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Date Sent: 2010-12-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 21, 2010 AM edition |
US government ‘creating vast domestic snooping machine’
Cables Shed Light on Ex-K.G.B. Officer’s Death -- Prospect of WikiLeaks Dump Poses Problems for Regulators -- Gauging the price tag for Afghanistan's security -- Monitoring America -- Top Secret America -- Is JP Morgan Shifting Its Silver And Gold Shorts To Non-US Domiciled Banks?
-- Cancer-causing toxin found in 31 US cities' drinking water --
WikiLeaks lawyers: Sweden ‘smeared’ Assange with police files release -- 12 men arrested in suspected UK terrorism plot -- Congress should divest from defense stocks, Bush appointee says -- Second-hand water vapor? The war against electronic cigarettes.
-- Zimbabwe Health Care, Paid With Peanuts -- Haiti cholera toll passes
2,500 -- Broadband firms urged to block sex websites to protect
children -- China warns of escalating arms race in Asia -- Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations -- D.C. Is Determined to Destroy Your Car: 15% Alcohol Fries Auto Engines -- US empire could collapse at any time, Pulitzer winner tells Raw Story -- Online ad spending overtakes newspapers: eMarketer -- UK plans to block all porn in effort to ‘protect children’ -- The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom -- Rove’s hand seen in Julian Assange prosecution, sources allege
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News Link • Government
US government ‘creating vast domestic snooping machine’
12-20-2010
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RawStory.com
The government is creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent terror plots
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Cables Shed Light on Ex-K.G.B. Officer’s Death
12-20-2010
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NY Times
Shortly after the radiation poisoning in London of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, a senior Russian official asserted that Moscow had been tailing his killers before he died but had been waved off by Britain’s security services, acc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Prospect of WikiLeaks Dump Poses Problems for Regulators
12-20-2010
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NY Times
“Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings.”
That was according to Forbes magazine, which interviewed Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeak
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gauging the price tag for Afghanistan's security
12-20-2010
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Washington Post
As the United States begins to look closely at reducing future spending, it may be time to put a dollar figure on President Obama's commitment, restated last week, to the long-term security of Afghanistan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Monitoring America
12-20-2010
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Washington Post
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investig
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Is JP Morgan Shifting Its Silver And Gold Shorts To Non-US Domiciled Banks?
12-20-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Is there a stealthy transfer of precious metals market manipulation taking place, one that exonerates the domestic, and therefore regulatable, suspects, while making foreign banks carry the burden of suppressing silver and gold prices?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Environment
Cancer-causing toxin found in 31 US cities' drinking water
12-20-2010
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Terrence Aym
An investigative study released on December 20, 2010 by an environmental group reveals that 31 major cities have tap water tainted with the carcinogen hexavalent chromium. While the carcinogen is known to cause lung cancer if inhaled, cancer in labor
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Solstice Lunar Eclipse
12-20-2010
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arclein
The eclipse begins on Tuesday morning, Dec. 21st, at 1:33 am EST (Monday, Dec. 20th, at 10:33 pm PST). At that time, Earth's shadow will appear as a dark-red bite at the edge of the lunar disk. It takes about an hour for the "bite" to expand and s
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robert klein
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks lawyers: Sweden ‘smeared’ Assange with police files release
12-20-2010
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Rawstory
In what may be an ironic turn of events, lawyers for Julian Assange are up in arms about a leak of sensitive information. The WikiLeaks founder's Swedish legal team is planning to file a complaint demanding that authorities investigate the leaking of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
12 men arrested in suspected UK terrorism plot
12-20-2010
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AP
In the biggest anti-terrorist sweep in Britain in nearly 2 years, police have arrested 12 men for plotting a large-scale terror attack on targets inside the UK. The suspects, who ranged in age from 17 to 28, had been under surveillance for weeks and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
FCC poised to adopt network neutrality rules (Update)
12-20-2010
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AP
FCC Chairman Genachowski now has the 3 votes needed for approval, despite firm opposition from the 2 Republicans on the 5-member commission. Genachowski's 2 fellow Democrats said they will vote for the rules, even though they consider them too weak.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Congress should divest from defense stocks, Bush appointee says
12-20-2010
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Rawstory
Members of Congress ought to divest from companies that hold military contracts with the US government, a former Senate appointee that served in the Bush administration, said. "I am frankly surprised they are allowed to have these investments," Gordo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Second-hand water vapor? The war against electronic cigarettes.
