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Date Sent: 2011-12-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 23, 2011 |
U.S.: Poor coordination, mapping data led to Pakistani deaths in cross-border raid -- The housing watchdogs that won't bark -- Paul's story changes on racial comments -- Busted! Ron Paul racist rant caught on tape! OMG! OMG! -- Lt. Frank Gordo, Hero -- Scott Horton discusses the National Defense Authorization Act -- The FDA Weighs in on Sperm Safety -- Schaeffer Cox: FBI Informants Kidnapped Me, Turned My Life Into The Truman Show -- Why Design Now?: Contour Crafting -- The Myth of the Rule of Law -- Nanotechnology firm Liquidia partners with PATH on new pneumonia vaccine -- Outspoken Afghan Rights Official Ousted -- House Republicans Cave on Payroll Tax Cuts Extension -- The last lemming -- Readied To Donate Organs, 21-Year-Old Emerges From Coma -- Smoke Screening -- A simple plan to keep your assets safe from an out-of-control government -- Finland 'finds Patriot missiles' on China-bound ship -- AP Interview: Romney says no to Gingrich debate -- Ron Paul Newsletters, Fact From Fiction -- TIME: Ron Paul Is Not a Politician -- 81 Iraqis Killed As Maliki Targets Next Political Victim -- Meet the Republican Chickenhawks -- Let’s put the bad news in context -- Letter Re: Advice on Sleeping Bags -- If A Global Recession Is Not Looming, Then Why Are Bailouts Flying Around -- U.S. exporters brace for cutbacks in European bank lending -- Gallup Poll: Government Threat Growing in Minds of Americans -- "When the World Outlawed War" -- The Real Iran the US Doesnt Want You to See --
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S.: Poor coordination, mapping data led to Pakistani deaths in cross-border raid
12-22-2011
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Washington Post
The U.S. military acknowledged Thursday that commanders in Afghanistan made serious mistakes during a cross-border raid last month in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed.
A report about the Nov. 25 incident said investigators found that “inade
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
The housing watchdogs that won't bark
12-22-2011
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Reuters
Four years after the banking system nearly collapsed from reckless mortgage lending, federal prosecutors have stayed on the sidelines, even as judges around the country are pointing fingers at possible wrongdoing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul's story changes on racial comments
12-22-2011
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USA Today
Rep. Ron Paul has tried since 2001 to disavow racist and incendiary language published in Texas newsletters that bore his name, denying he wrote them and even walking out of an interview on CNN Wednesday.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Lt. Frank Gordo, Hero
12-22-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
What a delicate, sensitive creature Lt. Frank Gordo must be " and what a cruel and dangerous world he must live in. Just weeks ago, this brave little man, who is employed as a "resource officer" by California's Stockton Unified School District, survi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Scott Horton discusses the National Defense Authorization Act
12-22-2011
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Rawstory
Scott Horton, a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, said Wednesday that the National Defense Authorization Act was ambiguous about whether U.S. citizens who were suspected terrorists could be detained indefinitely.
“I think it makes clear t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
The FDA Weighs in on Sperm Safety
12-22-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
The FDA has asked a sperm donor to cease-and-desist in the case of his community service, er, um, sperm donation. Trent Arsenault, a minister's son from the San Francisco Bay area, just wants to help women who cannot afford governmentized sperm donor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Schaeffer Cox: FBI Informants Kidnapped Me, Turned My Life Into The Truman Show
12-22-2011
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Talking Points Memo
Alaska militia leader Schaeffer Cox is asking the court to throw out FBI recordings made by a confidential informant because the informant took actions that were “analogous to kidnapping” and turned Cox’s life into a version of the Jim Carrey movie T
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Inventions
Why Design Now?: Contour Crafting
12-22-2011
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YouTube.com
Why? Contour Crafting is a construction technology that potentially reduces energy use and emissions by using a rapid-prototype or 3-D printing process to fabricate large components. Comprised of robotic arms and extrusion nozzles, a computer-control
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
The Myth of the Rule of Law
12/31/1995
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Associate Professor John Hasnas
Legislative and judicial mischief combine to make outcome of court cases unpredictable. If you can't know the rules, how can you breathe free in your Liberty?! Article is somewhat dated, but still applies.
