoke a Cigar”. BUT, you have to start somewhere, I suppose. (Note: 1 mildly NSFW pic)
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Gun Rights
Op-Ed: Reasonable Gun Control?
A Law Enforcement View on Gun Control
11-16-2009
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Officer.com
One of the most controversial policy areas in America today is that of gun control. It's my observation that most law enforcement officers are against additional gun control laws and many even favor fewer restrictions on gun ownership by citizens. (
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Training Cops to Lie - Pt 1
The tangled web of police deception
11-16-2009
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Officer.com
Police lie. It's part of their job. They lie to suspects and others in hopes of obtaining evidence. These investigative lies cover a wide web of deception - a web that can get tangled. Some investigative lies are legal, some are not, and some genera
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Missing 400-Pound Leprechaun in Arizona: Thieves Risk Misfortune, Bad Luck for Rest of Their Lives
11-16-2009
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Ginn
It’s a case of a missing beloved leprechaun statue in Yuma, Arizona, and of missing garden gnomes, silent victims of garden variety thievery.
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Randy Ricochet
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Reference Link • Humor
People of Walmart Unite!
People of Walmart
People of Walmart Unite! You have nothing to fear now that blue light specials are dimming into the obscurity of failed competition. We are where you belong. [A photo essay.] {h/t to Jack, who should be very, very ashamed}
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Cost of Empire
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INTERNATIONAL CIVILIAN POLICE PROGRAM - from $115,000 to $135,000
11-16-2009
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Officer.com
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs -The Department of State is seeking experienced police officers who are eager to accept a challenging and rigorous assignment to serve with the United States CIVPOL in Middle Eastern post-
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Reported by:
Justin Tyme
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Opinion • Propaganda
An Appreciation of Exemplary Propaganda
11-16-2009
Brock Lorber
"Net neutrality" is the shoot-to-kill justification advocates want to use against owners of private property for the crime of slowing electrons. You have to admire propaganda that makes it seem reasonable, and your idea.
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