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Date Sent: 2011-12-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 28, 2011 PM edition |
US Navy Says Any Disruption To Straits Of Hormuz "Will Not Be Tolerated"
Using the First Amendment to Opt Out of This Potentially Damaging
Procedure -- Monsanto corn failing in four states - maybe more -- Art Cashin Exposes The Behind The Scenes Panic In Europe -- Kroger employee shoots, kills would-be robber on city's northwest side (VIDEO) -- The essay that has Chinese talking: 'On Wanting Freedom' -- In Telethon, Israeli Military Chief Pushes New Gaza Invasion -- New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further -- Syrian Army Tanks Withdraw From Homs as Observer Team Arrives -- China Bans Gold Exchanges -- War as a Lifestyle -- MF Global chief missing $1.2B is financial adviser to EPA -- Occupy activists meet in Iowa, plan caucus events -- Sears closing more stores as holiday sales slide -- Far too soon to
write off America -- Oil price
climbs amid Iranian threat -- Gingrich Unloads on Paul:
Worse Than Obama -- Canada
secretly shipping ‘bomb-grade’ uranium to the U.S. -- Iowa
GOP moving vote-count to 'undisclosed location' -- Iso Rabins, San Francisco's Famed
Forager, Targeted By Department Of Health -- Keep your
mitts off my tax returns, says Romney -- Ex-Indy Cop Won't Go to Jail For Arsons -- Family
suing city of Snyder, claiming they were prohibited from performing
CPR on man -- Madness: Even School
Children Are Being Pepper-Sprayed and Shocked with Tasers --
Wrecking America's Postal Service -- Lake Huron Produces 8,900 Year
Old Artifact
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News Link • World News
US Navy Says Any Disruption To Straits Of Hormuz "Will Not Be Tolerated"
12-28-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
Closing off the Gulf to oil tankers will be "easier than drinking a glass of water" for Iran if the Islamic state deems it necessary, state television reported on Wednesday, ratcheting up fears over the world's most important oil chokepoint.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Using the First Amendment to Opt Out of This Potentially Damaging Procedure
12-28-2011
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ww.lewrockwell.com/Joseph Mercola
However, also be aware that vaccine exemptions are currently under attack in every state because the wealthy and powerful Pharma/Medical Industry lobby is trying to take them away, especially the religious and philosophical or conscientious belief ex
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto corn failing in four states - maybe more
12-28-2011
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www.responsibletechnology.org
First, the superweeds started turning Monsanto's Roundup Ready crops into a farmer's nightmare. Now, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Monsanto Bt corn that's genetically engineered to kill insects is losing its effectiveness again
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Art Cashin Exposes The Behind The Scenes Panic In Europe
12-28-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
Think "all is fine" in Europe after today's largely irrelevant Italian bill auction (the auction was for 6 month debt - even Greece can raise that kind of money)? Think again. Here is the Fermentation Committee Chairman explaining why Europe is so ha
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News Link • Gun Rights
Kroger employee shoots, kills would-be robber on city's northwest side (VIDEO)
12-28-2011
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www.fox59.com
Indianapolis, Ind. - According to Metro police, an employee at a northwest side Kroger grocery store shot a would-be robber in the face, Monday evening. The man died a few hours later.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday 12-28-2011
12-28-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The War Propaganda Party by Butler Shaffer - Welcome to the Police State by Ron Paul - Throw the Fascists Out, Montanans organize to recall senators - 20 Classic Films Your children must see - Bill Bonner on the real nature of government
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
The essay that has Chinese talking: 'On Wanting Freedom'
12-28-2011
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Christian Science Monitor
A Chinese race-car-driver-turned-politico has unleashed a firestorm on the Web with a volley of edgy blogs over the weekend.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
In Telethon, Israeli Military Chief Pushes New Gaza Invasion
12-28-2011
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www.antiwar.com
Speaking today during the Israeli Army’s “annual telethon” on Army Radio, military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz pushed for a new invasion of the Gaza Strip saying that it was “not a matter of choice.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further
12-28-2011
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www.antiwar.com
The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison is seeking to impose new rules on communication between detainees and their lawyers, despite stern objections on the grounds that they violate legal ethics and constitutional rights.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Reports: Syrian Army Tanks Withdraw From Homs as Observer Team Arrives
12-28-2011
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www.antiwar.com
Weeks of violence in the city of Homs appear to have come to an end, at least for the time being, as the arrival of members of the Arab League monitoring team saw Syrian forces withdrawing tanks and armored vehicles from the city.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
China Bans Gold Exchanges
12-28-2011
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www.lewrockwell.com/Robert Wenzel
Here's another indication that the price inflation in China is much greater than the official reports of around 4.0%.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War as a Lifestyle
12-28-2011
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www.lewrockwell.com/Butler Shaffer
It was but four years ago that John McCain choreographed his campaign around the lyrics "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran." That so few people were repulsed by such psychopathic utterances is but one of many symptoms of a society in moral, spiritual, and intell
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
MF Global chief missing $1.2B is financial adviser to EPA
12-28-2011
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Washington Times
During two days of recent congressional hearings into how as much as $1.2 billion disappeared from MF Global customer accounts, the chief operating officer of the imploding investment firm responded again and again that he did not know.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Occupy activists meet in Iowa, plan caucus events
12-28-2011
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Associated Press
