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Date Sent: 2012-11-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thanksgiving |
Government Sets Its Sights on Private Retirement Accounts -- Israel, Hamas Agree to Ceasefire
Task force recommends HIV testing for everyone -- Cameras Inside Mannequins Spying on Shoppers -- Federal Workers to Congress: Leave Us Out of Deficit Deal -- Stores Requiring ID, Tracking To Prevent Repeated Returns -- Piedmont officer is fired over public urination ticket -- Who Really Won the Presidential Election? (Non-Voters) -- Just When You Thought the Nazi York City Food Nazis Couldn't Get Any Worse -- UN to Obama Administration: Punish Washington and Colorado for Undermining Global Drug War -- FBI job applicant can't take back child pornography admission -- Ron Paul: U.S. Should Remain Neutral in Israel-Gaza Conflict -- Do You Promise To Stop Killing My Cousins? --
Could A Sonic Weapon Make Your Head Explode? -- Justice in America:
Systematic Document Forgery and Fabrication Yields One Criminal Plea
Bargain -- Steve Keen On Capital Account w/Lauren -- Greece Once Again Boiling Over -- BillyRock interviews Ron Paul -- Vile Hypocrisy Exposed by AP Reporter Matt Lee -- Holy Smokes. The Shining is About The Federal Reserve! -- United Nations Moves to Impose International Treaties On States Legalizing Marijuana -- Federal government releases long-awaited health reform rules -- TSA reportedly exposed breasts of Rep. Ralph Hall’s teen grandniece, called it ‘accidental’ -- Report: 70% of Retired US Generals Take Jobs With Defense Corporations -- News Media Misled by IAEA Data on Sensitive Iranian Stockpile -- Peshmerga Commander Warns Battle Could Erupt With Iraqi Troops ‘Any
Minute’ --To Make Steam Without
Boiling Water, Just Add Sunlight And Nanoparticles -- Private Moon Race
May Spark Lunar 'Water Rush' -- NSA Refuses To Release Secret Obama
Directive On Cybersecurity -- Arizona Election Fraud: Supervisors
Accept County Shenanigans, Reject a Proper Audit -- Journalist
Threatened By TSA Pens Scathing Response -- French officials
accuse US of hacking Sarkozy’s computers -- They Are Going To Make
It Nearly Impossible To Pass On A Farm Or A Business To Your
Children -- Geithner as Buzz Lightyear on National Debt: To
Infinity, and Beyond -- Leon Panetta Has a Few More Drone Wars Ready
to Go -- Pentagon Wants to Keep Running Its Afghan Drug War From
Blackwater’s HQ
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News Link • Government
Government Sets Its Sights on Private Retirement Accounts:
11-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mac Slavo
A new effort by the Obama administration, Congress, the Treasury Department and labor unions aims to fundamentally alter how Americans plan and save for retirement.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Task force recommends HIV testing for everyone
11-21-2012
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Rawstory
The U.S. Preventative Task Force has recommended that every American between the ages of 15 and 65 get tested for HIV. Primary care providers hope to curb transmission of HIV and to speed treatment to people who are already infected.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Cameras Inside Mannequins Spying on Shoppers
11-21-2012
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InfoWars
Just when you thought it was impossible for surveillance to get any creepier, a company created mannequins with cameras installed inside used to spy on shoppers and record their conversations " and they’ve already been rolled out at numerous stores
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal Workers to Congress: Leave Us Out of Deficit Deal
11-21-2012
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The Federal-Postal Coalition representing 24 federal employee unions -- pleaded with Congress to spare their members in any deal related to the "fiscal cliff." Federal workers have contributed more than their fair share toward reducing the debt
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Stores Requiring ID, Tracking To Prevent Repeated Returns
11-21-2012
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CBS News
When you make a return this holiday season you may have to hand over more than just your receipt. “I was required to provide them a copy of my driver’s license, where they actually took the information and scanned it into their database,”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Piedmont officer is fired over public urination ticket
11-21-2012
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Piedmont city officials have fired a police officer who wrote a public urination citation to the mother of a 3-year-old who dropped his pants in the family's front yard.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Who Really Won the Presidential Election?
