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Date Sent: 2010-08-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 10, 2010 AM edition |
Freddie Mac needs another $1.8 billion from taxpayers -- Gallup: Democratic Rout In November
Asian Stock Markets Drop as China Imports Slow -- Former bin Laden cook reaches secret sentencing deal with U.S. government -- Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s -- Pentagon to cut thousands of jobs -- Mainstream Marijuana: Behind Pot's Boom in California -- Rand Paul's Kooky College Days -- Press Censorship: How the Truth Was Hidden About Nagasaki -- British man walks entire Amazon river in 2 years!!!! -- Dancers from Ohio strip club protest at church -- On Poker: Federal online gambling legislation clears big hurdle -- Retired NYPD cops probed for 'faking' mental illness to get benefits -- The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime -- U.S. electricity blackouts skyrocketing -- Mexico Wants To Legalize Drugs -- All In The Family: Obama’s CIA Pedigree -- Sheriff Richard Mack Interview in SLC 7-31-10 (Video) -- Plastic bags and dish soap banned in Oregon -- Stephen Lendman: Political Prisoners In America
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News Link • Housing
Freddie Mac says needs another $1.8 billion from taxpayers
08-09-2010
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Reuters
Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac said it would need another $1.8 billion in aid from taxpayers, bringing its total request since it was taken over by the government 2 years ago to more than $64 billion. The second largest U.S. residential mortgage
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News Link • Obama Administration
Gallup Predicts A Democratic Party Rout In The November Midterms
08-09-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Of course, the administration (and its dwindling members) is well-aware of this fact, which is why the next three months will likely see a record amount of pandering, populism and outright manipulation of everything that can be manipulated...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
DigitalGlobe, GeoEye up on gov't imaging deals: $3.5 billion and $3.8 billion!
08-09-2010
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AP
NEW YORK " Share of imaging companies DigitalGlobe Inc. and GeoEye Inc. rose sharply Monday after both companies received multibillion dollar contracts to provide satellite photos to U.S. military and spy agencies.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Activism
Announcing CameraFRAUD "Victory Lap for Liberty"
08-09-2010
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CameraFRAUD
Oh, you KNEW this was coming. Redflex says the "fixed" cameras will start coming down Labor Day weekend. Lets kick off the removal with a rolling demonstration to show exactly who the freeways are supposed to belong to. (PLEASE add this to your Fac
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David Alpha
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News Link • Obama Administration
Rate the Usurper President
08-09-2010
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CBS
CBS Is Letting YOU Rate the President. Takes all of fifteen seconds. Take the poll yourself and when you submit your grading of how he is handling the top issues, a second page will come up showing you the current results of how America is voting.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stock Markets Drop as China Imports Slow
08-09-2010
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AP
Asian markets slid Tuesday on signs China's economy continues to slow and ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting that may bring new measures to prop up sputtering U.S. growth.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Former bin Laden cook reaches secret sentencing deal with U.S. government
08-09-2010
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Washington Post
A former cook for Osama bin Laden's entourage in Afghanistan has reached a secret agreement with the U.S. government that will allow him to serve any sentence at a minimum-security facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s
08-09-2010
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NY Times
Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with significant memory loss who are on their way to developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon to cut thousands of jobs, defense secretary says
08-09-2010
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Washington Post
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that the Pentagon will cut thousands of jobs, including a substantial chunk of its private contractors and a major military command based in Norfolk, as part of an ongoing effort to streamline its operati
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Mainstream Marijuana: Behind Pot's Boom in California
08-09-2010
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Time magazine
In advance of a vote to legalize (and tax the heck out of) marijuana this fall, the Sacramento Bee traces the smoking habits of people across California. The results? People smoke. A lot.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Las Vegas Considers Hula-Hoop Ban
08-09-2010
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AOL News
City leaders later this month may ban the use of the usually plastic, hip-gyrating equipment on a five-block pedestrian mall known as the Fremont Street Experience in the city's downtown core because, they argue, their use obstructs traffic flow and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Press Censorship: How the Truth Was Hidden About Nagasaki
08-09-2010
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The Nation
One of the great mysteries of the nuclear age was solved just five years ago: What was in the censored, and then lost to the ages, newspaper articles filed by the first reporter to reach Nagasaki following the atomic attack on that city on August 9,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul's Kooky College Days (Hint: There's a Secret Society Involved)
08-09-2010
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GQ
Sort of a cross between Yale's Skull & Bones and Harvard's Lampoon, the NoZe existed to torment the Baylor administration, which it accomplished through pranks and its satirical newspaper The Rope. The group especially enjoyed tweaking the school's r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Geography
British man walks entire Amazon river in 2 years!!!!
08-09-2010
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Rawstory
Briton completes epic, 2 1/2-year expedition to become 1st man to walk entire Amazon river
After 859 days, thousands of miles and "50,000 mosquito bites," Ed Stafford became the first man known to have walked the entire length of the Amazon river
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
On Poker: Federal online gambling legislation clears big hurdle
08-09-2010
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San Antonio Express News
If HR 2267 is signed into law, sites will have to apply for federal licensing. There's no language about a cap on the licenses, but in a regulated environment, safeguards against such things as identity theft, compulsive gambling behavior and underag
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Dancers from Ohio strip club protest at church
08-09-2010
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AP
Ohio strip club dancers in bikinis protest at church that has been picketing them for 4 years
The owner of an Ohio strip club and some of his dancers have been protesting at a church that has done the same to them for four years.
