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Date Sent: 2012-11-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, November 21, 2012 AM edition |
Obama, without irony, says: "No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on it."
Plea Deals in Mortgage Robo-Signing in Fla., Mo. -- U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, Iran and 100 Years of Failure -- Pat Robertson Advocates Making Marijuana Legal on 700 Club -- Reality Check: What The Fiscal Cliff Means For Businesses, Employees & The Unemployed -- Video: Student Expelled for Refusing Location Tracking RFID Badge -- Secession in These Unites States -- Marc Victor Puts Phoenix Police On Trial -- The Real Petraeus Scandal -- Attacks on Gaza Unite Palestinians -- Pentagon overseas propaganda plan stirs controversy -- The Pentagon Will Survive the Fiscal Cliff -- They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside -- What Marc Faber Said to the LBMA About Gold -- United Nations Official Calls on U.S. Government to Challenge Legal Pot in Colorado and Washington -- An Outburst about Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding
AZ: 2012 Arizona Activists Patriot Roast & "Contempt of Cop"
Fundraiser for 4409, Saturday, Dec. 15, 6PM
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama, without irony, says: "No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on...
11-20-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by ronpaul4freedom2012
Obama, without irony, says: "No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders."
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News Link • Housing
Plea Deals in Mortgage Robo-Signing in Fla., Mo.
11-20-2012
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New York Times
The former head of a company where workers forged signatures on mortgage documents pleaded guilty to a federal charge in Florida on Tuesday, the same day a plea agreement on related state charges was announced in Missouri.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Regime Uncertainty: Some Clarifications
11-20-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Private investment is the most important driver of economic progress. Entrepreneurs need new structures, equipment, and software to produce new products, to produce existing products at lower cost, and to make use of new technology that requires embo
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Chris Menke
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Israeli deputy PM’s Facebook, Twitter accounts hacked, filled with pro-Palestine messages
11-20-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts of Israeli Deputy Premier Silvan Shalom have been hacked and filled with pro-Palestine status updates. ZCompanyHackingCrew claimed responsibility for this latest act of cyber war against Israel.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, Iran and 100 Years of Failure
11-20-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by P.Au.L
An Iraqi diplomat has called upon other Arab oil producers to “use oil as a weapon” against the United States. Fox News reports this as if it should come as a surprise.
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News Link • Drug War
Pat Robertson Advocates Making Marijuana Legal on 700 Club
11-20-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by chris cudnoski
Pat Robertson Advocates Making Marijuana Legal on 700 Club
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Reality Check: What The Fiscal Cliff Means For Businesses, Employees & The Unemployed
11-20-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by P.Au.L
Reality Check's Ben Swann takes a look at how the fiscal cliff might affect your life and what this would mean for businesses, employees and the unemployed.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Secession
Letter Re: Secession in These Unites States
11-20-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, C.L. from Montana
In response to the article involving the constitutionality of secession, a few other points to consider to perhaps gain a clearer view of the secession situation.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Disaster Ignorance
11-20-2012
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http://econfaculty.gmu.edu, BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Here's a which-is-better question for you. Suppose a New Jersey motel room rented for $125 a night prior to Hurricane Sandy's devastation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Appreciating Science: A New Approach to Science in our World
11-20-2012
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http://www.csicop.org, Sharon Hill
Members of the public don’t know much about science, and they seem fine to leave science to the scientists. That’s Trouble.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Radio
"From the Sea, Freedom!"
11-20-2012
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http://www.fee.org, by IVAN OSORIO
For as long as governments have overreached, people have sought escape.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Attacks on Gaza Unite Palestinians
11-20-2012
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original.antiwar.com, by Jillian Kestler-D'Amo
Dozens of Israeli tanks slowly made their way south on the back of flatbed trucks along Israel’s Road 6 highway Sunday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Pentagon overseas propaganda plan stirs controversy
11-20-2012
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http://www.usatoday.com, Tom Vanden Brook
Senior officers at the Pentagon are being advised on countering Taliban propaganda by a marketing expert whose company once weeded out reporters who wrote negative stories in Afghanistan and helped the military deceive the enemy in Iraq, according to
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
The Pentagon Will Survive the Fiscal Cliff
11-20-2012
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http://www.usnews.com, By Justin Logan
A common trope of hawkish foreign policy writers is that America took a "holiday from history" by starting too few wars and trimming military spending in the 1990s.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
How To Build An LED Lightsaber [Infographic]
11-20-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
A fun DIY project--and no one's hand gets chopped off.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Societies
They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
11-20-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman
The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has begun.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
What Does Ron Paul Read?
