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Date Sent: 2011-12-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, December 18, 2011 |
DHS Aircraft Aided In Massacre Of 73 Civilians
DOJ now targeting journalist who broke the ATF Fast & Furious scandal -- Confirmed: Freedom-Loving Americans Headed to FEMA Camps -- As China's economy sinks, fears of civil unrest surface -- Federal Government Takes Final Step to Suspend Constitution -- Hope and Change 2012? - Andrew Napolitano -- Financial Panic Sweeps Europe As The Head Of The IMF Warns Of A “1930s Depression” -- Income inequality in the Roman Empire -- Dive like a dolphin with the Flyboard jet-pack -- No Fear: Memory Adjustment Pills Get Pentagon Push -- Space Planes, Psyops, Secret Prisons: 9 Secret Military Programs You
Shouldn't Know -- So You Think You Know Ron Paul? -- Thanks, But I’ll
Take the Constitution as My 'Passenger Advocate' -- What Will 2012
Bring? - by Gerald Celente -- When Progressives Attack! - by Karen
Kwiatkowski -- How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the US on Troop Withdrawal -- Congressmen can't say 'Merry Christmas' in mail -- Congressman on hunger strike to show solidarity with Occupy -- No Success in Iraq Unless You're a War Profiteer --
Home Grown Cannabis Legalized in Switzerland -- DISSENTERS IN THE
FEDERAL RESERVE - Not all the board members endorse current policies --
Skills Downloading into Brain Plausible -- Kristallnacht in Palestine - by Stephen Lendman -- Ron Paul on Tonight Show 12/17/11 (VIDEO)
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News Link • World News
DHS Aircraft Aided In Massacre Of 73 Civilians
12-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
If you thought that the use of a Predator drone to target a family in rural North Dakota was overkill, wait until you hear what happened in Jamaica.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
DOJ now targeting journalist who broke the ATF Fast & Furious scandal
12-17-2011
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www.examiner.com
Apparently someone, somewhere in the Department of Justice was so enraged and/or frightened by the fact that the information was published that they ordered an audit of Vanderboegh's emails in order to discover the identity of his source.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • China
As China's economy sinks, fears of civil unrest surface
12-17-2011
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Terrence Aym
China has problems. As its economy continues to slump, civil unrest is boiling just under the surface of the tightly controlled society. Some of China's officials now worry that soon the country may explode into uncontrollable riots fueled by massiv
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Police State
Federal Government Takes Final Step to Suspend Constitution
12-17-11
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Reality Report
Featuring Rep. Ron Paul and Rep. Justin Amash | In what can only be considered a tragic irony, the U.S. Senate passed out of the final conference committee the controversial National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, coinciding with the 220th Annive
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Panic Sweeps Europe As The Head Of The IMF Warns Of A “1930s Depression”
12-17-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Are we on the verge of another Great Depression? Christian Lagarde, the head of the IMF, said this week that if dramatic action is not taken immediately we could actually see conditions “reminiscent of the 1930s depression” and that no country on ea
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Income inequality in the Roman Empire
12-17-2011
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Persquaremile.com
Over the last 30 years, wealth in the United States has been steadily concentrating in the upper economic echelons. Whereas the top 1 percent used to control a little over 30 percent of the wealth, they now control 40 percent.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Dive like a dolphin with the Flyboard jet-pack
12-17-2011
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reuters.com
If you happen to have a spare $100,000 and can't decide what to buy your water-loving spouse for Christmas, you might want to look at the ''Flyboard'' jet pack, the latest in water-sport technology.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Analysis: Could RIM's survival mean abandoning the BlackBerry?
12-17-2011
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reuters.com
It might seem like corporate heresy but an increasing number of technology investors and experts are asking whether Research in Motion needs to ditch its BlackBerry handset business to survive.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
They don’t know what they’re talking about
12-17-2011
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Sovereign Man/Simon Black
Europe can keep kicking the can down the road, the Fed can keep printing, and the entire financial system can plunge into chaos. It won’t matter for those of us down here.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google Launches Android Classes to Bolster App Development
12-17-2011
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wired.com
In today’s mobile platform wars, it’s not the size of your smartphone that matters " it’s the number of apps you’ve got, and how well they work.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
No Fear: Memory Adjustment Pills Get Pentagon Push
12-17-2011
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wired.com
The Pentagon hasn’t come close to solving the PTSD crisis plaguing the current generation of troops. And the top brass looks like it’s ready to try anything " like a major push into a cutting-edge, controversial realm of treatment.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Space Planes, Psyops, Secret Prisons: 9 Secret Military Programs You Shouldn’t Know
12-17-2011
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wired.com
Make no mistake: The Pentagon's got plenty of secrets you probably don't even want to know about. But there are at least a handful they likely wish had stayed a bit more covert.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Media: Internet
How to Master Facebook Timeline in 5 Quick Minutes
12-17-2011
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wired.com
Yesterday, Facebook rolled out its new Timeline feature to the masses. This ultra-illustrative, chronological listing of posts, photos, shared links, check-ins, and more is a radically different arrangement than the Facebook profile you’ve been used
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
So You Think You Know Ron Paul?