Women in bikin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Retired NYPD cops probed for 'faking' mental illness to get benefits
08-09-2010
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NY Post
24 retired NYPD cops, some already getting tax-free disability pensions, are investigated for feigning mental illness to add Social Security benefits to their juicy incomes -- even as they declared themselves sane enough to pack a pistol,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime
08-09-2010
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Daily Telegraph
While the liberal-dominated US mainstream media have largely ignored the story, it is all over the blogosphere and talk radio, and will undoubtedly add to the President’s free falling poll ratings. As much as the media establishment turn a blind eye
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
U.S. electricity blackouts skyrocketing
08-09-2010
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CNN
Experts on the nation's electricity system point to a frighteningly steep increase in non-disaster-related outages affecting at least 50,000 consumers. During the past two decades, such blackouts have increased 124% -- up from 41 blackouts between 19
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Distributed Humans Smarter Than Distributed Computers In Solving Complex Biology Problem
08-09-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci
Puzzle-loving gamers are better at solving molecular biology problems than a supercomputer, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature. Playing a game called Foldit, which involves protein folding, gamers outsmarted computers on p
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
After Solar Flare Sprays Earth With Charged Plasma, a Beautiful Aurora
08-09-2010
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John Mahoney via PopSci
On Sunday, sunspot number 1092 emitted a C-class solar flare--not a large one, by solar flare standards. But NASA scientists were intrigued by what accompanied it--an unusually fast corona mass ejection that sent a large cloud of charged plasma towar
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News Link • Adult Stem Cell Technology
Iraq Veteran Will Be First to Get Adult Stem Cell Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury in FDA Trial
08-09-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
Last week, the FDA gave biotech firm Geron the green light to proceed with clinical trials of an embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injuries.
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News Link • Drug War
Mexico Wants To Legalize Drugs: CIA Refuses to Take A Hit On It's Drug Profits
08-09-2010
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AZcentral.com
A former Mexican president's proposal to legalize drugs as a way of breaking the economic power of drug cartels is stoking debate inside his country and bringing opposition in Washington.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
High Frequency Trading Algorithms: These Patterns Mean The Cheaters Never Lose
08-09-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The market is now merely a computerized playground in which human traders have no chance of even breaking even in the long run, as the adversary uses consistently illegal means (intentional bid stuffing) to extract every last penny...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Rewriting History: A Response to Ian Millhiser’s Diatribe on “Tentherism.”
08-08-2010
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Brion McClanahan
How many ways can progressives distort and rewrite history? If you read a recent piece entitled “Doomed to Repeat History” by policy analyst Ian Millhiser at the progressive think tank Center for American Progress the answer would be countless. His
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Michael Boldin
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News Link • Obama Administration
All In The Family: Obama’s CIA Pedigree
08-09-2010
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veteranstoday.com
The State Department’s recent revelation in response to a FOIA request that the pre-1965 passport files of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro, were destroyed in the 1980s, has re-ignited suspicions that Obama’s mother worked for the CIA...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
One More War, One More War: It's a Killing Machine Economic Boom
08-09-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Do you wonder how the government slips in those supposedly bullish data points about the economy, when everywhere you go you hear average people talking about how bad things are?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
US Navy stunned: Deadly new Chinese missile can sink every US supercarrier
08-09-2010
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Terrence Aym
A new 'smart missile' threatens to tip the balance of power towards China, US military analysts say.
The latest generation of the Dong Feng 21D (DF-21D) is a supercarrier killer according to experts on China's armaments. The missile can be laun
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Environment
Plastic bags and dish soap banned in Oregon? Todd Wynn explains
08-08-2010
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Liberty Cap Press/The Invisible Hand
This week on the Invisible Hand, Tracy R. Twyman interviewed Todd Wynn, environmental policy analyst and Vice President of the Cascade Policy Institute, about some of the extreme anti-business and anti-freedom policies being passed or considered by t
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Tracy Twyman
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News Link • Adult Stem Cell Technology
Two New Regenerative Medicine Studies Offer Ways Damaged Hearts Can Repair Themselves
08-09-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
Perhaps it's in the nature of regenerative medicine news to multiply. Earlier today stem cell researchers announced the first clinical trial using adult stem cells to treat a spinal cord injury would begin at the end of the month.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Police State
Stephen Lendman: Political Prisoners In America
08-09-2010
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Rense.com
HL Menchen described "The most dangerous man to any government (as someone) who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Video: German Space Agency Builds New Bipedal Robot
08-09-2010
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Paul Adams via PopSci
DLR, the German aerospace agency, is showing a new pair of legs. DLR-Biped, which could use a new name, is a four-foot-eight walking research platform that was developed in less than a year.
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