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Date Sent: 2009-12-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
9th Circuit Places Limits on Taser use by Police -- Renminbi to replace US dollar for trade in Asia
Asian Markets Mixed After Wall Street Slips -- Former Guantanamo detainees fuel growing al-Qaeda cell -- Many airport security improvements would require more intrusion, oversight --
Savannah's Biscuit Police arrest -- Intel report: Iran seeking to
smuggle raw uranium -- Health Insurance and Enumerated Powers: Congress
claims the healthcare bill is Constitutional -- Coburn amendment would
force members of Congress to use ObamaCare -- Video Of Iran Protesters Saving Prisoners From Getting Hanged -- Programmer Conned CIA, Pentagon Into Buying Bogus Anti-Terror Code -- California police demand helpless targets -- Ponzi scheme collapses nearly quadrupled in ’09 -- Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV -- Key security agencies lack permanent leaders -- Birther Attorney Orly Taitz: Time to Start Rallies Using 2nd Amendment Right to ‘Bare’ Arms
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
9th Circuit Places Limits on Lawful use of Tasers by Police
12-29-2009
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San Francisco Chronicle
Police need reasons to believe a suspect is dangerous before firing a Taser and can't use their stun gun simply because the person is disobeying orders or acting erratically, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Monday.
The decision by t
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - International
Renminbi set to replace US dollar for trade in Asia Pacific
12-29-2009
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risk.net
The Chinese renminbi is taking on an increased role in the Asia-Pacific region, and is expected over time to replace traditionally dominant currencies such as the US dollar and the euro for certain transactions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Markets Mixed After Wall Street Slips
12-29-2009
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AP
Asian stock markets were mixed in sluggish, year-end trade Wednesday, following a lackluster session on Wall Street as many investors held back after this year's global rally.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Former Guantanamo detainees fuel growing al-Qaeda cell
12-29-2009
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NY Times
Former detainees of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have led and fueled the growing assertiveness of the al-Qaeda branch that claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner, potentially complicating the Oba
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Debate Over Full-Body Scans vs. Invasion of Privacy Flares Anew After Incident
12-29-2009
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NY Times
“The big question to our country is how to balance the need for personal privacy with the safety and security needs of our country,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, (UT-R) who sponsored a successful measure in the House to require the devices be used
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Many airport security improvements would require more intrusion, oversight
12-29-2009
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Washington Post
Aviation security could be improved with the use of databases containing passengers' personal information, technology such as body scans. Require greater tolerance of intrusions and far more effective government oversight, security specialists say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Intel report: Iran seeking to smuggle raw uranium
12-29-2009
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AP
Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan. Tehran appears to be running out of the material, which it needs to feed its uranium enrichment program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
San Francisco's famous sea lions have vanished
12-29-2009
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AP
Last month there were 1,500 sea lions on San Francisco's fabled Pier 39, a record number that delighted tourists and baffled experts. Why so many? Why were they sticking around? Now, all the sea lions are gone, leaving the experts guessing where they
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Savannah's Biscuit Police arrest Dangerous Criminal in Undercover Sting!
12-29-09
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www.LCLReport.com
In Savannah Georgia a snitch/competior uses the favor of the police force to set up an undercover sting on a delivery service. Over 5 police officers detain a man for delivering biscuits and gravy. You got to hear this story!
