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Date Sent: 2012-12-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 28, 2012 |
CIA’s Global Response Staff emerging from shadows after incidents in Libya and Pakistan
Judge: Media can intervene in priest files fight -- Just Normal
Apprehension -- DPS probing Prescott assault involving officers --
Record number of claims against NYC police in FY 2011: report --
Repudiate the National Debt - by Wendy McElroy -- Bloggers post
addresses of staff of newspaper that posted gun owners addresses -- NATO
driving export of RFID, NCTC database state policy in India, abroad -- Icelandic Recovery -- TED TALK: Algorithms Are Controlling Your
World -- Kyle Bass' 5 Reasons Why The Japanese Government Bond
Market Will Collapse by 2016 -- Generation Y Wakes Up From The
American Dream, Faces An American Nightmare -- Agenda
21 Is Being Rammed Down The Throats Of Local Communities All Over
America -- Say Goodbye To The Good Life -- Blogger's
death stirs political hornet's nest in Iran -- Boy Uses Dad's
AR-15 To Shoot Invader - Thank God For The 2nd Amendment -- The
Real Reason For Having GUN RIGHTS -- For outgoing lawmakers, connections mean chance to cash in -- This Was Definitely
Not A Merry Christmas For Retail
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA’s Global Response Staff emerging from shadows after incidents in Libya and Pakistan
12-27-2012
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Washington Post
The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Dept. facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Judge: Media can intervene in priest files fight
12-27-2012
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AP
The media outlets sought to intervene because the archdiocese plans to make thousands of pages of files public by Jan. 14 under a previous judge's order that allows it to black out the names of some accused clerics and all members of the church hiera
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Just Normal Apprehension
12-27-2012
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Simple Justice
When Corporals Bass and Pope of the sheriff's office spied a green minivan traveling at the ridiculously high rate of speed of 73 in a 70 mile-per-hour zone, they took notice. Based upon my personal observation, it was likely because the van was the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AzDPS probing Prescott assault involving officers (Membership Criteria...)
12-27-2012
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KPHO TV-5 CBS Phoenix
The department turned over the investigation of Saturday night's incident involving members of the Iron Brotherhood Motorcycle Club to the Department of Public Safety once Prescott Valley police officers were recognized among the bikers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Record number of claims against NYC police in FY 2011: report
12-27-2012
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Reuters
A record number of legal claims were filed against the New York City Police Department in fiscal year 2011. A total of 8,882 claims were filed against the NYPD, up from the previous high of 8,110 filed in fiscal year 2010. The city also settled $185.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Repudiate the National Debt - by Wendy McElroy
12-27-2012
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Future of Freedom Foundation
“Repudiation” is not a word used by the political mainstream. Part of the reason is who holds the debt. China is often castigated as the largest holder, but that country actually accounts for less than 8% of the money America has borrowed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Bloggers post addresses of staff of newspaper that posted gun owners addresses
12-27-2012
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The map indicates the addresses of all Journal News Employees in the New York Tri-State area. Each dot represents an individual Journal News employee -- a reporter, editor or staffer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
A Letter of Thanks to Organic Farmers
12-27-2012
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Farm Wars
Whether you are a famous farmer or just trying to feed your family and a few friends with real food, you are healing the world! And your hard work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Surveillance
NATO driving export of RFID, NCTC database state policy in India, abroad
12-27-2012
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MoneyLife
[India's] NPR, NATGRID, NCTC and UID are unfolding without any legal mandate. It appears UID was, and remains, an attention diversion exercise. The real work is being done by Home Ministry to establish the world’s biggest surveillance database regime
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • General Opinion
TED TALK: Algorithms Are Controlling Your World
12-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Linette Lopez
In an insightful TED Talk, by tech entrepreneur Kevin Slavin on how algorithms have reached across industries (from finance to Hollywood) and into every day life (h/t dailymotion).
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News Link • Economy - International
Kyle Bass' 5 Reasons Why The Japanese Government Bond Market Will Collapse by 2016
12-27-2012
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Kyle Bass
J. Kyle Bass, founder and principle of Hayman Capital Management, takes the stage with a compelling keynote address offering candid views on the state of crippled sovereigns and the global economy
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Generation Y Wakes Up From The American Dream, Faces An American Nightmare
12-27-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Three and a half years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, the earnings and employment gap between those in the under-35 population and their parents and grandparents threatens to unravel the American dream of each generation doing
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New NASA Spacesuit Looks like Buzz Lightyear's
12-27-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Miriam Kramer
It might make the astronaut wearing it look like a real-life Buzz Lightyear, but a new prototype spacesuit that NASA just finished testing represents the first major overhaul in spacesuit technology since 1998.
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News Link • Iran
Blogger's death stirs political hornet's nest in Iran
12-27-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Babak Dehghanpisheh
There was little about Sattar Beheshti that made him stand out in a working-class suburb south of Tehran called Robat Karim.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Boy Uses Dad's AR-15 To Shoot Invader - Thank God For The 2nd Amendment
12-27-2012
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TV11 Houston, Texas
(Publisher: And where is Chris Matthews/MSNBC on this?)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - December 27th 2012
12-27-2012
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LewRockwell.com
Why Do Neocons Hate LRC? / We Must Rebuild Society, says Ron Paul / Break Your Chains, says Gerald Celente / Anti-Gun Types Are Full of Hate / Government Is Their God, Bill Anderson on the Progressives / Sibel Edmonds
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolving Door
For outgoing lawmakers, connections mean chance to cash in
12-27-2012
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Brian Montopoli, Russ Choma / CBS News
Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., said in a statement that she was leaving Congress not "because I have lost my heart for service," but rather because the job offered "a new way to serve."
