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Date Sent: 2012-12-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, December 9, 2012 |
Deutsche Bank whistleblowers: Former staff reveal $12bn crisis cover-up
New evidence shows Pima Co SWAT Team murdered veteran then office lied -- Fecal transplant saves Valley woman's life -- Pentagon prepares military operation in Mali -- Terminator Eyes: Hi-tech contact lenses show texts and maps -- Rise
of the machines: Hitachi joins robot race to dismantle Fukushima ruins
-- NATO Intervention in Syria Imminent -- Arizona Election Fraud: Is Arizona's Secretary of State Feigning Ignorance Over Terry Goddard' -- Egypt’s Morsi annuls most of contested decree, stays firm on Dec. 15 referendum -- Cop Accused of Ripping Film out of Witness Camera after Kelly Thomas Beating Death -- Raid rescues U.S. citizen kidnapped by Afghan Taliban -- Obama being Sworn in as President in Private and Secret without
Press on Sunday January 20th. Why now? -- Obama Gives OK For Black Box
Data Recorders to Be Installed in All Cars -- 12/21/12: Definitely
Not the End of the World -- Preliminary Patent Office Ruling
Invalidates Apple’s ‘Steve Jobs Patent’ -- Brain Pacemaker Tested on
Alzheimer’s Patients -- Communication Across the Vegetative State --
Inconvenient Arctic Observations Before Satellites -- Ocean
Acidification -- Ketchum Bigfoot Paper Status -- Catfish now hunting
pigeons on land (VIDEO) -- Student Loan Racketeering: Congress
Critter Introduces a Bill to Make Student Loan Payments a Payroll Deduction -- Fed Money Pumping Won’t Get What It Used To -- Ernest
Hancock weighs in on the 2012 election thus far (archive) -- Cynthia McKinney
presents to the 9/11 Revisited conference in Kuala Lumpur -- Obama
Plans African Wars -- Raising Money for Killers -- Blackwater
becomes new landlord in Afghanistan for US Special Forces
AZ: America's First Monument to the Bill of Rights - Arizona Dedication Ceremony, Saturday December 15th
10:00 am; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast &
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Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine December 7th,
2012 Edition - NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Deutsche Bank whistleblowers: Former staff reveal $12bn crisis cover-up
12-08-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Germany’s largest bank might have failed to admit up to $12 billion of unrealized losses during the financial crisis, as stated in a complaint filed by three former Deutsche Bank employees to the US securities regulators.
The complaint claims tha
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
New evidence shows Pima Co SWAT Team murdered veteran then office lied
12-09-2012
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KPHO TV-5 CBS Phoenix
[How did I miss this?] Videotaped depositions made available to CBS 5 Investigates appear to show Pima County sheriff's detectives and SWAT members contradicting each other as they answer attorneys' questions about a search warrant raid
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fecal transplant saves Valley woman's life
12-09-2012
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KPHO TV-5 CBS Phoenix
A local Valley woman says a unique procedure saved her life. It's called a "fecal transplant," and Ellen Christensen is one of a few dozen in the Valley that have gone through the life-saving procedure. Back in January 2011, Christensen went to her d
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Pentagon prepares military operation in Mali
12-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It’s only December, but it looks like the Pentagon has all planned out how they’ll spend a good part of 2013. US officials now claim that the Defense Department is busy preparing a military operation in the nation of Mali.
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Reference Link • Military
Dulce et Decorum:
And May You Get the Chance
Fred Reed
.. if my country says to butcher, then butchery were no crime, but a source of honor. To kill for pure enjoyment, as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, is most contemptible, but to do it because Bush II, Tojo, Bin Laden, or Netanyahu commands it"this is vi
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Terminator Eyes: Hi-tech contact lenses show texts and maps
12-09-2012
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http://rt.com
Imagine texting while driving, or placing a call while showering, without holding your phone in your hands.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Rise of the machines: Hitachi joins robot race to dismantle Fukushima ruins
12-09-2012
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http://rt.com
Japanese company Hitachi has unveiled a new remote-controlled robot designed for lifting duties in radioactive areas of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wings of Russia: Ekranoplans. On the Edge of Two Elements.
12-09-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, BitnikGr
This is a documentary of "Wings of Russia" studio about history of development of Russian Aviation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Garry Kasparov: The Last Revolutionary Technology Was The Apple II
12-09-2012
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http://www.forbes.com, Oliver Chiang
Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion and possibly the greatest chess player of all time, thinks the U.S. has become complacent when it comes to innovation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Is Arizona's Secretary of State Feigning Ignorance Over Terry Goddard'
12-08-2012
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The Intercept
Arizona's Secretary of State's office has issued a surprising answer to Supervisor Ramon Valadez's request for ballot scanning. Contrary to what has been publicly revealed and analyzed in Arizona Attorney General's public recount of the 2006 RTA
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J.t. Waldron
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt’s Morsi annuls most of contested decree, stays firm on Dec. 15 referendum
12-08-2012
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Washington Post
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi early Sunday annulled most of an extraordinary Nov. 22 decree that gave him near-absolute power and has plunged this nation into a deeply divisive political crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Accused of Ripping Film out of Witness Camera after Kelly Thomas Beating Death
12-08-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
So far, 3 cops have been charged in the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a homeless mentally ill man once the surveillance video of his murder was released. The other 3 cops involved in the beating are doing all they can to keep from being charged.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Raid rescues U.S. citizen kidnapped by Afghan Taliban
12-08-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. citizen who was abducted by Taliban insurgents was rescued by U.S. forces in an operation in eastern Afghanistan early on Sunday, NATO-led forces said. The American, Dr. Dilip Joseph, had been abducted in Kabul province. It gave few details.
