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Date Sent: 2011-12-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 21, 2011 PM edition |
Company Who Lobbied for the NDAA Indefinite Detention Bill Given $23 Million Dollar Contract
Letter from Brigadier General Friend / Deputy Commander Of Joint Task
Force Guantanamo Bay Cuba -- Will the media let Ron Paul question US
foreign policy? -- Muslim baby was at risk of "honor killing" -- Israel,
wake up and smell the coffee -- Ron Paul’s “Loyal Aides”? -- Evacuation plan for Brits in Spain amid warning euro collapse could leave them stranded -- Iowa man to Gingrich: ‘You’re a f***ing a**hole’ -- Top Argentine official commits suicide at summit -- FDA Escalates War Against Amish Dairy Farmers -- Does This US And Israel Joint Missile Defense Drill Say Anything About Plans For Iran? -- America`s Global Warfare. Military Redeployment to Asia and The Pacific Threatens China --
Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons
-- Marines’ Robot Cargo-Copter Takes Flight in Afghanistan -- The truth
behind the Greek Economic Crisis -- Ron Paul Paperwork Submitted for
Inclusion on Arizona Primary Ballot -- John Pilger answers Obama's claim
that US military is "finest fighting force in history" -- US asks banks
to keep more cash at hand -- FEMA Rep Says Our Founding Fathers Were Terrorists!!! -- Branstad’s Act Of Sabotage An Outrageous Attempt To Tamper With
Election Process -- First Amendment Under Attack: 18 Examples Of How
They Are Coming For Our Free Speech -- Report: 82% Chance California
Pensions Are Going Under and You’ll Be Next -- Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle -- Siemens Hires Former U.S. Afghanistan Commander McChrystal -- Russia Relearns Power of the Street
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Company Who Lobbied for the NDAA Indefinite Detention Bill Given 23 Million Dollar Contract
12-21-2011
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theintelhub.com
According to reports from the Daily Kos and Russia Today, a company specializing in night raid equipment was awarded a 23 million dollar contract from the Department of Defense and subsequently went on to lobby for the NDAA which has given the govern
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Letter from Brigadier General Friend / Deputy Commander Of Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay Cuba
12-21-2011
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SteveQuayle.Com
Letter from Brigadier General Friend / Deputy Commander Of Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay Cuba Concerning US Citizens Being Held As Terrorists
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Will the media let Ron Paul question US foreign policy?
12-21-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
Republican candidate Ron Paul, unlike other members of his party, is critical of US support for Israel.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Cenk Says the Establishment Wants to Get Rid of Ron Paul 'By Any Means Necessary'
12-21-2011
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lewrockwell.com/blog
In the continuing transformation of left-winger Cenk Ugyar into a Ron Paul supporter, Cenk shows up the two-faced Bill O'Reilly for what a phony he is. (Not that most of us didn't already know that.)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Seriously?
Muslim baby was at risk of "honour killing"
12-21-2011
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Yahoo! News
A British baby at risk of becoming the victim of an "honour killing" because she was born as the result of her unmarried Muslim mother's secret affair must be adopted to keep her safe, the U.K. Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The New Breed of Hero
12-21-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Johnn Brennan
The United States has done a remarkable job over the years convincing you that the folks in law enforcement are here for no other reason then to "protect and serve." The words sound honorable and are meant to instill trust and confidence.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel, wake up and smell the coffee
12-21-2011
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www.haaretz.com
Years of rioting against Palestinians, uprooting of trees, vandalism, arson, destruction, dispossession, theft, rocks and axes didn't cause a ripple, but one rock to the head of a deputy brigade commander made all the difference.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Company owners fake being disabled vets for government contracts
12-21-2011
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
Each year millions in government funds intended to help veterans get back to work go to firms where owners have lied about being disabled vets, according to government watchdogs.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul’s “Loyal Aides”?
12-21-2011
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antiwar.com
Just how “loyal” is an aide who snipes at Ron behind his back? It’s disturbing there appears to be a fifth column in the Paul campaign. Earth to Ron: get rid of them before they drive the knife deeper.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Evacuation plan for Brits in Spain amid warning euro collapse could leave them stranded
12-21-2011
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www.mirror.co.uk
The drastic proposals emerged as a former Security Minister warned expats could be left stranded and destitute by the break-up of the single currency.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Iowa man to Gingrich: ‘You’re a f*cking a**hole’
12-21-2011
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www.rawstory.com
A man clad in camouflage gave Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich some unconstructive criticism on Tuesday. While shaking Gingrich’s hand at a grocery store in Iowa, the man told Gingrich he was “a fucking asshole.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Top Argentine official commits suicide at summit
12-21-2011
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www.breitbart.com
Ivan Heyn, the undersecretary of foreign trade, hanged himself at the Radisson Hotel downtown, a Uruguayan official told AFP.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
To Survive, Some Biofuels Companies Give Up on Biofuels
12-21-2011
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Gevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can't use these materials if it hopes to survive.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Food
FDA Escalates War Against Amish Dairy Farmers
12-21-2011
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www.activistpost.com
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) apparent war on Amish raw dairy farmers increased on December 6 when they filed a “motion for summary judgment,” with Pennsylvania judge Lawrence Stengler asking for a permanent injunction against dairy f
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Does This US And Israel Joint Missile Defense Drill Say Anything About Plans For Iran?
