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Date Sent: 2011-01-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 3, 2011 PM edition |
Bush Sr. Admin. Assured Saddam of Bush's Friendship at July 25, 1990 Meeting
Goldman Sachs Just Bought The Facebook IPO -- California Makes It Illegal To Impersonate People Online
-- Foreclosure-Gate: Foreclosure Mill Accountants & Attorneys
Beyond Law -- Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons -- Sen.
Levin pie-chucker charged -- GAZA'S YOUTH MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE! -- New study: Fallujah birth defects reach epidemic levels -- Niall Ferguson Video Lecture – “Empires On The Verge Of Chaos” -- Soros: US Must Stop Resisting World Currency, and New World Order -- Dead fish cover 20-miles of Arkansas River -- Forecast 2011 - Gird Your Loins for Lower Living Standards
-- Dead Birds Fall From Sky (MSNBC VIDEO) -- 2011 Is Going To Be
Another Ugly Year For America's Middle Class -- Skype now illegal in
China -- Bankers rebuffed by university over request to censor scholarly paper -- 'Death panels' are real -- brought on by budget pressures -- Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You -- Your Medicare taxes won't cover what you'll cost
AZ: John Stuart 'Pre-Trial' Hearing
For 2008 Self-Defense Action This Tuesday; Arizona Breakfast Club meets
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Saturday, 1/8/2011
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush Sr. Admin. Assured Saddam of Bush's Friendship at July 25,1990 Meeting
01-03-2011
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AntiWar.com
It had long been speculated that comments by Glaspie had led Saddam to believe that the United States was giving them the green light to invade Kuwait if diplomacy failed.
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News Link • Internet
Goldman Sachs Just Bought The Facebook IPO
01-03-2011
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Business Insider
By investing $450 million in Facebook at a $50 billion valuation -- and helping Facebook raise as much as another $1.5 billion, as the NYT reported -- Goldman Sachs got a little extra: It's now in the driver's seat to eventually take Facebook public.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
California Makes It Illegal To Impersonate People Online
01-03-2011
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Business Insider
California's law making it illegal to impersonate people online just went into effect.
Now this hobby will get you dinged for up to $1,000 and/or a year in jail.
So you'd better put those plans to create a hilarious Marissa Mayer Facebook acco
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Foreclosure Mill Accountants & Attorneys Beyond Law
01-03-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
One of the frustrating issues in trying to rein in fraud is the way that essential accessories, namely, accounting firms and law firms, are close to beyond the reach of the law.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government
LIBERTY AWARDS: Top Ten Promoters of Liberty in 2010
01-03-2011
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Becky Chandler
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons
01-03-2011
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NY Times
He does it all on a Samsung smartphone, which he says he bought from a guard. And he used the same phone to help organize a short strike among inmates at several Georgia prisons last month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Levin pie-chucker charged
01-03-2011
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AP
An anti-war demonstrator who hurled a pie at the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in August was charged Thursday in the attack. Ms. Ahlam Mohsen, 23, faces a count of assault for hitting Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) in the face with an ap
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Christians, police clash after Egypt church bomb
01-03-2011
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AP
Christians clashed with Egyptian police in the northern city of Alexandria on Saturday, furious over an apparent suicide bombing against worshippers leaving a New Year’s Mass at a church that killed at least 21 people. It was the worst violence again
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Perpetuum Jazzile + The Real Group - Africa
01-03-2011
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www.flixxy.com/
Choir uses hands to simulate storm. Performed live at Vocal Extravaganza 2008, a concert spectacle of vocal jazz and popular music.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
The American Form of Government (a Conservative View)
01-03-2011
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www.flixxy.com
An explanation of the various forms of government and political systems, and why America is not a democracy, but a republic.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
GAZA'S YOUTH MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE!
