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Date Sent: 2012-01-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 20, 2012 |
Pakistan Tells US Envoy to Stay Away -- Anonymous takes down Dept of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, Universal
How can we help the Iraqis who risked their lives to help us? -- Salmon Khan ON SOPA and PIPA -- Chris Dodd Thinks Anti-SOPA/PIPA Websites Are Abusing Their Power -- Millionaires Back Buffett Tax If They’re Exempt -- Ron Paul Highlights in 1.19.12 Debate (Video) -- 7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site -- 8 Guilty for Prison Massacre in Rare Trial of Haiti’s Police -- A Judge Rules Vermont Can’t Shut Nuclear Plant -- Honduras Congress OKs Drug-Related Extradition -- MORE FROM THE FABULOUS RNC RESOLUTION on AGENDA 21! -- Tom Woods on DYI w/ Ernest Hancock Jan 18th Video -- Russia, US explore new joint moon base colony -- The root cause of the housing bubble and collapse -- "Michael Crow, a former agent [of the CIA], is now president of Arizona State University" -- SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY WEBCAST - Ron Paul's Personal SPIN ROOM -- Jan 20th, 2012 - Luis Ewing-L. Neil Smith-John Bush, Catherine Bleish-LRN.FM
M-F, 9-Noon, EST -- RNC May Face Messy Delegates Issue -- Debate
Watching Party - Hancock's - Thurs, Jan 19th, 6 p.m. til?? -- Sinking the Petrodollar in the Persian Gulf -- Compromise ‘Unlikely’ as Protests Grow Against SOPA -- SOPA Proves: Hollywood Hates Your Freedom -- Jan 19th, 2012 - Megan Duffield - Glenn Jacobs - (MP3 LOADED) -- EPA drops jackboot on necks of couple for daring to build on their own land -- Privatizing the War on Terror: America’s Military Contractors -- Ron Paul Hot Air Balloon Taken Down After SCHP Request
AZ: Obama to visit
Phoenix area on Jan. 25; Jan. 28, "God on Trial" Book Signing; Feb 22 –
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts
Center (BUY TICKETS NOW!)
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News Link • World News
Situation Deteriorates, Pakistan Tells US Envoy to Stay Away
01-19-2012
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antiwar.com
The US State Department is reporting today that a request to allow Special Envoy Marc Grossman to visit Pakistan has been turned down by the Pakistani government, citing the “prevailing situation” in the nation.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Anonymous takes down Department of Justice, RIAA, Motion Picture Association and Universal Music
1-19-12
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http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sop
In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.
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Reported by:
Agorist Alma
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News Link • Iraq
How can we help the Iraqis who risked their lives to help us?
01-19-2012
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Philadelphia Inquirer
I've received a slew of e-mail from Iraqi interpreters who are in hiding because Shiite militias have pledged to kill the "traitors" who aided the Americans. I've also received e-mail from U.S. military officers desperately trying to get their "terps
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Salmon Khan ON SOPA and PIPA
01-19-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
What SOPA and PIPA are at face value and what they could end up enabling. The heroic founder of Khan Academy""learn almost anything for free""explains these two State power grabs on behalf of corporatist pressure groups.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Chris Dodd Thinks Anti-SOPA/PIPA Websites Are Abusing Their Power
01-19-2012
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) decided it just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to hire somebody who allegedly knows exactly what it takes to buy a senator.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Millionaires Back Buffett Tax If They’re Exempt
01-19-2012
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Bloomberg
Millionaires support Warren Buffett’s view that the wealthiest should pay more in taxes, as long as it’s other rich Americans, according to a survey released today.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Highlights in 1.19.12 Debate (Video)
01-19-2012
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StopTheLie.com
Visit RonPaulNow.com for past highlights plus other interviews.
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Reported by:
Joe Plummer
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Excellent Video on the Tax-the-Rich Mentality.flv
01-19-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
We have a spending problem in America. This video clarifies the magnitude of just how much we spend, IN JUST ONE YEAR!!
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
What Is It About Ron Paul?
