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Date Sent: 2012-12-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 31, 2012 AM edition |
How the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy -- $1 Trillion Obamacare Tax Hike Hitting on Jan. 1
Your Cellphone Is Spying on You -- "For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!" -- Boy, 13, Arrested for Posting Video of Fight on Facebook -- Woman Sues Seattle Police after Video Shows they Fabricated Case
Against Her -- Virginia Judge Denies Qualified Immunity to Deputy Caught
on Video Attacking Citizen -- Thousands of Macedonian protesters call on government to resign -- Obama signs law against Iran Latin America influence -- Union thugs burn down new non-union built Quaker church --
Buy Guns While You Still Can: A series of educational articles for
people new to the gun scene -- Buy Guns While You Still Can - PART 2:
Assessing Your Needs/Risks/Threats -- Buy Guns While You Still Can -
PART 3: Assault Rifles (the endangered species) -- “Reflections on the Loss of Liberty” by Judge Napolitano (Excellent Video) -- Former New York Times Editor Makes A 'Liberal Case' For The 2nd Amendment -- Insider: Obama To Fully Engage Gun Owners with Armed Feds in 2013 -- The Reasons Why Ex-Intel and Bankers Are Going Into Seclusion- Pt 2 -- Congress Gets Pay Raise -- Gun
Restrictions Have Always Bred Defiance, Black Markets -- Is the Average US
Soldier Prepared for TEOTWAWKI? -- Adam Kokesh Covers Anti NRA
Protest -- Buchanan: Most Honest Person of 2012 "Ron Paul" --
Iceland puts a banker in jail! -- We Are Change: Best Confrontations
of 2012 -- HK 121 - General Purpose Machine Gun -- Ron Paul: Republicans And Democrats Pretend To
Be Fighting - CNBC 12/28/2012 -- Insider: Obama To Fully Engage Gun
Owners with Armed Feds in 2013 -- Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers --
Homeless,
at-risk veterans double -- Pakistan reports 21 tribal policemen
kidnapped, found dead -- French court rejects 75% millionaires' tax -- California gun sales jump; gun injuries, deaths
fall -- Cliff Notes -- Congress Extends Warrantless Spying -- Food
forest: Is this the way food should be grown? (Video)
Arizona Breakfast Club next Saturday
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News Link • Police State
Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
12-30-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk
The document shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity:
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News Link • Obama Administration
$1 Trillion Obamacare Tax Hike Hitting on Jan. 1
12-30-2012
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http://www.atr.org, John Kartch
On January 1, regardless of the outcome of fiscal cliff negotiations, Americans will be hit with a $1 trillion Obamacare tax hike.
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News Link • Surveillance
Your Cellphone Is Spying on You
12-30-2012
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Reason magazine
Police have not been shy about taking advantage of these data. U.S. law enforcement agencies made 1.5 million requests for user data from cellphone companies in 2011. Under law, you will never find out if they were targeting you.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"
12-30-2012
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der Spiegel
Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted, Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. Development aid weakens the local markets everywhere and dampens entrepreneurship.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Boy, 13, Arrested for Posting Video of Fight on Facebook
12-30-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A 13-year-old boy was arrested after posting a video of 2 girls fighting off school grounds. The boy was charged with “mischief,” which used to only be punishable by detention. And even then, only when the mischief took place on school grounds.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman Sues Seattle Police after Video Shows they Fabricated Case Against Her
12-30-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
a Seattle cop grabbed a woman out of a crowd of protesters and pulled her to the ground where several other officers pounced on her.
The cop, Sonya Fry, claimed in her report that she grabbed Maria Morales because Morales had cursed at her and pun
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Virginia Judge Denies Qualified Immunity to Deputy Caught on Video Attacking Citizen
12-30-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Virginia sheriff’s deputy came charging up behind an unsuspecting citizen who had his hands in the air, ramming his elbow into the back of his head and sending him sprawling to the pavement, rendering him unconscious, only to later claim the man wa
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News Link • Economy - International
Thousands of Macedonian protesters call on government to resign
12-30-2012
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AFP
“This government can not even breathe without taking a loan,” he added. “We had enough from this government, they are just spending and we have no money to pay bills and feed our children,” unemployed factory worker Stojanca Kostev said.
