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Date Sent: 2013-01-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 4, 2013 |
Ron Paul: We Are Already Over the Fiscal Cliff -- U.S. troops in Turkey on defense mission
Another NNC Lendman Interview -- Is Ann Coulter a Psychopath? What do YOU think? -- Communitarianism but no community -- The Nazi roots of U.S. gun-control laws (plus) -- B.C. judge rules federal law on firearms offense to be unconstitutional -- Trillion Dollar Coins: The Ultimate Debt Ceiling End-Around? -- Inmate ordered retried in 1980 'waiting ever since' -- 01-04-13 -- Alma Sommer (Agorist Marketplace) - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens -- IDF soldiers abandon post over refusal to do cleaning, guard duty -- Leader of Web piracy group sentenced to 5 years in prison for criminal copyright conspiracy -- End to evictions in Spain? Locksmiths refuse to help oust owners
amid austerity drive -- FBI: Record number of gun background checks -- FOMC Minutes Released: Dissension To QE4EVA Growing -- THE 113TH CONGRESS IS SWEARING IN NOW: Here Are The 12 Most Fascinating New Members -- Tim Geithner Plans To Leave Treasury Before The Debt Ceiling Fight -- Biden guaranteed Mayor of Boston ‘Menino’ by January 31st Obama will sign a Gun Ban/Laws -- Deutsche Bank Warns Of A 'Violent' Turn In The US Dollar In 2013 -- CONGRESS RE-ELECTS JOHN BOEHNER AS HOUSE SPEAKER -- Gold Instantly Tanks After Fed Minutes
Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow
Be a part of history - New Album and New Tour - Jordan Page
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine January 4th, 2013 Edition RELEASES BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT
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News Link • Syria
U.S. troops in Turkey on defense mission
01-04-2013
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upi.com
U.S. troops arrived in Turkey as part of a coalition that will operate Patriot missile defense batteries near the Syrian border, officials said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Wild Horses Out of Room
01-04-2013
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arclein
These days, the temporary holding pens and long-term pastures where many wild horses end up are nearing capacity or full. And the cost of caring for them has ballooned over the past decade.
“We’re looking at critical mass,” said Tom Gorey, a spoke
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
Permian Extinction Causation
01-04-2013
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arclein
When Rothman's group analysed the genome of Methanosarcina - a methanogen responsible for most of Earth's biogenic methane today - they discovered that the microbe gained this ability about 231 million years ago. The date was close to that of the m
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
SSRIs and Linkage With Mass Shootings
01-04-2013
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arclein
under the influence of psychiatric drugs or withdrawing from such drugs. At least 5,000 other news stories, including school shootings, link psychiatric drugs to violent crime on the web site SSRI Stories.
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robert klein
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Nazi roots of U.S. gun-control laws (plus)
01-04-2013
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J.P.F.O.
Ellis Washington writes about the Nazi roots of U.S. gun-control laws -- a subject that JPFO has long pursued and which our late Founder Aaron Zelman felt passionately about.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
B.C. judge rules federal law on firearms offence to be unconstitutional
01-04-2013
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AP
The federal government’s mandatory-minimum sentence of three years imprisonment for the possession of a loaded and prohibited firearm is unconstitutional, says a provincial court judge in Surrey, B.C.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Trillion Dollar Coins: The Ultimate Debt Ceiling End-Around?
