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Date Sent: 2011-12-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 9, 2011 PM edition |
Army slashing 8,700 jobs as budget cuts begin -- Fear, speculation in Iran over military strike
White House targets domestic extremism -- Michele Bachmann Says no to Trump Moderated Debate --
Gingrich Is Inspiring—and Disturbing -- Amazon starts row with
retailers in US -- Ron Paul’s Army Eyes an Iowa Caucus Upset -- Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle -- The True Cost of Military Equipment Spending -- Corzine says he could have been misunderstood on transfer of MF Global accounts -- Holder: "Nobody at the DOJ has lied" -- 'Lying,' US Attorney General Holder Says, 'Has to Do With Your State of Mind' -- France's Sarkozy warns Europe risks disintegration -- NH Democrats leaving the party for Ron Paul? -- Turkey Contemplates Freedom of Speech -- US Military Seeks Alien Signal From Earthlike Planet
AZ: Christmas Party at
the Hancock's tomorrow, December 10th, 2011, 6 p.m. til ???; Bill of Rights Day Event, Thursday,
12/15/11 - Phoenix
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Army slashing 8,700 jobs as budget cuts begin
12-09-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
With deeper budget cuts looming, the Pentagon is starting to cut back by trimming the Defense Department’s civilian workforce.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Fear, speculation in Iran over military strike
12-09-2011
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www.reuters.com
The threat of military strikes on Iran has upturned the quiet and comfortable lives once enjoyed by many Iranians, ushering in a new era of struggle and fear.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party Saturday, December 10th, 2011 6 p.m. til ??? (Update)
11-08-2011
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Meetup.com/Hancock
We will have all of the workshop and activist stations open for newbies to take a tour and see our projects on display.. This year's Christmas Party will be at the home of Ernest and Donna Hancock in Glendale, AZ. Dugger will DJ and have Karaoke :
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Communications
Scientists develop system that can shut down your cell phone while you're driving
12-09-2011
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Daily Mail
Researchers discovered how to stop drivers using their phones without affecting use for passengers. A team at Stevens Institute of Technology and Rutgers created a system which shuts down a driver's phone without affecting other people in the vehicle
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
The $1.4 Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Crisis; & Growing
12-09-2011
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www.youtube.com
Richard Nixon took the USA off the gold standard in 1973. Bill Clinton got rid of Glass Steagull in 1999, which took down the separation between the activities of Investment Banks (non-secured) and activities of Commercial Banks (FDIC Secured - tax p
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
G-20 Must Freeze The $1.5 Quadrillion Derivatives Bubble
12-09-2011
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www.rense.com
On the eve of the long-awaited London conference of the G-20 nations, we are rapidly descending into the chaos of a Second World Economic Depression of catastrophic proportions.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Big Risk: $1.2 Quadrillion Derivatives Market Dwarfs World GDP
12-09-2011
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dailyfinance.com
It's complex, it's unregulated, and it ought to be of concern to world leaders that its notional value is 20 times the size of the world economy
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
White House targets domestic extremism
12-09-2011
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AFP
The White House on Thursday laid out a plan to implement a government strategy to combat homegrown domestic terrorism and any attempts by Al-Qaeda to seek to radicalize American Muslims.
The initiative commits the federal government to work closel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Michele Bachmann Says no to Trump Moderated Debate
12-09-2011
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cbn.com
Michele Bachmann’s campaign tells The Brody File that she will NOT attend the Newsmax debate moderated by Donald Trump on Dec. 27. Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman have also declined.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
TRENDING: Perry declines Trump debate invite
12-09-2011
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CNN
Texas Gov. Rick Perry will not participate in a debate moderated by real estate mogul Donald Trump and hosted by NewsMax, his campaign announced Thursday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Trade
Amazon starts row with retailers in US
12-09-2011
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Amazon has annoyed retailers in the US with a new price check app that allows shoppers to get a discount on items via the online store if they find them to be more expensive elsewhere.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Lunar Eclipse 2011: How to Watch Moon Disappear Saturday
12-09-2011
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ABC News
Look in the western sky Saturday morning before dawn, and if the weather is clear and you're in the right place, you will be rewarded with the last lunar eclipse of 2011.