01-03-2011
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Gaza Youth Breaks Out
We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16’s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that consumes us.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Iraq
New study: Fallujah birth defects reach epidemic levels
01-03-2011
Authors of the study found deformities in the babies are almost 11 times higher than average rates. Those deformities spiked in the first half of 2010.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Economy - International
Niall Ferguson Video Lecture " “Empires On The Verge Of Chaos”
01-03-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
ForaTV, in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, shares another terrific must watch presentation, this time by one of our favorite socioeconomic historians, Niall Ferguson, who in this lecture talks in depth, and with an objective
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Soros: US Must Stop Resisting World Currency, and New World Order
01-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
George Soros talks about "the creation of a New World Order", he discusses the need for a "managed decline" of the U.S. dollar and he talks at length of the global need for a true world currency.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rhode Island Offshore Wind Turbines Doubled
1/3/11
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arclein
The new specs for the project: 200 turbines, at least 18 miles off the Rhode Island coast; 1,000 Megawatts (previously it was 350 MW), with an undersea transmission network stretching from Massachusetts to New York. The transmission network alone add
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robert klein
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News Link • Humor
This Is My Lucky Day
01-03-2011
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www.flixxy.com
A compilation of some of the luckiest people on earth - featuring pedestrians, railway passengers, motorcyclists, car drivers, tenants, spectators, policemen and bank robbers.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
Mars Pits
01-03-2011
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arclein
Released in December, the image is among a series of new views snapped by MRO's HiRISE camera that show intriguing geological features on Mars. Each image covers a strip of Martian ground 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) wide and can reveal a detail about a
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robert klein
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News Link • Humor
Sumsing Turbo 3000 Cellphone
01-03-2011
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www.flixxy.com
Move over iPhone. Here is a cellular phone that *really* can multitask! The Sumsing Turbo 3000 Xi mobile phone...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
ICE CUBE Completed
01-03-2011
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arclein
The NSF announced this week that the final detectors have been installed and Ice Cube is officially complete. I visited last January as they were well underway.
Neutrinos are the smallest thing you cannot imagine. They are the tiniest wisp of noth
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robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
Dead fish cover 20-miles of Arkansas River
01-03-2011
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www.todaysthv.com
The affected area was never closed and fishing is encouraged. "Right now it's fine to fish. If you go out there you can still fish for bass and crappie, catfish, it will be fine. Obviously don't' eat the dead fish."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Forecast 2011 - Gird Your Loins for Lower Living Standards
01-03-2011
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Kunstler.com
The outstanding question from the get-go of 2011 is just this: can a political economy be kept floating along like a Winnie-the-Pooh balloon on gusts of sheer fakery? To me, the simple answer is no.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Books
Nobody Sells 'Millions of Copies'
01-03-2011
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by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Before I became an author myself, I held an inflated estimate of the number of copies the typical book (bestselling or otherwise) sold. I also thought the author earned more per book than he really does. In my experience, the general public shares th
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
High-Tech Car Door
01-03-2011
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www.flixxy.com
Driving a car with disappearing doors will definitely grab everyone's attention.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
Snow Vehicle Concept (1924) (VIDEO)
01-03-2011
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www.flixxy.com
A demo film of the Armstead Snow Motors Company concept snow vehicle - powered by a Fordson tractor and a Chevrolet automobile. (Publisher: Very Cool!)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
2011 Is Going To Be Another Ugly Year For America's Middle Class
01-03-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
There are some very serious long-term economic trends that are absolutely ripping apart the U.S. middle class.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Skype now illegal in China
01-03-2011
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THE Chinese regulator has declared Internet phone services other than those provided by China Telecom and China Unicom as illegal, which is expected to make services like Skype unavailable in the country. To protect state-owned telecom carriers, medi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy
01-03-2011
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SlashDot
"Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that YouTube and similar websites based on user-generated content will be considered TV stations (Google translation of Italian original) in Italian law, and will be subject to the same obligations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Bankers rebuffed by university over request to censor scholarly paper
01-03-2011
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Rawstory
A powerful banking association tried -- and failed -- to censor a Cambridge University student's thesis that exposed a flaw in electronic card security.
Chip and PIN is a smartcard payment system in the United Kingdom that requires customers to en
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
01-03-2011
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NY Times
Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises. Perched above the prison yard, five cameras tracked the play-acting prisoners, and artific
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Black Marketing Exec Sues Sheriff for Tasering, 'Pummeling' on Traffic Stop
01-03-2011
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Gawker
John Harmon, a diabetic who owns a marketing company, was pulled over after low blood sugar levels made him swerve into another lane. The sheriff's deputies smashed his window, Tasered him, and charged him with resisting arrest. Now he's suing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Seceding from Secession
01-03-2011
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NY Times
Wood County lay across the Blue Ridge Mountains from the plantations of Tidewater Virginia, far from the Chesapeake shores where black children were considered a cash crop. Slaves here " despite the holdings of a few men like Foley " totaled less tha
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News Link • Healthcare
'Death panels' are real -- brought on by budget pressures
01-03-2011
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Washington Post
During the debate over health reform, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Sarah Palin and others railed against the "death panels" that would result from the bill. Government bureaucrats, critics said, would decide who would die and when. The bill passe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Social Security
Your Medicare taxes won't cover what you'll cost
01-03-2011
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AP
But a newly updated financial analysis shows that what people paid into the system doesn't come close to covering the full value of the medical care they can expect to receive as retirees.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Is something wrong with the sexual development of human males?
01/3/2011
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the real news now
Have you noticed there aren’t as many males in the world anymore? Well, there isn’t. A growing body of evidence has begun to show something is wrong with the sexual health of human males.
To begin with, Sperm counts have dropped by 50% in the last
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