12-20-2010
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Imagine, a tobaccoless cigarette that delivers nicotine in the form of water vapor. No second hand smoke, no stinky clothes, no annoying people with coughing, no violation of any smoking laws. You’d think anti-smokers would embrace it, right? Not qui
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Zimbabwe Health Care, Paid With Peanuts
12-20-2010
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NY Times
People lined up on the veranda of the American mission hospital here from miles around to barter for doctor visits and medicines, clutching scrawny chickens, squirming goats and buckets of maize. But mostly, they arrived with sacks of peanuts on thei
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Haiti cholera toll passes 2,500
12-20-2010
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AFP
The health ministry has listed 2535 deaths since the outbreak in the impoverished Caribbean nation erupted in mid-October. Almost 57,000 of the 114,497 people infected have been treated in hospital.
Hopes rose last week that the death rate could b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Broadband firms urged to block sex websites to protect children
12-20-2010
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The Guardian
Internet service providers are to be asked by the government to tighten up on website pornography to try to combat the early sexualisation of children.
Ministers believe broadband providers should consider automatically blocking sex sites, with in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China warns of escalating arms race in Asia
12-20-2010
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Daily Telegraph
Japan said last week that it planned to purchase Patriot PAC3 interceptors, which are meant to shoot down incoming short and medium-range ballistic missiles, and to step up work on Aegis " a US-led sea-based system to protect ships and troops from ba
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations
12-20-2010
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AP
Chavez's congressional allies are considering extending the "Social Responsibility Law" for broadcast media to the Internet, banning messages that "disrespect public authorities," "incite or promote hatred" or crimes, or create "anxiety" in the popul
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
D.C. Is Determined to Destroy Your Car: 15% Alcohol Fries Auto Engines
12-20-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The introduction of mid-level ethanol blends could result in unintended adverse impacts on the 250 million Americans who own and operate over 400 million motor vehicles, motorcycles, lawnmowers, chainsaws, recreational boats...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Medical scientists find gene proteins linked to 130 brain illnesses
12-20-2010
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Terrence Aym
A Scottish medical research team has announced the discovery of an array of proteins associated with more than 130 brain diseases. For years neurological researchers have postulated that a gene might exists that could be linked to an array of brain d
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Books
Rocketeers
12-20-2010
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michaelbelfiore.com
Space is no longer just a government program. Thanks to an emerging breed of innovative aerospace companies, it is rapidly becoming just another place to do business.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Exclusive: US empire could collapse at any time, Pulitzer winner tells Raw Story
12-20-2010
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RawStory.com
America's military and economic empire could collapse at any time, but predicting the precise day, week or month of its potential demise is unattainable, according to a former New York Times war correspondent who spoke with Raw Story.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Real Victory Against REAL ID
12/20/2010
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Free Patriot Press
Jim Babka reports that budget bill H.R. 3082 rescinds funding for implementing the “hub” for REAL ID data collection. If this passes (which it presumably will), it will be a major victory for privacy rights advocates, but it falls short of repealing
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Internet
Online ad spending overtakes newspapers: eMarketer
12-20-2010
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RawStory.com
Online advertising spending in the United States will overtake spending on newspaper ads this year for the first time, digital research firm eMarketer said Monday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
UK plans to block all porn in effort to ‘protect children’
12-20-2010
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RawStory.com
Fears over Internet freedom as UK plans to expand web censorship
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom
12-20-2010
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online.wsj.com
'Net neutrality' sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Rove’s hand seen in Julian Assange prosecution, sources allege
12-20-2010
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RawStory.com
Former Bush political strategist Karl Rove may be connected to a Swedish effort to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sources for several legal experts suggest.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
How to Tell Friends and Family the Truth
12-20-2010
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SovereignMan.com
Are you an independent thinker? Do you have trouble getting friends and family to accept what you know?
The truth about what's happening in the world, economically and otherwise, isn't always pretty. And that means people resist hearing it. In
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Sovereign Man
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