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Date Sent: 2009-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 16, 2009 PM edition |
Gulf petro-powers launch currency in latest threat to dollar -- Howard Dean urges defeat of emerging
Flight attendant's call caught pilots unaware -- More war, more marble markers at West Point - by Joe Galloway -- Israel fury at UK attempt to arrest former foreign minister -- Please Enslave Me! - by Larken Rose -- U.S. agencies want to ban some kid food ads -- Guinea soldier: I shot the president -- Time magazine names Bernanke 'Person of the Year' -- Governments Targeting Lawyers - The Case of Paul Bergrin - Stephen Lendman -- The Return of Gold and Silver Eagle Rationing --
AZ: Breakfast tomorrow with Pat
Schwinn on his out conning one of Britain's Greatest Con Men; "Liberty
on the Rocks!" tomorrow 6PM at Monti's (Tempe)
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News Link • Currencies
Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony
12-16-2009
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Telegraph
"The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect," said Kuwait's finance minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit in Kuwait. The move will give the hyper-rich club of oil exporters a petro-currency of thei
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News Link • Healthcare
Howard Dean urges defeat of emerging health care bill
12-16-2009
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AP
"You will now be forced to buy insurance. If you don't, you'll pay a fine," said Dean, a physician. "It's an insurance company bailout." The bill has some good provisions, "but there has to be a line beyond which you think the bill is bad for the cou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Flight attendant's call caught pilots unaware
12-16-2009
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AP
A single call from a flight attendant to the pilots of the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis catapulted the cockpit crew from complacency to chaos.
Interviews with the flight crew and other documents released Wednesday by the Nati
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
More war, more marble markers at West Point - by Joe Galloway
12-16-2009
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McClatchy News
So now the 8-year war will drag on without end and the number of fresh marble markers in the West Point Cemetery will grow. We have sown the seeds of war and we will reap a harvest of tombstones and grief. The new President was right to choose West P
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel fury at UK attempt to arrest former foreign minister
12-16-2009
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BBC News
Israel has reacted angrily to the issuing by a British court of an arrest warrant for the former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni.
The warrant, granted by a London court on Saturday, was revoked on Monday when it was found Ms Livni was not vi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Geography
Yellowstone's Plumbing Reveals Plume of Hot and Molten Rock 410 Miles Deep
12-16-2009
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Science Daily
The most detailed seismic images yet of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims there is no deep plume, onl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
Colbert Graces Cover of Sports Illustrated
12-16-2009
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Comedy Central
Stephen Colbert unveils the new issue of Sports Illustrated magazine with himself on the cover. Pretty amazing, right? I almost couldn't believe it myself, but it's true: SportsIllustrated.com has a print version. Who knew? Here's the clip....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Mammoths Were Alive More Recently Than Thought
12-16-2009
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LiveScience
Woolly mammoths and other large beasts in North America may not have gone extinct as long ago as previously thought. The new view " that pockets of beasts survived to as recently as 7,600 years ago, rather than the previous end times mark of 12,000 y
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Strange Physical Theory Proved After Nearly 40 Years
12-16-2009
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LiveScience
When physicist Vitaly Efimov heard his theory had finally been proven, he ran up to the young scientist who had verified it and gave him a high five.
Efimov had predicted a quantum-mechanical version of Borromean rings, a symbol that first showed
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Opinion • TAXES: Federal
Please Enslave Me!
12-16-2009
Larken Rose
It's not surprising that megalomaniacs always try to justify their attempts to control and subjugate everyone else. What is surprising--pathetic, really--is how often their victims agree with them.
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News Link • Free Speech
U.S. agencies want to ban some kid food ads
12-16-2009
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Reuters
In a bid to tackle rising youth obesity, US companies would be prohibited from advertising to children foods that contain large amounts of sugar or salt, or even low levels of trans fats, under a proposal released by several US agencies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
Time magazine names Bernanke 'Person of the Year'
12-16-2009
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The Raw Story
"His creative leadership helped ensure that 2009 was a period of weak recovery rather than catastrophic depression, and he still wields unrivaled power over our money, our jobs, our savings and our national future,"
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • World News
Guinea soldier: I shot the president
12-16-2009
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AP
Guinea's former presidential guard chief said he shot the country's military strongman because the junta leader wanted him to take the blame for a massacre by troops of pro-democracy demonstrators in September. Mineral-rich Guinea has been ruled by
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News Link • Activism
Does Activism Change Anything? The Yes Men "Punk" Canada
12-16-2009
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LiveLeak/MoxNews.com
"...neither managed to get Canada's climate policy as much attention as today's multi-layered hoax."
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Precious Metals
The Return of Gold and Silver Eagle Rationing
12-16-2009
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Mint News Blog
In a return to the situation experienced during most of 2008 and the first half of 2009, the limited number of gold and silver bullion coins available from the US Mint are subject to rationing. US Mint bullion coins are not sold directly to the publ
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Climate Change
Sunshine on 1940's Swiss Glacier Melt
12-16-2009
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arclein
A surge in sunshine more than 60 years ago helped Swiss Alpine glaciers melt faster than today, even though higher average temperatures are being recorded now with global warming, Swiss researchers said Monday.
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News Link • Climate Change
Soot Impacts Himalayas
12-16-2009
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arclein
A new modeling study from NASA confirms that when tiny air pollution particles we commonly call soot - also known as black carbon - travel along wind currents from densely populated south Asian cities and accumulate over a climate hotspot called the
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanosolar Commences Mass Production
12-16-2009
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arclein
Nanosolar 640MW Robotic Factory in Germany
The first piece of news from Nanosolar concerns a solar panel factory in Germany with a capacity of 640MW/year. The fully-automated facility is located in Luckenwalde near Berlin, and its inauguration was
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News Link • Obama Administration
Tourists Wind Up at Obama Breakfast: White House Caught in Lie
12-16-2009
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Ginn
It’s the case of the accidental tourists who wound up in the East Room of the White House having breakfast with Obama two weeks before the Salahis gatecrashed their way into a State Dinner. The White House explanation, that the couple was “vetted” th
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News Link • TERRORISM
'Chilling' new video: How to slit throats
12/15/09
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Worldnet Daily
Jihad maneuvers taught at New York compound
A new video released by the Christian Action Network shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.
The video was distributed by t
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Anonymous Watchman
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