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Date Sent: 2010-08-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 30, 2010 AM edition |
CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops -- US Wasted Billions in Rebuilding Iraq
China Defends Control of Rare Earth Exports as Move to Protect
Environment -- Banks back switch to renminbi for trade -- Iran Shifts
Assets Out of Europe Banks -- For Notorious Arms Sales Suspect, Secrets
Are Bargaining Chips -- China Fortifies State Businesses to Fuel Growth
-- Iraq conflict leaves officers weary and humbled -- Vladimir Putin -
Russian Superhero -- The military-industrial complex, debt, and
unemployment: the only things growing in the economy
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops
08-29-2010
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Rawstory
An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Wasted Billions in Rebuilding Iraq
08-29-2010
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AP
A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused. A $100 million waste water treatment system cost 3 times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China Defends Control of Rare Earth Exports as Move to Protect Environment
08-29-2010
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Bloomberg
China cut its export quotas for rare earth by 72 percent for the second half of this year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce on July 8. Shipments will be capped at 7,976 metric tons, down from 28,417 tons for the same period a year ago.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Trade
Banks back switch to renminbi for trade
08-29-2010
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Financial Times
A number of the world’s biggest banks have launched international roadshows promoting the use of the renminbi to corporate customers instead of the dollar for trade deals with China. HSBC, which recently moved its chief executive from London to Hong
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Archeologists Find Gateway to the Viking Empire
08-29-2010
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der Spiegel
For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found. Researchers now believe the extensive barrier was built to protect an important trading route.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran Shifts Assets Out of Europe Banks
08-29-2010
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NY Times
Iran has transferred assets out of European banks in its latest effort to defend itself against the effects of sanctions that are part of what Iranian officials have called an “economic war” against the country by the United States and other Western
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
For Notorious Arms Sales Suspect, Secrets Are Bargaining Chips
08-29-2010
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NY Times
Accused of a 15-year run as one of the world’s biggest arms traffickers, his future may hang on whether he can strike one last bargain: trading what American officials believe is his vast insider’s knowledge of global criminal networks in exchange fo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Accusation of Misconduct in Gambino Case
08-29-2010
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NY Times
“A reasonable person might wonder,” Mr. McMahon wrote, “whether the government " in its zeal to make a racketeering case against the Gambino family " allowed a 15-year-old girl to be shamefully and criminally exploited.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China Fortifies State Businesses to Fuel Growth
08-29-2010
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NY Times
Now, whether in the coal-rich regions of Shanxi Province, the steel mills of the northern industrial heartland, or the airlines flying overhead, it is often China’s state-run companies that are on the march. As the Chinese government has grown richer
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Concerts - Theatre - Events
Shakespeare in Klingon
08-29-2010
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Washington Post
The Washington Shakespeare Company, that Arlington outpost of offbeat treatments of classic plays, is going where no D.C. enterprise has ever quite gone before, offering up a whole evening of Shakespeare -- in Klingon.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq conflict leaves officers weary and humbled
08-29-2010
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Washington Post
Cooper and his soldiers were training a police battalion. "We know that the guys we train are some of the same dudes who are putting bullets in the back of people's heads or going to work on them with power drills," he wrote
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News Link • World News
Vladimir Putin - Russian Superhero
08-29-2010
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Terrence Aym
As Barack Obama runs America into the ground, Vladimir Putin continues to pull Russia from the ashes of the former Soviet Union. The two men’s styles and principles could not be farther apart. A leader like Putin is what America needs, not a warmed-o
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The military-industrial complex, debt, and unemployment: the only things growing in the economy
08-29-2010
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webabuser
War is widely thought to be linked to economic good times. The second world war is often said to have brought the world out of depression, and war has since enhanced its reputation as a spur to economic growth. . . Today, we know that this is nonsens
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Positive News
A Positive Message To Get Behind
08292010
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www.drscoundrels.com
I know that sometimes I can often bring a lot of emotion into my posts. The main reason is that I am afraid for my nation and my people. I don’t mean just the white people, but Americans as a whole. I truly fear for our future. And this causes me to
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Rich Hilts
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