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Date Sent: 2012-10-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 17, 2012 AM edition |
US Begins Talks to Extend Troop Presence in Afghanistan Beyond 2014
How The GM Bailout Turned Into Foreign Aid -- Another Obama Bailout: Electric Car Battery Maker A123 Systems Files Bankruptcy -- EU sanctions target Iran oil, gas, tanker companies -- Armenian plane en route to Syria searched in Turkey -- Tunisia: Attackers set fire to Muslim saint shrine -- How Many Muslims in the World? How Many Muslim Terrorists? -- Punishing China or Punishing Americans? -- Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer -- Everything Could Be About To Change In Syria -- Uber Pulls Taxi-Hailing App Out Of New York After 'Roadblocks' From City Officials -- Jim Rogers on Politics, Money Metals and How to Deal With an Endless Downturn -- Propaganda 101: Pentagon To Debut Most Expensive Weapons Program Ever In New Superman Film -- New 'Free Market' Paradise Libertarian City: No taxes, No Fed, Small Govt -- Justice Department seeks dismissal of Fast and Furious lawsuit -- Ron Paul:
A Major Event Could Occur during the Next Administration -- Behind the
Benghazi Cover-Up -- Obama Orders Drones, Special Ops on Standby to Kill
Benghazi Attack Suspects -- US exports to Iran soar despite sanctions -- The Real Blame for Deaths in Libya - by Ray McGovern
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News Link • Afghanistan
State Department official: Negotiations to extend U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan starting soon
10-16-2012
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Foreign Policy
Despite statements by Vice President Joe Biden, the State Department is about to begin formal negotiations over the extension of U.S. troops past 2014, a top State Department official said Tuesday.
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News Link • Transportation
How The GM Bailout Turned Into Foreign Aid
10-16-2012
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Before the bailout of General Motors, it was well understood that the world’s largest automaker was losing huge amounts of money in the US and was staying afloat thanks to stronger performance in overseas markets. Since the bailout, however,
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News Link • Transportation
Another Obama Bailout: Electric Car Battery Maker A123 Systems Files Bankruptcy
10-16-2012
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Bloomberg
A123 Systems Inc. (AONE), the electric car battery maker that received a $249.1 million federal grant, filed for bankruptcy protection and said it would sell its automotive business assets to Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI)
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News Link • Iran
EU sanctions target Iran oil, gas, tanker companies
10-16-2012
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Reuters
European Union governments imposed sanctions against major Iranian state companies in the oil and gas industry, and strengthened restrictions on the central bank, cranking up financial pressure over Tehran's nuclear program.
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News Link • Syria
Armenian plane en route to Syria searched in Turkey
10-16-2012
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Reuters
Turkey ordered an Armenian plane flying to the Syrian city of Aleppo to land and searched its cargo on Monday, in the latest move to prevent its airspace being used to supply the Syrian military.
The plane was allowed to continue on its way after
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News Link • World News
Tunisia: Attackers set fire to Muslim saint shrine
10-16-2012
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AP
Five masked men on Tuesday stormed into a 500-year-old shrine to a female Muslim saint near the capital Tunis that had previously been threatened by religious conservatives and set it on fire, the Interior Ministry said.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
How Many Muslims in the World? How Many Muslim Terrorists?
10-16-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
I read 23% of the world's population is Muslim, or 1.6 billion. Whatever the number, it's large. How many are terrorists out to terrorize westerners and push them out of areas they consider Muslim areas? How many are terrorists who attack Muslims?
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News Link • Imperialism (open)
Are They Doing Their Job Well?
10-16-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Are the imperialists in Washington doing their job well of advancing their dominance over the world? If the overall aim of Washington is to rule the world, are they doing their job well? Are they achieving that objective efficiently and effectively?
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News Link • China
Punishing China or Punishing Americans?
10-16-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Romney is pledging on his first day in office to designate China a currency manipulator. This is something even Bush and Obama were not dumb enough to do. This could lead to tariffs to punish China. But who would really be punished?
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer
10-16-2012
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The Daily Beast (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Bain Capital is a product of the Great Deformation. It has garnered fabulous winnings through leveraged speculation in financial markets that are perverted and deformed by decades of money printing and Wall Street coddling by the Fed.
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News Link • Syria
Everything Could Be About To Change In Syria
10-16-2012
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Business Insider
Syria's rebellion may have just put themselves in the best possible to topple President Bashar al-Assad to date.
