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Date Sent: 2010-12-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 9, 2010 PM edition |
News Link • Legislative Mischief
House passes immigration Dream Act
12-09-2010
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AP
The House passed a landmark youth immigration bill known as the Dream Act which offers a path to citizenship for young people who were brought to this country illegally before age 16 and who have enrolled in college or entered the military.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Senate convicts La. judge on impeachment charges
12-09-2010
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AP
The Senate has voted unanimously to convict U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana on the first of four impeachment charges, removing him from the federal bench.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks cables: Art looted by Nazis, Spanish gold and an embassy offer
12-09-2010
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www.oceantreasures.org
US officials offered to help Spain claim an undersea treasure haul of gold and silver coins discovered by a controversial American exploration company in return for Spanish assistance in the recovery of valuable art looted by Nazi Germany, according
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Immigration
CONNECTING THE DOTS
House passes Dream Act, BUT!
12-09-2010
Frosty Wooldridge
Last night, the House of Representatives voted to legalize illegality by passing the Scam Act, er, Dream Act. This poorly written, fraudulently driven and utterly in favor of encouraging relentless illegal immigrationâ€"passed by a squeaker.
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News Link • China
Robot restaurant opens in China
12-09-2010
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Terrence Aym
The popular, trendy restaurant "employs" six shiny, copper-colored robots that can serve as many as 100 demanding, hungry humans. These mechanical wonder-waiters never grow tired or short-tempered; they don't have feet that hurt; and they don't c
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Most Americans "Are Ignorant": Zbigniew Brzezinski
12-09-2010
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Brzezinski: I am very worried that most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Bid Bullion Releases 171,500 Ounces Of Silver "Max Keisers" In Ongoing Campaign To Destroy
12-09-2010
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Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge.com
Anyone who thought Max Keiser would tire of his plan to destroy JPMorgan using a physical crunch may be disappointed. In fact, just the opposite. The outspoken critic of every fraud financial has, with the assistance of Bid Bullion, just launched a l
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
AZTURBO COURT TO CHARGE "USER FEE" OF $6 PER DOCUMENT FILED
11-17-2010
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AZ Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 2010-117
Effective Feb. 1, 2011, following the phased implementation schedule, all attorneys are required to e-file post-initiation civil case documents through AZTurboCourt when filing into the Superior Court in Maricopa County. Fees applicable to e-filing
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Michele Power
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
John Lennon on Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Freedom
12-09-2010
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new.music.yahoo.com/
In this 1971 interview on the Dick Cavett Show, John Lennon talks about Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and Freedom. John sounds a lot like a Libertarian...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Child Porn Barbie: FBI Issues Alert on Barbie Doll With Video Camera
12-09-2010
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NBC News
She's not on the most-wanted list, but yes, the FBI did issue an alert about Barbie. The doll. Apparently, they were simply trying to give law enforcement agencies a heads up -- that the new "Video Girl Barbie" comes with a hidden camera, which could
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Traffic Tickets Going Paperless with Scanner
12-09-2010
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NBC News
An issuing officer can get the information into the city’s database within about three days versus the 10 days it takes to enter a conventional citation. E-tickets also take less time to fill out, sending cop and driver along their merry ways, well,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Jerry Brown Says California Budget Deficit May Hit $28 Billion
12-09-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Wasn't it just a few short months ago California balanced its budget, plugging a $19 billion hole? Indeed it was. Nonetheless, Jerry Brown now warns of a $28 billion hole for the next fiscal year and the state controller warns of more IOUs.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dec 23 - Courts Closed due to State Mandated Furlough
05-26-2010
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AZ Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 2010-60
IT IS ORDERED that November 26, 2010 and December 23, 2010 are designated as non-judicial days, and all offices of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals shall be closed due to state mandated furlough.
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Michele Power
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News Link • Housing
Home Values May Drop by $1.7 Trillion This Year: Zillow
12-09-2010
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Bloomberg
U.S. home values are poised to drop by more than $1.7 trillion this year amid rising foreclosures and the expiration of homebuyer tax credits, said Zillow Inc., a closely held provider of home price data. This year’s estimated decline, more than the
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Massive dark object 'lurking on edge of solar system hurling comets at Earth'
12-09-2010
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dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/
It could be found up to 30,000 astronomical units from the sun. One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun, about 93 million miles.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Death of Free Will
12-09-2010
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InfoWars.com/
We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists...
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Google Map Foreclosure Tricks
12-09-2010
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Ritholtz.com
I wanted to demonstrate the full extent of Foreclosures in the US, so after setting GMaps on foreclosure listings, I slowly zoomed out of the map. Voila! Most foreclosures that are for sale in the USA are now showing on your screen.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Aspirin Mechanism
12-09-2010
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arclein
n in Humans in the current issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. These are the first data in humans to show that all doses of aspirin used in clinical practice increase nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is released from the b
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News Link • Immigration
Arizona employer-sanctions law defended in Supreme Court
12-09-2010
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Arizona Republic
An unlikely Arizona political trio stood outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday and expressed confidence that the nation's high court would uphold an Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Wesley Snipes reports to prison today for refusing to be extorted
12-09-2010
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AP
When actor Wesley Snipes enters prison Thursday, he'll leave behind his wife, young children and celebrity neighbors in the wealthy Florida enclave made infamous by next-door neighbor Tiger Woods. The prison camp in Lewis Run in northwestern Pennsylv
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News Link • Science
Penrose Proposes Pre Big Bang Universe
12-09-2010
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arclein
Penrose takes issue with the inflationary picture (inflation after a big bang) and in particular believes it cannot account for the very low entropy state in which the universe was believed to have been born â€" an extremely high degree of order that
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Imaging Cell Interiors and Atoms
12-09-2010
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arclein
Fluorescence lifetime of dye molecules is a sensitive reporter on local microenvironment which is generally independent of fluorophores concentration and can be used as a means of discrimination between molecules with spectrally overlapping emission.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Andrew Marshall on Wikileaks
12-09-2010
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arclein
here are those who simply cast the leaks aside as a ‘psy-op’ designed to target specific nations that fit into U.S. foreign policy objectives. Finally, then, there are those who deplore the leaks as ‘treason’ or threatening ‘security’. Of all the cla
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Mum's plea: bring Julian home
12/09/10
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sunshinecoastdaily.com.au
THE mother of controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has pleaded with the Federal Government to bring her son home.
Christine Assange, who lives in Noosa, said she feared that there would be outside interference in his trial by those tryin
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Air Force Unveils Fastest Defense Supercomputer, Made of 1,760 PlayStation 3s
12-09-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The holidays may be driving console sales, but so is the military. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has strung together 1,760 PlayStation 3 gaming systems calling itthe fastest interactive computer system in the entire DoD
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time
12-08-2010
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Ryan Singel via WIRED.com
Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court order, a new document released under a government sunshine request shows.
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