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Date Sent: 2009-12-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 25, 2009 Merry Christmas |
Congress raises debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion -- Senate Passes Health Care Overhaul Bill 220 to 215
U.S. agencies responsible for nuclear data leak: GAO -- Hacker Breaks
Kindle's Proprietary E-Book Protection -- Minnesota Supreme Court:
State Can Grab Cars from Innocent Owners -- Russia, China Said May Buy
Canada Currency As Shield Against US Dollar Decline -- Obamacare
sparking 10th Amendment rebellion, action in seven states -- Obama
Doubles Foreign Welfare -- Sagging tourism forces "fiscal crisis" for
Hawaii -- Iran bans gatherings for dissident cleric: websites -- Fannie
and Freddie CEOs to get up to $6M in pay -- Who's to Blame for
Obamacare? Two Republicans! -- The "Omaha Two:" Victimized by
COINTELPRO Injustice - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Congress raises debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion
12-24-2009
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AP
The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Senate Passes Health Care Overhaul Bill 220 to 215
12/24/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
WASHINGTON â€" The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama.
The 60-to-39 p
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Government
U.S. agencies responsible for nuclear data leak : GAO
12-24-2009
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Reuters
Several federal agencies share responsibility for the inadvertent publishing by a government office of sensitive U.S. nuclear power information on the Web last May, Congressional investigators said on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Hacker Breaks Kindle's Proprietary E-Book Protection
12-24-2009
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NewsFactor Network
Amazon's dominance of the e-book market with a proprietary format has been challenged by a copyright hack that allows its content to be shared. Breaking digital-rights management could force Amazon to follow Apple, Inc.'s lead and offer DRM-free cont
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Zero-Fifths of a Person
12-24-2009
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Wendy McElroy
We've been saying for over a year that Obama is no better than Bush. If you thought he was going to do something about torture or civil liberties, think again. It happened earlier this week,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Minnesota Supreme Court: State Can Grab Cars from Innocent Owners
12-24-2009
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The Newspaper
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the right of police to confiscate vehicles from owners who have done nothing wrong. The decision narrowed the applicability of an "innocent owner" defense in cases where a vehicle is jointly owned. The h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
'Twas Your Own Petard, James
12-24-2009
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Wendy McElroy
Global-warming catastrophist James Hansen of NASA seems to be unhappy that he's catching flak for the Climategate revelations. Hansen complains,..."The next day another popular blog concluded that I deserved capital punishment. ...
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Charities Criticize Online Fund-Raising Contest by Chase
12-24-2009
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NY Times
Chase Bank throws a contest to award money to 100 charities, but when the votes create winners among 2 pro-drug and a anti-abortion group Chase changes the rules.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
ObamaCare jingle by Ray Stevens
12-11-2009
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YouTube
A music video by Ray Stevens - otherwise known as the song "We the People"
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Thane Eichenauer
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News Link • World News
Iranian Protests Spread as Kerry Volunteers to Lick Mullahs' Boots
12-24-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Merry Christmas from Iran. While the protests in Iran have spread to the interior of the country and Twitter traffic from Iran shows a people defiant in the face of tyranny, John Kerry has offered his clueless self as the best way for the Obama admin
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Russia, China Said May Buy Canada Currency As Shield Against US Dollar Decline
12/24/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said China, with the world’s largest currency reserves of $2.3 trillion, may be poised to buy Canadian dollars as it seeks to shield its reserves against the U.S. dollar’s decline.
“It
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Welfare: Political
Obama Doubles Foreign Welfare
12/24/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
On December 16 President Obama signed the omnibus appropriations bill. It included H.R. 3081, a doubling of foreign aid from pre-Obama times, to 48.764 billion dollars. By comparison official US foreign aid in 2006 totaled less than 23 billion dollar
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Obamacare sparking 10th Amendment rebellion, action in seven states
12/24/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
Looks like the steadily growing list of constitutional, ethical and political outrages that constitute the Harry Reid version of Obamacare is sparking a rebellion in the states, as AP reports South Carolina's attorney general plans to investigate th
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
You Think Obamacare Passing Is Reason For Revolution? Wait Until They Pass The VAT Tax!
12/24/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
Now that "healthcare reform" is passed, Congress will move into the next phase- how to PAY for all this excessive spending. The most likely approach will be a VAT (Value Added Tax)
Add on some "Cap And Trade" and you have a
DOOM TRIFECTA!!!
