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Date Sent: 2011-01-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 6, 2011 AM edition |
IRS tormenting struggling taxpayers -- Israel told US it would keep Gaza near collapse
Detained American Says He Was Beaten in Kuwait -- Islamic group is CIA front, ex-Turkish intel chief says -- Is Fannie bailing out the banks? -- CIA waited years to stop nuclear proliferation -- Tightening Security in the “Post-WikiLeaks” Era
-- Pa. State Police To Stop Citing People For Using Profanity -- The
Locavore's Dilemma: Why Pineapples Shouldn't Be Grown in North Dakota -- Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds -- The Most Violent Woman the World Has Ever Known Calls Obamacare Reform "Violent" -- Montel Williams cited after pipe found at airport -- Frustrated family wants CIA detainee's remains -- Iran President Ahmadinejad slapped by head of Revolutionary Guard -- Trial set for firing over use of 'n' word -- Court: TV can't be fined for 'NYPD Blue' nude shot
-- World Bank taps offshore yuan bond market for first time -- ABC
News: Michele Bachmann considering presidential bid -- Video Released
In Murder Mystery Of Delaware War Vet -- Manning-Wired Controversy Heats Up -- Recipe for a Successful 2011 - by Ron Paul
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club
meets
this Saturday, 1/8/2011; PHX Objectivists: Lecture on "Postmodernism"
1/13/2011
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Watchdog: IRS tormenting struggling taxpayers
01-05-2011
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AP
A government watchdog says the Internal Revenue Service is tormenting struggling taxpayers in the midst of a slumping economy by increasing the number of liens the agency has filed against people who owe back taxes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel said it would keep Gaza near collapse: WikiLeaks
01-05-2011
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RawStory.com
Israel told US officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse" while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Detained American Says He Was Beaten in Kuwait
01-05-2011
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NY Times
An American teenager detained in Kuwait two weeks ago and placed on an American no-fly list claims that he was severely beaten by his Kuwaiti captors during a weeklong interrogation about possible contacts with terrorism suspects in Yemen.
The tee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Islamic group is CIA front, ex-Turkish intel chief says
01-05-2011
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Washington Post
A memoir by a top former Turkish intelligence official claims that a worldwide moderate Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is Fannie bailing out the banks?
01-05-2011
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Fortune
[Critics] charge that Monday's rally-stoking mortgage-putback deal between Bank of America (BAC) and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is nothing more than a backdoor bailout of the nation's largest lender.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA waited years to stop nuclear proliferation
01-05-2011
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Rawstory
The US government is guilty of allowing nuclear materials and intelligence to proliferate among some of the most dangerous regimes in the world for more than 30 years, a new book alleges.
In Fallout, authors Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins ch
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Tightening Security in the “Post-WikiLeaks” Era
01-05-2011
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Secrecy News
The Obama Administration is moving to increase the security of classified information in response to the massive leaks of classified documents to Wikileaks in recent months.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pa. State Police To Stop Citing People For Using Profanity
01-05-2011
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CBS News
The ACLU of Pennsylvania says State Police have agreed to stop citing people for disorderly conduct when they use profanity.
Senior ACLU staff attorney Mary Catherine Roper says these citations are not unusual.
“And that’s why we started bringi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Locavore's Dilemma: Why Pineapples Shouldn't Be Grown in North Dakota
01-05-2011
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EconLib / Jayson Lusk, Bailey Norwood
No agricultural economist has informed the public that a key claim of local-food advocates"that local-food purchases enhance the local economy"violates the core economic principles taught in every introductory economics class. Until now.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds
01-05-2011
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CNN
A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Most Violent Woman the World Has Ever Known Calls Obamacare Reform "Violent"
01-05-2011
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The Blaze
"To say we're going to repeal it...is to do very serious violence to the national debt and deficit."
