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Date Sent: 2011-12-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 29, 2011 AM edition |
ID errors put hundreds in County Jail -- Candidate Bachmann's Iowa Chairman Quits, Endorses Paul
Weapons Sales to Iraq Move Ahead Despite U.S. Worries -- IJ Takes on Mississippi’s Campaign Finance Laws -- Why I Don't Think the Ron Paul Newsletters Are Very Important -- NYT Scare Story About Carry Permit Holders Shows They Are Remarkably Law-Abiding -- New Laws Ring in the New Year -- Police Arrest Woman Who Refuses To Turn Over Cellphone After Filming Their Abuse -- New U.S. tactic for suspected Swiss bank tax cheats -- Update On The "Non-Printing" ECB's Parabolically Rising Balance Sheet -- Former Fed VP Accuses Bernanke Of Bailing Out Europe Via Currency Swaps -- Here's What Will Happen To Commodity Prices Next Year -- China Announces Another Massive Cut In Rare Earth Exports -- Mexico's cartels build own national radio system -- Egyptian court bans military 'virginity tests' on detainees -- SB1070 for Muslims (NSEERS) Lands DREAM Act Youth Behind Bars, Deportation Looming -- The Pentagon and its Sock Puppets -- Whose Country Is It, Anyway? - by Patrick Buchanan -- Understanding the Iowa caucuses and how they work -- Afghanistan signs ‘$7 bn’ oil deal with China -- Gary Johnson launches Libertarian bid -- Did Saudi Prince Alwaleed Just Kill Twitter? -- Recipe for a Revolution -- WWIII Countdown: CFR declares "Time to Attack Iran" (VIDEO) -- Ron Paul Supporters, Including Veterans, Are “Indecent” According to Newt Gingrich
Jay Snelson, RIP
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
ID errors put hundreds in County Jail
12-28-2011
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Los Angeles Times
Hundreds of people have been wrongly imprisoned inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department jails in recent years, with some spending weeks behind bars before authorities realized those arrested were mistaken for wanted criminals. The wrongful
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Candidate Bachmann's Iowa Chairman Quits, Endorses Paul
12-28-2011
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Reuters
Republican candidate Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman resigned on Wednesday and endorsed rival Ron Paul, six days before Iowa voters begin the nomination process to select the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.
Kent Sorenson, an Iowa s
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News Link • Iraq
Weapons Sales to Iraq Move Ahead Despite U.S. Worries
12-28-2011
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New York Times
The Obama administration is moving ahead with the sale of nearly $11 billion worth of arms and training for the Iraqi military despite concerns Prime Minister al-Maliki is consolidating authority, create a one-party Shiite-dominated state and abandon
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News Link • Death
Jay Snelson, RIP
12-28-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
Jay spent half a century lecturing on human liberty.and was awarded the Sovereign Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Libertopia conference/festival in Hollywood, California for outstanding work in promoting the ideals of sovereign individuality an
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News Link • Voting and Elections
IJ Takes on Mississippi’s Campaign Finance Laws
12-28-2011
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The Agitator
But if they spend just $200 on signs, buttons and flyers without first registering with the government and navigating a complex web of regulations, they would be subject to fines and possible criminal penalties . . .
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News Link • Gun Rights
NYT Scare Story About Carry Permit Holders Shows They Are Remarkably Law-Abiding
12-28-2011
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Reason magazine
A front-page story in today's New York Times tries to stir up alarm about liberalized carry permit laws, which let people carry concealed handguns if they meet a short list of objective criteria. To illustrate the hazards of that policy, the Times ci
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Rule
12-28-2011
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The Agitator
A local man called the cops on Seattle officers when he felt a traffic stop was spinning out of control " and the entire incident was captured on a police video that shows the man being yanked from his car and thrown to the ground . . .
