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Date Sent: 2011-01-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 21, 2011 |
Va. teen detained in Kuwait is set to return to U.S. -- Blackwater founder trains Somalis
Afghan parliament to defy Karzai's postponement order -- New Yorker's Hersh sparks anger, puzzlement with remarks on military 'crusaders' -- House GOP group proposes deep spending cuts over next decade -- Tunisia sets three-day mourning for protest victims -- Obama to run re-election effort out of Chicago -- Backpack Bomb Found At MLK Event Rattles Spokane -- Google co-founder Page to replace Schmidt as CEO -- Home sales hit 13-year low; slow recovery ahead -- Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens -- Ron Paul - Perpetual War is Expensive! --
4409: WalletVoting: How to vote with a Silver Bullet -- The Decade of
9/11: Critics of ramped-up security wonder where it will end -- Arthur C. Clarke's 'elevator to space' may be reality by 2020 -- No shift for US gun control after Tucson shooting -- British PM demands release of Blair’s secret letters to Bush on Iraq war -- Spain to Ramp Up Bailout of Banks -- Japan hits ‘critical point’ on state debt -- Brazil central bank raises interest rate to 11.25%
-- Expert says gasoline should be at 50 cents a gallon now -- China:
U.S. No. 1 no more -- Hu reaches out to US businesses with China ties
-- Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi- "Guns and Weed: The Road to Freedom"
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News Link • TERRORISM
Va. teen detained in Kuwait is set to return to U.S.
01-20-2011
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Washington Post
Civil liberties groups allege that Mohamed's case is part of a pattern in which American citizens are barred from flying to the United States so they can be [beaten by foreign police and then] questioned overseas by U.S. agents without counsel.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Blackwater founder trains Somalis
01-20-2011
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AP
Erik Prince, whose former company Blackwater Worldwide became synonymous with the use of private U.S. security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has quietly taken on a new role in helping to train troops in lawless Somalia.
Prince is involved in a m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan parliament to defy Karzai's postponement order
01-20-2011
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Washington Post
The new Afghan parliament decided Thursday to convene as planned at the start of next week, in a defiant response to President Hamid Karzai ordering the opening session postponed by a month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
New Yorker's Hersh sparks anger, puzzlement with remarks on military 'crusaders'
01-20-2011
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Washington Post
Neoconservative advisers to President Bush took the attitude that " 'we're gonna change mosques into cathedrals,' " Hersh, a writer for the New Yorker magazine, said. "That's an attitude that pervades, I'm here to say, a large percentage of the Joint
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House GOP group proposes deep spending cuts over next decade
01-20-2011
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Washington Post
Congressional conservatives on Thursday demanded far more dramatic reductions in government spending than House GOP leaders have recently proposed, in the first sign of a fissure between old-guard Republicans and tea-party-backed newcomers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
It's a girl! ... pterodactyl, that is
01-20-2011
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Washington Post
Paleontologists quickly noticed a broken wing - and an egg nestled next to the animal's tail. The scientists are announcing her as the first prehistoric flier to be assigned a sex.
She provides vital clues to the mating habits of the creatures that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Tunisia sets three-day mourning for protest victims
01-20-2011
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Reuters
Tunisia observes 3 days of national mourning from Friday for the dozens of people killed during protests before and after the ouster of former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, state television said. Schools and universities, closed since last week,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama to run re-election effort out of Chicago
01-20-2011
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Washington Post
President Obama will run his re-election effort out of Chicago, senior officials said Thursday, a move that will split his top political advisers between his hometown and Washington.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Backpack Bomb Found At MLK Event Rattles Spokane
01-20-2011
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AP
FBI agents are checking a bombing attempt at a Martin Luther King Day parade where a backpack filled with sophisticated explosives was placed near the marchers' route. The bomb had a remote detonator and the ability to cause mass casualties
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google co-founder Page to replace Schmidt as CEO
01-20-2011
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AP
Eric Schmidt, a technology veteran brought in as Google Inc.'s "adult supervision" a decade ago, is relinquishing the CEO job to Larry Page, one of the prodigies who co-founded the company behind the Internet's dominant gateway.
