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Date Sent: 2009-12-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 9, 2009 |
Dems Reach Deal To Drop Public Option -- Obama urges major new stimulus, jobs spending
Town of 40,000 to Buy $250,000 Armored Vehicle -- Social Security Will Go Bankrupt in 2010 -- Israeli Knesset approves to be mandatory biometric database law -- World Bank To Control Climate Change Slush Fund -- Police Cars Repoed in Louisiana -- Homeless shelter execs to plead guilty -- Gates: NATO troop numbers show commitment -- Inside look at SpaceShipTwo -- PD: Anyone with Nerf Gun Will be Arrested, Treated as a Gunman
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News Link • Healthcare
Dems Reach Deal To Drop Public Option
12-08-2009
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AP
After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday night to drop a government-run insurance option from sweeping health care legislation, several officials said, a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama urges major new stimulus, jobs spending
12-08-2009
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Yahoo.com
WASHINGTON " President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Thin Blue Whine, Pt. I: Petulant Police Demand Impunity - by Will Grigg
12-08-2009
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Pro Liberate
Humprheys was put on administrative leave after shooting a 12-year-old girl point-blank with a "less lethal" beanbag round on a MAX train platform in Portland. She was down on the ground when Humphreys, circling to find the best angle, shot her with
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Detention Officer Flap Causes Judge to Recuse Herself From Case; Sheriff's Office Not Taking Inm
12-08-2009
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Phoenix New Times
A judge recused herself from the case that sparked a contempt-of-court order for a detention officer who removed papers from a defense attorney's file. Judge Flores said the court can't rely on the Sheriff to get the man to court in time for his Dece
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Town of 40,000 to Buy $250,000 Armored Vehicle
12-08-2009
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Phoenix New Times
The Town of Buckeye needs a $250,000 armored vehicle like it needs another foreclosure sign -- but that's what it's getting thanks to federal largess. The US Homeland Security dept. gave a grant for the 8.5-ton Lenco Bearcat vehicle.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Give up the limo? C'est impossible!
12-08-2009
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Wendy McElroy
I don't know why I found this uproariously funny: On a normal day Copenhagen's biggest limousine company has 12 vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, they will have 200.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Social Security Will Go Bankrupt in 2010
12/08/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
For the third time in my life, the Social Security System will go belly-up.
The first time was in 1977 " well, almost. To head off the bust, Jimmy Carter got Congress to pass a major FICA tax increase " sorry, "contribution" increase " in order to
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Board of Supervisors Indicted
12-08-2009
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Phoenix New Times
Maricopa Co. Supervisors Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox were served with indictments accusing them of committing a long list of crimes. Stapley's indicted on 27 felony and misdemeanor accounts. Wilcox's charged with 36 felony counts related to loan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Knesset approves to be mandatory biometric database law
12-08-2009
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Blog of Bile
In addition to identification cards and passports, the database will also be designed to hold the fingerprints and visual scans of every citizen of Israel. The bill is scheduled to be put into motion during the next few months, and a two-year trial p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Border Patrol went too far, woman says
12-08-2009
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Nogales International
When Patagonia resident Iris Cooper, 18, turned her car around two miles before a Border Patrol checkpoint because she had forgotten her schoolbooks, she didn’t foresee being forced from her vehicle and handcuffed for a half an hour while agents wait
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Immigration
A U.S. Citizen Was Detained by the MCSO
12-08-2009
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Phoenix New Times
Mora is an American citizen and was accompanying his father, a legal resident, to his dad's work at H.M.I when two sheriff's SUVs cut them off before they arrived. Without explanation, the pair were zip-tied and brought onto H.M.I.'s property, where
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Leaked Copenhagen Document: World Bank To Control Climate Change Slush Fund
12-08-2009
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PrisonPlanet
The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
More Efficient Space Engine Uses Carbon Nanotubes
12-08-2009
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PopSi
Ion-propulsion systems have propelled a handful of Earth-orbiting and interplanetary spacecraft over the past 50 years. Now researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology are developing more efficient ion thrusters that use carbon nanotubes for a vit
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Making Powerful, Lightweight Batteries From Nothing But Nanotube Ink and Paper
12-08-2009
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PopSi
Paper Batteries It turns out making lightweight, bendable, foldable batteries is as easy as putting ink to paper.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Tennessee Grand Jury Fails to Indict Obama on Treason
12-08-2009
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Ginn
Walt Fitzpatrick has been seeking to indict President Barack Obama on treason charges, but the grand jury failed to grant his request. CNN and MSNBC didn't have any reporters present at the announcement.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • World News
Today on LewRockwell.com - Dec 8th 2009
12-08-2009
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LewRockwell.com
Social Security Is Going, Going, Gone - Gary North on the great bankruptcy of 2010. / Drunk Driving Is Not a Crime - Don't treat it like one. Article by Mark Crovelli. / Only a Fool Defends His Country - As versus himself, says Jon Kolkey. / An
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Year's Most Amazing Scientific Images
12-08-2009
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PopSi
Installing a Neural Microelectrode Array: An array of microelectrodes connects with the brain, potentially allowing paralyzed patients to control computer interfaces with their minds. Courtesy Kelly Johnson/University of Utah Department of Neurosur
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Police Cars Repoed in Louisiana: Mayor Blames Stimulus Fund Snafu
12-08-2009
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Ginn
The Stimulus check was in the mail. One can only imagine the scene at the Louisiana Napoleonville Police station when repo men from the Joe Watt Auto Sales of Vinita, OK., showed up to repo two almost brand new police cars, October 9. Can Recovery.go
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
In 2010, The Civilian Space Industry Finally Takes Off
12-08-2009
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PopSi
Who needs the space shuttle? Take a tour inside the private space industry and its innovative, efficient plans to get astronauts into space when NASA retires its old ride
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Homeless shelter execs to plead guilty
12-08-2009
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UPI
DETROIT, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Two leaders of a Detroit homeless shelter will plead guilty to charges they diverted taxpayer funds to political causes, The Detroit Free Press said Tuesday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gates: NATO troop numbers show commitment
12-08-2009
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UPI
The pledge of 7,000 more NATO troops in Afghanistan is a sign of the military alliance's commitment to the country, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
University of Colorado at Boulder Police Warning: Anyone with Nerf Gun Will be Arrested, Treated as
12-08-2009
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Ginn
This story sounds silly but it has very serious undertones with potentially deadly consequences. The UC-Boulder Police Nerf gun warning specifically states: anyone who has a nerf gun will be arrested and “treated as a gunman”.This is not about gun co
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Randy Ricochet
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