11-20-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com
In Ron Paul's latest best-seller, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom, he offers us his thoughts on a series of controversial topics, from Abortion to Zionism.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Ho Ho No! With Twinkies' Fate Uncertain, Try This Recipe
11-20-2012
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http://www.cnbc.com
Todd Wilbur has been cloning some of America’s favorite name-brand foods for more than 20 years and here, he recreates the iconic filled yellow cakes.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
What Marc Faber Said to the LBMA About Gold
11-20-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, Bullion Vault Gold News
Why the legendary Swiss investor has a special picture of Ben Bernanke...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
United Nations Official Calls on U.S. Government to Challenge Legal Pot in Colorado and Washington
11-20-2012
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reason.com
The UN has called for Attorney General Eric Holder to challenge the rulings of states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use. This is another blatant attempt by the UN to override the sovereignty of this nation.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Military
Marines’ First Frontline Stealth Fighter Lacks Vital Gear
11-20-2012
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David Axe via WIRED.com
The U.S. Marine Corps has received its first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that, in theory, is meant for actual combat. But that doesn’t mean the pricey, long-delayed JSF is going to be dropping bombs on enemy targets anytime soon.
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News Link • Military
Silent but Deadly: Special Forces Seek Quiet, Subsonic Bullets
11-20-2012
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Robert Beckhusen via WIRED.com
Most bullets make small sonic booms when flying through the air, which to our ears sound like a loud, distinct “crack!” For the Pentagon’s special forces, that makes it hard to be sneaky about what they’re shooting.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
The Latest From iRobot's Research Lab
11-20-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Soft robotic fingers, robots that can open doors, and a robotic sea turtle--iRobot's R&D guys stopped by to show us their latest projects yesterday, and we're passing the awesomeness on to you.
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News Link • Israel
How Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ Knocks Almost Every Incoming Missile Out Of The Sky
11-20-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
It’s tough to hit a moving rocket with a moving rocket. Here’s how Israel’s new domestic missile defense system is doing it with unprecedented accuracy.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Flying Helicopter Orb Guided By Brainwaves
11-20-2012
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Nidhi Subbaraman via TechnologyReview.com
A group called Puzzlebox is hoping to teach kids about neuroscience, open source coding, and focus, by luring them in with a spherical toy helicopter controlled by brainwaves.
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News Link • Internet
Google’s Internet Service Might Actually Bring the U.S. Up to Speed
11-19-2012
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David Talbot via TechnologyReview.com
In a radical departure from its core business, the search giant is installing high-speed fiber neighborhood by neighborhood.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fabrication Trick Offers Fivefold Leap in Hard-Disk Capacity
11-19-2012
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Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.com
Current hard-drive designs are reaching their limit in data storage, but a new manufacturing technique could allow drive capacities to keep expanding.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cleveland Cop Exposed as Cop Block Troll
11-19-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Anonymity on the internet continues to be a thing of the past after a Cleveland cop was exposed as most likely being the same person leaving hate-filled comments to a writer of Cop Block then following it up with a hate-filled email.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai orders ‘full Afghanization’ of U.S.-run Bagram prison
11-19-2012
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Washington Post
President Karzai has ordered his aides to institute the “full Afghanization” of the U.S.-run prison at Bagram air base, charging Americans are continuing to detain Afghans despite a bilateral agreement in March to transfer all prisoners to Afghan aut
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
‘Fiscal cliff’ threatens the national defense
11-19-2012
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Washington Post OpEd
Democrats who talk of “going over the cliff” as a way to gain leverage over Republicans on taxes may not have fully considered what this could mean for the Defense Dept who could fire more 100,000 civilian workers in the first weeks of 2013
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Why Gaza? - by Justin Raimondo
11-19-2012
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AntiWar
The Israeli assault on Gaza was triggered Nov. 8 when the IDF crossed the border and murdered Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa, a 13-year-old boy playing football in his front yard: the official explanation for this action was an alleged weapons cache
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News Link • Surveillance
When Will our Email Betray Us? An Email Privacy Primer in Light of the Petraeus Saga
11-19-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
While a small but increasing number of federal courts have found that the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for all email, the government claims ECPA only requires a warrant for email that is stored for 180 days or less.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli Soldiers Breaking The Silence on the Occupation of Palestine
11-19-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, now an activist with Breaking The Silence explains how 850 former Israeli soldiers have given testimony about the gross injustices against the Palestinian people they have witnessed and made to participate i
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Tylenol Mafia Whistleblower Scott Bartz speaks with WHDT World News (video)
11-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Tylenol Mafia Whistleblower Scott Bartz speaks with WHDT World News in an interview by Gary Franchi regarding the Johnson & Johnson drug deaths
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Issues Memo with Numerous Factual Errors
11-19-2012
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The Intercept
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry's primary PR activity occurs through the construction of memo's addressed to various department heads within his own purview. These memos, of course, wind up in the hands of specific local press outlets.
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