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Date Sent: 2013-01-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 2, 2013 AM edition |
Who Avoided What Cliff? -- Agreement Reached To Extend 2008 Farm Bill
Jacob Appelbaum on Resisting the Surveillance State -- People in Macon
rally for police shooting victim, seek change from city leaders -- Hillary Clinton in hospital amid speculation of plane accident in Iran -- New year, new state laws -- Great News For Romney Voters: Congress Just Socked It To The 47% -- Here's How Much Of A Tax Cut You'll Get If The Fiscal Cliff Deal Goes Through -- 6 Things You Won't Believe That Are In The Fiscal Cliff Bill -- North Korea Wants To End Its Problems With The South And Just Get Back Together -- U.S. Senate "Fiscal Cliff" Agreement [American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012] -- Watch Me Talk Police Militarization -- 12/31: CALL TO ACTION (2nd Amendment) -- China's Newest And Deadly Warship Has Entered The South China Sea -- Going for the Guns: Possible Martial Law in Early 2013? -- Gun Confiscation = Act of War -- Big Sis Spy Drone At Vikings-Packers Game? -- Oliver Stone to RT: ‘US has become an Orwellian state’ -- Video: Dianne Feinstein Says Her Goal is to Disarm All Americans
Arizona Breakfast Club next Saturday
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Who Avoided What Cliff?
01-01-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
First, the legalized gangsters in the nation's toilet raised the debt ceiling at the 11th hour so that the US government can borrow more and spend more, in spite of the looming budget carnage. Then they partied down into the wee hours of New Year's E
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News Link • Agriculture
Agreement Reached To Extend 2008 Farm Bill
01-01-2013
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http://www.mintpress.net, The Associated Press
The top leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in October, a move that could head off a possible doubling of milk prices next month.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Jacob Appelbaum on Resisting the Surveillance State
01-01-2013
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“Ask if you are working on a system that helps to control others or if you’re working on system that helps to enable others to have control over their own lives. It is possible to make a living making free software for freedom instead of malware for
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
People in Macon rally for police shooting victim, seek change from city leaders
01-01-2013
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FOX News
A large group of people rallied , calling for the immediate firing and punishment of a police officer, who shot and killed a man in the parking lot of a grocery store. Police originally said Officer Clayton Sutton was serving a warrant when a struggl
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hillary Clinton in hospital amid speculation of plane accident in Iran
01-01-2013
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http://www.debka.com
Clinton was seriously injured while on a secret mission in the region in the first week of December. Some claimed that in the same incident, Americans in her party - advisers and security personnel - were either injured or killed.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Everything You Need To Know About iPhone Etiquette Is In A Mom's Letter To Her 13-Year-Old Son
01-01-2013
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Business Insider
Greg Hofmann finally received an iPhone for Christmas, but it came with a long list of terms and conditions.
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News Link • World News
Drilling rig grounded off Kodiak Island
01-01-2013
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upi.com
A winter storm grounded a Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig in waters off the southern coast of Alaska's Kodiak Island, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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News Link • States' Rights
New year, new state laws
01-01-2013
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upi.com
Four hundred new state laws are in effect with the new year, and some of them are strange, the National Conference of State Legislatures reported.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Video: Everything Wrong With The Dark Knight Rises in Three Minutes
01-01-2013
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Wired.com
Despite all its ambition and undeniably impressive moments, the finale to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy certainly had its share of faults, from the widely mocked impenetrability of Bane’s voice...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tech’s Hot New Market: The Poor
01-01-2013
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Wired.com
Douglas Merrill’s sister-in-law Vicki needed new snow tires. Without them, the single mother of three, who was going to school while also working full-time, couldn’t get to work. She’d lose her job.
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News Link • History
The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 " 10 Years Ago
01-01-2013
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Wired.com
Predicting the future is hard, but that doesn’t stop us from trying. We’re Wired, after all.
