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Date Sent: 2010-12-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 14, 2010 AM edition |
WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers
Report: Your retirement funds risk being seized -- Regulators exist to ‘serve the banks,’ next House finance chairman declares -- JP
Morgan Reduces Massive Silver Short Position: Conspiracy Theorists
Correct -- BIS: US Banks Are On The Hook To The PIIGS By Over $350
Billion -- Charting America's Transformation To A Part-Time Worker
Society -- So much for Ron Paul -- Anthony Gregory - Lies Are the Health of the State -- Ron Paul: The Fed Spends “More Money Than the Congress Does” -- We Are All German Jews Now -- Is the Collapsing Empire and Its Police State Worth Fighting For? -- Freedom and Opportunity Await Those with the Courage to Leave the U.S.
-- Til Death Due Us Tax - And Here You Thought You Could Get Away! --
Navy Railgun Sets New Record, Launching A Metal Bullet To Mach 7 Speeds
-- Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011 -- Move over, Big
Pharma and Big Oil, Big Marijuana is here -- State Wants Illinoisans to Pay Web Taxes -- Money laundering scandal rocks Vatican Bank -- Australia feared Israeli strike on Iran could spark nuclear war, WikiLeaks cables reveal -- Former US Spy Chief: South Korea May Attack North -- Italian PM Warns Israel May Nuke Iran -- Private Dragon Spacecraft's Next Mission Could Visit Space Station, SpaceX Says
AZ: Bill of
Rights Day celebration, Dec,. 15 with Gary Johnson & Bob Levy;
Robert Levy, Cato
Institute luncheon, Dec. 16 RSVP for both events last chance!
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Report: Your retirement funds risk being seized
12-13-2010
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Terrence Aym
Teresa Ghilarducci may be the most dangerous woman in America. Never heard of her? Read on…Simply put, Ghilarducci, a professor of economic policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, wants the federal government to grab all pr
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News Link • Corruption
Regulators exist to ‘serve the banks,’ next House finance chairman declares
12-13-2010
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RawStory.com
Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus, the incoming chairman of the House banking committee, suggested Congress and federal regulators should play a subservient role with banks.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
JP Morgan Reduces Massive Silver Short Position: Conspiracy Theorists Correct
12-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The Financial Times reports that JP Morgan, the firm targeted by thousands of "tin foil hat" wearing, conspiratorially-oriented "gold bugs", has cut back on its US silver futures. "JPMorgan has quietly reduced a large position in the US silver...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bank of International Settlements
BIS: US Banks Are On The Hook To The PIIGS By Over $350 Billion
12-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The country with biggest exposure to the PIGS is not surprisingly Germany with $513 billion, followed by France at $410 billion, Great Britain at $370 billion, and... the US at $353 billion
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Charting America's Transformation To A Part-Time Worker Society
12-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It is surprising that over the past several years very little has been said in the popular media about the fact that America is slowly (but surely) transforming from a full-time to part-time employed society.
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Opinion • Treason and Sedition
The Goldfinger Chronicles
So much for Ron Paul
12-13-2010
Gene Kernan
As Karl Denninger pointed out last week (Ron Paul Is Now Out Of Excuses), "with a subcommittee chair seat, [Ron Paul]'s got a bully pulpit and, assuming the committee chair accedes, subpoena power."
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: The Fed Spends “More Money Than the Congress Does”
12-13-2010
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dailyreckoning.com
This morning, Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) held his first interview since being appointed chair of the House Monetary Policy Subcommittee.
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News Link • Homeland Security
We Are All German Jews Now
12-13-2010
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whiskeyandgunpowder.com
The introduction of so-called porno scanners at America’s airports and the egregious pat downs of airline travelers have turned every American into a German Jew.
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News Link • Police State
Is the Collapsing Empire and Its Police State Worth Fighting For?
