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Date Sent: 2012-11-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 19, 2012 PM edition |
'Shadow Banking' Still Thrives, System Hits $67 Trillion
Breast-beating: Femen ‘assaulted’ by anti-gay marriage demonstrators in
Paris (PHOTOS) -- Thousands Surround Obama's White House: 'Stop Keystone
XL!' -- US-Israel Alliance: Obama’s “Green Light” to Israel Attack on Gaza -- A Timeline: How Israel shattered the Gaza Truce -- Big Brother: HDTV Easily Hacked And Spying On Viewers -- 13 Reasons Why America Is Doomed -- 32 Questions That All Americans Must Answer -- WA Farmers Block Federal Drones And Agenda 21 -- Faustian Bargain with Hobson’s Choice headed toward USA -- Israeli government websites under mass hacking attack -- Obama presses case on "fiscal cliff" with Dimon, Buffett -- TSA opt-out week movement starts Today -- Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 5 -- Did Israel Overstep This Time?
AZ: 2012 Arizona Activists Patriot Roast & "Contempt of Cop" Fundraiser
8th Annual 'National Ammo Day' Nov. 19th - BUY AT LEAST 100 ROUNDS TODAY!
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News Link • Economy - International
'Shadow Banking' Still Thrives, System Hits $67 Trillion
11-19-2012
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CNBC
The system of so-called "shadow banking," blamed by some for aggravating the global financial crisis, grew to a new high of $67 trillion globally last year, a top regulatory group said, calling for tighter control of the sector.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Mercedes Benz off-roader of the future " the Ener-G-Force
11-19-2012
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www.gizmag.com
This year's brief is to "create a highway patrol vehicle that meets the challenges of a specific region’s transportation and societal conditions in 2025". (The Road Warriors meet RoboCop's SUV ???)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
8th Annual 'National Ammo Day' Nov. 19th - BUY AT LEAST 100 ROUNDS TODAY!
11-19-2012
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Ed/Ammoday.com/MeetUp.com
Every year people are encouraged to purchase ammunition, and this year some individuals are taking to the streets to let others know about the 'holiday'.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Activism
Breast-beating: Femen ‘assaulted’ by anti-gay marriage demonstrators in Paris (PHOTOS)
11-19-2012
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http://rt.com
Ukrainian topless activists Femen, famous for baring their breasts on any occasion to draw attention to a cause, clashed with French demonstrators protesting gay marriage and adoption in Paris.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Thousands Surround Obama's White House: 'Stop Keystone XL!'
11-19-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Thousands of people began a planned march around the White House on Sunday afternoon, calling on the Obama Administration to reject the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and keep tar sands crude out of the US.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US-Israel Alliance: Obama’s “Green Light” to Israel Attack on Gaza
11-19-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Jonathan Cook
A short interview broadcast by CNN late last week featuring two participants " a Palestinian in Gaza and an Israeli within range of the rocket attacks " did not follow the usual script.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
A Timeline: How Israel shattered the Gaza Truce
11-19-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Electronic Intifa
Today, 3 Israelis were killed as a result of rocket fire from Gaza.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother: HDTV Easily Hacked And Spying On Viewers
11-19-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Gary Merson
Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
13 Reasons Why America Is Doomed
11-19-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, You Tube
Today we face a dependency on government largesse for almost every need.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
32 Questions That All Americans Must Answer
11-19-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Activist Post
Ron Paul, in his historic farewell speech to Congress this week, asked 32 thought-provoking questions addressed to his fellow Americans.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
WA Farmers Block Federal Drones And Agenda 21
11-19-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Mikael Thalen
The Washington State Farm Bureau just convened its 93rd annual convention.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday November 19th 2012
11-19-2012
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LewRockwell.com
I Like Guns! / Star Trek-style warp drives could destroy planets on arrival / 6 Months in, 50 Pounds Down / 13 Ways To Stay Warm / The Feds Hate the Freedom of Cash / My Ron Paul Story / Ron Paul Never Wielded Any Power
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Mass cyber-war on Israel over Gaza raids
11-19-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com,
Officials say there have been more than 44 million hacking attempts on government websites since Gaza airstrikes began.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Israeli government websites under mass hacking attack
11-19-2012
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Reuters
More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government websites since Wednesday when Israel began its Gaza air strikes. One hacking attempt was successful on a site he did not want to name, but it was up and running after 10 minut
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama presses case on "fiscal cliff" with Dimon, Buffett
11-19-2012
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Reuters
President Obama's intensive lobbying to avert big year-end tax hikes and spending cuts resumed over the weekend as he spoke with senior corporate chieftains, including JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon and legendary investor Warren Buffett.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
TSA opt-out movement starts Monday
11-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will face some push-back during the big Thanksgiving travel week, as part of the Alex-Jones-ordered “Opt Out and Film Week.”
