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Date Sent: 2011-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, December 17, 2011 |
Obama Insisted on Indefinite Detentions of Citizens -- The 100-Watt Bulb Is on Its Way Out
Border Patrol Says Giving a Ride to an Illegal Immigrant Is a Crime -- State police defy order to release Lt. Gov. Tim Murray crash data -- Paul’s ‘Ground Game,’ in Place Since ’08, Gives Him an Edge -- Can
Billionaire Paul Allen's Mega-Plane Really Launch Private Rockets Into
Space? -- Bradley Manning’s attorney in WikiLeaks case seeks presiding officer’s recusal --
Poor, Pitiful, Poverty-Stricken, Defenseless Israel -- Vet Says
Soldiers Are Starting to Wake Up to Gov't Lies -- Ron Paul Wins Again!
Bachmann lied (again!) about Iran in debate. -- SEC Sues Former Fannie, Freddie CEOs For Misleading Investors On Subprime Risk --
Tea Party Patriots co-founder arrested for handgun at airport -- U.S.
soldier in WikiLeaks case to get a day in court after a year and a half
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News Link • Police State
Obama Insisted on Indefinite Detentions of Citizens
12-16-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Left-wing TV political commentator Cenk Uygar rips into the current Murderer-in-Chief about the Fascist National Defense Authorization Act that was passed by the Congress.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Despite Delay, the 100-Watt Bulb Is on Its Way Out
12-16-2011
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New York Times
The law to phase out traditional incandescent light bulbs was promoted as a simple, almost painless, change when Congress first passed it. By requiring that light bulbs use at least 25 percent less electricity, starting in 2012, the nation would use
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Border Patrol Says Giving a Ride to an Illegal Immigrant Is a Crime
12-16-2011
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Undeterred by questions about hyper-aggressive tactics and possible over-funding, the Border Patrol has turned up the heat, according to the Forks Human Rights Group. If you give an illegal immigrant a ride in your car, you're at risk for being detai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
State police defy order to release Lt. Gov. Tim Murray crash data
12-16-2011
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Boston Herald
State police must release the black-box data from the unmarked Crown Victoria cruiser Lt. Gov. Tim Murray crashed when he said he was going for coffee and surveying storm damage before dawn last month, the secretary of state’s office has ruled, but p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Disorder in the Court
12-16-2011
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Retrials were ordered for all state-court convicted defendants after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe into Judge Baumgartner’s activities revealed that he had, over the course of several years, been illegally under the influence of drugs whe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul’s ‘Ground Game,’ in Place Since ’08, Gives Him an Edge
12-16-2011
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New York Times
It was four years ago that Ross Witt, a soft-spoken electrical engineer at John Deere, overcame his natural discomfort with knocking on hundreds of his neighbors’ doors during dinnertime as a precinct coordinator for Ron Paul’s campaign.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Can Billionaire Paul Allen's Mega-Plane Really Launch Private Rockets Into Space?
12-16-2011
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Space
"This is not a sketch," Rutan said. "It exists in hundreds of detailed drawings, and it's relatively close to [being built] as soon as we can get a building big enough." Tipping the scales at 1.2 million pounds, the mammoth aircraft will need to take
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Bradley Manning’s attorney in WikiLeaks case seeks presiding officer’s recusal
12-16-2011
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Washington Post
The military pretrial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning opened contentiously Friday, with his defense attorney arguing that the presiding officer lacked the impartiality to render fair judgment in a case growing out of the release of a trove of govern
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Sun Rips Tail From Comet During Solar Close Encounter
12-16-2011
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Space
A newfound comet that plunged through the sun's atmosphere Thursday (Dec. 15) â€" and amazingly survived â€" was visibly maimed by the encounter, which left the icy wanderer without its long, bright tail, a scientist says.
According to Karl Battams, a
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Legal Tender Gold: Face Value or Intrinsic Value?
12-16-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Kevin Brekke
A popular topic on forums sympathetic to personal ownership of gold bullion is the debate surrounding how to value certain gold coins. After all, in 1985 congress passed the Gold Bullion Coin Act that required the US government to mint and place in c
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News Link • Israel
Poor, Pitiful, Poverty-Stricken, Defenseless Israel
12-16-2011
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lewrockwell.com/blog
That is the view of Michele Bachmann and all the other Republican candidates except for Ron Paul. Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons and Iran has none. They could vaporize Iran in an instant if they genuinely felt threatened and do not need any h
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Palestinians: West Bank mosque torched, defaced by Hebrew graffiti
12-16-2011
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haaretz.com
Burning of mosque near Ramallah comes hours after IDF demolishes two unauthorized structures in Jewish illegal outpost.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
It's Up to the Public to Vindicate Bill of Rights Day
12-16-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
The Anti-Federalists had demanded a Bill of Rights to ensure that the federal government created in 1789 would not morph into the type of tyranny that the American colonists had resisted in the Revolution.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Wins Again! Bachmann lied (again!) about Iran in debate.
12-16-2011
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dailypaul.com
Responding to a hypothetical question about whether the United States should support an attack against Iran by Middle East-ally Israel, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann noted that Iran already has announced plans to strike Israel.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
As Gold Rebounds Over $1600, Some Thoughts On Why The Liquidation Snapback Is Here
12-16-2011
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zerohedge.com
Yesterday when gold was trading in the $1570 we suggested that based on the very volatile shifts in the funding environment for gold, whereby the gold lease rate had moved from record negative to borderline flat, the plunge in the yellow metal is lik
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
SEC Sues Former Fannie, Freddie CEOs For Misleading Investors On Subprime Risk
12-16-2011
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zerohedge.com
So with just a 3 years delay, the SEC has finally put down the porn channel remote, and decided to do what it should have done back in 2008, which is to sue the former heads of Fannie and Freddie for "misleading investors about risky mortgages" in th
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Did The ECB Just Pull Off A Back-Door Bailout That Will End The Crisis?
12-16-2011
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businessinsider.com
Yields on short-term peripheral sovereign bonds are plunging, despite the fact that EU leaders appeared to make little progress at their highly-anticipated summit last week.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Police departments could soon have easier access to airborne drones: report
12-16-2011
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rawstory.com
In June, the first American citizens in history were arrested with the help of an unmanned Predator drone aircraft. And the incident could be a glimpse into the future of U.S. law enforcement.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Tea Party Patriots co-founder arrested for handgun at airport
12-16-2011
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rawstory.com
Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, was arrested Thursday at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and faces up to 15 years in prison for illegally traveling with a handgun.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. soldier in WikiLeaks case to get his day in court
12-16-2011
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rawstory.com
A year and a half after his arrest, Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of turning hundreds of thousands of classified US documents over to WikiLeaks, gets his first day in court on Friday.
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