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Date Sent: 2009-12-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 8, 2009 |
Experts predict flu pandemic mildest on record -- US Launch New Bid to Hunt Down bin Laden
In debate over nation's growing debt, a surplus of worry -- Senate Dems seek expansion of Medicare, Medicaid -- Feds confiscate cell phone camera from photojournalist -- Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite -- Sen: Gov't shouldn't have closed openness workshop -- Supreme Court takes up 'honest services,' or anti-corruption, law -- Judge declares mistrial in FBI Informant Hal Turner’s case -- Drug cartels no longer want US dollars -- Gitmo ’suicide’ trio had rags stuffed down throats -- Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule -- New Mexico Citizens Considered Foreigners After Dec. 31 --
The Real history of Pearl Harbor and the controversy still around it --
School Superintendent Has SETI Space Alien Research Experts Up in Arms
-- Who Wants War? - by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) -- 8 States choke DHS deadline game of "chicken" -- Thousands protest in Iran, battling police -- Administration to slash bailout cost estimate -- The Finnish way of neutralizing photo radar cameras
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Experts predict flu pandemic could be mildest on record
12-07-2009
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Washington Post
With the second wave of H1N1 infections having crested in the United States, leading epidemiologists are predicting that the pandemic could end up ranking as the mildest since modern medicine began documenting influenza outbreaks.
Experts warn tha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US to Launch New Bid to Hunt Down bin Laden (WHO?!!)
12-07-2009
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AntiWar.com
As the last defense secretary of the Bush Administration and the current defense secretary of the Obama Administration, Robert Gates is probably in a better position than any official to explain the failure of the US to capture Osama bin Laden over t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In debate over nation's growing debt, a surplus of worry
12-07-2009
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Washington Post
On the ninth floor of an unremarkable office building in downtown Washington. Half a dozen staffers sit at computer monitors, staring at incoming data. "Five minutes to go!"
This is the auction room of the Bureau of the Public Debt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Senate Dems seek expansion of Medicare, Medicaid
12-07-2009
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AP
Senate Democratic liberals are seeking expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, in exchange for dropping a government-sold insurance option from health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, several lawmakers said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Feds confiscate cell phone camera from photojournalist
12-07-2009
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Photography Is Not a Crime
“He told me, ‘You don’t understand. We’re not local law enforcement here. We’re the federal government. We’ll [seize] your gear right now,’” Nolan said. “He gave me two choices: either give my assurance or be placed under arrest.”
Tipton then conf
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
The medical sacrament of abortion v. racial politics
12-07-2009
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Wendy McElroy
Obama is black! Take a l-o-o-ong look at his black skin and, then, GET OVER IT! Start holding him to the same standards you would a POTUS who was white, yellow, or green.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
For 9/11 Cases, a Short List of Lawyers
12-07-2009
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NY Times
One lawyer calls it the “death list” " a cadre of about 20 veteran defense lawyers in New York who have broad experience in death penalty and other complex criminal cases. They have represented defendants in terrorist bombings in East Africa, drug-re
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Unemployment map timeline - holy crap!
12-07-2009
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American Observer (h/t Wendy McElroy)
This is a moving county by county map of unemployment rates in the USA from 2007 to now. Wow!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite
12-07-2009
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AP
The Supreme Court on Monday seemed headed toward telling police they must explicitly advise criminal suspects that their lawyer can be present during any interrogation.
The arguments in front of the justices were the latest over how explicit the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Sen: Gov't shouldn't have closed openness workshop
12-07-2009
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AP
A Republican senator who sponsored a law meant to help people with open-records requests says a government workshop on openness shouldn't have been closed to the public. [and the punishment is?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court takes up 'honest services,' or anti-corruption, law
12-07-2009
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Christian Science Monitor
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear three cases in its current term examining a controversial federal statute that makes it a crime "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services."
The law is a powerful weapon in the arsenal of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
$10 an hour with 2 kids? IRS pounces
12-07-2009
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Seattle Times
Rachel Porcaro knows she's hardly rich. When you're a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don't need government experts to tell you how broke you are.
