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Date Sent: 2012-12-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 12, 2012 PM edition |
10 Year Old Strip Searched by School Official Over Lunch Ruckus
New Afghan Peace Plan Would Cede Southeast to Taliban -- Not Just Buses, Street Lights Are Also Recording Conversations -- Lawsuit: Use of “Taser is not unconstitutional when used to compel obedience” -- Genetic Researchers Grow A Fish That Has Legs -- US Sending 20 More F-16s to Egypt, Despite Dictatorial Morsi -- Iraq abuse inquiry was a cover-up, whistleblower tells court -- Tribune to seek sale of newspapers -- Iceland Volcano Eruption Was a Chain Reaction -- Scientists May Have Finally Unlocked Puzzle of Why People Are Gay -- The New Panama Canal Could Change Everything For US Imports -- Why China's Super-Rich Are Packing Up And Moving Abroad -- The Pentagon Hopes To Arm Drones With Laser Weapons Inside Five Years -- The FOMC Is Expected To Announce QE4 Today — Here's What You Need To Know -- Here's What We Know About The Secretive X-37B Space Plane Launching On Tuesday -- Paul Krugman Is Very Concerned About The Ominous Threat Posed By Robots -- Religious Monument Gets a Sidekick: Bill of Rights -- Jersey City Unveils 3-Story High ‘Eye In The Sky’ Surveillance Tower To Fight Crime -- U.S. Should Consider Automatic Voter Registration: AG Holder -- Syrian Rebels Pledge Allegiance to Al-CIAda Group That Killed U.S. Troops -- 12-12-12 -- Susan Marie Weber - Chris Bliss - James Bovard - LISTEN LIVE, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- California's Population Is Moving Out, Census Report Shows -- Here's Why Delta Bought A Huge Chunk Of Virgin Atlantic -- China's New MIRV Ballistic Missile Is A Big Deal --
ART CASHIN: Planetary Alignments Could Trigger Earthquakes During The
'Mayan Apocalypse' -- There's Not A Single Spending Cut That Republican
Voters Support -- Brazil Is One Of The Few Truly Independent Countries In The World -- Larry Page Finally Explains Why Google Is Working On Self-Driving Cars -- Great Britain Is Slowly Ditching Christianity -- Lawsuits for Information on Drones
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News Link • Police State
10 Year Old Strip Searched by School Official Over Lunch Ruckus
12-12-2012
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Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
As the police state branches out, school officials are now taking the same authority as code enforcers when it comes to illegally strip searching students. In this case, a ten year old boy was the victim.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The New Panama Canal Could Change Everything For US Imports
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
The near-total closure of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which ended Wednesday after a week-long strike, could have crippled the flow of goods into the US. But it could be the start of new battles ahead for major US ports.
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News Link • Afghanistan
New Afghan Peace Plan Would Cede Southeast to Taliban
12-12-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Taliban Would Be Given Political Leadership in Provinces for End to Insurgency
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Report: Tribune to seek sale of newspapers
12-12-2012
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http://www.politico.com, By DYLAN BYERS
Bloomberg's Edmund Lee & Serena Saitto breaks news that the Tribune Company intends to seek sale of its newspaper holdings as it exits bankruptcy.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
How The Internet Has Spread Around The World [Infographic]
12-12-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Emily Elert
The World Wide Web is really starting to look like, well, a world wide web.
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News Link • Military
The Pentagon Hopes To Arm Drones With Laser Weapons Inside Five Years
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
General Atomics is developing a powerful laser that can be fitted to an unmanned drone, Mark Thompson of Time reports.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Archaeology
Noah's Black Sea Flood Confirmed
12-12-2012
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arclein
the now-salty Black Sea was once an isolated freshwater lake surrounded by farmland, until it was flooded by an enormous wall of water from the rising Mediterranean Sea. The force of the water was two hundred times that of Niagara Falls, sweeping awa
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News Link • Emmigration
Why China's Super-Rich Are Packing Up And Moving Abroad
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Hua Ti
According to the 2011 Private Wealth Report, 27% of Chinese entrepreneurs worth more than 100 million RMB ($15.9 million) have already emigrated, while another 47% say they are considering doing so.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Take A Virtual Trip To The Moon With Patrick Moore's Handy Guide
12-12-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rose Pastore
The eccentric, monocle-wearing astronomer died Sunday at the age of 89. Celebrate Moore's contributions to science by checking out his 1957 guidebook to the moon.
