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Date Sent: 2009-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
US tax dollars help fund Taliban attacks -- White House wants suit against Yoo dismissed
Opposition supporters suffered torture and rape after Iranian elections -- US refuses to allow UN inspectors to investigate its WMDs -- Climategate: Gore falsifies the record -- UK’s richest man could make more than £1bn from carbon trading scheme -- Guatemala pushes for DNA tests of kids adopted in U.S. -- House panel passes college football playoff bill -- Senate Set to Vote on Another Anti-gun Judge -- The Growing Movement to Nullify National Health Care
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kucinich: US tax dollars help fund Taliban attacks
12-09-2009
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Rawstory
Ohio's Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a strident anti-war crusader, cited a report on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday which claims that US tax dollars used by defense contractors to bribe the Taliban in Afghanistan ultimate
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House wants suit against Yoo dismissed
12-09-2009
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San Francisco Chronicle
The Obama admin asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush admin attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of a terrorism suspect, saying federal law does not allow damage claims against lawyers who advise the president on na
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Opposition supporters suffered torture and rape after Iranian elections, says Amnesty
12-09-2009
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The Independent
Distressing accounts of torture, rape and brutal violence meted out to opposition supporters, before during and after the disputed June presidential elections in Iran, are detailed in a damning report from Amnesty International.
The organisation s
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
US refuses to allow UN inspectors to investigate its WMDs
12-09-2009
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AFP
The US remained opposed to international inspections of biological weapon sites, even though it stressed its commitment to a UN treaty covering such arms and invaded Iraq in part over its alleged stalling of -- UN weapons inspectors.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway
12-09-2009
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Daily Mail
What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky?
If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday.
Curiously, it appears to be unco
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Climategate: Gore falsifies the record
12-09-2009
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Andrew Bolt (Herald Sun)
Al Gore has studied the Climategate emails with his typically rigorous eye and dismissed them as mere piffle:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robot completes first underwater crossing of Atlantic Ocean
12-09-2009
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AFP
Spain on Wednesday handed back to the United States a robot which last week completed the first underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to help monitor climate change by tracking temperatures.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
UK’s richest man could make more than £1bn from carbon trading scheme
12-09-2009
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waronyou.com
New analysis released by climate change NGO Sandbag has revealed that the UK’s richest resident, Lakshmi Mittal, CEO and major shareholder of the steel giant ArcelorMittal, could make over £1 billion between now and 2012 from his company’s particip
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War Onyou
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News Link • China
China’s Economic Power Unsettles the Neighbors
12-09-2009
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NY Times
In the Dickensian depths of the Dunia Metal Works here, all is cacophony: the bam bam bam of grease-drenched punches; the rhythmic clank of unspooling steel wire; the storm and stress of glinting, freshly minted nails cascading onto a broad metal tab
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Guatemala pushes for DNA tests of kids adopted in U.S.
12-09-2009
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Reuters
For three years Olga Lopez desperately searched for her baby daughter who was snatched from her home in Guatemala, until her face appeared in government paperwork for an international adoption.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Google Goggles: Brilliant. Scary, but brilliant - YouTube video
12-09-2009
Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Also provides information about businesses
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Reported by:
Andre Campos
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The civil liberties advocacy organization Flex Your Rights has a new video coming out next month....
12-09-2009
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via: Radley Balko's - TheAgitator.com
The civil liberties advocacy organization Flex Your Rights has a new video coming out next month called 10 Rules for Dealing with Police. Here’s a trailer:
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Reported by:
Andre Campos
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
House panel passes college football playoff bill
12-09-2009
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AP
A House subcommittee approved legislation aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress has meatier targets to tackle.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senate Set to Vote on Another Anti-gun Judge
12-09-09
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
Now, we have another radical, anti-gun judge that has been nominated for the federal judiciary. His name is Louis Butler, and he is so radical, he was twice rejected by the people of extreme liberal Wisconsin..
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Reported by:
Fredy Riehl
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Who is Blythe Masters????
12-09-2009
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Naked Capitalism
She is the JP Morgan employee who invented credit default swaps, and is now heading the JPM' carbon trading efforts. As Bloomberg notes (this and all remaining quotes are from the above-lined Bloomberg article): Masters, 40, oversees the New York b
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • States' Rights
The Growing Movement to Nullify National Health Care
12-09-2009
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Tenth Amendment Center
In response to what some opponents see as a Congress that doesn’t represent their interests, State Legislators are looking to the nearly forgotten American political tradition of nullification as a way to reject any potential national health care pro
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Reported by:
Michael Boldin
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