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Date Sent: 2011-12-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 22, 2011 PM edition |
Louisiana State Officials Call For Troops On Streets
"When the World Outlawed War" -- The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews
from the Nazis -- No War for Oil: US Dependency and the Middle East --
The Chain of Obedience -- Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy -- Can Man be Forced to be Free? -- Highest Court In Europe Rules ALL
Airlines Flying Into Europe Must Pay For Their Carbon Emissions -- Gary Johnson to quit GOP race, run as Libertarian -- Mythbuster Adam Savage: Anti-piracy bill would ‘destroy the Internet’ -- Mexico Mayan region launches apocalypse countdown -- Banks gorge on ECB loans, market cheer short-lived -- Vanity Fair: One Nation, Under Arms - The Military Industrial Complex in the USA -- Examiner: Grassroots Video on Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Converts Many -- Baghdad explosions kill at least 63 in first major violence since U.S. departure -- How to Occupy a Bank With Ellen Brown
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News Link • Police State
Louisiana State Officials Call For Troops On Streets
12-22-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Lawmakers in Louisiana are calling for National Guard troops to patrol the streets of New Orleans after a toddler was killed in a drive-by shooting. The last time troops were involved in domestic law enforcement in the state, they were used to confis
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
"When the World Outlawed War"
12-22-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
David Swanson on his book about the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact [treaty ratified by the US Senate] and how it makes current wars illegal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews from the Nazis
12-22-2011
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www.bbc.co.uk
Thousands of Iranian Jews and their descendants owe their lives to a Muslim diplomat in wartime Paris, according to a new book. In The Lion's Shadow tells how Abdol-Hossein Sardari risked everything to help fellow Iranians escape the Nazis.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
No War for Oil: US Dependency and the Middle East
12-22-2011
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www.antiwar.com
The one prominent issue that both American political parties can seemingly agree on is that the U.S. should be less dependent on foreign oil. And Santa Claus has apparently listened and granted their wish.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The Chain of Obedience
12-22-2011
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www.youtube.com
The death squads and concentration camps of history were never staffed by rebels and dissidents. They were were run by those who followed the rules.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Trade
Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy
12-22-2011
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www.wired.com
Soon, two-thirds of the world's workers will be part of street economies, according to journalist Robert Neuwirth
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Can Man be Forced to be Free?
12-22-2011
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strike the root
Ultimately, if freedom is as worthy of attaining as advocates of freedom proclaim it is, then there should be no problem in convincing others of its intrinsic value.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Microsoft pulling out of Consumer Electronics Show after 2012 event
12-22-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
Microsoft said it decided to pull out of CES after the January 2012 show because it no longer fits its needs and its timing does not always mesh with its product announcements.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Highest Court In Europe Rules ALL Airlines Flying Into Europe Must Pay For Their Carbon Emissions
12-22-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Costs that will inevitably be passed on to customers in the form of a carbon tax.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Report: Gary Johnson to quit GOP race, run as Libertarian
12-22-2011
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www.rawstory.com
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson will drop out of the Republican presidential race and run for the Libertarian Party nomination, multiple reports said Tuesday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Mythbuster Adam Savage: Anti-piracy bill would ‘destroy the Internet’
12-22-2011
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www.rawstory.com
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister bill in the Senate, the PROTECT IP Act, are not very popular right now, thanks in large part to a growing outcry from some of the strongest voices on the Internet, from the founders of Google, Reddit,
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Future Predictions
Mexico Mayan region launches apocalypse countdown
12-22-2011
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Associated Press
Only 52 weeks and a day are left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Banks gorge on ECB loans, market cheer short-lived
12-22-2011
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www.reuters.com
Banks gobbled up nearly 490 billion euros in three-year cut-price loans from the European Central Bank on Wednesday, easing immediate fears of a credit crunch but leaving unresolved how much will flow to needy euro zone economies.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
This New Rainbow 6 Trailer Is Basically What Would Happen If OWS Went Totally Violent On Us
12-22-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
"This is the day we've been waiting for: Years of training, years of sacrifice. This is for the jobs you've streamlines, the debts you've collected. This is for the homes you foreclosed on, the bailouts you took. We are the true patriots, it's time f
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Private Religious Schools
M.I.T. Just Announced Its First Free Online Certificate Program
12-22-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Today M.I.T. university unveiled MITx, a new program that will enable students across the world to take a portfolio of its courses online and free of charge and choose to earn a certificate for demonstrating mastery of their subjects
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Vanity Fair: One Nation, Under Arms - The Military Industrial Complex in the USA
12-22-2011
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www.dailypaul.com
Todd Purdham's writing in Vanity Fair about the Military Industrial complex and the Secret Industry in the post- Cold War era, and how it is so important to some states, that happen to vote Republican.
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Donna Hancock
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Reference Link • Homeland Security
States spend billions on local homeland security
Center for Investigative Reporting
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent only a fraction of the billions spent to battle terrorists since Sept. 11, 2001. Lawmakers in Washington have shelled out some $34 billion over the last 10 years to state and local law enforcement. This map
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Adherence to the Oath
12-22-2011
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YouTube.com
Bill Manning, a military veteran who served as a combat pilot in Vietnam, speaks about who he supports for President of the United States, and why, in this touching mini-featurette.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Baghdad explosions kill at least 63 in first major violence since U.S. departure
12-22-2011
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Washington Post
More than a dozen explosions in Baghdad over a two-hour period Thursday morning killed at least 63 people--the first major violence in Iraq since the U.S. completed its troop pullout last week and a political crisis broke out. At least 185 people wer
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
EU airline carbon emissions decision could mean the end to peanuts as we know them! (Video)
12-22-2011
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The Political Commentator
Just what the global economy didn't need is a new EU tax on airlines for carbon emissions!
About a week ago the topic of the EU carbon market and the European Union Emission Trading Scheme was discussed at The Political Commentator.
The eight
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Agriculture
Climate Smart Agriculture
12-22-2011
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arclein
soils can be used to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, then they can generate carbon credits that can be sold to industrial polluters who want to offset their emissions.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Imaging Technology Unlocking Forest Secrets
12-22-2011
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arclein
e detailed images of individual trees at a rate of 500,000 or more per minute, enabling them to create a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the physical structure of the forest, as well as its chemical and optical properties. In Peru, the scie
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How to Occupy a Bank With Ellen Brown
12-22-2011
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arclein
It's called a municipal bank. Simply put, it would transfer the City of San Francisco's bank accounts - about $2 billion now spread between such banks as Bank of America Corp, UnionBanCal Corp and Wells Fargo & Co - into a public bank. That bank w
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robert klein
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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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