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Date Sent: 2011-12-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 23, 2011 PM edition |
U.S. Jets Enter Iranian Airspace, Oil Depot Bombed
Video surfaces of Ron Paul talking about racist newsletters in 1995 --
Christmas is about prosperity, not piety -- NYPD's spying programs
produced mixed results -- TSA Responsible For Over 9,000 Unannounced Checkpoints In Last Year --
Amish Dairy Farmer Selling Raw Milk Won’t Be Cowed by FDA -- How to
make a speech for Ron Paul in Iowa (or anywhere else!) - VIDEO -- 1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia --
IMF urges members to boost funding under 2010 plan -- Deepening Global
Financial Trouble -- Why Humans Are So Sociable -- Rachel Maddow
Defends Ron Paul...sort of (Video) -- Clinton cleaning up after Obama’s
Middle East policy -- More Predator drones fly U.S.-Mexico border -- Fitch again warns U.S. debt burden threatens AAA rating
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Jets Enter Iranian Airspace, Oil Depot Bombed
12-23-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
The Iranian news agency IRNA reported today that a U.S. missile hit an oil depot in the southwest village of Abadan on Wednesday. IRNA said British and American jets had entered Iranian airspace several times.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Video surfaces of Ron Paul talking about racist newsletters in 1995
12-23-2011
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New York Daily News
A recently surfaced video from 1995 shows the GOP presidential hopeful discussing controversial newsletters that he claimed this week he didn't even read until about 2001.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
NYPD's spying programs produced mixed results
12-23-2011
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AP
When New York undercover officers and informants were infiltrating a mosque in Queens in 2006, they failed to notice the increasingly radical sentiments of a young man who prayed there. Police also kept tabs on a Muslim student group at Queens Colleg
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Responsible For Over 9,000 Unannounced Checkpoints In Last Year
12-23-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
“The TSA’s 25 “viper” teams " for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response " have run more than 9,300 unannounced checkpoints. Department of Homeland Security officials have asked Congress for funding to add 12 more teams next year,” reports the L.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Amish Dairy Farmer Selling Raw Milk Won’t Be Cowed by FDA
12-23-2011
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thenewamerican.com
Milk may do a body good, but selling it without the government’s stamp of approval does not. Dan Allgyer, an Amish dairy farmer, is finding that out the hard way.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
How to make a speech for Ron Paul in Iowa (or anywhere else!) - VIDEO
12-23-2011
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YouTube.com
The pointers:
- Be calm, relaxed, and speak with conviction
- Use humor, but be safe with it
- Stay positive
- Know your audience
- Connect with your audience
- Don't waste their time
- Be prepared
- Have fun!
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Archaeology
1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia
12-23-2011
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www.rawstory.com
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF urges members to boost funding under 2010 plan
12-23-2011
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www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday urged member countries to quickly sign off on an agreement last year to double IMF resources and give under-represented nations, such as China, greater voting power in the global lender.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Demographic Traps
12-23-2011
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arclein
In Africa and elsewhere, burgeoning population growth threatens to overwhelm already over-stretched food supply systems. But the next agricultural revolution needs to get local " and must start to see rising populations as potentially part of the s
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mystery of Carole Myers
12-23-2011
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arclein
The Felsteads' search for answers to the many mysteries surrounding Carole's decline is now in its sixth year. Endless letters and FOI requests, alongside hours of legal research and long nights on the internet, have resulted in the collection of
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robert klein
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News Link • Anthropology
Why Humans Are So Sociable
12-23-2011
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arclein
Their key finding is that the main step change in social behaviour occurred when primates switched from being mainly active at night to being more active during the day.
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robert klein
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Hobbit Trailer
12-23-2011
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arclein
Digital cameras can also capture more images per second than standard film, enhancing the image quality. Jackson, who is directing The Hobbit, has said the effect is "like the back of the cinema has had a hole cut out of it where the screen is, and
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robert klein
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Rachel Maddow Defends Ron Paul...sort of (Video)
12-22-2011
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StopTheLie.com
In a recent segment, Maddow points out how the "Establishment Right" has been attacking Ron Paul. Aside from repeatedly calling him an 'isolationist' and not addressing how the "Establishment Left" attacks Ron Paul (I mention these issues at th
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Clinton cleaning up after Obama’s Middle East policy
12-22-2011
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The Daily Caller
By helping to pave the way for pro-Sharia regimes in 'Arab spring' countries the Obama Administration has become women's worst enemy while pressuring Israel and refusing to condemn Islamist political party gains and their policies.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Surveillance
More Predator drones fly U.S.-Mexico border
12-22-2011
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Washington Post
In the dead of night, from a trailer humming with surveillance monitors, a pilot for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency was remotely flying a Predator drone more than 1,000 miles away.
From an altitude of 15,000 feet, over the desert ra
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fitch again warns U.S. debt burden threatens AAA rating
12-22-2011
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Reuters
Fitch Ratings on Wednesday warned again that the United States' rising debt burden was not consistent with maintaining the country's top AAA credit rating, but said there would likely be no decision on whether to cut the rating before 2013.
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Powell Gammill
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