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Date Sent: 2012-11-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, November 29, 2012 PM edition |
Companies Shelling Out Billions to Beat Fiscal Cliff -- Senator Proposes Dissolving City Of Detroit
UK judge issues damning press verdict says need official censor -- Pow! Bam! Bonk! Zap! Pummeled and bloodied by the state of the nation -- 11-29-12 -- Stephen Lendman - (Video and MP3 Loaded) -- Veteran abandoned in Oakland jail with a
ruptured spleen, lawsuit claims -- Higgs Boson Not GOD Particle -- Palestinians push
for elevated UN status: Did Gaza conflict help? -- Sandy recovery claims mount. How much will a divided Congress pay? -- Free speech confrontation at Airport goes viral -- Glenn Greenwald on The Global Battlefield Idea --
School Places Unruly Kids In Solitary Confinement -- Live in the
Collective and Forget Who You Are -- GOP Traitors -- Permission Slips
Instead of Rights -- German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law --
Robocod: Homeland Security adds underwater drones to their arsenal with
robots based on fish -- Zurich to open drive-in sex boxes -- Is Egypt about to become the new Iran? -- USPS Chief Lays Out Plan for the Agency’s Survival -- Last Sane Man on Earth¿ -- An Eccentric Ad Man Loses His Helicopter to the Feds -- Arafat's Body Exhumed -- Bangladesh Sweatshop Fire -- Obama Moving To Steal Your Pension Plan
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday on the political activist future; Christmas Party
at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast & Fundraiser
Saturday December 15th 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Companies Shelling Out Billions to Beat the 'Fiscal Cliff'
11-29-2012
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www.cnbc.com
Companies are racing the clock to hand out billions in special dividends before year end"and some of them are taking on debt to do it.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Senator Proposes Dissolving City Of Detroit
11-29-2012
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www.detroit.cbslocal.com
It would no doubt be controversial, but the idea of dissolving the fiscally struggling city of Detroit and absorbing it into Wayne County is being tossed around in Lansing.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???
11-27-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
It's that time of year again for a holiday party - it has been a very busy year for all of us, so come and share in the fun and relaxation we all need - We will be raffling off a brand new Kindle Fire ($5/ticket) - Bring extra lawn chairs if you have
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
UK judge issues damning press verdict says need official censor
11-29-2012
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AP
Lord Justice Brian Leveson said a new regulatory body should be established in law to prevent more people being hurt by "press behavior that, at times, can only be described as outrageous."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Making Memories
11-29-2012
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arclein
in Drexel's School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems are now getting a rare look inside the brain to discover the exact pattern of activity that produces a memory.
Dr. Joshua Jacobs, a professor in Drexel's School of Biomedi
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robert klein
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Veteran abandoned in Oakland jail with a ruptured spleen, lawsuit claims
11-29-2012
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Rawstory
A war veteran who claims he was falsely arrested, beaten, and almost died due to neglect in an Oakland prison has launched legal action against the jail, claiming his pleas for help were ignored. Kayvan Sabeghi, 33, was arrested during an Occupy rall
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Higgs Boson Not GOD Particle
11-29-2012
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arclein
“It is still too early to tell, but the new particle looks like, sings like, and dances more and more like a Higgs boson,” said Pauline Gagnon, a physicist on the LHC Atlas experiment, one of three which analyse the data.
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Imprecatory Prayer, redux.
11-29-2012
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The Cybernetic Athiest
One can create a prayer that is generalized to ask your god to cause your enemies such grief as to end their attempts to frustrate your own goals. That is an accepted and generally used type of prayer. It doesn't wish specific harm to particular i
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Palestinians push for elevated UN status: Did Gaza conflict help?
11-29-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Some nations are warming to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's bid for enhanced UN status. After the Gaza conflict, they see the moderate Abbas as a counterweight to Hamas.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Sandy recovery claims mount. How much will a divided Congress pay?
11-29-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Congress may be wrangling over the 'fiscal cliff,' but budget experts are confident that both parties will agree to provide billions in Sandy recovery aid sought by Northeastern governors.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Free speech confrontation at Airport goes viral
11-29-2012
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WNYT.Com
The young woman stood outside the security checkpoint at the airport telling the camera that she's there to hand out flyers to travelers, reminding them of their right to opt out of getting the body scan, which she claims carries health risks.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Glenn Greenwald on The Global Battlefield Idea
11-29-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
...to declare the entire world a battlefield in the war on terror on the theory that traditional battles no longer happen is to basically say that the powers that I just described, that are unconstrained, that used to be confined to very identifiable
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
School Places Unruly Kids In Solitary Confinement
11-29-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
“Isolation booths” mimic treatment of prisoners
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Live in the Collective and Forget Who You Are
11-29-2012
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lewrockwell.com/Jon Rappoport
We are now told it’s selfish and greedy to promote freedom for the individual. It’s old-fashioned. It’s passe. It’s dangerous. It’s nothing more than a ruse floated by the rich to hold down the poor.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • American History
Oliver Stone’s Untold History: A Twice-Told Tale
11-29-2012
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lewrockwell.com/Justin Raimondo
I wanted to like Oliver Stone’s new documentary, The Untold History of the United States, really I did...I should have known better.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Permission Slips Instead of Rights
11-29-2012
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lewrockwell.com/EricPeters
Our slavery is ingenious because it’s so very subtle. Most people not only don’t see (much less feel) their shackles " they get angry when someone calls attention to them. Most people, in other words, still imagine themselves to be free.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Intellectual Property
German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law
11-29-2012
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www.reuters.com
Senior German politicians have denounced as propaganda a campaign by Google to mobilize public opinion against proposed legislation to let publishers charge search engines for displaying newspaper articles.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Robocod: Homeland Security adds underwater drones to their arsenal with robots based on fish
11-29-2012
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Meet Robocod, the latest weapon in Homeland Security's increasingly high-tech underwater arsenal, a robotic fish designed to safeguard the coastline of America and bring justice to the deep.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Trade
eBay Yanks Beck’s ‘Obama in Pee Pee’ Art Project Meant to Raise Money for Charity
11-29-2012
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The Blaze
The popular online auction site eBay has yanked a piece of artwork done by Glenn Beck citing its belief that the project featured an Obama figurine floating in actual urine (it was not, however).
