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Date Sent: 2012-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 10, 2012 PM edition |
Bitcoin, in deal with French financial firms, gets officially recognized under EU law as a "bank"
Peter Schiff: Majority Doesn't "Have A Right To Steal My Money Just Because They Voted For It" -- Sonic Weapons? -- How Ernest Hemingway’s cats became subject to federal oversight under the Commerce Clause -- Leaks from UN telecom conference show Orwellian proposals -- Preemptive Strike on Syria Looms
AZ: America's First Monument to the Bill of Rights - Arizona Dedication Ceremony, Saturday December 15th
10:00 am; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast &
Fundraiser Saturday December 15th 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine December 7th,
2012 Edition - NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin, in deal with French financial firms, gets officially recognized under EU law as a "ban
12-10-2012
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BBC News
Under European laws, the deal means Bitcoin-Central becomes a Payment Services Provider (PSP) that has an International Bank ID number. This puts it on an equal footing with other payment networks such as PayPal and WorldPay.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Peter Schiff: Majority Doesn't "Have A Right To Steal My Money Just Because They Voted For
12-10-2012
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After the tax hikes go into effect, more than half of my total income is going to the government. What's fair about that when I'm paying half? I don't care what the majority voted to do, they don't have a right to steal my money just because they vot
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday December 10th 2012
12-10-2012
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LewRockwell.com
'Crush Their Skulls and Eat Their Faces' / Tax Parasite Attacks Lew Rockwell / The Unemployment Rate is 22.9% / Pearl Harbor Was Surprised, FDR was not / 10 Outrageous Police Maneuvers / Massive New Commercial Super-Vessel
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Archaeology
Hades Cave
12-10-2012
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arclein
A giant cave that might have helped serve as the inspiration for the mythic ancient Greek underworld Hades once housed hundreds of people, potentially making it one of the oldest and most important prehistoric villages in Europe before it collapsed a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Sonic Weapons?
12-10-2012
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arclein
. Even going only two floors can leave you pretty nauseated. The fan isn’t particularly powerful, but the damage to one of the blades just happens to change the air flow at a rate that is matched by the dimensions of the car. This is the basis of wha
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robert klein
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Two States and Conrad Black
12-10-2012
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arclein
The Palestinians have ingeniously retreated to a two-track strategy of miring the shop-worn, flea-bitten, hacked and torn peace process in such complexities that they can continue in the palsied demand for the destruction of the Jewish state while ap
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robert klein
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News Link • Government
How Ernest Hemingway’s cats became subject to federal oversight under the Commerce Clause
12-10-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
It is more than a bit ironic that Key West is also the location of a knock-down, drag-out fight over the federal government’s power under the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause to regulate… cats.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Leaks from UN telecom conference show Orwellian proposals
12-10-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Leaked documents from a recent International Telecommunications Union meeting have exposed several disturbing examples of potential usages of the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) standard, which was recently adopted by a UN conference in Dubai.
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Chris Menke
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Reference Link • Military
Dulce et Decorum:
And May You Get the Chance
Fred Reed
.. if my country says to butcher, then butchery were no crime, but a source of honor. To kill for pure enjoyment, as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, is most contemptible, but to do it because Bush II, Tojo, Bin Laden, or Netanyahu commands it"this is vi
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 9, 2012 Edition
12-07-2012
John Semmens
Amount Spent on Welfare Exceeds Average Income
Data from a Congressional Research Service report reveals that the amount the government spends on welfare per family below the poverty line exceeds the median earned income. The median for earned inc
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Defense Contractors Seek Fiscal Cliff Relief, Budget-Busting Tax Breaks At Same Time
12-07-2012
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Huffington Post
There's probably no group of companies more alarmed about going over the "fiscal cliff" of tax increases and spending cuts due to take effect next month than defense contractors.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Media: Television
Zimmerman publicizes defamation lawsuit against NBC
12-07-2012
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Rawstory
Murder suspect George Zimmerman on Thursday filed a defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media as well as three current and former NBC reporters for allegedly portraying him as racist to increase ratings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
The Attorney for Freedom Show with Marc J. Victor
12-07-2012
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KQCK Radio
The Attorney for Freedom Show with host Marc J. Victor launched yesterday on KQCK Radio for the first of many weekly shows.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
DNA testing frees man who lived on death row for 15 years [chilling read]
12-07-2012
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The Guardian
He walked out as the 300th prisoner in the US to be freed as a result of DNA testing and one of 18 exonerated from death row. He has been proved innocent of a crime for which the state of Louisiana spent 15 years trying to kill him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Secret Service under investigation over loss of sensitive files on Metro
