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Date Sent: 2010-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 20, 2010 AM edition |
DHS Implement No Work List: Citizens Must Get Govt. Approval to Work Private Sector Jobs
Food Safety Sneak Attack! Passed by Unanimous Consent -- Amendment Would Enable States to Repeal Federal Law -- 10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange -- Los Angeles public schools sells ad space -- Metro to start random bag searches -- Congress repeals ban against gays in military -- Congressman Paul says Fed transparency is his goal --
Regulators close banks in Ga., Fla., Ark., Minn. -- SKorea plans levy
on foreign currency bank debt -- Venezuela assembly crowns Chavez King
for 18 months -- Court blocks Obama Admin attempt to spy on cell phones without warrant -- Top CIA spy in Pakistan flees after lawsuit reveals identity --
Ron Paul: US Gov is More Dangerous than WikiLeaks -- Gold Stocks in a
Failing Fiat Currency -- Google Expands to a New Frontier: The Human
Body --
Payrolls Drop in 28 U.S. States, Joblessness Up in 21 -- Time For
Christians To Shred Their Bibles -- "Black Swan" author Nassim Taleb on
the Debt Crisis, on Davos, on Regulation (VIDEO) -- The High End Market
is Dead: Banks Afraid to Foreclose on the Rich? -- How MERS Is
Subverting Our Entire System of Property Rights -- ‘Hope Is Action’:
Chris Hedges and 130 Anti-War Activists Arrested at White House --
Half of All Illegal Entries and Marijuana Smuggled Came Through One
Sector of AZ Border -- Bankruptcy
filings in Phoenix hit all-time record -- S. 773:
Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar No. 707
-- Conservation Easements (CEs)*:Read the fine print before you sign
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Implementing No Work List: Citizens Must Get Government Approval to Work in Private Sector Jobs
12/19/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
You've heard of no fly and no buy lists -- get ready for no work lists. Millions of workers now must apply to the DHS and prove they are not terrorists in order to be granted permission by the government to work.
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Food
Food Safety Sneak Attack! Passed by Unanimous Consent
12-19-2010
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Farm Wars
"The Senate on Sunday night simply took the revised food safety language that was approved by the House in the CR, substituted it to the language of HR 2751, an original “Cash for Clunkers” bill from last year, and approved it by unanimous consent."
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • States' Rights
Amendment Would Enable States to Repeal Federal Law
12-19-2010
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NY Times
The same people driving the lawsuits that seek to dismantle the Obama administration’s health care overhaul have set their sights on an even bigger target: a constitutional amendment that would allow a vote of the states to overturn any act of Congre
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange
12-19-2010
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The Guardian
The case against Assange, which has been the subject of intense speculation and dispute in mainstream media and on the internet, is laid out in police material held in Stockholm to which the Guardian received unauthorised access.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
‘A new type of business McCarthyism’ hunts WikiLeaks, site founder says
12-19-2010
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Rawstory
"Bank of America joins in the actions previously announced by MasterCard, PayPal, Visa Europe and others and will not process transactions of any type that we have reason to believe are intended for WikiLeaks," it said in a statement.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Los Angeles public schools open doors to ‘corporate brand identity’
12-19-2010
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Rawstory
This algebraic equation, brought to you by Coca-Cola? Absurd as it may sound, that will soon be reality for many students in Los Angeles county, as public school officials announced a plan to solicit corporate sponsorship to help grow their budgets a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Metro to start random bag searches
12-19-2010
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Washington Examiner
Metro plans to begin random searches of its riders' bags. Metro Police Chief coordinated with the TSA as part of a continuing effort to keep the system safe from explosives. Boston, New York and New Jersey will do similar searches
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Congress repeals ban against gays in military
12-19-2010
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Reuters
Congress repealed the ban against gays serving openly in the military, a major victory for President Obama who had promised to end what his liberal supporters said was an outdated and discriminatory policy. Obama intends to sign it into law next week
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Congressman Paul says Fed transparency is his goal
12-19-2010
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Reuters
Republican Congressman Ron Paul, the new head of the subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve, said on Sunday he will seek greater transparency but will not be sending subpoenas to the central bank chairman from Day One.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Regulators close banks in Ga., Fla., Ark., Minn.
12-19-2010
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AP
Regulators on Friday shuttered three small banks in Georgia and one each in Florida, Arkansas and Minnesota, raising to 157 the number of U.S. banks brought down this year by the struggling economy and soured loans.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Good Samaritans Face Fine After Rescuing Deer From Icy Water
12-19-2010
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CBS News
They fought to save a life, and now they say they’ll fight the fine. It all revolves around the rescue of a deer trapped in icy water Thursday night. Alex DeMetrick reports that good deed was rewarded with tickets.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
SKorea plans levy on foreign currency bank debt
12-19-2010
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AP
South Korea plans to impose a levy on non-deposit foreign currency debt held by domestic and foreign banks in a bid to defend itself against capital surges that could threaten the country's economy, financial authorities said Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Venezuela assembly crowns Chavez King for 18 months
12-19-2010
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Reuters
Venezuela's parliament gave President Hugo Chavez decree powers for 18 months outraging opposition parties that accused him of turning South America's biggest oil producer into a dictatorship. The move consolidated the firebrand socialist leader's ho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Court blocks Obama Admin attempt to spy on cell phones without warrant
12-19-2010
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Rawstory
The Obama Administration's effort to obtain your location from cell phone towers without a warrant was rebuffed by a federal court. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the Justice Department cannot obtain information about which cel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Top US spy in Pakistan flees after lawsuit reveals identity
12-19-2010
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Rawstory
Following the revelation on Friday of the abrupt departure of CIA station chief Jonathan Banks from Pakistan, "some American officials [are] convinced that the officer’s cover was deliberately blown by Pakistan’s military intelligence agency."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Ron Paul: US Gov is More Dangerous than WikiLeaks
12/15/10
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Youtube
Ron Paul criticized the U.S. government's efforts to shut down WikiLeaks and attack Julian Assange, and compared the murderous consequences of the government's lies to the fact that not a single life has been lost due to the WikiLeaks revelations.