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News Link • Inventions
Japan pedal power aims for human flight record
12-12-2012
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http://phys.org,
A team in Japan are hoping pedal-power will beat the world record for a human-propelled plane"in a flying machine made from polystyrene, they said Monday.
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News Link • Geology
3-D Painting Visualizes Earthquakes In Real Time
12-12-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Part painting, part sculpture, Quakescape taps realtime seismological data to create a color-coded visualization of the earth's movements beneath Christchurch, New Zealand.
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News Link • Egypt
US Sending 20 More F-16s to Egypt, Despite Dictatorial Morsi
12-12-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
The US is desperate to retain as much influence over Egypt as possible
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq abuse inquiry was a cover-up, whistleblower tells court
12-12-2012
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The Guardian
A former investigator into allegations that British troops abused Iraqi prisoners resigned because she did not want to be implicated in “a cover-up”, the high court has heard. Louise Thomas, 45, left the Iraq Historic Allegations Team because she tho
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News Link • Science
Biggest Black Hole
12-12-2012
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arclein
It makes up about 14 percent of its host galaxy's mass, compared with the 0.1 percent a normal black hole would represent, scientists said.
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News Link • Geology
Iceland Volcano Eruption Was a Chain Reaction
12-12-2012
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arclein
the first explosion was rooted in a magma chamber about 3 miles (5 kilometers) below the surface, while the three later explosions stemmed from magma chambers at depths of about 7 miles (11.5 km), 12 miles (19 km) and 15 miles (24 km).
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News Link • Agriculture
Dr Oz Slags Organics
12-12-2012
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arclein
Dr. Oz's attack on organics is not the action of a lone madman who has lost touch with reality. It's part of a coordinated P.R. campaign that has been organized against organics, Natural News has learned, and it's being run behind the scenes by on
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Opinion • Racism
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Black racism alive and flourishing in America
12-12-2012
Frosty Wooldridge
Foxx said, “I get free, I save my wife, and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that? And how black is that?” A white person would be arrested for hate crimes for that comment.He would have started black riots all over the country
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News Link • Energy
CHART OF THE DAY: The Epic Implosion Of The Green Energy Bubble
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
A stock index that exclusively lists renewable energy companies in down 98 percent since fall of 2008, reports The Washington Times).
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The FOMC Is Expected To Announce QE4 Today " Here's What You Need To Know
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
Today, the Federal Reserve will announce its latest decision on monetary policy, followed by a press conference featuring Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Paul Krugman Is Very Concerned About The Ominous Threat Posed By Robots
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
The focus of a few of Paul Krugman's recent blog posts and his most recent New York Times column is robots and how they are fundamentally changing the U.S. labor market.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Religious Monument Gets a Sidekick: Bill of Rights
12-12-2012
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New York Times
Workers prepared to install a limestone slab that is part of a monument to the Bill of Rights at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. It will be dedicated Saturday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Jersey City Unveils 3-Story High ‘Eye In The Sky’ Surveillance Tower To Fight Crime
12-12-2012
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CBS News
Among the initiatives is the “Eye in the Sky,” a three-story high, mobile tower equipped with 360-degree views and streaming surveillance cameras to give police a bird’s-eye view of high-crime areas.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
U.S. Should Consider Automatic Voter Registration: Holder
12-12-2012
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Bloomberg
The U.S. should consider automatically registering eligible voters and extending voting hours to counter the November election’s long lines and administrative hurdles, Attorney General Eric Holder said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Rebels Pledge Allegiance to Al-CIAda Group That Killed U.S. Troops
12-12-2012
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InfoWars
A new petition posted on the WhiteHouse.gov website demands that the Obama administration cease all funding and support for terrorists and extremist rebels in Syria, as news emerges of 29 different Syrian rebel groups pledging allegiance to Al-Qaeda
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California's Population Is Moving Out, Census Report Shows
12-12-2012
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By Olga Spilewsky and Conan Nolan
More people are moving out of the state than into the state, a new Census report shows.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Here's Why Delta Bought A Huge Chunk Of Virgin Atlantic
