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Date Sent: 2010-12-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 27, 2010 AM edition |
As approvals drop, work on secret wiretaps grows -- DEA reach goes global, & beyond drugs
U.S. Marshals Mishandled Forfeitures, Suit Says -- Drug Czar specifically exempted from Scientific Integrity policy -- How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas -- Raid on Atlanta Gay Bar Leads to Policy Changes on Photographing Police -- ACLU placed on Tennessee terror map for letter to schools --
The vindictive grand jury investigation of pain-relief advocate Siobhan
Reynolds -- Prisoners of the system: Corporate organized crime runs the
system of human trafficking for profit -- Big Brother Closing In: DHS Coming To Malls and Hotels -- 16 Shocking Facts About Student Debt -- Mexico says its troops machinegunned US man & framed him -- Seattle cop killed partially deaf man over closed knife, attorney insists -- License Plate Readers To See Explosive Growth -- School outed teen to parents, said it was ‘legally obligated’: lawsuit -- How To: Run Snitches Inside Terrorist Groups -- Israel destroyed Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, leaked cable reveals
-- Court OKs booting of cheerleader who wouldn’t cheer for her rapist
-- TSA has no regular testing system for its pornoscanners -- Manning’s
message on Christmas Eve: ‘I greatly
appreciate everyone’s support’ -- Questions:
Cuba, Gold, and why Chile is the answer -- A Gift for My
Daughter- by Harry Browne - December 25, 1966 --
Worried scientists warn: World could
run out of breathable air -- Psychiatry—Labeling
Kids with Bogus 'Mental
Disorders' -- My Christmas Video Message (from Christine Smith)
-- Rising
Poverty in America and Israel -- Tell
us USA who's the terrorist (Video) -- Get ready:
They're going to put chips in your brain -- New generation of deadly
Chinese missiles can now sink all US Navy supercarriers -- 2011
sun storms could slam
USA back to 1800s -- Now the
government has taxed you to pay the
dead
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News Link • Police State
As application approvals drop, work on secret wiretaps grows
12-26-2010
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Washington Post
Even as the Justice Dept. reports a 2-year decline in the number of wiretap applications approved by a secret US intelligence court, the workload of Justice Dept. lawyers assigned to request and oversee such sensitive surveillance activities grows.
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News Link • Drug War
WikiLeaks: DEA reach goes global, and beyond drugs
12-26-2010
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RawStory
WASHINGTON " The US Drug Enforcement Administration has grown into a global intelligence organization whose reach extends far beyond international drug trafficking, The New York Times reported.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
U.S. Marshals Mishandled Forfeitures, Suit Says
12-26-2010
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NY Times
The complaint filed in the case contains a range of accusations about the actions of Leonard Briskman, the leader of the marshals unit. It says that assets were sold without public notice or competitive bidding, and that Mr. Briskman assessed the val
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
ONDCP specifically exempted from Scientific Integrity policy
12-26-2010
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AP
Yesterday, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology distributed a memo designed to guarantee scientific integrity throughout the executive branch” But if science says legalization is a viable option, the Drug Czar is required by law to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas
12-26-2010
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Gawker
Since May, Los Angeles high schooler Jeremy Marks has been in jail"essentially for filming a school police officer hit a 15-year-old. He'll be home for Christmas, though, thanks to a Google engineer who heard about Marks on Reddit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming
12-26-2010
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AP
A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago.
The dispatch offered no hope t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Hours after going viral, 'Police State' crossbow video yanked from youtube
12-26-2010
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LA County Libertarian Examiner
A compelling video of an altercation involving 20 or more police outside a Lincoln, Nebraska mobile home was mysteriously removed from youtube after being featured on several libertarian websites. The video titled 'Police State' had initially been po
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Raid on Atlanta Gay Bar Leads to Policy Changes on Photographing Police
12-26-2010
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Photography Is Not a Crime
In a brazen display of Constitutional ignorance, Atlanta police officers stormed into a gay bar last year without a search warrant and forced 80 people down at gunpoint, confiscating their cell phones to prevent photographs as they frisked everybody
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
ACLU placed on Tennessee terror map for letter to schools
12-26-2010
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Rawstory
The ACLU of Tennessee says it ended up on a map of potential terrorist threats after it sent a letter to school superintendents asking them to be "inclusive" in their holiday celebrations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The vindictive grand jury investigation of pain-relief advocate Siobhan Reynolds
12-26-2010
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Slate
Grand juries are supposed to act as a buffer between prosecutors and those they accuse of committing a crime. They're intended to protect us from having our reputations ruined by reckless and meritless allegations. In reality, grand juries have
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Prisoners of the system: Corporate organized crime runs the system of human trafficking for profit
12-26-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Finding reasons to put people in prisons has become big business in the US. Beginning in the 1980’s, prisons began privatizing for profit, making that profit off the forced labor of prisoners who saw not one dime in return for their labor. John Ash
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother Closing In: DHS Coming To Malls and Hotels
12-26-2010
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RawStory.com
he 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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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
16 Shocking Facts About Student Debt
12-26-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
Americans now owe more than $875 billion on student loans, which is more than the total amount that Americans owe on their credit cards
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico says its troops killed US man & framed him
12-26-2010
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AP
Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store. The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. An AR-15 rifle lay in his han
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosures To Loom Over Housing Market For Five Years
12-26-2010
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Bloomberg.com
“The inventory overhang is so big, with foreclosures looming, it’ll take five years to absorb the supply,” said Paul Ballew, chief economist at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. in Columbus, Ohio.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Seattle cop killed partially deaf man over closed knife, attorney insists
12-26-2010
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Rawstory
Recently released footage from a police cruiser's dashboard camera shows the events leading up to the fatal shooting of a partially deaf man by a Seattle police officer.
