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Date Sent: 2010-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 17, 2010 PM edition |
The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention -- UN mulls internet regulation options
Oil prices rise to nearly $92 dollars -- Austin Joins Rebellion Against Naked Body Scanners -- TSA Choir Will Sing While You Are Groped -- Insider Reveals Diabolical Secrets Of The Rand Corporation -- Complaint About DHS/Wal-Mart Partnership Leads to Wiretap -- Big Sis Cries our for Environmental Justice Dept at DHS! -- TSA Lies Again Over Capture, Storage Of Body Scanner Images -- Vatican tried to keep Irish child rapist as priest -- Prop 203 has Passed. Can I smoke Marijuana now? -- DHS Implementing No Work List: Citizens Must Get Government Approval to Work in Private Sector Jobs -- 10,000 Child Porn Images Found On Ex-TSA Worker’s Computer
-- Former Blackwater bought by investment group -- Alaska militia
leader tries to serve judge -- Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M
legal shield -- Florida ATM skips the folding cash, spits out gold
-- Mort Zuckerman’s Police State Nostalgia -- 25 Signs That The Coming
Financial Collapse Is Now Closer Then Ever -- Nassim Taleb Interview:
"Both big government and big business is bad" -- Secret Anti-War Protest At White House (Well, It's A Secret to the 'Lamestream Media')
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News Link • Agriculture
Bamboo Culture Campaign
12-17-2010
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arclein
It helps support the livelihoods of more than 1.5 billion people, generates more than five billion dollars in annual trade and can grow up to one meter (3.25 feet) a day."
"Bamboo housing has been around for centuries, but many people don't und
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robert klein
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News Link • Torture
The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention
12-17-2010
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Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
UN mulls internet regulation options
12-17-2010
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IT News
The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet.
Establishment of such a group has the backing of several countries, spearheaded by Brazi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Russia calls on South Korea to halt military drill
12-17-2010
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www.reuters.com
Russia on Friday called on South Korea to halt plans for a military exercise in the Yellow Sea that it said could escalate tensions with North Korea.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Government
They finally got one right…
12-17-2010
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www.sovereignman.com
Earlier this week, the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals (one step below the Supreme Court) made an important ruling that should please anyone who longs for freedom.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Choir Will Sing While You Are Groped
12-17-2010
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prisonplanet.com
The LAX TSA Choir, a group of 17 singers and musicians, all of them employees of the TSA, have been surprising passengers with performances of holiday music and other tunes in the midst of one of the nation’s busiest airports, reports USA Today .
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Government
Insider Reveals Diabolical Secrets Of The Rand Corporation
12-17-2010
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prisonplanet.com
Alex Abella on how mad men technocratic elite are intent on starting World War III
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Homeland Security
Complaint About DHS/Wal-Mart Partnership Leads to Wiretap
12-17-2010
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prisonplanet.com
An ex-employee of Wal-Mart shared some interesting information regarding a phone call placed to Wal-Mart’s corporate offices about the mega-giant’s ‘if you see something, say something’ partnership between Wal-Mart and The Department of Homeland Secu
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Homeland Security
Big Sis Cries our for Environmental Justice Dept at DHS!
12-17-2010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Janet Napolitano says "climate change" is a subject of Environmental Justice!! She's going to set up a task force in DHS to battle the effects of climate change on DOMESTIC SECURITY OPERATIONS!!! What??? Read here for more information on the ADDI
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Arrest BP, Not The People!
12-17-2010
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http://MeetTheTruth.com
Arrest BP, Not The People! Several oil-spill-related arrests have been made along the Gulf Coast: reporters for reporting . . . and a felony arrest for a vegetable oil spill. The Corporate Government of DC is protecting the corporate criminals at BP,
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Meet The Truth
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Time For Christians To Shred Their Bibles
12-17-2010
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chuckbaldwinlive.com
I challenge Christians to objectively look at the great stories of Bible heroes (in both testaments) and observe how many times they are noted for either being martyred for defying a civil authority, or, perhaps, for being delivered from death for de
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Vatican tried to keep Irish child rapist as priest
12-17-2010
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AP
The Vatican tried to stop Dublin church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a pub restroom.
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said he fully accepted the findings of the latest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
DHS Implementing No Work List: Citizens Must Get Government Approval to Work in Private Sector Jobs
12-17-2010
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infowars.com
You’ve heard of no fly and no buy lists " get ready for no work lists. Millions of workers now must apply to the DHS and prove they are not terrorists in order to be granted permission by the government to work.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Homeland Security
10,000 Child Porn Images Found On Ex-TSA Worker’s Computer
12-17-2010
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infowars.com
Yet another TSA worker has been exposed as a pedophile to add the the epidemic of cases that prove those who are inclined to work in jobs that allow them to sexually molest children via invasive groping measures at airports are the most unprofessiona
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Military
Former Blackwater bought by investment group
12-17-2010
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AP
An investment group with ties to the founder of the company formerly known as Blackwater announced Friday that it has bought the security firm, which was heavily criticized for its contractors' actions in Iraq.
USTC Holdings said in a statement th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Alaska militia leader tries to serve judge
12-17-2010
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Anchorage Daily News
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - An attempt by an Alaska militia leader to serve paperwork alleging state courts lack jurisdiction in his misdemeanor weapons case has been rejected.