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Egypt
Is Egypt about to become the new Iran?
11-29-2012
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blog.telegraph.co.uk
It is not only the anti-government protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square who should be concerned about President Mohammed Morsi's audacious power grab. Mr Morsi's claim at the weekend that "God's will and elections made me the captain of this ship"...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama Calls Rice ‘Extraordinary,’ as Another Republican Voices Concerns
11-29-2012
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New York Times
Susan Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, met separately on Wednesday with Senators Susan Collins and Bob Corker on Capitol Hill to discuss the attack on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • United States Postal Service
USPS Chief Lays Out Plan for the Agency’s Survival
11-29-2012
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www.cnbc.com
The head of the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service said the agency must be allowed to ease the terms of prepayments into a retiree health-care fund and eliminate general mail delivery on Saturday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
An Eccentric Ad Man Loses His Helicopter to the Feds
11-29-2012
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Phoenix New Times
He's acutely aware of how an un-helicoptering public might perceive his hobby " especially now, when his quarter-million-dollar toy is seized and he faces felony charges alleging he flouted federal air rules for flying without a pilot's license,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Moving To Steal Your Pension Plan
11-28-2012
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Adam Strange - Before It's News
Obama has been lusting after your private retirement and pension funds for years. Now it’s being reported the federal government is accelerating its plans to grab your monies and tarnish your Golden Years.
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Tom Woods Liberty Classroom - The History and Economics They Didn't Teach You
11-28-2012
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Liberty Classroom
Learn real history and economics in your car. Ask questions of the experts. Become a ferocious debater.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Lincoln Movie: A Libertarian Review
11-28-2012
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www.libertycrier.com
As I walked away from the movie, an older man behind me whispered to his friend: “that movie should have come out ten years ago. What a needed story for our time.” Needed? I’m not so sure. But the timing was impeccable.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Predators with Impunity
11-28-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Although Scardine demanded identification from Mol and called the dispatcher to run her name, he never explained why he had taken her into custody. When the taxi arrived a few minutes later, the officer ordered the driver to leave. He then drove
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
NIH Vaccine Chief Gary Nabel Trades Dream Job for Big Pharma
12-28-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is actually the second-highest funding source for drug studies (first is the drug companies, themselves). Many assume NIH-funded studies are unbiased, but NIH accepts a great deal of money from Big Pharma a
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
This Land is Mine
11-27-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
It tells the story of the wars in the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant, since the cavemen until today, all so musical and poetic. [FUNNY and tragic]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
The Myth of the Clinton Surplus
11-27-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
I've known about this for years, but Craig Steiner has laid it all out with the numbers and the facts. Steiner also explains that it was the usual doublespeak and government "arithmetic" that made it look like the U.S. government had a surplus.
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Reference Link • New World Order
The American Holocaust Is Beginning
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
In evaluating whether or not America is in the beginning stages of genocidal holocaust being perpetrated against the people by a corrupt government, one must consider three fundamental questions which needs to be answered
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News Link • Obama Administration
Parting Company
11-27-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
China Unveils New Killer Drones, Aims Them at Russia
11-27-2012
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Wired.com
Watch out, Vladimir Putin: China’s drone fleet is getting real. And judging from how Beijing is promoting its robots to the outside world, they’re aimed straight at Russia.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You
11-27-2012
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Wired.com
The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that every time one of its flying robots releases its lethal payload, it’s the result of a decision made by an accountable human being in a lawful chain of command
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News Link • Future Predictions
The Highway Patrol Cop Of The Future Is A Robotic Unicycle
11-27-2012
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popsci.com
Or maybe an aerial drone. The LA Auto Show's annual Design Challenge suggests the patrol car of the future is optionally manned, self-driving, and armed with autonomous robots.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
How to End the Gaza Violence
11-27-2012
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antiwar.com
As of late Friday the ceasefire in Gaza seems to be holding, if tentatively. While we should be pleased that this round of fighting appears temporarily on hold, we must realize that without changes in U.S. foreign policy it is only a matter of time.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Samsung Under Fire For Allegedly Giving Employees 16-Hour Workdays, One Day Off Per Month
11-27-2012
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Business Insider
Samsung came under renewed criticism from a rights group on Tuesday for illegal work practices at its Chinese suppliers, a day after the South Korean electronics giant admitted excessive overtime and fines for employees in China.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
This British Reporter Lived Life On A Female Chain Gang In The Blazing Arizona Desert
11-27-2012
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Business Insider
Up at 5am and dressed in prison stripes, they march to order and labour in temperatures of 40°C. Nigel Farndale meets members of the world’s only female chain gang " the pride of 'America’s toughest lawman’
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Why Finland's Unorthodox Education System Is The Best In The World
11-27-2012
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Business Insider
A new global league table, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit for Pearson, has found Finland to be the best education system in the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
What's Happening Right Now In Congo Exposes The Folly Of Western Aid
11-27-2012
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Business Insider
Africa is covered in epithets, like graffiti. It has been labeled dark, lost, hopeless.
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