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Date Sent: 2013-01-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 2, 2013 PM edition |
Sandy Hook: Cop in CT on Contradictions, Inconsistencies & Gun Grab
Just Say No to GMO Hemp! -- New Year's Resolutions for Congress - by Ron Paul -- Russian Navy to hold biggest war games in decades -- CBO: 'Fiscal cliff' deal carries $4 trillion price tag over next decade -- Obama Vows More Tax Increases -- Obama Back In Hawaii, Fiscal Cliff Still Unsigned -- Mag 9 Threat Cascadia and Himalaya -- NY area lawmakers furious after House GOP scraps vote on Sandy aid -- Yen Decline -- Senate-Passed Deal Means Higher Tax on 77% of Households -- Obama Would Call on Military to Disarm Americans During National Emergency -- Rwandan rebels linked to DRC violence -- Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 in Spending Cuts for Every $41 in Tax Increases -- Iran unveils new combat helicopter -- Bosses: Don't blame us for smaller checks -- Japanese emperor offers encouragement to quake, tsunami victims -- US tested 'Tsunami bomb' off New Zealand coast -- Almost 4,400 Arizona drivers arrested by holiday DUI task force -- 'Fiscal cliff' deal will push up unemployment -- Central African Republic rebels halt advance, agree to peace talks -- Dozens killed, wounded in airstrike near Damascus -- The Coming Isolation of US Dollar -- The Depardieu Revolution -- Chicago: America’s Gun-Free Killing Field -- Comprehensive List Of Representatives Who Voted For The Fiscal Cliff H.R. 8 -- 4409: Another handcuffed person murdered by police
Arizona Breakfast Club next Saturday
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sandy Hook: Cop in CT on Contradictions, Inconsistencies & Gun Grab -
01-02-2013
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www.youtube.com
Our friend Mark S. Mann is back. He's a cop, he's in Connecticut and we have a LOT of QUESTIONS about the contradictions and inconsistencies of the official story of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre - and resulting gun grab...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 " 10 Years Ago
01-01-2013
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Wired.com
Predicting the future is hard, but that doesn’t stop us from trying. We’re Wired, after all.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Everything You Need To Know About iPhone Etiquette Is In A Mom's Letter To Her 13-Year-Old Son
01-01-2013
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Business Insider
Greg Hofmann finally received an iPhone for Christmas, but it came with a long list of terms and conditions.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Top 10 Handguns for Self-Defense
01-02-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
You might be a woman looking for your first self-defense handgun. Or you might be a lifelong ”gun person” that people come to for advice about guns. Either way this article is for you.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Russian Navy to hold biggest war games in decades
01-02-2013
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RT.com
The four major Russian Navy fleets will hold a joint exercise in late January in the Mediterranean and Black seas. It will be the biggest such event in decades.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
CBO: 'Fiscal cliff' deal carries $4 trillion price tag over next decade
01-02-2013
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The Hill
The Senate deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" will add roughly $4 trillion to the deficit when compared to current law, according to new numbers from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama Vows More Tax Increases
01-02-2013
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Obama: "We can’t simply cut our way to prosperity. Cutting spending has to go hand-in-hand with further reforms to our tax code so that the wealthiest corporations and individuals can’t take advantage of loopholes and deductions that aren’t available
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Back In Hawaii, Fiscal Cliff Still Unsigned
01-02-2013
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AP
President Obama is back in Hawaii for taxpayer paid vacation after a tense, end-of-the-new-year standoff with Congress over the fiscal cliff. The president arrived early Wednesday morning, without signing the fiscal cliff bill.
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News Link • Geology
Mag 9 Threat Cascadia and Himalaya
01-02-2013
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arclein
The Himalayan range was formed, and remains currently active, due to the collision of the Indian and Asian continental plates. Scientists have known for some time that India is subducting under Asia, and have recently begun studying the complexity of
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News Link • Agriculture
Better Barley
01-02-2013
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arclein
The latest findings stem from an ongoing collaboration that is ultimately aimed at bringing farmers a more stable breed of the plant that has less reliance on water and is less vulnerable to climate change.