12-07-2012
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FOX News
The Secret Service is being investigated for an "immense breach" involving the loss of backup computer tapes that contained sensitive personal information about ALL agency employees, contacts and overseas informants,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Stops in the First World vs. the Third World
12-07-2012
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I have been stopped by the police for minor infractions and for no legitimate reason on numerous occasions in the USSA, the Balkans, and Mexico. Perspective is vital when doing a cost/benefit analysis of police encounters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
No Child Left Uncontrolled - by Butler Shaffer
12-07-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Children who grew up in an environment in which they have negotiated and be compensated for the terms of their relations with others, enjoy a sense of self-control that is troublesome for institutional interests that prefer to treat people as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Misinformation
Corporate Media Gives Up on Factchecking
12-07-2012
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Common Dreams
How even a Time magazine cover story on factchecking can't find a way to tell the truth
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
An Invented Crisis Threatens the Forgotten Millions
12-07-2012
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Common Dreams
Let’s get one thing straight: America is not facing a fiscal crisis. It is, however, still very much experiencing a job crisis.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
US Positions Navy Warships Off North Korea in Advance of Rocket Launch
12-07-2012
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Common Dreams
Government claims rocket will launch satellite by Dec. 22
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
UN Nuclear Chief: Alleged Iranian Weapons Testing Site May Not Contain Any Evidence
12-07-2012
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antiwar.com
Yukiya Amano claims Iran may have cleaned up alleged evidence of weapons development at Parchin
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Time Lapse of America's first Bill of Rights Monument being installed
12-07-2012
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www.youtube.com
Time lapse of the Amendment monoliths for America's 1st Bill of Rights Monument being craned on to their pedastels in advance of the monument's Bill of Rights Day (December 15) dedication at the Arizona Capitol.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Belarus ruler introduces forced employment
12-07-2012
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AP (h/t Rational Review)
Belarus' authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has decided to stem an exodus of qualified workers to Russia, starting by banning those who work in wood-processing industries from quitting.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Misinformation
Lining Pockets or Voting Booths? - Franchi Responds to Bloomberg
12/6/2012
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Reality Report
Did Bloomberg news get the facts straight, did Raw story report on damning information about me? Did Trevor Lyman's Liberty Crier embellish a headline to drive traffic to his site? Did PolicyMic accurately report on the story? Did I pay out a millio
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California school districts face huge debt on risky bonds
12-06-2012
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Los Angeles Times
About 200 districts have borrowed Billions of dollars using so-called capital appreciation bonds. Districts may have to pay 10 to 20 times the amount borrowed saddled them with staggering debt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security and FBI Release Document Again Slandering Photographers as Terrorists
12-06-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Two months ago, it began encouraging citizens to photograph other citizens who take suspicious photographs in order to report them to Homeland Security.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. Ready to Offer Mercenaries $10 Billion for a Drug-War Air Force
12-06-2012
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Wired
Unsure how your private security firm makes money as the US war in Afghanistan winds down? One option: Go into the drug trade " specifically the lucrative business of fighting narcotics. The State Department needs a business partner
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
High-income Californians may pay nation's highest tax rate
12-06-2012
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Thanks to passage of Proposition 30 last month, high-income Californians would pay the nation's highest marginal income tax rates -- 52%-- if President Barack Obama and Congress fail to make a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Kim Dotcom Gets Green Light to Sue New Zealand Spies
12-06-2012
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New Zealand’s spy agency will have to reveal details of their secret surveillance of Kim Dotcom. The Government Communications Security Bureau will be added to Dotcom’s lawsuit over an illegal January raid on his mansion,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Yes on Prop 37 was classic controlled opposition
12-06-2012
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Farm Wars
Monsanto doesn’t want a ban. Solution? Promote coexistence and divert anti-GMO forces to make sure they don't turn into a powerful force demanding a ban.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Couple Says Officer Shot Their Puppy, Then Wrote Parking Ticket
12-06-2012
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FOX News
While FOX was interviewing the dog's owners, 2 police officers drove by the home. 90 minutes later, they came back, asked Phillips why he had contacted the media and gave him a ticket for not keeping his dog on a leash.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Wider Chaos Feared as Syrian Rebels Clash With Kurds
12-06-2012
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New York Times
The convoy of gun trucks waving the flag of the Syrian rebels whizzed through the Syrian village of Ras al-Ain rushed in to battle the ethnic Kurds.
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Powell Gammill
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