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Date Sent: 2009-11-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for November 28, 2009 Saturday edition |
Taliban Re-establishes Presence in Northern Province -- Dubai debt triggers investor panic
Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts --
German Army Chief Resigns Over Afghan Civilian Killings -- Even food
bank food will be GPS tracked and bar coded! -- 'Continental Congress'
Unveils 'Articles of Freedom' in St. Charles -- Has ClimateGate Changed
Obama's Global Warming Strategy? -- ClimateGate: 5 Aussie MPs resign in
disgust over carbon tax -- China, gold, and the civilization shift --
Former Russian soldiers ready to take on Blackwater in Iraq -- Dubai in
deep water as ripples from debt crisis spread
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taliban Slowly Re-establishes Presence in Northern Kunduz Province
11-27-2009
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Antiwar.com
The home of the rebel Northern Alliance that largely became the Afghan government after the 2001 US invasion, the region didn’t have a terribly strong Taliban presence to begin with. Now, however, they seem to be rapidly establishing themselves in th
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Dubai debt triggers investor panic
11-27-2009
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Al Jazeera
A debt default by the state-owned Dubai World has caused investors to sell off shares in Asian banks and raised fears of renewed financial turmoil.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran clerics start taking control of schools
11-28-2009
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AP
Islamic religious authorities have begun tightening their grip on Iranian public schools as hard-liners expand an ideological "soft war" against Western influence. Appears to be part of a wider drive to counter opposition groups and other pro-reform
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Jerry Brown vs. ACORN
11-28-2009
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Orange County Register
It might sound little cliché, but ACORN is the gift of controversy that keeps on giving. This time the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is putting Jerry Brown, California's attorney general and likely gubernatorial candidate, in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
CA AG Offers Incoherent, Troubling Answers When Asked About ACORN Doc Dump
11-28-2009
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Big Government
The day after Big Government broke the story revealing tens of thousands of documents containing sensitive material had been unceremoniously dumped in a trash bin behind the San Diego ACORN office, Attorney General Jerry Brown appeared on Talk Radio
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran seizes rights lawyer's Nobel Peace medal
11-28-2009
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AP
Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.
In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts
11-28-2009
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NY Times
The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Yes, You Owe That Tax
11-28-2009
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NY Times Editorial Board
New York’s Legislature made the right decision in 2008 when it passed a law requiring Amazon.com and other Internet retailers to collect taxes on sales to New York customers. Amazon challenged the law in a lower court, and lost in January. A New York
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Lobbyists pushed off advisory panels
11-28-2009
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Washington Post
Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobby
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
The $698,000 mistake (repeats)
11-28-2009
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Washington Post
... how a woman who had never paid more than $700 a month in rent and who had relied in recent years on Section 8 housing vouchers suddenly owned a house. A four-bedroom house with 3 1/2 bathrooms, walk-in closets, black granite countertops and a fir
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Recession sends older Americans to food pantries
11-28-2009
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AP
Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Food Banks Report Surge in First Timers
11-28-2009
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AP
A surge in first time visitors has contributed to the greatest demand in years at food banks nationwide, according to Feeding America, a Chicago-based national food bank association. Many of the first timers were middle class but lost jobs or had the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Faking Gold Bars (Publisher: Very informative article)
11-28-2009
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arclein
After reading that gold and tungsten has the same density, I cracked open my handy copy of ‘The Practicing Scientist’s Handbook (1978)’ and got the exact values. The density of gold is 19.32 g/cc and the density for tungsten is 19.3. Ouch! The diff
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robert klein
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News Link • WAR: About that War
German Army Chief Resigns Over Afghan Civilian Killings
11-27-2009
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Antiwar.com
Wolfgang Schneiderhan has formally asked to be relieved of duty today following the release of images from the US warplane involved in the September Kunduz air strike showed that German officials were lying about situation leading up to the attack.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
Woody Norris invents amazing things
11-27-2009
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TED Talks
About Woody Norris - Woody Norris is a serial inventor of electronics, tools and cutting-edge sonic equipment -- such as the LRAD acoustic cannon. Full bio and more links
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Even food bank food will be GPS tracked and bar coded! You will not be able to buy, sell, or receive
11/27/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
SEATTLE â€" Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sheriff Mack on Duties of a Constitutional Sheriff
11-16-2009
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youtube
Freedom Festival 1 was held in Post Falls, ID on Veterans Day (11/11/09) with the headline speaker being Sheriff Richard Mack, former Graham County sheriff who successfully sued the federal government for attempting to use his office to enforce the u
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Continental Congress 2009
'Continental Congress' Unveils 'Articles of Freedom' in St. Charles
11-27-2009
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Chicago Daily Herald
Any time I saw Media present on the delegation floor, I went and introduced myself, thanked them for attending, and answered questions. Thanks for the quote, Mr. Hitzeman!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Events: America
Committees of Safety is hosting Boston Tea Party 12-12-09
12-12-2009
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Walter Reddy
Join us in Boston 12-12-09 at Faneiul Hall again. Dr.Edwin Vieira, NH State Rep. Dan Itse, John McManus, more....