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News Link • Iran
Obama signs law against Iran Latin America influence
12-30-2012
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AFP
The Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act passed calling for the State Dept. to develop a strategy to “address Iran’s growing hostile presence and activity” in the region. The strategy is confidential and only accessible to lawmakers
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Union thugs burn down new non-union built Quaker church
12-30-2012
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The site where Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting is building a new meetinghouse was damaged by arsonists during Christmas week, and police are now "absolutely" sure the attack was the result of a dispute between members of a construction union and the pr
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
“Reflections on the Loss of Liberty” by Judge Napolitano (Excellent Video)
12-30-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Louis E. Carabini Distinguished Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: “The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach”. Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 26 October 2012. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. R
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News Link • Gun Rights
Former New York Times Editor Makes A 'Liberal Case' For The 2nd Amendment
12-30-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Whitney, a former New York Times editor, argues in his new book "Living With Guns: A Liberal 's Case for the Second Amendment" that Americans have a long-standing common-law right to have guns for self-defense.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama - Meet The Press Interview, Watch The Whole Thing Here
12-30-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Obama discussed his top four priorities going into his second term (immigration reform, stabilizing the economy, domestic energy production, and raising taxes on the wealthy), as well as his position on gun control.
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News Link • General Opinion
2012 Year in Review
12-30-2012
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Free Press Publications
Darryl W. Perry from FPP takes a look at some of the bigger stories from 2012, some bad, some sad and a few victories for liberty!
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News Link • Gun Rights
Insider: Obama To Fully Engage Gun Owners with Armed Feds in 2013
12-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex talks with Doug Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network about information released by his high-level DHS contact concerning government gun confiscation and other important topics.
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News Link • Military
Is the Average US Soldier Prepared for TEOTWAWKI?
12-30-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by S.A.
They are not personally prepared at all. The average soldier is no more prepared than the average civilian.
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News Link • Art
2012 Review World Bodypainting Festival, in English
12-30-2012
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https://www.youtube.com, BodypaintingFestival
Review from the World Bodypainting Festival, 2012 in Austria
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Restrictions Have Always Bred Defiance, Black Markets
12-30-2012
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http://reason.com, J.D. Tuccille
For reasons of their own, most people, in many countries, defy anti-gun laws
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News Link • China
World's Longest High-Speed Railway Opens in China
12-30-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Staff
The world's longest stretch of high-speed railway opened in China yesterday (Dec. 26).
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Iceland puts a banker in jail!
12-30-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fishyculture
Two former executives at an Icelandic bank which collapsed in the 2008 financial meltdown were sentenced to jail on Friday for fraud which led to a 53 million euro loss, in the first major trial of Icelandic bankers linked to the crisis.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
30 Pieces of Silver: An indictment of American Churches
12-30-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Denise B
I write this essay with much fear and trembling. Indicting God’s church is not something that should be done on a whim, or without much prayer and direction of the Holy Spirit.
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News Link • Political Parties
Ron Paul: Republicans And Democrats Pretend To Be Fighting - CNBC 12/28/2012
12-30-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by eduardo89
Ron Paul: Republicans And Democrats Pretend To Be Fighting - CNBC 12/28/2012
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News Link • Surveillance
Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
12-30-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
The Senate on Friday reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the President George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
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News Link • Inventions
Monstrous Mechanical Marvels: 9 Enormous Gadgets
12-30-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Brian X. Chen
When it comes to phones, notebooks and portable game consoles, smaller is nearly always better. But sometimes a gadget just needs to be really, really huge.
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News Link • Military
Homeless, at-risk veterans double
12-30-2012
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http://www.usatoday.com,
The number of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who are homeless or at risk of losing a roof over their heads has more than doubled in the past two years, according to government data.
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News Link • Death
Pakistan reports 21 tribal policemen kidnapped, found dead
12-30-2012
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http://www.foxnews.com, Associated Press
Government officials say 21 tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban have been found shot dead in northwest Pakistan.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
French court rejects 75 percent millionaires' tax
12-30-2012
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By Emile Picy and Catherine Bremer
France's Constitutional Council on Saturday rejected a 75 percent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande's push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit.
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News Link • Gun Rights
California gun sales jump; gun injuries, deaths fall
12-30-2012
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http://www.sacbee.com, By Phillip Reese
Gun deaths and injuries have dropped sharply in California, even as the number of guns sold in the state has risen, according to new state data.
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News Link • Environment
Food forest: Is this the way food should be grown? (Video)
12-30-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This inspiring video is from permaculture expert Geoff Lawton’s farm in Australia. He shows how it’s done. This is a vision of a sane future for humans and food production which protects the environment. Highly recommended.
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News Link • Gun Rights
National Rifle Association vows to fight arms trade treaty at U.N.
12-28-2012
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Reuters
The leading U.S. pro-gun group, the National Rifle Association, has vowed to fight a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global arms trade and dismissed suggestions that a recent U.S. school shooting bolstered the case for such a p
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
200 Utah teachers take free firearms training class
12-28-2012
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FOX News
Gun-rights advocates in Utah offered six hours of training Thursday in handling concealed weapons for hundreds of Utah teachers in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
The latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants wa
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
South Korean woman slaps TSA agent over pat down: report
12-28-2012
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Rawstory
The woman, 39-year-old Hyunjoo Kim, reportedly objected to the agent becoming a bit touchy, and to her bottles of lotion being turned away at a checkpoint. She then slapped one agent and pushed another several times
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mathematician's Century-Old Secrets Unlocked
12-28-2012
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LiveScience
While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, researchers say they've proved he was right.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Uphold the Sacred Cause of "Officer Safety": Disarm the Cops!
