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Date Sent: 2013-01-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 3, 2013 AM edition |
A Desperate Grover Norquist Claims Fiscal Cliff Deal Not Violation of Pledge
A Healthy Attitude Toward Taxation -- Secrecy of Memo on Targeted Killing Is Upheld -- Al Jazeera Seeks a U.S. Voice Where Al Gore Failed --
Be a part of history - New Album and New Tour - Jordan Page -- Up to
300 Birds Mysteriously Fall From The Sky In Seymour, Tennessee?! --
'Nuff Said... -- The Constitution Is Dead- To Arms! -- The
Internet Deserves Its Own Holiday -- 6 States Bar Employers From
Demanding Facebook Passwords -- Divers Could Become Real-Life Aquamen if
This Pentagon Project Works -- New UN Report on Syria
Arizona Breakfast Club next Saturday
Be a part of history - New Album and New Tour - Jordan Page
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
A Desperate Grover Norquist Claims Fiscal Cliff Deal Not Violation of Pledge
01-02-2013
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http://www.politicususa.com/grover-norquist
BULLSHIT! - Bottomline: Previous Tax rate expired Dec 31 2012. That means that the rate went from about 13% to 35%... for a day. Then Republicans "Cut Taxes" to 20%... so it's not really an increase of 7% it's a cut of 15%. Still Voting?
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
A Healthy Attitude Toward Taxation
01-02-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
The tax police now show their teeth. One says
"You've already been caught without the strings once, and then even a second time. "
He then waves "the proclamation with the penalties" for tax evasion, and tells them:
"First time: Fine. Second
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Secrecy of Memo on Targeted Killing Is Upheld
01-02-2013
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New York Times
A federal judge in Manhattan refused to require the Justice Dept to disclose a memorandum providing the legal justification for the targeted killing of a United States citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
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News Link • Media: Television
Al Jazeera Seeks a U.S. Voice Where Al Gore Failed
01-02-2013
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New York Times
Al Jazeera announced a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore, a former vice president, and his business partners 7 years ago. Al Jazeera plans to shut Current and start an English-language channel,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Be a part of history - New Album and New Tour - Jordan Page
01-02-2013
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Jordan Page Music
Help revolutionary rocker Jordan Page record an album of 17 new songs! The campaign goal will include tour support and publicity, as well as a music video!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Property Rights
Warning About Car Door Locks
01-02-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Wednesday, I approached my truck from the passenger side to place
my computer bag (aka my man purse) in the front passenger seat.
As I reached to open the door I noticed there was a hole right
under my door handle.
My first thought was, “
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Healthcare
Ancient systems in the brain drive human cravings
01-02-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Neuroscience is the new black, when it comes to fashion in scientific research.
“The gene was the central issue in biology in 20th century,” Nobel Laureate Dr. Eric Kandel, neuroscientist at Columbia University said in an interview in Toronto rece
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Property Rights
Primal Home Security System for a Depressed Economy
01-02-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
I recently read this 2006 article from Mother Earth News: “The Best Guard Dog for Your Homestead.” The article discusses the innate talents of different dogs depending upon the duty that is desired from them.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Up to 300 Birds Mysteriously Fall From The Sky In Seymour, Tennessee?!
01-02-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Residents and those passing by near Dogwood Hills subdivision on Boyd Creek Highway Sunday afternoon were met with an unusual scene. Dozens of dead birds littered the highway and surrounding fields after falling from the sky. Sgt. Robert Stoffle of t
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Internet
Ubuntu Linux Comes to Smartphones
01-02-2013
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www.wired.com
Ubuntu Linux is coming to smartphones. Canonical " the British outfit that oversees Ubuntu " has built a new version of the open source operating system for touchscreens, and unlike other smartphone operating systems, it will work as a full desktop O
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday January 2nd 2013
01-02-2013
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LewRockwell.com
America's Gun-Free Killing Zoneo / Domestic Tyrants, Not Foreign, Walter Williams on the 2nd amendment / Who Are the Allies of Secession? / You Know How This All Ends, Don't You?, It ends with regional or world war / Death by Politician
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
The Internet Deserves Its Own Holiday
01-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Marvin Ammori
Every so often in human history, something new comes along that warrants a celebration, and that deserves its own holiday. That’s why I propose we celebrate “Internet Freedom Day” later this month.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 " 10 Years Ago
01-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Mat Honan
Predicting the future is hard, but that doesn’t stop us from trying. We’re Wired, after all.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
6 States Bar Employers From Demanding Facebook Passwords
01-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
California and Illinois on Tuesday joined four others in becoming the union’s only states barring employers from demanding that employees fork over their social-media passwords.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space 2013: A New Year of Missions and Events
01-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
Mankind has always expected the heavens to be busy, and 2013 will be no different. We no longer imagine gods and goddesses above us " instead, we shoot our own rockets, people, and probes to populate space.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Divers Could Become Real-Life Aquamen if This Pentagon Project Works
01-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
Even casual divers know that diving too deep, or surfacing too quickly, can cause a host of complications from sickness to seizures and even sudden death.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Inventions
Samsung Youm Display - Flexible Display - AMOLED and Transparent OLED Screens
01-02-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, minipcpro
Samsung Youm Display - Flexible AMOLED Display-
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Reference Link • Dollar Meltdown The
The Coming Isolation of USDollar
Jim Willie - Gold Eagel
The United States just suffered its worst humiliation ever as a nation on the Eastern global stage. It was exceeded only by the humiliation for a US president personally. The story went uncovered by the lapdog inept US press. The late November Asian
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News Link • Police State
Watch Me Talk Police Militarization
01-01-2013
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, Radley Balko
Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper, George Schulz of the Center for Investigative Reporting, and yours truly discuss police militarization in America on Al Jazeera's Inside Story.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Agreement Reached To Extend 2008 Farm Bill
01-01-2013
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http://www.mintpress.net, The Associated Press
The top leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in October, a move that could head off a possible doubling of milk prices next month.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's Newest And Deadly Warship Has Entered The South China Sea
01-01-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
As five other countries claim ownership of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and its supposed billions in oil and gas deposits, China's backing its claim by sending the newest warship it has to the region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Going for the Guns: Possible Martial Law in Early 2013?