John T. Williams, a Native American wood carver who was partially deaf, was k
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
License Plate Readers To See Explosive Growth
12-26-2010
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LAtimes.com
The high-tech cameras can scan 1,800 plates a minute and run them through crime databases. Some fear the government will use the technology to track innocent people.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School outed teen to parents, said it was ‘legally obligated’: lawsuit
12-26-2010
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Rawstory
Texas high school softball coaches at a are being sued after allegedly confining a teenaged girl in a locked room, forcing her to confirm her sexual orientation, then outing her to her parents before ejecting her from the softball team.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • False Flag Operations
How To: Run Snitches Inside Terrorist Groups
12-26-2010
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Wired
Need to penetrate the closed circle of a terrorist cell? Then it’s time to recruit like terrorists do: pick out the outcasts and prey on their numerous, numerous anxieties.
In 2005, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service put together a tip sheet
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News Link • Israel
Israel destroyed Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, leaked cable reveals
12-26-2010
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AFP
Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in an air raid just weeks before it went online in 2007, said a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks and published on Friday in an Israeli daily.
"On September 6, 2007, Israel destroyed the nuclear re
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Court OKs booting of cheerleader who wouldn’t cheer for her rapist
12-26-2010
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Rawstory
A former Texas cheerleader who was kicked off the squad for refusing to cheer for a basketball player who allegedly raped her is taking her case to the Supreme Court, according to her lawyer.
"The cheerleader and her parents are also challenging f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA has no regular testing system for its pornoscanners
12-26-2010
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Boing Boing
But when Andrew Schneider, AOL's public health correspondent, contacted the TSA to find out what maintenance and testing is in place to ensure the safe operation of the scanners, he discovered that the TSA appears to have no regime at all to ensure t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Device uses sunlight to make liquid fuel
12-26-2010
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Rawstory
Scientists from the US and Switzerland have created a prototype machine that harnesses the sun's energy to make liquid fuels from water. The solar device uses sunlight and cerium oxide to break down water into hydrogen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Coral Reef Bleaching Cause
12-26-2010
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arclein
Over the past decades, there have dozens of articles in the media describing dire futures for coral reefs. In the 1960s and '70s, we were informed that many reefs were being consumed by a voracious coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish. In th
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Facebook Friendship Map Lights up the World
12-26-2010
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arclein
"I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends," Butler wrote in a Facebook post accompanying the map. "I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of frien
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robert klein
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News Link • WAR: About that War
A prayer for Little Adam
12-26-2010
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arclein
One month has passed since the massacre of Catholic Christians by Islamists in Our Lady of Deliverance Church in Baghdad. As Christians throughout the world celebrate Advent, which represents the awaiting of the birth of the Christ Child, word is spr
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robert klein
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Manning’s message on Christmas Eve: ‘I greatly appreciate everyone’s support’
12-26-2010
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RawStory
"I greatly appreciate everyone’s support and well wishes during this time," he said in a Christmas Eve statement released by his lawyer.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - December 25-26th 2010
12-26-2010
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LewRockwell.com
No Room at the Inn, Lew Rockwell on Christmas, free enterprise, and government - I Like Ebeneezer, A revisionist look at Dickens, from Butler Shaffer - The 12 Days of Christmas, Government version, from Laurence Vance
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Questions: Cuba, Gold, and why Chile is the answer
12-26-2010
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www.sovereignman.com
Cuba is a complete disaster, but it’s hard to imagine the place getting much worse. There does seem to be a lot of potential, and the country could turn into a boom town overnight given the right conditions.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • LOVE
A Gift for My Daughter- by Harry Browne - December 25, 1966
12-25-2010
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HarryBrowne.org
I want to give you something that will stay with you for more than a few months or years. I want to give you a gift that might remind you of me every Christmas.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA unveils next generation astronaut - an android
12-26-2010
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Terrence Aym
NASA and contractor General Motors have officially unveiled the next-generation of space explorer, an android named Robonaut2 (R2). Designed by leading robotic engineers and artificial intelligence programmers, R2 pushes the envelope of smart machine
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economy - International
Fitzroy McLean on Freedom, International Investing and How to Improve 'the Space Between One'
12-25-2010
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DailyBell
Without Borders, the publication, is a newsletter that is little more than a running account of my travels and what our roving band of intrepid capitalists are doing with our time and money. As a going concern, Without Borders as a community of like-
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Art
Real invisible man amazes optical experts
12-25-2010
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Terrence Aym
While a number of high-tech firms in the UK and the United States"including the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)"have been working feverishly on creating invisibility devices and have had some success, a real invisibility
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ariz. representative beaten unconscious; suspect on the loose
12-26-2010
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http://fwix.com/phoenix
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. - A manhunt is on for the suspect who severely beat Arizona Representative Frank Pratt and left him unconscious inside his place of business.
