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Date Sent: 2009-11-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for November 8, 2009 Sunday edition |
Landmark health bill passes House in dead of weekend night on close vote
The Eisenhower-Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Bush healthcare plan passes - by Craig
Cantoni -- Pro-Lifers Beginning to Realize Stupak Amendment Worthless
-- Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show: the Dollar, Copenhagen, and the Cyber Security Act -- Judge Napolitano: Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes -- I'm doing 'God's work': Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs -- Burt Rutan sees the future of space -- Lousy Jobs, In Such Small Portions - by Peter Schiff -- When the Dollar Rallies, the Market Will Crash -- Seattle Team Wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Contest -- Mind control with sound and light -- The Secret Message of Stimulus Spending -- Was Major Hasan A "Jolly" Man? - by Dave Hodges -- Ron & Rand w/ Judge Napolitano on Third Parties -- Hillary Clinton Accepts US Blame for 'Global Warming'
This FreedomSummit will Rock the Planet - Dec. 4th-6th 2009
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News Link • Healthcare
Landmark health bill passes House in dead of weekend night on close vote
11-08-2009
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McClatchy News
The House of Representatives Saturday passed, by a vote of 220 to 215, historic health care legislation that would require virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance and create a government-run health insurance plan to help them do so.
If
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Pro-Lifers Beginning to Realize Stupak Amendment Worthless
11-08-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Pro-Lifers are having second thoughts about how valuable getting the Stupak Amendment passed was. There's nothing to keep the pro-life amendment in any bill which emerges from a conference committee.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Men Fear Testicle Attack on Streets of British Columbia Town, Police Seek Serial Groin Kicker
11-08-2009
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Ginn
Authorities are on the lookout for a woman accused of several “testicle” attacks on the streets of Langley, British Columbia.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show: the Dollar, Copenhagen, and the Cyber Security Act
11-08-2009
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Infowars.com
Alex welcomes back to the show physician, member of the Liberty Caucus and Republican Congressman for the state of Texas Ron Paul.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Healthcare
Judge Napolitano: Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes
11-08-2009
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FOXNews.com
If this health care bill becomes law, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, privacy as you have enjoyed it, will cease to be.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Political Parties
A New Third Party Coming, Before 2010 (correction 2012)
11-08-2009
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Lew Rockwell.com
As Celente predicts " watch for the formation of an angry Progressive / Libertarian third party before the mid-term elections in 2010 and I'll be an active participant."
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
I'm doing 'God's work': Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs
11-08-2009
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Times of London
Blankfein understands that "people are pissed off, mad, and bent out of shape" at bankers’ actions. "I know I could slit my wrists and people would cheer," he says.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
1954 8th Grade Civics Test: Would You Pass?
11-08-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Who's smarter than a 1954 8th-grader? This sample civics test from 1954 illustrates how far and low our education system has fallen. How well would you do?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • History
Nasca Collapse
11-08-2009
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arclein
The civilization disappeared mysteriously around 1,500 years ago, after apparently prospering during the first half of the first millennium A.D. in the valleys of south coastal Peru. Scientists have previously suggested a massive El Niño event disrup
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Rifting Africa
11-08-2009
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arclein
A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical
Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a sea is in th
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robert klein
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News Link • Surveillance
No Knock Warrant from the Air?
11-03-09
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Gmoney
The stated mission of the Office of CBP Air and Marine is to protect the American people and critical infrastructure by using an integrated and coordinated air and marine force to detect, interdict, and prevent acts of terrorism arising from unlawful
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G Money
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Burt Rutan sees the future of space
11-07-2009
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TED Talks
In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough
11-07-2009
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Technology Review
A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market, and now it has the funding it needs to prove it.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Was Fort Hood Killer On Psychotropic Drugs?