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
New Laws Ring in the New Year
12-28-2011
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In 2011, all 50 states and territories met in regular session and enacted close to 40,000 new laws on issues across the board. Laws do not always become effective on Jan. 1, however. State constitutions or statutes usually establish when they go into
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Arrest Woman Who Refuses To Turn Over Cellphone After Filming Their Abuse
12-28-2011
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Jonathan Turley
In Jacksonville, police are being accused of arresting and beating the wrong man in response to a report of a fight on Christmas Eve. They then arrested family members who say that were just trying to stop police from beating their relative. Daisy Be
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
New U.S. tactic for suspected Swiss bank tax cheats
12-28-2011
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Reuters
U.S. authorities hunting in Swiss banks for suspected tax cheats have a new weapon in their arsenal: an arcane but aggressive legal maneuver more commonly used against drug smugglers, money launderers and Imelda Marcos, widow of the Philippine dictat
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News Link • Economy - International
Update On The "Non-Printing" ECB's Parabolically Rising Balance Sheet
12-28-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
While the surge in the ECB's balance sheet has been discussed to death on these pages, with a particular emphasis on what we believe the key correlation driver-cum-pissing contest of 2012 will be - namely the relative size of the ECB vs Fed balance s
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News Link • Economy - International
Former Fed VP Accuses Bernanke Of Bailing Out Europe Via Currency Swaps
12-28-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
Now it is the turn of a former Dallas Fed Vice President, Gerald ODriscoll, to outright accuse the Fed of bailing out Europe courtesy of "incomprehensible" currency swaps, and implicitly accusing Bernanke of lying that he would not bail out Europe ev
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
11 Huge Gadget Releases Coming In 2012
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
We're less than a week away from the new year. With the massive holiday gadget launches behind us, it's time to look forward to 2012.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Future Predictions
INSIDE THE RASPBERRY PI: How This $25 Computer (Yes, Computer!) Could Change The World
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
The Raspberry Pi is a $25 computer that is powerful enough to run Quake 3, a pretty intense 3D video game. It plugs straight into a TV with an HDMI output and it's designed to be cheap enough that anyone can buy.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Here's What Will Happen To Commodity Prices Next Year
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Amid an uncertain outlook for the global economy, Morgan Stanley outlined earlier this month what will happen to 18 of the world's most important commodities next year.
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News Link • World News
The 19 Smartest People The World Has Ever Seen
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Measuring IQ is an inexact science, and the following list is sometimes based on rumors and hearsay, but that's the only way to measure the smartest people in the world.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The 5 Biggest Economic Myths Of 2011
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
A lot of people think they are a financial expert just because they read the Wall Street Journal or peruse Yahoo! Finance.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
These Striking Black and White Portraits Will Give You Goosebumps
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Lee Jeffries is an accountant in Manchester, UK. He is also an incredibly skilled photographer with a keen eye for subjects. During his travels around the globe he has used reality to depict his own vision of the world.
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz Quit To Build... This App?
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Now Moskovitz is at it again with a version of Asana for the iPhone. It's almost as baffling as the web-based application " but maybe we aren't getting something
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News Link • Currencies
If The European Politicians Lose The Currency Chess Game
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Nobody knows what is going to happen in the next year, let alone in the next three years. What follows is the theory behind the European Politicians losing the currency chess game.
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News Link • China
China Announces Another Massive Cut In Rare Earth Exports
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
China announced a cut Tuesday in its rare earths export quota as it tries to shore up sagging prices for the exotic metals used in mobile phones and other high-tech goods
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News Link • American History
Incredible Saga Of A 130-Year-Old Album Of Mississippi River Photos That's Worth Millions Of Dol
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
So there must be something special about a photo book of images of the Mississippi River during the 1880s, captured by photographer Henry Peter Bosse, which Sotheby's just valued at $4.5 million, according to the Star Tribune (via Newser).
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News Link • Housing
This Chart From Robert Shiller Will Terrify Anyone Who Owns A Home In America
12-28-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
We recall showing the Robert Shiller chart to many of our friends, warning of a massive bubble and potential economic collapse. They wouldn’t hear any of it. We luckily sold our ocean view house in late 2004/early 2005 and have been happy renters e
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico's cartels build own national radio system
12-28-2011
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www.nwitimes.com
When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban
12-28-2011
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www.msnbc.msn.com
Kabul agrees to Taliban liaison office in Qatar to start peace talks
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
What next in China’s Wukan stand-off?
