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Date Sent: 2011-11-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, November 23, 2011 PM edition |
Dow Falls 200 Amid EU, Economic Concerns -- US military presence will continue in Iraq
Michael Bloomberg fuels presidential talk with attack on Barack Obama -- Uranium Boom in Kazakhstan -- Trump Threatens to Spend Millions on a Presidential Run -- Daily stress is leading to a rise in the potential nightmare of 'sleep texting' -- Malls track shoppers' cell phones -- Medvedev: Russia may target missile defense sites -- Pakistan telecoms authority to block 'obscene' texts -- Fresh round of hacked climate science emails leaked online -- 33 Dead as Egypt’s Junta Continues to Crush Dissent -- Israeli women
strip in support of nude Egyptian blogger -- Former US Ambassador:
Turkey Should Occupy Afghanistan After 2014 -- Israel Slams Calls for Nuclear Transparency -- Iraq All Over Again? -- Family Court judge seen beating daughter in video given paid vacation -- "Disastrous" bond sale shakes confidence in Germany -- Turkish PM apologizes over 1930s killings of Kurds -- C-SPAN battle: Historian shouts down congressman at hearing -- China factory sector shrinks most in 32 months -- US firm's teargas used against Tahrir Square protesters -- Lead Researcher Blows the Whistle on This Cancer Prevention Recommendation -- Erik Petroni on Ron Paul Brochure project, and Ron Paul 2012
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow Falls 200 Amid EU, Economic Concerns
11-23-2011
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cnbc.com
Stocks added to their losses Wednesday as ongoing worries over debt issues in the U.S. and euro zone in addition to a handful of tepid economic news weighed on investor sentiment.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
U.S.military presence will continue in Iraq
11-23-2011
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washingtonpost.com
The Office of Security Cooperation (OSC), operating under the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, will have several hundred military personnel, and at least an equal number or more U.S. contractors, who will work with Iraqi security forces. Ongoing negotiations
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Michael Bloomberg fuels presidential talk with attack on Barack Obama
11-23-2011
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telegraph.co.uk
Michael Bloomberg has launched an attack on Barack Obama for an absence of leadership as Washington failed to hammer out a deficit deal, renewing suggestions he could mount an independent bid for the White House.
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Donna Hancock
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Feature Article • Energy
Uranium Boom in Kazakhstan
Staffoilpricedotcom Erik
Kazakhstan produces 33 percent of world’s mined uranium, followed by Canada at 18 percent and Australia, with 11 percent of global output. Kazakhstan contains the world's second-largest uranium reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tons.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump Threatens to Spend Millions on a Presidential Run
11-23-2011
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wsj.com
Beating the drum even louder, Mr. Trump details his net worth"which he puts at $7 billion"and says he’s prepared to pour a large chunk of his $270 million in liquid assets into a presidential bid. (Mr. Trump values the Trump brand alone at $3 billion
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
How to Rewrite History
11-23-2011
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Farm Wars
How can we bring history back into focus, and deny the falsehood that is being thrust upon us by those who choose world dominance over humanity?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Seriously?
Daily stress is leading to a rise in the potential nightmare of 'sleep texting', expert clai
11-23-2011
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dailymail.co.uk
People with the rare condition send incoherent text messages while asleep to their friends and family - completely unaware that they are doing it.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Malls track shoppers' cell phones on Black Friday
11-23-2011
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money.cnn.com
Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year's Day, two U.S. malls -- Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va. -- will track guests' movements by monitoring the signals from their cell phones.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Medvedev: Russia may target missile defense sites
11-23-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Russia will deploy new missiles aimed at U.S. missile defense sites in Europe if Washington goes ahead with the planned shield despite Russia's concerns, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Pakistan telecoms authority to block 'obscene' texts
11-23-2011
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BBC
Mobile phone companies Telenor Pakistan and Ufone confirmed to the BBC that the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has sent them a "dictionary" of banned words and expressions.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Media: Television
Russian newsreader Tatyana Limanova makes insulting gesture at Obama
11-23-2011
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telegraph.co.uk
A top Russian female newsreader has caused a stir after appearing to offensively show US President Barack Obama her middle finger during a live newscast.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
The physics behind
11-23-2011
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quantumlevitation.com
Superconductivity and magnetic field do not like each other. When possible, the superconductor will expel all the magnetic field from inside. This is the Meissner effect. In our case, since the superconductor is extremely thin, the magnetic field DOE
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Fresh round of hacked climate science emails leaked online
11-23-2011
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guardian.co.uk
A file containing 5,000 emails has been made available in an apparent attempt to repeat the impact of 2009's similar release
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
33 Dead as Egypt’s Junta Continues to Crush Dissent
11-23-2011
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antiwar.com
At least 33 people are dead today as Egypt’s military junta continues to move against civilian protesters who object to the idea that the military will retain unchecked power even after the convoluted multi-year series of elections takes place.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Hezbollah Stumbles on Bumbling CIA Spy Rings
11-23-2011
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antiwar.com
In a move which intelligence officials attributed to “lazy” security and several ignored warnings, two different CIA spying rings have been uncovered in Beirut, Lebanon, with the Hezbollah faction taken credit for noticing them.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Israeli women strip in support of nude Egyptian blogger
11-23-2011
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U.K. Daily Mail
When an Egyptian activist posted a nude picture of herself online in protest at the lack of freedom of expression, it sparked outrage in her country. Inspired by Aliaa Elmahdy's bold move, 40 Israeli women posed naked for a 'copycat' shot.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Afghanistan
Former US Ambassador: Turkey Should Occupy Afghanistan After 2014
11-23-2011
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antiwar.com
Says Turkish Army Has 'Track Record' of Maintaining Peace
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Israel Slams Calls for Nuclear Transparency
11-23-2011
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antiwar.com
IAEA's Secret 'Nuclear-Free Mideast' Conference Not as Critical of Israel as Normal
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iraq All Over Again?
