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Date Sent: 2010-12-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 23, 2010 AM edition |
Best News of all: The 111th CONgress has ended -- Senate ratifies START nuke treaty
Congress passes aid package for 9/11 responders -- Congress keeps government running another 10 weeks -- Alabama Town’s Failed Pension Is a Warning --
Emperor coming to inspect his lands; peasants get back to work! --
Shock: Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson favors marijuana
legalization -- Warrantless-Wiretap Win Nets Victims a Paltry $40K --
Fossil Finger DNA Points to New Type of Human -- What’s Inside the New
Nuke Arms Treaty -- Google Buys Giant New York Building for $1.9
Billion -- BEWARE: The Real Terrorists are Upping Their Chatter -- When the gold market tops… -- Soon you'll need Feds permission to get or keep your private sector job -- Belarus Update: Things Heat Up. Ready for another European Civil War? -- GOA's Take: ATF's New Border Long-Gun Rules Unconstitutional -- US Announces Yet More Iran Sanctions -- Fluoride in Water Linked
to Lower IQ in Children -- The Navy's Next-Gen Electromagnetic Catapult
System Hurls its First Planes Skyward -- Undermining China's Monopoly on Rare Earth Elements -- Killer Drones
Converge on California, Ready to Take Off -- Newspaper Lawsuit Factory
Sues Over ‘Death Ray’ Image -- Government to Control the 'Net – Good
Luck With That! -- End of Military-Industrial Hegemony?
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Newspaper Lawsuit Factory Sues Over ‘Death Ray’ Image
12-22-2010
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wired.com
Righthaven, the Las Vegas copyright troll formed this spring, has moved beyond lawsuits over newspaper articles and begun targeting websites for the unauthorized reposting of images.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Best News of all: The 111th CONgress has ended
12-23-2010
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Washington Post
The House and Senate adjourned for the year on Wednesday evening, closing a two-year term that holds the odd distinction of being both historically busy and epically unpopular.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Senate ratifies START nuke pact, delivering win to Obama
12-23-2010
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AP
The Senate on Wednesday ratified an arms control treaty with Russia that reins in the nuclear weapons that could plunge the world into doomsday, giving President Barack Obama a major foreign policy win in Congress' waning hours.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
What’s Inside the New Nuke Arms Treaty
12-22-2010
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Wired
...looking like it’ll pass the Senate after all, possibly as early as Wednesday. The only thing that everyone’s overlooked in the past several months’ political theater over the treaty is what it actually does " and doesn’t do. So we’re here to help.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Congress passes aid package for 9/11 responders
12-23-2010
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AP
After a last-minute compromise [pork], Congress passed legislation to provide up to $4.2 billion in new aid to survivors of the September 2001 terrorism attack on the World Trade Center and responders who became ill working in its ruins.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress keeps government running another 10 weeks
12-23-2010
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AFP
The US Congress approved a temporary spending bill that will fund the federal government for another 10 weeks through March 4 in order to avoid a government shutdown.
The Senate adopted the stopgap measure 79-16 followed by the House of Representa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alabama Town’s Failed Pension Is a Warning
12-23-2010
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NY Times
This struggling small city on the outskirts of Mobile was warned for years that if it did nothing, its pension fund would run out of money by 2009. Right on schedule, its fund ran dry. Then Prichard did something that pension experts say they have ne
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Emperor coming to inspect his lands; peasants get back to work!
12-23-2010
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Washington Post
Chinese President Hu Jintao's (hoo jin-tow) official state visit to the US will take place Jan. 19.
The White House says Hu's visit will "highlight the importance of expanding cooperation between the United States and China."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Zealand government releases classified U.F.O/Alien files
12/23/2010
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the real news now
The BBC and Huffington Post are reporting that the New Zealand government has just released hundreds of classified files detailing reports and sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The reports span from 1954-2009.
The documents allegedl
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The Real News
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bill to empower whistleblowers dies in Senate
12-23-2010
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Washington Post
A bill giving federal employees expanded protections against retaliation for blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse died in Congress, after a 12-year lobbying effort won last-minute unanimous approval for it in the House but failed to gain sim
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Is Karl Rove Driving the Effort to Prosecute Julian Assange?
