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Date Sent: 2011-12-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 8, 2011 PM edition |
ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations
Iran Shows Alleged U.S. Stealth Drone on TV -- Police officer shot on
Virginia Tech campus -- Putin says U.S. stoked Russian protests -- Republicans urge covert ops against Iran, Syria -- Bill Gates developing nuclear reactor with China -- Understanding
How Screwed We All Are "The Greatest Depression" – by Ernest Hancock
(Part 2) -- Inside Romania's secret CIA prison -- Sarah Palin on FOX News: Ron Paul ‘Is The One Americans Need To Listen To’ -- New Army Job: Internment / Resettlement Specialist (31E) -- Forbes Op-ed Gives Glowing Endorsement of Ron Paul (Editor's
Recommendation) -- US Deploys Yet Another Warship To The Middle East --
Ron Paul on Freedom Watch 12/7/11 -- New Campaign Video: Ron Paul
Discusses Being Excluded at Jewish Forum with Jack Hunter -- Putin slams Clinton for encouraging protesters -- Jon Corzine to tell House panel he doesn't know where customers’ money went -- Germany dampens hopes as France warns of euro 'explosion' -- Federal Court: Bloggers are not journalists, do not have protection -- Real cost of gas at Afghan bases: $400/gal. -- The FED's Bailout of Royal Bank of Scotland -- Ron Paul’s Loyal Supporters Are Getting Ready To Shock The World In Iowa -- The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face -- Japan mulls $13 billion Fukushima bailout -- Good Morning, Afghanistan! Military Wants Kandahar Radio -- Newt Gingrich: Copying Off the Smart Kid's Paper -- Deutsche Bank CEO Target of Suspected Letter Bomb
AZ: Christmas Party at
the Hancock's this Saturday, December 10th, 2011, 6 p.m. til ???; Bill of Rights Day Event, Thursday,
12/15/11 - Phoenix
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations
12-08-2011
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CBS News
Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran Shows Alleged U.S. Stealth Drone on TV (video added)
12-08-2011
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news.yahoo.com
An aircraft that appears to be the highly sensitive American stealth drone lost in Iran looks intact and with little visible damage in new video broadcast on Iranian television today.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
Stewart: Indefinite detention bill ‘one-way ticket to Gitmo’
12-08-2011
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The Daily Show
Last night’s The Daily Show featured a two-part examination of the new bill passed by the Senate that allows the government to detain American citizens without a trial for indefinite amounts of time.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Police officer shot on Virginia Tech campus
12-08-2011
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www.wdbj7.com
A police officer is reportedly the one who has been shot.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
See-Through Tablets in 2012?
12-08-2011
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news.yahoo.com
This week we got our hands on a Samsung commercial released in Korea for a see-through, flexible tablet that's unlike anything we've ever seen here at This Could Be Big, and we knew we had to find out more.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin says U.S. stoked Russian protests
12-08-2011
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Reuters
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of stirring up protests against his 12-year rule and said foreign countries were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence Russian elections.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Republicans urge covert ops against Iran, Syria
12-08-2011
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AFP
Republican US presidential candidates have redoubled their public calls for “covert” operations against Iran and Syria, including sabotage, assassination and aid to opposition forces.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who has led the calls for s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Mars rover finds strong evidence of water
12-08-2011
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Space
The Opportunity rover, which landed on Mars 8 years ago, has discovered a thin, bright mineral vein along the rim of a huge crater. This mineral is almost certainly gypsum that was deposited by liquid water billions of years ago, researchers said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Bill Gates developing nuclear reactor with China
12-08-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Inside Romania's secret CIA prison (video added)
12-08-2011
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AP
In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the heart of the capital city, is a secret the Romanian government has long tried to protect.
For years, the CIA used a government building codenamed "Bright Light" as a makesh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sarah Palin on FOX News: Ron Paul ‘Is The One Americans Need To Listen To’
12-08-2011
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Mediaite
“He’s the one that Americans need to listen to when it comes to dealing in reality about this bankrupt path that we are on,” she said.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
New Army Jobs: Internment / Resettlement Specialist (31E)
12-08-2011
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http://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs
Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Revolution Enters Crucial Countdown To Iowa
12-08-2011
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prisonplanet.com
With Ron Paul now firmly established as a top tier candidate just weeks away from the crucial caucuses in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Paul campaign is set to launch what could turn out to be the biggest ever single day online money bomb in the histor
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party Saturday, December 10th, 2011 6 p.m. til ??? (Update)
11-08-2011
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Meetup.com/Hancock
We will have all of the workshop and activist stations open for newbies to take a tour and see our projects on display.. This year's Christmas Party will be at the home of Ernest and Donna Hancock in Glendale, AZ. Dugger will DJ and have Karaoke :
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Political Theory
Just Another Day in the USA
12-08-2011
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lewrockwel.com/Ron Holland
Governments work well for the very wealthy out to scam and accumulate more wealth and power for themselves and use power of the state to do this. It also is a friend of the 50% plus of Americans who pay no income tax and who exist and live off our pr
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
New Campaign Video: Ron Paul Discusses Being Excluded at Jewish Forum with Jack Hunter
12-08-2011
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dailypaul.com
Jack Hunter sits down with Congressman Paul to discuss why the U.S. government should respect Israel's sovereignty.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Putin slams Clinton for encouraging protesters
12-08-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin strongly criticized U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday, accusing her of encouraging and funding Russians protesting election fraud, and warned of a wider Russian crackdown on dissent.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Jon Corzine to tell House panel he doesn’t know where customers’ money went
12-08-2011
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washingtonpost.com
on S. Corzine, the former U.S. senator and New Jersey governor who presided over the collapse of the commodities brokerage MF Global, says he cannot explain what happened to “many hundreds of millions of dollars” that the firm was holding for custome
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Germany dampens hopes as France warns of euro 'explosion'
12-08-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Economic powerhouse Germany played down hopes Wednesday that a crucial debt summit will save the euro as French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned the risk of a eurozone "explosion" was very real.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Federal Court: Bloggers are not journalists, do not have protection
12-08-2011
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Associated Press
A federal judge has ruled that a woman sued for defamation was not a journalist when she posted online that a lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Government Waste
Real cost of gas at Afghan bases: $400/gal.
