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Date Sent: 2009-12-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 21, 2009 PM edition |
Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies -- Obama and the Supreme Court Stand Up for Slavery
Gov't imposes 3-hour limit on airport tarmac strandings -- Obama finally allows raped contractors to sue in court -- Obama blocks government secrets from being declassified -- NFL to ask its players to donate brains for study -- 1:19 a.m.: Senate Dems win key 60-40 vote on health care -- Kill Your Pets to Save the Earth -- Maliki makes his move on Kirkuk issue -- Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies
12-15-2009
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Spiked
There is a long and sordid tradition of trying to socialise children by scaring them. The aim of such socialisation-through-fear is twofold: firstly, to get children to conform to the scaremongers’ values; secondly, to use children to influence, or a
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Reported by:
KDK Klein
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supreme Court Stand Up for Slavery
12-21-2009
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Chris Floyd
While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty. It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Gov't imposes 3-hour limit on airport tarmac strandings
12-21-2009
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AP
The Obama administration took aim Monday at tarmac horror stories, ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded airplanes to disembark after three hours. With its new regulations, the Transportation Department sent an unequivocal message on
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Amendment ensures contractors have legal rights
12-21-2009
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McClatchy News
Four years ago, Jamie Leigh Jones, a 20-year old Texas contract employee working in Iraq, was drugged, stripped, beaten and gang-raped by her co-workers on her fourth day in country. She finally managed to get a phone call out from the shipping conta
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Obama blocks government secrets from being declassified
12-21-2009
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AP
President Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering government-wide changes that could sharply curb the number of new and old governmen
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NFL to ask its players to donate brains for study
12-21-2009
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AP
[OK, SNL writers, here is Sat.'s skit.] The league encourages current and former NFL players to donate their brains to Boston Univ. for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, which linked repeated head trauma and brain damage in football players and
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
Authorities seek to explain young sailor's trip
12-21-2009
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AP
Authorities tried to piece together Monday how 14-year-old Dutch sailor Laura Dekker managed to slip out of the Netherlands and fly to the Caribbean, and whether anybody helped her flee.
Dekker, who lost a court battle in October for the right t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
1:19 a.m.: Senate Dems win key 60-40 vote on health care
12-21-2009
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McClatchy News
The Senate early Monday voted 60 to 40 to cut off extended debate on the Democratic-authored health care overhaul bill, the first major step toward passing the measure later this week. The vote, which saw all 58 Democrats and two independents vote to
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Kill Your Pets to Save the Earth...Do It NOW!!!! ;-)
12-21-2009
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AFP
Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Maliki makes his move on Kirkuk issue
12-21-2009
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Asia Times
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will soon visit the northern district of Kurdistan, aiming to sign a deal with Kurdish President Massoud Barzani regarding the future of the Peshmerga, the Kurdish militia. According to the deal, the Baghdad gover
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
Weapons seizure hits North Korea hard
12-21-2009
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Asia Times
The detention in Thailand of a cargo plane transporting weapons and the arrest of its crew remain shrouded in mystery. The destination of the weapons and identity of their buyers is uncertain. American officials and analysts believe however,
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Notes
12-21-2009
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arclein
If a ton of manure causes a strong smell, then two tons of manure is not going to produce a lovely scent. Something else is happening.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Comet Ammonia Link
12-21-2009
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arclein
the Tunguska and Younger Dryas events. In both instances, Melott's group found evidence that the Haber process - whereby a nitrogen fixation reaction produces ammonia - may have occurred on a large scale.
"A comet entering the atmosphere makes a b
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Mammoth Decline
12-21-2009
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arclein
The new view â€" that pockets of beasts survived to as recently as 7,600 years ago, rather than the previous end times mark of 12,000 years ago â€" is supported by DNA evidence found in a few pinches of dirt.
After plucking ancient DNA from frozen soi
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robert klein
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