12/14/10
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Readers Supported News
On the hot seat for his apparent role in the political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, Rove sought comfort in Sweden. "When [Rove] was in trouble and did not want to testify on the three times he was invited [by the U.S. Congre
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Free Speech
WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name
12/22/10
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Readers Support
US spy agency forms taskforce to assess fallout from 250,000 leaked US cables.
Although the CIA has featured in some WikiLeaks disclosures, relatively little of its own information has entered the ether, the paper reported. A recently retired forme
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Drug War
Shock: Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson favors marijuana legalization
12-22-2010
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RawStory
Count this among the 10 things nobody ever expected to see in their lifetimes: 700 Club founder Pat Robertson, one of the cornerstone figures of America's Christian right movement, has come out in favor of legalizing marijuana.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Warrantless-Wiretap Win Nets Victims a Paltry $40K
12-22-2010
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Wired
A federal judge on Tuesday awarded $20,400 each to two American lawyers illegally wiretapped by the George W. Bush administration, and granted their counsel $2.5 million for the costs litigating the case for more than four years.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Anthropology
Fossil Finger DNA Points to New Type of Human
12-22-2010
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Wired
Continued study of an approximately 40,000 year old finger bone from Siberia has identified a previously unknown type of human " one that may have interbred with the ancestors of modern-day Melanesian people.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Google Buys Giant New York Building for $1.9 Billion
12-22-2010
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Wired
It’s tough to describe how massive 111 Eighth Avenue is " you really have to stand in front of it. But suffice it to say that it takes about 20 minutes to walk once around the building, which encompasses one of those very long city blocks found on th
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Down Argentine Way
12-22-2010
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LewRockwell.com
There are many ominous parallels between Argentina and the U.S. and the question often asked is can America avoid the economic consequences that Argentina suffered from a fascist government combined with government debt and currency collapse? I belie
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government
BEWARE: The Real Terrorists are Upping Their Chatter
12-22-2010
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infowars.com
Remember the buzzword chatter? When our criminal government kept the sheeple on the razor’s edge of fear because they’d say that chatter levels coming from Al-Qaeda were increasing?
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Precious Metals
When the gold market tops…
12-22-2010
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sovereignman.com
At this point, everyone will want to own gold, and the signs will change from “WE BUY GOLD” to “WE SELL GOLD”… and they’ll be everywhere.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Belarus Update: Things Heat Up. Ready for another European Civil War?
12-22-2010
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PitchforksAtTheGate.com
Opposition leaders arrested and severely beaten. Mass arrests. People held incommunicado. Coming Soon to a Country Near You.
PS: how can 500 government police agents control 5000 protesters? You let them........
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Andre Campos
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News Link • Obama Administration
GOA's Take: ATF's New Border Long-Gun Rules Unconstitutional
12-22-2010
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www.gunreports.com
he Obama administration just can’t stop blaming the Second Amendment for violence perpetrated by Mexican drug cartels, according to an email alert distributed by Gun Owners of America (GOA). From the GOA release:
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News Link • Military
The Navy's Next-Gen Electromagnetic Catapult System Hurls its First Planes Skyward
12-22-2010
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popsci.com
The official performance results aren’t available yet, but General Atomics confirmed this afternoon that it’s next-gen aircraft carrier launch system successfully launched an F/A-18E Super Hornet on Saturday
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News Link • Technology: Software
Nanotech Makes Single Molecule Glow, Showing New Promise For Tiny Optoelectronics
12-22-2010
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popsci.com
For the first time, scientists have observed a single molecule emitting light when sandwiched between broken segments of a carbon nanotube.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Engineers Build Radio Receiver Out Of Graphene
12-22-2010
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technologyreview.com
A nanotrampoline built out of graphene can directly detect radio frequency signals, paving the way for a new generation of radios
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News Link • China
Undermining China's Monopoly on Rare Earth Elements
12-22-2010
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technologyreview.com
Full operations will start at a U.S. mine by the end of next year.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Military
Killer Drones Converge on California, Ready to Take Off
12-22-2010
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wired.com
Manned jets continued to dominate, culminating in today’s mammoth, $300-billion F-35 program.
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