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Date Sent: 2011-01-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, January 18, 2011 AM edition |
News Link • Arizona's Top News
Gabrielle Giffords continues recovery while Arizona statute endangers hold on seat
01-17-2011
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Washington Post
A statute buried in state law says that if a public officeholder ceases to "discharge the duties of office for the period of three consecutive months," the office shall be deemed vacant, and that at such time, a special election could be called to fi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Man faces charges for defying TSA agents
01-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
A Seattle man’s trial in Albuquerque on charges of making trouble at an airport security checkpoint is getting attention from civil liberties groups all over the country.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Mexico
Parents of dead Mexican teenager sue U.S. government
01-17-2011
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Reuters
The parents of a Mexican teenager allegedly killed last year by a bullet fired by a U.S. Border Patrol agent across the Rio Grande river, on Monday sued the U.S. government for $25 million.
The U.S. Border Patrol says Sergio Hernandez Guereca, 15,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FDIC's new tools to close troubled banks offer opportunity, challenge
01-17-2011
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Washington Post
As director of the FDIC's new Office of Complex Financial Institutions, Wigand will be responsible for keeping an eye on some of the nation's largest and most complex financial firms and making sure the government is prepared to seize and liquidate t
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senators threaten currency bill ahead of Hu visit
01-17-2011
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Reuters
Beijing announced $600 million in deals with US companies, while senior US senators pressed for Congress to get tough with China over "manipulating" its currency, underlining tensions over trade on the eve of the Chinese President's arrival.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan's push to tax U.S. contractors could renew tensions
01-17-2011
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Washington Post
The Afghan government is ramping up efforts to tax U.S. contractors operating there - an effort that could raise millions for the cash-strapped government but could also provoke fresh confrontation with the United States, according to U.S. and Afghan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Federal government spends millions to help farmers to expand growing season
01-17-2011
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AP
The federal government has spent millions of dollars to help farmers nationwide buy greenhouse-like structures called high tunnels that can add valuable weeks and even months to their growing seasons by protecting produce from chilly temperatures.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ghailani’s Lawyers Detail Terror Defense Strategy
01-17-2011
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NY Times
The jury had been deliberating over four days in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani when it sent a note to the judge, asking how much the defendant needed to know about Al Qaeda’s conspiracies to bomb and kill in order to be convicted.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Filtered and bottled water consumption could increase tooth decay risk
01-17-2011
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Washington PostFiltered and bottled water consumpt
Little did I know that filtering my family's tap water might put our teeth at risk.
Two years ago, when I was pregnant and reporting on how the federal government was unwilling to regulate the rocket-fuel component perchlorate in drinking water, m
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News Link • Surveillance
Oklahoma: “Sniffin’ Dirt”…Snitching on your neighbor will keep us all safe!
01-18-11
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The PPJ Gazette
Homeland Security, that bastion of police state warriors has set up housekeeping in the once great state of Oklahoma. Their new website “Red Dirt Ready” would be more aptly titled “Sniffin’ Dirt”. The site, all plumped up with militant looking peop
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New study reveals top ten violence-inducing prescription drugs
01-17-2011
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Terrence Aym
For years many researchers have raised concerns and expressed doubts about some prescription drug's links to outbreaks of violence. While the association of many street drugs to violence, or violent tendencies, is established, not much research has
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • China
China moves troops into North Korea
01-17-2011
South Korea's daily newspaper is reporting that what Western analysts have feared has happened: Chinese troops have been deployed into North Korea. The Chinese now have a presence in the rogue state for the first time in more than 15 years. China ha
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now
01-17-2011
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TED Talks
Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
British military working on invisible war machines
01-17-2010
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Terrence Aym
If defense contractor BAE Systems has its way, within five years the entire British military will disappear. The soldiers and their equipment won't go away, the enemy will be unable to see them. The British military is gearing up for the next genera
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Organic or donkey " the great milk debate
01-17-2011
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www.guardian.co.uk
The arguments about which milk is best " semi-skimmed or full-fat " are old hat: now, the smart money is on organic donkey milk, apparently
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Today on LewRockwell.com
01-17-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Murder of Martin Luther King, How To Think Clearly, The 20-Year War on Iraq...etc
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News Link • How To
Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch
01-17-2011
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Ted.com
It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's frankly amazing he got as far as he got. A parable
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Bill Gates wants to register all new babies on the planet for vaccines
01-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Bill Gates is promoting a plan to use wireless technology to register every newborn on the planet in a vaccine database.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Mass Animal Deaths Continue: Hundreds Of Cows, Seals Found Dead
01-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Isolated cases or something more alarming?
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