12-28-2011
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The Zettabyte Chronicles
A stand-off between a group of determined villagers and local government representatives in China’s southern province of Guangdong is currently adding to the formidable workload of country’s indefatigable army of Internet censors.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Egyptian court bans military 'virginity tests' on detainees
12-28-2011
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USA Today
The issue surfaced in March following the arrest of demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The rights group Human Rights Watch said seven women were subjected to the tests.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
The Whole World is Watching
12-28-2011
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www.c4ss.com
In 1649 at St. George’s Hill in England, as recounted in the revolutionary anthem “The World Turned Upside Down,” a band of landless peasants who called themselves the Diggers tore down enclosures, built themselves cottages, and began spading up land
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News Link • Science
Algal protein provides more efficient way to split water and produce hydrogen
12-28-2011
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www.gizmag.com
Until the discovery of deep sea life forms that thrive in lightless hyrothermal vents, photosynthesis was considered the engine that drives all life on Earth
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News Link • Future Predictions
Predictions for 2012
12-28-2011
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www.antiwar.com
Predictions are always problematic " there’s that pesky notion of “free will,” [.pdf] not to mention the stubborn refusal of reality to conform to our preconceptions. Yet they are obligatory for a columnist this time of year, and so what I’m going to
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News Link • Immigration
SB1070 for Muslims (NSEERS) Lands DREAM Act Youth Behind Bars, Deportation Looming
12-28-2011
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www.dreamactivist.org
Earlier this year, the Obama Administration terminated NSEERS, a post-9-11 program that targeted and placed non-citizen Muslim men from over 24 countries in deportation proceedings. But the termination provides no relief for thousands of immigrants
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Pentagon and its Sock Puppets
12-28-2011
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www.harpers.org
An internal Department of Defense review has concluded that a Rumsfeld-era program under which retired military officers who appeared on American broadcast media were given special briefings and access was consistent with Pentagon rules.
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News Link • Corruption
You Won’t Believe How Corrupt, Lazy And Stinking Rich Our Congress Critters Have Become
12-28-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
If our founding fathers could see the cesspool that the U.S. Congress has become today, they would roll over in their graves. Most Americans don’t realize this, but we already have a “part-time Congress”. Members of Congress only “work” a little ov
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News Link • WAR: About that War
244. Two Important Works On War Revisionism
12-28-2011
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Lew Rockwell Show
John Denson, editor of The Costs of War, talks to Lew Rockwell about Nothing Less Than War and Freedom Betrayed.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Whose Country Is It, Anyway?
12-28-2011
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The American Conservative
Half a century ago, American children were schooled in Aesop’s fables. Among the more famous of these were “The Fox and the Grapes” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.”
Particularly appropriate this Christmas season, and every Christmas lately, is Aesop
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
"Gary Johnson Announces Libertarian Bid"
12-28-2011
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www.garyjohnson2012.com
This morning, I stepped before the microphones at a news conference in the New Mexico capitol and announced that I am seeking the Libertarian nomination for President of the United States.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Is Romney a coward and GOP turncoat?
12-27-2011
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The Examiner
Romney's PAC, which is run by old staffers and funded by well-heeled friends is decimating Newt Gingrich, but the latest ad won four "Pinnochios" from the Washington Post. Newt has challenged Romney to a debate, but Romney won't respond. Is he a
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Understanding the Iowa caucuses and how they work
12-28-2011
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The Examiner
To many, the Iowa caucuses are difficult to understand, but they enable Iowans to participate in poitics at a deeper level than most other states do.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul's Salute to Veterans Iowa Campaign Rally on CSPAN Live
12-28-2011
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DailyPaul.com
Ron Paul's Salute to Veterans Iowa Campaign Rally will be aired on C-Span tonight (12/28) at 7pm CST / 8pm ET. (H/T to DailyPaul - Ed)
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News Link • World News
U.S. warns Iran not to block Strait of Hormuz
12-28-2011
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The RawStory.com
The United States warned Iran on Wednesday against any attempt to disrupt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran issued threats over the vital oil route.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Japan scientists hope slime holds intelligence key
12-28-2011
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The RawStory.com
A brainless, primeval organism able to navigate a maze might help Japanese scientists devise the ideal transport network design. Not bad for a mono-cellular being that lives on rotting leaves.
