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Date Sent: 2014-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
The Omnibus Bill: War, Pork, and Bigger Government
Plummeting Oil Prices -- The Taliban Massacres 145+ Students in Pakistan -- 12-16-14 -- Jeff Greenspan - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED) -- The Constitution's Pearl Harbor -- Congress Passes Russia Sanctions Bill; Backs Arms for Ukraine -- Bracken: When The Music Stops; How America's Cities May Explode In Violence -- Doing the Indefensible: Defending Torture -- Eye-Fi WiFi SD Cards Pro X2 and Mobi Showcase and Demo -- Liberty is dying and no one seems to care -- Seattle Politicians Want Pot Delivery Services To Stop Operations -- Ron Paul/Charles Goyett: The Weekly Podcast - Inner City Blues: Entitlements and Economics -- 3 New Signs Total Economic Collapse Is In Progress -- Elizabeth Warren Rips Citigroup For Weaseling Wall Street Giveaway -- Doing the Indefensible: Defending Torture -- Congress Authorizes Spying On All Americans Without Due Process -- Red Ryder BB Guns are for pussies... -- Former Kiev Parliamentarian Exposes Kiev Ruthlessness
AZ: Saturday, Magpoc Homestead Tour/Christmas Party, Dec 20; AZ Legislative Forecast Luncheon featuring Governor-elect Doug Ducey 01-09-15
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News Link • Afghanistan
The Taliban Massacres Students in Pakistan
12-16-2014
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The Atlantic
A group of Taliban gunmen attacked a school in Northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 145 people, most of them students under the age of 15. More than 180 others were injured. Police say the siege, which lasted about 8 hours,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Internet
Why Did the Left Fall For Obama? - Larry Pinkney on The Eyeopener
12-16-2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s13BibhRnOA&featur
Larry Pinkney of BlackActivistWG.org joins us today to discuss how and why so many well-meaning Americans were bamboozled by Obama's "hope and change" routine in 2008. We discuss the failed establishment left/right paradigm and how the misleaders
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Iraq
The Islamic State Reshapes the Middle East
12-16-2014
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arclein
These shifts are rooted in the emergence of the Islamic State. Ideologically, there is little difference between the Islamic State and other radical Islamic jihadist movements. But in terms of geographical presence, the Islamic State has set itself a
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News Link • Geology
Water on Earth
12-16-2014
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arclein
The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water, and its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas). It would have a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3))
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News Link • Climate Change
El Nino Should Keep Polar Vortex at Bay
12-16-2014
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arclein
He said the forecast is useful to farmers or groups that need to plan responses to floods or forest fires, but that it would be unwise for anybody to bet the family farm on it.?
Phillips said Environment Canada ?" whose one-day forecasts are 9
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robert klein
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News Link • MEDIA GOVERNMENT REFERENCES
Private prisons: How US corporations make money out of locking you up
12-16-2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQxtRcfBIXY
Today the US is home to 5% of the world's population but a quarter of the world's prisoners. It also has the highest rate of youth imprisonment and on any given day there are more than 70,000 youths in detention. And the biggest winners of this mas
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Bracken: When The Music Stops â€" How America's Cities May Explode In Violence
12-16-2014
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Matt Bracken
In response to recent articles in mainstream military journals discussing the use of the U.S. Army to quell insurrections on American soil, I offer an alternate vision of the future.
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News Link • Torture
Doing the Indefensible: Defending Torture
12-16-2014
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, Ivan Eland
On the news talk shows, everyone is talking about torture -- mostly defending the Bush administration's hysterical actions after the 9/11 attacks.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Tech Talk: Eye-Fi Pro X2 review
12-16-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, Alabamas13
A review of the Eye-Fi Pro X2. It's a way to send digital photos wirelessly from your camera to computer, smartphone or tablet. Retails for $99 USD.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
EyeFi Mobi Video Demo by The Phoblographer
12-16-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, ThePhoblographer
In this video, we demo the brand new Eye-Fi Mobi card. Read more at The Phoblographer.
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![MUST READ: THE DRAGON'S SOURCE OF POWER REVEALED [Silver Knockout, Pt. 2]](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/533/12/533-1216084912.jpg)
News Link • Gold and Silver
MUST READ: THE DRAGON'S SOURCE OF POWER REVEALED [Silver Knockout, Pt. 2]
12-16-2014
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http://sgtreport.com,The Wealth Watchman
Warriors in our camp routinely say, "gold is money", and that's true, but gold is also something else entirely, and the elites know it.
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News Link • Government
Liberty is dying and no one seems to care...
12-16-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by CaptAmerica
This was a terrible week for those who value liberty and freedom...
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Seattle Politicians Want Pot Delivery Services To Stop Operations
12-16-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by McWilly
Marijuana is legal in the state of Washington, but that little inconvenience won't stop politicians from throwing people in jail for breaking the state's marijuana distribution regulations.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul/Charles Goyette â€" The Weekly Podcast - Inner City Blues: Entitlements and Economics
12-16-2014
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Ron Paul, Charles Goyette
This week the deaths and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, New York have Ron Paul and Charles Goyette talking about the problems of America's inner cities. If we really want to do something about the poor and the growing wealth
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Future Predictions
3 New Signs Total Economic Collapse Is In Progress
12-16-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by John C
Well folks...it may be time to fasten your seat belts and tighten up your chin straps...looks like we might be coming in for a hard landing.