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Economy - International
Irish debt downgraded as EU eschews crisis
12-19-2010
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Reuters
Ratings agency Moody's gave an emphatic thumbs-down on Friday to Europe's efforts to resolve a debt crisis, slashing Ireland's credit rating as EU leaders took no new action to prevent market turmoil spreading.
Moody's cut Ireland's rating by a st
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Google Expands to a New Frontier: The Human Body
12-19-2010
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foxnews.com
Google
has just unveiled Body Browser, a detailed 3D model of the human body. Running only in browsers that support the new WebGL graphics standard (currently just Google Chrome or the latest Firefox beta), Body Browser lets you peel back the body's
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Food Safety Bill not quite dead yet
12-19-2010
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Food Safety News
Omnibus spending bill is dead, upon which the struggling food safety bill was attached, but don't count out S.510 yet.
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Julian Assange Calls ABC News Reporter ‘Tabloid Schmuck’ And Walks Off... (VIDEO)
12-19-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
Julian Assange Calls ABC News Reporter ‘Tabloid Schmuck’ And Walks Off When Asked About Rape Charges
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Battle leads Gilbert homeowner to tangled trail
12-19-2010
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AZcentral.com
In fall 2009, she went to a conference on foreclosure research in Southern California. It was there that she first heard about forensic mortgage auditors. Finally, she thought, somebody could help her find answers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Payrolls Drop in 28 U.S. States, Joblessness Up in 21
12-19-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Payrolls decreased in 28 U.S. states and the unemployment rate climbed in 21, showing most parts of the world’s largest economy took part in the November labor- market setback.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Time For Christians To Shred Their Bibles
12-17-2010
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chuckbaldwinlive.com
I challenge Christians to objectively look at the great stories of Bible heroes (in both testaments) and observe how many times they are noted for either being martyred for defying a civil authority, or, perhaps, for being delivered from death for de
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Housing
The High End Market is Dead: Banks Afraid to Foreclose on the Rich?
12-19-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
He knows of 20 people personally in his community who have mortgages of over $20,000 a month who have not made a payment in over a year. As with his case, there has not been a peep from the bank about the failure to pay.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Undercover at Smithfield Foods (Video)
12/15/10
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Youtube
An investigator from The Humane Society of the United States documented the suffering endured by female breeding pigs held in severely restrictive gestation crates on a factory farm operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest p
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
‘Hope Is Action’: Chris Hedges and 130 Anti-War Activists Arrested at White House
12-19-2010
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TruthDig.com & YouTube.com
When asked why he chose that course of action, Hedges replied, “Because it’s all we have left at this point. ... The normal mechanisms by which democratic participation are rendered possible in this country have been closed shut, and if we don’t...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Enough with political blame game, it's time to fix Arizona budget mess
12-19-2010
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AZcentral.com
What happened was that Arizona experienced a fiscal tsunami that reduced state revenue by about a third.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Half of All Illegal Entries and Marijuana Smuggled Came Through One Sector of AZ Border
12-19-2010
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CNSNews
Approximately “half of all illegal entries” into the United States and "half of all of the marijuana smuggled into the United States" in fiscal 2010 occurred in the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix: Bankruptcy filings in Valley hit all-time record
12-19-2010
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AZcentral.com
Metro Phoenix bankruptcy filings have hit an all-time record this year, with another month of filings still to go.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
S. 773: Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar No. 707
12-19-2010
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GovTrack.us via e-mail from Margaret at .ning
By Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV] - We've seen it before, but now it's placed on the Senate Calendar. What gives?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Future Predictions
Gerald Celente: 10 Trends for 2011
12-18-2010
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LewRockwell.com
In 2011, with the arsenal of schemes to prop them up depleted, we predict "Crack-Up 2011": teetering economies will collapse, currency wars will ensue, trade barriers will be erected, economic unions will splinter, and the onset of the "Greatest...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics
Repeal Not So Repealing " Don’t Tell Anyone Anything Yet
12182010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Here’s the thing.
I have irons in the fire on both sides of this issue, having been in the infantry and being friends with many folks who are gay in the local area, a hot spot of gay activity in the mid Atlantic region.
I love my friends as fri
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Inventions
Revealed: The device Edison invented to talk with ghosts
12-18-2010
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Terrence Aym
Edison's strange "psycho-phone" is a curious device with an even curiouser history. Said to be the culmination of the inventor's research into the other world--or life after death--the device allegedly gave the user access to the dead. Supposedl
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Archaeology
Man-eating giants discovered in Nevada cave
12-18-2010
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Terrence Aym
When archaeologists explored a cavern near Lovelock, Nevada what they found was staggering: over 10,000 artifacts were unearthed including the mummified remains of two red-haired man-eating giants"one, a female 6.5-feet tall, the other male, over 8-f
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Government
Conservation Easements (CEs)*:Read the fine print before you sign
12-18-10
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The PPJ Gazette
A basic Constitutional tenet of private property ownership in America is the landowner’s right to determine the use and disposition of his or her land. This ownership gives the property owner the right to occupy, use, lease, sell, develop, and deny
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Marti Oakley
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