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Date Sent: 2012-11-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, November 17, 2012 |
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. running $34 billion deficit
Hague Court Overturns Convictions of 2 Croatian Generals Over a 1995 Offensive -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, November 18, 2012 Edition -- KYLE BASS: Germany Could Exit The Euro In '3-4 Years' -- Who's Kidding Who, Elon Musk Is Businessperson Of The Year -- A Huge Part Of The Fiscal Cliff Is Something That's Barely Being Talked About -- Is There Wisdom in the Crowd? -- Breaking Down The Religious Makeup
Of The 113th Congress -- Arizona Election Fraud: Mickey Duniho and Jim
March Report Election Shenanigans to Pima County's -- DHS sponsors more mass X-Ray exposure at U.S. Borders -- Boots on the ground: Obama’s cybersecurity directive could allow military deployment within the US
Webcomic: "Quantum Vibe" by Liberty Artist/Cartoonist Scott Bieser
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. running $34 billion deficit
11-16-2012
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Washington Post
The federal agency that insures pensions for 43 million Americans saw its deficit swell to $34 billion in the past year. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. blamed the growing shortfall on its inability to charge private employers adequate premiums fo
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Webcomic at Quantum Vibe by Liberty Artist/Cartoonist Scott Bieser
11-13-2012
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Quantum Vibe
Five hundred years in the future, humans will have spread across the Solar System, establishing thriving colonies on many worlds, moons, and planetoids, and transforming themselves as they adapt to new environments.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Hague Court Overturns Convictions of 2 Croatian Generals Over a 1995 Offensive
11-16-2012
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New York Times
A United Nations appeals court in The Hague on Friday unexpectedly overturned the war crimes convictions of two Croatian generals who led a 1995 campaign that helped end the wars involving Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia but also left several hundred Serb
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
KYLE BASS: Germany Could Exit The Euro In '3-4 Years'
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Lucas Kawa
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass was on Bloomberg’s Market Makers with Stephanie Ruhle talking about his bearish views on the E.U. and the status of the currency union as a whole.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • General Opinion
Who's Kidding Who, Elon Musk Is Businessperson Of The Year
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Fortune Magazine named Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos its "Businessperson of the Year."
While Bezos did some cool stuff this year, we think Fortune got it wrong.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Huge Part Of The Fiscal Cliff Is Something That's Barely Being Talked About
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
CHART OF THE DAY: A Huge Part Of The Fiscal Cliff Is Something That's Barely Being Talked About
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Breaking Down The Religious Makeup Of The 113th Congress
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joshua Berlinger
The Pew Forum on Religion released its latest report this morning, Faith on the Hill: The Religious Composition of the 113th Congress.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Mickey Duniho and Jim March Report Election Shenanigans to Pima County's
11-16-2012
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Thei Intercept
The first event: In November 2011 the state added new election requirements, including one that counties must sort early ballots by precincts for the hand count audit. John Moffatt was involved, and reported to your commission on changes proposed and
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J.t. Waldron
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS sponsors more mass X-Ray exposure at U.S. Borders
11-16-2012
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DailyKos
The Obama Administration wants to X-RAY you and your car
at U.S. land borders with massive numbers of people
exposed to medically unnecessary and damaging X-radiation to
promote the national security state; it also effects DHS employee
occupatio
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Boots on the ground: Obama’s cybersecurity directive could allow military deployment within the US
11-16-2012
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RT.com
The White House is being asked by attorneys to explain a top-secret presidential policy directive signed last month that may allow for the domestic deployment of the US military for the sake of so-called cybersecurity.
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Sheila Dean
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Feature Article • Secession
SECEDE TO SUCCEED!
David McElroy
Citizens of all 50 states have petitioned the White House seeking to secede. Ron Paul has delivered us his magnum opus on liberty in farewell. It is time to foreclose on Uncle Sam!
