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Date Sent: 2012-11-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, November 29, 2012 AM edition |
TSA Claims It Is Above Congressional Oversight -- Dashcam video shows cop brutally punching suspect
How Arbitrary Alcohol Rules Killed a Knoxville, Tennessee Business -- How Does SpaceX Plan To Move Thousands Of Humans To Mars? -- Skylon Spaceplane Engine Endorsed By European Space Agency -- The Ecstasy of War - by Butler Schafer -- Peanut butter plant closure angers New Mexico town -- Ecuador says WikiLeaks' Assange suffering lung problems -- Bill Would Restrict Informant Testimony in Death Cases -- Lew Rockwell vs. 3 State Worshipers on Secession -- Romney to lunch with Obama on Thursday -- Ron Paul’s exit interview -- End the Pretense that Government Schools and Prisons Are Different - by William Grigg -- GQ calls Mitt Romney one of the 'least influential people' of 2012
-- 11-28-12 -- Neal Conner - Cody Wilson (3D Gun Printing) - Thomas
Woods (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Sweatshop Fire: Outrage in Bangladesh as Few Arrests are Made -- Change Is Coming: Factory Farms' Days May Be Numbered -- Nobel Peace Laureates Call For Military Boycott Of Israel --
Leave the Carbon in the Ground: An Open Letter to Governments and Their
Negotiators -- 'Alarming' Year of Extremes as Climate 'Tipping Point'
Looms -- 'Death evictions'? Guatemala's violence takes an unusual toll -- IAEA hacked over Israeli nuclear program -- Indiana State Police chief advises lawmakers to legalize and tax pot -- Storm's wrath offers New Jersey's Christie political windfall -- Egypt assembly seeks to wrap up constitution -- How Do the Chinese View the Gold Market? -- U.S. bans BP from new government contracts after oil spill deal -- Cuba issue deals blow to US stature at 'Summit of the Americas' -- The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming To The Shores Of America When The Dollar Dies
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday; Christmas Party
at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast & Fundraiser
Saturday December 15th 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Claims It Is Above Congressional Oversight
11-28-2012
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prisonplanet.com
The TSA has refused to attend a House Transportation hearing this week, with agency head John Pistole personally refusing to appear and declaring that the Congressional Committee has “no jurisdiction over the TSA”.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Dashcam video shows Seattle cop brutally punching suspect
11-28-2012
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Raw Story
Video released by the Seattle Police Department on Tuesday confirms that an officer delivered a violent punch to a suspect’s face in October while he was pinned to the hood of a patrol car.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Cries Poor, Starts $10 Billion Nuclear Weapon Upgrade
11-28-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
The Pentagon is facing its worst cash crunch in more than a decade, with potential cuts of up to a half-trillion dollars over the next decade if Congress doesn’t act soon.
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News Link • Housing
Britain Is Testing An Amphibious House That Rises Along WIth Floodwaters
11-28-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Britain's Environmental Agency is taking a keen interest in housing technology that embraces flooding rather than fights it.
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News Link • Drug War
How Arbitrary Alcohol Rules Killed a Knoxville, Tennessee Business
11-28-2012
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Reason magazine
Due to new rule changes from the TN Alcoholic Beverage Commission concerning the minimum percentage of food an establishment must sell in relation to its gross sales, our venues will be closing.... Since we cannot meet their requirements,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Skylon Spaceplane Engine Endorsed By European Space Agency
11-28-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The 'biggest breakthrough since the jet' could reach anywhere in the world in just four hours or power a spaceplane into orbit with no need for rocket stages.
