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Date Sent: 2009-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 9, 2009 PM edition
 
State Revenue Fell 16% in 2008 -- Americans Grow More Pessimistic on Economy, Nation's Direction

Obama rights record questioned ahead of Nobel prize -- Russian Supreme Court rules against Jehovah’s Witnesses -- For the feds, some Wall Street firms are too big — to punish -- It's a Return to the Star Chamber as Europe Finally Tramples Magna Carta Into the Dust -- Former Chrysler Dealers Fight Back Using the Quo Warranto -- Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price -- Lawyers Fight to Halt Ohio Execution Condemned as Human Experimentation -- Getting bin Laden key to defeating al Qaida -- Tipsters in Moussaoui case still quarreling over FBI reward -- Ron Paul’s Fed-Bashing Wins Over Lawmakers Wary of Bank’s Power -- Secret Unredacted TSA Operating Manual Ready for Download -- US Air Force confirms 'Beast of Kandahar' drone

 
U.S. State Revenue Fell 16% in Fiscal 2008, Census Bureau Says News Link  •  TAXES: State
 U.S. State Revenue Fell 16% in Fiscal 2008, Census Bureau Says
12-09-2009  •  Bloomberg 
U.S. state government collections fell 16 percent to almost $1.7 trillion in fiscal 2008 from a year earlier, while spending increased 6.2 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The biggest drop came in so-called insurance trust revenue, wh  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Americans Grow More Pessimistic on Economy, Nation’s Direction News Link  •  Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
 Americans Grow More Pessimistic on Economy, Nation’s Direction
12-09-2009  •  Bloomberg 
Americans have grown gloomier about both the economy and the nation’s direction over the past three months even as the U.S. shows signs of moving from recession to recovery. Almost half the people now feel less financially secure than when Preside  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Who is your choice for LNC Chair in 2010 News Link  •  Philosophy: Libertarianism
 Who is your choice for LNC Chair in 2010
12-09-2009  •  lpmndc.org 
FYI :) - But then the r3VOLution would have to actually go to the Libertarian Party National Convention.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Radio/TV Show  •  Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock Morning December 9th 2009
   Jet sits in for Ernest and discusses Ron Paul: The R3VOLution 101, an introduction into Ron Paul and why his "R3VOLutionaries" have forever changed the face of the American political landscape. Also, Barry Hess stops in for a surprise visit.
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Obama rights record questioned ahead of Nobel prize News Link  •  Obama Administration
 Obama rights record questioned ahead of Nobel prize
12-09-2009  •  Reuters 
Two leading international human rights groups gave U.S. President Barack Obama mixed reviews on his human rights record on Wednesday, a day before he is slated to accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Russian Supreme Court rules against Jehovah’s Witnesses and religious freedom News Link  •  Religion: Believers
 Russian Supreme Court rules against Jehovah’s Witnesses and religious freedom
12-08-2009  •  jw-media.org 
On December 8, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the appeal of a local congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses and upheld the earlier lower court ruling to pronounce 34 pieces of educational religious literature “extremist.” Se  Read Full Story
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Reported by: M. Burgin
Mysterious Radiation May Strike Airline Passengers News Link  •  Transportation: Air Travel
 Mysterious Radiation May Strike Airline Passengers
12-09-2009  •  LiveScience 
If jets pass near lightning discharges or related phenomena known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, passengers and crew members could be exposed to harmful levels of radiation, a dose equal to that of 400 chest X-rays.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Tiny Nuclear Batteries to Power Micro Devices News Link  •  Energy
 Tiny Nuclear Batteries to Power Micro Devices
12-09-2009  •  LiveScience 
Typical chemical batteries just don't cut it when a device needs to run for years without fail. Enter the betavoltaics, or tiny nuclear batteries that harvest energy from radioactive sources such as tritium. Now a company called Widetronix has dev  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Germs May Be Good For You News Link  •  Science, Medicine and Technology
 Germs May Be Good For You
12-09-2009  •  LiveScience 
Higher levels of exposure to common everyday bacteria and microbes may play a helpful role in the development of the body's inflammatory systems, which plays a crucial role in the immune system's fight against infection.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
UN Resolution Would Criminalize Christianity News Link  •  United Nations
 UN Resolution Would Criminalize Christianity
12-09-2009  Attorney Jay Sekulow from the American Center for Law and Justice reports on the UN Resolution that would outlaw Christian expression worldwide according to International Law. Islam is on the march. Here’s the video.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Dave Hodges
For the feds, some Wall Street firms are too big � News Link  •  Government
 For the feds, some Wall Street firms are too big �" to punish
12-09-2009  •  McClatchy News 
Forget too big to fail. In the eyes of federal regulators, many Wall Street firms are too big to punish. During the past three years, some of the nation's largest financial firms have been accused by the government of cheating or misleading client  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
A look back @ Freedom Summit ’09 Phoenix, AZ News Link  •  Events: America
 A look back @ Freedom Summit ’09 Phoenix, AZ
12-09-2009  •  Prog Blog - ProgressiveFlow.net 
ProgBlog provides a summary of their experience at Freedom Summit 2009  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
News Link  •  World News
 It's a Return to the Star Chamber as Europe Finally Tramples Magna Carta Into the Dust
12-09-2009  •  telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com 
"All men in our Kingdom have and hold the aforesaid liberties and rights, well and in peace, freely and quietly, fully and wholly, for ever." For ever? - Ed  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
News Link  •  Health and Physical Fitness
 Used Computers Toxifying Kids, Polluting Oceans
12-09-2009  •  freethoughtnation.com 
Out of Africa comes the disturbing news of entire regions being toxified and polluted by the industry of recycling used computers.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
