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Date Sent: 2011-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 20, 2011 AM edition |
Tension rise as Iraq seeks Sunni VP arrest -- Secret U.S., Taliban talks reach turning point
Prosecutors link Manning to WikiLeaks' Assange -- U.S. Considers Combating Somali Militants’ Twitter Use -- Uranium Mining Debate in Virginia Takes a Step -- Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war -- NASA revamps, delays commercial space taxi work -- Your Next Suture
Could Be Made of Shrilk, a Superstrong Synthetic Insectoid Material --
Plans for Arizona's budget surplus vary -- Evidence linking Bradley
Manning to WikiLeaks disputed -- Iranian TV Airs Video It Claims Is of U.S. Spy -- Anonymous declares war on Congress with #OpAccountable -- MF Global customers with PHYSICAL gold & silver in it's vault to receive less than 75%
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News Link • Iraq
Tension rise as Iraq seeks Sunni VP arrest
12-19-2011
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Reuters
Iraqi authorities issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Muslim Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi on Monday for suspected ties to assassinations and bombings, a decision likely to fuel sectarian tensions after the U.S. troop withdrawal.
The move risks u
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Secret U.S., Taliban talks reach turning point
12-19-2011
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Reuters
After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose ultimate goal is t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors link Manning to WikiLeaks' Assange
12-19-2011
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Reuters
Military prosecutors sought to link U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning directly to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday at a hearing to determine whether Manning will be court-martialled in the biggest leak of classified documents i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
U.S. Considers Combating Somali Militants’ Twitter Use
12-19-2011
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Washington Post
The United States government is increasingly concerned about the Twitter account of the Shabab militant group of Somalia, with American officials saying Monday that they were “looking closely” at the militants’ use of Twitter and the possible measure
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Uranium Mining Debate in Virginia Takes a Step
12-19-2011
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New York Times
The report’s release marks the start of what is certain to be impassioned debate over whether to lift a nearly three-decade moratorium and permit landowners in southern Virginia to extract ore from a vast underground deposit, as they first sought to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war
12-19-2011
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Washington Post
Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top official in the Haqqani insurgent ne
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA revamps, delays commercial space taxi work
12-19-2011
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Irene Klotz via NewsDaily.com
Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's head of space operations said on Thursday.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Energy
A Solar Trade War Could Put Us All in the Dark
12-19-2011
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Martin Green via TechnologyReview.com
The brewing solar trade war between the United States and China sullies what should be a triumphant moment in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry: the arrival of affordable solar electricity.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Energy
Earthquakes, Water Pollution and Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Fracking - Strike Number Three?
12-19-2011
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oilprice.com
The last decade has seen a sustained campaign by the hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking”) industry against its critics, as the fracking industry in the U.S. alone was worth an estimated $76 billion in 2010 and is projected to grow to $231 billion in 203
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Staffoilpricedotcom Erik
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Plans for Arizona's budget surplus vary
12-19-2011
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Arizona Republic
Here's something Arizona hasn't seen in a while: a state budget surplus.
Estimates range from $416 million to as much as $650 million when the new budget year starts in July.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/12/17/20111217
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Evidence linking Bradley Manning to WikiLeaks disputed
12-19-2011
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Reuters
Attorneys for Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning on Monday challenged evidence linking him to the biggest classified document leak in U.S. history, arguing others had access to the same files and that it cannot be proven Manning sent anything
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Iranian TV Airs Video It Claims Is of U.S. Spy
12-19-2011
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New York Times
Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, an Iranian-American from Arizona, apparently in his late 20s. In the video, the man says he joined the United States Army after graduating from high school in 2001, served in Iraq and received training in languages and espionage
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Anonymous declares war on Congress with #OpAccountable
12-19-2011
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Rawstory
“We have watched as you have violated the very laws that guarantee your power. We have witnessed your fall from Representatives of the People to Representatives of Greed and Corruption. We’ve been watching you systematically destroy the rights of you
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Trump to Run for President . . . of North Korea
12-19-2011
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The Borowitz Report
Within hours of the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, real estate mogul Donald Trump roiled the political situation in that Stalinist country by announcing that he would run for its presidency.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
Peace
12-19-2011
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Christine Smith's YouTube channel
“Peace” is a word often heard, especially during the Christmas season. It is said, written, sung, and prayed " but is it lived? Are you living in freedom relating to others or by obligation?
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News Link • Transportation
Peoria & ADOT Speed Traps Revealed
12-19-2011
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PhotoRadarScam.com
This article details a 2-lane road in Peoria where the speed limit for eastbound travel is 45 while westbound is only 30. The article also discusses inconsistencies and problems with limits on Arizona's highways as well. It's obvious neither want t
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Ryan Denke
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News Link • Gold and Silver
MF Global customers with PHYSICAL gold & silver in it's vault to receive less than 75%
12-19-2011
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Barron's
It's one thing for $1.2 billion to vanish through a series of complex trades, the phenomenon at bankrupt MF Global. It's something else for a bar of silver stashed in a vault to instantly shrink in size by more than 25%.
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Chip Saunders
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