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Date Sent: 2009-12-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 8, 2009 PM edition |
Iran threatens protesters after detaining 200 -- Coordinated blasts hit Baghdad; kill at least 118?
Stock market slides as dollar strengthens -- Kokesh Challenges the GOP -- Humans Have Hidden Sensory System -- Congress urged to extend emergency jobless benefits -- U.S. to pay $1.4 billion to settle Indian trust lawsuit -- IOUs instead of checks for state employees? -- Will Missouri Nullify Federal Gun Laws -- New Microscope Images Atoms
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News Link • Iran
Iran threatens protesters after detaining 200
12-08-2009
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AP
Iran threatened tougher action against protesters Tuesday after more than 200 were arrested during marches by tens of thousands at universities across the country, the biggest anti-government rallies in months.
The warning suggested that Monday's
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Coordinated blasts hit Baghdad; kill at least 118
12-08-2009
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AP
A series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including two suicide car bombers and another vehicle that blew up near government sites. At least 118 were killed and hundreds wounded in the worst wave of violence in the capital in more than
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stock market slides as dollar strengthens
12-08-2009
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AP
Investors dumped stocks and sought safe-haven assets like the dollar and Treasurys on signs that the global economy is still struggling.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 100 points in afternoon trading Tuesday but recovered some of its earlie
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Killer Petunias and Murderous Potatoes Revealed
12-08-2009
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LiveScience
Petunias and potatoes may actually be carnivorous plants, scientists now suggest.
Indeed, carnivorous behavior may be far more widespread in plants than commonly thought. At least six different kinds of killer plants have been recognized since the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Humans Have Hidden Sensory System
12-08-2009
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LiveScience
The human body may be equipped with a separate sensory system aside from the nerves that gives us the ability to touch and feel, according to a new study. Most of us have millions of different types of nerve endings just beneath the skin that let us
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress urged to extend emergency jobless benefits
12-08-2009
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McClatchy News
State labor officials urged Congress to renew emergency jobless benefits that have been available through economic stimulus funds, but are due to expire this month. "This is a lifeline," said the secretary of the Kansas Labor Dept.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Fast Internet access becomes a legal RIGHT in Finland
12-08-2009
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CNN
"We think it's something you cannot live without in modern society. Like banking services or water or electricity, you need Internet connection."
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Government
U.S. to pay $3.4 billion to settle Indian trust lawsuit
12-08-2009
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Reuters
The US government [taxpayers] will pay $1.4 billion to settle a long-running lawsuit against the Interior Dept. for [stealing] the revenue in Native American trust funds. The government will establish a $2 billion [trust?!!!!] fund to buy land from N
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
IOUs instead of checks for state employees?
12-08-2009
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East Valley Tribune
State and university employees could wind up with IOUs in their pay envelopes instead of checks in February if the planned sale of state buildings hits a snag, state Treasurer Dean Martin warned Monday.
And that could leave workers with a piece of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Suspect in Nazi trial admits killings
12-08-2009
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AP
A former member of the Nazi SS being tried for murder admitted in court Tuesday that he killed three Dutch civilians during World War II, but insisted he was following orders.
Heinrich Boere told the Aachen state court in a statement read by attor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
NJ woman admits rape lie that sent man to prison
12-08-2009
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AP
A New Jersey woman whose false story about a gang rape sent an innocent man to prison has pleaded guilty to perjury. Biurny Peguero told police she was kidnapped and raped at knifepoint in 2005 by 3 men, including William McCaffrey.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Will Missouri Nullify Federal Gun Laws?
12-07-2009
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Tenth Amendment Center
Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis has introduced the “Firearms Freedom Act." The bill “Asserts the right of the State of Missouri to regulate the intrastate use and acquisition of certain firearms pursuant to the reserved powers of the sta
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Michael Boldin
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News Link • Bill of Rights
By the People...or By the State?
12-08-2009
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An American with Common Sense
Will the People stand and make their Declarations? Or will they kneel and kowtow to the State that they are "ALLEGEDLY" in control of? This is the paramount question. Read this issue of Freedoms Phoenix. Go read other online publications like W
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Star Ships
12-08-2009
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arclein
In the best of all imagined worlds, it would be nice to create such a worm hole from one end, then pull the enlarged worm hole around one’s craft and emerge on the other side of a collapsing wormhole in another star system. No time duration would be
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News Link • Science
New Microscope Images Atoms
12-08-2009
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arclein
Specifically, Igor Mik hail ovskij and his collaborators at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology in Ukraine have imaged the shapes of those orbitals in carbon atoms by improving an old imaging technique called field-emission microscopy.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Biochar on the Farm
12-08-2009
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arclein
My interest in char is to have an onsite facility that I can afford to operate, that is easy to operate, that costs less than a tractor to purchase and has the same return, and that I can use to convert true waste biomass, not the energy biomass that
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