From Nov. 19 through Nov. 26, Jones is encouraging travelers to refuse to
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Chris Menke
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Reference Link • Surveillance
The TSA Abuses the USA: The Final Solution
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is a cookie cutter version of the East German Stasi and because of the pot bellied perverts who work at the who expose the flying public to degradation, extreme violations of our bodies and lethal dose
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Revises Estimate: Taking Syria’s Weapons Requires 75,000 Troops
11-17-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
In August They Said 50,000 to 60,000 Would Be Enough
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's New Leaders Will Push Land Reforms To Boost The Economy
11-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Along with abolishing China's one-child policy, privatizing rural land is said to be another top reform for China's new leaders.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • States' Rights
A Simple Constitutional Argument For Letting States Legalize Marijuana
11-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
Former federal prosecutor Mark Oslet wrote a CNN op-ed that presents a clear and concise argument as to why the U.S. federal government should honor state laws legalizing marijuana.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. running $34 billion deficit
11-16-2012
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Washington Post
The federal agency that insures pensions for 43 million Americans saw its deficit swell to $34 billion in the past year. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. blamed the growing shortfall on its inability to charge private employers adequate premiums fo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Hague Court Overturns Convictions of 2 Croatian Generals Over a 1995 Offensive
11-16-2012
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New York Times
A United Nations appeals court in The Hague on Friday unexpectedly overturned the war crimes convictions of two Croatian generals who led a 1995 campaign that helped end the wars involving Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia but also left several hundred Serb
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
KYLE BASS: Germany Could Exit The Euro In '3-4 Years'
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Lucas Kawa
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass was on Bloomberg’s Market Makers with Stephanie Ruhle talking about his bearish views on the E.U. and the status of the currency union as a whole.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • General Opinion
Who's Kidding Who, Elon Musk Is Businessperson Of The Year
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Fortune Magazine named Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos its "Businessperson of the Year."
While Bezos did some cool stuff this year, we think Fortune got it wrong.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Huge Part Of The Fiscal Cliff Is Something That's Barely Being Talked About
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
CHART OF THE DAY: A Huge Part Of The Fiscal Cliff Is Something That's Barely Being Talked About
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS sponsors more mass X-Ray exposure at U.S. Borders
11-16-2012
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DailyKos
The Obama Administration wants to X-RAY you and your car
at U.S. land borders with massive numbers of people
exposed to medically unnecessary and damaging X-radiation to
promote the national security state; it also effects DHS employee
occupatio
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Police State
Attorneys: Obama’s ‘secret’ cyber security law may allow ‘military deployment within the U.S.’
11-16-2012
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Rawstory
The Electronic Privacy Information Center demanded President Obama release the text of what they called a “secret” new cyber security law that appears to enable “military deployment within the United States.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Public Health Proposal Considers Mandatory ‘Smokers License’
11-16-2012
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CBS News
A public health proposal suggests that tobacco smokers should be required to apply and pay for a “smoker’s license” in order to continue buying cigarettes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of m
11-16-2012
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CBS News
President Obama's election victory ensured his Affordable Care Act would remain the centerpiece of his first term in power - but that has left some business owners baulking at the extra cost Obamcare will bring.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Postal Service losses tripled to $16 billion
11-16-2012
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AFP
The US Postal Service tripled its losses in 2012, bleeding $15.9 billion as the state-owned enterprise faces tough competition and what it calls onerous and unfair retirement funding requirements. The US mail said its losses rocketed in the year
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
11-16-12 -- Ray McGovern - Barry Hess (MP3 & Video LOADED)
Ray McGovern (Retired CIA Analyst) on his latest article, 'Pundit Tears for Petraeus's Fall' - Barry Hess (longtime libertarian activist and former candidate for AZ Governor) on his new book, 'The PeaceMonger'
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Montana tells lawmaker gold is for fools
11-16-2012
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Politico
State Rep. Jerry O’Neil wrote the state legislature asking to be paid his annual $7,000 salary in coins because he wasn’t doing his duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, which O’Neil says requires the government only print gold-backed money.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Breaking News: Another Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf
11-16-2012
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WEAR
Coast Guard officials say an oil rig has exploded off the coast of Louisiana, sending four people to hospitals. Two are believed to be missing, and people on the scene are telling the Coast Guard that two people have been killed.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Hostess going out of business after union strikes
11-16-2012
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Reuters
Hostess Brands Inc, the bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, has sought a U.S. court's permission to go out of business after failing to get wage and benefit cuts from thousands of its striking bakery workers.
Hostess, which has about $2.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Ducking Google in search engines
11-16-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
Gabriel Weinberg is creator of duckduckgo.com, a search engine that does not track users’ history and information.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Mother's Death Causes Big Backlash Against Ireland's Abortion Laws
11-16-2012
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The Business Insider
Irish abortion laws are facing increasing backlash after a woman, Savita Halappanavar, died last month because the hospital refused to end a deadly pregnancy.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Kill List Policy Compels US Support for Israeli Attacks on Gaza
11-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Glenn Greenwald
The US was once part of the international consensus against extra-judicial assassinations. Now it is a leader in that tactic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
'Grand Bargain' Charade a Scheme to Protect Corporate Welfare
11-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Ralph Nader
Congress is still talking about a “Grand Bargain” that “balances” far more spending cuts than tax increases.
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