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Date Sent: 2010-10-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 4, 2010 AM edition |
US, EU must join to stop homegrown terror -- US, UK raise terrorism threat level in Europe
Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers? -- NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Next Treasury Secretary? -- A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off -- America on the brink of a Second Revolution -- Bruce Krasting: FX Market – Ben’d Over? -- Medicaid enrollment spikes to 48 Million in weak economy -- St. John's Univ. Dean Charged With Using Students as 'Slaves' -- Life is a Gift - What You Do With It Is Up To You -- Target of FBI terror-support raid visited W.H. -- Google’s CEO: ‘The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists’ -- One large trader led to May 6 stock market plunge
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News Link • Police State
US, EU must join to stop homegrown terror
10-03-2010
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AP
The U.S. and its European allies must work together to stop radicalized Westerners who travel to terrorist training camps and return home to wage attacks, counterterrorism experts said in a new study.
The warning came as Western officials this we
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S., UK raise terrorism threat level in Europe
10-03-2010
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Reuters
The United States and Britain warned their citizens of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, with Washington saying al Qaeda might target transport infrastructure. The U.S. State Department issued a warning directed at American citizens t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Positive News
Georgia Set To Recognize The Right To Travel
10-03-2010
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Alan Neuman
Bobby Franklin of the Georgia 43rd district has introduced a bill that could end the reign of terror and tyranny of the state against its inhabitants being forced to obtain drivers licenses. As of today the bill has had a second reading on 01-13-2010
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Alan Neuman
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
America on the brink of a Second Revolution
10-03-2010
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MarketWatch
“What’s distinctive about the Tea Party is its anarchist streak -- its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or alternative to the policies it condemns,” warns Jacob Weisberg in Newswee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?
10-03-2010
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Time magazine
For reasons that aren't entirely clear " abstaining from alcohol does tend to increase one's risk of dying, even when you exclude former problem drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
San Francisco considers banning Happy Meals toys
10-03-2010
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AP
San Francisco has a long history of bold public health and environmental stances, going after everything from plastic bags in grocery stores to cigarettes to sugary drinks.
The latest target: Ronald McDonald.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Next Treasury Secretary
10-03-2010
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"I had dinner last night with a deep political insider who told me that Michael Bloomberg is the next Treasury secretary. I heard that. All I'll say is this is a serious insider who said the deal has been done and that Bloomberg is the next Treasury
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off
10-03-2010
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At the 8:30 staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room this morning, departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was given a gift by Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee: a dead Asian carp.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bruce Krasting: FX Market " Ben’d Over?
10-03-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
There is a slow motion “run on the dollar” taking place. It is popping up in the big money centers and the small. The markets are all orderly so there is no sense of panic. But there is a non-stop movement out of dollars.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Archaeology
Archaeologists find statue of Tutankhamun's grandad
10-03-2010
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AFP
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed part a 3,000-year-old statue of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, believed to be the grandfather of the young King Tutankhamun. "The statue was found near the northern entrance of Amenhotep III's temple and depicts the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Medicaid enrollment spikes to 48M in weak economy
10-03-2010
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AP
Job losses sends families flocking to low-income health insurance program
More people signed up for Medicaid last year than at any time since the program's inception, as the recession wiped out jobs and workplace health coverage.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Private Religious Schools
St. John's Univ. Dean Charged With Using Students as 'Slaves'
10-03-2010
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AP
Former St. John’s University dean, Cecilia Chang, who was charged earlier this month with embezzling over $1 million in donations from the college, was nabbed again today by the FBI and accused using scholarship students as domestic servants.
Chan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Target of FBI terror-support raid visited W.H.
10-03-2010
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Politico
An Arab-American activist who attended an outreach session at the White House complex in April had his Chicago home raided by the FBI last week and appears to be a focus of an unfolding federal terrorism-support investigation.
Hatem Abudayyeh, who
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Google’s CEO: ‘The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists’
10-03-2010
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waronyou
“The average American doesn’t realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists” to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. “It’s shocking how the system actually works
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War Onyou
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
One large trader led to May 6 stock market plunge
10-03-2010
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AP
A single trader executing an unusually large and fast sale using a complex computer algorithm triggered the so-called flash crash that sent the Dow Jones stock index plummeting nearly 998 points in a matter of minutes on May 6, a new report from two
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Stalk Mystery of Smelly 'Asparagus Urine'
10-03-2010
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LiveScience
If you've eaten asparagus, you have probably smelled it. But if you are one of those who can eat asparagus without later experiencing sulfur-scented pee, is it because you can't smell it or because your pee really is asparagus odor-free?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Early humans lived in PNG highlands 50,000 years ago
10-03-2010
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Reuters
Archeologists have uncovered evidence suggesting that early humans braved cold temperatures to occupy highlands in Papua New Guinea 50,000 years ago in search of food. The early settlers cleared land on the highlands to cultivate these plants, Summer
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What's Red and Brown and Looks Like a Huge Penguin?
10-03-2010
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LiveScience
Penguins didn't always boast tuxedo-like black-and-white markings, according to a new study. The discovery of the first ancient penguin fossil with evidence of feathers reveals the aquatic birds were once reddish-brown and gray.
The 36 million-yea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
The CLEAR/SPILL ACTs: The United Nations thanks you for forfeiting all rights to your water for a “g
10-03-10
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ThePPJ Gazette
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The issue of water, your rights to it as a human necessity for life, are on the verge of being crippled critically and of course our own government and congress are leading the charge; The CLEAR Act (H
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Marti Oakley
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