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Date Sent: 2011-12-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, December 24, 2011 |
Drone pilots to fly 4 warplanes at once -- Jury Refuses to Convict Anyone for Marijuana Possession!
Video Shows Altercation with Combative Inmate -- Arizona sheriff sanctioned over destroyed documents -- "Ghost writers" wrote lurid claims: Paul campaign -- Gingrich
questions Ron Paul on racist newsletters -- DC Pushes New Taxi Medallion
Bill; Will Enrich Cab Barons, Screw Everyone Else -- Syrian Unarmed Democracy Activists Bomb Damascus -- London Trader - There are Tremendous Silver Shortages -- Overseas Radio Network to Launch with P.T. Freeman as Host -- A Simple Plan to Keep Your Assets Safe From an Out-of-Control Government -- Non-interventionism wouldn't have led to a ‘Nazi century’ -- Ron Paul Challenges Mindless Militarism -- Obama’s Dictatorial Assassination Program -- Stephen Colbert Offers $500K to Fund S.C. Primary -- Catch a Glimpse of the Human Costs of the Drone War in Pakistan -- Former President Bill Clinton Calls for a Return to "Big 3" News Networks? -- Is Ron Paul a Traitor? -- $40 Dollars Could Have Got You A Lot More in 1912
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Future drone pilots may fly four warplanes at once
12-23-2011
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Reuters
Western militaries are experimenting with having future drone pilots command up to four aircraft at once, adding new potential challenges even as a top-secret U.S. drone's crash in Iran exposed the risks of flying unmanned aircraft thousands of miles
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Jury Refuses to Convict Anyone for Marijuana Possession!
12-23-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
What happens when a judge can't find any, and I mean ANY, potential jurors willing to convict people on drug charges? We find out in Montana.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Video Shows Altercation with Combative Inmate
12-23-2011
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FOX10 News
Video just released from inside the 4th Avenue Jail shows deputies subduing an inmate who later became unresponsive. That inmate ended up on life support and died, igniting a maelstrom about practices in the jails.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he's rel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona sheriff sanctioned over destroyed documents
12-23-2011
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Reuters
A federal judge on Friday issued legal sanctions against high profile Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for destroying documents in a civil rights lawsuit accusing him and his department of racially profiling Latinos.
Citing the admitted destruction of e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
"Ghost writers" wrote lurid claims: Paul campaign
12-23-2011
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Reuters
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul apologized on Friday for not paying enough attention to "ghost writers" he said were responsible for racist and anti-gay messages in newsletters and an ad published under his name two decades ago.
In a st
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gingrich questions Ron Paul on racist newsletters
12-23-2011
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Reuters
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich urged rival Ron Paul to explain his links to newsletters two decades ago that carried the Texas congressman's name and contained racist, anti-homosexual and anti-Israel rants.
"I think that Congressman
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
DC Pushes New Taxi Medallion Bill; Will Enrich Cab Barons, Screw Everyone Else
12-23-2011
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Reason magazine
After failing twice to enact a system that would enrich a handful of private companies by screwing riders and destroying D.C.'s unique owner-operated cab industry, D.C. pols are at it again. And they've wisened up: There's no "medallion bill" to get
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The New Professionalism
12-23-2011
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The Agitator
Maybe there’s a legitimate law enforcement reason to strip a man naked, strap him to a chair, tie a “spit hood” around his mouth, put a hood over his head (see video at the link), and douse him with pepper spray until he dies. That’s what sheriff’s d
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Syrian Unarmed Democracy Activists Bomb Damascus
12-23-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
In yet another display of democracy and "People Power," the unarmed protestors in Syria have set off two bombs in Damascus targeting government buildings and killing some 40 people.
This latest "peaceful demonstration" occurred conveniently on the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
US pledges commitment to working out tensions with Pakistan
12-23-2011
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The RawStory.com
The United States said Friday that it was committed to working with Pakistan and pledged support for democracy, amid friction between the war partners and a political showdown in Islamabad.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
World’s Data Centers Refuse to Exit Ice Age
12-23-2011
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Eric Smalley via WIRED.com
Amazon data-center guru James Hamilton alluded to this gag at a recent event in New York, using it to explain how data centers should treat power-sapping water chillers and air-conditioning units.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Government
FDA Won’t Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use
12-23-2011
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Maryn McKenna via
the US Food and Drug Administration has reneged on its long-stated intention to compel large-scale agriculture to curb over-use of agricultural antibiotics
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Benny Please Go Home
12-23-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
This song is my way of poking fun at Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke for his money-printing Keynesian ways. May his wallet become as worthless as the rest of ours when his quantitative easing comes back to haunt us.