12-06-2011
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World Watch
The Pentagon is increasingly relying on parachute drops of fuel and other supplies to bases in remote parts of Afghanistan, and the military estimates such deliveries are spiking the ultimate price of fuel to as much as $400 per gallon.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The FED's Bailout of Royal Bank of Scotland
12-07-2011
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Lew Rockwell
I just viewed a BBC documentary titled "RBS " Inside the Bank That Ran Out of Money." The bank ran aground by over-expansion, especially by making a bad acquisition that held tons of bad loans. This acquisition came 5 weeks after the head of RBS stat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face
12-08-2011
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www.forbes.com
So much for innocent until proven guilty. So much for limited government. What Americans are now facing is quite literally the end of the line. We will either uphold the freedoms baked into our Constitutional Republic, or we will scrap the entire pro
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government
More on a New Theory of Government…
12-08-2011
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dailyreckoning.com
Government claims the right to tell you what to do. Using the blunt instrument of ‘government’ some people are able to categorize, regulate, tax, inspect, dragoon, conscript, enslave, bully, incarcerate, murder and push around other people. Why do th
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan mulls $13 billion Fukushima bailout
12-08-2011
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reuters.com
The Japanese government may inject about $13 billion into Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T) as early as next summer in a de facto nationalization of the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, sources said on Thursday.
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News Link • Economy - International
Looking for solutions, not more national problems
12-08-2011
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reuters.com
The president of the European Commission appealed to EU leaders on Thursday to set aside their differences and unite to rescue the euro from a sovereign debt crisis that is menacing the world economy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Media: Radio
Good Morning, Afghanistan! Military Wants Kandahar Radio
12-08-2011
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Wired.com
It looks like the military is worried that Afghans haven’t heard the good news about how the Taliban have been vanquished once and for all. It’s setting up a new radio station, housed at the sprawling Kandahar Air Field, to spread the word
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News Link • Healthcare
How Agriculture Ruined Your Health (and What To Do About It)
12-08-2011
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Lewrockwell.com/Mark Sisson
You are overweight. I’m sorry to be blunt, but it’s probably true: most adults living in Western countries are overweight. A large portion is obese.
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News Link • Police State
It All Started After His Assets Were Seized
12-08-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Simon Black
You might know of my friend and colleague Mark Nestmann. In case you don't, Mark has become one of the world's foremost authorities on international diversification
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Newt Gingrich: Copying Off the Smart Kid's Paper
12-08-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Thomas R. Eddlem
And each has a similar campaign strategy. Ron Paul is smartly running on his record of being a consistent conservative over 30 years. Flip-floppers Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are likewise smartly running on Ron Paul's record of 30 years of ideolog
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News Link • World News
‘Price Tag’ Attack: West Bank Mosque Set on Fire
12-08-2011
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antiwar.com
Israeli police are reporting a new “price tag” attack in the occupied West Bank overnight, as attackers hit the village of Burkina near the Ariel settlement, torching vehicles and attempting to set the local mosque on fire.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Hillary Campaign Conspicuously Emerges
12-08-2011
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usn.com
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is still alive and today it emerged from the shadows to remind supporters that she "made history" in the 2008 campaign and that mementos from that bid are now for sale.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Deutsche Bank CEO Target of Suspected Letter Bomb
12-08-2011
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cnbc.com
The New York Police Department alerted Wall Street after confirmation that a letter bomb was sent to the CEO of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
ECB Fiddles
12-08-2011
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arclein
To avoid an overwhelming national debt and the forced austerity measures destined to follow, the Eurozone’s citizens need to get the fire hose of money creation out of the hands of private banks and back into the hands of the people. But how?
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
HIV Antibody Factories Placed In Muscles
12-08-2011
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arclein
he team loaded a harmless, cold-related virus called adeno-associated virus (AAV) with genes that make potent antibodies to HIV. Then they used them to "infect" the leg muscles of mice with genes that pump out the antibodies.
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Mammoth Intact Genetic Material Makes Cloning Possible
12-08-2011
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arclein
The scientists will then plant the embryos into elephant wombs for delivery as the two species are close relatives, the report said.
Securing nuclei with an undamaged gene is essential for the nucleus transplantation technique, it said.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Smoking Can Make Nipples Fall Off
12-08-2011
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arclein
Because of the mechanics of blood flow, when the blood supply is inadequate, which occurs with smoking, the tiniest veins often fail. This insufficiency results in a backup of old (venous) blood in the body part, causing it to turn purple. If the bac
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robert klein
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