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Date Sent: 2012-01-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 2, 2012 AM edition |
Obama pinky swears to exempt Americans from his new indefinite detention law
Washington to be first state to top $9 minimum wage -- New China food safety scandal widens to oil, peanuts -- Argentina ex-intel chief dies in New Year shooting -- Libertarian, Green parties balk at new voter form -- The Bullseye on Ron Paul’s Back -- $6.3 Trillion Wiped Off Global Markets in 2011 -- The Number One Catastrophic Event That Americans Worry About: Economic Collapse -- Public School Clamps Down on Ten-Year Old for Pizza “Gun” -- Armed 11-Year Old Girl Defends Home from 3 Armed Burglars -- Maliki declares ‘Iraq Day’ to mark U.S. pullout --
Iowa’s Choice: Dr. Paul or U.S. Bankruptcy, More Wars, and Many More
Dead Soldiers and Marines -- GOVERNOR GARY JOHNSON TO IOWA SUPPORTERS:
VOTE FOR RON PAUL IN THE CAUCUSES
NH: NH Constitutional Justice
Rally and Press Conference at NH Statehouse Jan 3 2012 -- r3VOLution Boots On The Ground in New
Hampshire
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Obama pledges to exempt Americans from indefinite detention law
01-01-2012
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The RawStory.com
President Barack Obama signed on New Year’s Eve a bill that gives the military authority to detain American citizens indefinitely and without criminal charge
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Washington to be first state to top $9 minimum wage
01-01-2012
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The RawStory.com
Washington will be the first state to require a minimum wage of more than $9 an hour when it joins seven other states on Sunday in automatically adjusting salaries to keep up with inflation.
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News Link • China
New China food safety scandal widens to oil, peanuts
01-01-2012
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The RawStory.com
Chinese authorities in a southern boomtown have detected a cancer-causing toxin in peanuts and cooking oil that was only recently discovered in milk, in the nation’s latest food safety scandal.
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News Link • World News
Argentina ex-intel chief dies in New Year shooting
01-01-2012
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The RawStory.com
Argentina’s former spy chief, who recently took up a post as a provincial governor, was killed in a New Year’s Day shooting at his country house in Patagonia, authorities said Sunday.
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News Link • Government
Indiana bill would outlaw singing national anthem ‘inappropriately’
01-01-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The RawStory.com
Legislation introduced to the Indiana Senate would make it a crime to stray from approved lyrical or melodic guidelines while performing the national anthem at any event sponsored by public schools and state universities.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Libertarian, Green parties balk at new voter form
1-1-2012
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Arizona Daily Sun
The Arizona Libertarian Party and the Arizona Green Party are suing the State of Arizona over discrimination on voter registration forms. Tucson attorney David Hardy will litigate this attempt to squelch alternatives to the Republican/Democratic duo
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
A Judge Said It... It Must Be True
1-1-2012
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Free Patriot Press
The war drum against Iran beats louder, thanks in part to a ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels on December 15, 2011 ruling that Iran was linked to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The Eurasia Review reports, “Judge Danie
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Bullseye on Ron Paul’s Back
01-01-2012
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Time.com
At most of Ron Paul’s events in Iowa this week, little was said about the bad press that has buffeted him outside his intimate town halls. While Paul and his fans were decrying the secrecy of the Federal Reserve, the national media highlighted a past
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Custom Made Home Distillation
01-01-2012
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LNL Protekt
Home distillation is a simple process by which you can purify water, distill alcohol, manufacture antiseptics or produce fuel grade ethanol. There are several different types of distillation methods available, depending on your specific needs " basic
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Robot Overview: Titanoboa
01-01-2012
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www.wired.com
I’m a sucker for robots of any sort, but make them big and creepy and you’ve got my attention. This one does so in spades. Titanoboa is a 50 foot long electromechanical snake weighing in at 2,000 pounds, built by the same guys who brought us the gian
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News Link • Energy
Review: Build Your Own Small Wind Power System
01-01-2012
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www.wired.com
Conversation at the dinner table often becomes too technical for me. My husband and four kids are very math and science-minded, with lots of hands-on experience turning their ideas into something useful.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Paul Allen’s Plans For Space Takes Air Launching To Next Level
01-01-2012
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www.wired.com
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen raised a lot of eyebrows with his plan to build the largest airplane ever, then use it to launch rockets into space. But as wild as the idea of a six-engine airplane carrying a multi-stage rocket may be, it is evolutio
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Why hold gold in deflation?
