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Date Sent: 2009-12-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 16, 2009 AM edition |
Foreclosure buyer demand dips as supply mounts -- NYPD Must Show GOP Convention Surveillance
U.S. gave up billions in tax money in deal for Citigroup's bailout repayment -- Tourists enjoy unauthorized breakfast with Obama -- DNA testing clears man who served 28 years -- Boeing's 787 jetliner makes first test flight -- Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91 -- Iraq orders Iranian exiles to vacate camp -- Why I Cannot Sign the Manhattan Declaration - by Greg Dixon -- Mass. school denies suspending student for Jesus drawing -- Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed -- Iraq's oil auction hits the jackpot -- Americans may live longer and cost more -- Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama -- SCOTUS ruling means torture by US could return
AZ: Thursday Breakfast with Pat Schwind who out cons Britain's leading con man (BBC documentary video)
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure buyer demand dips as supply mounts
12-15-2009
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Reuters
Home buyers are less willing to buy foreclosed properties than they were 6 months ago, citing risks like hidden costs. A continued drop in demand for the glut of foreclosed properties would add a fresh layer of pain to a housing market just emerging
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
NYPD Must Show GOP Convention Surveillance
12-15-2009
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AP
A federal judge has ruled the New York Police Department must release 2,000 pages of documents related to its surveillance of protesters before the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Judge Richard Sullivan's ruling was made public Monday. It sup
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
U.S. gave up billions in tax money in deal for Citigroup's bailout repayment
12-15-2009
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Washington Post
The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Tourists enjoy White House breakfast
12-15-2009
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AP
It wasn't a state dinner, and they didn't crash it on purpose. Still, a Georgia couple who showed up at the White House a day early for a tour somehow wound up at an invitation-only breakfast with President Obama and the first lady.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
DNA testing clears man who served 28 years
12-15-2009
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AP
A man who spent 28 years behind bars for a rape and murder he said he didn't commit walked out of a federal prison in Arizona on Tuesday with $75 and a bus ticket to Ohio after DNA testing showed he was innocent.
The conviction of Donald Eugene Ga
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Boeing's 787 jetliner makes first test flight
12-15-2009
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AP (video)
Boeing's new 787 jetliner finally got airborne Tuesday, the long-delayed inaugural flight of the world's first commercial plane mostly constructed from lightweight composite materials.
The sleek jet lifted off from Everett's Paine Field on a fligh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death
Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91
12-15-2009
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AP
Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium " and his message of God's healing power " to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Robe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Energy-efficient traffic lights can't melt snow
12-15-2009
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AP
Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don't burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm -- a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Iraq orders Iranian exiles to vacate camp, raising fears of bloodshed
12-15-2009
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Washington Post
Members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK, who reside in the 10-square-mile compound, have warned that they will not be taken out alive. Residents and Western officials fear the increasingly tense stalemate at Camp Ashraf could end in bloodshed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Mass. school denies suspending student for drawing
12-15-2009
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AP
A Massachusetts school district on Tuesday night denied a father's claims that his son was suspended for drawing a stick figure of Jesus on a cross.
The Taunton School District said in a written statement that the second-grade student was never s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The President in the Plastic Bubble
12-15-2009
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http://papatodd.com
Barack Obama obliviously lives a sheltered life. But no one had a clue to level the president has been isolated from the real world. While it is common knowledge that all presidents have their team of “handlers” to help them deal with issues such a
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Todd Detry
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News Link • WAR: About that War
MUSIC VIDEO American Blood
12-15-2009
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SilverStars.tk via YouTube
Reckless Kelly's track "American Blood" off their new release, "Bulletproof", out now on Yep Roc Records
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Thane Eichenauer
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News Link • Surveillance
Electronic Health Records: Concerns About Potential Privacy Breaches Remain an Issue
12-15-2009
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Science Daily
Although physicians support the use of electronic health records, concerns about potential privacy breaches remain an issue, according to two research articles published in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Informatics Association
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Drug War
Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed
12-15-2009
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Asia Times
As US President Barack Obama and his advisors debated future troop levels for Afghanistan - which resulted in the decision to send an additional 30,000 troops - a new report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) muddied the water on one
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Surveillance
PASS ID, REAL ID: Your State, Your Identity
12-15-2009
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BeatTheChip.org
If you are currently unsure of what your state is doing regarding material compliance with the Real ID act or the PASS ID Act coming up for congressional revision; you might want to search this document for your state's drivers license division.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Energy
Iraq's oil auction hits the jackpot
12-15-2009
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Asia Times
Former US vice president Dick Cheney, ex-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and assorted US neo-cons will have plenty of time to nurse their apoplexy. One of their key reasons to unleash the war on Iraq in 2003 was to seize control of its
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Surveillance
AM.MN: State’s Texas vendor let new hires’ personal data all hang out
12-15-2009
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The Minnesota Independent
By Gov. Pawlenty’s executive order, the State of Minnesota checks everyone it hires to confirm they’re legal to work. But the Texas firm to which the state farmed out its E-Verify program didn’t safeguard employees’ data, leaving Social Security numb
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Americans may live longer and cost more
12-15-2009
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Reuters
By 2050 Americans may live as much as 8 years longer than government forecasts and that spending by Medicare and Social Security could rise by $3.2 trillion to $8.3 trillion above current projections, and sharply higher costs than anticipated for Med
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama
12-15-2009
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Chicago Sun-Times
Former IL governor Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
SCOTUS ruling means torture could return: civil rights group
12-15-2009
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Rawstory
The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by 4 former Guantanamo inmates who want to sue the US government for torture, a move the inmates' lawyers say could pave the way for future torture practices by the US military.
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Powell Gammill
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