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Date Sent: 2010-12-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 13, 2010 AM edition |
Having ‘political objective’ disqualifies Assange ‘from being journalist,’ State Dept. says
Doctors shocked by spread of swine flu – and its severity -- Halliburton may pay $500 million to keep Cheney out of prison -- Judge orders city to return $190k seized RICO from brothers, city refuses -- Legalizing Internet poker gets push from Harry Reid in lame-duck session -- Ron Paul, G.O.P. Loner, Comes In From Cold -- With New Violence, More Christians Are Fleeing Iraq -- Were Next: National electronic ID cards planned for Afghanistan -- EU Permanent Bailout To June, 2013: Shafts PIIGS Gov’t Bondholders -- How the CIA protected Nazi murderers -- Military moves closer to weaponized holograms for battlefield -- Neocons Want War With Mexico: The Drug War and The Casino Gulag Model -- Passware Warns of Microsoft Encryption Hole -- Jailed Afghan Drug Lord Was Informer on U.S. Payroll -- US defends FBI sting operations -- CFTC Commissioner: "One Trader" Controls 40% Of Silver Market -- Swedish police: Explosions were terrorism -- Obama Wants To Bring GMO Crops To The Land of His Father, Africa -- A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Having ‘political objective’ disqualifies Assange ‘from being journalist,’ State Dept. says
12-12-2010
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Rawstory
Who is and is not a journalist? In a hyper-connected age where anyone and everyone can become a publisher in seconds, the word's definition seems increasingly intangible. The US State Department appears to have crossed that very muddy line with its c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Doctors shocked by spread of swine flu " and its severity
12-12-2010
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The Independent
The swine flu virus that swept the world last year causing a global health emergency has returned to claim the lives of 10 adults in the UK in the past six weeks.
The 10 deaths were in younger adults under 65 and associated with H1N1 swine flu. Mo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Halliburton may pay $500 million to keep Cheney out of prison
12-12-2010
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Rawstory
Oilfield services company Halliburton is in negotiations with the Nigerian government to keep its former CEO, Dick Cheney, out of prison. A settlement keeping the charges against Cheney out of court could cost as much as $500 million.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Judge orders city to return $190k seized RICO from brothers, city refuses
12-12-2010
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Chicago Tribune
Though neither Jose nor Jesus Martinez is charged with a crime, authorities are seeking forfeiture of $190,040 found in Jesus' truck when he was stopped by an Aurora police officer. A judge ordered the money returned, but the city has refused.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Legalizing Internet poker gets push from Harry Reid in lame-duck session
12-12-2010
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Washington Post
As it scrambles to consider landmark legislation on taxes, immigration and gays in the military, the lame-duck Congress is suddenly engaged in a debate it didn't anticipate: whether to legalize online poker.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul, G.O.P. Loner, Comes In From Cold
12-12-2010
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NY Times
As virtually all of Washington was declaring WikiLeaks’s disclosures of secret diplomatic cables an act of treason, Representative Ron Paul was applauding the organization for exposing the United States’ “delusional foreign policy.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
With New Violence, More Christians Are Fleeing Iraq
12-12-2010
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NY Times
A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country’s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Were Next: National electronic ID cards planned for Afghanistan
12-12-2010
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RawStory.com
War-torn Afghanistan lacks basic national infrastructure, yet on Sunday the government unveiled plans for a $100 million electronic identification system with cards to be issued to all Afghans within five years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • European Union
EU Permanent Bailout To June, 2013: Shafts PIIGS Gov’t Bondholders
12-12-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
New bailout funds would be senior to existing government debt (this is a standard feature of IMF rescues and bankruptcy financings)
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
How the CIA protected Nazi murderers
12-12-2010
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independent.co.uk/
One of the report's chapters deals with how the Americans used Gestapo officers, including Rudolf Mildner, after the war. Mildner oversaw security in Denmark in 1943 when most of the country's 8,000 Jews were ordered to be arrested and deported to Au
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Charting The US Fiscal Catastrophe
12-12-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
While the debt to tax collection metric is deplorable, what is far more scarier, and has very profound implications for future US debt, is that the cumulative debt over deficit differential not only continues to rise, but has hit an all time high.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Military moves closer to weaponized holograms for battlefield
12-12-2010
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Terrence Aym
The United States military is toying with the idea of battlefield holograms again. This time, they might do it. The PsyOps (psychological operations) arm of the Pentagon has been pushing hard for the capability and believes it could produce a signifi
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Obama Administration
Karl Denninger: President Obama Is Losing It
12-12-2010
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Market-ticker.org & YouTube.com
Seriously. There's no other possible explanation for this. I have never, in my years of observing politics and being politically active, seen something like that.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government
Who Us? We're Responsible? How?
