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Date Sent: 2011-11-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, November 11, 2011 |
Panetta Plays Last Card, Warns Defense Cuts Could Lead to Attack on the U.S.
Judge sentences anti-government leader to prison -- Guantánamo Bay: The most expensive prison on earth - cost $800,000 per prisoner PER YEAR -- Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Book Signing! -- Cop Suspected Of Infiltrating Occupy Oakland Attacked Cameraman In 2009 -- Reefer Madness -- Liquor Liberation in Washington State -- Losing Hearts and Minds in the Drug War -- Obama Wants World War III -- UBS to shut U.S. asset-backed securities unit -- S&P says mistakenly announced French downgrade -- DEATH OF THE EURO -- No Honor Justified On Veterans Day -- More than 75 percent of all 'honey' sold in grocery stores contains no honey at all --
Restaurant Removes Toxic Fluoride: Infowars Nightly News Report --
Biographer discusses the life of Kurt Vonnegut, ‘a disenchanted
American' -- The Spending-Cuts Scam -- Pocket Projector for iPhone 4 projects 50-inch images -- Nationals’ Wilson Ramos kidnapped in Venezuela -- Crowd at GOP debate ranks Mitt Romney, Ron Paul as favorites -- Heavy-handed pressure on Italy, Greece may yield little, analysts say
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News Link • Government
Panetta Plays Last Card, Warns Defense Cuts Could Lead to Attack on the U.S.
11-10-2011
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National Journal
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been steadily escalating his warnings about the impact of the deep cuts facing the Pentagon if the congressional super committee fails to reach a deal. On Thursday, he played the last " and strongest -- card in his
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge sentences anti-government leader to prison
11-10-2011
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www.lvrj.com
Davis, who lives in Idaho, is among tens of thousands of Americans who have declared themselves sovereign citizens above the government's jurisdiction and not obligated to pay taxes.
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News Link • Healthcare
At It Again
11-10-2011
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posted by Becky Akers on LRCblog
In its endless fear-mongering, the corporate media " or at least the New York Times " are agitating for metal detectors at hospitals. Yes. Suffering a heart attack? Sorry, join the queue at the metal detector, Bub, and if you live long enough, we’ll
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Surfer rides 'biggest wave of all time'
11-10-2011
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Hawaii's Garrett McNamara sets a world record by surfing a 90-foot wave off the coast of Praia do Norte in Portugal.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Guantánamo Bay: The most expensive prison on earth - cost $800,000 per prisoner PER YEAR
11-10-2011
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Daily Mail
The Pentagon detention centre at Guantanamo Bay has been declared the most expensive prison on Earth.
The Guantanamo Bay Prison, which opened on the U.S. naval base in Cuba in January 2002, costs U.S. taxpayers $800,000 per year per each of its 17
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News Link • Activism
Cop Suspected Of Infiltrating Occupy Oakland Attacked Cameraman In 2009
11-10-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
I really wanted to give Oakland police officer Fred Shavies the benefit of the doubt.
I really wanted to believe that he was different than his fellow officers who have abused citizens with rubber bullets, tear gas and flash grenades in recent wee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Reefer Madness
11-10-2011
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NY Times Op Ed
When he ran for president, Barack Obama defended the medical use of marijuana and said that he would not use Justice Department resources to override state laws on the issue. He lied.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Liquor Liberation in Washington State
11-10-2011
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Reason magazine
Yesterday voters in Washington State smacked down the state liquor monopoly.
Thanks to a $22.7 million campaign headed up by Costco, grocery stores and other large retail establishments will soon be allowed to sell booze. What's particularly neat
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News Link • Drug War
Losing Hearts and Minds in the Drug War
11-10-2011
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CATO Institute
In the forty years since Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” Americans’ perceptions of that war are finally beginning to shift.
Receding support for Prohibition is happening in large part because of virally circulated news accounts and videos
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Obama Wants World War III
11-10-2011
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posted by Michael S. Rozeff on LRCblog
Israel is getting ready to attack Iran. One word from Obama can stop Israel from attacking Iran. Is he saying "No"? I don't hear it. He evidently wants a wider war. Iran is a rather large country that borders on Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
UBS to shut U.S. asset-backed securities unit
11-10-2011
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Reuters
The head of the business, Ken Cohen, was hired just six months ago to head the bank's real-estate finance and commercial mortgage-backed securities business in the United States after stints with Lehman Brothers and G2 Investment Group.
