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Date Sent: 2009-12-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for December 26, 2009 Saturday edition |
Al Qaeda bomber tries to blow up Detroit plane -- Obama's unending credit line for Fannie, Freddie
U.S. banks fight plan to share information abroad -- Schwarzenegger Seeks Obama’s Help for Deficit Relief -- Madoff fell out of bed, injured
-- OFFICIALS AND EXPERTS WARN OF CRASH-INDUCED UNREST -- The Massive
Accounting FRAUD That SHOULD Sink Obamacare -- CANADIAN NEWSPAPER CALLS
FOR POPULATION REDUCTION -- National Irish Bank Stop Handling Cash -- Pakistan police: Americans may face terror charges -- Deal-maker Reid bought votes to pass U.S. health bill -- Taliban release video of captured US soldier -- Woman tackles pope at Christmas Eve Mass
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News Link • TERRORISM
Al Qaeda bomber tries to blow up Detroit plane, sets self on fire
12-25-2009
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CBS News
A Nigerian man who said he was an agent for al-Qaida tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane Friday as it was preparing to land in Detroit, but travelers who smelled smoke and heard what sounded like firecrackers rushed to subdue him, the passeng
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama's unending credit line for Fannie, Freddie
12-25-2009
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Reuters
The Obama administration pledged on Thursday to back beleaguered mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac no matter how big their losses may be in the next three years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
U.S. banks fight plan to share information abroad
12-25-2009
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Reuters
A US financial crime agency's plan to let foreign police and U.S. state and local law enforcement authorities seek information from American banks about their customers is drawing opposition from groups representing US financial institutions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China jails dissident Liu Xiaobo for 11 years
12-25-2009
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Reuters
China's most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political freedoms, with the stiff sentence on a subversion charge swiftly condemned by rights groups and Washington.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Mao on the White House Christmas tree
12-25-2009
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LA Times
The latest fiasco is the Great Christmas Ornament Scandal. Breitbart's Big Government blog got its knickers in a twist over one of the Obama White House's Christmas trees decorated with the face of Chinese Communist dictator, Mao Zedong.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools to chop food
12-25-2009
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BBC News
The apes' use of tools can be surprisingly sophisticated. "For example, nut-cracking in the Bossou chimpanzee community in Guinea involves the use of a movable hammer and anvil, and sometimes the additional use of stabilizing wedges to make the anvil
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Booze formed communities
12-25-2009
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der Spiegel
Did our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? The expert on identifying traces of alcohol in prehistoric sites reckons the thirst for a brew was enough of an incentive to start growing crops.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Schwarzenegger Seeks Obama’s Help for Deficit Relief
12-25-2009
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Bloomberg
CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, anticipating a $21 billion state budget deficit, plans to ask President Barack Obama to ease mandates and minimums on social programs to save as much as $8 billion. The Republican governor plans to seek the relief
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Source: Madoff fell out of bed, injured
12-25-2009
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ABC News
ABC News first reported Bernie Madoff had injuries consistent with an assault. Now, the source says Madoff was not attacked in prison, but that he fell off a bed onto his face. There was a lot of facial bleeding and, Madoff came with facial fractures
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China’s Top Ten 2009 Oddest Stories Plus a Few Even Odder Stories from China
12-25-2009
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Ginn
China Daily’s Top Ten 2009 Oddest Stories--plus a few “odd” and quite funny 2009 stories from a Chinese blog.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House: President Obama Monitoring Failed Terror Attempt From Hawaii
12/25/09
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Fox News
As President Barack Obama vacations in Hawaii, officials say he's keeping up to date on what's described as a terror attempt on board a Northwest Airlines plane that was about to land in Detroit.
A Nigerian man was detained on the flight from Am
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
OFFICIALS AND EXPERTS WARN OF CRASH-INDUCED UNREST
12/25/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
****pay close attention to what the Army War College and Director of National Intelligence have to say as well as what Zbigniew Brzezinski (Obama's Adviser) has to say about what is coming. Links to other predictions and forecasts by many notables a
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Activism
Obama, Iran: Obama Betrays Iranian Protesters
12-25-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Of all the decisions of President Obama’s first year, the one that history may most condemn is his betrayal of freedom-loving Iranians dying in the streets. For a president so in love with his own words, these protesters are the one group for which h
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Healthcare
The Massive Accounting FRAUD That SHOULD Sink Obamacare
12/25/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
Yesterday, David discussed the CBO's miscalculation regarding the Senate health care bill. Democrats had been insisting that bill somehow cut the deficit and strengthened Medicare, but as it turns out the CBO had to clarify that the savings of the b
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Corruption
A Nightmare before Christmas
12/25/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Activism
Introducing the Oregon Consumers and Farmers Association " OCFA
12-25-2009
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Farm Wars
The time to prepare in Oregon is NOW! Let’s not wait until something like what is happening in Wisconsin happens to us.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • New World Order
CANADIAN NEWSPAPER CALLS FOR POPULATION REDUCTION
12/25/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
Canadian Newspaper Calls for Malthusian Global Population Reduction Policy
Diane Francis, writing for Canada's Financial Post, begins an editorial by declaring a myth - the world is over-populated. "The 'inconvenient truth' overhanging the UN's
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News Link • Currencies
National Irish Bank Stop Handling Cash
12/25/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
NIB to stop handling cash
22/12/2009 - 0827am
One of the country's larger banks has told to its customers that it is to stop handling cash in its branches.
National Irish Bank says it is moving to a Scandinavian model of "cashless banking"
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Twelve Months of Obama -- Christmas Carol
12/25/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
For his first lie in office, Obama said he'd be
A model of transparency.
Heres the full carol *copy/paste the url into your browser
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message950971/pg1
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Healthcare
Deal-maker Reid got votes to pass U.S. health bill
12-25-2009
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Reuters
Majority Leader Reid drew condemnation for deals he struck to win passage of legislation for the biggest overhaul of the U.S. healthcare. Reid effectively bought senators' votes by packing the measure with provisions for their states
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Pakistan police: Americans may face terror charges
12-25-2009
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AP
Pakistani police are pursuing terrorism charges against five detained American men, a move that could complicate efforts to bring the men back to the US where they could also land in the courts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taliban release video of captured US soldier
12-25-2009
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AP
The Afghan Taliban today issued a new video tape of a US soldier captured this summer, which was condemned by the US military as propaganda, and the decision to release it on Christmas day as cruel.
Private Bowe Bergdahl appears in the video weari
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Woman tackles pope at Christmas Eve Mass
12-25-2009
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AP
A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter's Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Christmas Eve Mass, but the 82-year-old pontiff got up unhurt and proceeded as planned with Thursday's service.
Witness video obtained by The As
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