01-04-2013
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ABC News
Should Congress fail to extend the US debt limit " reached again on Dec. 31 " the president could ask the Treasury to begin printing trillion dollar coins, which could then be put toward fulfilling debt obligations if new legislation stalls in Congre
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Inmate ordered retried in 1980 'waiting ever since'
01-04-2013
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AP
Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial. Not long afterward, he was moved off of death row. "A sergeant told me to pack my stuff
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens
01-04-2013
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Gunwatch.Blogspot.Com
There are several documented cases where armed citizens have stopped mass attacks by gunmen. Let me list a few: The Pearl, Mississippi school shooting was stopped by the vice principal Joel Myrick with a Colt .45, The Appalachian School shooting was
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Syria
IDF soldiers abandon post over refusal to do cleaning, guard duty
01-04-2013
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RT.com
Seventeen Golani Brigade soldiers abandoned their post near the Syrian border Wednesday night over allegedly humiliating treatment by senior officers
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Autographed Stephen King novel up for charity auction to heat US homes
01-04-2013
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RT.com
A rare signed copy of a novel written by horror guru Stephen King under the pen name Richard Bachman will go under the hammer in America, with proceeds going to a local fuel fund helping poor residents who can't afford to heat their homes in winter.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Leader of Web piracy group sentenced to 5 years in prison for criminal copyright conspiracy
01-04-2013
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RT.com
The US leader of Internet piracy group IMAGiNE, which for two years distributed unauthorized versions of theatrical films online, has been sentenced to five years in jail.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Bumbling Australian robbers tunnel into wrong store
01-04-2013
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RT.com
Two Australian thieves made off with $2,600 after accidentally tunneling into a local KFC instead of their intended target, a jewelry store next door to the restaurant.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
End to evictions in Spain? Locksmiths refuse to help oust owners amid austerity drive
01-04-2013
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RT.com
Dozens of locksmiths in the Spanish city of Pamplona have vowed to stop aiding authorities in evicting delinquent homeowners. The locksmiths said they would not assist in evictions that led to over 100 suicides in 2012.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
FBI: Record number of gun background checks
01-04-2013
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Prison Planet
The FBI reported a record-high number of background checks for firearms purchases in the month of December, in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The prisoner’s dilemma
01-04-2013
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Sovereignman.com
In Game Theory, there’s a famous hypothetical scenario called the Prisoner’s Dilemma in which two criminal suspects are apprehended by police and given a choice: stay silent, or rat out the other guy.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FOMC Minutes Released: Dissension To QE4EVA Growing
01-04-2013
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zerohedge.com
While some were concerned at the Fed's new quantitative targets as suggesting early tightening, it appears (from the FOMC Minutes) that those fears were somewhat warranted (with most seeing QE ending in 2013):
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
THE 113TH CONGRESS IS SWEARING IN NOW: Here Are The 12 Most Fascinating New Members
01-04-2013
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Business Insider
When the 113th Congress convenes for the first time on Thursday, the House of Representatives will have several fresh faces among their ranks.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
REPORT: Tim Geithner Plans To Leave Treasury Before The Debt Ceiling Fight
01-04-2013
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Business Insider
Breaking Tim Geithner news from Bloomberg. The Treasury Secretary plans to leave Washington before the debt ceiling debate, Hans Nichols reports.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Biden guaranteed Mayor of Boston ‘Menino’ by January 31st Obama will sign a Gun Ban/Laws
01-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Seems the Vice President is very confident that gun bans will be passed. He has guaranteed the Mayor of Boston, Menino that Obama will sign a gun ban/law by January 31st.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Future Predictions
Deutsche Bank Warns Of A 'Violent' Turn In The US Dollar In 2013
01-04-2013
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Business Insider
In their daily briefing, Deutsche Bank commodities analysts Michael Lewis and Christina McGlone point out that in 2012-
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
CONGRESS RE-ELECTS JOHN BOEHNER AS HOUSE SPEAKER
01-04-2013
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Business Insider
The 113th Congress convened for the first time Thursday, and re-elected John Boehner as House Speaker, putting to rest rumors that the Ohio Republican's position was in jeopardy.
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News Link • Gun Rights
A Message From The Warrior Class To Senator Feinstein On Her Gun Control Bill
01-04-2013
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Business Insider
The U.S. is awash in well-trained warriors, fresh from comba,t while it also faces off on gun control issues.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Intruder killed by north Phoenix homeowner had prior history of thefts
01-05-2013
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ABC 15 Phoenix AZ USA
Police have identified the man who was shot to death while trying to break into a north Phoenix home as 35-year-old Jason Wilson.
Police said he did not live in the area, but may have been staying with a friend.