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News Link • Agriculture
Grazing Amazonia
01-02-2013
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arclein
“The issue of deforestation of Amazon is an economic issue,” says Mariana Pavan, a researcher with the Institute for Conservation and Development of the Amazonas (IDESAM), a nongovernmental organization dedicated to preserving the Amazon and promotin
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
NY area lawmakers furious after House GOP scraps vote on Sandy aid
01-02-2013
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AP
New York area-lawmakers in both parties erupted in anger late Tuesday night after learning the House Republican leadership decided to allow the current term of Congress to end without holding a vote on aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Yen Decline
01-02-2013
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arclein
l. A weaker yen is itself a form of stimulus, and should help the country's domestic manufacturers. Nomura recently upgraded the Japanese automakers specifically on this, and in general the Nikkei has been on a total tear.
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robert klein
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Senate-Passed Deal Means Higher Tax on 77% of Households
01-02-2013
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Bloomberg
More than 80% of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 would pay higher taxes. Among the households facing higher taxes, the average increase would be $1,635.. A 2% payroll tax cut is being allowed to expire.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Would Call on Military to Disarm Americans During National Emergency
01-02-2013
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Prison Planet
Army manual provides blueprint for confiscating guns of rioters and dissidents
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Rwandan rebels linked to DRC violence
01-02-2013
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upi.com
Imposing sanctions against a Rwandan rebel group is a step toward consolidating peace in DRC, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fiscal Cliff Deal: $1 in Spending Cuts for Every $41 in Tax Increases
01-02-2013
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Breitbart
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion"a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.
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News Link • Iran
Iran unveils new combat helicopter
01-02-2013
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upi.com
Iran on the final day of naval combat exercises Wednesday announced the launch of its next generation of combat helicopters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Bosses: Don't blame us for smaller checks
01-02-2013
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CNN
Everyone's paycheck is about to take a hit, and it's not the boss' fault. The rate of workers' payroll taxes, which fund Social Security, has been 4.2% for the past two years. As of Jan. 1, it's back to 6.2%, on the first $113,700 in wages.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japanese emperor offers encouragement to quake, tsunami victims
01-02-2013
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upi.com
Japanese Emperor Akihito offered encouragement Wednesday to people still working to rebuild their lives from the devastating 2011 tsunami and earthquake.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US tested 'Tsunami bomb' off New Zealand coast
01-02-2013
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Daily Telegraph
The United States and New Zealand successfully conducted secret tests of a "tsunami bomb" designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater blasts to trigger massive tidal waves.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Almost 4,400 Arizona drivers arrested by holiday DUI task force
01-02-2013
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Arizona Republic
Nearly 4,400 people statewide were arrested on suspicion of DUI between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve by officers participating in regional saturation enforcements, according to the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
'Fiscal cliff' deal will push up unemployment
01-02-2013
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upi.com
Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department on Friday to report the economy added 155,000 jobs in December -- substantially less than is needed to pull unemployment down to acceptable levels.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Central African Republic rebels halt advance, agree to peace talks
01-02-2013
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Reuters
Rebels in Central African Republic said they had halted their advance on the capital on Wednesday and agreed to start peace talks, averting a clash with regionally backed troops in the mineral-rich nation.
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News Link • European Union
Euro zone factory slump deepens but Asia perks up
01-02-2013
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Reuters
Euro zone factories sank deeper into recession in December as new orders tumbled, business surveys showed on Wednesday, a sharp contrast to continuing signs of revival in China.
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News Link • Syria
Dozens killed, wounded in airstrike near Damascus
01-02-2013
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Associated Press
A Syrian warplane blasted a gas station near Damascus Wednesday, killing and wounding dozens of people and igniting a huge fire in what could be one of the bloodiest attacks in weeks during the 22-month civil war.
