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Date Sent: 2009-11-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, November 6, 2009 AM edition |
Army: 12 die in dual shootings at Fort Hood, Texas -- Fannie Mae to rent out homes instead foreclosi
US job market grim despite improving signals -- Flu shots for Wall Street stirs ire in New York -- IAEA found nothing serious at Iran site: ElBaradei -- Protesters Arrested at Lieberman's Office -- Denied The God-Given Right To Vote Just Because You Hate Computers -- Taxpayers risked trillions at height of crisis -- Senate rejects effort to block civilian trials for 9/11 suspects -- Reserve Bank of India’s Gold Purchase From the IMF -- Violent Promotion of Incompetence - by Brock Lorber -- Carbon Traders Deny That a Speculative Crisis is Brewing --Spiritual Women Have More Sex
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News Link • Military
Army: 12 die in dual shootings at Fort Hood, Texas
11-05-2009
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AP
A military mental health doctor, Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post, setting off on a rampage that killed 11 other people and left 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and the violence was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Fannie Mae to rent out homes instead foreclosing
11-05-2009
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AP
Thousands of borrowers on the verge of foreclosure will soon have the option of renting their homes from Fannie Mae, under a policy announced Thursday.
The government-controlled company, through its new "Deed for Lease" program, will allow borrowe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
US job market grim despite improving signals
11-05-2009
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AFP
US jobless insurance claims are trending lower from a March peak, official data confirmed Thursday, but unemployment within a fraction of 10 percent challenges recovery from recession.
A pair of Labor Department reports highlighted the grim condit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Deep Space Objects Guide Earth's GPS System
11-05-2009
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Space
That global positioning system (GPS) that guides your car and keeps you on the map is itself guided by the positions of some of the brightest, strangest objects in the universe " quasars.
GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in GPS navigators
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Device Like 'Star Trek' Replicator Might Fly on Space Station
11-05-2009
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Space
Space explorers have yet to get their hands on the replicator of "Star Trek" to create anything they might require. But NASA has developed a technology that could enable lunar colonists to carry out on-site manufacturing on the moon, or allow future
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Flu shots for Wall Street stirs ire in New York
11-05-2009
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Reuter
New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves in the wake of media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through their employers.
Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. C
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
IAEA found nothing serious at Iran site: ElBaradei
11-05-2009
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Reuters
U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday.
Mohamed ElBaradei also told the New Yo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's future
11-05-2009
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TED
Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Protesters Arrested at Lieberman's Office
11-05-2009
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ABC
Protesters were arrested, one by one, and dragged out of his office amid chants of "Everyone in and noone out, universal healthcare now!" and "Represent Connecticut, not AETNA!"
The whole affair, from occupation to final arrest, lasted 40 minutes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
You Call This Progress? Denied The God-Given Right To Vote Just Because You Hate Computers
11-05-2009
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Houston Press
What do you do if you want to vote today but have a fervent opposition to using a computer?
You get screwed, that's what.
Rad Rich, who pretty much founded the punk scene in town in many ways, went to vote today. He then concisely described his
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Lakshmi Pratury on letter-writing
11-05-2009
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TED
Lakshmi Pratury remembers the lost art of letter-writing and shares a series of notes her father wrote to her before he died. Her short but heartfelt talk may inspire you to set pen to paper, too.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
The Mountains That Froze the World
11-05-2009
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ScienceNOW
The rise of the Appalachians plunged Earth into an ice age so severe that it drove nearly two-thirds of all living species extinct. That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that the mountains' rocks absorbed enough greenhouse gas to freeze t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
11-05-2009
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TED
This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Taxpayers risked trillions at height of crisis
11-05-2009
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AP
Government officials put trillions of taxpayer dollars on the line to guarantee risky bank assets " a strategy that could cause permanent and costly market distortions, a government watchdog says. At the peak of the financial crisis, taxpayer money g
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Heads for Strongest Weekly Gain in a Month as Dollar Drops
11-05-2009
“The preference for gold continues as the global recovery gathers momentum and as the dollar stays out of favor,” said Yu Kyung Kyu, a trader with Eugene Investment & Futures Co. in Seoul. “Still, we may witness market players reluctant to go too agg
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gene therapy beats back brain wasting disease: study
11-05-2009
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A breakthrough mix of stem cell and gene therapy halted a lethal brain-wasting illness in two young boys, and could prove effective against other genetic disorders, researchers reported Thursday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Asia stocks fall amid skepticism over US bank plan
2-10-2009
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AP
Asian stock markets dropped Wednesday, following a steep sell-off on Wall Street overnight, as investors reacted with skepticism to the US government's latest plan to heal the country's ailing banking industry.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Senate rejects effort to block civilian trials for 9/11 suspects
11-05-2009
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Politics AP
Senate's 54-45 vote to reject the measure by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., opens the door for President Obama to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to trial in federal courts, rather than the mil
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Reserve Bank of India’s Gold Purchase From the IMF
11-05-2009
"The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has concluded the purchase of 200 metric tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under the IMF’s limited gold sales programme. This was done as part of the Reserve Bank’s foreign exchange reserves m
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News Link • Military
Gunman kills 12, wounds 31 at Fort Hood - (Army psychiatrist identified as attacker)
11-05-2009
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MSNBC
An Army psychiatrist who opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others, was shot but captured alive, military officials said late Thursday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Self-Governance Works
11-05-2009
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The Atlasphere
John Stossel points out that even as the nanny state grows larger, the spirit of the Enlightenment and Adam Smith still burn brightly. Can a living Nobel laureate shine the light of truth on a dark economic time?
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Philosophy: Objectivism
The Berlin Wall Then and Now
11-05-2009
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The Atlas Society
In addition to being a moral obscenity, the moral philosophy on which the Berlin Wall was built lives on and threatens us still, this time in the form of our own politicians.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • New World Order
Carbon Traders Deny That a Speculative Crisis is Brewing
11-05-2009
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UK Telegraph
This could “provoke a global financial failure similar in scale and nature to that brought about by the recent sub-prime mortgage crisis”
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Spirituality
Spiritual Women Have More Sex
11-05-2009
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Sally Law
Is it sexy to be spiritual? New research has found that spirituality has a greater effect on the sex lives of young adults " especially women " than religion, impulsivity, or alcohol.
“I think people have been well aware of the role that religious
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Geography
Evolution in the Deepest River in the World
11-05-2009
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Smithsonian magazine
Gardiner pulls up a graph profiling the river’s bed. It looks like a U"as smooth as a mountain valley. The current just beneath the surface is traveling at 30 miles per hour, and the channel is 640 feet deep. "That’s the deepest point measured on a r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-head of NY police pleads guilty to corruption
11-05-2009
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Reuters
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to White House officials and tax evasion charges in a deal that could send him to prison for almost three years.
Kerik, who as head of the police department
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