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Date Sent: 2010-12-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 30, 2010 AM edition |
Revealed: US refused to aid Polish probe of CIA black site detailed by Raw Story in ’07
Afghanistan War: Is child abuse a new Taliban gambit? -- Greenwald trashes CNN contributors for ‘extreme misinformation’ on WikiLeaks -- US says talk of anti-Gbagbo plot ‘absurd’ -- Nigeria’s deal to drop Cheney charges called illegal -- Judge Rejects City Law on Antismoking Posters -- Disappearances With Reported Ties to Pakistan Worry U.S. -- Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say -- Va. judges revisit noncitizens' convictions, sentences to prevent deportation -- Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour to free sisters sentenced to life in prison for robbery --
Wikileaked Cables from Beijing Reveal China's Pursuit of Fusion Power,
Teleportation -- S 510: FDA and Homeland Security To Control Global
Food Safety -- In the middle of Europe, a democracy introduces press
censorship -- Woman Who Protested TSA Pat-Downs At OKC Airport Banned From Flying
-- Using fear to make people subservient to government -- Kathy Kelly -
is co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence - In Afghanistan
Aaron Zelman, RIP
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club WON'T meet
on 1/1/2011, but rather on 1/8/2011
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Revealed: US refused to aid Polish probe of CIA black site detailed by Raw Story in ’07
12-29-2010
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Rawstory
A secret terrorism "black site" prison in Poland, confirmed to exist, was the subject of an international dispute between US and Polish authorities. Poland's request for US cooperation in a probe of the secret CIA prison was declined, according to
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Aaron Zelman, RIP
12-29-2010
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Backwoods Home Magazine
Aaron Zelman, the founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, has died at the age of 64.
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Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan War: Is child abuse a new Taliban gambit?
12-29-2010
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It’s a tactic we see the enemy using, injuring these children or female civilians. They bring them to the local combat outpost, and at that point they gain access to a U.S. military facility. Then they get a flight on our helicopter so they understan
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Greenwald trashes CNN contributors for ‘extreme misinformation’ on WikiLeaks
12-29-2010
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Rawstory
First, Greenwald blasted CNN's Jessica Yellin for suggesting that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was profiting from the disclosure of classified information. Assange has said that he agreed to a $1.3 million book deal to help defray legal costs.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
US says talk of anti-Gbagbo plot ‘absurd’
12-29-2010
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AFP
The United States on Tuesday denied as "absurd" allegations that it had sent mercenaries to the Ivory Coast to oust strongman Laurent Gbagbo, as tensions mounted in the presidential standoff.
"We continue to call on President Gbagbo to respect the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Nigeria’s deal to drop Cheney charges called illegal
12-29-2010
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Rawstory
Nigeria charged Cheney and applied for an Interpol arrest warrant earlier this month in connection with a $180-million bribery case. Cheney's former employer, Halliburton, reportedly agreed to pay $35 million to see the charges dropped.
But Nigeri
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Judge Rejects City Law on Antismoking Posters
12-29-2010
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NY Times
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a New York City law that would have forced all bodegas and convenience stores to post gruesome images of diseased lungs, brains and teeth in the shops to discourage people from buying cigarettes.
In a 13-pa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Disappearances With Reported Ties to Pakistan Worry U.S.
12-29-2010
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NY Times
The Obama administration is expressing alarm over reports that thousands of political separatists and captured Taliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan’s police and security forces, and that some may have been tortured or killed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say
12-29-2010
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Washington Post
A year after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials say they have made it easier to add individuals' names to a terrorist watch list and improved the government's ability to thwart an attack in the United States
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Va. judges revisit noncitizens' convictions, sentences to prevent deportation
12-29-2010
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Washington Post
A judge recently reopened 4 cases involving defendants who say they would not have pleaded guilty if they had known that they would be deported. In one instance this month, prosecutors sought a court order to stop the judge from reopening such cases
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour to free sisters sentenced to life in prison for robbery
12-29-2010
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Washington Post
The Scotts were convicted in 1994 for an armed robbery in which they [supposedly] led two men into an ambush. The men were robbed of $11, and their supporters contend that the Scotts, who are black, received extraordinary punishment for the crime.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wikileaked Cables from Beijing Reveal China's Pursuit of Fusion Power, Teleportation
12-29-2010
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popsci.com
One confidential diplomatic cable sent from the Beijing Embassy to Washington in February suggests China is doing big things at the small scale. For one, China is aggressively expanding its nuclear energy resources, with plans to open at least 70 nuc
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
S 510: FDA and Homeland Security To Control Global Food Safety
12-29-2010
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NaturalNews.com/
Believe it or not, the global "food safety" plan is to be developed under consultation to the Department of Homeland Security as well as the U.S. Treasury.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
In the middle of Europe, a democracy introduces press censorship
12-29-2010
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Rawstory
Hungary's recently elected right-wing government has introduced a law demanding -- under threat of fines and even shut-down -- that news sources be "fair and balanced," to borrow a phrase from a US news network. The move has critics fearing that it c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Woman Who Protested TSA Pat-Downs At OKC Airport Banned From Flying
12-29-2010
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The woman who made national headlines for her near-naked protest at the airport in Oklahoma City is back and once again banned from flying.
A YouTube video put Tammy Banovac in the national spotlight. Banovac says she went through security wearing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Soon bone replacement may be just an injection away
12-29-2010
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Terrence Aym
Thomas Webster, an associate professor at the Divisions of Engineering and Orthopedic Surgery at Brown, has created a nanomaterial that can be injected into the human body. Once the material reaches body temperature it rapidly hardens into a substanc
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • New World Order
Report from Iron Mountain; Using fear to make people subservient to government.
12-29-2010
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Farm Wars
"It is clear from the start that the nature of the study was to analyze the different ways a government can perpetuate itself in power, ways to control its citizens and prevent them from rebelling." (Publisher: Recommended Reading)
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science
Scientists build world's first quantum machine
12-29-2010
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Terrence Aym
Can something be in two places at once? Can something be in two separate states at once? According to Einstein and the weird Twilight Zone rules of the quantum world the answer has always been a definite maybe. The math supported the concept and scie
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ashton Kutcher: Time To Panic, And Prepare For The Apocalypse
12-29-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Kutcher is stocking up on guns and spending hours and hours running the canyons near his home. He's also taking daily bikram yoga sessions, and learning Krav Maga, a deadly Israeli combat technique...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Just For Fun!
You thought the German Autobahn was wild? Try commuting through Moscow traffic on a rice-rocket!
12-29-2010
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www.youtube.com
Take a 1000cc fuel-injected Yamaha R1, add one crazy rider named Black Devil, mix with Moscow traffic and film with a helmet cam. This is better than the movies!
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Make your own electricity out of thin air for $2.00!
12-29-2010
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SMCC
Watch how electricity is made from thin air out of parts purchased for two dollars, and how that simple device charges a cell phone.
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Barbara Peterson
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