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News Link • Military
The Military Is Building Integrated Hybrid Living-Nonliving Robotic Organisms
10-16-2012
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Business Insider
In a request released Sept. 14 of this year, the Office Of Naval Research sought to find proposals for "Synthetic Biology Tools for Sensing and Bioprocessing" " essentially hybrid, organic inorganic "sensing" robots.
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News Link • Internet
Uber Pulls Taxi-Hailing App Out Of New York After 'Roadblocks' From City Officials
10-16-2012
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huffingtonpost.com
A tech startup that connects taxi drivers and passengers said Tuesday it was pulling its app out of New York City after a prolonged fight with city officials.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"He's a Constitutionalist" (Updated Again)
10-09-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“Bear! There are guys with guns outside!” shouted Marcella Cruz to her husband as she looked out the kitchen window of their farmhouse in Letha, Idaho. Timidly opening the kitchen door, Marcella " a small, slender, middle-aged woman
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News Link • Propaganda
Propaganda 101: Pentagon To Debut Most Expensive Weapons Program Ever In New Superman Film
10-16-2012
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Prison Planet
DoD continues long relationship with Hollywood as new stealth jets will be seen on silver screen before they are seen in combat
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
The World’s Aircraft Carriers " VISUALIZED
10-16-2012
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gcaptain.com
Since the commissioning of China’s first aircraft carrier, gCaptain’s inbox has been flooded with questions about what it means for the U.S., China’s emerging naval sea power, and the rest of the world.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
New 'Free Market' Paradise Libertarian City: No taxes, No Fed, Small Govt
10-16-2012
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This new Libertarian City-State, inspired by New York University economist Paul Romer, has the backing of the libertarian-minded government in Tegucigalpa.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP 2012, by Kevin Tuma
10-16-2012
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Daily Paul.com
Neo Con Friends think Mitten's is going to win.... Polls have Obama down... - I think Americans are that stupid and they will vote for Mittens because Reporters have told them who they want everyone to vote for with the "polls".
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Letter Re: Fuel Stabilizers and Emerging Threats
10-16-2012
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Survivalblog.com
First " have greatly enjoyed your blog site and your novels. I particularly appreciate the fact that although the stories are fiction " they provide a wealth of preparedness information.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
A Thru-Hiker's Thoughts on the Bug Out Bag
10-16-2012
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Survivalblog.com by Pete R. Pan
This year I thru-hiked the entire 2,184 miles of the Appalachian Trail.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up
10-16-2012
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antiwar.com
On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, and set the building ablaze.
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News Link • Iran
US exports to Iran soar despite sanctions
10-16-2012
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Aljazeera
Exports to Iran rose to $199.5m in the first eight months of 2012, from $150.8m during the same period last year.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Obama Orders Drones, Special Ops on Standby to Kill Benghazi Attack Suspects
10-16-2012
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antiwar.com
Bombing other countries and killing mere suspects in order to look strong and avoid criticism from Republicans is patently illegal
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News Link • Inventions
Robo-Wheelchair Climbs Stairs!
10-16-2012
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popsci.com
The robotic wheelchair senses the topography of a surface and decides whether to roll across it, or walk.
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News Link • Internet
Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth's Entire Evolutionary History
10-16-2012
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popsci.com
A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Why DrudgeReport.com is amazingly profitable
10-16-2010
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Terrence Aym
According to Internet traffic analysis, Mat Drudge's popular Drudge Report news site is one of the most profitable in the world of its type and is actually giving "the Old Gray Lady""the iconic New York Times"a literal run for its money. What is e
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News Link • Political Parties
Least Ambitious Kickstarters: Why People Run $1 Campaigns
10-16-2012
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Wired.com
In the midst of an ever-increasing list of multi-million-dollar campaigns, who in their right mind would run a Kickstarter for $1?
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News Link • How To
How to Build a 40-Foot Extreme Stunt Kite
10-16-2012
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Wired.com
Kieron Jansch’s first kite was a diamond-shaped stunt kite with a tail. His friend had bought it for him, and Jansch loved it, but also managed to run it repeatedly into the ground.
