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Date Sent: 2009-11-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thanksgiving Day Special Issue |
U.S. will be out of Afghanistan by 2017: White House -- Fear pushes US rates into negative
Businesses in U.S. Brace for New Rules on Emissions -- Fannie Mae to
tighten lending standards -- US Mint to suspend American Eagle gold
1-oz coins -- Couple slips though security to crash Obama's first state
dinner -- George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation -- Man
flips cop off, wins $50,000 -- IMF sells 10 tonnes of gold to Sri Lanka
-- Russia Signals More Rate Cuts to Stem Hot Capital -- U.S. Army
Interrogator Shot Execution Style at U.S. Iraqi Military Base
Happy Thanksgiving Special Issue from Freedom's Phoenix. We give thanks to all of our readers and supporters for the past four years, and look forward to many more to come.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. will be out of Afghanistan by 2017: White House
11-26-2009
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Reuters
The US will not be in Afghanistan 8 years from now, the White House said, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans why he is expanding the war effort. After months of deliberation and fending off Republican charges that he was dithe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fear pushes US rates into negative
11-26-2009
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Financial Times
Negative interest rates are back. Yields on short-term US government debt have fallen into negative territory as banks and investors park their cash in havens before the end of the year. Strong demand for US Treasury bills, US government debt with
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
South Korea Admits Civilian Massacre During War
11-26-2009
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NY Times
The South Korean military and police executed at least 4,900 civilians in the opening months of the Korean War for fear that they were Communist sympathizers, the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission announced Thursday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History
11-26-2009
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NY Times
But there was another woman, named Claudette Colvin, who refused to be treated like a substandard citizen on one of those Montgomery buses â€" and she did it nine months before Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King made his political debut fighting her case.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Businesses in U.S. Brace for New Rules on Emissions
11-26-2009
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NY Times
The nation’s corporations have long been bracing for the day they would be required to carry out sharp cuts in the emissions that cause global warming. That day moved a bit closer when President Obama outlined a national target for such reductions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fannie Mae to tighten lending standards
11-26-2009
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Washington Post
Fannie Mae, the giant mortgage finance company that helps shape lending guidelines, plans next month to raise minimum credit score requirements and limit the amount of overall debt that borrowers can carry relative to their incomes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
US Mint to suspend American Eagle gold 1-oz coins
11-26-2009
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Reuters
The US Mint said on Wednesday it will suspend sales of the popular American Eagle 1-ounce bullion coins as rising demand depleted its inventory. "The United States Mint has depleted its current inventory of 2009 American Eagle 1-ounce
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
'Censoring' Adam Lambert
11-26-2009
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The Week
ABC Television is under siege after airingâ€"and then "censoring"â€" Adam Lambert's controversial male-on-male "S&M" performance at the American Music Awards. His decision to simulate oral sex on stage with a male dancer, fumed Lambert: "I don't mean to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Swiss doctors develop incision-less autopsies
11-26-2009
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Reuters
A team of Swiss doctors is conducting about 100 autopsies a year without cutting open bodies, instead using devices including an optical 3D scanner that can detect up to 80 percent of the causes of death. Michael Thali, a professor at the University
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Australian Town 'under siege' from invading camels - Video
11-26-2009
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The Independent
"The community of Docker River is under siege by 6,000 marauding, wild camels [looking for water]," local government minister Rob Knight said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Couple slips though security to crash Obama's first state dinner
11-26-2009
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AP
Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve.
The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, man
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Record Highs Outpace Lows in USA
11-26-2009
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arclein
"Climate change is making itself felt in terms of day-to-day weather in the United States," says NCAR scientist Gerald Meehl, the lead author. "The ways these records are being broken show how our climate is already shifting."
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Warmer is Windy on Lake Superior
11-26-2009
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arclein
Rising water temperatures are kicking up more powerful winds on Lake Superior, with consequences for currents, biological cycles, pollution and more on the world's largest lake and its smaller brethren.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Gulf Stream Climate
11-26-2009
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arclein
The Gulf Stream transports significant amount of warm water (heat) poleward. The averaging of velocity data from a meandering current produces a wide mean picture of the flow. The core of the Gulf Stream current is about 90 km wide and has peak veloc
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robert klein
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man flips cop off, wins $50,000
11-25-2009
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Photography Is Not a Crime
David Hackbart flipped a cop off and ended up cited for, you guessed it, disorderly conduct. He didn’t even get arrested and the charge was eventually dropped. But that didn’t stop him from filing a lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh for violatin
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Precious Metals
IMF sells 10 tonnes of gold to Sri Lanka
11-25-2009
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AFP
The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday it had sold 10 tonnes of gold to Sri Lanka's central bank for $375 million as part of a restructuring of IMF financial resources. It was the third IMF sale of gold in a month as the Washington-based ins
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Currencies
Russia Signals More Rate Cuts to Stem Hot Capital
11-25-2009
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Bloomberg
Russia's central bank will keep cutting interest rates as policy makers try to prevent speculative capital from flowing in and destablizing the currency, Bank Rossii First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said. Russia need to keep cutting rates to s
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
U.S. Army Interrogator Shot Execution Style at U.S. Iraqi Military Base One Day Before Hasan’s Ft. H
11-25-2009
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Ginn
The shooting is shrouded in secrecy, whose label by the military has left one family desperate for answers.
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Randy Ricochet
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