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Date Sent: 2011-12-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 21, 2011 AM edition |
Egypt’s Security Forces Increase Attacks on Civilians, With US Support
Challenging my Senator on NDAA -- Karzai wants immediate halt to NATO
night raids -- Kafka Surrenders -- The Future of Freedom in The United
States - by Judge Napolitano [VIDEO] -- Marines’ Robot Cargo-Copter
Takes Flight in Afghanistan -- Hacker describes ratting on Manning -- Brooklyn Senator Pleads Guilty to Taking Bribes -- Federal panel asks journals to censor reports of lab-created ‘bird flu’ --
Nano-Engineered Bioconstructs Perform Photosynthesis Faster Than Nature
Does -- Ann Coulter actually takes Ron Paul's side? Am I dreaming? --
Maddow: Ron Paul calls out uncomfortable truth in GOP politics --
Kazakhstan shuts down cell phones, Internet to stem protests -- US Refuses Karzai’s Latest Plea to End Deadly Night Raids -- Ron Paul 2012 Signs! -- Keeping Your Home Secure in a Technological World -- The Phases of an Empire
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News Link • Activism
Egypt’s Security Forces Increase Attacks on Civilians, With US Support
12-20-2011
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antiwar.com
Up to 13 people have died since Friday in new clashes that seem to reverse the advances toward democracy
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Challenging my Senator on NDAA
12-21-2011
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StopTheLie.com
Thief, rapist, murderer or terrorist…the crime that an individual is accused of does not alter the process by which guilt is determined. (Nobody opposes this law because they want to protect 'terrorists,' they oppose it because they want to protect
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai wants immediate halt to NATO night raids
12-20-2011
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Rawstory
Afghan President Karzai demanded an immediate halt to controversial NATO-led night raids and for foreign forces to stop entering Afghan homes. The comments come after NATO defended the operations as the safest way of targeting insurgent leaders, insi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Two More Things 2012 Will Bring
12-20-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
Capital will flee the U.S. more quickly as this and other taxes rise in the future " to pay for government spending. It's as if Uncle Sam didn't want us to invest in stocks and business. He'd rather we buy his bonds at a paltry 2% and take a loss due
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Kafka Surrenders
12-20-2011
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The Agitator
Apropos of the post below, here’s a ruling from the D.C. Court of Appeals demonstrating just how powerless citizens are when accosted by police officers"even when the cops themselves are clearly in the wrong. What’s most troubling about the ruling is
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Young and Black in New York
12-20-2011
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The Agitator
We were talking, watching the night go by, enjoying the evening when suddenly, and out of nowhere, squad cars surrounded us. A policeman yelled from the window, “Get on the ground!”
I was stunned. And I was scared. Then I was on the ground " with
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Supervillain or Newt
12-20-2011
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A Game
Welcome to the Supervillain or Newt Game, where you have to decide whether an idea comes from an indestructible megalomaniac hell-bent on ruling the world, or from a fictional supervillain.
Play the game!
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Powell Gammill
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![The Future of Freedom in The United States - by Judge Napolitano [VIDEO]](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/338/12/338-1220223135.jpg)
News Link • Government
The Future of Freedom in The United States - by Judge Napolitano [VIDEO]
12-20-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Originally aired 12/16/11 on "Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano" on Fox Business Network
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Marines’ Robot Cargo-Copter Takes Flight in Afghanistan
12-20-2011
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David Axe via WIRED.com
Pakistan is still blockading NATO war supplies passing through the port of Karachi in response to last month’s killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers by an alliance air strike.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Hacker describes ratting on Manning
12-20-2011
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Washington Post
Pfc. Bradley Manning, in a military courtroom Tuesday, faced for the first time the man he apparently thought was a kindred spirit but who instead told authorities that the soldier had carried off one of the largest intelligence leaks in U.S. history
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Brooklyn Senator Pleads Guilty to Taking Bribes
12-20-2011
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New York Times
But the denouement of the political career of State Senator Carl Kruger, who pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges, goes beyond that story line, encompassing tales of romance and perhaps even sacrifice, and laying bare one of the more bizarre
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Federal panel asks journals to censor reports of lab-created ‘bird flu’
12-20-2011
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Washington Post
Scientists seeking to fight future pandemics have created a variety of “bird flu” potentially so dangerous that a federal advisory panel has for the first time asked two science journals to hold back on publishing details of research.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Nano-Engineered Bioconstructs Perform Photosynthesis Faster Than Nature Does
12-20-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Scientists have been trying for a while now to recreate the process of photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to spark chemical reactions.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Free Speech
U.N. Adopts ‘Religious Intolerance’ Resolution Championed by Obama Administration
12-20-2011
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CNS News
The U.N. General Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution condemning the stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on their religion, and urging countries to take effective steps “to address and combat such incidents.”
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ann Coulter actually takes Ron Paul's side? Am I dreaming?
12-20-2011
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Yahoo
Coulter stated she would prefer Ron Paul to be president over Newt Gingrich and suggests Paul wanting to do nothing in foreign policy is better than President Barack Obama's doing bad things.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The unpaid spies in the financial system
12-20-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Here’s a quick crash course in how the intelligence business works these days. Despite the Hollywood mystique of suave, womanizing, pun-dropping men of mystery flitting around the world, it’s much more mundane.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday 12-20-2011
12-20-2011
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LewRockwell.com
50 Stats About the Economy in 2011 - How To Keep Your Home Secure - Stocking Up for the Economic Meltdown - Sir Isaac Newton Goes On-Line
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Kazakhstan shuts down cell phones, Internet to stem protests
12-20-2011
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www.rawstory.com
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, autocratic ruler of the post-Soviet country for 20 years, has reportedly shut down large portions of his country’s mobile and internet networks in a bid to quell recent rioting, TechEye reports.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Anthropology
Researchers claim to pinpoint Stonehenge rocks’ origin
12-20-2011
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www.rawstory.com
The experts were able to find a 99% match with rock samples from Pembrokeshire, Wales with the rhyolite debitage rocks at Stonehenge. Ixer called their discovery, “quite unexpected and exciting.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Refuses Karzai’s Latest Plea to End Deadly Night Raids
12-20-2011
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antiwar.com
Despite denials and false statistics from US-NATO, night raids kill thousands of civilians
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul 2012 Signs!
12-19-2011
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Real News Tucson
Ron Paul 2012 signs! Tucson Arizona sign factory which has built over 1000 Ron Paul signs for the last election and this one we will topple that! We have recently put out around 250 signs so far and we are ready for the next HUGE wave!!!!!!!!!!!! Vot
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Keeping Your Home Secure in a Technological World
12-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Tess Pennington
With unemployment on the rise, crime is bound to increase all around the country. Not only are flash mobs a continuing concern, but burglaries are becoming a prevalent issue as well.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Cost of Empire
The Phases of an Empire
12-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com/David Redick
The analysis below explains why all empires and "Imperial Style" governments have failed throughout history, and why our Empire-USA faces the same fate.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Death
Ron Smith, RIP
12-20-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
“What is a mere individual to do? Live as sane and decent a life as you can, love your family and friends and understand that everybody is in this together. My work here is done.”
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Powell Gammill
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