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News Link • Currencies
China vows currency moves after U.S. criticism
12-28-2011
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The RawStory.com
China on Wednesday pledged to make its exchange rate more “flexible”, a day after the United States said the yuan was undervalued, though it declined to name Beijing a currency manipulator.
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News Link • Energy
Afghanistan signs ‘$7 bn’ oil deal with China
12-28-2011
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The RawStory.com
Afghanistan on Wednesday signed an oil deal with China which could earn the war-torn country $7 billion over 25 years.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Watch the Vote 2012 - Iowa Caucus (Publisher Recommended)
12-28-2011
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www.dailypaul.com
Bottomline?... If "They/Them/Those" (those that will not leave us alone) can steal this caucus from Ron Paul's supporters... THEY WILL! - This project is a simple method to help prevent the fraud
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Gary Johnson launches Libertarian bid
12/28/2011
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Emily Schultheis, Politico
Gary Johnson switched his registration to Libertarian and kicked off his campaign for the party’s nomination for president Wednesday at a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M.
“I’m doing this today because this is an agenda that I think resonates wi
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News Link • Energy
Solar Breakthrough: Cheap Quantum Dot Solar Paint
12-28-2011
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Oilprice.com
Researchers have reduced the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a one-coat quantum dot solar paint.
How?
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News Link • Activism
Did Saudi Prince Alwaleed Just Kill Twitter?
12-28-2011
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Minyanville.com, Tom Clancy
A $300 million investment from the Saudi royal family could validate the Twitter platform. Or undermine it completely.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
‘Anonymous’ stages Christmas hack on military merchant
12-28-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
“Anonymous” claimed responsibility for stealing confidential data from the website of a military gear merchant whose customers are thought to be mostly former soldiers and members of law enforcement.
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News Link • World News
Oil plunges on strong dollar, profit taking
12-28-2011
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The RawStory.com
World oil prices sank in volatile year-end deals on Wednesday, as traders took profits and eyed the strong dollar, new concerns over the eurozone debt crisis and fresh equity falls on Wall Street.
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News Link • Energy
The Year in Energy
12-28-2011
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Surprising successes helped offset disappointing failures in solar, biofuels, and nuclear power.
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News Link • Military
Ron Paul Supporters, Including Veterans, Are “Indecent” According to Newt Gingrich
12-28-2011
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Combat Veterans for Ron Paul via RP Social Network
"Mr. Gingrich, have you lost your damn mind? asks Nick Allison, U.S. Army Veteran.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
WWIII Countdown: CFR declares "Time to Attack Iran" (VIDEO)
12-28-2011
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www.activistpost.com
The highly influential Council on Foreign Relations (aka CFR) declared this month in their online publication "Foreign Affairs" that it is now time to attack Iran, subtitled "Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option"
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News Link • Food
To Achieve Optimal Health, Eat 50-70% of This Frequently Demonized Food
12-28-2011
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www.mercola.com
Emerging evidence suggests most people need about 50-70 percent of their diet (calories) as healthy fats, which include organically-raised grass-fed meats, coconut oil, olives and olive oil, avocado, nuts, organic pastured egg yolks, and butter made
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Puzzling Case of Stratfor and Anonymous
12-28-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
Here is a strange case. Anonymous has apparently attacked the famous, web-based Intel-analyzer Stratfor in support of WikiLeaks, and yet WikiLeaks is evidently and obviously (to us anyway) a kind of false-flag facility.
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