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News Link • Politics
Obama being Sworn in as President in Private and Secret without Press on Sunday January 20th. Why no
12-08-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In early meetings with the inaugural committee, officials privately indicated to reporters that the Jan. 20 event could be closed to reporters and cameras, with an official photograph supplied to press by White House photographer Pete Souza,
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Obama Gives OK For Black Box Data Recorders to Be Installed in All Cars
12-08-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The NHTSA says that by September 2014 all car and light trucks will be equipped with EDRs that will silently “record the actions of drivers and the responses of their vehicles in a continuous information loop.”
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Bombs Are Now Filled With Chemicals " And Could Be Up for Grabs
12-08-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman
The Bashir Assad regime in Syria is loading of some of its weapons with deadly nerve agents, and mixing together the chemical precursors needed to carry out a sarin-laced attack.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Preliminary Patent Office Ruling Invalidates Apple’s ‘Steve Jobs Patent’
12-08-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Christina Bonnington
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a preliminary ruling invalidating “the Steve Jobs patent,” which covers several key multitouch features " including scrolling " at the heart of iOS.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Most Controlling Smartphone Ever Made
12-08-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By David Talbot
A custom version of Android exerts total control over what you can do, depending on where you are and what apps or networks you are using.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
8 quotes from a cancer surgeon that will set your hair on fire
12-08-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Keep in mind that these quotes are coming from a mainstream doctor who is inside the system and who believes in the system. That makes Makary’s statements all the more shocking.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Communication Across the Vegetative State
12-08-2012
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arclein
hat one in five of these patients are conscious, but essentially trapped in their bodies because they're unable to communicate verbally or physically.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Inconvenient Arctic Observations Before Satellites
12-08-2012
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arclein
1935 Russian vessel travelled over ice-free region that today was still ice-covered just before the previous ice minimum in 2007. Source: Real Science.
1938 Huge melting of Arctic sea ice. Source: WUWT.
Arctic temperatures in the 1930s were war
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Ocean Acidification
12-08-2012
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arclein
During a science cruise in 2008, researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of East Anglia (UEA), in collaboration with colleagues from the US Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Ketchum Bigfoot Paper Status
12-08-2012
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arclein
Yes, I submitted the paper to a Russian journal. And the process of reviewing here started while the journal to which Dr Ketchum sent the paper, had not yet reflected the interest to publish it.
But Dr. Ketchum submitted the paper to the journal o
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robert klein
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Catfish now hunting pigeons on land (VIDEO)
12-08-2012
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The Sideshow
"These particular catfish have taken to lunging out of the water, grabbing a pigeon, and then wriggling back into the water to swallow their prey. In the process, they temporarily strand themselves on land for a few seconds."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Student Loan Racketeering: Congress Critter Introduces a Bill to Make Student Loan Payments a Payrol
12-08-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Obama’s student loan overhaul was modeled after a European styled socialist program and the NYT was wild about Obama’s new student loan program which is a variation of the Marxist doctrine of “from each according to his ability and to each according
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News Link • Political Parties
Ernest Hancock weighs in on the 2012 election thus far
12-08-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, NextNewsNetwork
Ernest Hancock weighs in on the 2012 election thus far
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Cynthia McKinney presents to the 9/11 Revisited conference in Kuala Lumpur
12-08-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, corbettreport
Cynthia McKinney, peace activist and former U.S. Congresswoman, presents to the "9/11 Revisted: Seeking the Truth" conference in Kuala Lumpur on November 19, 2012.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Blackwater becomes new landlord in Afghanistan for US Special Forces
12-07-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
As President Obama insists on a speedy end to the war in Afghanistan, his administration has other plans. A facility owned by the private security force once known as Blackwater has been awarded a $22 million contract to house US troops through 2015.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 9, 2012 Edition
12-07-2012
John Semmens
Amount Spent on Welfare Exceeds Average Income
Data from a Congressional Research Service report reveals that the amount the government spends on welfare per family below the poverty line exceeds the median earned income. The median for earned inc
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News Link • Government
Belarus ruler introduces forced employment
12-07-2012
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AP (h/t Rational Review)
Belarus' authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has decided to stem an exodus of qualified workers to Russia, starting by banning those who work in wood-processing industries from quitting.