11-23-2011
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antiwar.com
Touting thousands of pages of carefully vetted intelligence, menacing satellite imagery, and tales of a mysterious Soviet nuclear scientist, the media is telling us that Iran is about to get The Bomb.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Family Court judge seen beating daughter in video given paid vacation
11-23-2011
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Reuters
The Texas judge who was seen on an Internet video beating his teenaged daughter with a belt has been suspended from the bench while state officials investigate his actions and determine if he should face punishment.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
"Disastrous" bond sale shakes confidence in Germany
11-23-2011
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Reuters
A "disastrous" German bond sale on Wednesday sparked fears that Europe's debt crisis was even beginning to threaten Berlin, with the leaders of the euro zone's two strongest economies still firmly at odds over a longer-term structural solution.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
New find sheds light on ancient site in Jerusalem
11-23-2011
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AP
That indicates that Herod did not build the wall -- part of which is venerated as Judaism's holiest prayer site -- and that construction was not close to being complete at the time of his death.
"The find changes the way we see the construction, a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Turkish PM apologizes over 1930s killings of Kurds
11-23-2011
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AP
Turkey's prime minister has apologized for the first time for the killings of 14,000 people in a bombing and strafing campaign to crush a Kurdish rebellion in the 1930s. The apology comes at tense time for relations between Turkey and its minority Ku
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Arizona Monument Receives Final Approval
11-23-2011
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MyBillOfRights.Org
The Arizona Legislative Governmental Mall Commission unanimously approved the design and site for what will be America's first major monument to honor the Bill of Rights, with a target dedication date of December 15, 2012 (Bill of Rights Day).
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
C-SPAN battle: Historian shouts down congressman at hearing
11-23-2011
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The Ticket
Televised congressional hearings often serve as a platform for members of Congress to berate, bloviate and showboat for the cameras, but at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing Tuesday, historian Douglas Brinkley wouldn't stand for it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China factory sector shrinks most in 32 months
11-23-2011
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reuters.com
China's factory sector shrank the most in 32 months in November on signs of domestic economic weakness, a preliminary PMI survey showed, reviving worries that China may be slipping toward a hard landing and fuelling fears of a global recession.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
US firm's teargas used against Tahrir Square protesters
11-23-2011
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guardian.co.uk
Protesters say the CS gas seems more powerful than that used by Egyptian police during the country's last popular uprising in February. "It's stronger, it burns your face, it makes you feel like your whole body is seizing up," one witness said.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Lead Researcher Blows the Whistle on This Cancer Prevention Recommendation
11-23-2011
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mercola.com
The HPV vaccine is NOT harmless like it is being promoted and has not been proven to actually prevent cervical cancer
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Cooling Ulan Bator With Naleds
11-23-2011
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arclein
Mongolian engineering firm ECOS & EMI will try to recreate this process by drilling bore holes into the ice that has started to form on the Tuul river. The water will be discharged across the surface, where it will freeze. This process " effectively
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Why These Women and Christ?
11-23-2011
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arclein
First Tamar, an apparent Canaanite and apparent prostitute, who apparently seduces her father-in-law and becomes an ancestress of Jesus--- apparently through incest. I just said “apparently” four times. I’ll clarify that later.
Second Rahab, who
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
LENR nano magnetism described on Dec 7
11-23-2011
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arclein
energy localization at the nano-scale circumvents the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Nature evolved to take advantage of these energy exchange mechanisms available only at this size scale (which is why ordered structures can be created from
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fukushima Reveals Nuclear Industry's Real Vulnerability to Terrorist Bombs
11-23-2011
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arclein
That didn’t stop Haruki Madarame, now head of Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission, from dismissing Ishibashi as an amateur when he warned of a “nuclear earthquake disaster,” a phrase the Kobe University professor coined in 1997. Ishibashi says Japan
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robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary
11-22-2011
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wired.com
An obscure Pentagon office designed to curb the flow of illegal drugs has quietly evolved into a one-stop shop for private security contractors around the world, soliciting deals worth over $3 billion.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Highlights in 11/22/2011 Debate (Video)
11-22-2011
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CNN
Visit RonPaulNow.com for all debates plus other interviews
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Joe Plummer
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