01-19-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
This video was based on an article written by Rafi Farber, YouTube user name, merfitudinal. You can read the entire article here: http://settlersofsamaria.org/vote-ron-paul-free-israel/
Please take the time to visit his site and thank him for writ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site
01-19-2012
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New York Times
In what the federal authorities called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the FBI seized the Web site Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise bas
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
8 Guilty for Prison Massacre in Rare Trial of Haiti’s Police
01-19-2012
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New York Times
In a country where officials who abuse their power are almost never held accountable, 8 of 14 police officers tried for a 2010 prison massacre were found guilty on Thursday in the southern city of Les Cayes, Haiti.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • States' Rights
A Judge Rules Vermont Can’t Shut Nuclear Plant
01-19-2012
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New York Times
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Vermont from forcing the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor to shut down when its license expires in March, saying that the state is trying to regulate nuclear safety, which only the federal government can do.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Honduras Congress OKs Drug-Related Extradition
01-19-2012
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AP
Starting Feb. 1, the Central American nation will be able to sign extradition treaties with other countries, including the United States, which has sought the change.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russia, US explore new joint moon base colony
01-19-2012
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Terrence Aym
The Russians are serious about the moon and think the U.S. should be too. Their incentive can be summed up with one word: China. Quite simply, China wants to own the moon. The Russian Federation and its space agency Roscosmos finds itself in the curi
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain To Hold Rally Together In South Carolina
01-19-2012
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www.huffingtonpost.com
The comedian and host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" will hold a rally in South Carolina this Friday with former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. The event will be entitled "THE ROCK ME LIKE A HERMAN CAIN: SOUTH CAIN-OLINA PRIMARY RA
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
RNC May Face Messy Delegates Issue
01-19-2012
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www.npr.org
If the GOP presidential race is not effectively over following the South Carolina primary, it could easily drag on for months " with potential confusion about delegate counts.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Debate Watching Party - Hancock's - Thurs, Jan 19th, 6 p.m. til??
01-18-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
CNN to Host Final Debate Ahead of Crucial South Carolina Primary
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Sinking the Petrodollar in the Persian Gulf
01-19-2012
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antiwar.com
These days, with a crisis atmosphere growing in the Persian Gulf, a little history lesson about the U.S. and Iran might be just what the doctor ordered.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Compromise ‘Unlikely’ as Protests Grow Against SOPA
01-19-2012
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antiwar.com
RIAA Spokesman Terms Criticism 'Dangerous' and Bad for Democracy
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
SOPA Proves: Hollywood Hates Your Freedom
01-19-2012
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www.technologyreview.com
Old-line media companies have taken a hostage in the battle against modernity: the Internet
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Photosynthesis Fuel Company Gets a Large Investment
01-19-2012
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www.technologyreview.com
Joule Unlimited will build a production plant for turning sunlight and CO2 into liquid fuels.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Property Rights
EPA drops jackboot on necks of couple for daring to build on their own land
01-19-2012
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www.naturalnews.com
Stories about overreach from Washington, D.C. abound, but just when you think you've heard them all comes yet another that makes you shake your head in disbelief and wonder just whom is supposed to be working for whom in this grand old Republic of ou
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Political Theory
Fear and Greed: The Real Political Parties of the State
01-19-2012
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www.libertariannews.org
The State is the physical embodiment of two emotional states of being, those being fear and greed. If all of humanity were to conquer these two emotional states, there would be no State.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Privatizing the War on Terror: America’s Military Contractors
01-19-2012
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www.njtoday.net
America’s troops may be returning home from Iraq, but contrary to President Obama’s assertion that “the tide of war is receding,” we’re far from done paying the costs of war.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Dr. Paul’s Limited Potential
01-19-2012
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www.dailyanarchist.com
As I sat and watched tonight’s GOP Presidential debate in South Carolina it became clear to me that despite much greater name recognition than four years prior, Congressman Ron Paul’s message of non-interventionism will continue to fall on deaf ears.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul speech at University of Charleston
01/19/2012
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C-SPAN
50-minute video with friendly crowd. One lady during Q&A at 39 minutes is really good to watch. Among other things, Paul addressed crowd response to "Golden Rule" foreign policy comments at SC debates.
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Dennis Treybil
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ to ‘See Into Hearts and Minds’
01-19-2012
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www.wired.com
Maybury calls his vision “Social Radar.” And the comparison to traditional sensors is no accident, he tells Danger Room.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Letter Re: Alaska as a Retreat Locale
01-19-2012
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Survivalblog.com
Alaska does rely on products being imported but it has the capacity to manufacture its own fuel.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Keeping Chickens in a Backyard Flock, by Nightshade
01-19-2012
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Survivalblog.com
In a SHTF scenario, already having a small flock of laying chickens will be of great benefit for everyone from an urban backyard to a rural, backwoods bunker setting.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP contest has a day full of upheaval
01-19-2012
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The Washington Post
The Republican presidential contest took a series of unexpected twists Thursday as Texas Gov. Rick Perry quit the race and endorsed Newt Gingrich, while Iowa officials declared that Rick Santorum had in fact won more votes than Mitt Romney.
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Mike Renzulli
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