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Date Sent: 2009-12-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 7, 2009 AM edition |
Half of all police surveillance includes text messaging -- DEFACTO DEFAULT ON COMEX GOLD?
Blagojevich Evidence Stolen: Burglary At Lawyer's Offices -- A closed meeting on openness -- Fourth senator joins move to block Bernanke -- Copenhagen targets not tough enough, says Al Gore -- NASA hiding climate data -- Italy's Prime Minister accused by Mafia hitman of Mob Ties
-- Cigarette smuggling rises in Canada -- Sen. John McCain Loses Temper
On Senate Floor -- Government cleansing of atheists in America -- North
Korea Currency Change Sparks Panic -- Euros become currency of drug
cartels -- Ron Paul Speaks in Phoenix - Then Goes Outside to Wave Signs With Activists! -- Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom
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News Link • Iran
Mothers Arrested Before Opposition Rally in Iran
12-06-2009
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NY Times
The protest was broken up by the police and many demonstrators were taken away. A witness said 29 women were arrested, some of whom were later released. But at least 21 remained in jail, the BBC said.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran chokes off Internet on eve of student rallies
12-06-2009
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AP
Government opponents shouted "Death to the Dictator" from Tehran's rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of student demonstrations. Authorities choked off Internet access and warned journalists to stick to their offices for the next 3 days.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Blagojevich Evidence Stolen: Burglary At Lawyer's Offices
12-06-2009
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Huffington Post
Burglars broke into the offices occupied by two members of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's legal defense team overnight and stole eight computers and a safe, police said Friday.
The break-in occurred at the South Side offices of veteran Chicago crim
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fourth senator joins move to block Bernanke
12-06-2009
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Rawstory
A fourth senator has joined three other senators in placing a hold on the Fed Chairman's nomination. Louisiana Republican David Vitter will also move to keep the chairman's nomination from coming to the floor.
“Over the past year or so, the Fed ha
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Copenhagen targets not tough enough, says Al Gore
12-06-2009
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London Times
Even if a deal is reached at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen next week it will only be the first step towards the far more radical cuts that are needed in global carbon emissions, Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, told The Times
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
PROMISES, PROMISES: A closed meeting on openness
12-06-2009
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AP
It's hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public. A fitting symbol of President Barack Obama's uneven record on the Freedom of Information Act
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Tempers Flare In Climate Change Flap
12-06-2009
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CBS News
One day after reports that Britain's Met office intends to reexamine 160 years' worth of temperature data, emotions over what's now being dubbed "Climategate" are getting more raw by the day.
During a live television faceoff hosted by the BBC, Mar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
In 1975 it was global cooling
12-06-2009
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Forbes
Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age." Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived jus
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Researcher: NASA hiding climate data
12-06-2009
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Washington Times
The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Italy's Prime Minister accused by Mafia hitman of Mob Ties
12-06-2009
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Financial Times
Italy’s centre-right government on Friday was rocked by accusations made in court by a Mafia hitman that Silvio Berlusconi had made commitments to Sicily’s Cosa Nostra as he was about to enter politics 15 years ago.
Testifying behind a screen in a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China pays web surfers to find porn
12-06-2009
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AFP
Chinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday.
However, the censors' latest campaign against content that harms public mora
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Cigarette smuggling rises in Canada
12-06-2009
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Global Post
Some years ago, in the heyday of cigarette smuggling, I found myself in a speedboat bouncing on the St. Lawrence River at 65 mph, heading to the Akwesasne Indian reserve that straddles the Canada-U.S. border. Behind the wheel was a young French Canad
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Charged With Felony After Taping 4 Minutes Of "New Moon"
12-06-2009
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The Consumerist
A 22-year-old woman was arrested and charged with a felony after taping 4 minutes of "New Moon" during her sister's surprise 29th birthday party. The woman spent two nights in jail and faces up to three years in prison.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Myths and Realities About the Patriot Act
12-06-2009
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ACLU
Myth: The Patriot Act simply updated the tools of law enforcement to match the technology used by the terrorists and criminals today.
Reality: The Patriot Act “updated” surveillance powers but failed to “update” the checks and balances needed to e
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Reported by:
Steve Freedom
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News Link • Internet
The rise and fall of MySpace
12-06-2009
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Financial Times
In summer 2005, having spent the best part of four decades building a newspaper, film and television empire, Rupert Murdoch decided that the time had come to get serious about the internet. He acquired Myspace. And ran it aground.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Sen. John McCain Loses Temper On Senate Floor, Reprimands Sen. Max Baucus
12-06-2009
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Mediaite
During the knock-down-and-drag-out 2008 election we heard all about Sen. John McCain’s infamous temper. Today, we caught another glimpse, this time on the Senate floor. And on video! Visibly peeved at Sen. Max Baucus, both about time regulations and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Sprint manager: ‘Half’ of all police surveillance includes text messaging
12-06-2009
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Rawstory
According to a graduate student's research into the spying policies of major US telecom companies, at a recent security conference a Sprint surveillance manager said half of all police requests include the target's text messages.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Government cleansing of atheists in America
12-06-2009
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American Atheist
The daughter of Chester Smalkowski wanted to play basketball for the Hardesty Public Schools. She was forced from the team when she, an Atheist, refused to recite the Lord’s Prayer after a game as was required by the school.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
North Korea Currency Change Sparks Panic
12-06-2009
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BBC News via Yahoo! News
North Koreans are "devastated" following currency reforms that could wipe out their savings, reports say.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Drug War
Euros become currency of drug cartels
12-06-2009
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Guardian
International drug cartels have abandoned the US dollar for high denomination euros to launder millions in illegal profits. Europol has revealed. The gangs no longer use $100 because 500 euro notes - the largest denomination of euro
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Cause Resolved
12-06-2009
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arclein
Cores drilled from ancient ice sheets as well as of the coral reef and lake sediment varieties show that at the same time as Europe enjoyed average temperatures as warm as today, the tropical Pacific was unusually cold.
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robert klein
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
DEFACTO DEFAULT ON COMEX GOLD?!?
12/05/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
COMEX now refuses to deliver gold for it's contracts. Instead, it will deliver PAPER! When a commodity exchange refuses to, or cannot, deliver the commodity it sells options for, isn't that a defacto default? They can parse words and spin it any wa
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Modern Day Tennessee Moonshiner Gets Probation, Has to Forfeit White Lightning
12-05-2009
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Ginn
With Moonshine video [1:23]. You can still smell the whiskey burning down Copperhead Road.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commodity funds get physical
12-05-2009
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Financial Times
The retired civil servants of San Bernardino County could soon be in the livestock business. The public pension fund in the county, the largest by area in the state of California, has agreed to place $30m with a fund manager who is considering
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • New World Order
Former Kansas State Trooper Greg Everson: 'U.S. Forces Plan DIRECT ACTION AGAINST American Citiz
12/05/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
Join in the discussion thread here
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message937443/pg1
****Former Kansas State Trooper Greg Everson of The Heartland USA and former host of Republic Broadcasting Voices from the Heartland told host Steve Qua
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Twelve-Yr-old Texas Girl Arrested for Making Bomb Threat at School
12-05-2009
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Ginn
Police haul in a 12-year-old girl questioning her for 4 hours--before calling her mom. It all started when 3 other girls said they saw the girl write a bomb threat on the restroom wall.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom" Kevin Jennings and t
12-04-2009
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Gateway Pundit
Exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school [?]...our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through. Obama's ped
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KDK Klein
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