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Date Sent: 2009-12-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 14, 2009 PM edition

US Supremes rejects Guantanamo torture case -- Secret document exposes Iran's nuclear trigger

Court to review government access to cop's taxpayer paid for messages -- IRS hires "hundreds" for new wealth unit -- Federal employees owe $3 billion in taxes -- Nev. brothel aims to offer 1st male prostitutes -- Fla. judges, lawyers must 'unfriend' on Facebook -- Afghanistan Taliban’s Billion Dollar Heroin Trade and the Africa Heroin Hub -- Pennsylvania Teachers Retirement Funds Says it Needs Billions More From Taxpayers -- Third World Under Attack From Genocidal Climate Change Policy -- Seth Borenstein: AP Has a ‘Science’ Writer Problem -- The Makings of a Police State -- Prof. David Epstein debates Peter Schiff on Obama's economic policies -- CLIMATE TALKS BREAK DOWN IN COPENHAGEN! -- Guantanamo Detainee Deaths - by Stephen Lendman -- Iranian state TV accused of faking burning of Khomeini portrait -- BBC deletes story on Ivory Coast toxic waste dumping after legal threats

Tomorrow is "Bill of Rights Day" in a community near you---celebrate it.

News Link • Torture
US Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo torture case
12-14-2009 • Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it rejected an appeal by four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners arguing that they should be able to proceed with their lawsuit against top Pentagon officials for torture and religious abuse. The justices re Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Iran
Secret document exposes Iran's nuclear trigger
12-14-2009 • London Times
Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron ini Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TAXES: Federal
Federal employees owe $3 billion in taxes
12-14-2009 • Washington Post
Federal workers owed more than $3 billion in income taxes in 2008, according to the Internal Revenue Service, a figure down slightly from the year before. The agency reported that 276,300 current and retired federal employees owed $3,042,200,000 in 2 Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Justice and Judges
Court to review government access to cop's taxpayer paid for messages
12-14-2009 • AP
The justices will review a federal appeals court ruling siding with police officers who complained their department improperly snooped on their electronic exchanges on work accounts and faulted the text-messaging service for turning over transcripts Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock Morning December 14th 2009
Ernest speaks at Yuma Tea Party to celebrate the Bill of Rights,... and then has to go through a checkpoint.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS hires "hundreds" for new wealth unit
12-14-2009 • Reuters
A new Internal Revenue Service unit set up to catch rich tax cheats hiding their wealth in complex business entities is rapidly taking shape with the hiring of hundreds of employees. The IRS high wealth unit, part of a broader effort to combat intern Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Nev. brothel aims to offer 1st male prostitutes
12-14-2009 • AP
The owner of a brothel hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that state health officials have approved a method to test men for infectious diseases. The world is ready for women, or other men, to legally buy sex Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Justice and Judges
Fla. judges, lawyers must 'unfriend' on Facebook
12-14-2009 • AP
Florida's judges and lawyers can no longer "friend" each other on Facebook. The Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee stated online "friendships" create the impression that lawyers are in a special position to influence their judge friends. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Torture
David Miliband attacks 'irresponsible' judges over Binyam Mohamed
12-14-2009 • London Times
Lawyers for the Foreign Secretary mounted an extraordinary attack on High Court judges who want to disclose intelligence material relating to allegations of torture involving the CIA. David Miliband accused the 2 senior judges of irresponsibly "charg Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Climate Change
Norwegians Forfeit Fun Christmas, Buy CO2 Quota Certificates as Christmas Gifts
12-14-2009 • Ginn
This Christmas some Norwegians are giving the gift of CO2 Quota certificates. As of now, there's not many takers. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghanistan Taliban’s Billion Dollar Heroin Trade and the Africa Heroin Hub
12-14-2009 • Ginn
Ever wonder how the Taliban, which, in news reports resembles a ragtag band of tribal desert and cave dwellers, finances terrorism and obtains weapons to fight U.S. and NATO troops? One word: opium. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Government
Pennslyvania Teachers Retirement Funds Says it Needs Billions More From Taxpayers
12-14-2009 • Ginn
And the PA taxpayers are none too happy about it either--judging from the readers' comments from a Philly paper the article appeared in. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Art
Blue Dogs Playing Poker: A Little Slice of 2010 Election-abilia
12-14-2009 • Mondo Frazier
Blue Dogs Playing Poker might become a little piece of 2010 election-abilia. It may be soon be seen in living rooms and bars across the country. Might it become liked as much as the original Dogs Playing Poker paintings? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Climate Change
Third World Under Attack From Genocidal Climate Change Policy
12-14-2009 • Farm Wars
Lord Monckton on Copenhagen and Climategate - Must See!!! 5-part VIDEO. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Barbara Peterson