12-17-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Ron Paul represents Texas District 14 in the US House of Representatives. He is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Hopefully, this short quiz will encourage everyone to learn more about his work and life.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Thanks, But I’ll Take the Constitution as My 'Passenger Advocate'
12-17-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Becky Akers
You know an idea’s bad when two politicians propose it. And you know it’s really bad if one of them is Sen. Charles "UpChuck" Schumer (D-NY).
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Road Trip … Or Moon Shot?
12-17-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Eric Peters
You don’t have to be a cranky old fart to find yourself increasingly at odds with the multiplexed interfaces, mouse inputs and menus, touch screen displays and tyrannical computer “aids” that are becoming commonplace features on modern cars " and whi
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Just Who Is Ignorant About Money?
12-17-2011
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lewrockwell.com/William L. Anderson
Gee, hoodathunkitt? Paul Krugman hates Ron Paul. It is not enough for Dr. Paul to want to leave abortion to state legislatures (where the U.S. Constitution would place it), but the very fact that Dr. Paul is personally opposed to abortion and would n
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
When Progressives Attack!
12-17-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Karen Kwiatkowski
Upon reading the attack piece written by progressive columnist Michael Tomasky in the Daily Beast, I immediately realized that this website must be part of the Animal Planet consortium. Like the television show, when progressives attack it can get mi
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Future Predictions
What Will 2012 Bring?
12-17-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Gerald Celente
"Wake-Up Call" Trend: The Decline of America trend is nowhere near bottom, and the worse is yet to come.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Game On
12-17-2011
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TimNerenz.com
The Democrats have unveiled their keen new strategy... the game plan is to convince us that our American system of limited government and free markets has never worked.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Iran
How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the US on Troop Withdrawal
12-17-2011
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antiwar.com
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s suggestion that the end of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is part of a U.S. military success story ignores the fact that the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military had planned to maintain a semi-permanen
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Congressmen can't say 'Merry Christmas' in mail
12-17-2011
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washingtonexaminer.com
Looks like the PC police have threatened members of the House of Representatives against wishing constituents a "Merry Christmas," if they want to do so in a mailing paid for with tax dollars.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Congressman on hunger strike to show solidarity with Occupy
12-17-2011
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washingtonexaminer.com
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., embarked on a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with four Occupy DC protesters who have gone without food since Dec. 8 to advocate for D.C. voting rights.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Protests erupt in Cairo over police brutality
12-17-2011
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ft.com
A fiery battle between several thousand Egyptian demonstrators and military police next to the cabinet building on Friday continued late into the night, overshadowing the close of polls in the second stage of the country’s historic elections.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Russia Seizes Radioactive Material En Route to Iran
12-17-2011
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CNBC.Com
The Russian customs service said on Friday it had seized radioactive material found in the luggage of a passenger bound for Tehran at Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
GOP leaders: Pipeline stays in payroll tax bill
12-17-2011
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USA Today
A dispute over a Canada to Texas oil pipeline threatened to complicate efforts in Congress to pass legislation that would avert a New Year's tax increase for millions of Americans and extend government benefits to the unemployed.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
No Success in Iraq -- Unless You're a War Profiteer
12-15-2011
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Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
It becomes terribly clear that the only people for whom this nightmare was a success are the super-rich CEOs of war industry corporations who made a killing during the wars we launched since 2001.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Surveillance
There Goes the Republic
12-15-2011
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Robert Scheer
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth, said, “By signing this defense spending bill, President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in U.S. law.”
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Skills Downloading Plausible
12-17-2011
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arclein
esearchers at Baylor College of Medicine found recently that if a molecule called PKR is inhibited, it leads to brain activity that leads to the formation of long-term memories in the adult brain.
What's more, this molecule can be artificially bl
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robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
Home Grown Cannabis Legalized in Switzerland
12-17-2011
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arclein
The cantons involved are Geneva, Neuchatel, Vaud (Lausanne) and Fribourg,according to this article (in French, see translation here). People can apply for permits to grow more than four plants.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Bakken Oil Shale Boomlet
12-17-2011
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arclein
The Bakken boom has inspired a number of prominent commentators to resurrect the energy independence meme. Daniel Yergin was first at bat, asserting in an essay published by The Wall Street Journal that rising prices and emerging technologies (especi
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stem Cells Soon to Create Any Human Cell
12-17-2011
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arclein
Within the next decade, virtually every type of cell in the human body will be harvested using pluripotent stem cells. The Cellular Dynamics corporation is at the forefront of this technology. In an interview with Sander Olson, Cellular Dynamics Vice
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robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
DISSENTERS IN THE FEDERAL RESERVE - Not all the board members endorse current policies
12-17-2011
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Reuters
But not to worry - the dissenters are on their way out, and Bernanke will have more willing pawns in 2012.
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Chip Saunders
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