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Date Sent: 2009-12-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 18, 2009 AM edition |
Eikenberry assures Afghans US stays beyond 2011 -- Iraqi Insurgents Hack Drones w/ $26 Software
Want privacy on Facebook? Here is how to get some -- Huge wrap-up bill likely to clear Senate hurdle -- Muslims Say F.B.I. Tactics Sow Anger and Fear
-- U.S. drone strikes kill 16 in Pakistani region thought to be
al-Qaeda home base -- Obama: Tax hikes, spending cuts wrong for economy
-- Teacher who took students to Hooters is put on leave -- First Commercial 3-D Bioprinter Fabricates Organs To Order -- Pentagon: Insurgents intercepted drone spy videos -- Inquiry Condemns Oversight at State Police Crime Lab -- Senate Banking Gives Bernanke The Nod, Full Vote Will Too -- War? There's an iPhone App for That -- Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes by Amy Goodman -- School goes ballistic when 2nd-grader draws Jesus -- Video: Michele Bachmann: "Financial bill worse than healthcare measure -- New jobless benefit claims rise unexpectedly -- Time Magazine's Person of the Year Historically a Kiss of Death
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond 2011
12-17-2009
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McClatchy News
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry Thursday further signaled that a strong American military presence will remain in Afghanistan long after July 2011, when President Obama plans to end his troop surge.
Speaking at the Afghan Ministry o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon: Insurgents intercepted drone spy videos
12-17-2009
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Yahoo! news
WASHINGTON " Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have hacked into live video feeds from Predator drones, a key weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military's eyes in the sky for surveillance and intelligence collection.
Though milita
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon: Insurgents intercepted drone spy videos
12-17-2009
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AP
Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from Predator drones, a key weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military's eyes in the sky for surveillance and intelligence collection.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Want privacy on Facebook? Here is how to get some
12-17-2009
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AP
Over the past week, Facebook has been nudging its users " first gently, then firmly " to review and update their privacy settings. You may have procrastinated by hitting "skip for now," but Facebook eventually took away that button and forced you to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Wrap-up bill likely to clear Senate hurdle
12-17-2009
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AP
Must-pass legislation that wraps up the bulk of the remaining congressional agenda besides health care was expected to easily clear a Senate hurdle in the wee hours of Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Watch the Iron Man 2 Trailer Now!
12-17-2009
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Marvel
Here's a holiday gift from everyone here at Marvel: the "Iron Man 2" trailer! Watch it now! "Iron Man 2" hits theaters May 7, 2010.
Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, aka the super hero Iron Man in this se
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • TERRORISM
Muslims Say F.B.I. Tactics Sow Anger and Fear
12-17-2009
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NY Times
The anxiety and anger have been building all year. In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless the agency stopped infiltrating mosques and using “agents provocateurs to trap un
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. drone strikes kill 16 in Pakistani region thought to be al-Qaeda home base
12-17-2009
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Washington Post
An unusually large barrage of missiles fired by remotely piloted U.S. aircraft killed 16 people in the tribal area of North Waziristan on Thursday, a possible indication that the United States plans to escalate such attacks after Pakistan declined to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama: Tax hikes, spending cuts wrong for economy
12-17-2009
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Reuters
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday raising taxes or cutting spending would be the "wrong thing to do" next year when the U.S. economy is still fragile and this would be reflected in his budget plan and State of the Union speech.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Teacher who took students to Hooters is put on leave
12-17-2009
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Arizona Republic
A Paradise Valley High School music teacher whose students performed at one of President's Barack Obama inauguration events has been put on administrative leave after taking 40 students to eat at a Hooters in downtown Phoenix.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
Fractures in the Truth Movement, Part III
The Fissure Becomes a Gulf
12-17-2009
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Brandon Dean
As covered in part 1 of this series, the split between anti-Zionists and those who equate anti-Zionism with anti-semitism was blown wide open last April by Jason Bermas of Loose Change fame, while guest-hosting the Alex Jones Show. He accomplished t
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War Onyou
