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Date Sent: 2011-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 20, 2011 PM edition |
Panetta: Iran will not be allowed nukes -- Curveball: IAEA Lies to Push Case for Attacking Iran
50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe -- Newt for President -- Foreign Drivers License Protects Families -- Learn Austrian
Economics -- China Trade: Myths vs. Reality -- Ron Paul on CNN 12-20-11
-- In Kim’s Death, an Extensive Intelligence Failure -- Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu -- Palin says not too late to consider presidential run -- Stocking Up
For Doomsday: It’s Not Just For “Crazies” Anymore -- Dinosaur Media
Heats up Ron Paul Smear Campaign -- Beware the Coming Bailouts of Europe - by Ron Paul -- Homeland Security Issues FEMA Camp Activation -- Apple Gains Ground in U.S. Ruling Banning Some HTC Phones -- Iowa Governor: Ignore a Ron Paul Win -- Paroled American Berenson leaves Peru -- Money Power World Rule --
Growing Hunger and Homelessness in America -- Ron Paul surpassing all
expectations, making a joke of the media -- U.S. lawmakers to vote on
holiday tax today -- Quantum Computing With Holograms -- Chemicals and
Biofuel from Wood Biomass
Ron Smith, RIP
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News Link • Iran
Panetta: Iran will not be allowed nukes
12-20-2011
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www.cbsnews.com
The U.S. Secretary of Defense said Monday night that Iran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. In an interview, Leon Panetta, said despite the efforts to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program, the Iranians have reached a point where they ca
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Curveball Redux: IAEA Lies to Push Case for Attacking Iran
12-20-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
It looks like the war pigs are about to pull another Iraq. In the orchestrated lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a cabal of neocons and fellow travelers in the Pentagon contrived a number of lies " later explained away as “intelligence failure
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Cost of Empire
The Phases of an Empire
12-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com/David Redick
The analysis below explains why all empires and "Imperial Style" governments have failed throughout history, and why our Empire-USA faces the same fate.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
12-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don't make dramatic
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Foreign Drivers License Protects Families
12-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Bill Rounds
Your home address is one of the most sensitive pieces of information you have. You don’t want uninvited visitors bothering you and your family at home. Even though lots of businesses want to get a hold of your home address for marketing purposes, the
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Learn Austrian Economics
12-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Thomas Woods
The past several years have seen a revival of interest in the Austrian School of economics. (For some background on the Austrian School, read this essay and this essay.) I've assembled this resource list to help beginners embark on a program of self-
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China Trade: Myths vs. Reality
12-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Walter Williams
Republicans and Democrats, liberals as well as conservatives, have bought into anti-Chinese trade demagoguery. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that tariffs against China are a "key part of our 'Make It in America' agenda."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show's Top 10 Videos of 2011 - And the #1 video is...
12-20-2011
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www.dailypaul.com
With the meteoric rise and fall of GOP presidential contenders, Wisconsin teachers' unions on the brink of anarchy and the unsanitary occupation of Wall Street, there's been no shortage of stories for Jon and The Best News Team to explore. Watch the
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
In Kim’s Death, an Extensive Intelligence Failure
12-20-2011
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New York Times
Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it " to say nothing of Washington, where the State Department ac
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu
12-20-2011
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www.independent.co.uk
A deadly strain of bird flu with the potential to infect and kill millions of people has been created in a laboratory by European scientists " who now want to publish full details of how they did it.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Death
Ron Smith, RIP
12-20-2011
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Lew Rockwell blog
“What is a mere individual to do? Live as sane and decent a life as you can, love your family and friends and understand that everybody is in this together. My work here is done.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Palin says not too late to consider presidential run
12-20-2011
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ca.news.yahoo.com
Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president was asked whether she would still consider a run for the White House. "It's not too late for folks to jump in," Palin said. "Who knows what will happen in the future."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Blacked Out: Power outage delays Steelers, 49ers
12-20-2011
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hosted.ap.org
Two power outages delayed the Niners' 20-3 Monday night win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, first just before kickoff and again early in the second quarter after the stadium moved to a backup power source.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple Ruling Hits Android
12-20-2011
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Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. was handed a legal victory that is bad news for rival Google Inc., as a U.S. trade agency ruled that some HTC Corp. smartphones that use the Internet company's Android software infringe an Apple patent.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Stocking Up For Doomsday: It’s Not Just For “Crazies” Anymore
12-20-2011
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www.shtfplan.com
But the possibility of a system collapse so severe that it could cripple our and monetary systems, food distribution networks, and emergency response services is now becoming a real concern for people all over the world.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Dinosaur Media Heats up Ron Paul Smear Campaign
