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Date Sent: 2011-11-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 28, 2011 PM edition |
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B -- Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown
U.S. to spend more than $6 billion in Iraq next year -- The Making of a Prison Society - by William Grigg -- How To Reduce Military Suicides -- Teen won’t apologize for insulting Kansas governor: ‘I would do it again’ -- Introducing Black Wednesday at APMEX! Don't Miss These Thanksgiving Specials on Gold and Silver -- Supreme Court declines to clarify gun rights question -- Iran: We'll fire 150,000 missiles at Israel if attacked -- IMF drawing up £500bn package to save Italy, Spain and the euro -- Barney Frank won’t seek reelection in 2012 -- Secret Kuwait government falls -- Ohio Puts 200-pound Third-grader In Foster Care -- Indefinite Domestic Military Detentions
global: Magazine Article Contest
(Freedoms Phoenix 1oz Silver Round to 3 Winners; Congratulations
to The Institute For Justice on its 20th Anniversary of kicking
over-reaching government's (is there any other kind?) ass!!!!
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B
11-28-2011
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Bloomberg
The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising. The Fed committed $7.77 TRILLION as of March 2009 (2 1/2 years ago) to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the US that year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown
11-28-2011
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torrentcreak.com
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have resumed “Operation In Our Sites”, the domain name seizing initiative designed to crack down on online piracy and counterfeiting.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
U.S. to spend more than $6 billion in Iraq next year
11-28-2011
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AFP
The US iwill spend more than $6 billion in Iraq in 2012 even though its forces are to withdraw from the country by the end of this year, US ambassador Jeffrey said. President Obama announced the last troops would leave by year’s end, but
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
The Making of a Prison Society
11-28-2011
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by William Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"That's why you shouldn't bring kids to protests."
This taunt, which issued from the sneering lips of an armored riot policeman, struck Don Joughin with the force of a billyclub as he tried to comfort his children " a three-year-old and a newborn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
The Emulator - transparent touchscreen mixing desk puts DJs center stage
11-28-2011
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www.gizmag.com
While traditional mixing desks can bury DJs behind bulky equipment in a dimly lit corner of the club, this transparent, 46-inch multi-touch system from software development company Smithson Martin puts the person spinning the discs - or in this case
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Remember This: Feminist Naomi Wolf Speaks at a Ron Paul Rally
11-28-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Author and activist Naomi Wolf describes 10 signs the United States is drifting toward fascism at a rally for Republican Congressman Ron Paul in front of the U.S. Capitol (July 12, 2008).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
How To Reduce Military Suicides
11-28-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Laurence Vance
Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I have been quite vocal in my opposition to most of what is done by the U.S. military in the name of defending our freedoms and other nonsense.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
The East Coast Retreat Dilemma
11-28-2011
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survivalistblog.com
As a relocation specialist and designer, I found safe retreat locations and helped clients develop high security homes in every state of the union and you can too. The concept that anyone caught East of the Mississippi River is doomed is only partial
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Teen won’t apologize for insulting Kansas governor: ‘I would do it again’
11-28-2011
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Rawstory
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) shouldn’t hold his breath waiting for an apology from the teen that he tattled on for writing a disparaging tweet. Emma Sullivan, 18, said she isn’t giving in to Brownback’s demand for an apology because it wouldn’t be s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Introducing Black Wednesday at APMEX! Don't Miss These Thanksgiving Specials on Gold and Silver
11-28-2011
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apmex.com
We have reduced prices on thousands of products throughout the site. Just look for this special animated gift box icon on select products. This icon indicates that the product is part of the sale and its price has been reduced!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday November 28th 2011
11-28-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Who Won the Iraq War? - by Eric Margolis / Gold Confiscation / The Road to War - by Paul Craig Roberts / Foreclosure Fraud in a Nutshell / Facebook and Privacy / Americans Know So Little Geography /
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Reasons for Rawhide, by Pat in Oregon
11-28-2011
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Survivalblog.com
This last year we’ve been experimenting with using rawhide, and after a year, we are convinced having rawhide on-hand is one of the more valuable items for regular or emergency use. It is quite easy to process, unlimited in its use, and readily avai
