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Date Sent: 2010-06-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, June 25, 2010 |
Obama Disavows July 2011 Afghan Drawdown -- 48%: Government Threat to Individual Rights
Shoddy Disposal Work Mars Oil Cleanup -- It’s raining oil in Louisiana -- Witnesses admit lies in Troy Davis death row hearing -- Arrest Threatened If Conn. Plane Unloaded -- Australian government to force Internet users to install state-approved software -- Electoral College is on the verge of being eliminated -- Economic Stimulus Can’t Stop De-Leveraging - by Bill Bonner -- DHS IG wants US CERT enforcement power -- How we throw money away with the military-industrial-congressional complex
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Disavows July 2011 Afghan Drawdown
06-24-2010
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AntiWar.com
“We didn’t say we’d be switching off the lights,” Obama insisted, adding that “we said we’d begin a transition phase that would allow the Afghan government to take more and more responsibility.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
48% See Government Today As A Threat to Individual Rights
06-24-2010
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Rasmussen Reports
Most Republicans (74%) and unaffiliateds (51%) consider the government to be a threat to individual rights. Most Democrats (64%) regard the government as a protector of rights.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Shoddy Disposal Work Mars Oil Cleanup
06-24-2010
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AP
A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls in a public parking lot and a messy trail of sand and water on the main beach road. A few miles away, brown liquid drips out of
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Videographer: It’s raining oil in Louisiana
06-24-2010
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Rawstory
It may be a prank -- or it may be raining oil in Louisiana.
A videotape posted on the Russia Today news site shows an amateur cameraman filming oil-slicked streets in River Ridge, a suburb of New Orleans.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Fish out of water: Gene clue to evolutionary step
06-24-2010
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AFP
Fossil evidence suggests that around 365 million years ago, fish, or fish-like creatures, emerged from shallow seas, moving onto land with the help of primitive, eight-fingered limbs, which later simplified to five digits under evolutionary pressure.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Witnesses admit lies in Troy Davis death row hearing
06-24-2010
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AFP
A string of witnesses admitted giving false testimony at the 1991 trial of a convicted murderer who has spent almost two decades on death row in the United States. The admissions came at a special hearing ordered by the US Supreme Court
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Arrest Threatened If Conn. Plane Unloaded
06-24-2010
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AP
The pilot on a Virgin Atlantic flight that spent several hours on the tarmac after being diverted to Connecticut had asked for permission to let the passengers get off the plane, but a customs official threatened to have them arrested if they did,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
4chan rigs votes for Zach Anner
6-224-2010
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geekosystem.com/Me in 4chan
"The internet hate machine" as it is known by Foxnews rigged the votes for Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star competition. The denizens of 4chan admittedly did this for "the lulz" and to cause chaos for the mainstream media.
Note: The website
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Reported by:
Concerned Patriot
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News Link • Internet
Australian government to force Internet users to install state-approved software
06-24-2010
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Mathaba News Agency
[Coming to a country near YOU] The Australian government is set to intensify its war against Internet freedom by forcing web users to install state-approved anti-virus software. If they fail to do so, they will be denied an Internet connection, or i
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Reported by:
Justin Tyme
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News Link • Politics
The Electoral College is on the verge of being eliminated
06/24/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Attacks on the Electoral College Gain Momentum [Tara Ross]
You won’t hear about it in the mainstream media, but the Electoral College is on the verge of being eliminated. One important legislative vote could occur Thursday. Two others could occur in
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Eugenics
Macondo: 'The Whole Casing System Is Deteriorating' - Shell Oil Ex-CEO
06-24-2010
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Rense.com
"It looks like we are facing an endless destruction of our, of our area here in North America. This is going to keep going and going and going, it looks like."
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Macondo: Well From Hell Was Named After a Cursed Town That Vanishes
06-24-2010
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open.salon.com
Macondo was the name of the cursed village in Marquez’s novel, which in the end, every last trace of the village and its inhabitants were swept away by a violent storm.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Judge: George Donnelly faces "petty offenses"
06-23-2010
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Libertarian News Examiner
Tuesday a judge declared that George Donnelly, under house arrest since May 13 for trying to photograph a Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) pamphleting effort on public property, is facing "petty offenses."
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Reported by:
Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Internet
DHS IG wants US CERT enforcement power, doesn't say how
06-24-2010
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Fierce Government IT
The Homeland Security Department should have the power to force civilian agencies to comply with cybersecurity guidance from DHS's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, asserted DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner before a House panel June 16.
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Reported by:
Sheila Dean
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News Link • Internet
Section 706 worse than Lieberman bill, says Senate Committee
06-24-2010
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Fierce Government IT
Existing presidential authority over telecommunications infrastructure is greater than what the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 would permit the executive branch to do in case of a cyber emergency, say proponents of the bill.
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Reported by:
Sheila Dean
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Wasteful War Machine: How we throw money away with the military-industrial-congressional complex
06-24-2010
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Marshall Auerback
It’s interesting how the deficit hawks always discuss wasteful government spending . . the web of political and economic relations weaving together the military-industrial-congressional complex, or MICC, operates according to its own internal rhythms
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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