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Date Sent: 2009-12-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 11, 2009 PM edition |
Latin America's Iran ties "a bad idea": Sec. Clinton -- Obama's Pay Czar Release New Dictates
Sen. Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise -- Average Federal Job Pays $71,000 -- Peace Doesn't Work, Obama Informs Nobel Committee -- Crude Oil Tumbles for an Eighth Day -- Republicans urge Obama launch free trade pact push -- Child abuse crisis to spark Irish Church shake-up -- GOP loved Obama's Nobel speech -- Board tables action on home-school, online course restrictions -- Ron Paul's Hour of Power - by Patrick J. Buchanan --
Matt Taibbi on Obama's Big Sellout -- New "Avatar" movie & James
Cameron will go to the Oscars as nominees -- SpaceShipTwo: How Virgin
Galactic Could Rule the Galaxy -- Going Cheney of Climate Change with Thomas Friedman
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Latin America's Iran ties "a bad idea": Clinton
12-11-2009
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Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Latin American countries not to get too close to Iran, calling it "a really bad idea" that could have consequences. "We can only say that is a really bad idea for the countries involved," Clinton told a
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Obama's Pay Czar to Release New Rulings on Executive Pay
12-11-2009
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ABC News
The rulings will cover 2009 compensation for the 26th to 100th highest-paid employees at six companies: AIG, Citigroup, GM, Chrysler, and the automakers' respective financing arms -- GMAC and Chrysler Financial.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Sen. Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise
12-11-2009
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Politico
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MN), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Sou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Average Federal Job Pays $71,000
12-11-2009
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USA Today
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession " and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted. They're enjoying an extraordinary boom time " in pay and hiring " during a recession that has cost 7
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Crude Oil Tumbles for an Eighth Day as Dollar Strengthens
12-11-2009
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil tumbled for an eighth day, the longest stretch in six years, as the dollar rose against the euro, curbing investor appetite for commodities.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles
12-11-2009
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TED Talks
At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he introduces a few of the most popular types, and shares the fascinations that inspired some of his best.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Free Trade
Republicans urge Obama launch free trade pact push
12-11-2009
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Reuters
Republican U.S. congressional leaders urged President Barack Obama to work with them to win approval of long-stalled free trade pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korea as early as possible in 2010.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Today on PrisonPlanet.com - Dec 11th 2009
12-11-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
Furious Reaction To Sick Editorial Calling For Global One Child Dictatorship / Now EU Wants Global Transaction Tax To Fund More Bailouts
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Child abuse crisis to spark Irish Church shake-up
12-11-2009
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Reuters
Pope Benedict expressed "outrage, betrayal and shame" on Friday at the sexual abuse of children by priests in Ireland, which Church leaders said would lead to a shake-up of the Irish Roman Catholic Church.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Batteries Made from Regular Paper
12-11-2009
Ordinary paper can be turned into a battery electrode simply by dipping it into carbon-nanotube inks. The resulting electrodes, which are strong, flexible, and highly conductive, might be used to make cheap energy storage devices to power portable el
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
December 10, 2009: Obama's Nobel Speech
12-11-2009
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The Daily Show (VIDEO)
Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize while overseeing one war and escalating another.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Unlikely support: GOP loved Obama's Nobel speech
12-11-2009
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McClatchy News
By using his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Thursday to justify expanding the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama won over some Republican critics at home, even as he preached messages of multilateralism, diplomacy and civil diso
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Dynalifter Floats Like A Butterfly, Lands Like A Plane
12-11-2009
An aircraft that combines massive freight capacity, high efficiency and low cost is taking shape in a hangar outside Toledo, Ohio, and could be airborne next year.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Board tables action on home-school, online course restrictions
12-11-2009
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www.azcentral.com
The Gilbert Public Schools governing board on Tuesday tabled discussion on two proposals that would have imposed new restrictions on students who are home-schooled but take a few GPS courses, and junior high and high school students who take online c
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Lightsaber Chopsticks
12-11-2009
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Wired
Star Wars was pretty obviously a rip off of Samurai movies, right down to the lightsabers and Darth Vader’s outfit. So what better to celebrate George Lucas’ “homage” to Japan than a pair of “Lightsaber Chopsticks”?
For just ¥2,900 ($33) you can p
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul's Hour of Power - by Patrick J. Buchanan
12-11-2009
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Human Events
The decades-long campaign of Ron Paul to have the Government Accountability Office do a full audit of the Federal Reserve now may happen. Yet, many columnists and commentators are aghast.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Matt Taibbi on Obama's Big Sellout
12-11-2009
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Huffington Post
His first piece was a polemic against Goldman Sachs, which triggered a backlash against the venerated Wall Street firm due to its incestuous relationship with Washington. Afterwards, he took on health care reform. Now, he is taking on the Obama Admi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Dec. 11th 2009
12-11-2009
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LewRockwell.com
We’ve Been Had - Walter Williams on the climate change rope-a-dope / Ron Paul's Hour of Power - Bring on the auditors, says Pat Buchanan / The Underground Economy Grows - The free, cash economy, that is
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
New "Avatar" movie & James Cameron will go to the Oscars as nominees
12-11-2009
London --- Just left the 'World Premiere' of "Avatar," and while the standing ovation the film received at its conclusion is probably just the requisite politeness; I can report that this is another rare example where the quality of the movie does i
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Extreme Gaming with an Epson Projector
12-11-2009
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YouTube
Extreme gaming - strap an Epson HD ready projector to your front, a PS3 to your back and take gaming to a whole new level. This is Need for Speed taken to new heights...
You can find out more from Epson Europe at www.epson-europe.com/extremegamer
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News Link • Energy
Paper-Thin Batteries To Juice Self-Powered OLEDs
12-11-2009
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PopSi
Organig LEDs hold large promise for efficient, thin and flexible lighting elements (as well as razor-thin TVs), but low-tech power sources continue to constrain more creative uses of the lights. After all, what good is a shirt of woven LEDs if you ne
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceShipTwo: How Virgin Galactic Could Rule the Galaxy
12-11-2009
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Space.com
There's far more to Sir Richard Branson's new rocket-plane than a few thrill rides for wealthy adventurers. Burt Rutan's team may have just designed a new flight path for the entire aerospace industry. 1st Passenger ship "Enterprise"
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Internet
Informed Citizen News report, Dec. 6, 2009
12-11-2009
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Informed Citizen News
2009 Continental Congress/ Major European investment firm tells clients how to prepare for potential 'global collapse'/ Government takes aim at taxing yard sales, lemonade stands/ ClimateGate/ China's one-child policy for population control
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Payoff! U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon scheme
12-11-2009
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WorldNetDaily
NEW YORK " A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying glob
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News Link • Climate Change
J Storr Hall on Medieval Warming
12-11-2009
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arclein
For climate science it means that the Hockey Team climatologists’ insistence that human-emitted CO2 is the only thing that could account for the recent warming trend is probably poppycock.
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News Link • Climate Change
Copenhagen Editorial
12-11-2009
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arclein
At the deal's heart must be a settlement between the rich world and the developing world covering how the burden of fighting climate change will be divided " and how we will share a newly precious resource: the trillion or so tonnes of carbon that w
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News Link • Climate Change
Going Cheney of Climate Change with Thomas Friedman
12-11-2009
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arclein
here we find another writer choking on the contents of the infamous emails. i do not think many have yet grasped that co2 regulation is not an engine able to change climate.
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