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News Link • Healthcare
Peeling Away Healthcare’s Sticker Shock
10-16-2012
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Wired.com
In the early 1950s, it was nearly impossible to know the value of an automobile. They had prices, yes, but these would differ radically from dealer to dealer, the customer a pawn in the hands of the seller.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Superman Reboot Will Be Pentagon Stealth Jet’s Silver Screen Debut
10-16-2012
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Wired.com
Faster than a sluggish bureaucracy. More powerful than enemy radar. Able to scale tall buildings with a single engine
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News Link • Transportation
EVs Get One Plug to Rule Them All
10-16-2012
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Wired.com
After years of struggle and strife, the geeks and gearheads at the Society for Automotive Engineers, along with U.S. and German automakers, have adopted a single charging standard for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles.
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News Link • Energy
How to Double the Power of Solar Panels
10-16-2012
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Technologyreview.com
Bandgap Engineering is developing a new kind of solar cell based on nanowires.
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Opinion • Libya
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Real Blame for Deaths in Libya
10-16-2012
Ray McGovern
If you prefer charade to reality, inquisition to investigation, trees over forest " the House Government Oversight Committee hearing last Tuesday on “Security Failures of Benghazi” was the thing for you.
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News Link • Political Parties
Marijuana backers courting conservatives including Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul
10-16-2012
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thedenverchannel.com
It's not all hippies backing November's marijuana legalization votes in Colorado, Oregon and Washington.
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News Link • Libya
White House mulls how to strike over Libya attack
10-15-2012
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AP
The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to Mali " if investigators can find the al-Qaida-linked group
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Beat Homeless Man
10-15-2012
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The Agitator
Police were called about a man who was sleeping in the lounge of the Aliyah Center on East New York Ave. The caller may have mistakenly believed that the homeless man was loitering on the center’s property without permission.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Memo suggests Utah trooper Steed was falsifying arrest reports
10-15-2012
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Salt Lake Tribune
"This is something that needs to be addressed before defense attorneys catch on and her credibility along with the DUI squad’s credibility is compromised," Nixon wrote
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News Link • Libya
U.S. Rushes to Help Create Commando Force in Libya
10-15-2012
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New York Times
The Pentagon and State Dept are speeding efforts to help the Libyan government create a commando force to combat Islamic extremists like the ones who killed the American ambassador in Libya and help counter fractious militias,
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News Link • Police State
NDAA: The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn
10-15-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Darrin McBreen, Our Man on The Street, ask the people what they think of the passing of the NDAA Bill by the Senate. (VIDEO)
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News Link • Obama Administration
CNN: Clinton takes ‘full responsibility’ for security before Benghazi attack
10-15-2012
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Washington Post
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told CNN that she takes “full responsibility” for security at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi before the attack that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, the network reported Monday evening.
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News Link • World News
The British Are Scoffing At The Idea Of An Independent Scotland
10-15-2012
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Business Insider
Today has seen the formal announcement of a 2014 referendum that could see Scotland leaving the United Kingdom and becoming an independent nation.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Marc Victor Factors Into Arizona Senate Race
10-15-2012
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VictorForSenate
Politico’s Manu Raju talks about three senate races in Missouri, Arizona and Montana and why they could determine which party controls the upper chamber next January.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Guardsmen Accused Of 'Hobo Hunting' With Paintball Guns
10-15-2012
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Business Insider
'Hobo hunting,' sexual misconduct, and fraudulent expense reports totaling more than $1 million are some of the allegations facing the Arizona National Guard.
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News Link • Free Speech
Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech
10-15-2012
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Washington Post
Free speech is dying in the Western world.
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News Link • Activism
John Lennon: The Last Great Anti-War Activist
10-15-2012
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rutherford.org
“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”"John Lennon
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News Link • Imperialism
Basic Statistics for United States Imperialism
10-15-2012
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www.apk2000.dk
1. Chronological list of interventions, with the purpose of effecting “regime change,” attempted or materially supported by the United States"whether primarily by means of overt force (OF), covert operation (CO), or subverted election (SE):
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News Link • Drug War
Forty Years of Drug War Failure in a Single Chart
10-15-2012
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Daily Paul.com
A reader points out that the dollar amounts on the right Y axis don't add up to $1.5 trillion.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Selling cars for silver coins on Craigslist
10-15-2012
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Daily Paul.com
I saw an F-250 for sale on Craiglist, asking either $35000 in cash, or something like $1500 face value in pre-1965 silver coins.
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News Link • Police State
Papers Please! Part II
10-15-2012
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Daily Paul.com
After my first Papers Please post, a friend of mine called me up and shared this video with me.
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News Link • Internet
A Startup Finds a Better Way to Mine Your Facebook Past
10-15-2012
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Technologyreview.com
The Trove search engine feeds on everything you and your friends have shared.
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