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News Link • Drug War
The Ecstasy of War
11-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The federal government has found the drug "ecstasy" helpful to soldiers returning from the Middle East suffering from post-traumatic stress. No mention was made of how this drug might have helped other users deal with the stresses generated by life
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Peanut butter plant closure angers New Mexico town
11-28-2012
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AP
Farmers in a revered peanut-growing region along the New Mexico-Texas border should be celebrating one of the best harvests in recent memory. Instead, millions of pounds of their prized sweet Valencia peanuts sit in barns at a peanut butter plant
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ecuador says WikiLeaks' Assange suffering lung problems
11-28-2012
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Reuters
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering from a chronic lung ailment that could worsen at any time and is being checked regularly by doctors, the Andean country's ambassador to Britain said on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Bill Would Restrict Informant Testimony in Death Cases
11-28-2012
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Anthony Graves was wrongly convicted and sent to death row based largely on the testimony of an alleged accomplice in the fiery murders of 6 people. The accomplice later admitted he was the lone killer. 10 years later Graves was exonerated.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Secession
Rockwell vs. 3 State Worshipers on Secession
11-28-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
In the wake of Obama's reelection, secession petitions have come from residents in all 50 states. A few governors have denied requests but is secession a valid appeal?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Romney to lunch with Obama on Thursday
11-28-2012
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Washington Post
President Obama and his defeated Republican foe, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, will have lunch in the private dining room at the White House, a show of bipartisan comity 3 weeks after the conclusion of the election campaign.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul’s exit interview
11-28-2012
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Washington Post
The retiring congressman gives his list of the most damaging special interests in Washington and explains why he didn’t run as an independent for president in 2012.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
End the Pretense that Government Schools and Prisons Are Different - by William Grigg
11-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Students Inmates at an Arizona high school recently were confined to their classrooms, then led in small groups to another room where they were forced to line up against a wall and be searched with the help of drug-sniffing dogs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Sweatshop Fire: Outrage in Bangladesh as Few Arrests are Made
11-28-2012
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Common Dreams
Over a dozen western brands found among sweatshop rubble
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Change Is Coming: Factory Farms' Days May Be Numbered
11-28-2012
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Common Dreams
In one of history's most stunning victories for humane farming, Australia's largest supermarket chain, Coles, will as of January 1 stop selling company branded pork and eggs from animals kept in factory farms.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Nobel Peace Laureates Call For Military Boycott Of Israel
11-28-2012
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Common Dreams
53 authors 'horrified at the latest round of Israeli aggression'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Leave the Carbon in the Ground: An Open Letter to Governments and Their Negotiators
11-28-2012
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Common Dreams
To really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
'Alarming' Year of Extremes as Climate 'Tipping Point' Looms
11-28-2012
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Common Dreams
UN groups issue stark warnings at climate summit in Doha
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Is there such a thing as too much energy?
11-28-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Government moves energy from the future to the past, Bonner writes, from what will be to what used to be, and finally, to what will be no more.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
'Death evictions'? Guatemala's violence takes an unusual toll
11-28-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Guatemala has the world's highest murder rate. The two largest public cemeteries in Guatemala City are so cramped that relatives must pay rent on tombs " or risk family members' 'eviction.'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
IAEA hacked over Israeli nuclear program
11-28-2012
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RT.com
The UN nuclear agency has confirmed that one of its servers has been hacked. A previously unknown group posted contact details of more than 100 experts working with the IAEA, calling on them to act against Israel’s alleged nuclear activities.
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News Link • Drug War
Indiana State Police chief advises lawmakers to legalize and tax pot
11-28-2012
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Raw Story
The top cop for the Indiana State Police on Tuesday advised a group of state lawmakers that marijuana be legalized and taxed.
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt assembly seeks to wrap up constitution
11-28-2012
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Reuters
The assembly writing Egypt's constitution said it could wrap up a final draft later on Wednesday, a move the Muslim Brotherhood sees as a way out of a crisis over a decree by President Mohamed Mursi that protesters say gives him dictatorial powers.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Confident Obama sees path to fiscal cliff win
11-28-2012
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politico.com
Business executives and others who’ve met with President Barack Obama in recent days describe a president who’s supremely confident that he’ll come out on top of a fiscal cliff deal
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News Link • Government
U.S. bans BP from new government contracts after oil spill deal
11-28-2012
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Reuters
The U.S. government banned BP Plc from new federal contracts on Wednesday over its "lack of business integrity" in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, a move that could imperil the British energy giant's U.S. footing.