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News Link • Books
The Only Strategies You'll Need To Achieve Your Goals In 2013
01-01-2013
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Business Insider
It's a new year, and time for your life to become what you want it to be.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Beautiful New Film Follows The 40-Year Search For The Monarch Butterfly's Winter Home
01-01-2013
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Business Insider
Flight of the Butterflies, opening in New York at The American Museum of Natural History on Jan. 5 lets you take a journey with monarch butterflies during their annual migration.
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News Link • Books
The Most Important Finance Books Ever Written
01-01-2013
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Business Insider
Reading a good investment book should top your list of New Year's resolutions.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
BACHUS: I'd Be 'Shocked' If House GOP Didn't Amend The Bill With Spending Cuts
01-01-2013
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Business Insider
House Republicans are starting to trickle out of their afternoon meeting on the fiscal cliff bill, and reports indicate that there is a growing consensus that the fiscal cliff bill will be amended to include spending cuts.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ball Lightening Clarified
01-01-2013
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arclein
As for how they pass through glass, he says this is a result of a stream of ions accumulating on the outside of a glass window and the resulting electric field on the other side excites air molecules to form a ball discharge.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Immaculate Conception to Genetic Deception
01-01-2013
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arclein
was able to teach and to demonstrate was that such a state of (higher) consciousness ‘exists’ and has always existed; and that it is freely available to us all, being an incontrovertible part of our very DNA and of every cell and corpuscle of our bod
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Here's How Much Of A Tax Cut You'll Get If The Fiscal Cliff Deal Goes Through
01-01-2013
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Business Insider
Here's the only thing that most Americans care about: How much are your taxes going up or down.
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News Link • Anthropology
A New Mayan Age Begins
01-01-2013
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arclein
Tomorrow is the first day of the new year, a time for resolutions, a time for hope, a time to turn over a fresh page. Since the Mayan calendar is cyclical, it's appropriate to remember that 21 December 2012 marked the end of a great cycle of the hum
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
How to Live to a Ripe Old Age
01-01-2013
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arclein
In the course of your quest you've been introduced to remarkable individuals like 100-year-old Marge Jetton of Loma Linda, California, who starts the day with a mile-long [0.6-kilometer] walk, 6 to 8 miles [10 to 13 kilometers] on a stationary bike,
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News Link • World News
North Korea Wants To End Its Problems With The South And Just Get Back Together
01-01-2013
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Business Insider
Just weeks after launching a long-distance missile that surprised the world, North Korea now wants to make amends with the South.
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News Link • Police State
Watch Me Talk Police Militarization
01-01-2013
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, Radley Balko
Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper, George Schulz of the Center for Investigative Reporting, and yours truly discuss police militarization in America on Al Jazeera's Inside Story.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
10 Uses for Carbon Nanotubes
01-01-2013
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Julian Taub
Carbon nanotubes, miniscule pipes of rolled up carbon atoms, have amazing properties that have taken the world by storm.
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News Link • China
China's Newest And Deadly Warship Has Entered The South China Sea
01-01-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
As five other countries claim ownership of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and its supposed billions in oil and gas deposits, China's backing its claim by sending the newest warship it has to the region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Going for the Guns: Possible Martial Law in Early 2013?
01-01-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, BumperTapper2
Audio clip from "The Pastor Butch Paugh Show"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Confiscation = Act of War
01-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, dwalters
Any person that comes to your house to get your guns should be met with deadly force. Shoot to kill.
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Sis Spy Drone At Vikings-Packers Game?
01-01-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
TSA VIPR team keeps tabs on fans
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Oliver Stone to RT: ‘US has become an Orwellian state’
01-01-2013
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http://rt.com
Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law.
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News Link • Government
Video: Dianne Feinstein Says Her Goal is to Disarm All Americans
01-01-2013
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http://www.infowars.com, Alex Jones
Democrat Senator: “Mr. and Mrs. America… turn ‘em all in.”
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News Link • Conspiracies
Hillary Clinton's Illness Prompts Conspiracy Theories
01-01-2013
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http://www.weeklystandard.com, By DANIEL HALPER
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most famous current female political figure, has fallen ill.
