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Date Sent: 2010-12-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 14, 2010 PM edition |
UK court grants bail to WikiLeaks' Julian Assange -- Chances dimming for Patriot Act reform
Review: How two one-night stands sparked a worldwide hunt for Julian Assange -- 'Anonymous' announces 'Operation Loveback' -- Foreclosure-Gate: BofA Will Ding Your Credit If You Ask - Where’s My Note? -- Welcome to the cyber sit-in: Many ‘Payback’ protesters easily identified -- Video shows female police officer assaulting and strip searching an innocent woman --
North Korea - Heating Up - Nuclear Threats -- Report: Your retirement
funds risk being seized -- Michael Moore offers his servers to host
Wikileaks docs, posts $20,000 bail -- Iceland may ban MasterCard, Visa over WikiLeaks censorship -- Court to hear case of birther who wouldn't deploy -- Halliburton pays $250 million to keep Cheney out of prison -- Holbrooke’s last words: ‘You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan’
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News Link • Whistleblowers
UK court grants bail to WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
12-14-2010
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Yahoo News
LONDON (AP) " A British judge granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday, saying he must abide by strict bail conditions as he fights extradition to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Chances dimming for Patriot Act reform
12-14-2010
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Rawstory
The PATRIOT Act is up for renewal, but civil libertarians wanting major changes shouldn't get their hopes up, says a libertarian think tank. In a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy last week, Attorney General Holder promised to implement policies designed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Review: How two one-night stands sparked a worldwide hunt for Julian Assange
12-14-2010
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Daily Mail
The best breakdown of the "case" so far: The prosecution's case has several puzzling flaws, and there is scant public evidence of rape or sexual molestation. Swedes are calling the whole squalid affair a honeytrap, a plot to bring down the Wikileaks
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
'Anonymous' announces 'Operation Loveback'
12-14-2010
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sssshhh, it's a secret
Unleashing Weapons of Mass Affection on Bill O'Reilly. Oh, yah!
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: BofA Will Ding Your Credit If You Ask - Where’s My Note?
12-14-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Let’s imagine the following scenario: You have a Jumbo mortgage with Bank of America. You are a good customer, do your banking with BofA, and you have never missed a payment. In fact, you always send your mortgage in on time.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Welcome to the cyber sit-in: Many ‘Payback’ protesters easily identified
12-14-2010
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Rawstory
During the civil rights era, the sit-in became a popular and effective form of protest against businesses that denied service to black people. Though legally ambiguous, the harsh reactions of authorities against the peaceful protesters ultimately won
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Video shows female police officer assaulting and strip searching an innocent woman
12-14-2010
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Daily Mail
This is the shocking moment an innocent woman was violently assaulted and then strip-searched by police in what a judge has described as an 'indignity to a human being'.
The video shows a female special constable kneeing a 27-year-old woman in the
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Pixie Dust Loses Magic as Foreclosures Slam Utopian Disney Town
12-14-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Walt Disney Co. built Celebration, Florida, as an idealized version of a circa-World War II small town, where litter-free streets are lined with white picket fences and front porches entice neighbors to sit after dinner.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea - Heating Up - Nuclear Threats
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www.drscoundrels.com
The question hangs in the air.
Is this going to go past a tipping point, or is this just posturing and positioning in order to cement the new heir’s position?
It is a difficult position to be in, but the Obama administration is doing what it is
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Report: Your retirement funds risk being seized
12-13-2010
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Terrence Aym
Teresa Ghilarducci may be the most dangerous woman in America. Never heard of her? Read on…Simply put, Ghilarducci, a professor of economic policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, wants the federal government to grab all pr
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Michael Moore offers his servers to host Wikileaks docs, posts $20,000 bail
12-14-2010
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Rawstory
If Amazon.com won't host leaked diplomatic cables posted by the website WikiLeaks, Michael Moore will. The liberal filmmaker and author announced in a web posting he had donated $20,000 to the cause of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' embattled chief
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Iceland may ban MasterCard, Visa over WikiLeaks censorship
12-14-2010
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RawStory
Credit card companies that prevented card-holders from donating money to the secrets outlet WikiLeaks could have their operating licenses taken away in Iceland, according to members of the Icelandic Parliamentary General Committee.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Court to hear case of birther who wouldn’t deploy
12-14-2010
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RawStory
Court-martial for Army doctor who refused to deploy without seeing Obama's birth certificate
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Halliburton pays $250 million to keep Cheney out of prison
12-14-2010
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Rawstory
The massive industrial conglomerate Halliburton has reportedly offered to pay $250 million to settle charges against its former chief executive, ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, in a multi-million dollar bribery case.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bad Medicine: November Retail Sales and PPI
12-14-2010
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Market-ticker.org
The two "gotchas" in here are gasoline, which has had gross sales down even though gas prices are up, and dining and drinking, which were down despite the holiday season during the Black Friday weekend when they should have been up...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Holbrooke’s last words: ‘You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan’
12-14-2010
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RawStory
America's chief envoy to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke spoke chilling last words about the nine-year military conflict before his death Monday night. "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan," Holbrooke told his Pakistani surgeon before entering a
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Reagan, the Bushes, and Saddam Hussein
12-14-2010
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FFF.org
In a paradoxical twist, when W. sought to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he cited those same weapons " without mentioning that his own father had helped to provide them.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Lies, Lies, Lies: The New Foundation of the Financial System
12-14-2010
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LewRockwell.com
“The problem with where America is now is that the country has been built on one lie after another for the past decade and the lies show no signs of slowing down.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Military won’t release rape records, ACLU says in lawsuit
12-14-2010
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AP
Sexual assault pervades the military, but the Pentagon refuses to release records that fully document the problem and how it is handled, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups said in a federal lawsuit that seeks access to the records.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Tony Blair’s ex-roommate shut down inquest into death of David Kelly
12-14-2010
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Rawstory
Britain may finally allow a full inquest into the death of David Kelly, a weapons inspector who died under suspicious circumstances shortly after being identified as the leak that embarrassed the British government ahead of the Iraq invasion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Seamless Gear Change
12-14-2010
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arclein
onventional gearboxes have always had some serious problems associated with needing to interrupt engine torque in order to change gear. Apart from increasing fuel usage, hydrocarbon and CO2 emissions, momentarily cutting power delivery to the rear wh
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fasting Mythology
12-14-2010
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arclein
half-truths, faulty conclusions drawn from poorly conducted studies or created when a study gets cited out of context.
Sometimes, what's claimed is even in exact opposition to what really occurs at a physiological level. Many people believe that
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Vanadium Redox Rising Prospects
12-14-2010
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arclein
How do you bottle sunlight?
It's the major hurdle preventing renewable energy's acceptance into the mainstream.
The moment the sun sets or the wind drops, that energy source shuts down for
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
The Great Solar Eruption
12-14-2010
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arclein
n a paper they prepared for the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), Schrijver and Title broke down the Great Eruption into more than a dozen significant shock waves, flares, filament eruptions, and CMEs spanning 180 degrees of solar longitude and
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robert klein
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News Link • Political Parties
New Label, Same Retreads - Who Do They Think They're Kidding?
12142010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Someone explain this one to me.
You have a bunch of people who are about as political as they come, many of whom are actually bad sports.
And they want to form a "new political group - one without labels"? This would sound good - but let's t
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