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
Marc Victor on the Adam vs The Man Show
11-15-2012
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Adam vs The Man
Marc Victor talks with Adam Kokesh about his short-lived career as a judge and why he recused himself on drug cases.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Secession
White House ‘secede’ petitions reach 675,000 signatures, 50-state participation
11-14-2012
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The Daily Caller
Less than a week after a New Orleans suburbanite petitioned the White House to allow Louisiana to secede from the United States, petitions from 7 states have collected enough signatures to trigger a promised review from the Obama administration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Video of Activist Standing up for his Right to Record Makes Good Educational Tool
11-14-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A video shot 10 years ago in Chicago provides an excellent educational tool in how to deal with cops who try to intimidate you from recording them. The ironic part of the video is police did have the legal right to arrest the man
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man trying to keep his home from burning down tqzed by cops
11-14-2012
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Miami Herald
The fire was all around Dan Jensen. It was burning down his neighbor's house. It was creeping toward Jensen's own fence 10 feet away, and he started spraying the fire with his hose. Police ordered Jensen to get back, and he complied.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: 0% Chance Of Grand Bargain Over Fiscal Cliff
11-14-2012
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Bloomberg TV
U.S. Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, talks about U.S. fiscal policy and prospects for political compromise on the nation's budget deficit and debt. He speaks with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
US Deplores Murder of Honduran Teen by Military
11-14-2012
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New York Times
U.S. officials are demanding answers after learning soldiers who were trained, vetted and equipped by the U.S. government chased down and killed a 15-year-old boy in Honduras, a country plagued by crime where the U.S. is already
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Cybersecurity Bill Dead After Second U.S. Senate Rebuff
11-14-2012
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Reuters
The bill would have increased information-sharing between intelligence agencies and private companies. It also would have set voluntary standards for businesses that control electric grids or water treatment plants.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Obama signs secret directive to help thwart cyberattacks
11-14-2012
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Washington Post
President Obama has signed a secret directive that effectively enables the military to act more aggressively to thwart cyberattacks on the nation’s web of government and private computer networks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
YouTube Update: Ron Paul's Farewell Address
11-14-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com/263090/ron-pauls-farewell
Dr. Paul gave his "Farewell to Congress" speech on the House floor/CSPAN today. The speech is over, but it is now archived on CSPAN.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel Kills Hamas Leader, Instantly Posts It to YouTube
11-14-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman
The Israel Defense Forces didn’t just kill Hamas military leader Ahmed al-Jabari on Wednesday as he was driving his car down the street in Gaza.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security to Test Social Media as Disease-Tracking Tool
11-14-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Staff
Can Facebook or Twitter reveal the spread of the ordinary cold or a possibly deadly pandemic? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to find out by monitoring popular social media networks in a yearlong project.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Skype Password Flaw Made Stealing Accounts Easy
11-14-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Ben Weitzenkorn
Skype has just fixed a Skype security flaw that may have been circulating on Russian hacker forums for months. The flaw made it possible for anyone to change a user's password with only the victim's email address.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Petraeus Scandal: Paula Broadwell in Classified Document Probe
11-14-2012
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ABC News (video)
Prosecutors are now determining whether to charge Broadwell with a crime, and this morning the FBI and military are poring over the material. The 40-year-old author, who wrote the biography on Gen. Petraeus "All In," is cooperating and the case, whic
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel launches Gaza offensive, kills Hamas commander
11-14-2012
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Reuters
Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would "open the gates of hell".
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US To Overtake Saudi Arabia
11-14-2012
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arclein
driven by upstream technologies that are unlocking light tight oil and shale gas resources, is spurring economic activity - with less expensive gas and electricity prices giving industry a competitive edge," it added.
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News Link • Corruption
How The Stock Market Is Programmed
11-14-2012
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The DOW Code
The hidden system (the engine of our market) is written by a human hand, with the help of his/her programming computer. The Achilles Heel of hiding the system is: The Programmer's computer has to be perfect to the one hundredth, tied to the exact Hig
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Rand Paul: Is 1984 Now?
11-14-2012
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YouTube
Rand Paul discusses the insanity of NDAA and the emerging Orwellian police state.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • States' Rights
SECESSION MOVEMENT EXPLODES
11-14-2012
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www.dailycaller.com
White House ‘secede’ petitions reach 675,000 signatures, 50-state participation
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Ultimate Guide To The Fiscal Cliff " Here's What It Is, And What It Could Do To The Economy
11-14-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
With the elections out of the way, attention has again turned to the fiscal cliff " the over $600 billion in tax and spending provisions set to change on January 1, 2013.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marc Faber: Prepare for a Massive Market Meltdown
11-13-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Holly Ellyatt
The markets are going to go into meltdown soon, so expect stocks to lose 20 percent of their value, Marc Faber, author of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Doug Stanhope - Liberty (Language Warning)
11-13-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, Isaac Davies
Excerpt from Doug Stanhope's "Deadbeat Hero" (very funny and poignant from a contemporary libertarian comic)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
"The Little Government That Could" A Must-see 6 Min. Video Told So That Even A 6 Yr. -Old
11-06-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, yogmama
Watch this little video. Its very timely and one that you will want to pass around to those who need another little, but gentler nudge to WAKE UP!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
‘Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids
11-13-2012
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An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Archaic Gambling Laws
11-13-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
During Prohibition, my grandmother made beer in a hidden room and sold it locally, until a neighbor snitched on her. My mom, a youngster, used to distribute the beer in pails. My dad drove a taxi for a short spell and he too carried booze.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Army Seeks Death Penalty in Afghan Massacre
11-13-2012
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New York Times
A military prosecutor said the evidence against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, presented in a pretrial inquiry into the killings of 16 Afghan civilians, was so damning that the case should go forward as a capital crime.
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