Music shamelessly inspire
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Amazon Builds World’s Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer
12-23-2011
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Cade Metz via WIRED.com
This fall, Amazon built a virtual supercomputer atop its Elastic Compute Cloud " a web service that spins up virtual servers whenever you want them " and this nonexistent mega-machine outraced all but 41 of the world’s real supercomputers.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mysterious Metallic Space Ball Falls to Earth in Africa, Baffling Authorities
12-23-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
A large metallic ball has fallen from the heavens and landed in a remote region of Namibia, spurring a lot of speculation about its origins and spurring local authorities to get NASA and the European Space Agency on the horn.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Precious Metals
London Trader - There are Tremendous Silver Shortages
12-23-2011
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kingworldnews.com
“It is so tight, the silver market is so tight that we’ve been waiting three weeks plus, before this takedown, for deliveries of size to arrive. I’m talking about tonnage orders.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The 'Objective' Reporter Who Badgered Ron Paul About His Newsletter
12-23-2011
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www.lewrockwell.com/blog
Gloria Borger, the woman in this video who keeps harping on old news, is the wife of Lance Morgan. Lance Morgan is a lobbyist for Powell Tate. Powell Tate is a public relations firm. From their own website:
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Overseas Radio Network to Launch with P.T. Freeman as Host
12-23-2011
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LewRockwell.com
In the first days of January 2012, the Overseas Radio Network will begin broadcasting, aiming at people who desire for one reason or another, to leave the United States and set up a new life elsewhere.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
A Simple Plan to Keep Your Assets Safe From an Out-of-Control Government
12-23-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Stay at home is still the norm for Americans, but it's a norm that is slowly fading. Every billion-dollar tick of the government debt clock, every expansion of the government's regulatory apparatus, every overreaching judicial decision made in the na
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
National Review’s Racist Rants
12-23-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Before anyone gives any credence to the latest smear campaign against Congressman Paul it would be useful to take a look at National Review’s own record of publications on the issue of race relations. It is not a pretty picture.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Treating The Hemorrhagic Wound
12-23-2011
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doctorbonesandamyshow.blogspot.com
Cuts in the skin can be minor or catastrophic, superficial or deep, clean or infected. Most significant cuts (also called lacerations) are associated with bleeding, sometimes major.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Non-interventionism wouldn’t have led to a ‘Nazi century’
12-23-2011
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dailycaller.com
The Daily Caller’s Jamie Weinstein speaks for a lot of Republican voters when he says Ron Paul’s foreign policy is a non-starter. But Weinstein’s claim that non-interventionism would have led to “the Nazi Century” is simply a misreading of history.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Challenges Mindless Militarism
12-23-2011
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reason.com
Reporters routinely describe Ron Paul's foreign policy views as "isolationist" because he opposes the promiscuous use of military force. This is like calling him a recluse because he tries to avoid fistfights.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Dictatorial Assassination Program
12-23-2011
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www.fff.org
The Obama administration now claims the authority to kill American citizens without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally object.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Stephen Colbert Offers $500K to Fund S.C. Primary
12-23-2011
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slatest.slate.com
In return, the Comedy Central star wants the naming rights and a non-binding referendum on the ballot.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Catch a Glimpse of the Human Costs of the Drone War in Pakistan
12-23-2011
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www.antiwar.com
Here is a reminder of what is important, of what Washington is all about and is likely to continue being all about unless Americans wake up and understand what U.S. terrorism around the world really is:
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Former President Bill Clinton Calls for a Return to "Big 3" News Networks?
12-23-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
"There is too much information on the internet. The only way a website gets ahead is by disseminating polarizing information for its own profit. Free speech needs to be more consensus driven. We need to go back to the Big 3 networks."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Is Ron Paul a Traitor?
12-23-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
As usual, it seems Dr. Paul's anti military-empire rhetoric draws the most ire. A prominent public person can almost guarantee attacks if he or she begins to criticize America's military-industrial complex.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
#40Dollars Could Have Got You A Lot More in 1912
12-23-2011
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Silver Underground
In a partisan face off over how long to extend a payroll tax cut that expires soon and amounts to an extra $40 per biweekly pay period for the average American worker, the White House stirred up some discussion on Twitter by tweeting out: What does #
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Megan Duffield
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News Link • Police State
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
12-21-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act
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Donna Hancock
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