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Date Sent: 2011-12-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 16, 2011 PM edition |
U.S. to leave Iraqi airspace clear for strategic Israeli route to Iran
Assange request for appeal granted, set for Feb 1 -- Out of Chaos, Order: Now IMF Seeks Collective, World Bail-Out of Europe --
Christian Bale roughed up by guards while trying to visit blind Chinese
activist -- NY Times CEO exiting, without explanation -- IMF chief warns over 1930s-style threats -- Gear galore left in Iraq as last troops pull out -- Homeland Security limits ties with Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban -- Ex-Freddie, Fannie Chiefs Sued by SEC -- Ron Paul on Hannity
(12/15/11) Post Debate Interview -- Paul, Bachmann spar over Iran and
nuclear threat -- NDAA Gives Pentagon Green Light to Wage Internet War -- US Troops Surround Syrian Border, Press Censors Build-Up -- American Research Group, New Hampshire Republican Presidential Preference Primary -- Debt crisis: as it happened December 15, 2011 -- China's Meltdown Continues -- Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer -- Banker Occupation and Europain - by Stephen Lendman -- Obama Approves Draconian Police State Law - by Stephen Lendman -- NATO Troops on Jordan Syria Border
Christopher Hitchens, RIP
Now! Ron Paul Tea Party Moneybomb - December 16, 2011
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News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. soldier in WikiLeaks case to get his day in court
12-16-2011
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rawstory.com
A year and a half after his arrest, Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of turning hundreds of thousands of classified US documents over to WikiLeaks, gets his first day in court on Friday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Assange request for appeal granted, set for Feb 1
12-16-2011
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rawstory.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was Friday granted permission to appeal against extradition from Britain to Sweden over rape allegations and a hearing will start on February 1.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Out of Chaos, Order: Now IMF Seeks Collective, World Bail-Out of Europe
12-16-2011
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cnsnews.com
Fox News Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that only a handful of Iraqis were on hand Thursday as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and U.S. military leaders formally ended the Iraq war with a subdued ceremony in Baghdad.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Christian Bale roughed up by guards while trying to visit blind Chinese activist
12-16-2011
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dailymail.co.uk
Hollywood actor Christian Bale was manhandled and roughed up by Chinese security guards as he tried to visit a blind legal activist whose detention has sparked international outcry.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
NY Times CEO exiting, without explanation
12-16-2011
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reuters.com
Janet Robinson will step down as chief executive of the New York Times Co at the end of the month, as the company continues to struggle with advertising declines and a years-long slump in its share price.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF chief warns over 1930s-style threats
12-16-2011
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financialtimes.com
“There is no economy in the world, whether low-income countries, emerging markets, middle-income countries or super-advanced economies that will be immune to the crisis that we see not only unfolding but escalating,” Christine Lagarde said in a speec
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Gear galore left in Iraq as last troops pull out
12-16-2011
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washingtontimes.com
U.S. command says it’s not worth hauling back
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Taliban cut nursing woman’s breast, asked others to eat pieces: UN-backed report
12-16-2011
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Indian Express
In a gory incident highlighted in a UN report Pakistani Taliban fighters cut the breasts of a woman who was breastfeeding her child and asked other women to eat the pieces.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security limits ties with Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio
12-16-2011
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latimes.com
The Department of Homeland Security reacted quickly Thursday to news that the Justice Department had accused Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff known for his tough policies on illegal immigration, of a “pattern of misconduct” that permitted unlawful arr
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drones
Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban
12-16-2011
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washingtontimes.com
Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ex-Freddie, Fannie Chiefs Sued by SEC
12-16-2011
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bloomberg.com
Daniel Mudd, the former chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, and Richard Syron, ex-CEO of Freddie Mac, were sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for understating by hundreds of billions of dollars the subprime loans held by the agenc
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Countdown to the Iowa Caucus -19 Days ! Only ONE Weekend Left!
