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Date Sent: 2009-12-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 29, 2009 |
Obama vows to use power to thwart terrorists -- Iran Arrests 1,500 Dissidents
Judge Is Censured for Efforts to Secure a Pay Raise -- Note to
Activists: Government can Predict Your Actions - by John Green --
Israel Announces New Jewish Homes in West Bank -- Max Baucus drunk on
the floor of the Senate? -- Walmart Sued for Secret Bathroom
Surveillance
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News Link • TERRORISM
Obama vows to use power to thwart terrorists
12-28-2009
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AP
President Obama vowed to use "every element of our national power" to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner was "a serious reminder" of the need to continually adapt security measures against c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran Arrests 1,500 Dissidents, Sites Report
12-28-2009
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NY Times
A day after violent protests rocked cities across Iran, the authorities arrested at least a dozen opposition figures. All told, more than 1,500 people have been arrested nationwide including 1,110 in Tehran and 400 in the city of Isfahan,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
In New Way to Edit DNA, Hope for Treating Disease
12-28-2009
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NY Times
The technique depends on natural agents called zinc fingers, may revive the lagging fortunes of gene therapy because it overcomes the inability to insert genes at a chosen site. Treatments for bubble-boy disease, hemophilia and sickle-cell anemia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Number of homeless students rising in E.V.
12-28-2009
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East Valley Tribune
The population of homeless students in East Valley school districts continues to grow week after week. Through the federal McKinney-Vento program, students displaced from a permanent place of residence " who are now living with other family members,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Is Censured for Efforts to Secure a Pay Raise
12-28-2009
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NY Times
NY's judges haven't had a raise in 10 years, and some of them are angry. The delay and subsequent hard feelings have led to suggestions there has been a secretive judicial job action to pressure the Legislature to give judges more money.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Rain, Cooler Weather Contradicts Climate Scientists Dire Global Warming Australia Predictions
12-28-2009
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Ginn
Remember last April’s LA Times’ article on Australia’s drought, brushfires, and searing heatwaves, and how they were “harbingers” of global warming to “come”, and, that climate scientists predicted more of the same “catastrophic” weather down under?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • World News
Yemen, Iran, Saudi Arabia: USA Unreality Check
12-28-2009
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Pat
MORE Obama “Smart Power”: The USA’s substitution of wishful thinking for foreign policy is evident in US reactions to Iran’s meddling in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. [NOTE: This piece was sent in by the author before the attempted bombing of NWA 523 which
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Cellphone Searches
12-28-2009
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NY Times
The Ohio Supreme Court struck a victory for privacy rights, ruling police need a warrant to search a cellphone. The court rightly recognized cellphones are a lot more than just telephones, and hold a wealth of personal information and the privacy int
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Dissident Goes on Trial, Could Face Death Penalty
12-28-2009
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AP
Communist authorities in Vietnam put a former army officer and democracy activist on trial on subversion charges that could carry the death penalty. Tran Anh Kim, 60, is accused of ''working to overthrow the state'' by joining the Democratic Party of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel Announces New Jewish Homes in West Bank
12-28-2009
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Reuters
Israel announced plans to build 700 new homes for Jews in areas of the occupied West Bank it considers part of Jerusalem, a city it has excluded from a limited moratorium on settlement construction. A spokesman for Palestinian President Abbas condemn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Is Rachel Yould a victim or schemer?
12-28-2009
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AP
Who is Rachel Yould? Is she a victim of domestic violence or a schemer who took on 2 identities to get rich? Did the 37-year-old ex-beauty queen and academic scholar fraudulently use 2 Social Security numbers and 2 names to obtain more than
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
First billboard promoting 9/11 Truth erected next to Arizona’s I 40 highway
12-28-2009
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InfoWars.com
These are YOUR billboards and are now up on the Interstate 40 near mile marker 328 in North Eastern Arizona…Look up Sanders Arizona zip code 86512.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Truce of God - by Will Grigg
12-28-2009
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Pro Liberate
In August 1914, Europe's major powers threw themselves into war with gleeful abandon. Germany, a rising power with vast aspirations, plowed across Belgium, seeking to checkmate France quickly before Russia could mobilize, thereby averting the prospec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
'Cadillac' tax isn't a tax -- it's a plan to finance real health reform
12-28-2009
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Washington Post columnist
As we prepare for the final round of debate over health reform, perhaps the most contentious issue will be financing. In the Senate, the gap is closed by relying on the "Cadillac tax," a 40% assessment on insurance plans with premiums of more than $8
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
America Under Barack Obama (Nat Hentoff interviewed)
12-28-2009
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Rutherford Institute
"I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had.""Nat Hentoff. He proceeds to justify this statement.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Survival Tip 47: Opening a wine bottle without a cork screw
12-28-2009
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Inebriated and without a corkscrew... desperate times call for desperate measures. Ingenuity and a knowledge of physics can provide. (youtube) Please don't try this on drywall;-D
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Flight 253 Bomb Excuse
12-28-2009
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Buffalohair Gazette International
As the Obama administration showboats their concerns for air safety while offering even more restrictions on Americans, the truth begins to show its ugly head. Eye witness Kurt Haskell of New Port Michigan told another story of blatant disregard for
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Carlos Guevara
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News Link • Agriculture
A Million Alien Crawfish
12-28-2009
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arclein
A project to capture American signal crayfish on a Scottish loch has caught more than a million of the creatures.
The pilot scheme at Loch Ken in Dumfries and Galloway was part of research into the impact the non-native species was having on marin
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robert klein
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News Link • History
The Island of Seven Cities
12-28-2009
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arclein
In such a case, the swift building of full communities, apparently fully fortified is not too surprising. That they then operated as long as the gold lasted is a natural expectation as everyone returning home would be well staked. My guess, if Joh
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Reagan's Secret War
12-28-2009
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arclein
Under his watch, he took a shaken and economically weakened USA, not unlike the present situation, restored the economic situation through tax reduction ala Laffer and began rebuilding the military. He invented the SDI initiative purposely to confro
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robert klein
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News Link • States' Rights
Gov. Perry calls for U.S. Governors to defend States’ Rights on Healthcare
12/26/09
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Uncommon Sense
On December 23rd, Governor Rick Perry of Texas communicated to other state governors the position of his state on the health care reform being slammed through Congress and announced his plans to address it; he wrote:
“Texas Attorney General Greg A
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Government
Max Baucus drunk on the floor of the Senate? (video)
12/28/09
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Right Condition
This is too difficult to ignore, it appears that the leading Senator in the fight for ObamaCare Mr. Max Baucus got bamboozled into sipping on some spiked eggnog. While he spends 5 minutes explaining to the American public how he fought for comprehen
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Campaign for Liberty
Person of the Year: Ron Paul
12/28/09
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Campaign for Liberty
"As odd as it may seem, (Paul) has become one of the most influential Republicans in a capital city dominated by liberal Democrats. . .The subject that has brought him to prominence is the same issue that subjected him to ridicule from establishment
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Walmart Sued for Secret Bathroom Surveillance
12/27/09
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Mike Chambers Live
A Pennsylvania Walmart Supercenter videotaped employees and customers in a unisex bathroom, several former and current Walmart employees alleged in a lawsuit filed this week.
Seven former and current employees from the Tire and Lube department at
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Anonymous Watchman
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