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Date Sent: 2009-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 9, 2009 PM edition |
State Revenue Fell 16% in 2008 -- Americans Grow More Pessimistic on Economy, Nation's Direction
Obama rights record questioned ahead of Nobel prize -- Russian Supreme
Court rules against Jehovah’s Witnesses -- For the feds, some Wall
Street firms are too big — to punish -- It's a Return to the Star Chamber as Europe Finally Tramples Magna Carta Into the Dust -- Former Chrysler Dealers Fight Back Using the Quo Warranto -- Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price -- Lawyers Fight to Halt Ohio Execution Condemned as Human Experimentation -- Getting bin Laden key to defeating al Qaida -- Tipsters in Moussaoui case still quarreling over FBI reward -- Ron Paul’s Fed-Bashing Wins Over Lawmakers Wary of Bank’s Power -- Secret Unredacted TSA Operating Manual Ready for Download -- US Air Force confirms 'Beast of Kandahar' drone
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News Link • TAXES: State
U.S. State Revenue Fell 16% in Fiscal 2008, Census Bureau Says
12-09-2009
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Bloomberg
U.S. state government collections fell 16 percent to almost $1.7 trillion in fiscal 2008 from a year earlier, while spending increased 6.2 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The biggest drop came in so-called insurance trust revenue, wh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Americans Grow More Pessimistic on Economy, Nation’s Direction
12-09-2009
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Bloomberg
Americans have grown gloomier about both the economy and the nation’s direction over the past three months even as the U.S. shows signs of moving from recession to recovery.
Almost half the people now feel less financially secure than when Preside
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama rights record questioned ahead of Nobel prize
12-09-2009
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Reuters
Two leading international human rights groups gave U.S. President Barack Obama mixed reviews on his human rights record on Wednesday, a day before he is slated to accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Russian Supreme Court rules against Jehovah’s Witnesses and religious freedom
12-08-2009
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jw-media.org
On December 8, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the appeal of a local congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses and upheld the earlier lower court ruling to pronounce 34 pieces of educational religious literature “extremist.” Se
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M. Burgin
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Mysterious Radiation May Strike Airline Passengers
12-09-2009
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LiveScience
If jets pass near lightning discharges or related phenomena known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, passengers and crew members could be exposed to harmful levels of radiation, a dose equal to that of 400 chest X-rays.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Tiny Nuclear Batteries to Power Micro Devices
12-09-2009
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LiveScience
Typical chemical batteries just don't cut it when a device needs to run for years without fail. Enter the betavoltaics, or tiny nuclear batteries that harvest energy from radioactive sources such as tritium.
Now a company called Widetronix has dev
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Germs May Be Good For You
12-09-2009
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LiveScience
Higher levels of exposure to common everyday bacteria and microbes may play a helpful role in the development of the body's inflammatory systems, which plays a crucial role in the immune system's fight against infection.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
UN Resolution Would Criminalize Christianity
12-09-2009
Attorney Jay Sekulow from the American Center for Law and Justice reports on the UN Resolution that would outlaw Christian expression worldwide according to International Law. Islam is on the march. Here’s the video.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Government
For the feds, some Wall Street firms are too big " to punish
12-09-2009
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McClatchy News
Forget too big to fail. In the eyes of federal regulators, many Wall Street firms are too big to punish.