Police said Wilson was spotted tryin
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Feature Article • Books
The PeaceMonger - by Barry Hess (a novel)
Ernest Hancock
A ride through the thoughts of the president as he winds his way through one of the most momentous days ever recorded. The PeaceMonger will keep the reader guessing, as it exposes what really goes on behind the closed doors of power.
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News Link • Media: Television
REPORT: Al Jazeera In Talks To Buy Al Gore's Current TV
01-03-2013
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Business Insider
The Qatar-owned media group Al Jazeera is in talks to buy Current TV, a struggling cable channel founded by former US vice president Al Gore, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ROUBINI: America Has Yet To Wake Up To The Full Extent Of Its Fiscal Nightmare
01-03-2013
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Business Insider
Last night the House of Representatives voted 257-167 to pass the fiscal cliff bill.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Civilian Disarmament and the War on Self-Reliance by Bill Buppert
01-03-2013
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zerogov.com
The mass shooting by the evil predator in Connecticut on Friday in the federal and state mandated gun-free zone at the government school is a tragedy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Barbara Boxer Calls For Domestic Terrorism By Military
01-03-2013
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garydbarnett.com
Yes, Barbara Boxer, that very powerful democrat U.S. Senator from California, a hypocritical and evil politician who presides over both the Environmental and Public Works Committee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Startup Promises 3D Printer for $520
01-03-2013
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technewsdaily.com
The promise of desktop 3D printing " making your own toys, parts, models and more " faces one big barrier: existing 3D printers sure cost a lot.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
In Latin America, A Growing Backlash Against Genetically Modified Food
01-03-2013
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mintpress.net
Are genetically modified crops “Franken-foods” or the answer to global hunger and climate change?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
U.N. lifts Syria death toll to "truly shocking" 60,000
01-03-2013
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Reuters
More than 60,000 people have died in Syria's uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Stewart Rhodes & AJ: How will Military & Police Respond to The Systematic Gun Grab?
01-03-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Despite calling in the same year for an outright ban on all firearms, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is set to introduce legislation that would gut the second amendment, said in 1995 that she carried a concealed gun in order to protect herself.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dennis Kucinich Accuses US Govt Of Creating A Manufactured Crisis, To Screw The American people
01-03-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Kucinich's 1 minute Congressional speech on the Fiscal Cliff from earlier today. The cliff dwellers ..... died.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
New York Times Op Ed: “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution”
01-03-2013
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Prison Planet
This New York Times Op Ed by Louis Michael Seidman, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University, is one of the most absurd and dangerous articles I have read in a very long time.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Draconian Illinois Gun Ban Advances to Senate Floor
01-03-2013
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Prison Planet
Effort to apply Chicago’s disastrous gun control policy across entire state accelerates
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News Link • Iran
Iran claims shooting down two US drones
01-03-2013
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Prison Planet
Iran on Wednesday said it had shot down two US-made RQ-11 reconnaissance drones in the past 15 months, adding to a ScanEagle drone and RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft it already claims to have captured.
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News Link • Government
Allegedly baked bills a matter of national security, says Canada's central bank
01-03-2013
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AP
Disclosing details of behind-the-scenes discussions about tales of melting banknotes could endanger national security or international relations, says Canada's central bank who released internal records - almost completely blanked out
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
House sets vote for Sandy aid after criticism
01-03-2013
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AP
Facing intense pressure, Boehner agreed to schedule a vote Friday on $9 billion for the national flood insurance program and another vote Jan. 15 for a remaining $51 billion in the package, said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. The new Congress is being sworn
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News Link • Economy - International
Zambia central bank launches rebased currency
01-03-2013
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Reuters
Zambia's central bank launched its rebased kwacha currency on Tuesday, removing three zeros from new denominations which will run side by side with the old bank notes until June this year.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Des Moines columnist calls for repeal of Second Amendment, death of gun owners
01-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In an op-ed at the Des Moines Register, retired columnist Donald Kaul called for, among other things, a repeal of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, the forced elimination of the NRA as an organization, and the death of gun owners who
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