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Drug War
Montel Williams cited after pipe found at airport
01-05-2011
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AP
Wisconsin authorities say former talk show host and medical marijuana activist Montel Williams has been cited for possession of drug paraphernalia at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee.
The Milwaukee County sheriff's office says t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Frustrated family wants CIA detainee's remains
01-05-2011
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AP
The family of Gul Rahman is still trying to recover his remains for burial, months after learning that he was stripped naked, doused in cold water and then left to die in a CIA-run Afghan prison known as the Salt Pit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran President Ahmadinejad slapped by head of Revolutionary Guard
01-05-2011
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NY Daily News
A new diplomatic cable says the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard smacked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the face for suggesting easing restrictions on the press.
The February 2010 cable, classified secret and puckishly headlined, "He Who Got S
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Trial set for firing over use of 'n' word
01-05-2011
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A federal jury will be asked to decide whether it is acceptable for an African American person, but not a white person, to use the "n" word in a workplace.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick has ruled that former Fox29 reporter-anchor Tom Burl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Jamaican 'ninja bird' used wings as nunchucks
01-05-2011
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New Scientist
The wings of flightless birds usually shrink after they abandon flight. But a flightless ibis that lived on Jamaica until about 10,000 years ago turned its hand bones into miniature baseball bats to defend its territory and probably its young.
By
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Court: TV can't be fined for 'NYPD Blue' nude shot
01-05-2011
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AP
The FCC cannot fine broadcasters for showing a woman's nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue," a federal court ruled citing its earlier decision to strike down FCC rules regarding fleeting expletives uttered on live broadcasts as unconstituti
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
World Bank taps offshore yuan bond market for first time
01-05-2011
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ph.news.yahoo.com
The World Bank issued its first yuan-denominated bond, raising $76 million and trying to promote the use of the Chinese currency in international markets at a time when China's stake in the institution is about to increase.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics
ABC News: Michele Bachmann considering presidential bid
01-05-2011
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www.startribune.com
ABC News says U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann is considering running for president and will confer this month with GOP officials in Iowa about her prospects in that early caucus state.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Video Released In Murder Mystery Of Delaware War Vet
01-05-2011
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philadelphia.cbslocal.com
Eyewitness News has obtained exclusive surveillance video of a former presidential aide that was taken two days before his body was found dumped in a Delaware landfill.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Latvia’s unique new residency program
01-05-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Latvia is broke… I’m talking flat broke" more than Spain, Greece, California, etc. And because this small Baltic, former Soviet republic is not in the Eurozone, it’s generally been left for dead by the EU’s larger economies save a few handouts here a
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Future Predictions
A look back, and some 2011 predictions
01-05-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
To be honest, I’m not much for New Year’s; it’s just an arbitrary day that has no more or less significance than any other day of the year, but I suppose all the time off over the holidays does give one plenty of time to pause, reflect on the previou
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News Link • Internet
Goldman Circumvents the Rules
01-05-2011
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dailybell.com
Regulations are important but fungible. And Goldman is so big that it must be right. Right?
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Recipe for a Successful 2011
01-05-2011
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dailybell.com
The year 2011 brings in a host of opportunities and challenges to America. Will we accelerate toward economic insolvency by continuing the policies that have created this crisis, or will a new Congress elected on the energy of the Tea Party movement
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Birds fall from sky again, this time in Louisiana
01-05-2011
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RawStory.com
The second unexplained mass bird death within a week has been discovered in the southern United States, this time in the state of Louisiana, officials said Tuesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Calif. Supreme Court approves warrantless data seizures by police
01-05-2011
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RawStory.com
If you're arrested in California, data stored on your mobile phone, tablet or other portable computing devices could be seized by police without so much as a search warrant.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Lecture on "Postmodernism"
01-04-2011
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first meeting of 2011 to be held on Thursday, January 13th, Phoenix Objectivists will listen to a lecture on Postmodernism by Dr. Stephen Hicks who is a philosophy Professor at Rockford College, Illinois.
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