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Reference Link • Dollar Meltdown The
The Coming Isolation of USDollar
Jim Willie - Gold Eagel
The United States just suffered its worst humiliation ever as a nation on the Eastern global stage. It was exceeded only by the humiliation for a US president personally. The story went uncovered by the lapdog inept US press. The late November Asian
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
The Depardieu Revolution
01-02-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
When Socialist President Francois Hollande took office, he swiftly made good on his pledge to raise the top tax rate on Frenchmen who earn a million euros a year " to 75 percent.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Chicago: America’s Gun-Free Killing Field
01-02-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Chicago, one of America's most anti-gun cities, has just recorded its 500th homicide.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why Today’s Fiscal Squeeze Imposes Needless Austerity
01-02-2013
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Common Dreams
The financial sector promises that privatizing roads and ports, water and sewer systems, bus and railroad lines (on credit, of course) is more efficient and will lower the prices charged for their services.
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News Link • Activism
Revolutionary Resolutions for 2013
Waging Non-Violence
01-02-2013
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Common Dreams
Mark Twain once said, “New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” Although there isn’t much evidence to dispute such a claim.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Defense Corporations Benefitting From Obama’s ‘Asia-Pivot’
01-02-2013
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antiwar.com
A boom in arms sales has arms manufactures fat and happy, while the security of Asia-Pacific is threatened
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News Link • World News
Brawling cockpit intruder forces plane to return to Moscow
01-02-2013
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RT.com
An Airbus A320 airliner was forced to turn back halfway during its flight from Russia to Tajikistan after one of the passengers tried to force his way into cockpit.
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Reference Link • Treason and Sedition
You Are Playing In a Game With No Rules
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
If you were going to rob one of two homes, what would you choose? Would you choose a home that clearly has armed family members, or, would you choose the home where the best weapon in the house is a butter knife? This is the choice being made by the
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Adam Lanza’s dead body to be used to criminalize innocents who have similar gene
12-31-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Ethan A. Huff
Unknown sources are funneling money into new research aimed at finding the so-called “evil” gene that may have been responsible for the recent mass shooting that allegedly took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Vows To Put “Full Weight” Behind Gun Control Legislation Next Year
12-31-2012
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http://www.slate.com, By Daniel Politi
Even though the fiscal cliff is the top issue in Washington these days, that doesn’t mean President Obama doesn’t have other things on his mind.
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News Link • Testing
Secret Human Testing Revealed in Declassified U.S. Army Documents; Lawsuit Follows
12-31-2012
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http://www.activistpost.com, Nicholas West
It is always a challenge attempting to describe how sick and power mad are some of the elite who have taken up positions within the military-industrial-scientific complex.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Media Quiet About San Antonio Theater Shooting
12-31-2012
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http://beforeitsnews.com, By Mort Amsel
On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the CT shooting, a man went to a restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-girlfriend. After he shot her, most of the people in the restaurant fled next door to a theater. The gunman followed them and entered t
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, Best of 2012 (Part 3)
12-31-2012
John Semmens
Dems Scramble to Explain Obama Debate Defeat
Going into this week's first presidential debate Democrats were confident that the most brilliant man to ever hold the office would easily trounce his challenger. However, 67% of voters who saw the deba
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Opinion • General Opinion
“Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Win”
12-31-2012
Howard Blitz
Today, Americans face a similar challenge and requires no less the determination of a Lombardi, Edison, Morse, Paine or the many women inventors of the past and present. Excessive government taxation and spending, inflation, and government initiated
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News Link • Conspiracies
Who Murdered Benazir Bhutto?
12-31-2012
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lewrockwell.com/Eric Margolis
By the time her season's greeting card and a handwritten note arrived in my office, my old friend Benazir Bhutto was already dead. The card mailed in Pakistan days before her murder, remains on my desk to this today, a touching last link from this re
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News Link • Police State
Female Trooper Who Pulled Over Speeding Cop 'Fears For Her Life'
12-31-2012
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Information Liberation
The female highway patrol trooper who made headlines for pulling over and arresting a speeding cop says she fears for her life as a result of stalking and harassment from fellow police officers.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Evidence of multiple shooters at Aurora Theater massacre covered up
12-31-2012
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www.veteranstoday.com
Notice at the end of Kelley’s article that Holmes’ court records were sealed. What I conclude from this is that the evidence collected by police directly contradicts the lone gunman narrative. This would mean that here too a cover-up has taken place,
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