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Date Sent: 2010-12-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 28, 2010 AM edition |
Conservatives calling for states’ right to declare bankruptcy -- UN Maps Out Afghan Security
Some bailed-out banks may fail anyway -- Cops' Use of Illegal Steroids a 'Big Problem' -- In Lakeway, a crusade against speed traps -- Russian court convicts oil tycoon who opposed Putin -- Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy -- Iris Scanning Is Coming to Android, IPhone, and Microsoft Phones -- NYPD Deploying Iris Scanners Used By US Army In Afghanistan -- Freedoms Phoenix and American Precious Metals VIDEO (How to Buy and Sell Silver) --
Will Britain's Pornography Filtering Lead to Internet Censorship? --
The new fake "conservative" call for a Constitutional Convention --
Police are getting upset at being filmed,...to the point they are even
pulling guns on reporters -- Monetary Revolution Begins With Competing Currencies -- Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system -- ‘Disgrace’: Wired editor criticized for withholding Bradley Manning chat logs -- Nation’s poorest state spent over $500,000 on governor’s travel
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Conservative chorus calling for states’ right to declare bankruptcy
12-27-2010
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Rawstory
A chorus of conservative pundits are calling for bankruptcy laws to be changed so that all 50 US state governments might have the chance to restructure their debts, an ability currently limited to corporations, municipal entities, and private citizen
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.N. Maps Out Afghan Security
12-27-2010
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Wall Street Journal
Internal United Nations maps show a marked deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan during this year's fighting season, countering the Obama administration's optimistic assessments of military progress since the surge of additional Amer
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Some bailed-out banks may fail anyway
12-27-2010
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The Lookout
Ninety-eight banks that took in $4.2 billion under the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program are in jeopardy of failing, according to a study of third-quarter financial results by the Wall Street Journal. That's up from 86 banks based o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops' Use of Illegal Steroids a 'Big Problem'
12-27-2010
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AOL News
"It's a big problem, and from the number of cases, it's something we shouldn't ignore," DEA Lawrence Payne said. "It's not that we set out to target cops, but when we're in the middle of an active investigation into steroids, there have been quite a
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
In Lakeway, a crusade against speed traps
12-27-2010
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Three years ago, when Lakeway resident Lance Mitchell launched his website, SpeedTrapAhead.org, he didn't hide his intentions.
"Not a lot of people flash their lights to warn others nowadays," he wrote. "But, I DO! And when I see a speed trap, I g
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russian court convicts oil tycoon who opposed Putin
12-27-2010
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France24
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Russia’s largest oil company and once its richest man, has been found guilty of embezzlement. His supporters say his real crime was daring to oppose the country’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy
12-27-2010
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AP
Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years.
The boomers, who in their youth revolutionized everything from music to race relations, are set to redefine retirement. But
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Iris Scanning Is Coming to Android, IPhone, and Microsoft Phones
12-27-2010
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thirdfactor.com/
Mobile application developer, BluePlanet Apps, has announced it is developing a biometric security application for the Android mobile operating system, according to an Android Headlines article.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Iris Scanning Comes to the US & Canadian Border
12-27-2010
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BattleCreekEnquirer.com
My family decided to apply for NEXUS cards. NEXUS allows for quick passage across the U.S./Canadian border if you are a model citizen, show oodles of ID, agree to iris scanning and fingerprinting...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
NYPD Deploying Iris Scanners Used By US Army In Afghanistan
12-27-2010
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auto-mobi.info/
The New York Police Department is now using machines to photograph and scan the irises of prisoners as they pass through New York Central Booking. The department claims that this new high-tech ID...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • Currencies
GOLD STANDARD NOT REQUIRED
John Green
Why do "free marketeers" continue to maintain that some global, standard system of currency is needed? How is that any different from what the IMF or the Fed does? No standard is needed. Privatization of currency is all that is required!
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
People Are Awesome (VIDEO)
12-27-2010
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www.flixxy.com
A compilation of awesome people doing incredible things. Best viewed in full screen. (Professionals at work. Do not try this!)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Local Police Using Iris Scanners Used In Iraq and Afghanistan
12-27-2010
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wired.com/
In Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. troops use handheld devices to take iris scans and thumb prints off of detainees and put them in vast databases to distinguish insurgents from civilians. Now your local cops are...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
BlueTooth headsets are so last year. Go for the tacti-cool look throat mike for your cell phone
12-27-2010
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www.thinkgeek.com
Ad says: "Perfect for Motorcycles or Armed Combat".
Hey, isn't riding a motorcycle armed combat on 2 wheels?
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Conspiracies
WikiLeaks Set To Reveal US-UFO War In Southern Ocean
12-27-2010
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What Does It Mean.com
A new report circulating in the Kremlin says that an upcoming WikiLeaks release of secret US cables details that the Americans have been “engaged” since 2004 in a “war” against UFO’s based on or near the Continent of Antarctica.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • TERRORISM
Report: Protecting Mass Transit Difficult Task
12-27-2010
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Officer.com
The government's top security officials say they are upgrading subway and rail defenses against terrorist attacks throughout the country, but a USA TODAY examination finds gaping holes, including many that may not be possible to plug.
The holes i
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MIT biologists decipher 3 billion year old genetic 'fossil'
12-27-2010
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Terrence Aym
Biologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successful deciphered a 3-billion year old genetic fossil and found that an ancient surge of life on Earth was related to the sun. For some time it's been known that a surprising upsurge o
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police are getting upset at being filmed,...to the point they are even pulling guns on reporters
12-27-2010
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ABC Ch. 7 WJLA
Although this report is over 2 years old, it shows that this is a growing trend that is NOT an anomoly here and there, but going on everywhere, and has been for some time.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Currencies
Monetary Revolution Begins With Competing Currencies
12-27-2010
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infowars.com
Congressman Ron Paul has been promoting the idea of legalizing competing currencies in the process of diffusing the Federal Reserve’s monopoly over money.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Food
Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system
12-27-2010
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Ted.com
11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food -- far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
‘Disgrace’: Wired editor criticized for withholding Bradley Manning chat logs
12-27-2010
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RawStory.com
By his own admission, Wired Magazine Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen is withholding a large majority of chat logs that could prove WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange did or did not conspire with the US soldier accused of leaking a cache of diplomatic cable
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
US to step up security at hotels and malls
12-27-2010
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www.breitbart.com
The United States is stepping up security at "soft targets" like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Napolitano: Pat-Downs are Here to Stay
12-27-2010
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prisonplanet.com
Airline passengers should get used to invasive full body scans and enhanced pat-downs, the Homeland Security secretary suggested Sunday.
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Local News Blackout Re: US Border Patrol Arrests- Port Angeles, WA
12-27-2010
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Alex Hepler
A USBP spokesperson tells "the press":
"Border Patrol spokeswoman Jenny Burke said Monday that the agency will not release any information on the number of arrests made by agents who work out of the Port Angeles station, the names of those arr
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Reported by:
Alex Hepler
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Media Oligarch Tells News Reader To Shut The Hell Up
12-27-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Charlie Gasparino: Jack Welch warned me about doing market moving stories, "You are going to get your brains blown out"
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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