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Date Sent: 2009-12-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 15, 2009 PM edition |
US considering drone attacks on Pakistani city of 850,000 -- Australia's Internet Regulations Limiti
Conservatives grab for tea party cash -- In New Orleans, chaos in the
streets, and in police ranks too -- What Likely Lurk$ Around the Corner
- by Jeff Clark -- Karzai in anti-graft speech defends convicted mayor
-- In New York state, a new look at the wrongly convicted --
Climategate: The Video Everyone Should See -- PM Berlusconi's attacker
apologizes for "cowardly" act -- The Vision of the Founders: Dead and
Gone - by Kevin R. C. Gutzman -- Our Murderers in the Sky - by Scott
Ritter -- US inquiry into sale of Virgin Galactic stake to Arab
investor -- Oil Creation Theory Challenged by Fuel-Making Fungus --
Health Care Bills Contain HUGE Marriage Penalty Tax -- Dark Matter Rumor
AZ: Bill of Rights Day celebrations
today; Thursday Breakfast with Pat Schwinn describing how he out conned
Britain's greatest con-man
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US considering drone attacks on Pakistani city of 850,000
12-15-2009
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Rawstory
Senior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into a major city in an attempt to pressure the Pakistani government to pursue Taliban leaders based in a city of 850,000 people.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Australia Proposes New Internet Regulations Limiting What Users Can See
12-15-2009
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Mondo Frazier
In Australia, new restrictions on what adults can see in their own homes on the Internet are wrapped with a pretty "It's for your own good" ribbon.
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Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Big Sellout
12/09/09
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Rolling Stone Magazine
The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Police State
After Hurricane Katrina, police lied to family about shooting
12-15-2009
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ProPublica
4 years later, a reporter looking at the conduct of the Police Dept. in the aftermath of the hurricane called Dziadul to ask whether she had ever seen the official report on McDonald’s death that said a police officer with an AR-15 assault rifle had
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Menopause, as Brought to You by Big Pharma
12-15-2009
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New York Times
Learn about the marketing efforts and subsequent lawsuits of Wyeth to promote hormonal treatments Prempro, a combination of an estrogen drug produced from the urine of pregnant mares, and an additional hormone, progestin.
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Internet
Australian government to introduce Internet filter
12-15-2009
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Reuters
Australia plans to introduce an Internet filtering system to block obscene and crime-linked Web sites despite concerns it will curtail freedoms and won't completely work.
Adopting a mandatory screening system would make Australia one of the strict
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
China and Taiwan Seek Cooperation in RFID
12-15-2009
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PC World
A conference on RFID (radio frequency identification) wireless technology opened in Taipei promising to open the road to cooperation between China and Taiwan on how the 2 can further develop the technology and use it in products and services.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Conservatives grab for tea party cash
12-15-2009
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Politico
Conservative leaders are eager to turn Tea Party anger into election-year cash â€" and to do that, they’re launching a flurry of new political action committees aimed at collecting small-dollar donations from newly engaged anti-tax, anti-spending activ
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
In New Orleans, chaos in the streets, and in police ranks too
12-15-2009
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ProPublica
During the turbulent days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, New Orleans police shot 10 civilians, at least four of whom died, according to interviews and internal police documents. But a fresh examination of the post-storm period
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Best Buy, JVC, Samsung, More Hit With Lawsuit
12-15-2009
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PC Magazine
The Software Freedom Law Center filed a copyright infringement suit against 14 top consumer electronics companies, including Samsung and JVC. The Center, which represents free and open-source sofware developers, filed on behalf of the Software Freedo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Senate appears ready to drop Medicare expansion
12-15-2009
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McClatchy News
Senate Democrats appeared ready to drop a controversial plan to expand Medicare coverage to 55- to 64-year-olds, a proposal that's threatened to scuttle the massive health care bill that lawmakers hope to finish before Christmas.
