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Date Sent: 2010-12-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 9, 2010 AM edition |
House Dems push through massive budget bill -- America Pressed Germans on Kidnapping by C.I.A.
PayPal says it stopped Wikileaks payments after US gov't. threat -- Hitler Bunker video spoofs Max Kaiser vs Jamie Dimon -- Fingerprint scanner use raises privacy concerns in N.C. -- WikiLeaks cables: Libya pressured United Kingdom to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi -- U.S. fiscal health worse than Europe's: China adviser -- Caught by mistake in foreclosure web -- TSA Chief: 4th Amendment only applies to law enforcement -- GOP Blocks Legislation To Award Seniors $250 -- US Treasuries hit by biggest sell-off in two years -- Anonymous Targeting Financial Services Companies Over Wikileaks -- Wallet Voting - "The Silver for Bullets" Project (VIDEO) -- Matt Bruce - Will WikiLeaks Endanger our Military? / Gerald Celente - Future, 2011, Economy
AZ: Andrea Garcia's Activist Appreciation Dinner,
Dec. 11; Bill of
Rights Day celebration, Dec,. 15; Robert Levy, Cato
Institute luncheon, Dec. 16
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House Dems push through massive budget bill
12-08-2010
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AP
Democrats controlling the House muscled through legislation Wednesday night that would freeze the budgets of most Cabinet departments and fund the war in Afghanistan for another year. The bill would cap the agencies' annual operating budgets at the $
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
America Pressed Germans on Kidnapping by C.I.A.
12-08-2010
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NY Times
American officials exerted sustained pressure on Germany not to enforce arrest warrants against Central Intelligence Agency officers involved in the 2003 kidnapping of a German citizen mistakenly believed to be a terrorist, diplomatic cables made pub
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
PayPal says it stopped Wikileaks payments after US gov't. threat
12-08-2010
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BBC News
A vice-president at the online payments firm said the State Department had said the activities of the website were illegal in the US. PayPal suspended payments to Wikileaks last week, and has been followed by Visa Europe and Mastercard. Amazon and Sw
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Hitler Bunker video spoofs Max Kaiser vs Jamie Dimon
12-08-2010
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Youtube
Heeeeeeeee larious!!! (warning: not intended for younger or more sensitive viewers)
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Police State
Fingerprint scanner use raises privacy concerns in N.C.
12-08-2010
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McClatchy News
Next month, 13 law enforcement agencies in the region will begin using a new handheld device that lets an officer scan a person's fingerprints and seek a match in an electronic database - all without going anywhere.
Police say taking fingerprints
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
WikiLeaks cables: Libya pressured United Kingdom to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
12-08-2010
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NY Daily News
Libya bullied the Brits into releasing the Lockerbie bomber. They warned the British government "flat out that there will be 'enormous repercussions'" if they didn't spring Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds, cables from the U.S. embassy
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. fiscal health worse than Europe's: China adviser
12-08-2010
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Reuters
"The fiscal situation in the United States is much worse than in Europe. In one or two years, when the European debt situation stabilizes, attention of financial markets will definitely shift to the United States. At that time, U.S. Treasury bonds an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Caught by mistake in foreclosure web
12-08-2010
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AP
Marconi was in the shower when he heard a loud banging on his door. By the time he grabbed a towel and hustled to his front step, a US marshal's sedan was peeling out of his driveway. Nailed to Marconi's front door was a foreclosure summons from
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Some Frogs Pee Out Junk From Their Bodies
12-08-2010
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LiveScience
Imagine some buckshot from a shotgun got stuck in you or you had a radio transmitter stuck in you. If you were a frog, your body apparently have the remarkable ability to pee out foreign objects, with their bladders engulfing the intrusions to get ri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Chief: 4th Amendment only applies to law enforcement
12-08-2010
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The Atlantic via BodyScannerTruth.com
"Does this give us security, without violating something that would be a Fourth Amendment issue? That’s what I did in this situation â€" seeing this as different from a law-enforcement Fourth Amendment search, for example on the pat-down..."
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Social Security
GOP Blocks Legislation To Award Seniors $250
12-08-2010
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AP
House and Senate Republicans thwarted Democratic efforts to award $250 checks to Social Security
recipients facing a second consecutive year without a
cost-of-living increase.
President Obama and Democrats urged approval of the
one-time payment
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
US scientists create mice from two fathers
12-08-2010
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AFP
US scientists have used stem cell technology to create mice from two fathers, an advance that they say could help preserve endangered species and even help same-sex couples have their own genetic children one day.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Treasuries hit by biggest sell-off in two years
12-08-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
US Treasuries suffered their biggest two-day sell-off since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, following a torrid month that has seen borrowing costs for western governments soar.
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Ernest Hancock
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