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Date Sent: 2012-12-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, December 16, 2012 |
Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans
The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading Services -- Gun Free Zones
Are Where Victims Go to Die -- A strange fact about the Connecticut
shootings -- Gun Violence in America - by Stephen Lendman -- What would Muhammad do? - by Goshe King -- School shooter Adam Lanza likely on meds; labeled as having ‘personality disorder’ -- Highlights on The Bill of Right Ceremony in Phoenix, Arizona -- Too Big to Jail: Big Banks Can Finance Terrorists and Walk Away Scot-Free -- HSBC 'sorry' for aiding Mexican drugs lords, rogue states and terrorists -- HSBC became bank to drug cartels, pays big for lapses
AZ: 2012 Doomsday/End of the World Party, Friday, 6:30PM- until ????
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News Link • Surveillance
Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans
12-16-2012
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Wired
In a secret government agreement without approval or debate from lawmakers, the US attorney general gave the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on US citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime,
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Internet
The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading Services
Lifehacker (h/t Claire Wolfe)
These days, everyone's out to violate your privacy. But even if you care about privacy, you probably don't want to leave the internet forever, so here are some of the best alternatives to major services that actually respect your privacy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
A strange fact about the Connecticut shootings
12-16-2012
"This horrific crime was perpetrated at [Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, next to the town] in which the author of ‘The Hunger Games’ lives. These are never random events."
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Jefferson Paine
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Feature Article • TERRORISM
What would Muhammad do?
Goshe King
I thought long and hard about the title of this article and there was no simple answer. Some of my readers may already be wondering what this article is all about so I’ll cut to the chase, and in all honesty the question at hand is, what would Muhamm
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News Link • Gun Rights
School shooter Adam Lanza likely on meds; labeled as having ‘personality disorder’
12-15-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
Gun control? We need medication control!
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Corruption
Too Big to Jail: Big Banks Can Finance Terrorists and Walk Away Scot-Free
12-15-2012
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http://www.alternet.org, By Lynn Stuart Parramore
HSBC receives get-out-of-jail-free card in a real-life game of Monopoly.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Drug War
HSBC 'sorry' for aiding Mexican drugs lords, rogue states and terrorists
12-15-2012
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http://www.guardian.co, Dominic Rushe
Executive quits in front of US Senate as bank faces massive fines for 'horrific' lapses that resulted in laundering money for drugs cartels and pariah states
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News Link • Drug War
HSBC became bank to drug cartels, pays big for lapses
12-15-2012
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http://uk.reuters.com, By Carrick Mollenkamp
In February 2008, Mexican authorities told the CEO of HSBC Holdings Plc's Mexico unit that a local drug lord referred to the bank as the "place to launder money," U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday, as they announced a record $1.92 billion settlement w
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News Link • Climate Change
Greenland Ice Loss up Five Fold in Two Decades
12-15-2012
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arclein
rs, the study used aircraft and 10 different satellites to measure the ice and its rate of melt. The research was backed by the European Space Agency and NASA.
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News Link • North American Union
Union Taming in Michigan
12-15-2012
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arclein
Leading up to the historic moment, the reaction of the pro-union crowd, numbering around 10,000 by late afternoon, was predictably thuggish. The mob destroyed an Americans For Prosperity tent on the lawn of the Michigan State Capitol. An invective-fi
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
Grand Canyon Now 70,000,000 Years Old
12-15-2012
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arclein
It is simply ludicrous,” said Karl Karlstrom, 61, a professor of geology at the University of New Mexico who has made more than 50 river trips through the canyon " one with Flowers, when she chipped her samples off the canyon walls " and helped creat
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
The Next Twenty Years
12-14-2012
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arclein
"The world of 2030 will be radically transformed from our world today," the report concludes. "By 2030, no country -- whether the U.S., China, or any other large country -- will be a hegemonic power."
The report also finds that the empowerment o
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Calls Bomb Specialist On Wheelchair Bound 12-Year-Old Girl With Bone Disorder
12-14-2012
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Prison Planet
The TSA continues to keep Americans safe from terrorists, once again thwarting a dangerous threat, this time from a wheelchair bound twelve-year-old girl with a genetic bone disorder.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto Gets Its Way in Ag Bill
12-14-2012
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Common Dreams
“The Farmers Assurance Provision” is the title of a rider, Section 733, inserted into the House of Representatives 2013 Agriculture Appropriations Bill
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Marc Victor
The Attorney For Freedom Show #2
12-14-2012
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KQCK Radio
The Attorney For Freedom Show 12-13-12 on KQCK Live Radio with special guests Ernest Hancock and Butler Shaffer.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Healthcare
The Citizens for Liberty Health Care Town Hall (video)
12-12-2012
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The International Libertarian
What is the solution to the health care crisis? That was the subject of the Citizens for Liberty Health Care Town Hall. Special guest Speakers were Katy Weber Abram from Americans for Prosperity(http://americansforprosperity.org/), Dr Nick Pandelidis
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • TERRORISM
Canadian Supreme Court to rule on definition of terrorism
12-14-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Long-awaited decisions weigh anti-terrorism law against freedom of expression and religion
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Clashes erupt in Argentina over verdict in sex slave trial
12-14-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Protesters have clashed with police in Buenos Aires after the acquittal of 13 people in a high-profile sex-slavery case that sparked public outrage across the country.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Providing Training to Syrian Rebels in Jordan
12-14-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The US has been providing training to Syrian rebel fighters on the use of sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons in neighboring Jordan, as news of the US’s formal recognition of the Syrian Opposition Coalition.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Obama Administration
Susan Rice withdraws as candidate for secretary of state
12-13-2012
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Washington Post
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name as President Obama’s leading candidate for secretary of state, saying the administration could not afford the “lengthy, disruptive and costly” confirmation process her Republican critics have promised.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning in court: Idealist or emotionally unstable?