Democrats emerged
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
What Likely Lurks Around the Corner
Jeff Clark
In the short term, a catastrophic deflation is quite possible. But in the long term, extremely high levels of inflation are now inevitable. The situation is very serious. Gold is the best hedge against both of these things. The better part of your fi
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
In New York state, a new look at the wrongly convicted
12-15-2009
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Reuters
A recent spate of exonerations in New York state has put renewed focus on the plight of the wrongly convicted, with advocates saying it is not as easy as it should be to get an unjust verdict reversed.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Karzai in anti-graft speech defends convicted mayor
12-15-2009
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Reuters
Afghan President Hamid Karzai used a keynote anti-corruption speech on Tuesday to defend the most senior of his officials to be convicted of graft in years, a move that could anger Western backers who demand more accountability.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Climategate: The Video Everyone Should See
12-15-2009
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LewRockwell.com
Next time you’re in an argument with someone who is totally convinced that global warming is a) man made and b) unprecedented, why not show them this brief video from Watts Up With That? Game over! (Hat tip: Plato Says)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
Berlusconi attacker apologizes for "cowardly" act
12-15-2009
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Reuters
The bloody image of Prime Minister Berlusconi, reeling after being attacked as he signed autographs has created sympathy and solidarity on one hand, while on the other generating praise for his attacker on Facebook and YouTube.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Radiation from CT scans may raise cancer risks
12-15-2009
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Reuters
Radiation from CT scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers and kill nearly 15,000 Americans. Evidence that Americans are overexposed to radiation from diagnostic tests, especially from a specialized kind of X-ray called a computed tomography, or
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Big Discounts Possible at Mesa Surplus Store
12-15-2009
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East Valley Tribune
All things seized by Mesa police, abandoned by their owners, and on sale for pennies on the dollar.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Bill of Rights
The Vision of the Founders: Dead and Gone
12-15-2009
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Kevin R. C. Gutzman - LewRockwell.com
Bill of Rights Day is Tuesday, December 15th. But as Kevin Gutzman points out in this article, it’s not a day of celebration. Instead, it should be a day of mourning for the death of decentralized self-government.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Survival Tools
12-15-2009
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SJH for LewRockwell.com
Planning as we all know is the key factor, when considering what tools and equipment are necessary.
* What are you planning on keeping running: is it your vehicle/boat/plane/atv/snow machine/camper?
* What maintenance is required for each
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
How Fuel Cells Work
12-15-2009
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http://auto.howstuffworks.com
So what exactly is a fuel cell, anyway? Why are governments, private businesses and academic institutions collaborating to develop and produce them? Fuel cells generate electrical power quietly and efficiently, without pollution. Unlike power sources
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Our Murderers in the Sky - by Scott Ritter
12-15-2009
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Truthdig.com
War is hell, as the saying goes. Murder, on the other hand, is a crime.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
US inquiry into sale of Virgin Galactic stake to Arab investor
12-15-2009
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Times UK
The United States has launched a national security investigation into the proposed sale of a stake in Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space company to Arab investors.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Oil Creation Theory Challenged by Fuel-Making Fungus
12-15-2009
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livescience.com/
A newfound fungus living in rainforest trees makes biofuel more efficiently than any other known method, researchers say. In fact, it's so good at turning plant matter into fuel that researchers say their discovery calls into question the whole theor
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Health Care Bills Contain HUGE Marriage Penalty Tax
12/14/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
Totally amazing! Why hasn’t this information made the rounds of the Internet? Why don’t the Democrats tell us how they are out to screw America’s married middle class?! It takes a candidate for Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District to tell us?! WTF!
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Climate Change
Temperatures 2009
12-15-2009
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arclein
2009 is likely to be the fifth warmest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organisation, with the current decade being the warmest on record, eclipsing the 1990s, which in turn was warmer than the 1980s.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
Dubai Rescued
12-15-2009
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arclein
Abu Dhabi threw its flashy but debt-laden neighbor Dubai a $10 billion lifeline to head off a bond default, cheering Gulf and global markets on Monday but raising questions about the undisclosed terms.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Dark Matter Rumor
12-15-2009
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arclein
The physics blogs are abuzz with rumors that a particle of dark matter has finally been found.
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment is one of several designed to look for the tell-tale signature of dark matter particles passing through
CDM
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robert klein
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