12-21-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
Israel just announced it has finalized a deal with Lt. General Frank Gorenc, commander of the US Third Air Force in Germany, that will bring several thousand U.S. troops and two advanced missile systems to the country for an unprecedented defense dr
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
America`s Global Warfare. Military Redeployment to Asia and The Pacific Threatens China
12-21-2011
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www.globalresearch.ca
The PNAC's declared objectives were to “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars” in different regions of the world as well as perform the so-called military “constabulary” duties “associated with shaping the security enviro
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons
12-21-2011
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The Daily Beast
A decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz of the Center for Investigative Re
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Marines’ Robot Cargo-Copter Takes Flight in Afghanistan
12-20-2011
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David Axe via WIRED.com
Pakistan is still blockading NATO war supplies passing through the port of Karachi in response to last month’s killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers by an alliance air strike.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Economy - International
The truth behind the Greek Economic Crisis
12-21-2011
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www.youtube.com
A slave in order to work must be feed and accommodated, an economic slave must do these things for him/her self.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Paperwork Submitted for Inclusion on Arizona Primary Ballot
12-21-2011
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Chris Swoboda video
It was tight quarters in the AZ Secretary of State's office as Shawn Dow submitted the Good Doctors paperwork - to the delight of many that attended.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Military
John Pilger answers Obama's claim that US military is "finest fighting force in history"
12-21-2011
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www.youtube.com
What he didn't say is that since 1945 the US military has been directly responsible for the deaths of over 10 million people and that America has in that time overthrown 50 governments, including democracies, and intervened in at least 30 more. John
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
US asks banks to keep more cash at hand
12-21-2011
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AFP
The US Federal Reserve on Tuesday moved to toughen capital requirements for the country's largest banks, saying their size and stretch could threaten the overall financial system.
The Fed said it was preparing to implement new capital and liquidit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
FEMA Rep Says Our Founding Fathers Were Terrorists!!!
12-21-2011
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www.youtube.com
"The celebrated 'Boston Tea Party' was one of the acts of terrorism perpetrated by the 'Sons of Liberty.' The more famous members of the group included James Madison, Samuel Adams, and Benjamin Franklin."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Beware the Coming Bailouts of Europe
12-21-2011
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www.thedailybell.com/Ron Paul
The economic establishment in this country has come to the conclusion that it is not a matter of "if" the United States must intervene in the bailout of the euro, but simply a question of "when" and "how."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
First Amendment Under Attack: 18 Examples Of How They Are Coming For Our Free Speech
12-21-2011
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endoftheamericandream.com
In the United States today, the First Amendment is under attack like never before. Technological innovations such as the Internet have made it possible for average Americans to communicate directly with one another in ways that completely bypass the
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Report: 82% Chance California Pensions Are Going Under and You’ll Be Next
12-21-2011
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Poor Richard's Blog
California’s pension system is living in a fantasy world where investment returns average 12.5% annually and there’s enough money for everyone.
The largest union, CalPERS, has a 82% chance of a budget shortfall in the next 16 years.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle
12-21-2011
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Michigan Capitol Confidential
Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it " a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Siemens Hires Former U.S. Afghanistan Commander McChrystal
12-21-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, hired Stanley McChrystal, a former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, for a new unit seeking U.S. government contracts.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Humor
"NEWT GINGRICH" " a Bad Lip Reading Soundbite
12-21-2011
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Funny or DIE
"Hairy chests destroy our power..."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Huge Methane Plumes in Siberian Arctic
12-21-2011
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arclein
r Semiletov's team published a study in 2010 estimating that the methane emissions from this region were about eight million tonnes a year, but the latest expedition suggests this is a significant underestimate of the phenomenon.
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robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
Russia Relearns Power of the Street
12-21-2011
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arclein
He said he might change the law to let opposition parties be registered and allow regional governors to be elected, rather than chosen by the president, if their candidacy is approved in advance.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Global Forest Recovery
12-21-2011
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arclein
But what was important was that the population density was as high as it had been when the area was being completely deforested. So you couldn’t say it was a Malthusian process. You had to say something had changed about the political ecology.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Kepler Discovers Earth-size Exoplanets
12-21-2011
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arclein
The Kepler-20 system includes three other planets that are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Kepler-20b, the closest planet, Kepler-20c, the third planet, and Kepler-20d, the fifth planet, orbit their star every 3.7, 10.9 and 77.6 days. All
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robert klein
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News Link • Police State
Challenging my Senator on NDAA
12-21-2011
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StopTheLie.com
Thief, rapist, murderer or terrorist…the crime that an individual is accused of does not alter the process by which guilt is determined. (Nobody opposes this law because they want to protect 'terrorists,' they oppose it because they want to protect
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Joe Plummer
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