For just under an hour, the disk of the full moon will almost disappear, tur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul’s Army Eyes an Iowa Caucus Upset
12-09-2011
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Time.com
The 76-year-old Paul has always been dismissed as something of a curio within GOP establishment circles and among many voters, but in an unsettled year he has a legitimate chance to crash the party and capture the Iowa caucuses. He registered 17% in
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle
12-09-2011
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Coexist
Forgoing the plan to build independent floating cities away from chafing laws, some libertarians"led by Milton Friedman’s grandson, no less"have found something better: desperate countries willing to allow the founding of autonomous libertarian citie
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Theological Schizophrenia
12-09-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Laurence Vance
So, who is this Christian warmonger that is so upset about defense budget "cuts" that he thinks they are a deeply disturbing, draconian, recklessly dangerous, self-destructive absurdity.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: America
Baldwin is contrite, to a point, about airplane incident
12-09-2011
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Toronto News
Alec Baldwin has apologized to passengers for delay after he was booted for playing cellphone game.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Corzine says he could have been misunderstood on transfer of MF Global accounts
12-09-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
Jon S. Corzine, the former U.S. senator and governor who presided over the collapse of the commodities brokerage MF Global, told lawmakers Thursday that he never intended to authorize a transfer of customer funds to the firm’s accounts and that if he
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Holder: "Nobody at the DOJ has lied"
12-09-2011
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washingtonexaminer.com
Attorney General Eric Holder denied that anybody at the Department of Justice lied about the Fast and Furious program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug lords, even though he admitted that the DOJ sent inaccurate information to
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
'Lying,' Holder Says, 'Has to Do With Your State of Mind'
12-09-2011
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www.weeklystandard.com
Rep. James Sensenbrenner asked Holder: “Tell me what's the difference between lying and misleading Congress, in this context?”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
France's Sarkozy warns Europe risks disintegration
12-09-2011
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BBC
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned that "never has the risk of disintegration been greater" for Europe in a speech in Marseille.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
NH Democrats leaving the party for Ron Paul?
12-09-2011
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freekeene.com
In a recent episode of Freedom Watch, Judge Napolitano talks to Lynn Chong, former chair of the Belknap (NH) County Democrats. Frustrated with Obama’s foreign policy, she changed her voter registration from Democrat to independent udeclared and will
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Turkey Contemplates Freedom of Speech
12-09-2011
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arclein
The process of drafting Turkey's new Constitution has produced expectations that this will lead to progress in protecting freedom of religion or belief. Many questions are open, and the possible answers that the drafting process produces need to be
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
New Wind Turbine Design for Offshore
12-09-2011
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arclein
But he and colleagues Kenji Tanaka and Kiyoshi Uzawa from the University of Tokyo found that "discarding the idea of 'stable and upright' might lead to a new low-cost wind turbine concept".
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Milk Thistle Extract Therapy For Lung Cancer
12-09-2011
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arclein
found that treatment with silibinin, a major component of milk thistle, effectively treated wound development in lung cancer cells by halting the disease and preventing metastasis. Long known for its rejuvenating effects on the liver, milk thistle is
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robert klein
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News Link • Military
US Military Seeks Alien Signal From Earthlike Planet
12-08-2011
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Terrence Aym
Exobiologists think newly discovered planet Kepler-22b may have oceans, continents and life. Now the US military wants to know if it's intelligent…
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Media: Internet
Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court--Imposes $2.5 Million Judg
12-08-2011
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SeattleWeekly.com
A U.S. District Court judge in Portland has drawn a line in the sand between "journalist" and "blogger." And for Crystal Cox, a woman on the latter end of that comparison, the distinction has cost her $2.5 million.
Speaking to Seattle Weekly,
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