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Date Sent: 2010-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 17, 2010 |
Congress Sends Tax Cut Bill to Obama -- Senate Dems give up on earmark-laden spending bill
Metro anti-terrorism teams to begin random subway passenger inspections
-- Washington area is wealthiest and most educated region in the nation
-- Congress: Hybrid cars should be seen AND heard -- McCain Got The Message - video -- Obama approves creation of man-made life
-- Simon Black's Advice To Young People: Grab Your Ankles -- Report:
1000 scientists worldwide refute 'man-made global warming' -- Feds Secret MBS Purchase Program and TARP 2.0: Looting The Taxpayer Again -- Doug Casey on Bernanke: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Part 1) -- Ireland passes bailout package despite opposition -- Facial recognition comes to Facebook photo tags -- START Clears Senate Hurdle -- Justice Department Sues BP -- Ron Paul: Fed ‘monopoly’ could be broken if Americans use gold, silver as currency
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Congress Sends Tax Cut Bill to Obama as Logjam Ends
12-16-2010
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NY Times
Congress at midnight Thursday approved an $801 billion package of tax cuts and $57 billion for extended unemployment insurance. The vote sealed the first major deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans as Democrats put aside their ob
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate Democrats give up on earmark-laden spending bill
12-16-2010
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Washington Post
Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned their efforts to approve a comprehensive funding bill for the federal government after Republicans rebelled against its $1.2 trillion cost and the inclusion of nearly 7,000 line-item projects for individual lawm
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Metro anti-terrorism teams to begin random subway passenger inspections
12-16-2010
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Washington Post
Metro anti-terrorism teams will immediately start random inspections of passengers' bags and packages to try to protect the rail and bus system from attack, transit officials said Thursday.
Police using explosives-screening equipment and bomb-snif
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Washington area is wealthiest and most educated region in the nation
12-16-2010
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Washington Post
The Washington area's affluence and education levels make it the wealthiest and most educated region in the nation, according to census data released Tuesday that reflect five years of relative prosperity compared with the rest of the country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
48 Billion Dollar Mistake Cuts Rep. Cleaver To The Quick
12172010
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www.drscoundrels.com
In an effort at some responsibility in my “job” that I take quite seriously, I have to ask people to please check their sources. I have had to pull a couple of articles and comments down myself due to bad sources, so I have gotten QUITE paranoid abou
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Transportation
Congress: Hybrid cars should be seen AND heard
12-16-2010
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AP
Auto-safety regulators would be required to set minimum sound levels for hybrid and electric vehicles under a bill approved. Blind pedestrians have pushed for the changes, saying the quiet purr of hybrids can pose risks for them because they use soun
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Ancient Egyptian Math Identical To Math In Modern Computers (VIDEO)
12/16/2010
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the real news now
In 2008 mathematician and author Michael S. Schneider put together a video explaining how mathematics used by Ancient Egyptians is identical to the math used in computers today.
The Ancient Egyptians figured out how to do multiplication without me
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The Real News
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News Link • Constitution
WikiLeaks: Separating the Truth from the Irrelevant and the Fiction
12-16-2010
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Paul Levinsin
When all the irrelevances (rape charges, etc) and the fictions (danger to national security and soldiers) are removed, the fact is that Wikileaks' release of government documents is helpful not damaging to our democracy.
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Politics
McCain Got The Message - video
12-16-2010
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www.drscoundrels.com
It looks like John McCain has recaptured his manhood! He is being forceful and demanding (for all the RIGHT reasons) and he isn't taking any crap! We only ask... where was THIS behavior in 2008??? Please read this article for more!
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Obama approves creation of man-made life
12-16-2010
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Terrence Aym
"Man-made life." -- To some it conjures up scenes from "Blade Runner""junk strewn laboratories with mad Japanese scientists hunched in the cellars of Los Angeles modifying patented cellular life complete with bar code identifiers for a price. Oth
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economy - International
Simon Black's Advice To Young People: Grab Your Ankles
12-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
If you’re reading this and under 30, let me be absolutely clear about one indubitable point: your government is going to sacrifice your future in order to pay for its own mistakes from the past.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Pope with a 'scope - Vatican Credited with Oldest Observatory in the world...Look - Vatican has
07-16-2000
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www.space.com
The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical institutes in the world and the only research group directly supported by the Holy See. Ten Jesuit astronomers split their time between Italy and Tucson, Arizona, where the Vatican Observator
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Michele Power
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News Link • Climate Change
Report: 1000 scientists worldwide refute 'man-made global warming'
12-16-2010
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Terrence Aym
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and recognized leader of the man-made global warming hypothesis, and former US Vice President Al Gore, are under attack by more than 1,000 leading international scientists. The much
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Politics
Adversarial? Hell Yes You Can!
12162010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Historically, the Founding Fathers not only created but really, really used an adversarial system. Why is it then, that once again we feel we know better? Why is it that we should change and be so PC? Is it time, with our country going down the tubes
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Feds Secret MBS Purchase Program and TARP 2.0: Looting The Taxpayer Again
12-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
I have raised concerns that this program is actually a backdoor bailout and would enable sole sourcing in lieu of open market, competitive bids. Thanks to Bloomberg’s FOIL suit against the Federal Reserve, we can now see...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Toxic Gulf Seafood: Looks good to me, Vern!
12-16-2010
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Farm Wars
If you can’t see, smell, or taste it, and if it looks good, then it must be okay to eat. Or at least will fool the public long enough to rake in profits...
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Surveillance
Are they spying on you?
12-16-2010
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www.sovereignman.com
Do you remember the good old days the when it used to be illegal for governments to spy on their citizens? I don’t either… but I’m told that it used to be illegal. Oh how times have changed.
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News Link • Bailouts
EU hopes to seize debt crisis initiative at summit
12-16-2010
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uk.news.yahoo.com
European Union leaders meet on Thursday to try to agree the next steps in tackling a year-long debt crisis that has consumed Greece and Ireland and threatens to spread to Portugal and Spain.
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News Link • Bailouts
Ireland passes bailout package despite opposition
12-16-2010
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uk.news.yahoo.com
Ireland's parliament approved a multi-billion euro EU/IMF bailout package on Wednesday in the face of opposition threats to renegotiate the deal to force losses on some senior bondholders in Irish banks.
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News Link • Internet
Facial recognition comes to Facebook photo tags
12-16-2010
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news.cnet.com
Upgrading its photo-sharing service, Facebook announced today that it will soon enable facial-recognition technology-meaning that when members upload photographs and are encouraged to "tag" their friends, they will be able to choose from a list of su
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Justice Department Sues BP
12-16-2010
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slatest.slate.com
President Obama is not getting any more popular with oil companies. The Associated Press reports that the Obama administration filed suit against BP and eight other companies in federal court in New Orleans Wednesday, asking that the companies "be he
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Marriage
French Couples Say "Oui" to Civil Unions
12-16-2010
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slatest.slate.com
It started out as a measure to protect gay rights. Now, France's 1999 civil unions system is all the rage with straight couples, reports the New York Times.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Family
A Generation of Men Raised by Women
12-16-2010
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lewrockwell.com
“We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.”
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News Link • Precious Metals
Ron Paul: Fed ‘monopoly’ could be broken if Americans use gold, silver as currency
12-16-2010
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RawStory.com
As the incoming chairman of the House monetary policy subcommittee, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) will hold the bully pulpit when it comes to the nation's money woes.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
12-16-2010
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lewrockwell.com
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.
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