Schaeffer Cox, head of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia, appeared at the Fairb
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield
12-17-2010
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AP
The CIA agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for two contractors who were the architects of the agency’s interrogation program and personally conducted dozens of waterboarding sessions on terror detainees, former US officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Florida ATM skips the folding cash, spits out gold
12-17-2010
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AP
Shoppers who are looking for something sparkly to put under the Christmas tree can skip the jewelry and go straight to the source: an ATM that dispenses shiny 24-carat gold bars and coins. A German company installed the machine at an upscale mall in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Never Fry Gnocchi
12-17-2010
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YouTube / Webstaurantstore
Steve shows us all how not to prepare gnocchi.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Propaganda
Mort Zuckerman’s Police State Nostalgia
12-17-2010
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C4SS / Kevin Carson
Zuckerman dismisses most of the leaked cables as no more than gossipy trivia about Putin’s personality, and suggests Assange’s supporters care nothing about Wikileaks’ effect on the ability of government officials to promote “peace and security”
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
25 Signs That The Coming Financial Collapse Is Now Closer Then Ever
12-17-2010
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TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/
Not only is U.S. government debt spinning wildly toward a breaking point, but many U.S. states (such as California) are in such horrific financial condition that they are beginning to resemble banana republics.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nassim Taleb Interview: "Both big government and big business is bad"
12-17-2010
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BusinessInsider.com & CNBC.com
Nassim Taleb spoke to CNBC this morning about the failure of big business and big government, as well as his new book of aphorisms.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Secret Anti-War Protest At White House (Well, It's A Secret to the 'Lamestream Media')
12-17-2010
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RawStory.com via e-mail from artistichealer
Raw Story was able to confirm the arrests of Ellsberg, McGovern, Rowley and Hedges, along with Veterans for Peace members Elliott Adams, Mike Ferner, Mike Hearington and Leah Bolger.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unemployment Rises in 21 States, and Unchanged in 14: Spinning Continues
12-17-2010
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CNBC.com
The unemployment rate rose in 21 states and Washington D.C. in November, up from the 14 states that showed increases the month before, according to government data released Friday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US Federal Government To End 2010 With $13.9 Trillion In Debt
12-17-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
We have said before, and pro forma for the Obama tax deal, we expect total debt issuance in 2011 to accelerate once again, and to hit just under $2 trillion, putting total US debt at the end of next year at around $16 trillion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Chris Whalen: "The Real Estate Bubble Bursting Will Come Home Next Year"
12-17-2010
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Georgewashington2.blogspot.com/ & YouTube.com
In this interview Christopher Whalen covers the bursting of the Housing Bubble in 2011, Fannie and Freddie, the Federal Reserve, and Foreclosure-Gate.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Gulag Casino Model To Envelop Chicago
12-17-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
And now people are warming up to Daley's idea of building a casino, effectively a tax on poor people and another way to avoid real fiscal reform.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
The Language of Health Tyranny: Decoding the Codex Alimentarius Guidelines For Vitamins and Suppleme
12-17-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Perhaps the most publicized aspect of Codex Alimentarius is the threat it poses to free access to vitamin and mineral supplements. While there are varying opinions on the effects the Codex guidelines would have on dietary supplements, there is little
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Chris Hedges: The American Empire Is Collapsing Like The USSR
12-17-2010
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RawStory.com
"We've undergone a corporate coup d'état in slow motion," he said. "Our public education system has been gutted. Our infrastructure is corroding and collapsing. Unless we begin to physically resist, they are going to solidify neo-feudalism in this...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Sea Level History Refined
12-17-2010
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arclein
r estimates of rates of sea-level rise are lower than those estimated from individual study sites, but they are statistically robust and therefore greatly improve our understanding of loss of ice volume due to the melting of the ice sheets at the end
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Ice and Fire
12-17-2010
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arclein
Scientists studying a column of Antarctic ice spanning 650 years have found evidence for fluctuations in biomass burning--the consumption of wood, peat and other materials in wildfires, cooking fires and communal fires--in the Southern Hemisphere.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Zero Solar Wind for Voyager
12-17-2010
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arclein
Launched on Sept. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock in December 2004 into the heliosheath. Scientists have used data from Voyager 1's Low-Energy Charged Particle Instrument to deduce the solar wind's velocity.
When the speed of th
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Costs About To Soar On Beleaguered Californians - Again!
12172010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Are people in California are that ignorant of what is going on in the world around them?
Here they go again - passing a new initiative to crank down greenhouse gas emissions and crank up costs - because they are going to save us all from ourselves
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Homeland Security
Making A List And Checking It Twice: DHS Starts Fascist "Right to Work List"
12-17-2010
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InfoWars.com/
Construction workers in New York will need permission from the TSA and DHS in order to practice their profession and earn a living. It was much the same in the former Soviet Union and authoritarian states such as China where the government...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House Passes Tax bill 277-148, Sending Bill To President
12/16/2010
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the real news now
The United States House of Representatives has pushed through the Obama-GOP tax-cut deal by a vote of 277-148. The bill will now go to the white house for approval by president Obama.
The bill reauthorizes extended unemployment benefits through 20
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The Real News
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News Link • Immigration
DREAM A Little DREAM - Cloture Vote Saturday
12172010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Dream a little DREAM. Illegals getting state funded education, social security, other benefits and open the backdoor for their parents' amnesty - cloture vote on Saturday.
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Rich Hilts
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