12-13-2010
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whiskeyandgunpowder.com
In 43 BC, over 2,000 years ago, warring consuls Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian were duking it out with each other over control of Rome following Julius Caesar’s assassination the prior March.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Freedom and Opportunity Await Those with the Courage to Leave the U.S.
12-13-2010
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whiskeyandgunpowder.com
Freedom, independence, and awareness are undoubtedly in decline in the western world, particularly the U.S. In the last 10-days, Homeland Security has started seizing Internet domains from ‘rogue’ webmasters, and TSA has begun labeling dissenters of
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Takes a Self-Defeating Stance
12-13-2010
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motherjones.com
Live from the boxing gym of bipartisanship, a lesson in getting your butt whooped.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Daily Show: Recap - Week of 12/06/10
12-13-2010
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www.thedailyshow.com
Jon watches as Fox News dusts off the War on Christmas, and Larry Wilmore invites the South to re-secede.
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News Link • Constitution
A Constitution of Convenience
12-13-10
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Free Patriot Press
A federal appeals court ruled that the “individual mandate” imposed by the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” to be unconstitutional. Federal District Court Judge Henry Hudson has sided with the Commonwealth of Virginia, ruling that part of
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Til Death Due Us Tax - And Here You Thought You Could Get Away!
12132010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Well, the ghouls are at it again.
Weiner, Hoyer, Pelosi, Clyburn and the rest have proven that no matter what " you can’t get away from them. Even death do you not part.
What part of " this is hurting the small businessman and farmer more than
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Humor
The 9 Funniest 'SNL' Holiday Sketches
12-13-2010
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huffingtonpost.com
Videos
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Navy Railgun Sets New Record, Launching A Metal Bullet To Mach 7 Speeds
12-13-2010
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popsci.com
The Navy just broke its own record for an awesomely powerful railgun, which can hurl a projectile hundreds of miles at superfast speeds without using explosives.
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News Link • History
Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011
12-13-2010
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RawStory.com
Ukraine to open Chernobyl nuclear disaster area to tourists in 2011, says tours will be safe
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News Link • TAXES: State
State Wants Illinoisans to Pay Web Taxes
12-13-2010
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WLS-AM
Illinois government offers an amnesty on taxes that aren't owed dating back to 2004. Oh, and they passed a use tax to educate taxpayers that they have a use tax obligation.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Politics
Steele might not seek reelection as RNC chairman
12-13-2010
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RawStory.com
Michael Steele will not be seeking re-election as RNC chair, FoxNews.com reports, and plans to announce Monday that he will drop out of the contested race.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Money laundering scandal rocks Vatican Bank
12-13-2010
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RawStory.com
This is no ordinary bank: The ATMs are in Latin. Priests use a private entrance. A life-size portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Australia feared Israeli strike on Iran could spark nuclear war, WikiLeaks cables reveal
12-13-2010
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www.haaretz.com
WikiLeaks cables provided to The Age show that Australian intelligence believed that Iran should not be considered a rogue state.
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News Link • Activism
Wikileaks the Documentary about the rise of Julian Assange
12-13-2010
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svtplay.se
Must watch [ED]!
Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it!
From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Healthcare
Judge in Va. strikes down federal health care law
12-13-2010
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LARRY O'DELL, AP
RICHMOND, Va. " A federal judge declared the Obama administration's health care law unconstitutional Monday, siding with Virginia's attorney general in a dispute that both sides agree will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. Di
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers
12-13-2010
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prisonplanet.com
He is one of the newest recruits to Operation Payback. In a London bedroom, the 24-year-old computer hacker is preparing his weaponry for this week’s battles in an evolving cyberwar.
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News Link • Government
Former US Spy Chief: South Korea May Attack North
12-13-2010
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Antiwar.com
Says South Korean Govt Can't Survive Without More Confrontations
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News Link • Israel
Italian PM Warns Israel May Nuke Iran
12-13-2010
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Antiwar.com
Berlusconi Insisted Obama Couldn't Stop Preemptive Nuking
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Dragon Spacecraft's Next Mission Could Visit Space Station, SpaceX Says
12-13-2010
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space.com
After the first successful launch and recovery of SpaceX's Dragon capsule on Wednesday (Dec. 8), the commercial spaceflight company is looking forward to an ambitious future.