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Art
AD OF THE DAY: This Rube Goldberg-esque Holiday Card Took 900 Hours To Make
12-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Christina Austin
We were blown away by Solve Media's holiday card this year.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernie Madoff Sent A Letter To CNBC On Christmas Eve
12-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Scott Cohn
The recent rash of insider trading cases may be a shock to some on Wall Street, but not to one long-time market player: Bernie Madoff.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
This Was Definitely Not A Merry Christmas For Retail
12-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Margaret Bogenrief
Here in Chicago, shopping for last minute holiday gifts, it was easy to spot a trend that routinely presented itself in the checkout line. At the cash register, customers were, time and time again, using just that: cash, to pay for their purchases.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
This 12-Year-Old Parkour Athlete Will Amaze, Terrify You
12-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, John Metcalfe
I will freely admit that Robbie Griffith is much cooler than I was at age 12. For me, a slammin' day in the seventh grade involved consuming Frosted Mini-Wheats while watching Animaniacs. Griffith, on the other hand, prefers to execute flawless tuck-
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Feature Article • Wallet Voting
Love You Like A Bitcoin (parody song)
Drew
Bitcoin lyrics written by Tuxavant and sung to Selena Gomez's "I love you like a love song". Performed by Kryptina, DefconKids MVH 2012 and bitcoin miner since 2010. Featuring James Brown Jr.
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Doug Casey on the Morality of Money
Doug Casey
As we approach the end of the year " a time when people often reflect on their progress or lack thereof over the past year across all areas of life " this February 2011 interview of Doug Casey by Louis James on the morality of money seems especially
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News Link • Transportation
Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles
12-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of pass
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt Constitution Passes With 63.8 Percent ‘Yes’ Vote
12-26-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason
Nearly Two Years After Mubarak Resignation, Egypt Has a Constitution
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bush Administration
Free the CIA torture report
12-26-2012
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http://www.latimes.com
The Senate Intelligence Committee should make public a 6,000-page report on the CIA's detention and interrogation policies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The truth about Zero Dark Thirty: this torture fantasy degrades us all
12-26-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Michael Wolff
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's film claims to be 'based on a true story' but no non-fiction writer could take such liberties
Share327
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Revealed: NSA targeting domestic computer systems in secret test
12-26-2012
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http://news.cnet.com, by Declan McCullagh
The National Security Agency's Perfect Citizen program hunts for vulnerabilities in "large-scale" utilities, including power grid and gas pipeline controllers, new documents from EPIC show.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
District traffic cameras to more than double amid record revenues
12-26-2012
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http://washingtonexaminer.com, Alan Blinder
Traffic camera fines are poised to dip in the District, but one aspect of the controversial program is set to surge in 2013: the number of the devices that generate tickets for common traffic offenses like speeding and running stoplights.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
GCHQ dismisses claims D-Day pigeon riddle has been cracked
12-26-2012
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Steven Swinford
The intelligence agency GCHQ has dismissed claims that a coded message from the Second World War found tied to the remains of a pigeon in a chimney has been cracked.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. retailers scramble after lackluster holiday sales
12-26-2012
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By Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Jessica Wohl
The 2012 holiday season may have been the worst for retailers since the financial crisis, with sales growth far below expectations, forcing many to offer massive post-Christmas discounts in hopes of shedding excess inventory.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Print
Fury After Paper Publishes Names, Addresses of Legal Pistol Owners in New York
12-26-2012
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http://www.theblaze.com, Erica Ritz
New York’s “Journal News” ignited a fierce debate Sunday after publishing the names and addresses of pistol permit holders in two New York counties. They are actively working on acquiring data for a third county.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
"Murdoch’s Bid to Buy the US Presidency."
12-26-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, By Jonathan Cook
Rupert Murdoch’s Bid to Persuade Gen. David Petraeus to Run as Republican Candidate in the 2012 Presidential Election - Why the Washington Post killed the story of Murdoch’s bid to buy the US presidency
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News Link • Emmigration
And… another one reaches his Breaking Point
12-26-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
French actor Gerard Depardieu paid 85% of his income in taxes last year. He claims to have paid nearly $180 million in taxes over his 45-year career. With Francois Hollande’s latest round of tax increases in France, Depardieu has reached his breaking
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Now Paul Craig Roberts Wonders About RT
12-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com,
We carry columns by Paul Craig Roberts " former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury " and one published this past week entitled "Agenda Driven News" dealt with a topic we'd just discussed here at The Daily Bell.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The NRA's Sorry Tale ...
12-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
This video provides us with a concise history of the National Rifle Association, the most powerful gun lobby of them all in the US. Actually, one could say it is a concise history of the gathering failure of this organization, as it shows clearly how
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News Link • Military
The Twelve Days of Christmas (Military Version)
12-26-2012
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LewRockwell.Com/Laurence Vance
On the first day of Christmas, the military gave to me...A list of foreign wars it's fighting to keep me free.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Karatbars " Protect Your Assets With Gold
12-26-2012
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Sherry Peel Jackson
I don’t have to tell you that our nation, along with the dollar, is on a slippery slide downward. I have been trying to figure out how to protect my family, do what it takes to get unshackled from debt and then acquire REAL assets.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Libya
State Depart official who 'resigned' after Libya findings never left...
12-26-2012
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New York Post
Benghazi penalties are bogus
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
DC Police Investigating NBC's Gregory for Brandishing Illegal Magazine
12-26-2012
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www.breitbart.com
Washington D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has confirmed that the department is looking into allegations that NBC's David Gregory violated D.C.'s gun banning laws during a recent taping of Meet the Press.
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