News Link  •  Internet
 Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price
12-09-2009  •  mathaba.net via Rense.com 
Follow-up article with links. "...Yahoo charges the government about $30 to $40 for the contents, including e-mail, of a subscriber’s account."  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
News Link  •  Obama Administration
 Former Chrysler Dealers Fight Back Using the Quo Warranto
12-09-2009  •  devvy.com 
Two attorneys who have been prominent in the court battles regarding whether Obama is Constitutionally eligibile to be President have joined forces.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
News Link  •  Death Penalty
 Lawyers Fight to Halt Ohio Execution Condemned as Human Experimentation
12-09-2009  •  Guardian co.uk via Rense.com 
Lethal injection involves anaesthetic used on pets(!)   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
News Link  •  Weird/Offbeat News
 Update on Hal Turner Case
12-09-2009  •  wired.com via Rense.com 
A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
Getting bin Laden key to defeating al Qaida News Link  •  WAR: About that War
Getting bin Laden key to defeating al Qaida
12-09-2009  •  McClatchy News 
Days after his boss said that there was no new intelligence on the whereabouts of al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told Congress Tuesday that killing or capturing bin Laden is critical to defeating the terrorist   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Tipsters in Moussaoui case still quarreling over FBI reward News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
 Tipsters in Moussaoui case still quarreling over FBI reward
12-09-2009  •  McClatchy News 
[Government cheating snitches out of their promised rewards...nah not government?!] The FBI has belatedly awarded $100,000 to a former Minnesota flight school manager whose phone tip eight years ago led to the arrest of al Qaida conspirator Zacarias   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists News Link  •  Environment
 Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
12-09-2009  •  McClatchy News 
"They'll take my Ultra Soft Charmin only when they pry it from my cold, dead, aloe-smelling hands." Highly doubtful it will come to that. Please, sit. We're talking about toilet paper. Charlton Heston's famous vow was of guns.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Is the U.S. Temperature Record Reliable? News Link  •  Climate Change
 Is the U.S. Temperature Record Reliable?
12-09-2009  •  RickAckerman.com 
Just when you thought the global-warming mandarins couldn’t embarrass honest scientists any more than they have, along comes a new scandal. Turns out the mandarins’ temperature-measuring devices in all too many instances sat next to the exhaust fans  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ryan Denke
Ron Paul’s Fed-Bashing Wins Over Lawmakers Wary of Bank’s Power News Link  •  Federal Reserve
 Ron Paul’s Fed-Bashing Wins Over Lawmakers Wary of Bank’s Power
12-09-2009  •  Bloomberg 
The long-shot 2008 presidential candidate whose anti-tax, anti-government politics struck a chord with a swath of voters is again channeling public frustration with big government, bailouts and rising federal debt. As Paul trains his sights on his fa  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Grandson to stay; HOA apologizes to widow News Link  •  Arizona's Top News
 Grandson to stay; HOA apologizes to widow
12-09-2009  •  East Valley Tribune 
A Mesa homeowners association has apologized to the family of an 88-year-old widow after it tried to eject her 37-year-old grandson from living with her as a caregiver. Sunland Village is also paying Virginia Campbell $12,700 for legal bills and e  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
TSA Leaks Sensitive Airport Screening Manual News Link  •  Transportation: Air Travel
 TSA Leaks Sensitive Airport Screening Manual
12-09-2009  •  Wired 
Who needs anonymous sources when the government is perfectly capable of leaking its own secrets? Government workers preparing the release of a Transportation Security Administration manual that details airport screening procedures badly bungled their  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
TSA Operating Manual (Secret, PDF) Feature Article  •  Transportation: Air Travel
 TSA Operating Manual (Secret, PDF)
Powell Gammill
   Contains screening procedures, ID info, and a whole lot more. Unredacted. 93 page PDF. Download it here on Freedom's Phoenix. Page 57 onward was most interesting.
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House panel considers college football playoffs News Link  •  Entertainment: Sports
 House panel considers college football playoffs
12-09-2009  •  AP 
A top official of the Bowl Championship Series says there are more important things for Congress to worry about than pressing for a playoff system for college football. But lawmakers were taking a crack at it anyway Wednesday. A House panel was to  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
US Air Force confirms 'Beast of Kandahar' drone News Link  •  WAR: About that War
US Air Force confirms 'Beast of Kandahar' drone
12-09-2009  •  AFP 
The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin a  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Targeting Civilians in Gaza Feature Article  •  Israel - Palestine
 Targeting Civilians in Gaza
Stephen Lendman
   Israel strategically targets civilians
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Peat and Repeat News Link  •  Climate Change
 Peat and Repeat
12-09-2009  •  arclein 
"Peatlands only cover about 3 percent of the Earth but they accumulate more carbon than tropical rainforests," says biogeochemist Nancy Dise of Manchester Metropolitan University in England. "  Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
Seeing the Rainforest for the Trees News Link  •  Agriculture
 Seeing the Rainforest for the Trees
12-09-2009  •  arclein 
But his most recent publication, in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, challenges everything we thought we knew about the subject. Grainger spent more than three years combing through all available United   Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
Climategate Cloud News Link  •  Climate Change
 Climategate Cloud
12-09-2009  •  arclein 
Pressure on this venerable society of physicists, which was founded in 1899 at Columbia University, is coming from members who are squarely in the scientific mainstream and are alarmed at the state of climate science revealed in the leaked e-mail mes  Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein
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