But that's what happened. The government not only told Porcaro she was poor. They said she w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The Guy Who Brought the AR-15 to an Obama Speech Meets a Adam Kokesh
12-07-2009
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David Weigel
Adam Kokesh is one of the more intriguing Republican congressional candidates of the 2010 cycle. A 27-year-old libertarian who became a leader of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kokesh is mounting a Ron Paul-style antiwar, small-government campaign in
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge declares mistrial in FBI Informant Hal Turner’s case
12-07-2009
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Rawstory
"The mistrial came after the jury sent two notes saying it was hopelessly deadlocked over charges Hal Turner threatened to kill or assault a federal judge," the AP report continues. "A retrial was scheduled for March 1 in Brooklyn, where the case was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Drug cartels no longer want US dollars
12-07-2009
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Guardian
International drug cartels have abandoned the US dollar for high denomination euros to launder millions in illegal profits, Europol has revealed. The gangs no longer use $100 bills because €500 notes " the largest denomination of euro " take up less
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Gitmo ’suicide’ trio had rags stuffed down throats
12-07-2009
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Rawstory
Just how -- and why -- 3 people who hanged themselves would have managed to stuff rags down their throats before they died. Why neither the guards on duty nor the paramedics who showed up were interviewed; or why the paramedics didn't even ask the gu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Cost-benefit analysis of jobs stimulus
12-07-2009
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Reuters
The Obama Administration's job stimulus program spent $246,436 per job based on the $157.8bn that has been awarded so far! Total annual compensation earned by the average payroll employee was $59,867. If the government had simply used the funds award
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule
12-07-2009
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Wall Steet Journal
EPA action to regulate [carbon dioxide] emissions could affect the U.S. economy more directly, and more quickly, than any global deal inked in the Danish capital, where no binding agreement is expected. Many business groups are opposed to EPA efforts
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
New Mexico Citizens Considered Foreigners After Dec. 31, Passports to Board U.S. Commercial Flights
12-07-2009
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Ginn
After the first of the year, New Mexico residents may have carry passports if they want to board a flight on a commercial aircraft or enter federal facilities. All because the state refuses to knuckle under and pass Real ID.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • History
The Real history of Pearl Harbor and the controversy still around it.
12-07-09
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www.LCLReport.com
The Real history of Pearl Harbor. Did FDR provoke the attack to bring USA into Hitlers War? What really happened that day?
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Arizona School Superintendent Has SETI Space Alien Reseach Experts Up in Arms
12-07-2009
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Ginn
A story out of Arizona has SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experts “up in arms” over a school district superintendent’s comments. The story: a former worker fired after the school discovered he’d been running SETI’s Home program on th
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
LAPD detective accused of murder faces hearing
12-07-2009
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AP
A veteran Los Angeles police detective is due in court to hear whether there is enough evidence against her in connection with the decades-old murder of her ex-boyfriend's wife.
A preliminary hearing for 49-year-old Stephanie Lazarus is scheduled
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
Kan. lawmaker: Sorry if 'RedNeck Rap' offensive
12-07-2009
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AP
[Are you kidding me?] A Kansas lawmaker says he's sorry if he offended anyone by criticizing President Barack Obama while wearing a cap that calls opossum "the other dark meat."
Rep. Bill Otto said during a meeting with the NAACP on Saturday that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
8 States choke DHS deadline game of "chicken"
12-07-2009
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BeatTheChip.org
Last week 8 states "choked" the compliance game of chicken, some issuing letters defying Real ID regulations going into 2010. That is exactly what was done by States to address the last DHS deadline, March 31st, 2008. Based on previous results, DHS i
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The last best chance: UN climate conference opens
12-07-2009
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AP
The largest and most important UN climate change conference in history opened, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
BCS Buster Bowl: TCU vs. Boise State in Fiesta Bowl
12-07-2009
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AP
Welcome to the BCS Buster Bowl.
No. 3 TCU and No. 6 Boise State will meet in the Fiesta Bowl, marking the first time a BCS game other than the championship game has a matchup of unbeaten teams.
It’s also the first time two teams from conference
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Thousands protest in Iran, battling police
12-07-2009
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AP
Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University on Monday, beating them with batons and firing tear gas on a day of nationwide student demonstrations, witnesses said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Administration to slash bailout cost estimate
12-07-2009
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AP
The Obama administration will lose $200 billion less [borrowed tax dollars] than expected from the federal bailout program and is looking at using part of the savings to fund new job creation efforts. A Treasury official said the administration now b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship
12-07-2009
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AP
A spacecraft designed to rocket wealthy tourists into space as early as 2011 was unveiled Monday in what backers of the venture hope will signal a new era in aviation history.
The long-awaited glimpse of SpaceShipTwo marks the first public appeara
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Precambrian Nickel Sulphide Formation
12-07-2009
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arclein
These nickel deposits have sulfur in them arising from an atmospheric cycle in ancient times. The isotopic signal is of an anoxic atmosphere," says Rumble of Carnegie's Geophysical L
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Global Forest Observatory Needed
12-07-2009
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arclein
Now, a paper published by Dr Alan Grainger in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences outlines how a new body - named the "World Forest Observatory" - could use satellite images to map the world's forests and how they are changing.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Carbon Management
12-07-2009
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arclein
Perhaps we need to teach a new mindset to the global population. We need to be conscious of the idea of carbon management. We can convert our activities into exercises in carbon management in order to sustain a conscious awareness of its ability to
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robert klein
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