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Date Sent: 2010-12-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 8, 2010 AM edition |
Judge ignores Obama's assassination of American cleric -- Impeachment of judge in Senate
For Obama, Tax Deal Is a Back-Door Stimulus Plan -- NY Agency Sued Over GPS Tracker On Worker's Car -- Chop and Shop Organ Harvesting In the Crosshairs! -- Experts: China moving towards Korean unification --
Jim Rogers: "Bernanke Has Been Wrong Every Time He's Opened His Mouth" -- Obama Orders Military To Eat The Contaminated Gulf Seafood -- Chinese government money is buying one of U.S.A.’s biggest mines -- Pete Eyre - New Liberty On Tour: The Hitchhiker / Dr. Richard David - Body Scanners- Health Risk? -- The Judge Explains Why We Have A 1ST Amendment To Newt Gingrich -- NEW RULES: YOU AND THE IRS THIS JANUARY -- Swiss bank freezes WikiLeaks founder’s legal defense fund -- Thrill-Seeking Gene Can Lead to More Sex Partners -- TUHSD bans Spice, feds to test it -- Gun policy could oust entire family for crime of one -- Big Sis coming to Walmart, hotels, malls: Rat Your Neighbors -- Bank Of America Is Worried Next WikiLeaks Dump Will Contain Evidence Of Fraud
-- Extending Tax Rate "Cuts" & Unemployment Compensation For
Political Gain -- US Cable: China Leaders Ordered Hacking on Google -- British judge denies Wikileaks founder Julian Assange bail
AZ: Today: Ernest Hancock will hold a meeting to brainstorm and discuss
future of the workshop -- Andrea Garcia's Activist Appreciation Dinner,
Dec. 11; Bill of
Rights Day celebration, Dec,. 15; Robert Levy, Cato
Institute luncheon, Dec. 16
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News Link • Justice and Judges
US judge tosses bid to block Obama's assassination of American cleric
12-07-2010
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AP
A judge threw out a lawsuit aimed at preventing the United States from targeting anti-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki for death, but questioned whether a president or his aides can unilaterally order a U.S. citizen assassinated for terrorist activity
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Impeachment of Louisiana judge goes before Senate
12-07-2010
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Washington Post
The attorney for an impeached federal judge on trial before the Senate argued Tuesday that Congress is pursuing unconstitutional charges against his client and would be breaking with two centuries of precedent by removing him from office.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Ernest Hancock will hold a meeting to brainstorm and discuss future of workshop
12-07-2010
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www.meetup.com
Ernest Hancock will host a meetup at the Freedom's Phoenix Workshop Wednesday, December 8th, from 4-6 p.m.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
For Obama, Tax Deal Is a Back-Door Stimulus Plan
12-07-2010
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NY Times
A year ago, President Obama and the Democrats made the mistake of assuming that an economic recovery was under way. This week’s deal to extend the Bush tax cuts shows that the White House’s top priority is avoiding the same mistake again " even if it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Cooking With ... Marijuana? Cookbook A Sign of Changing Attitudes
12-07-2010
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ABC News (video)
But Moriarty's recipes include what she calls a special "magic ingredient."
"I'm known for my very potent cannabutter," said the 58-year-old Moriarty. Cannabutter, she explained, is butter mixed with marijuana and is used as the main ingredient in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NY Agency Sued Over GPS Tracker On Worker's Car
12-07-2010
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AP
The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the state on behalf of a labor department worker who was fired after investigators used a GPS device to track his car and show he falsified his time sheets.
Since that 2008 investigation, New York's high
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Chop and Shop Organ Harvesting In the Crosshairs!
12-07-2010
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Farm Wars
Chop and Shop organ harvesting machines will roam the streets of Manhattan from 4:00pm to midnight searching for prey starting Wednesday, December 8, 2010.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • China
Experts: China moving towards Korean unification
12-07-2010
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Terrence Aym
China has been reacting sluggishly to North Korea's latest saber-rattling. Analysts note that the emerging superpower sees no value in continuing to support the failing regime of Kim Jong-il. The Chinese have developed strong trade agreements with t
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Rogers: "Bernanke Has Been Wrong Every Time He's Opened His Mouth"
12-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
"Mr. Bernanke has been wrong every time he's opened his mouth," he said. "I'm terrified everytime he speaks."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Obama Orders Military To Eat The Contaminated Gulf Seafood
12-07-2010
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nola.com/news/
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who doubles as President Barack Obama's point man on Gulf Coast oil spill recovery, is pressing America's armed services to consume as much Gulf seafood as possible.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Collateral Murder Overview, Videos (Wikileaks)
12/07/10
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Collateral Murder.com
WikiLeaks has released both the original 38 minutes video and a shorter version with an initial analysis. Subtitles have been added to both versions from the radio transmissions.