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News Link • Cuba
Cuba issue deals blow to US stature at 'Summit of the Americas'
11-28-2012
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worldnews.nbcnews.com
Unprecedented Latin American opposition to U.S. sanctions on communist Cuba left President Barack Obama isolated at the Summit of the Americas on Sunday and illustrated Washington's waning influence in the region.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming To The Shores Of America When The Dollar Dies
11-28-2012
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar.
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Reference Link • New World Order
The American Holocaust Is Beginning
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
In evaluating whether or not America is in the beginning stages of genocidal holocaust being perpetrated against the people by a corrupt government, one must consider three fundamental questions which needs to be answered
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???
11-27-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
It's that time of year again for a holiday party - it has been a very busy year for all of us, so come and share in the fun and relaxation we all need - We will be raffling off a brand new Kindle Fire ($5/ticket) - Bring extra lawn chairs if you have
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Government to start taxing 401k's
11-27-2012
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CNBC
As the debate around tax reform grows more heated, broker-dealers and other companies that service retirement plans offered by employers are increasingly concerned that the tax benefits of 401(k) plans are on the chopping block.
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News Link • Government
Intrade shuts out American bettors
11-27-2012
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Washington Post
“We are sorry to announce that due to legal and regulatory pressures, Intrade can no longer allow US residents to participate in our real-money prediction markets,” the company said.“Unfortunately this means that all US residents must
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks GI to argue his detention merits release
11-27-2012
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AP
An Army private charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history is trying to avoid trial by claiming he was already punished enough when he was locked up alone in a small cell and forced to sleep naked for several nights.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bankrupt San Bernardino to halt payments to Calpers, bondholders
11-27-2012
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Reuters
Bankrupt San Bernardino, California, voted on Monday to present a plan to a bankruptcy judge that seeks to balance its budget through deferring payments to the state's public employee pension fund and to the city's bondholders.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Card firms' block on WikiLeaks did not break rules: EU
11-27-2012
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Reuters
A block on processing donations for WikiLeaks by Visa Europe and other credit card companies is unlikely to have violated EU anti-trust rules, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
DataCell, a company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, co
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News Link • Iran
British court stops extradition of Iranian to U.S. in arms case
11-27-2012
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Reuters
A British court blocked on Tuesday the extradition of a former Iranian diplomat wanted by the United States after he was caught in a sting operation trying to export night-vision weapons' sights to Iran.
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News Link • Drug War
The Death of Marine Col. Jim Sabow
11-27-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Salem-News.com) Jim Sabow was a career Marine, a Harrier pilot, third in command of El Toro, and he wasn’t going to allow the illegal drug running to keep taking place on his base.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Let Banks Fail
11-26-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Whereby government intervention " not the rigours of the free market " is the cause of the financial mayhem on Wall Street that becomes economic crises on Main Street. The Global Financial Crisis shows that it is not ‘capitalism’ (Karl Marx’s insult
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News Link • Propaganda
Alternative Media King Hires CIA"Stratfor Agent as Publishing Editor In Chief
11-26-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Molly Maroney is the Editor in Chief and Graphic Designer for InfoWars.com. This is the same website run by Alex Jones; who also runs PrisonPlanet.com, PrisonPlanet.tv and PlanetInfoWars.com (a social networking site).
Maroney was hired by Jones i
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Chris Menke
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Mortgage Interest Deduction, Once a Sacred Cow, Is Under Scrutiny
11-26-2012
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New York Times
A tax break that has long been untouchable could soon be in for some serious scrutiny.
Many home buyers deduct their mortgage interest when assessing their tax bill, a perk that has helped bolster the income of millions of families " and the broad
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