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Healthcare
A Prescription for the Goose…
The Coburn amendment would force members of Congress to use ObamaCare
07-16-2009
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The Wall Street Journal
Senator Tom Coburn is a physician who until recently still went home to Oklahoma to deliver babies. He believes Congress should weigh the dangers of a nationalized health system much more seriously than it has. In the tradition of someone using a 2x4
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cesar rosaortega
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News Link • Constitution
Health Insurance and Enumerated Powers: Congress claims the healthcare bill is Constitutional. Do yo
12-29-2009
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James Leroy Wilson
From Downsizer Dispatch
The Enumerated Powers Act (EPA) requires that every bill must specify its source of Constitutional authority. This would prove very embarrassing to Congress, because there is no Constitutional authority for most of what the
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Funniest Commercials of 2009: In a Sea of Lackluster, 2 TV Ad Campaigns Blow Competition Away
12-29-2009
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Ginn
In a sea of bland, lackluster commercials, two ad campaigns, an eccentric, intriguing, adventurous older man and a Scotsman wielding a dipstick won hands down as the funniest commercials of 2009.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Iran
Video Of Iran Protesters Saving Prisoners From Getting Hanged
12-29-2009
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The Business Insider
When you see footage such as this, with anti-regime Iranian protesters losing any concern about their own safety, it's hard to imagine the current leadership hanging on. Brutal footage of protesters saving 2 men who were being hanged.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Deadliest place on Earth? Surviving The Giant Crystal Cave
12-29-2009
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The Iron Ammonite
MUST SEE! It's 122 degrees F and has a humidity of 100%, less than a hundred people have been inside and it's so deadly that even with respirators and suits of ice you can only survive for 20 minutes before your body starts to fail. It’s the nearest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Programmer Conned CIA, Pentagon Into Buying Bogus Anti-Terror Code
12-29-2009
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Wired
A programmer who claims he produced software that detected hidden terrorist messages in Al Jazeera broadcasts was apparently responsible for a false alert in 2003 that grounded international flights. The 2003 incident raised the government’s security
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
California police demand helpless targets
12-29-2009
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St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner
This month, a CA appeals court overturned a state law banning violent felons' possession of body armor. As might be expected, CA police are not pleased by the ruling. The president of the union representing LAPD officers is among those voicing that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
280-Million-Year-Old Reptiles' Last Meal Preserved
12-29-2009
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Discovery News
Scientists found insect parts stuck between the teeth of 2 Paleozoic reptiles. Strongly suggests the pre-Dinosaur Era equivalent of today's lizards feasted on insects, and it's the first known evidence for this behavior among vertebrates. The prehist
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Ponzi scheme collapses nearly quadrupled in ’09
12-29-2009
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AP
It was a rough year for Ponzi schemes. In 2009, the recession unraveled 4 times as many of the investment scams as fell apart in 2008, with "Ponzi" becoming a buzzword again, thanks to the collapse of Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion plot.
Tens of tho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV
12-29-2009
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AP
For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer. The business model is unraveling at ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Maricopa County supervisors to establish disclosure rules
12-29-2009
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Arizona Republic
Maricopa Co. Board of Supervisors resolved to establish financial disclosure rules for county officials, partly to comply with a judge's order. In fact, the Board has voted to do so already - in 1974, 1984 and 1994 - but never did so in a manner that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Standoff over US base closure sours US-Japan ties
12-29-2009
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AP
When the US took over a Japanese airfield here in the closing days of World War II, it was surrounded by sugarcane fields. Now it is the focus of a deepening dispute that is testing Japan’s security alliance with the US and dividing its new governmen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Phone points illegal border crossers to water
12-29-2009
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AP
The Transborder Immigrant Tool is part technology endeavor, part art project. It introduces a high-tech twist to an old debate about how far activists can go to prevent migrants from dying on the border without breaking the law.
Immigration hardli
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Key security agencies lack permanent leaders
12-29-2009
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AP
2 federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top leaders for nearly a year. It took the Obama administration more than 8 months to nominate anyone to lead the Transportation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran's Growing Revolution
12-29-2009
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arclein
This movement has grown exponentially in a very short period of time. Although only beginning in June over allegations of voter fraud, the movement is now endorsed by millions of combative Iranians, demanding “death to the dictator,” while they waiv
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Frozen in Time
12-29-2009
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arclein
There are facts and data that are ignored in the maelstrom of social and economic agendas swirling about Copenhagen.
Greenhouse gases and their effects are well-known. Here are some of things we know:
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Exponential Money
12-29-2009
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arclein
It is this: Our monetary system must continually expand, forever.
The US/world monetary system was designed and implemented at a time when the earth’s resources seemed limitless, so few gave much critical thought to the implications that every singl
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robert klein
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News Link • Gun Rights
Birther Attorney Orly Taitz: Time to Start Rallies Using 2nd Amendment Right to ‘Bare’ Arms
12-28-2009
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Ginn
We agree with noted Birther attorney Orly Taitz on the right for Americans to view Obama's original birth certificate. BUT, as far as the 2nd Amendment goes, someone should inform Dr. Taitz that Americans already have the right to “bare arms. Her lat
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Randy Ricochet
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