12-20-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Ron Paul’s astounding rise in the polls and his first place lead as the GOP heads for Iowa and the first caucus in January of 2012.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
Homeland Security Issues FEMA Camp Activation
12-20-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
The latest Infowars.com uncovered document detailing the outline of the FEMA police state as it looks for detainment camp contractors.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Danish cartoon sparked fanatic's plot to kill Aussies
12-20-2011
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Sidney Morning Herald
Wissam Fattal's descent from champion kickboxer to would-be terrorist appears to have begun at least six years ago, when a Danish cartoon sparked outrage, protests and several deaths across the Muslim world.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Free Speech
MPs ask govt to intervene as Russian court considers ban on Gita
12-20-2011
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NDTV
In a Siberian court, state prosecutors have petitioned that the Hindu Gita, distributed locally by ISKCON members, is "extremist" literature.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Iowa Governor: Ignore a Ron Paul Win
12-20-2011
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Politico
The short version: Ignore Paul. “People are going to look at who comes in second and who comes in third,” said Gov. Terry Branstad. “If [Mitt] Romney comes in a strong second, it definitely helps him going into New Hampshire and the other states.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Paroled American Berenson leaves Peru
12-20-2011
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FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press
In 1996, a military court of hooded judges convicted Berenson of treason and sentenced her to life in prison. After U.S. pressure, she was retried by a civilian court.
[Hmm, I wonder if Peru will do the same for the U.S.?]
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bee Swarms and Human Cognition
12-20-2011
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arclein
Experts say the insects even appear to have solved indecision, an often paralysing thought process in humans, with scouts who seek out any honeybees advertising rival nest sites and butt against them with their heads while producing shrill beeping so
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Why the West is Best
12-20-2011
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arclein
I do not think there are many books on the market that are unashamedly pro-Western, defending, without apologies, Western values, and talk without reserve of the superiority of Western Civilization, and which take on such taboo subjects as Asian raci
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul surpassing all expectations, making a joke of the media
12-19-2011
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www.dailypaul.com
It became a bit of a joke among conservatives when every time a jobs report came out, the media reported it was "surprisingly" negative. The media couldn't seem to see what was going on, even when it was obvious to those in the know.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
U.S. lawmakers to vote on holiday tax Tuesday
12-19-2011
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The Raw Story
Republican lawmakers escalated a year-end showdown with the White House, putting off a vote on extending a payroll tax holiday demanded by President Barack Obama until Tuesday.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Energy
Chemicals and Biofuel from Wood Biomass
12-19-2011
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ScienceDaily
A method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofuel and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass.
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News Link • Treason and Sedition
TREASON! by L. Neil Smith
12-19-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
On Thursday, December 15, 2011, the 220th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, members of the United States House of Representatives betrayed their oaths of office and voted overwhelmingly to follow in the felonious footsteps of their criminal accessor
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Right-wing legislation stirs democracy debate in Israel
12-18-2011
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Reuters
Legislation promoted by right-wing lawmakers in Israel is raising concern that democratic values are under threat in a country that has long billed itself the only democracy in the Middle East.
One bill could potentially paralyze dovish Israeli ad
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
France’s AAA Credit Outlook Cut as Fitch Reviews Grades of Italy, Spain
12-18-2011
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Bloomberg
France’s credit outlook was lowered by Fitch Ratings, which also put the grades of nations including Spain and Italy on review for a downgrade, citing Europe’s failure to find a “comprehensive solution” to the debt crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In Milwaukee, an evaporating middle class
12-18-2011
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Reuters
As Washington and Madison fiddle, this city’s middle class is in slow free fall.
First, the numbers. From 1970 to 2007, the percentage of families in the Milwaukee metropolitan area that were middle class declined from 37 to 24 percent, according
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's cuts Belgium ratings by 2 notche
12-18-2011
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Reuters
Moody's on Friday cut Belgium's credit rating by two notches, saying the euro zone debt crisis increases funding risks for countries with high public debt burdens.
Concerns about Belgium's economic growth prospects and its banking system, particul
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Comprehensive euro zone deal "beyond reach": Fitch
12-18-2011
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Reuters
A comprehensive solution to the euro zone debt crisis is beyond the region's reach, rating agency Fitch said, warning that six of its economies including Italy and Spain could be hit with credit downgrades in the near future.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death
Vaclav Havel, hero of anti-communist revolution, dies
12-18-2011
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AP
The end of Czechoslovakia's totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for with deca
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