The surprise shake
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Home sales hit 13-year low; slow recovery ahead
01-20-2011
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apnews.myway.com
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people who bought previously owned homes last year fell to the lowest level in 13 years, and economists say it will be years before the housing market fully recovers.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens
01-20-2011
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New York Times
Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA and sex in space
01-20-2011
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Terrence Aym
The USA's prestigious space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, loves to talk about nuts and bolts, engineering, space exploration and the life humans may discover "out there." The space agency is even willing to discuss shu
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
The Decade of 9/11: Critics of ramped-up security wonder where it will end
01-20-2011
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Jesse McLean
Stephanie DiGiuseppe may be one of the luckier travellers to pass through airport security in recent years.
The 25-year-old Toronto woman has no horror stories involving pat-downs or the soon-to-be ubiquitous full-body scanners. In fact, she can’t
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Arthur C. Clarke's 'elevator to space' may be reality by 2020
01-20-2011
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Terrence Aym
World famous science fiction writer and futurist, the late Sir Arthur C. Clarke once penned a novel, "The Fountains of Paradise" that featured an amazing technology called an orbital tower that's basically an elevator to space. According to A. Sen
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Gun Rights
No shift for US gun control after Tucson shooting
01-20-2011
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RawStory.com
WASHINGTON " There has been no major shift in US public opinion about the role of guns in America after the shooting of a US member of congress in Arizona, according to a poll out Wednesday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
British PM demands release of Blair’s secret letters to Bush on Iraq war
01-20-2011
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RawStory.com
Amid an inquiry into the 2003 military invasion of Iraq, David Cameron, the sitting British Prime Minister, called for public pressure on former Prime Minister Tony Blair over his refusal to release letters sent to US President George W. Bush in the
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain to Ramp Up Bailout of Banks
01-20-2011
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online.wsj.com
Spain plans to pour billions more euros into its troubled savings banks and force them to be more open about their lending practices, people familiar with the matter said, an acknowledgment that previous efforts to fix the banks have fallen flat as t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan hits ‘critical point’ on state debt
01-20-2011
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FT.com
Japan has hit a “critical point” where it risks losing investor confidence if politicians fail to reach agreement on how to rein in the ballooning national debt, a cabinet minister has warned.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Brazil central bank raises interest rate to 11.25%
01-20-2011
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breitbart.com
..., amid fears that inflation was getting out of hand. The move, though, adds to upward pressure on Brazil's currency, the real, whose soaring value against the dollar has already become problematic for the country's exporters.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday Jan 20th
01-20-2011
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LewRockwell.com
A Food Freedom Revolution - Living Off the Grid…in Suburbia? - 'Vitriolic Rhetoric' - Military Dopers, Bob Wenzel on the US's zombie armies
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Expert says gasoline should be at 50 cents a gallon now
01-20-2011
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Terrence Aym
Robert Pretcher is disgusted. The Yale University graduate, New York Times bestselling author, and top market guru has proclaimed, "Oil should fall to between $4 and $10 a barrel based on a technical analysis called Elliott Wave principle." The Ell
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Expert opinions exonerate literature of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia
01-19-2011
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www.jw-media.org
NOVOURALSK, Russia"After court-appointed experts who examined several publications of Jehovah’s Witnesses presented their findings, the Novouralsk City Court on December 30, 2010, accepted the prosecutor’s withdrawal of a claim to have the publicatio
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Mike Burgin
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hu reaches out to US businesses with China ties
01-20-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Chinese President Hu Jintao sought Thursday to assure U.S. business executives with ties to China that his country is not a military threat to the United States but an economic partner ready to help lead the world to full recovery from the deepest fi
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Sierra Hancock
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