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Walter Reddy
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tiger Woods Injured In Crash Outside Home
11-27-2009
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WESH TV2 NBC
WESH 2 News has learned that golfer Tiger Woods was injured when he hit a fire hydrant and then a tree outside his Isleworth home early on Friday morning.
The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods was injured in the crash, which took place at about 2:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link •
Violent anti-communist protests after election in Moldova
11-27-2009
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youtube
This is what happens when the government rigs and election in favor of totalitarianism, the people too it back.
The tiny republic of Moldova erupted in violence today as anti-communist demonstrators stormed the parliament in protest at what they
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Obama Administration
Joe Klein on Obama's Missteps
11-27-2009
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arclein
There is a reason for that. Democrats come to office eager to govern the heck out of the country. They take on impossible issues, like budget-balancing and health care reform. They run into roadblocks â€" from their own unruly ranks as well as from Rep
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Has ClimateGate Changed Obama's Global Warming Strategy?
11-26-2009
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newsbusters.com
Has the emerging international ClimateGate scandal changed President Obama's global warming strategy?
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • History
Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe
11-27-2009
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TED Talks
Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be a
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Solar Airplane a Step Closer
11-27-2009
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Technology Review
Solar Impulse's HB-SIA, which was finished this past summer, taxied down a runway using power from the 11,000 solar cells covering its wings and did a series of acceleration and braking tests. The next test will be revving up the plane to its 35km/ho
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Origami Solar Cells
11-27-2009
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Technology Review
Researchers at the University of Illinois have now come up with self-assembling spherical solar cells capable of capturing more sunlight than flat ones.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax
11-27-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
Today on LewRockwell.com - November 27th 2009
11-27-2009
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LewRockwell.com
The Day the Dollar Died (important read) - Decentralization and Operational Secession - The Price of Gold Will Double - The Goldman Sachs Disease Is Spreading - The Official CIA Manual of Deception
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Yokohama replaces petroleum in tires with orange peel oil
11-27-2009
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Natural News
The Super E-spec tire is made from vulcanized rubber just like other tires replacing 80 percent of its petroleum use with orange oil. They get the orange peels from an orange juice factory next door.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Economy - International
China, gold, and the civilization shift
11-27-2009
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Stephen Jen from the hedge fund Blue Gold Capital has a warning for those who think that gold has risen far too high, is necessarily in a speculative bubble, and must soon come clattering back down.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Dubai in deep water as ripples from debt crisis spread
11-27-2009
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk
Fears of a dangerous new phase in the economic crisis swept around the globe yesterday as traders responded to the shock announcement that a debt-laden Dubai state corporation was unable to meet its interest bill.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Former Russian soldiers ready to take on Blackwater in Iraq
11-27-2009
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Russian Times
A group of former Russian soldiers is involved in an intense military training program in preparation for Iraq. They believe they can compete with their British and American counterparts by adopting a unique approach.
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