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News Link • Misinformation
Lining Pockets or Voting Booths? - Franchi Responds to Bloomberg
12/6/2012
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Reality Report
Did Bloomberg news get the facts straight, did Raw story report on damning information about me? Did Trevor Lyman's Liberty Crier embellish a headline to drive traffic to his site? Did PolicyMic accurately report on the story? Did I pay out a millio
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California school districts face huge debt on risky bonds
12-06-2012
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Los Angeles Times
About 200 districts have borrowed Billions of dollars using so-called capital appreciation bonds. Districts may have to pay 10 to 20 times the amount borrowed saddled them with staggering debt.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security and FBI Release Document Again Slandering Photographers as Terrorists
12-06-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Two months ago, it began encouraging citizens to photograph other citizens who take suspicious photographs in order to report them to Homeland Security.
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. Ready to Offer Mercenaries $10 Billion for a Drug-War Air Force
12-06-2012
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Wired
Unsure how your private security firm makes money as the US war in Afghanistan winds down? One option: Go into the drug trade " specifically the lucrative business of fighting narcotics. The State Department needs a business partner
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
High-income Californians may pay nation's highest tax rate
12-06-2012
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Thanks to passage of Proposition 30 last month, high-income Californians would pay the nation's highest marginal income tax rates -- 52%-- if President Barack Obama and Congress fail to make a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff,"
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News Link • Internet
Kim Dotcom Gets Green Light to Sue New Zealand Spies
12-06-2012
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New Zealand’s spy agency will have to reveal details of their secret surveillance of Kim Dotcom. The Government Communications Security Bureau will be added to Dotcom’s lawsuit over an illegal January raid on his mansion,
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Yes on Prop 37 was classic controlled opposition
12-06-2012
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Farm Wars
Monsanto doesn’t want a ban. Solution? Promote coexistence and divert anti-GMO forces to make sure they don't turn into a powerful force demanding a ban.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Couple Says Officer Shot Their Puppy, Then Wrote Parking Ticket
12-06-2012
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FOX News
While FOX was interviewing the dog's owners, 2 police officers drove by the home. 90 minutes later, they came back, asked Phillips why he had contacted the media and gave him a ticket for not keeping his dog on a leash.
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News Link • Syria
Wider Chaos Feared as Syrian Rebels Clash With Kurds
12-06-2012
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New York Times
The convoy of gun trucks waving the flag of the Syrian rebels whizzed through the Syrian village of Ras al-Ain rushed in to battle the ethnic Kurds.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Platinum Coin Scam to "Solve" the U.S. debt crisis?
12-06-2012
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Washington Post
Under current law, the Treasury is technically allowed to mint as many coins made of platinum as it wants and can assign them whatever value it pleases.
Under this scenario, the U.S. Mint would make a pair of trillion-dollar platinum coins.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Orleans U.S. attorney resigns amid scandal over anonymous online postings
12-06-2012
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Washington Post
The top federal prosecutor in New Orleans, the longest-serving U.S. attorney in the country, resigned Thursday amid an investigation into possible prosecutorial misconduct by two of his top deputies.
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Online sales tax to be added to defense authorization bill
12-06-2012
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The Daily Caller
This may be the last Christmas of online shopping without paying sales tax. A proposed online sales tax has been offered as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, much to the ire of opponents.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
I Told You So! Of Course Washington will Steal Your Retirement Benefits
12-06-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Ron Holland
Today the twin fake memes of a "Fiscal Cliff" and "Austerity" are combining to create a contrived excuse to tax and steal far more of your wealth and income, including your retirement benefits.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
‘No Food Rights’ Judge quits to work for Monsanto law firm
12-06-2012
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http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com, Rady
As courts and bureaucrats continue to assert that citizens have no fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice, we find Monsanto lurking nearby.
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News Link • North American Union
George W. Bush: 'Canada, Mexico and US Should Merge'
12-06-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Former President George W. Bush stressed the importance of immigration on Tuesday at a speech in Dallas, throwing himself back in the ring as the debate over reform heats up in Washington.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Pentagon planning for multinational military operation in Mali
12-06-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
U.S. military planners have begun to help organize a multinational proxy force to intervene next year in Mali, the famine-stricken, coup-wracked African country that has become a magnet for Islamist extremists, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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News Link • Surveillance
Slowing down the surveillance state: a guide to warrantless government spying
12-06-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If the growing use of governmental tip-toeing to wiretap phone lines and emails doesn’t seem serious, think again. So heightened lately are concerns over surveillance that two major organizations have published a primer on federal spy programs.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Here's What Life Is Really Like In Post-Apocalyptic Afghanistan
12-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
People told me I was crazy for doing it.
I hadn't even opened the package containing my shiny new NYU Master's in Journalism and I was already heading to Afghanistan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
US Aircraft Carrier’s Arrival Near Syria Sparks War Fears
12-06-2012
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news.antiwar.com
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has reportedly arrived off the coast of Syria in recent days, having passed through the Suez Canal and joined a team of other ships loitering off the coast in the event President Obama orders a US invasion of Syria.
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News Link • Currencies
Central Banks Hedge Their Bets
12-06-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by John Browne
Gold appears to be headed for an impressive price appreciation for the second half of 2012.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Jersey shore home vanishes
12-06-2012
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myfoxny.com
A man in New Jersey returned to his home after Superstorm Sandy only to find it had vanished -- and not from the storm. At issue is who tore it down and why?
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