12122010
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www.drscoundrels.com
I post my articles on LinkedIn in many groups that seem to share my thoughts on politics and when I posted my last article there, I got a terrific question back that I wanted to answer - but there is no short answer to this. So I decided to turn it i
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Archaeology
A Literal "Garden of Eden" For Early Man: The Persian Gulf 6,000 BC
12-12-2010
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news.Yahoo.com
And it would have been an ideal refuge from the harsh deserts surrounding it, with fresh water supplied by the Tigris, Euphrates, Karun and Wadi Baton Rivers, as well as by upwelling springs, Rose said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Idiotic Failures: Neocons, The Drug War, and The Gulag Casino Model
12-12-2010
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Market-ticker.org
We refuse to face the fact that drug prohibition has failed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Neocons Want War With Mexico: The Drug War and The Casino Gulag Model
12-12-2010
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redstate.com/
With the exception of, perhaps, Texas governor Rick Perry, no public official wants to publicly admit an obvious fact: The United States of America will likely be forced to invade Mexico. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Passware Warns of Microsoft Encryption Hole
12-12-2010
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PC Magazine
Password-recovery experts at Passware warned the security of Microsoft's Bitlocker whole-disk encryption is seriously compromised on a computer configured to use sleep mode. The same is true of the open-source TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The 'Assange Effect': How WikiLeaks is leveraging the world
12-12-2010
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Terrence Aym
Julian Assange has achieved something the Greek scientist Archimedes only dreamed about: finding a lever big enough to move the world. Archimedes once famously stated that if he had a big enough lever he could move the world. Assange has found that l
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Afghanistan
Jailed Afghan Drug Lord Was Informer on U.S. Payroll
12-12-2010
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NY Times
When Hajji Juma Khan was arrested and transported to New York to face charges under a new American narco-terrorism law in 2008, federal prosecutors described him as perhaps the biggest and most dangerous drug lord in Afghanistan, a shadowy figure who
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
US defends FBI sting operations
12-12-2010
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al-Jazeera
The US attorney-general has defended the use of sting operations involving government informants, saying "These types of operations have proven to be an essential law enforcement tool in uncovering and preventing potential terror attacks," Holder tol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The Pharm Kids - Public School Pharmacy
12/12/2010
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http://MeetTheTruth.com
Florida reports a 250% increase of drugged children - and suicide may be end result.. MeetTheTruth, A Florida TV show, takes on this controversial issue of Pharmaceutical Children or "Pharm Kids" How can we know what in the world is going on in t
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Meet The Truth
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Blizzard Dumps 20 Inches Of Snow In Parts Of Midwest
12-12-2010
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AP
A powerful snowstorm socked the upper Midwest on Saturday with as much as 20 inches of snow, forcing authorities to close roads across five states as heavy winds made for treacherous driving conditions.
The snowstorm was expected to be followed b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: When Robosigners Attack!
12-12-2010
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Ritholtz.com
My advice to Weidner is to immediately file a counter-suit for harassment and abuse of legal process before the morons who run Nationwide come to their senses and withdraw their nuisance suit.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Adults in poll blame parents for education woes
12-12-2010
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AZcentral.com
An Associated Press-Stanford University Poll on education found that 68 percent of adults believe parents deserve heavy blame for what's wrong with the U.S. education system - more than teachers, school administrators...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
CFTC Commissioner: "One Trader" Controls 40% Of Silver Market
12-12-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton, who continues to expose the CFTC and the banker cartel's illegal market manipulation practices, we now have proof that "one trader held over 40 percent of the silver market."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TERRORISM
Swedish police: Explosions were terrorism
12-12-2010
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AP
Two blasts that shook a busy shopping street in central Stockholm were an act of terrorism, officials said Sunday, in what appeared to be a suicide bombing. It would be the first such attack in the Nordic country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
The 1677 Statute of Frauds: History We Neglect at Our Peril
12-12-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Our seventeenth century forebears, it seems, had realised the truth in the old adage that an oral contract was not worth the paper it was written on. The usual courtroom dramas about who had said what had gained an unsavoury edge...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Obama Wants To Bring GMO Crops To The Land of His Father, Africa
12-12-2010
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naturalnews.com/
But the main problem with the efforts is that they include exporting the same genetic modification technology that was thrust on India, but this time to the nations of Africa.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Madoff's eldest son hangs himself in NYC apartment
12-12-2010
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AP
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's eldest son hanged himself by a dog leash in his apartment Saturday, exactly two years after his father's arrest in a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that swindled thousands of investors of their life savings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives
12-12-2010
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NY Times
The men share a common goal: to protect the interests of big banks in the vast market for derivatives, one of the most profitable " and controversial " fields in finance. They also share a common secret: The details of their meetings, even their iden
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Yves Smith Interview: Housing, Foreclosures, and Bank Solvency
12-12-2010
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BusinessNewsNetwork.ca
In this interview Yves Smith covers housing, the millions of foreclosures in the pipeline, and the matter of bank solvency. This interview took place on Canadian TV, and unfortunately it will never occur here in Amerika.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox questions Alaska courts' authority
Read more: Fairba
12-12-2010
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NewsMiner.com
FAIRBANKS " A defiant Schaeffer Cox, facing a misdemeanor weapons charge, told a judge Friday he will not attend another court hearing until the court system explains its authority over him.
Cox, the 26-year-old head of the Alaska Peacemakers Mili
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Militia
Militia shows up in Sasabe
12-12-2010
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Tucson Citizen
Reliable reports from folks who work in the Sasabe area are that the “Michigan Militia” has shown up in and around Sasabe, patrolling the border because the US Border Patrol isn’t doing enough to stop the flow of illegal aliens and drugs across the b
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Justin Tyme
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