01-01-2012
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www.sovereignman.com
Whether any potential deflationary effects are short-lived (like 2008) or long-term (Japan), I still want to own gold. Along with a debt-bubble bursting will come a severe loss of confidence in the fiat system… and gold is a great hedge in this scena
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Keeping Honey Bees for Survival
01-01-2012
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www.survivalblog.com
Wandering into the woods and staying lost for months is something I love to do. I have been an Urban Guerrilla Survivalist for 24 years, and have been keeping bees for more than 10 of those years. With these experiences under my belt, I have begun to
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News Link • Economy - International
6.3 Trillion Wiped Off Global Markets in 2011
01-01-2012
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www.cnbc.com
Almost $6.3 trillion was erased from global stock markets this year as the euro zone financial crisis reverberated across the world in the latter half of 2011, calling into question the future of the world’s largest currency bloc.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Number One Catastrophic Event That Americans Worry About: Economic Collapse
01-01-2012
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www.theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Many people expect a "financial collapse" to happen on a particular day. But that is not how it happens usually. Instead, it is often like a snowball that starts rolling downhill very slowly at first but that eventually become a huge avalanche.
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News Link • Police State
2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review
01-01-2012
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www.informationliberation.com
Welcome to the new total security state. The U.S. government now has at its disposal a technological arsenal so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void. And these technologies are being used by the governm
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News Link • Police State
Public School Clamps Down on Ten-Year Old for Pizza “Gun”
01-01-2012
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The Independent Institute
At an elementary school in Smyrna, Tenn., student Nicholas Taylor, 10, has been ordered to spend lunches for the rest of the semester at the lunchroom’s “silent table” because he allegedly picked up a piece of pizza and waved it around like a gun.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Armed 11-Year Old Girl Defends Home from 3 Armed Burglars
01-01-2012
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www.thehumblelibertarian.com
So let me get this straight, people who want to ban guns "to keep us safer" would actually have preferred that 11-year-old Alyssa Gutierrez didn't have a gun on the night her house was attacked by three armed burglars when she was home alone?
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News Link • Free Speech
Kelly Clarkson’s album sales surge 200 percent after endorsing Ron Paul
01-01-2012
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www.dailycaller.com
Kelly Clarkson’s endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul appears to be helping her record sales. By a lot.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Michelle Obama’s warning to gun owners
01-01-2012
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www.dailycaller.com
When Americans flock to the polls in 13 months, we will not simply decide which direction our country should take over the next four years. Rather, we will decide whether or not our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms will survive ove
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News Link • Police State
An execrable ancestor
01-01-2012
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www.dailycaller.com
The execrable ancestor of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Frederick Douglass protested, “Under this [Fugitive Slave] law the oaths of any two villains (the capturer and the claimant) are suffic
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News Link • Iraq
Maliki declares ‘Iraq Day’ to mark U.S. pullout
01-01-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared “Iraq Day” on Saturday to mark the end of a pact allowing US forces to stay in the country, two weeks after they left and with Iraq mired in a political row.
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News Link • Food
Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot
01-01-2012
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www.ted.com
A vegetable garden can do more than save you money -- it can save the world. At TEDxDirigo Roger Doiron shows how gardens can re-localize our food and feed our growing population.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Iowa’s Choice: Dr. Paul or U.S. Bankruptcy, More Wars, and Many More Dead Soldiers and Marines
01-01-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Michael Scheuer
Two recent experiences underlined for me what Iowans will vote for next week in the field of foreign policy if they do not vote for Dr. Ron Paul.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Lunch With Ron Paul
01-01-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/George Smith
It is largely through a hijacked monetary system that government has become a threat to civilization. In this pamphlet, Paul puts it all in perspective with everyday language, as if he’s talking to you " over lunch.
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News Link • Drug War
The Courageous Legacy of Siobhan Reynolds
01-01-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/William Anderson
The attractive, diminutive woman who drove into my driveway on the last Saturday in October hardly looked to be the person that federal authorities desperately were trying to find a way to throw into prison. Her lovely eyes had a sparkle in them, and
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
You'll Never Guess Who's Second Among Evangelicals in Iowa
01-01-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/blog
The front page of the WSJ today has an article titled Iowa's Evangelical Rift that relates a 3-way split of evangelical support between Bachmann, Perry, and Santorum. It references a CNN/Time poll that shows, "Mr. Romney leading the field and earning
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News Link • Iran
Softening Up Iran for the Final Attack
01-01-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
The covert war, which has seen increased U.S. drone activity over Iranian skies and an increase in suspicious explosions at Iranian military facilities, has been coupled with American support for destabilization efforts against all of Iran’s allies a
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News Link • Iran
Mossad Chief: Iranian Nuclear Weapon Wouldn’t Be Existential Threat
01-01-2012
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www.antiwar.com
Speaking at a meeting of top Israeli ambassadors in Jerusalem, Mossad chief Tamir Pardo rejected the notion that Iran, even if they were nuclear armed, constituted an “existential threat,” saying the term is being used “too freely.”
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
GOVERNOR GARY JOHNSON TO IOWA SUPPORTERS: VOTE FOR RON PAUL IN THE CAUCUSES
01-01-2012
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www.garyjohnson2012.com
“The cause of individual liberty and freedom is bigger and more important than any candidate or campaign. I am hopeful that in urging my supporters in Iowa to vote for Ron Paul in the upcoming Caucuses, a victory for the principles we share can be wo
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