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News Link • Positive News
Six countries with freedom and opportunity
12-13-2010
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www.sovereignman.com
A few days ago, I wrote an article on the merits of productive citizens leaving their home countries that are no longer aligned with the values of freedom and independence.
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News Link • World News
Six or Eight Best Places in the World
12-13-2010
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www.sovereignman.com
Simon Black recently posted six places in the world that are full of opportunity and freedom; in a couple significant ways, they coincide with mine. His picks were Chile, Singapore, Columbia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Estonia.
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News Link • Government
How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the US
12-13-2010
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www.informationclearinghouse.info
This week, Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein engaged in acts of serious aggression against their own constituents, and the American people in general.
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News Link • Activism
Low-Cost Hi-Def video gear list
12-13-2010
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www.libertarianpunk.com
I’m reworking my book $30 Film School to a third edition, $30 Film School, HD Edition, which will be primarily about hi-def filmmaking.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Berlusconi warns of crisis ahead of crucial vote
12-13-2010
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news.yahoo.com
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said rebel lawmakers could pitch Italy into the middle of the euro zone's debt crisis if they voted against him in a no-confidence vote on Tuesday.
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News Link • Climate Change
Record-Breaking Warmth Grips Los Angeles, Phoenix
12-13-2010
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www.accuweather.com
Several records were broken throughout the West on Sunday. The unusually warm weather will persist in the Southwest today.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil prices rally above 91 dollars
12-13-2010
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www.breitbart.com
Crude oil prices jumped above 91 dollars here on Monday as the market digested OPEC's move over the weekend to maintain the cartel's output levels.
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News Link • Climate Change
New Cold Blast Invading Eastern U.S. Even More Brutal
12-13-2010
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www.accuweather.com
While not everyone across the eastern half of the country dealt with snow or a blizzard this past weekend, they will all be facing brutal cold soon if not already.
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News Link • Military
Oath-Keeper Stewart Rhodes
12-13-2010
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dailybell.com
On the Rise of Authoritarianism and How US Law Enforcement Can Take a Stand for Freedom
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Rise of Austrian Economics, Its Academic Inroads and Why the Market Should Decide
12-13-2010
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dailybell.com
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Peter J. Boettke
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Disgusting Rich Bashing
12-13-2010
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dailybell.com
Judge Andrew Napolitano's and John Stossel's Fox Business Network TV programs are quite unprecedented in their principled libertarian commentaries.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks - Hype, Propaganda or Revolution?
12-13-2010
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dailybell.com
The media is full of hype about Mr. Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks. The story might be considered trivial at first. However, the hoopla is interesting to observe, highly intriguing and, in my view, well worth analyzing and second-guessing a
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News Link • Books
Justice Breyer Argues for Activism
12-13-2010
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dailybell.com
It's not a good system but it's the best we've got.
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News Link • Currencies
Elite's Pathological Dysfunction?
12-13-2010
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dailybell.com
Euro will not fail, say Wolfgang Schaeuble and John Major ... Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has warned those who bet against the euro that they "will not succeed".
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
An Energy Boost for Ultracapacitors
12-13-2010
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technologyreview.com
An alternative to batteries gets an advance from tiny, crumpled sheets of graphene, whose electrodes can store more charge because they have larger surface areas.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Everything You Need to Know About Wikileaks
12-13-2010
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technologyreview.com
Two experts lay out the facts surrounding the controversy.
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News Link • Internet
Drudge Report owner sued by Righthaven
12-13-2010
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www.lasvegassun.com
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC on Wednesday filed its second copyright infringement lawsuit over Denver Post material, this time suing a big target: Drudge Report operator Matt Drudge.
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