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News Link • Propaganda
Statism: An Unfalsifiable Religion
12-25-2010
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C4SS / Kevin Carson
Can you imagine an apologist for USA PATRIOT or the TSA saying: “Well, I guess draconian security clampdowns and police statism aren’t any good for preventing terrorism after all”? No, they’d use it as a pretext for doubling down.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Aftershocks of BP Gulf disaster invisibly killing millions
12-25-2010
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Terrence Aym
“I think the media now has to...tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf." - Hugh Kaufman, senior EPA analyst, admits millions have been poisoned in the Gulf states. A biochemical bomb went off in
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Drug War
Compulsory Treatment and Abuse
12-25-2010
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Drug WarRant
This disturbing video from the always excellent Hungarian Civil Liberties Union documents some of the abuses in China and Southeast Asia regarding drug users.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Science
Worried scientists warn: World could run out of breathable air
12-25-2010
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Terrence Aym
Professor Ralph Keeling of Scripps Institute is worried. In fact, he's very worried. According to the data Keeling has meticulously collected since 1989 the world is running out of breathable air"and the rate that it's losing oxygen is now on the v
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Propaganda
Psychiatry"Labeling Kids with Bogus 'Mental Disorders'
12-25-2010
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YouTube / CCHRInt
20 Million Kids & Adolescents are labeled with "mental disorders" that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. There are no brain scans, x-rays, genetic or blood tests that can prove they are "mentally ill".
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • LOVE
My Christmas Video Message (from Christine Smith)
12-25-2010
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Christine Smith
Christmas Day. I had just returned from outside...sat down in front of my webcam with a cup of peppermint tea to record this video for my friends, acquaintances and colleagues.
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News Link • LOVE
Lennon Christmas song is inspirational
12-25-2010
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www.detnews.com
Holiday ballad gives inspiration for fulfilling the promise of peace on Earth, good will to men
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • LOVE
Merry Christmas, joy and peace to all
12-25-2010
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www.baxterbulletin.com
There is something about the Christmas season that makes everyone believe in the possibilities just a little bit more and they carry that good cheer with them everywhere. It doesn't matter what part of the country, the magic happens everywhere.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
A Christmas kind of peace
12-25-2010
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www.mysanantonio.com
“Peace be with you, my peace I give you. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” Jesus didn't tell us to not be afraid because there was nothing to be afraid of, but that His peace was all we would need...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Peace not just an ideal for many
12-25-2010
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www.tennessean.com
"I know that the work we were doing was really offering hope to people who felt frustrated and thought the only way to respond is through violence," she said. "They'll pass it on to others." ...not to be discouraged by the enormity of the world's pro
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Message of Christmas still rings true in 2010
12-25-2010
It is true that as long as conflicts, animosities and inequities flourish and divide us, we cannot truly realize the Christmas message of peace. But Christmas brings us hope.
Hope that we can overcome the roots of conflict .
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope’s Christmas Message to the World: Lasting Peace
12-25-2010
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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
The Pope delivered his traditional Christmas Day message to the world urging for world peace especially in war-plagued areas of the globe like Somalia, Darfur and the Ivory Coast.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Tell us USA who's the terrorist (Video)
12/24/10
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Cable Leaks
Tell us USA who's the terrorist
See Video http://www.cableleaks.com/tell-us-usa-whos-the-terrorist/
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Get ready: They're going to put chips in your brain
12-24-2010
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Terrence Aym
Yes, that's right. In less than 10 years you might be expected to join millions of other "augmented humans" with a shiny new iBrain. As privacy experts cringe, advocates virtually wax poetic, ecstatically ticking off on their fingertips an array o
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • China
New generation of deadly Chinese missiles can now sink all US Navy supercarriers
12-24-2010
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Terrence Aym
Patrick Cronin, a senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program that is part of the Washington, DC Center for a New American Security organization, admits the new Chinese Dong Feng 21D is designed to kill carriers"specifically US Naval carrier
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Someday soon you'll fly without pilots
12-24-2010
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Terrence Aym
First the military flew unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), next it will be cargo planes and finally commercial passenger aircraft. Aviation experts fully automated airliners in the foreseeable future--once the subject of speculative pulp fiction of the
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Environment
2011 sun storms could slam USA back to 1800s
12-24-2010
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Terrence Aym
The activity of the sun not only drives the weather, but to a great extent also drives the world's economy: Farming, fishing, horticulture, solar industries, even the chemical industry and animal husbandry depend on a quiet, predictable sun. But whe
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Now the government has taxed you to pay the dead
12-24-2010
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Terrence Aym
Recently revealed by embarrassed government officials: your government has been taxing you to pay dead people. While there are those who criticize redistribution of wealth programs, redistributing money from the living to the dead goes beyond the pal
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