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News Link • Conspiracies
S&P says mistakenly announced French downgrade
11-10-2011
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AFP
Ratings agency Standard and Poor's said Thursday that it had mistakenly announced to some of its clients that it had downgraded France's top "AAA" credit rating, at a time when many in the markets are speculating on just such a move.
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News Link • European Union
DEATH OF THE EURO
11-10-2011
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www.express.co.uk
PREPARATIONS were under way last night for the break-up of the euro as Europe’s debt crisis spiralled out of control.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Shining a light in your ear 'can brighten your mood in winter'
11-10-2011
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dailymail.co.uk
As the nights get longer, those who suffer from the winter blues will be planning ways to escape to the sunshine. But there may be a much simpler way of cheering yourself up... simply shining a bright light into your ear canal.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • How To
5 Ways to Use a Pumpkin
11-10-2011
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readynutrition.com
Pumpkins are considered to be a nutritional powerhouse! Your immune system will flourish due to the high amounts of carotenoids found in pumpkins. Beta-carotene is also present in pumpkins, which is a powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and pre
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News Link • TERRORISM
How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police
11-10-2011
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theatlantic.com
Over the past 10 years, law enforcement officials have begun to look and act more and more like soldiers. Here's why we should be alarmed.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
More than 75 percent of all 'honey' sold in grocery stores contains no honey at all, by defi
11-10-2011
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naturalnews.com
A comprehensive investigation conducted by Food Safety News (FSN) has found that the vast majority of so-called honey products sold at grocery stores, big box stores, drug stores, and restaurants do not contain any pollen, which means they are not re
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Restaurant Removes Toxic Fluoride: Infowars Nightly News Report
11-10-2011
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Prison Planet
Austin restaurant, Hododdy Burger Bar, removes toxic fluoride from drinking water it serves customers.
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News Link • Books
Biographer discusses the life of Kurt Vonnegut, ‘a disenchanted American'
11-10-2011
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RawStory
But Vonnegut’s two-dozen novels and story collections spoke to the human condition and humorously showed some of the absurdities of post-war America. Vonnegut was shaped by two key experiences in his 20s: his mother’s suicide, and surviving the bombi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Spending-Cuts Scam
11-10-2011
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robertringer.com
Political news junkies are all abuzz about the big November 23 deadline that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (“super committee”) is up against. The job of the twelve-member committee is to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget ov
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Pocket Projector for iPhone 4 projects 50-inch images
11-10-2011
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GizMag.com
The Pocket Projector is basically an iPhone 4/4S battery-equipped case featuring TI's DLP Pico projector technology.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Cursed Be the Vietnam War
11-10-2011
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LRC Blog (Lew Rockwell Blog)/Lawrence Vancevie
"The tragedy of Vietnam is not that 'we' did not win it. It is that Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and their people were so presumptuous as to think that Vietnam was theirs to dispose of."
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Anatomy of the Austrian Movement
11-10-2011
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Mises.Org
Since the 1940s, the Austrian School's intellectual home has been in the United States. "Today's active Austrian school," wrote Hayek in 1978, "almost exclusively in the United States, is really the followers of Mises, based on the tradition of Böhm-
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News Link • World News
Nationals’ Wilson Ramos kidnapped in Venezuela
11-10-2011
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Washington Times
Ramos, 24, was with his family at the time of the incident but was the only one taken. The source said the family had informed police and was awaiting a call from kidnappers..
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Crowd at GOP debate ranks Mitt Romney, Ron Paul as favorites
11-10-2011
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Detroit Free Press
When the Republican presidential debate began tonight, a crowd of about 400 people gathered at a watch party in Oakland University’s student center ranked Mitt Romney and Ron Paul as their favorites.
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News Link • Economy - International
Heavy-handed pressure on Italy, Greece may yield little, analysts say
11-10-2011
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Washington Post
As Europe’s financial crisis threatens to engulf Italy, a country that may be too big to save, top euro-zone officials have taken aggressive steps in recent days to whip errant members into shape.
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Opinion • Voting and Elections
Let's Make a Deal
11-09-2011
Larken Rose
Often it only takes a very simple truth to destroy a complicated lie. Try this out on all your statist friends (or on yourself, if you haven't yet escaped the cult of "government").
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