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Phennommennonn GLP
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Feature Article • Activism
911 billboards near Sanders, Arizona on I 40
Thomas Costanzo
The Arizona Crew: 4409, Tesla, Morpheus, Chuck and Tom come together to put up 40 foot billboards on the side of I-40 near Sanders, Arizona. The billboards are now broadcasting their pirate signal back into the Matrix. The billboard companies CBS a
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Reference Link • Entertainment: Music
Vevo: The Hulu of Music Videos
Vevo
VEVO is the leading innovative online premium music and entertainment service for consumers, advertisers and content owners that blends the very best in musical content with cutting-edge video technology and a thriving user community powered by YouTu
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Kokesh seeks donations of silver, gold for Congressional race
12/21/2009
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Santa Fe NewMexican
All politicians need money for their campaigns. But a congressional candidate from Santa Fe is asking supporters to give his campaign something he says is far more valuable than cash: gold and silver.
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Jim Kaiser
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News Link • TAXES: State
Sagging tourism forces "fiscal crisis" for Hawaii
12-24-2009
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Reuters
Hawaii's meticulous tourism records are thick with minus symbols, the basis for a projected state budget gap of $1.23 billion that Governor Linda Lingle says is a "fiscal crisis" that cannot be closed with spending cuts alone.
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News Link • Iran
Iran bans gatherings for dissident cleric: websites
12-24-2009
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Reuters
The authorities have banned memorial gatherings for a leading dissident cleric in most parts of Iran, reformist websites said on Thursday, days ahead of an emotive Shi'ite ritual that may draw more opposition protests.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Ancient Mayans Likely Had Fountains and Toilets
12-24-2009
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LiveScience
The ancient Mayans may have had enough engineering know-how to master running water, creating fountains and even toilets by controlling water pressure, scientists now suggest.
Perhaps the earliest known example of the intentional creation of water
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Once at war, Russia and Georgia agree to open border
12-24-2009
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Reuters
Georgia said on Thursday it had agreed to open a mountain pass on the border with Russia, in a first sign of a possible thaw in relations between the two ex-Soviet nations since their August 2008 war.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Fannie and Freddie CEOs to get up to $6M in pay
12-24-2009
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AP
The two chief executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could get paid as much as $6 million for 2009, despite the companies' dismal performances this year which cost taxpayers more than $100 billion.
Fannie's CEO, Michael Williams, and Freddie CEO
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Angels Removed from California Christmas Trees
12-24-2009
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The New York Times
Sonoma County, California agreed to remove all angels and other religious-oriented symbols on county properties after recieving a complaint from a man who spotted angels and stars on County-owned Christmas trees last week.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Healthcare
Who's to Blame for Obamacare? Two Republicans!
12-24-2009
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Human Events
A very insightful article written by Mark Skousen on how George W. Bush and Karl Rove helped lay the groundwork for Barack Obama's healthcare plan.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Merry Christmas and All That
12-24-2009
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arclein
Possibly the rise of a new sense of community through the internet is allowing friends to share their most closely held beliefs. The conviction of a heart felt Christian is a persuasive argument to listen and then perhaps to find a teacher that spea
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News Link • Science
Dark Matter
12-24-2009
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arclein
The particles showed as two tiny pulses of heat deposited over the course of two years in chunks of germanium and silicon that had been cooled to a temperature near absolute zero.
The detectors are place half a mile down to avoid them being effec
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robert klein
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News Link • Activism
Half-Naked Man With Glass Balls Wearing Santa Cap Vandalizes Las Vegas Welcome Sign
12-24-2009
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Ginn
This has to be the most original protest we've read about--but it's not exactly what you might think.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Healthcare
The 20 Dumbest Things Said about ObamaCare
12-24-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Though there have been a lot of lies, damned lies and statistics used, we thought there ought to be a listing of the dumbest things said about ObamaCare. After all, it's the Christmas season and we're in a giving mood.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Joining The Maricopa Choir
12-23-2009
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Simple Justice
Hendershott's response was exactly the note one would expect from Arpaio. Naturally, he maligns Polk as having tried to "tank the case" she was working on because she's part of the conspiracy against Arpaio. And so, Yavapai County Attorney Polk joi
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