11-07-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
In almost every major mass shooting over the past two decades, since anti-depressant drugs became popular, the killer has been on SSRI’s " serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Texas Gov. Rick Perry: “There Were Three Shooters”
11-07-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
VIDEO - Gov. Perry Press Conference
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
True US unemployment rate stands at 17.5%
11-07-2009
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RawStory.com
"If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression," reporter David Leonhardt wrote in Friday's edition of The New York Times.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lousy Jobs, In Such Small Portions
11-07-2009
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Peter Schiff for LewRockwell.com
Today's release of the October jobs report showed the loss of another 190,000 jobs had pushed the official unemployment rate to 10.2%, only the second time since the Great Depression that unemployment was quoted in double digits
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
When the Dollar Rallies, the Market Will Crash
11-07-2009
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Mike Whitney for LewRockwell.com
If I offered to give you $1.00 for very 90 cents you gave me in return, you would buy as many dollars from me as you could. The Fed operates the same way.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • States' Rights
Could (State) Secession Become a Real Austrian Opportunity?
11-07-2009
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Robert Eschauzier for LewRockwell.com
At the core of Mises’, Hayek’s, Rothbard’s and, more recently, Hoppe’s work lies the recognition that governance of markets and societies is a spontaneous and civilizing force far too complex to be "managed" by any form of monopolistic government.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space Hotel Reportedly On Track for 2012 Opening, Already Has Paying Guests
11-07-2009
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PopSi
Anyone with a cool $4 million and change might consider doing what 43 other people have done, and sign up for an orbital space vacation in 2012 with Galactic Suite Space Resort.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Communications
Resilient Space Internet Comes Down to Earth Gadgets with Android
11-07-2009
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PopSi
adapting the old reliable for NASA's interplanetary communications with distant spacecraft.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Communications
Verizon Droid by Motorola: The Five-Minute Review
11-07-2009
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PopSi
We've talked about Android 2.0 and (virtually) walked through the new Google Maps. Now, it's for real, and it's here. Motorola's Droid has landed at PopSci HQ, and it's making good on its promises.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Seattle Team Wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Contest
11-07-2009
A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Objectivism
GODDESS OF THE MARKET AUTHOR JENNIFER BURNS ON AYN RAND
11-07-2009
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Reason.TV
Reason Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward recently sat down with Jennifer Burns, an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of the new book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Madmen In Control-While Rome Burned
11/07/09
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www.areyouawakenet@ning.com
Nero's rule is often associated with tyranny and extravagance. He is known for a number of executions, including those of his mother and adoptive brother, as the emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned", and as an early persecutor of Christians.
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Scrump TheTexan
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News Link • Police State
Mind control with sound and light
11-07-2009
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BoingBoing.Net
The low frequencies used can travel some distance through the air. So could you be zapped with a mood-altering blast from across a room? Probably not, Tyler says. In theory, the ultrasound technique could work from up to about a meter away, he says.
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
The Secret Message of Stimulus Spending
11-07-2009
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Reason
The idea behind the $787 billion stimulus bill is that government can create jobs by spending money. For now, let's ignore fact, history, and economic theory and assume that government spending can actually create jobs. In that case, we should expe
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Jean Carbonneau
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Opinion • Conspiracies
Was Major Hasan A "Jolly" Man?
11-07-2009
Dave Hodges
Major Nidal Hasan, age 39, has a history of well-documented deep rooted psychological problems. He wasn't married, had few friends, his parents died approximately a decade ago, he was estranged from his brothers, he was a self-professed loner and he
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News Link • Energy
Total, MIT to work on batteries that store solar
11-07-2009
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CleanTech
The new Total and MIT research project is looking to develop a low-cost, long-life battery that can store power generated by solar panels. It also continues Total’s research and development of alternative energies, which has a focus on developing and
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
The Mark of a Christian
11-07-2009
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thinkactlive's blog
My husband asked if I had been thinking about this for very long. I told him I've been thinking about it for YEARS and was inspired to write it because of recent events in the news.
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Anita Barnett
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News Link • Propaganda
Hillary Clinton Accepts Blame for ‘Global Warming,' Ponders Climate Change and Family Panning
11-07-2009
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CNSNews.com
she noted that “...it’s rather odd to talk about climate change...without talking about population and family planning.”
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Dead Kennedys - WAAAAYY Ahead of Their Time
11-07-2009
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Jello Biafra
This 4:17 spoken word rant is from the 80s but it rings truer than ever today.....
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Jet Lacey
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