12-13-2012
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AFP
Who is the real Bradley Manning: a fragile and unstable being, with suicidal tendencies, or a man of conscience, aware of his actions and determined to make his mark in the world? Defense attorneys and prosecutors drew competing portrayals of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective
12-13-2012
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Washington Post
After a contentious closed-door vote, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved a long-awaited report concluding that harsh interrogation measures used by the CIA did not produce significant intelligence breakthroughs, officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
European court: German was victim of US rendition
12-13-2012
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AP
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a German car salesman was a victim of torture and abuse, in a long-awaited victory for a man who had failed for years to get courts in the United States and Europe to recognize him as a victim.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
College Cop Fired after Barging into Dorm Room without Warrant
12-13-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A solid victory for camera-wielding citizens: a University of Kentucky-Lexington police officer was fired less than 48 hours after a video went viral showing him and another officer barging into a college student’s dorm room without a warrant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit Gives Away Lots For $200 To Reduce Blight
12-13-2012
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CBS News
The city of Detroit is expanding its White Picket Fence Program, designed to end blight by allowing residents to buy adjacent city-owned lots for $200. To sweeten the deal, buyers also receive $200 gift cards to be used towards fencing and upkeep su
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Barely Noticed by Cops, Non-Tribal Poker Rooms Thrive in Phoenix
12-13-2012
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Phoenix New Times
John Schnaubelt walks in. He's a large guy in his mid-40s and would have been noticeable even if he hadn't stared at the players and said, "Hello, ladies and gents!" in a suspiciously loud, looking-for-trouble kind of voice.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Chaffetz: State Dept Hiding Benghazi Survivors
12-13-2012
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Breitbart
Congressman Chaffetz said he has been “thwarted” by the State Department from seeing any Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Many people forget that there were Americans who survived
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Senate takes step toward banning stalking software
12-13-2012
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AP
A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress. The software is popular among jealous wives or husbands because it can continuously track the whereabouts of a
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. judge orders 9/11 suspects' CIA experience kept secret
12-13-2012
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Reuters
The U.S. military judge overseeing the Guantanamo prosecution of five alleged conspirators in the September 11 attacks has issued an order maintaining secrecy over the defendants' experiences in clandestine CIA prisons.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Somali Woman Gets Prison for Supporting Charity
12-13-2012
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AP
A woman who fled war-torn Somalia as a child was sentenced Tuesday to 8 years in prison for sending $1,450 and insisted she wasn't a terrorist and said her contributions were motivated by a desire to provide food and medical care for those in need.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Levy on gold could be budget windfall, U.S. lawmakers say
12-13-2012
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Reuters
Revising a 19th-century US law that governs the mining of gold and other precious metals could add billions of dollars to federal coffers, according to Democratic lawmakers. Taxpayers receive no royalties on metals pulled from federal land,
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News Link • General Opinion
'Don't Tempt Us'
12-13-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
Recently, the Denver Police Union embarked on a campaign to elicit support from the people living in the city.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
'Damned from Memory': When the Drug War Turns on Its Own
12-13-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
John McLaughlin, known to his friends as "Sparky," was a True Believer in the War on Drugs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Government Spying Out of Control
12-13-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
After President Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974, congressional investigators discovered what they believed was the full extent of his use of the FBI and the CIA to engage in domestic spying.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
A Hauntingly Beautiful Skateboarding Video Shot With A Hexacopter Drone
12-13-2012
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popsci.com
Tapping the overhead shooting ability of an unmanned aerial system, filmmakers generate an eerie Tron-like motif as only overhead photography can.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge in 9/11 trial OKs audio delays, censor at Guantánamo
12-13-2012
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miamiherald.com
The chief of the Guantánamo war court has approved the use of a time delay on public viewing of the Sept. 11 death-penalty trial as well as a censor in his court to make sure nobody divulges details of a now defunct CIA interrogation program.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. Conference Slyly Introduces Resolution to Gain Control of Internet"in Middle of Night
12-13-2012
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weeklystandard.com
In the middle of the night at a U.N. conference in Dubai, the presiding chairman of the International Telecommunication Union conference surveyed the assembled countries to see whether there was interest in having greater involvement in the U.N. gove
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News Link • China
Chinese airplane enters Japanese airspace over Senkakus for 1st time
12-13-2012
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english.kyodonews.jp
A Chinese government airplane entered Japanese airspace over the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Thursday in the first such airspace intrusion in Japan, prompting an immediate protest from the Japanese government.
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News Link • Surveillance
City issued speed camera ticket to motionless car
12-13-2012
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baltimoresun.com
Owner calls it "shockingly obvious" his car was not moving
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
DID FDR LURE JAPAN INTO ATTACKING PEARL HARBOR?
12-13-2012
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http://ericmargolis.com, by Eric Margolis
December 10, 2012 " Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago this month was a “day that will live in infamy” according to US President Franklin Roosevelt.
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