News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Seth Borenstein: AP Has a ‘Science’ Writer Problem
12-14-2009 • Mondo Frazier
AP Science Writer, Seth Borenstein, has a problem with those who don’t agree with his views on climate change. In a perfect world, that would mean that the AP would have a problem with him. Apparently, they don’t. DBKP investigates the many problems Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Constitution
Constitution Society (reference documents, speeches, Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers)
12-14-2009 • Constitution Society
This organization was founded in response to the growing concern that noncompliance with the Constitution for the United States of America and most state constitutions is creating a crisis of legitimacy that threatens freedom and civil rights. Althou Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Police State
Gaps in DNA banks lead to tragedy
12-14-2009 • AP
During what police say was a 20-year killing spree in Milwaukee, Walter Ellis left his DNA behind all along the way �" everywhere but the one place where it might have saved a life. Ellis should have given a DNA sample to the state crime databank d Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Prof. David Epstein debates Peter Schiff on Obama's economic policies
12-14-2009 • Organized Exploitation (video)
Columbia University's David Epstein explains how President Obama's policies are saving the economy. Unfortunately for him, his opponent in this debate is Peter Schiff. A tour de force in Keynesian Economics vs. Austrian Economics. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Secret Government Projects
The Makings of a Police State-Part IV
12-14-2009 • Boiling Frog
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. -- Patrick Henry As stated by Patrick Henry with conviction and passion, a democratic government will not last if it Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
2009 Freedom Summit @ ASU Friday Dec. 4th Phoenix Arizona. [HQ]
12-14-2009 • FreedomsPhoenix Facebook
Facebook High Quality VIDEO version - YouTube coming. Jordan Page also featured.... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Technology: Software
Office 2003 Rights Management Bug Locks up Files
12-14-2009 • technologizer.com
The bug affects Office 2003 products including Excel 2003, Outlook 2003, PowerPoint 2003, and Word 2003. It does not affect Office 2007 or Office 2010 Beta, according to Microsoft. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Bill of Rights
December 15th: Bill of Rights Day, A Eulogy
12-14-2009 • Kevin Gutzman
Bill of Rights Day is Tuesday, December 15th. But as Kevin Gutzman points out in this article, it’s not a day of celebration. Instead, it should be a day of mourning for the death of decentralized self-government Read Full Story
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Reported by: Michael Boldin

News Link • United Nations
TALKS BREAK DOWN IN COPENHAGEN!
12/14/2009 • godlikeproductions.com
The Copenhagen climate summit is in chaos after poor countries walked out of negotiations en masse on Monday morning. The G77, a group which represents 130 developing countries, walked out because it is concerned the existing Kyoto protocol will b Read Full Story
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Reported by: Phennommennonn GLP

News Link • United Nations
British Admit: Copenhagen Is All About Genocide
12/14/2009 • godlikeproductions.com
According to a recent OPT study, the so-called global warming crisis can be solved, most cheaply, by reducing the world population by 500 million between now and 2050. Since linear population projections put world population at well-over 9 billion by Read Full Story
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Reported by: Phennommennonn GLP

Feature Article  • Torture
Guantanamo Detainee Deaths
Stephen Lendman
   Guantanamo detainees murders called "suicides"
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wind Turbines and Wall Drugs
12-14-2009 • arclein
Some see power-generating wind farms as eyesores, others as graceful additions to the landscape. Either way, with wind becoming one of the fastest growing renewable energy sources, these towering turbines have become ubiquitous�"and are here to stay Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Science
Deep Water
12-14-2009 • arclein
key aspect of the Atlantic Ocean's large-scale circulation involves the sinking of cold, dense water--called deep-water formation--in Arctic and Antarctic waters. Scientists who are trying predict how climate change will play out in different parts Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gas of Life
12-14-2009 • arclein
Third World countries have it backwards. The West’s CO2 emissions have been increasing crop yields while helping to ease the Third World’s water shortages. Rather than plead for reparations, Third World governments should offer a paean to Providence. Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Iran
Iranian state TV accused of faking burning of Khomeini portrait
12-13-2009 • The Observer
The Iranian state broadcaster, Irib, has been accused of faking dramatic footage of an anti-government protester setting fire to a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's revered revolutionary leader. The images caused shock and incredulity when br Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Environment
BBC deletes story on Ivory Coast toxic waste dumping after legal threats
12-13-2009 • WikiLeaks
According to a September 2009 UN report, the dumping drove 108,000 people in the Ivory Coast to seek medical attention. Trafigura and their lawyers Carter Ruck had been pursuing an ongoing libel case against the BBC over a news story from on the c Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Events: Arizona
Jan. 14th Breakfast: Radio Show Host Charles Goyette
Powell Gammill
   Join us for breakfast Jan. 14th to hear America's Most Independent Radio Talk Show host Charles Goyette discuss his current NY Times best seller, "The Dollar Meltdown," the state of our economy and how to protect yourself and prosper.
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