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Air Force Academy Religious Climate Improving
12-17-2009
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Huffington Post
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. " The Air Force Academy says religious tolerance has improved dramatically since allegations five years ago that evangelical Christians harassed cadets who didn't share their faith. Even the school's most vocal critic agrees.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Gulf Petro-Powers to Launch Currency in Latest Threat to Dollar Hegemony
12-17-2009
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LewRockwell.com
The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First Commercial 3-D Bioprinter Fabricates Organs To Order
12-17-2009
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PopSi
The problem with organ transplants is that the organ has to come from someone else. Since most people rather fancy their hearts and lungs, getting any organ other than a kidney usually requires the difficult combination of donor consent and timely de
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Nazi Letters, JFK Brain Fragment: What Workers Discovered in Ted Kennedy’s Cape Cod Attic
12-17-2009
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Ginn
Workers cleaning out Ted Kennedy’s Cape Cod home discovered a “treasure trove” of items stored in Kennedy’s attic including a brain fragment preserved by formaldehyde and Nazi letters addressed to Kennedy patriarch and former Ambassador to Britain fr
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Police State
Intelligence Agencies Release Docs Describing Misconduct in Response to EFF Lawsuit
12-17-2009
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Today the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency released 162 pages of intelligence oversight reporting in response to a Freedom of Information Ac
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Poll: 2010 could be 'year of the angry white male' redux
12-17-2009
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Christian Science Monitor
Voters are in a sour mood, which could lead to trouble for incumbents in Congress and statehouses in 2010, bipartisan pollsters say. Will it be a repeat of the 'Republican revolution' of 1994?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Inquiry Condemns Oversight at State Police Crime Lab
12-17-2009
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New York Times
The New York State Police’s supervision of a crime laboratory was so poor that it overlooked evidence of pervasively shoddy forensics work, allowing an analyst to go undetected for 15 years as he falsified test results and compromised nearly one-thir
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
U.S. Offer of Long-Term Aid Pushes Climate Talks Forward
12-17-2009
COPENHAGEN " With time running out on the stalled Copenhagen climate negotiations, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave new hope that an agreement might still be reached when she announced Thursday that the United States would help raise $1
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Senate Banking Gives Bernanke The Nod, Full Vote Will Too
12-17-2009
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http://business.theatlantic.com
This morning, the Senate banking committee voted 16 to 7 to reconfirm Ben Bernanke as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Now the full Senate must also agree that Bernanke should keep his job.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Copenhagen Climate Summit: The Empire’s New Clothes
by Amy Goodman
12-17-2009
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CommomDreams.org
As the United Nations’ climate summit, called “COP 15,” enters its final week, with more than 100 world leaders arriving amid growing protests, the notion that a binding agreement will come from this conference looks more and more like a fairy tale.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War? There's an iPhone App for That
12-17-2009
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CommomDreams.org
American military contractor shows off iPhone application intended to help soldiers track and kill insurgents on the battlefield
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Congresswoman Bachmann outs Barney Frank's bill to give President power to bailout w/o Congress
12-17-2009
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breitbart.com
"We're the beacons. We're it. If the US goes down, where do we go? What other nation do we go to? This is it."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Progressive Breakfast: Is 'Hopenhagen' Now Hopelesshagen?
12-17-2009
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www.ourfuture.org
As President Obama flies to Copenhagen later today to join dozens of other heads of state at the climate change talks there, The New York Times joins other media outlets in concluding that "continued bickering among delegations would seem to be maki
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Video: Michele Bachmann: "Financial bill worse than healthcare measure . . . and no one knows a
12/17/09
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Breitbart TV
"We're the beacons. We're it. If the US goes down, where do we go? What other nation do we go to? This is it.".... video:
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi Insurgents Hack Drones with $26 Software
12-17-2009
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Wall St Journal
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.
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Trouser Chili
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