Now, to the dismay of Iowa Republicans, Occupy activists in Des Moines are vowing to expand their protests as GOP presidential hopefuls converge on the state that speaks first in the race for the party's presidential nomination.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Watch out for the icebergs... cruise recreating Titanic's fateful voyage is sold out
12-28-2011
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www.independent.co.uk
For some, it might sound too much like tempting fate " and for others, it smacks of "disaster voyeurism". But for more than 2,000 Titanic enthusiasts, the chance to mark the centenary of the maritime disaster by sailing on a large cruise ship to comm
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sears closing more stores as holiday sales slide
12-28-2011
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www.reuters.com
Sears Holdings Corp will close as many as 120 of its Kmart and Sears discount and department stores after its holiday sales slumped, sending its shares sliding more than 27 percent to their lowest level in three years.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Far too soon to write off America
12-28-2011
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www.ft.com
I hear a recurring refrain from China these days: America’s strength comes not from its democratic and free-market values, but merely from the size of its economy and the power of its soldiers and weapons.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airbus set to trump Boeing in sales race
12-28-2011
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www.ft.com
Airbus is on course to surpass Boeing and report its highest number of commercial aircraft orders yet in 2011, but the US manufacturer is preparing to mount a strong fightback against its European rival in 2012 and beyond.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Oil price climbs amid Iranian threat
12-28-2011
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www.ft.com
Iran on Tuesday threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for a third of the world’s seaborne oil trade, if the west imposes oil sanctions on Tehran, causing a rise in oil prices.
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News Link • Positive News
Northern California McDonald’s® Offers Free Small Coffee During Tough Economic Times
12-28-2011
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www.breitbart.com
“As the holiday season comes to a close and budgets become tight, we hope this program will offer some comfort to our community and also warm them up a little during this cold, winter season.”
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gingrich Unloads on Paul: Worse Than Obama
12-28-2011
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National Journal
Newt Gingrich has finally found a politician he considers even worse than the president he calls socialist, anti-colonialist and radical. That would be his fellow Republican Ron Paul.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Canada secretly shipping ‘bomb-grade’ uranium to the U.S.
12-28-2011
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Rawstory
The uranium was originally sent to Canada from the U.S. for use in medical technology, resulting in a backlog of materials at the Chalk River site that potentially could be used to create weapons. Once the materials are back in the U.S., they can be
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Iowa GOP moving vote-count to 'undisclosed location'
12-28-2011
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Politico
Threats to disrupt the Iowa Republican caucuses next week have prompted state GOP officials to move the vote tabulation to an "undisclosed location," POLITICO has learned.
The state party has not yet told the campaigns exactly where the returns w
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News Link • Healthcare
Iso Rabins, San Francisco's Famed Forager, Targeted By Department Of Health
12-28-2011
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www.huffingtonpost.com
Rabins pioneered the Bay Area's burgeoning wild-foods movement when he founded ForageSF in 2009, but city health inspectors, noting the potential hazards of eating products gathered in the wild
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Keep your mitts off my tax returns, says Romney
12-28-2011
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www.independent.co.uk
Mitt Romney, the long-running but still-vulnerable favourite to win the Republican presidential nomination, is once more facing awkward questions about his personal finances after announcing that he will refuse to share his tax returns with the US el
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News Link • Police State
Unarmed 54-Year-Old Bloodied In Raid
12-28-2011
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www.newhavenindependent.org
A state police raid on a Winthrop Avenue apartment netted no drugs or arrests"but it left Tomas Torres hospitalized and his apartment in tatters.
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News Link • Police State
Family suing city of Snyder, claiming they were prohibited from performing CPR on man
12-28-2011
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www.reporternews.com
The family of a man who died of an apparent heart attack in 2009 has filed a lawsuit against the city of Snyder and five police officers, claiming police restrained the family from performing potentially lifesaving treatment.
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News Link • Police State
Madness: Even School Children Are Being Pepper-Sprayed and Shocked with Tasers
12-28-2011
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www.alternet.org
An alarming series of incidents offers some insight into how casual police have become about deploying "less lethal" weapons.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Archaeology
Lake Huron Produces 8,900 Year Old Artifact
12-28-2011
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arclein
"It really helps to round out the maritime history in northern Lake Huron," said Green, whose agency has helped survey and dive in the area.
Researchers have collected other samples from the bottom of the lake that they hope will provide clues a
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nano-antennas Promise Optical Innovation
12-28-2011
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arclein
technology that could make possible a range of optical innovations such as more powerful microscopes, telecommunications and computers. At upper right is a scanning electron microscope image of the structures. The figure below shows the experimenta
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Peter Schiff Speaking Tour in Phoenix, AZ!
12-26-2011
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www.europac.net
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts-January 9, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm-
Peter Schiff will offer his views on the current economy and how investors can best position their portfolios to help survive what he sees as a major realignment in currenc
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