WikiLeaks obtained this video as well as supporting documents from a
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • China
Chinese government money is buying one of U.S.A.’s biggest mines
12-07-10
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The PPJ Gazette
It seems like there’s not much hope for Mt. Hope in Nevada. A brave group of American farmers and ranchers (and so far, Eureka County, NV) are all that is standing between our valuable American resources and water rights, and a Chinese company that
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Marti Oakley
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Collection Call
David Galland
The Land of the Rising Sun has the dubious distinction of sporting the highest debt-to-GDP ratio of any industrialized nation in the world. Now greater than 200%, Japan’s relative debt load is bigger than that of Greece, Spain, Portugal or the US. Ja
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News Link • Activism
Peugeot EX1 electric concept car
12-07-2010
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Mega Machine
This is the Peugeot EX1, a two-seat electric roadster concept car built to celebrate the French brand’s 200th anniversary. And the EX1 will let Peugeot usher in its bicentennial in style as it’s just notched up a number of electric car world records.
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Pavle Glumerys
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News Link • Corruption
NEW RULES: YOU AND THE IRS THIS JANUARY
12-07-2010
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The PPJ Gazette
According to “The Great American Tax Dodge”, the IRS is far more apt to go after middle-income non-filers and does not fully investigate affluent non-filers. The IRS uses the lame excuse that the rich may under-state the taxes owed and that the IRS w
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Reported by:
Marti Oakley
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Swiss bank freezes WikiLeaks founder’s legal defense fund
12-07-2010
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Rawstory
Over €31,000 set aside for the legal defense of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been frozen by the Swiss bank PostFinance, which said that Assange had given false information in creating the account.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Thrill-Seeking Gene Can Lead to More Sex Partners
12-07-2010
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LiveScience
Researchers discovered half of all people have a gene that makes them more vulnerable to promiscuity and cheating. Those with a certain variant of the dopamine receptor D4 polymorphism "were more likely to have a history of uncommitted sex, including
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
TUHSD bans Spice, feds to test it
12-07-2010
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East Valley Tribune
On Nov. 24, the Drug Enforcement Administration acted to temporarily control five chemicals commonly found in synthetic marijuana, popularity referred to as "Spice," making it illegal to sell or possess any product containing the chemicals after a 30
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun policy could oust entire family for crime of one
12-07-2010
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Chicago Defender
A rarely used policy by the Chicago Housing Authority has spoiled the holiday season this year for a 15-year public housing resident. Patricia Jordan is in court fighting an eviction order after her 21-year-old son plead guilty to a felony gun charge
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Big Sis coming to Walmart, hotels, malls: Rat Your Neighbors
12-07-2010
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Rawstory
Shoppers at Walmart will soon have something other than glossy magazines and chewing gum to look at when in the checkout line: A "video message" from the Department of Homeland Security asking them to look out for "suspicious" activity and report it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank Of America Is Worried Next WikiLeaks Dump Will Contain Evidence Of Fraud
12-07-2010
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Business Insider
Bank of America has set up a "legal swat team" in case the next big WikiLeak is directed at them. Bank-related documents---while they couldn't make out how damaging the documents were they "clearly pointed to Bank of America."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Extending Tax Rate "Cuts" & Unemployment Compensation For Political Gain
12-07-2010
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Free Patriot Press
It is being reported there is “compromise” between the Republican & Democratic members of Congress to extend the IRS tax rate cuts from 2001 & 2003 that were set to expire at the end of 2010. The Washington Post reports, “Faced with unified GOP oppos
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Internet
US Cable: China Leaders Ordered Hacking on Google
12-07-2010
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AP
Contacts told American diplomats that hacking attacks against Google were ordered by China's top ruling body and a senior leader demanded action after finding search results that were critical of him, leaked U.S. government memos show.
One memo se
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
British judge denies wikileaks founder Julian Assange bail
12-07-2010
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AP
A British judge sent Julian Assange to jail Tuesday, denying bail to the WikiLeaks founder after he vowed to fight efforts to be extradited to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
Despite Assange’s legal troubles, a WikiLeaks spokesman insisted t
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