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Feature Article • Torture
Doing the Indefensible: Defending Torture
Ivan Eland
On the news talk shows, everyone is talking about torture -- mostly defending the Bush administration's hysterical actions after the 9/11 attacks. Granted, 9/11 was a searing experience for the general public, which wanted action in retaliation.
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News Link • Surveillance
Congress Authorizes Spying On All Americans Without Due Process
12-16-2014
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http://theantimedia.org, Aaron Nelson
Yesterday, the House passed H.R. 4681. The bill, which was also passed by the Senate on Tuesday, authorizes spying on all Americans without due process.
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News Link • Torture
The Military and CIA Interrogation Program Has Not Stopped
12-15-2014
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Disinfo
One falsehood gets repeated as fact by reporters, namely, the torture program stopped years ago. It has not. The Appendix M of the 2006 Army Field Manual on interrogation methods allows military and CIA to continue
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Arrest Man who Exposed them Beating Man on Video While Promoting Cop
12-15-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Denver police not only arrested him on what they called a "newly activated traffic warrant" from a nearby county after he had just left the FBI office with whom he is cooperating on the federal investigation,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
WATCH: Ohio cop threatens sobbing girlfriend with jail after police gun down man in Walmart
12-15-2014
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Rawstory
Police aggressively questioned the tearful girlfriend of a young black man they had just shot dead as he held a BB gun in an Ohio supermarket â€" accusing her of lying, threatening her with jail, and suggesting her boyfriend had planned to shoot the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Judge tells 'evil' ex-Chicago cop during torture trial: 'Public needs protecting from yo
12-15-2014
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Rawstory
Mandell had been a Chicago police officer in the 1970s---was previously convicted and sentenced to death for a 1990 murder, only to be released. He has been a suspect in at least five other murder investigations
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter to Reveal Source
12-15-2014
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NBC News
The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed a CIA effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Watch as bullying Houston cop and AR-15 toting gun nut collide over free speech rights
12-15-2014
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Rawstory
Authorities are investigating a recorded confrontation between a Houston police officer and an open-carry activist.
A video recording of the encounter between two officers and a man carrying a sign and an AR-15 rifle along a commercial boulevard w
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
'Torture Report' could help defense of accused 9/11 plotters
12-15-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Lawyers for the men plan to request access to the full report -- only 11% of which was declassified in summary form -- and now have a road map of which CIA documents to ask the military commissions judge to give them access to
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News Link • World News
Richard Branson Quietly Scrapped His Plan To Explore The Bottom Of The Sea
12-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Mendick
Sir Richard Branson has quietly shelved his latest adventure: an ambitious plan to pilot a submarine to the deepest points of the world's five oceans.
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News Link • China
The Chinese Navy Will Be Bigger Than America's By 2020
12-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kris Osborn
China has plans to grow its navy to 351 ships by 2020 as the Chinese continue to develop their military's ability to strike global targets, according to a new report.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
One Congressman Just Ruined Legalized Marijuana in DC For Everyone. Here's Why
12-13-2014
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http://www.attn.com, Matthew Segal
Earlier today, we published a story about Rep. Andy Harris from Maryland who just led the charge to overturn the will of Washington D.C. voters...
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The Ron Paul Show on RT?
12-13-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Llewellyn H. Rockwell,
The neocons are livid, this time over the fact that Ron Paul is a rock star in Russia, as in so many countries.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA's Torture Program
12-13-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Robert
Congress fails to hold executive branch accountable for its massive violations of human rights as documented in the released summary of the CIA Torture Report, but passes sanctions on Venezuela for "human rights violations."
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News Link • Future Predictions
On the Brink of War and Economic Collapse
12-13-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Robert
On occasion a reader will ask if I can give readers some good news. The answer is: not unless I lie to you like "your" government and the mainstream media do.
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News Link • History
The Speech That Sealed JFK's Fate
12-13-2014
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arclein
One President saw things as they were and sought to shift the focus of the nation towards peace. That President had such dangerous ideas in the eyes of the elite. President John F. Kennedy was a visionary. He sought to remove the stranglehold that th
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bill Gross: "New Natural Interest Rates is Zero or Negative"
12-13-2014
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Mike Shedlock
In an interview with Bloomberg's Tom Keene, Janus Capital's Bill Gross said that he left PIMCO 'in good hands.' Gross said, "…it's obviously an opportune situation at Janus. Running $2.5 billion is different than running $2 trillion, so it makes
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News Link • Economy - International
David Stockman: Crony Capitalism Will Be Very Hard to Uproot
12-13-2014
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arclein
Consequently, the household sector has been unable to borrow more money, no matter how much credit the Fed has injected through the dealers. That's very different from where this whole Keynesian financial bubble started 40 years ago when we had, mo
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News Link • History
The Hundreds: Thomas Jefferson's Forgotten Plan for Restoring a Failed Republic
12-13-2014
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http://www.caseyresearch.com, with Paul Rosenberg
Thomas Jefferson became one of my heroes when I was 13 years old. So you'd think I'd enjoy hearing people say good things about him, but very often, I don't. My reason is simple: the people who praise Jefferson seldom really understand him, and
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News Link • Drones
Secretive D.O.D. Drone Dodges Defenses At Hypersonic Speed
12-13-2014
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By Jeffrey Lin and Peter W. Singer
A new weapon in America's superfast arms race with China
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News Link • China
Fake Military Leaders Scam Millions in China
12-13-2014
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arclein
In giving permission to the construction companies to contract the projects, the group requested they contribute a large security deposit. In April, Mr. Shi in charge of an earthwork company who contracted with the group contacted the police after he
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