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Date Sent: 2011-12-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 12, 2011 AM edition |
U.S. vacates air base in Pakistan to meet deadline
Arraigned on his wedding day and a month in jail: Terrifying ordeal of
man wrongly accused -- People Really, Really, REALLY Hate the TSA! --
The Gun Runners in Washington D.C. -- Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front -- Noriega Is Sent to Prison Back in Panama, Where the Terror Has Turned to Shrugs -- Israel Acts to Curb Illegal Immigration From Africa -- Boosted by Putin, Russia’s Middle Class Turns on Him -- Portugal
raids pension funds to meet deficit targets -- TSA thought woman's back
brace was a money belt -- Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front -- Brainboost: Downloading directly into the brain -- SOPA Will Not Stop Piracy; Only the Flow of Information
Congratulations! Stephen Lendman Receives Journalists Club of Mexico International Journalism Award
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock back
on LRN Saturday's, 8-10 a.m. MST
AZ: Bill of Rights Day
celebration, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. vacates air base in Pakistan to meet deadline
12-11-2011
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AFP
The United States on Sunday vacated a Pakistani airbase following a deadline given by Islamabad in the wake of anger over NATO air strikes last month that killed 24 soldiers, officials said.
Pakistan’s military said in a statement that the last fl
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Arraigned on his wedding day and a month in jail: Terrifying ordeal of man wrongly accused
12-11-2011
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Daily Mail
An innocent man has told of a five-month nightmare which 'destroyed my life' after being wrongly accused of being a serial sex attacker.
William Giraldo was threatened with deportation and thrown in the notorious Rikers Island prison in New York w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
People Really, Really, REALLY Hate the TSA!
12-11-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
Tells the tale of a local and wealthy entrepreneur who became one of the many thousands to “lose” his property at the TSA’s checkpoint " in this case, a Montblanc pen costing $450. A brown-sorry, blue-shirted thug “casually grabbed a stray pen that w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Gun Runners in Washington D.C.
12-11-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
This story, "Legal U.S. Gun Sales to Mexico Arming Cartels," isn't getting a whole lot of attention from the domestic media. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has dug up some bones that brings a bit of transparency to Washington's
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front
12-11-2011
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Los Angeles Times
A Predator drone spy plane helped police make arrests after a North Dakota family's run-in with a local sheriff. Rodney Brossart, and his daughter and his three sons face felony charges.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Noriega Is Sent to Prison Back in Panama, Where the Terror Has Turned to Shrugs
12-11-2011
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New York Times
Nearly 22 years ago an American military plane whisked the de facto leader of this nation, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, off to Florida to face trial, and ultimately a prison sentence, for drug trafficking. On Sunday evening, a commercial airliner lan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel Acts to Curb Illegal Immigration From Africa
12-11-2011
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New York Times
“If need be, we will close businesses so that the enterprise known as the State of Israel does not close,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after a cabinet meeting that focused on the issue.
Over the past six years, about 50,000 Africans, mo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Boosted by Putin, Russia’s Middle Class Turns on Him
12-11-2011
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New York Times
Here is the rub for Vladimir Putin: The people who stood outside the Kremlin, chanting epithets directed at him, are the ones who have prospered greatly during his 12 years in power. They were well traveled and well mannered; they wore hipster glasse
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
Portugal raids pension funds to meet deficit targets
12-11-2011
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www.telegraph.co.uk
The cabinet agreed to transfer the assets from four of Portugal’s biggest banks to the state balance sheet. (BECAUSE THEY CAN)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mutually Assured Destruction vs Mutually Assured Respect
12-11-2011
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http://original.antiwar.com/paul
The breakup (Soviet Union) verified the early predictions by the free market economists, like Ludwig von Mises, that communism would self-destruct because of the deeply flawed economic theories embedded in socialism.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Newt Gingrich and Dave Weigel Will Bomb Knowledge Back to the Stone Age
12-11-2011
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www.antiwar.com
Time magazine began using “Palestinian” in the relevant sense in 1951. For a while, Time used it only before “Arab,” if that makes any difference, but as early as November 1957 the Arab part seemed to be understood:
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
TSA thought woman's back brace was a money belt
12-11-2011
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campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com
In today's update, the TSA acknowledges that the security agents did not return the brace to the woman immediately upon realizing that it was not, in fact, a money belt.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front
12-11-2011
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www.latimes.com
Unmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - December 10th & 12th 2011
12-11-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Fascist USA, Lew Rockwell on the real American system since FDR. (Podcast) - Abolish State Money - The Neocon War Against Russia - The Untouchables,
Power-elite immunity in the age of imperialism. Article by Justin Raimondo
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brainboost: Downloading directly into the brain
12-11-11
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Terrence Aym
Throughout history people learned by rote and repetition. That's about to change say excited researchers who see people boosting their knowledge and skills by simply downloading everything right into their brains. As knowledge about the brain contin
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Internet
SOPA Will Not Stop Piracy; Only the Flow of Information
12-11-2011
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Free Patriot Press
Imagine surfing the internet without being able to watch videos on YouTube, share with your friends on FaceBook, look at pictures of your best friend's new baby on Flickr or read news headlines from reddit. Luckily this is not reality, though it cou
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Media: Internet
Congratulations! Stephen Lendman Receives Journalists Club of Mexico International Journalism Award
12-11-2011
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Rense
On December 8 in Mexico City, Stephen Lendman received the prestigious Journalists Club of Mexico's (Club de Periodistas) annual International Journalism Award at an elaborate internationally-broadcast ceremony on television and radio. Distinguished
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Highlights in 12/10/11 Debate (Video)
12-10-2011
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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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