12-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
After Adam Lanza took four guns that belonged to his mother and used them to murder her and dozens of other people, we witnessed an entirely predictable " and repellently opportunistic "escalation of the war on individual gun ownership.
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News Link • Internet
Chinese Hackers Suspected in Cyber Attack on Council on Foreign Relations
12-28-2012
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Computer hackers traced to China carried out an advanced cyberespionage attack against one of America’s most elite foreign policy web groups " the website of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
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News Link • Surveillance
Senate votes to extend warrantless wiretapping powers
12-28-2012
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Washington Post
Congress approved a measure Friday that would renew expansive U.S. surveillance authority for five more years, rejecting objections from senators who are concerned the legislation does not adequately protect Americans’ privacy.
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Why Do the Neocons Hate LRC? - by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
12-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell
The other day, the Southern Poverty Law Center discovered a set of ideas that had to be stomped out of existence: anarcho-capitalism. That’s LewRockwell.com, of course. But the SPLC will have to get in line behind the rest of the neocons: the NY Time
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News Link • Surveillance
The FBI's secret file on Marilyn Monroe: Kept track of intimate details about actress
12-28-2012
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Daily Mail
A classified file released by the FBI shows how the agency tracked Marilyn Monroe's suspected ties to communism in 1956. The agency documented an anonymous phone call to the New York Daily News that year warning that playwright Arthur Miller was a co
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Breaking Rank
12-28-2012
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Simple Justice
Officer Watts began opening her mailbox from the side instead of from the front in case of a bomb. Watts' supervisors "do not believe that it would ever be safe for her to return to road patrol" and if she ever need police backup it would not be prov
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News Link • Gun Rights
NY woman hit with federal, state charges connected to guns used in firefighter ambush slayings
12-28-2012
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Washington Post
Police used the serial numbers on the rifle and shotgun, which were purchased on June 6, 2010, to trace them to Nguyen, Hochul said.
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News Link • Gun Rights
L.A. Gun Buyback Event Yields 2 Rocket Launchers
12-28-2012
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Authorities collected 2,037 firearms, including 75 assault weapons, and two anti-tank rocket launchers during L.A.’s annual gun buyback event. “Those are weapons of war, weapons of death,” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AzDPS probing Prescott assault involving officers (Membership Criteria...)
12-27-2012
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KPHO TV-5 CBS Phoenix
The department turned over the investigation of Saturday night's incident involving members of the Iron Brotherhood Motorcycle Club to the Department of Public Safety once Prescott Valley police officers were recognized among the bikers.
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Opinion • Stay or Go?
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Larger Question of Chuck Hagel
12-28-2012
Ray McGovern
The up-in-the-air nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary has become a test of whether the Israel Lobby can still shoot down an American public servant who is deemed insufficiently passionate regarding Israel, a test that now confronts Pres
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Kim Dotcom Is Hosting An 'Epic' Press Event At His New Zealand Mansion For Mega Launch Next
12-28-2012
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Business Insider
Kim Dotcom is all set to launch his MegaUpload replacement, Mega, next month.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Censorship: Facebook deletes pages of 9/11 activists
12-28-2012
Recently, Facebook has removed the pages of about 50 political activists. Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth founder Richard Gage lost his page, as did several other activists. Later, the pages were reactivated.
Several people associated with
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Freedom: Because It Works or Because It’s Right?
12-28-2012
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The Independent Institute - Robert Higgs
Libertarians divide into two broad classes: those who espouse a free society because it gives better results than an unfree society, and those who espouse a free society because they believe that it is wrong to deny or suppress a person’s right to be
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Repudiate the National Debt - by Wendy McElroy
12-27-2012
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Future of Freedom Foundation
“Repudiation” is not a word used by the political mainstream. Part of the reason is who holds the debt. China is often castigated as the largest holder, but that country actually accounts for less than 8% of the money America has borrowed.
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News Link • Activism
“Free Staters are the single biggest threat the state is facing today.” " State Rep Cynthia Chase
12-28-2012
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freekeene.com
District 8 State Representative Cynthia Chase of Keene has made her position clear on liberty-loving activists moving here,
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Purges Pro-Gun Accounts
12-28-2012
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Prison Planet
Massive act of censorship sees alternative media pages disappeared
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News Link • Iraq
Syrian conflict threatens to fracture Iraq
12-28-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan and the central Iraqi government are on a collision course as the Kurds increasingly side with the Syrian opposition and Baghdad stands by the Assad regime.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA’s Global Response Staff emerging from shadows after incidents in Libya and Pakistan
12-27-2012
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Washington Post
The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Dept. facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive
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