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Date Sent: 2009-11-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, November 25, 2009 PM edition |
Gold hits record on dollar, India buying? -- Bill of Rights at serious risk in Supreme Court case
Obama to Offer Firm Pledge on Emissions Cuts in Copenhagen -- U.S. consumer spending rises -- Rates on 30-year mortgages match record low -- U.S. will not join treaty banning landmines -- Washington Post closing remaining U.S. bureaus --
Philippine massacre probe focuses on Arroyo ally -- New US home sales
rise 6.2 percent -- My Experience at Front Sight - by Michael Fink -- Tough times in Michigan, but Arizona may have it worse -- Weekly jobless claims drop below 500,000 -- Israel readying new arms to meet Iran challenge --
Meet the New Animal House: Arizona’s Republican Legislators - by Dave
Hodges -- New Report Shows Ten States Face Fiscal Crisis - by Stephen
Lendman -- Recent Articles on Continental Congress 2009 - by Ed Vallejo -- Viscount Monckton on Climategate
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold hits record on dollar, talk of India buying
11-25-2009
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Reuters
Gold prices hit record highs above $1,180 an ounce in Europe on Wednesday, boosted by the euro's move through $1.50 against the dollar and by a report that India may consider buying more bullion from the IMF.
Spot gold hit a high of $1,182.70 an o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
49,000 Editors Leave Wikipedia
11-25-2009
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Mondo Frazier
According to reports, online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, lost 49,000 editors during the first three months of 2009.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Climate Change
Obama to Offer Firm Pledge on Emissions Cuts in Copenhagen
11-25-2009
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NY Times
Mr. Obama will tell the delegates to the climate conference that the US intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% by 2050. The administration has resisted until now delivering a firm pledge
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. consumer spending rises, jobless claims tumble
11-25-2009
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Reuters
U.S. consumer spending and housing sales rose more than expected in October while new claims for jobless benefits fell sharply last week, suggesting the economic recovery was gaining traction.
An unexpected decline in orders for long-lasting U.S.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Rates on 30-year mortgages match record low
11-25-2009
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AP
Average rates for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, matching a record low set last spring and more than a full percentage point below what they were a year ago, Freddie Mac said Wednesday.
Rates for 30-year mortgages averaged 4.78 percent th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon Ceremony Interrupted by Freedom Fighters
11-25-2009
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Mondo Frazier
The annual White House photo op for pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey went terribly wrong today. DBKP reports.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Energy
Paper-thin Batteries Made from Algae
11-25-2009
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LiveScience
Imagine wrapping paper that could be a gift in and of itself because it lights up with words like "Happy Birthday." That is one potential application of a new biodegradable battery made of cellulose, the stuff of paper.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
U.S. will not join treaty banning landmines
11-25-2009
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Reuters
President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments without them, the State Department said on Tuesday.
"This administration undertoo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Washington Post closing remaining U.S. bureaus
11-25-2009
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Reuters
The Washington Post is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation's capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Philippine massacre probe focuses on Arroyo ally
11-25-2009
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AP
Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders.
Officia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran detains scores of students, rights group says
11-25-2009
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Reuters
Iran has detained scores of students in an apparent bid to prevent new opposition protests during annual Student Day events next month, a Western-based human rights group said.
Iranian police, seeking to avoid any repeat of the huge demonstration
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
New US home sales rise 6.2 percent
11-25-2009
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AP
Sales of new homes rose last month to the highest level in more than a year as strong activity in the South offset weakness in the rest of the country. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that sales rose 6.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Tough times in Michigan, but Arizona may have it worse
11-25-2009
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Arizona Republic
You know Arizona's economy is in bad shape when it ranks worse than Michigan's.
Even after years of mind-numbing hits to its construction industry, it's a jolt to realize Arizona has lost a larger percentage of jobs in this recession than Michigan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Weekly jobless claims drop below 500,000
11-25-2009
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AP
In a hopeful sign, the number of newly laid-off U.S. workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, dropping below 500,000 for the first time since January.
And consumers started spending again in October as the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel readying new arms to meet Iran challenge
11-25-2009
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AP
With cutting-edge anti-missile systems and two new submarines that can carry nuclear weapons, Israel is readying a new generation of armaments designed to defend itself against distant Iran as well as Tehran’s proxy armies on its borders.
Having f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Solar Monster Waves
11-25-2009
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arclein
Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft are telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar tsunami
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Climatologists Baffled
11-25-2009
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arclein
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Viscount Monckton on Climategate
11-25-2009
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arclein
This is what they did " these climate “scientists” on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free m
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