11-21-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Fun and true after-dinner remarks by Jeff Deist"Ron Paul's congressional chief of staff"at a hard-asset conference in San Francisco over the weekend. Listen.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Just When You Thought the Nazi York City Food Nazis Couldn't Get Any Worse
11-21-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Back in September I blogged on the subject of how Nazi York City cigar stores that have smoking areas for their customers can no longer serve coffee to them. Today I stopped by a cigar store that I used to frequent from 2001 to 2004 before I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
UN to Obama Administration: Punish Washington and Colorado for Undermining Global Drug War
11-21-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The “war on drugs” didn’t begin with Richard Nixon. It is an outgrowth of a 1961 United Nations document called the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which created the framework for a global drug prohibition jihad.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
FBI job applicant can't take back pornography admission - court
11-21-2012
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Reuters
A man who applied for a job with the FBI and told agents he owned pictures of naked children cannot take back the interview answers that led to his conviction for possession of child pornography, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Do You Promise To Stop Killing My Cousins?
11-21-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
I am an American of Arab descent. I own a taxi company in Phoenix. I have people call and ask if I give discounts to veterans. To the last one who asked, I said, "That depends. Do you promise to stop killing my cousins?" He hung up on me.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Shale Oil Will Boost U.S. Production, But It Won’t Bring Energy Independence
11-21-2012
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Kevin Bullis ia TechnologyReview.com
The U.S. will still need more big breakthroughs to eliminate the need for imported oil.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Military
Suicide Drones, Mini Blimps and 3D Printers: Inside the New Army Arsenal
11-21-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
Flying grenades. Mini spy blimps. Robotic bombbusters. Suicide-vest spotters. Battlefield 3D printers. The Army is retooling for a very austere, very remote way of war. And the gear that's required is very different from the hardware that came before
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News Link • Art
David Binder: The arts festival revolution
11-21-2012
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http://www.ted.com
David Binder is a major Broadway producer, but last summer he found himself in a small Australian neighborhood, watching locals dance and perform on their lawns -- and loving it.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Teenaged boy wonders play bluegrass
11-21-2012
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http://www.ted.com
Brothers Jonny, Robbie and Tommy Mizzone are The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, a trio of virtuoso bluegrass musicians who play with dazzling vivacity. Did we mention they're all under 16?
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Justice in America: Systematic Document Forgery and Fabrication Yields One Criminal Plea Bargain
11-21-2012
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com
The Department of Justice and the state of Missouri have each announced criminal plea bargains with one Lorraine Brown, former chief executive of DocX, the Lender Processing subsidiary best known for its price sheet for fabricating the mortgage docum
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece Once Again Boiling Over
11-21-2012
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http://market-ticker.org, by Karl Denninger
Eventually you run out of other people's money to pledge, and are forced to either pledge your own (and face that you'll never see it again) or tell the person with their hand out to stuff it.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Letter Re: Can You Take To The Sky?
11-21-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Mike in Tennessee
I just read the letter post in September by Greg G., Can You Take to the Sky? Greg makes some very valid and interesting points in his letter.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Holy Smokes. The Shining is About The Federal Reserve!
11-21-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Forever Liberty
Fascinating. I've watched these videos through once so far and Im still trying to put things together.
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News Link • Drug War
United Nations Moves to Impose International Treaties On States Legalizing Marijuana
11-21-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by legalizeliberty
The United Nations has declared Colorado and Washington in violation of international treaties following ballot initiatives that have legalized the recreational use of marijuana.
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News Link • Government
The Rule of the Downside
11-21-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Bill Bonner
Energy is a good thing. But it is as obedient to the law of Declining Marginal Utility as everything else.
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News Link • Government
Federal government releases long-awaited health reform rules
11-21-2012
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http://vitals.nbcnews.com, By Maggie Fox
Long-awaited federal rules for health insurance plans came out Tuesday, and they make clear that insurance plans that people can buy on the open market next year will look a lot like some of the most popular plans on offer now " with a few big differ
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News Link • Transportation
TSA reportedly exposed breasts of Rep. Ralph Hall’s teen grandniece, called it ‘accidental’
11-21-2012
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http://twitchy.com, by Twitchy Staff
TSA reportedly exposed breasts of Rep. Ralph Hall’s teen grandniece, called it ‘accidental’; Update: TSA internal report released, blames girl’s ‘loose fitting’ dress
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News Link • Military
Report: 70% of Retired US Generals Take Jobs With Defense Corporations
11-21-2012
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http://antiwar.com, John Glaser
About 70 percent of retired three-and-four star generals took jobs with defense contractors or consultants, according to a report released Monday by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Brave New Foundation.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
News Media Misled by IAEA Data on Sensitive Iranian Stockpile
11-21-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Gareth Porter
The latest round of media coverage of the Iran issue again highlights the failure of major news outlets to reflect the complexity and political subtleties of the Iranian enrichment program.
