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Date Sent: 2010-08-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 20, 2010 |
US Assures Israel That Iran Threat Is Not Imminent -- BP Settlements Likely to Shield Top Defendants
US 'Combat Troops' Exit Iraq: 'What Noble Cause?' -- 'Ground Zero mosque': New Yorkers take dim view of rabble-rousing outsiders -- Fidelity: 401(k) Hardship Withdrawals, Loans Up
-- Webcam Spying School District Cleared of Criminal Charges -- Mexican
president raises possibility of anonymous judges in drug trafficking
cases -- 194 Days to Largest Tax Increase In History --
Press Conference Regarding Candidate Withdrawals and in Support of
Ballot Access Reform -- Hired guns prove trouble for Karzai -- More Border Patrol Harassment at Internal Immigration Checkpoints
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Assures Israel That Iran Threat Is Not Imminent
08-19-2010
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NY Times
The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year " and perhaps longer " for Iran to complete what one senior official called a “dash” for a nuclear w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
BP Settlements Likely to Shield Top Defendants
08-19-2010
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NY Times
People and businesses seeking a lump-sum settlement from BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund will have to waive their right to sue not only BP, but also all the other major defendants involved with the spill, according to lawyers handling th
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. 'Combat Troops' Exit Iraq: 'What Noble Cause?'
08-19-2010
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Brad Blog
4,415 U.S. troops never came home from Iraq. At least not alive. Tens of thousands more have had their lives forever shattered due to permanent physical and emotional injury. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis were slaughtered and maimed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
'Ground Zero mosque': New Yorkers take dim view of rabble-rousing outsiders
08-19-2010
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Washington Post
Mohammed, like many other New Yorkers, has reached his saturation point. "They got nothing to do with New York and they don't care about New York," said the 56-year-old from Brooklyn. "They are trying to create propaganda."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fidelity: 401(k) Hardship Withdrawals, Loans Up
08-19-2010
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AP
In the wake of news about a spike in new applications for unemployment benefits comes another potentially troubling sign: A record number of workers made hardship withdrawals from their retirement accounts in the second quarter.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Webcam Spying School District Cleared of Criminal Charges - What? You were expecting something else?
08-19-2010
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via gizmodo.com
Remember Lower Merion School District, the elite Philadelphia school system that was caught spying on its students through the webcams on their mandatory, school-issued MacBooks? Federal prosecutors aren't filing criminal charges. But don't worry,
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Reported by:
Andre Campos
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News Link • Mexico
Mexican president raises possibility of anonymous judges in drug trafficking cases
08-19-2010
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AP
President Felipe Calderon said Mexico should consider appointing anonymous judges for drug trafficking trials, an unexpected proposal that he acknowledged contradicts the country's efforts to build a more open judicial system.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Reanimated ‘Junk’ DNA Is Found to Cause Disease
08-19-2010
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NY Times
The disease, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, known as FSHD, is one of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy. It was known to be inherited in a simple pattern. But before this paper, its cause was poorly understood.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
On War: Last American combat brigade leaves Iraq - a Photo Gallery
08-18-2010
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Denver Post
The military presence is far from over. Scatterings of combat troops still await departure, and some 50,000 will stay another year in what is designated as a noncombat role. They will carry weapons to defend themselves and accompany Iraqi troops on m
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
194 Days to Largest Tax Increase In History.
8/19/10
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Money News
Dumping Bush Tax Cuts May Bring Depression.
Many economists are worried about the possibility of a double-dip recession, but former Bank of England official David Blanchflower thinks it could be much worse than that if the Bush tax cuts aren’t exten
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Political Parties
Press Conference Regarding Candidate Withdrawals and in Support of Ballot Access Reform
08-19-2010
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Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania
Candidates, non-partisan citizen organizations, alternative party officials, and Senator Mike Folmer will join in a press conference regarding ballot access and the impact to the electoral process in Pennsylvania with be held at the Capitol Rotunda i
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Hired guns prove trouble for Karzai
08-18-2010
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Evan Hill
Hired guns have proved to be a headache for Karzai, killing and wounding civilians and exercising prince-like control over supply lines, in the process making the Afghan government appear as a sideshow in the provision of development and stability to
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Food
Urban Gardening: How to Build a Raised Bed and Hoop House
08-19-2010
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SMCC
City farming with rotated animal cages over raised vegetable beds. Full instructions!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Activism
Homemade Ethanol " This is Doable!
08-19-2010
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Farm Wars
We can wean ourselves from gasoline and strangle the likes of BP et. al., by becoming self-sufficient and making our own ethanol! This is doable!
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate Price Index Declines 4 Percent in June
08-19-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Moody's reported (via Bloomberg) today that the Moody’s/REAL All Property Type Aggregate Index declined 4% in June. This is a repeat sales measure of commercial real estate prices.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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