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Date Sent: 2009-12-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 3, 2009 |
Ron Paul to speak in Phoenix,Tempe this week - Babies to have genetic code mapped at birth from 2019
Ron Paul to speak in Phoenix,Tempe this week -- Freedom Summit 2009 YouTube -- Homeland Security chief warns of threat from al-Qaeda sympathizers in U.S. -- Blackwater founder says he aided secret programs -- Washington Times enters a new, diminished era -- Stimulus is boon for D.C. area contractors -- This kid is SO ENDANGERED without his ADHD drugs! -- Dog of Death (The Simpsons) -- LETTER: Civil disobedience needed to save U.S. -- Europe's Secret Nuclear Weapons: What Should NATO Do? -- Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Afternoon December 2nd 2009 -- The Daily Show on the White House Crashers -- Some Houston toy drives check immigration status -- Librarians Push Against Patriot Act -- Sheriff's deputy who defied judge surrenders -- Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts -- Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists -- Using faulty data to demand settlements from innocent surfers -- Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock Morning December 2nd 2009 -- ATT Drops Lawsuit Against Verizon Commericals -- US vs John Lennon -- Babies to have genetic code mapped at birth from 2019 -- Iran president says will produce 20 percent fuel -- MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood -- Google to Require Registration to Read Google First Free Clicks -- Tiger Woods Confesses to Affairs -- Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops to Prepare for Civil War -- Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers -- Iran editor gets 9-year jail term for vote protest -- Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers --
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Ron Paul to speak in Phoenix,Tempe this week
12-02-2009
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Arizona Republic
U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, a Libertarian hero and former Republican presidential candidate, will speak at Phoenix and Tempe forums this week.
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Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Freedom Summit 2009 YouTube
Ernest Hancock
Ron Paul-Thomas Woods-Charles Goyette-Ernest Hancock-Judge John Buttrick-Marc Victor-Joel Skousen-Bud Burrell-Stewart Rhodes-Boston T. Party-Butler Shaffer-John Taylor Gatto-William Buppert-Bud Burrell-David Nolan-Adam Kokesh - VIDEO
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security chief warns of threat from al-Qaeda sympathizers in U.S.
12-02-2009
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Washington Post
Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night.
The secretary's comments were striking not only for their content -- t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Blackwater founder says he aided secret programs
12-02-2009
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Vanity Fair
The founder of Blackwater Worldwide acknowledged he helped the CIA with secret programs targeting top al-Qaeda leaders, a role he says was intended to give the agency "unattributable capability" in sensitive missions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Washington Times enters a new, diminished era
12-02-2009
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Washington Post
The Washington Times, which gained a strong foothold in a politically obsessed city as a conservative voice within the mainstream media, is about to become a drastically smaller newspaper.
Nearly three decades after its founding by officials of th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Stimulus is boon for D.C. area contractors
12-02-2009
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Washington Post
As struggling communities around the country wait for more help from the $787 billion stimulus package, one region is already basking in its largess: the government-contractor nexus that is metropolitan Washington. [surprise]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
This kid is SO ENDANGERED without his ADHD drugs! (VIDEO of Ben)
12/02/2009
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MyNameIsBen.org
Here's my son who the court took from me when I refused to drug him for ADHD. It’s terrible " just look at how distracted this kid is " he can’t pay attention " he can’t sit still " he’s rambunctious " his mind wanders " he’s so endangered! HE NEEDS
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Jim Kaiser
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News Link • Humor
Dog of Death (The Simpsons)
12-02-2009
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Smotri
On the radio, Ernie discusses his dying dog, "Warf," who got sick back when his family of six plus two dogs were poor reminded me of one of the funniest "The Simpson's" episodes in Season 3, "Dog of Death."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
LETTER: Civil disobedience needed to save U.S.
12-01-2009
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Journal Gazette
DON SEARLES, Mattoon
I and more than half of the American people are fed up with the Obama administration and Congress turning our nation into the bankrupt Socialist States of America.
We are fed up with out of control government spending, pork
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • World News
Europe's Secret Nuclear Weapons: What Should NATO Do?
12-02-2009
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Time magazine
It is Europe's dirty secret that the list of nuclear-capable countries extends beyond those in Britain and France who have built their own weapons. Nukes are stored in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands and planes can deliver them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show on the White House Crashers
12-02-2009
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Comedy Central
I have to say, I have mixed feelings about the White House party crashers. On the one hand, they're symptomatic of an out-of-control fame-whore culture, a society that demands entitlement while pridefully creating nothing. They're shameless over-priv
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Some Houston toy drives check immigration status
12-02-2009
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Houston Chronicle
The Salvation Army and a charity affiliated with the Houston Fire Department are among those that consider immigration status, asking for birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Surveillance
Librarians Push Against Patriot Act
12-01-2009
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School Journal Report
Section 215 allows the federal government to demand tangible records from any business, organization, entity, person"and even the public library"and then places a gag order on them about speaking of the demand. Many believe this act violates the righ
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Sheriff's deputy who defied judge surrenders
12-02-2009
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East Valley Tribune
A Maricopa County sheriff’s detention officer has refused to comply with a judge’s order to publicly apologize for looking at an attorney’s papers in court without the lawyer’s knowledge or consent.
However, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts
12-02-2009
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AP
An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, scientists said Wednesday.
During a one-month experiment conduc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists
12-02-2009
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Wired
On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.
In many ways, the split followed predictable patterns, requiring a hybr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Using faulty data to demand settlements from innocent surfers
12-02-2009
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ARS Technica
A Princeton researcher finds himself bombarded with demands to pay up after swapping adult movies online"but he didn't do it. It appears to be another case of extremely-lazy IP "enforcement" using bad BitTorrent data collection.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
ATT Drops Lawsuit Against Verizon Commericals
12-02-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Those ads showing Verizon covering most of the USA with its cell phone 3G network--with AT&T's network coverage looking anemic--will continue to roll. AT&T has dropped its lawsuit against Verizon over the ads.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Government
Babies to have genetic code mapped at birth from 2019
12-02-2009
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Daily Telegraph
Babies born from 2019 onwards will have their genetic code routinely mapped at birth, Jay Flatley, one of the world's leading genome sequencing experts has predicted. Dr Flatley, the chief executive of Illumina, the world's leading genome sequencing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran president says will produce 20 percent fuel
12-02-2009
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Reuters
President Ahmadinejad said Iran would enrich uranium to a higher level itself, apparently ruling out a U.N.-brokered deal meant to dispel fears Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons capability. Western diplomats said Iran two months ago accepted in prin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
12-02-2009
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Wired
If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create.
At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google to Require Registration to Read Google First Free Clicks
12-02-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Google announced changes--including a proposed registration--to head off a challenge by Bing. Bing is attempting to partner with media that's upset over Google's workaround of paid subscription sites.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tiger Woods Confesses to Affairs
12-02-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Tiger Woods quit trying to fight it and confessed to his affairs after it was disclosed that 1-there were more than one; and, 2-he paid for one of his mistresses to fly to Australia. What's next for the One Billion Dollar Man?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops to Prepare for Civil War
12-02-2009
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EUTimes.net via e-mail
WARNING: This EUROPEAN article is considered inflammatory, but read the comments and decide for yourself.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
12-02-2009
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Wired
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?
That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christophe
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran editor gets 9-year jail term for vote protest
12-02-2009
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Reuters
A newspaper editor and well-known critic of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sentenced to 9 years in jail for fomenting unrest after June's disputed elections, his lawyer said. Saeed Laylaz, whose daily paper Sarmayeh was banned
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
12-02-2009
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Wired
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? Under a Freedom of Information Act request filed a few months ago
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghans unimpressed by Obama's troops surge
12-02-2009
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Reuters
30,000 more US troops for Afghanistan? Esmatullah shrugged. "Even if they bring the whole of America, they won't be able to stabilize Afghanistan. Only Afghans understand our traditions, geography and way of life."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times
12-02-2009
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ARS Technica
A blogger has released audio of Sprint's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing the carrier's cooperation with law enforcement. Among the revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from LEOs for customer GPS data.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran whistleblower died from drug-laden salad
12-02-2009
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AP
A doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of a blood pressure drug in a salad, prosecutors say. The findings fueled opposition fears that he was killed because of what he knew.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Atheist Groups Campaign During Holidays
12-02-2009
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The New York Times
Over the next two weeks, atheist-themed ads will go up across the country and abroad as part of a holiday kickoff of campaigns sponsored by secular groups.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Police State
Law Enforcement Magazine Argues for Counterinsurgency Against Americans
12-02-2009
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infowars.com
In the February, 2010, issue of Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement, Donald J. Mihalek argues that suspected criminals in the US should be treated the same way “insurgents” are in Iraq.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Agriculture
Electric Tractors
12-02-2009
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arclein
“Our electric ‘G’ is absolutely the most important tractor on the farm. It has three times the power of the original ‘G’ which is huge and [has] enough battery life to do everything we need to on our diversified 8-acre farm… It’s totally silent. You
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
Dubai - the Ugly Details
12-02-2009
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arclein
Dubai suffered the world’s steepest property slump in the global recession, with home prices dropping 50 percent from their 2008 peak, according to Deutsche Bank AG.
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robert klein
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