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News Link • Iraq
Peshmerga Commander Warns Battle Could Erupt With Iraqi Troops ‘Any Minute’
11-21-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Vows to Prevent Iraqi Military From Moving Against Kurdistan
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
To Make Steam Without Boiling Water, Just Add Sunlight And Nanoparticles
11-21-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
A mixture of plain water, nanoparticles, and sunlight can convert water into steam without ever even bringing it to a boil
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
These Beautiful Nano-Rainbows Could Make Better TVs
11-21-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
Potential to make better solar cells? Check. Improved televisions down the road? Check. Pretty? Check.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Curiosity Rover’s Secret Historic Breakthrough? Speculation Centers on Organic Molecules
11-21-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
Much of the internet is buzzing over upcoming “big news” from NASA’s Curiosity rover, but the space agency’s scientists are keeping quiet about the details.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Take That, Tokyo! San Francisco Approves 220-Square-Foot ‘Micro-Apartments’
11-21-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Nathan Hurst
If you live in San Francisco, chances are you already feel like you’re living in a closet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google’s Glass Gets a Competitor
11-21-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Tom Simonite
A company already in the business of selling wearable displays will launch its own consumer gadget next year"but the format is still unproven.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Moon Race May Spark Lunar 'Water Rush'
11-21-2012
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http://www.space.com, Staff
A private race to the moon with robotic probes may kick off a lunar "water rush" that helps humanity explore asteroids, Mars and other deep-space destinations, some scientists say.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Refuses To Release Secret Obama Directive On Cybersecurity
11-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Order may allow military takeover of internet
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Supervisors Accept County Shenanigans, Reject a Proper Audit
11-21-2012
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The Intercept
The Pima County Board of Supervisors refused to conduct a proper hand-count audit of the 2012 general election ballots. This decision was made despite seasoned statisticians and computer experts in its own Election Integrity Commission indicating tha
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J.t. Waldron
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News Link • Homeland Security
Journalist Threatened By TSA Pens Scathing Response
11-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
“This is not security " it’s obedience training for the American public so we will give up our rights like blinking sheep.”
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Report: French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy’s computers
11-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Julian Pecquet
The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l’Express.
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News Link • Government
They Are Going To Make It Nearly Impossible To Pass On A Farm Or A Business To Your Children
11-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Snyder
If you have a farm or a small business, would you like to pass it on to your children when you die?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Geithner as Buzz Lightyear on National Debt: To Infinity, and Beyond
11-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Thomas R. Eddlem
President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has embraced the “Buzz Lightyear” strategy to overcome the fiscal and debt crisis known as the “fiscal cliff”: to infinity and beyond.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Leon Panetta Has a Few More Drone Wars Ready to Go
11-21-2012
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
There once was a time, just last year, when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta thought the U.S. was thisclose to wiping al-Qaida off the face of the earth, once and for all.
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News Link • Drug War
Pentagon Wants to Keep Running Its Afghan Drug War From Blackwater’s HQ
11-21-2012
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is supposed to be winding down. Its contractor-led drug war? Not so much.
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News Link • Transportation
How Big Data Will Ease Your Commute
11-21-2012
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Doug Newcomb via WIRED.com
Get into a cab and it’s safe to assume the driver knows the ins, outs, shortcuts and potential traffic tie-ups between you and your destination.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday November 21st 2012
11-21-2012
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LewRockwell.com
Getting Rid of Fluoride / The Power of Government 'Gifts' - by Pat Buchanan / Reject the Standard American Diet! / The Myth of Limited Government / The TSA Has Killed More People Than al-Qaeda / Secession " It's as American as Pecan Pie
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Opinion • Giving Thanks
All the Thanks!
11-21-2012
Bob Ross
I just wanted to spread some positivity during this hectic time of the year. This article was originally seen in the ezine. We have so much we can be grateful for, and can give thanks every day. What are you thankful for?
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News Link • Afghanistan
Faster than NATO, France ends Afghan combat role
11-20-2012
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AP
France on Tuesday ended its combat operations in Afghanistan, pulling hundreds of troops from a base in a volatile region northeast of Kabul and fulfilling promises to end its combat role on a faster track than other NATO allies.
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News Link • Internet
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
11-20-2012
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by Declan McCullagh (cNet)
Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans' e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.
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News Link • Economy - International
France stripped of prized 'AAA' credit rating by Moody's
11-20-2012
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Daily Telegraph
France has suffered a serious blow to its economic credentials after being stripped of its prized AAA credit rating by Moody’s.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student Expelled for Refusing Location Tracking RFID Badge
11-20-2012
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InfoWars
After months of protesting a policy requiring high school students to wear an RFID-enabled ID badge around their necks at all times, Andrea Hernandez is being involuntarily withdrawn from John Jay High School in San Antonio
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