01-01-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, BumperTapper2
Audio clip from "The Pastor Butch Paugh Show"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Confiscation = Act of War
01-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, dwalters
Any person that comes to your house to get your guns should be met with deadly force. Shoot to kill.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Sis Spy Drone At Vikings-Packers Game?
01-01-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
TSA VIPR team keeps tabs on fans
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Oliver Stone to RT: ‘US has become an Orwellian state’
01-01-2013
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http://rt.com
Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Video: Dianne Feinstein Says Her Goal is to Disarm All Americans
01-01-2013
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http://www.infowars.com, Alex Jones
Democrat Senator: “Mr. and Mrs. America… turn ‘em all in.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Hillary Clinton's Illness Prompts Conspiracy Theories
01-01-2013
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http://www.weeklystandard.com, By DANIEL HALPER
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most famous current female political figure, has fallen ill.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
At Least 41 Killed in Pakistan Militant Attacks
01-01-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Mass Executions of Captives, Attack on Shi'ite Pilgrims
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Demand A Plan - Demand Celebrities Go F*CK Themselves!
01-01-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, ma5one
Hypocrite celebrities and their anti gun agenda
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Put some nice, long, jaggedy teeth in the Bill of Rights
01-01-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
We are helping to promote a White House petition in favor of a Constitutional amendment that would put some nice, long, jaggedy teeth in the Bill of Rights. Believe it or not, it's even more Draconian the the clause I've been promoting for years.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Rand Paul slams ‘spending bill’ fiscal cliff deal
01-01-2013
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Politico
“Not only are they raising taxes " maybe on a smaller percentage of people but a large amount of money " but they’re also going to spend more money,” Paul said. “So it’s a spending bill.”
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News Link • Justice and Judges
MI woman released after 11 days in jail for cursing
01-01-2013
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Rawstory
Ford said she was cursing to herself in frustration over the process of clearing up an old traffic ticket; on her second trip to the county clerk’s office to pay the $50 fine on Dec. 18, District Court Judge Dennis Wiley ordered she be arrested and p
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
North Carolina’s Democratic governor pardons ‘Wilmington 10′ civil rights activists
01-01-2013
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Rawstory
North Carolina’s outgoing governor [waits until] pardoned on Monday the Wilmington 10, a group of civil rights activists convicted of firebombing a white-owned grocery store in a black neighborhood 40 years ago.
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News Link • Libya
US State Dept made 'grievous mistake' over Benghazi-Senate report
01-01-2013
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Reuters
The State Department made a "grievous mistake" in keeping the U.S. mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on Monday.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Prescott Valley police chief defends presence at bar fight
01-01-2013
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KPHO TV-5 CBS Phoenix
Prescott Valley police Chief Bill Fessler has broken his silence about a fight at a bar on Whiskey Row in Prescott that allegedly involved members of the police motorcycle club in which he is a member.
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Reference Link • Treason and Sedition
You Are Playing In a Game With No Rules
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
If you were going to rob one of two homes, what would you choose? Would you choose a home that clearly has armed family members, or, would you choose the home where the best weapon in the house is a butter knife? This is the choice being made by the
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News Link • Gun Rights
Merry Christmas and Happy Gun Control, Chicago
12-31-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Karen De Coster
Chicago, one of America’s most Nazified, anti-gun cities, has just recorded its 500th homicide. This is another banner year for Rahm Emanuel’s tightly controlled non-gun “paradise.”
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Adam Lanza’s dead body to be used to criminalize innocents who have similar gene
12-31-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Ethan A. Huff
Unknown sources are funneling money into new research aimed at finding the so-called “evil” gene that may have been responsible for the recent mass shooting that allegedly took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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News Link • Healthcare
Obama Administration: We Can and Will Force Christians to Act Against Their Faith
12-31-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Terence P. Jeffrey
...the Obama administration is claiming that the First Amendment"which expressly denies the government the authority to prohibit the “free exercise” of religion"nonetheless allows it to force Christians to directly violate their religious beliefs...
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News Link • Gold and Silver
When Priced in Gold, the US economy is at Depression-Era Levels
12-31-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
As we slide into the end of yet another year in which the nominal price of gold has posted a positive return, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back on history to get a better understanding of where we are today.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Vows To Put “Full Weight” Behind Gun Control Legislation Next Year
12-31-2012
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http://www.slate.com, By Daniel Politi
Even though the fiscal cliff is the top issue in Washington these days, that doesn’t mean President Obama doesn’t have other things on his mind.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Testing
Secret Human Testing Revealed in Declassified U.S. Army Documents; Lawsuit Follows
12-31-2012
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http://www.activistpost.com, Nicholas West
It is always a challenge attempting to describe how sick and power mad are some of the elite who have taken up positions within the military-industrial-scientific complex.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Media Quiet About San Antonio Theater Shooting
12-31-2012
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http://beforeitsnews.com, By Mort Amsel
On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the CT shooting, a man went to a restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-girlfriend. After he shot her, most of the people in the restaurant fled next door to a theater. The gunman followed them and entered t
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, Best of 2012 (Part 3)
12-31-2012
John Semmens
Dems Scramble to Explain Obama Debate Defeat
Going into this week's first presidential debate Democrats were confident that the most brilliant man to ever hold the office would easily trounce his challenger. However, 67% of voters who saw the deba
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