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Delta Airlines announced this morning that it had purchased a 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic for $360 million.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Will Smith Needs Help From His Son In The First Trailer For 'After Earth'
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kirsten Acuna
Jaden Smith, action hero?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's New MIRV Ballistic Missile Is A Big Deal
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
During the nuclear honed days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a nuclear missile able to strike anywhere in the U.S.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
ART CASHIN: Planetary Alignments Could Trigger Earthquakes During The 'Mayan Apocalypse'
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam Ro
In recent months, UBS's Art Cashin has been warning about increased earthquake activity driven by peculiar planetary and solar angles.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
There's Not A Single Spending Cut That Republican Voters Support
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
The "compromise" in the fiscal cliff deal from Democrats is supposed to come in the form of spending cuts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Brazil Is One Of The Few Truly Independent Countries In The World
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Aside from being blessed with great weather, gorgeous beaches, and beautiful people, their country is one of the few that can exist in a state of complete independence from the rest of the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Larry Page Finally Explains Why Google Is Working On Self-Driving Cars
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Nicholas Carlson
In an interview with Fortune's Miguel Helft, Google CEO Larry Page finally explained why Google is so obsessed with self-driving cars.
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Great Britain Is Slowly Ditching Christianity
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
Officially, the United Kingdom is a Christian country, with the Queen as head of the Church of England. However, new census results show a huge number of Brits are leaving Christianity " and the number of citizens who describes their religion as "non
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News Link • Heroes
Swedish Man On Business-Trip To China Called A Hero After Saving Drowning Woman
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
On December 6 in Chengdu, the capital of China's Szechuan province, a crowd had gathered around the Jinjiang Bridge where a woman appeared to be drowning.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Samuel L. Jackson Would Come Back As A One-Armed Jedi To Be In The Next 'Star Wars'
12-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kirsten Acuna
Samuel L. Jackson also wants in on the new "Star Wars" franchise in any way possible.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning wins Guardian's Person of Year 2012
12-11-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, legalizeliberty
Bradley Manning has won the Person of the Year 2012 contest conducted by The Guardian with a landslide 70 percent of the votes.
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News Link • World News
Gerard Depardieu Is Latest Refugee From French Millionaire Tax; Escapes To Belgium
12-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
Three months ago many were angry and surprised (or not at all, as realistically this was a perfectly logical move), when Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH and the richest man in socialist France,decided he had had enough
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News Link • European Union
EU War Council Meets to Plan Syria and Mali Invasions
12-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
European Union apparatchiks convened in Brussels on Monday to plot moves against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and to plan for a “humanitarian” intervention in Mali.
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News Link • Bitcoin
East Coast Bitcoin Summit: Philadelphia
12-11-2012
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James Babb
East Coast Bitcoin Summit: Philadelphia
Free the currency. Free the people.
December 15, 2012 • 12:30 to 5:50 PM
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Opinion • Philosophy of Liberty
Hope and Change
12-10-2012
Howard Blitz
Hope and Change came to Yuma Tuesday night, December 4 in the form of Audrea Taylor and Luke Andersen of im2moro who were special guests of The Freedom Library at its Annual Constitution Forum held at Booth Machinery.
The Freedom Library awarded i
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News Link • Gun Rights
Congressman calls for ban on 3D printed guns
12-10-2012
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Firmware locks for 3D printers? A DMCA-like takedown regime for 3D shapefiles that can be used to generate plastic firearms (or parts of plastic firearms?). A mandate on 3D printer manufacturers to make it impossible for their products to print out g
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Carbon Tax Could Come After Fiscal Cliff Deal
12-10-2012
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Breitbart
According to one former member of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton, President Obama may have plans to implement a carbon tax as soon as the fiscal cliff negotiations are settled.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
US Government Agencies Will Soon Be Able To Access Foreign Medical Dossiers Due To Patriot Act
12-10-2012
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US government agencies can secretly request anyone's data if they are using a cloud-computing service which 'conducts systematic business in the US'. It is sufficient when the service provider is somehow a subsidiary of a US company.
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