12-16-2011
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dailypaul.com
The key to Ron Paul winning the Republican nomination is winning the Iowa Caucus. If you want to spread the message, please continue to signwave, table, hand out flyers, make comments online, visit Occupy protests etc.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Highlights in 12/15/2011 Debate (Video)
12-15-2011
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StopTheLie.com
Visit RonPaulNow.com for all debates plus other interviews
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday 12-16-2011
12-16-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Genetically modified foods can really mess with your health, says Joseph Mercola - The Government Is a Lawbreaker, Time to arrest it? Article by Andrew Napolitano - And Was the 'Mission Accomplished'?, Pat Buchanan on the murderous aggression against
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Now! Ron Paul Tea Party Moneybomb - December 16, 2011
12-16-2011
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dailypaul.com
On December 16th 2007 Ron Paul supporters launched the modern day Tea Party with a record setting 6.4 million dollar money bomb. Dr. Paul challenges supporters to replicate those results in order to win the Republican Primary in 2012.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul, Bachmann spar over Iran and nuclear threat
12-16-2011
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Associated Press
Republican presidential candidates Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann are trading barbs over Iran, with the Texas congressman saying the U.S. has no legitimate claim to block Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon and Bachmann calling his position wildly
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Death
Christopher Hitchens, RIP
12-16-2011
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Reason magazine
I'm saddened to write that the great essayist and writer Christopher Hitchens is dead at the age of 62. He had been weakened by the cancer of the esophagus that he disclosed publicly in 2010 and the treatments he had undertaken to fight his illness.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
NDAA Gives Pentagon Green Light to Wage Internet War
12-16-2011
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prisonplanet.com
In addition to kidnapping Americans and tossing them into Camp Gitmo without recourse or trial, the draconian NDAA bill passed in the House yesterday contains language that will allow the Pentagon to wage cyberwar on domestic enemies of the state.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
US Troops Surround Syrian Border, Press Censors Build-Up
12-16-2011
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prisonplanet.com
US Media Remains Mute on ‘Already-Confirmed’ Operations
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
American Research Group, New Hampshire Republican Presidential Preference Primary
12-16-2011
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American Researh Group
Mitt Romney continues to lead the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Preference Primary with 35%. Jumping into second place is Ron Paul with 21%. Newt Gingrich is now in third place with 16% and Jon Huntsman is in fourth place with 13%.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
U.S. to leave Iraqi airspace clear for strategic Israeli route to Iran
12-16-2011
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washingtontimes.com
The U.S. military’s fast-approaching Dec. 31 exit from Iraq, which has no way to defend its airspace, puts Israel in a better place strategically to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt crisis: as it happened December 15, 2011
12-16-2011
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telegraph.co.uk
IMF boss says no country in the world is immune from the crisis and all must take steps to boost growth, with risks of inaction including 'isolation and other elements reminiscent of the 1930s depression'.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China's Meltdown Continues
12-16-2011
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dailybell.com
China's epic hangover begins. China's credit bubble has finally popped. The property market is swinging wildly from boom to bust, the cautionary exhibit of a BRIC's dream that is at last coming down to earth with a thud. Chinese stocks are flashing w
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
12-16-2011
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Christian Science Monitor
In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Carrier IQ faces federal probe into allegations software tracks cellphone data
12-14-2011
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Sari Horwitz, Washington Post
Federal investigators are probing allegations that Carrier IQ software found on about 150 million cellphones tracked user activity and sent the information to cellphone companies without informing consumers, according to government officials.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
IBM Braces for Processing an Exobyte of Data
12-16-2011
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arclein
It will consist of dishes spread over a square kilometer of land in either South Africa or New Zealand - and will scan the sky 10,000 times faster than any existing telescope.
Signals received by the SKA will be transferred to a central high perfo
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Boreal Shrubbery Increases
12-16-2011
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arclein
Scientists have used satellite data from NASA-built Landsat missions to confirm that more than 20 years of warming temperatures in northern Quebec, Canada, have resulted in an increase in the amount and extent of shrubs and grasses.
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Desalting the Oceans?
12-16-2011
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arclein
Actually the density of halite (rock salt) is around 1.5 so that mass of salt would be a third less volume --say 390 km diameter--but that is just the salt in the ocean neglecting massive deposits in the continents.
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
NATO Troops on Jordan Syria Border
12-16-2011
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arclein
According to one Jordanian military officer who asked to remain anonymous, hundreds of soldiers who speak languages other than Arabic were seen during the past two days in those areas moving back and forth in military vehicles between the King
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robert klein
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News Link • NeoCons
If Iran Gets a Nuke, Better Hope They Use It! (Video)
12-16-2011
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StopTheLie.com
Danielle Pletka (Vice President for foreign policy at the American Enterprise Institute) explains the REAL danger of a nuclear-armed Iran. (The real danger is they WON'T use the weapon.)
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Day of Reckoning
We Have Crossed the Rubicon
12-15-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Eric Peters
Do you suppose cows have any idea what’s coming as they’re marched down the chute? Or do they stare with bovine indifference at the tail and hind quarters in front of them, until they’re suddenly " and very briefly " startled by the man with the nail
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Donna Hancock
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