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Dennis Treybil
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Nanotechnology firm Liquidia partners with PATH on new pneumonia vaccine
12-22-2011
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MEDCity
North Carolina nanotechnology company Liquidia Technologies is partnering with nonprofit organization PATH to develop a new pneumonia vaccine that could be deployed globally.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Afghanistan
Outspoken Afghan Rights Official Ousted
12-22-2011
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New York Times
There have been few causes that Ahmad Nader Nadery, the prominent Afghan human rights activist, shied away from over the past decade: he spoke out on the killings of civilians by NATO and Taliban forces, on election fraud by President Hamid Karzai’s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House Republicans Cave on Payroll Tax Cuts Extension
12-22-2011
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ABC News (video)
A muted House Speaker John Boehner announced today that Republicans have decided to accept a short-term extension of the payroll tax cut, preventing a hike in taxes just nine days before the tax break expires for 160 million Americans.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The last lemming
12-22-2011
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www.sovereignman.com/Craig Ballantyne
If you’re like Simon and I and you spend any time at all reading the daily news headlines, it undoubtedly feels like the world is inches away from going off a cliff.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Readied To Donate Organs, 21-Year-Old Emerges From Coma
12-22-2011
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ABC News (video)
Sam Schmid, an Arizona college student believed to be brain dead and poised to be an organ donor, miraculously recovered just hours before doctors were considering taking him off life support. Schmid, a junior and business major at the University of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Smoke Screening
12-22-2011
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Vanity Fair
As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Finland 'finds Patriot missiles' on China-bound ship
12-22-2011
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www.bbc.co.uk
The Finnish authorities have impounded an Isle of Man-flagged ship bound for China with undeclared missiles and explosives, officials say.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
AP Interview: Romney says no to Gingrich debate
12-22-2011
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Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday spurned chief rival Newt Gingrich's challenge for a one-on-one debate ahead of the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses but dismissed the notion - suggested by the former House speaker - that he's afraid to p
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Newsletters, Fact From Fiction
12-22-2011
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www.dailypaul.com
Can one thing written in print undo everything he's talked about and believed for 35 years? I don't think so, because what was written in the newsletters is so far from Ron Paul's words and actions.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
TIME: Ron Paul Is Not a Politician
12-22-2011
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www.dailypaul.com
Pretty decent article, the best is that the author claims that Ron Paul is not a politician and is in fact honorable. The worst though is the author trying to oversimplify Paul's message by oversimplifying a counterargument.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
81 Iraqis Killed As Maliki Targets Next Political Victim
12-22-2011
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www.antiwar.com
A coordinated series of bombings shattered the peace in Baghdad, shortly after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ratcheted up tensions between his government and Sunni politicians.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Meet the Republican Chickenhawks
12-22-2011
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www.antiwar.com
Nearly all the Republican presidential candidates are showing their muscles, supporting the war on terror and a robust military while also vowing to do whatever it takes to disarm Iran.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Letter Re: Advice on Sleeping Bags
12-22-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
My personal ideal sleeping setup consists of a hot weather and cold weather system, with both using a common sleeping bag as the base system. While I know some people don’t care for them, I have never found a better base sleeping bag system than the
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
If A Global Recession Is Not Looming, Then Why Are Bailouts Flying Around
12-22-2011
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The Economic Collapse
Unfortunately, global financial markets were not terribly impressed with this move by the ECB. European bond yields actually rose and the euro just kept on falling.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
U.S. exporters brace for cutbacks in European bank lending
12-22-2011
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Washington Post
The European Central Bank’s decision Wednesday to offer loan help to the region’s financial institutions was closely watched by U.S. companies, which have extensive ties to troubled European markets.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Gallup Poll: Government Threat Growing in Minds of Americans
12-22-2011
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www.thenewamerican.com
According to the latest Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans surveyed at the beginning of December said the biggest threat that would face the nation in the future would be government " a jump of 11 percentage points from the beginning of the Obama y
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Donna Hancock
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