During the past three years, some of the nation's largest financial firms have been accused by the government of cheating or misleading client
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: America
A look back @ Freedom Summit ’09 Phoenix, AZ
12-09-2009
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Prog Blog - ProgressiveFlow.net
ProgBlog provides a summary of their experience at Freedom Summit 2009
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
It's a Return to the Star Chamber as Europe Finally Tramples Magna Carta Into the Dust
12-09-2009
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telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com
"All men in our Kingdom have and hold the aforesaid liberties and rights, well and in peace, freely and quietly, fully and wholly, for ever." For ever? - Ed
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Used Computers Toxifying Kids, Polluting Oceans
12-09-2009
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freethoughtnation.com
Out of Africa comes the disturbing news of entire regions being toxified and polluted by the industry of recycling used computers.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Internet
Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price
12-09-2009
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mathaba.net via Rense.com
Follow-up article with links. "...Yahoo charges the government about $30 to $40 for the contents, including e-mail, of a subscriber’s account."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Former Chrysler Dealers Fight Back
Using the Quo Warranto
12-09-2009
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devvy.com
Two attorneys who have been prominent in the court battles regarding whether Obama is Constitutionally eligibile to be President have joined forces.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Death Penalty
Lawyers Fight to Halt Ohio Execution Condemned as Human Experimentation
12-09-2009
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Guardian co.uk via Rense.com
Lethal injection involves anaesthetic used on pets(!)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Update on Hal Turner Case
12-09-2009
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wired.com via Rense.com
A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Getting bin Laden key to defeating al Qaida
12-09-2009
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McClatchy News
Days after his boss said that there was no new intelligence on the whereabouts of al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told Congress Tuesday that killing or capturing bin Laden is critical to defeating the terrorist
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tipsters in Moussaoui case still quarreling over FBI reward
12-09-2009
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McClatchy News
[Government cheating snitches out of their promised rewards...nah not government?!] The FBI has belatedly awarded $100,000 to a former Minnesota flight school manager whose phone tip eight years ago led to the arrest of al Qaida conspirator Zacarias
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
12-09-2009
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McClatchy News
"They'll take my Ultra Soft Charmin only when they pry it from my cold, dead, aloe-smelling hands."
Highly doubtful it will come to that. Please, sit.
We're talking about toilet paper. Charlton Heston's famous vow was of guns.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Is the U.S. Temperature Record Reliable?
12-09-2009
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RickAckerman.com
Just when you thought the global-warming mandarins couldn’t embarrass honest scientists any more than they have, along comes a new scandal. Turns out the mandarins’ temperature-measuring devices in all too many instances sat next to the exhaust fans
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Ryan Denke
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul’s Fed-Bashing Wins Over Lawmakers Wary of Bank’s Power
12-09-2009
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Bloomberg
The long-shot 2008 presidential candidate whose anti-tax, anti-government politics struck a chord with a swath of voters is again channeling public frustration with big government, bailouts and rising federal debt. As Paul trains his sights on his fa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Grandson to stay; HOA apologizes to widow
12-09-2009
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East Valley Tribune
A Mesa homeowners association has apologized to the family of an 88-year-old widow after it tried to eject her 37-year-old grandson from living with her as a caregiver.
Sunland Village is also paying Virginia Campbell $12,700 for legal bills and e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Leaks Sensitive Airport Screening Manual
12-09-2009
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Wired
Who needs anonymous sources when the government is perfectly capable of leaking its own secrets? Government workers preparing the release of a Transportation Security Administration manual that details airport screening procedures badly bungled their
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
House panel considers college football playoffs
12-09-2009
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AP
A top official of the Bowl Championship Series says there are more important things for Congress to worry about than pressing for a playoff system for college football.
But lawmakers were taking a crack at it anyway Wednesday. A House panel was to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Air Force confirms 'Beast of Kandahar' drone
12-09-2009
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AFP
The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy.
The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Peat and Repeat
12-09-2009
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arclein
"Peatlands only cover about 3 percent of the Earth but they accumulate more carbon than tropical rainforests," says biogeochemist Nancy Dise of Manchester Metropolitan University in England. "
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Seeing the Rainforest for the Trees
12-09-2009
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arclein
But his most recent publication, in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, challenges everything we thought we knew about the subject. Grainger spent more than three years combing through all available United
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Climategate Cloud
12-09-2009
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arclein
Pressure on this venerable society of physicists, which was founded in 1899 at Columbia University, is coming from members who are squarely in the scientific mainstream and are alarmed at the state of climate science revealed in the leaked e-mail mes
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robert klein
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