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
I am IJ: 20 Years Litigating for Liberty (video)
11-28-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
If you created an institution, an American institution, what would you want it to do? You'd want it to make the world around you a better place. You'd want it to defend the ideals that make America so unique and inspire others to join in that cause.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Internet
Businesses can now participate on Google+ with brand "pages"
11-28-2011
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arstechnica.com
Google announced on Monday that it is adding a "pages" feature to Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join its homegrown social network. The new feature closely resembles Facebook's own popular pages feature, giving businesses a reason to care
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Supreme Court declines to clarify gun rights question
11-28-2011
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ChristianScienceMonitor.Com
The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a potentially important gun rights case, which could have established guideposts for future gun regulations at the local, state, and national levels.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran: We'll fire 150,000 missiles at Israel if attacked
11-28-2011
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ynetnews.com
Defense minister Vahidi tells army volunteers 'Israel has to be punished for what it has done to the Muslims in Palestine'
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF drawing up £500bn package to save Italy, Spain and the euro
11-28-2011
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www.telegraph.co.uk
The International Monetary Fund is being lined up potentially to help Italy and Spain amid growing fears that a European rescue scheme will not be able to prop up the countries.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Barney Frank won’t seek reelection in 2012
11-28-2011
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boston.com
US Representative Barney Frank, the state’s highest-profile congressman and one of the nation’s leading liberal voices after being among its first openly gay elected officials, planned to announce today that he will not reelection next year.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
H.L. Mencken Quotes - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
11-28-2011
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Quotes of Mencken
Journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. He is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Property Rights
Patents on chimpanzees, sperm cells and human genes
11-28-2011
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Farm Wars
These patents fuel the commercialization of the human body. Living beings and their genetic conditions are not an invention and should not be subjected to patents.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • World News
Kuwait government falls
11-28-2011
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al Jazeera
Kuwait's cabinet has resigned after protesters and opposition deputies demanded that the prime minister step down over allegations of corruption, state-run television has reported.
"The prime minister [Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah] has
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Family
Ohio Puts 200-pound Third-grader In Foster Care
11-28-2011
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AP
An Ohio third-grader who weighs more than 200 pounds has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn’t doing enough to control his weight.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Use By Dates and Discretion
11-28-2011
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arclein
The good news is that there's a pretty straightforward solution to all this confusion and waste. It's a system called "closed dating," which uses a code to communicate information on product freshness to stores for stocking and shelving purposes
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Brinicle Formation Filmed in Antarctic
11-28-2011
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arclein
The result is the brine sinks in a descending plume. But as this extremely cold brine leaves the sea ice, it freezes the relatively fresh seawater it comes in contact with. This forms a fragile tube of ice around the descending plume, which grows int
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The End of AIDS
11-28-2011
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arclein
After Franklin’s death, Sharp nearly became another victim when he came down with extrapulmonary tuberculosis. “I felt I was knocking on death’s door,” he says. “So I quit my ballet company, took the life insurance money Johnny left me, and moved to
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robert klein
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News Link • Tea Party
Tea Party Visits Occupy Philadelphia (video)
11-27-2011
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The International Libertarian
The Liberate Philadelphia Tea Partiers held a press conference at the Occupy Philadelphia site. It didn't go well for them. They were joined by the local, conservative radio talk show host, and advocate of torture, Dom Giordano.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Activism
Live Feeds for Occupy LA, Occupy Philly - both facing eviction from 'authorities'...
11-27-2011
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OccupyLosAngeles.org
Mayor Villaraigosa served notice on Friday that Occupy Los Angeles is no longer welcome, the occupiers asked to leave by 12:01 AM Monday morning. This of course, caused angst and consternation amongst the occupiers, but it was by no means a surprise
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