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News Link • Military
Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future, Researchers Warn
01-01-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers.” Greater strength and endurance. Superior cognition. B
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News Link • World News
At Least 41 Killed in Pakistan Militant Attacks
01-01-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Mass Executions of Captives, Attack on Shi'ite Pilgrims
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Demand A Plan - Demand Celebrities Go F*CK Themselves!
01-01-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, ma5one
Hypocrite celebrities and their anti gun agenda
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Reference Link • Treason and Sedition
You Are Playing In a Game With No Rules
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
If you were going to rob one of two homes, what would you choose? Would you choose a home that clearly has armed family members, or, would you choose the home where the best weapon in the house is a butter knife? This is the choice being made by the
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, Best of 2012 (Part 3)
12-31-2012
John Semmens
Dems Scramble to Explain Obama Debate Defeat
Going into this week's first presidential debate Democrats were confident that the most brilliant man to ever hold the office would easily trounce his challenger. However, 67% of voters who saw the deba
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Opinion • General Opinion
“Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Win”
12-31-2012
Howard Blitz
Today, Americans face a similar challenge and requires no less the determination of a Lombardi, Edison, Morse, Paine or the many women inventors of the past and present. Excessive government taxation and spending, inflation, and government initiated
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News Link • Government
Absolute Proof Sandy Hook was Staged
12-30-2012
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YouTube Art Olivier
Although she does not appear in any of the class photos, the media claims that 6-year-old Emilie Parker on the right was shot in the Sandy Hook massacre
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"Fixing" the Economy New York Times Style: Raise Taxes and Raise Taxes Even More
12-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The way to "fix" our economy is for the State to take even more of our earnings. Of course, they refer to shoving higher taxes at us as "reform," a watchword for all Progressives who believe that "reform" comes only via expansion of the police powers
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News Link • Foreign Policy
America's Allies Feed Christians to the Dogs
12-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Andrei Arbashe, a young Syrian Christian, had just gotten married and his wife was about to give birth. He had his life ahead of him. But thanks to the US/Saudi/Qatari/Israeli-supported rebels that was not to be. Instead he was beheaded by Obama
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News Link • Surveillance
Your Cellphone Is Spying on You
12-30-2012
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Reason magazine
Police have not been shy about taking advantage of these data. U.S. law enforcement agencies made 1.5 million requests for user data from cellphone companies in 2011. Under law, you will never find out if they were targeting you.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"
12-30-2012
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der Spiegel
Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted, Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. Development aid weakens the local markets everywhere and dampens entrepreneurship.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Boy, 13, Arrested for Posting Video of Fight on Facebook
12-30-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A 13-year-old boy was arrested after posting a video of 2 girls fighting off school grounds. The boy was charged with “mischief,” which used to only be punishable by detention. And even then, only when the mischief took place on school grounds.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman Sues Seattle Police after Video Shows they Fabricated Case Against Her
12-30-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
a Seattle cop grabbed a woman out of a crowd of protesters and pulled her to the ground where several other officers pounced on her.
The cop, Sonya Fry, claimed in her report that she grabbed Maria Morales because Morales had cursed at her and pun
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Virginia Judge Denies Qualified Immunity to Deputy Caught on Video Attacking Citizen
12-30-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Virginia sheriff’s deputy came charging up behind an unsuspecting citizen who had his hands in the air, ramming his elbow into the back of his head and sending him sprawling to the pavement, rendering him unconscious, only to later claim the man wa
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News Link • Economy - International
Thousands of Macedonian protesters call on government to resign
12-30-2012
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AFP
“This government can not even breathe without taking a loan,” he added. “We had enough from this government, they are just spending and we have no money to pay bills and feed our children,” unemployed factory worker Stojanca Kostev said.
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News Link • Iran
Obama signs law against Iran Latin America influence
12-30-2012
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AFP
The Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act passed calling for the State Dept. to develop a strategy to “address Iran’s growing hostile presence and activity” in the region. The strategy is confidential and only accessible to lawmakers
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Union thugs burn down new non-union built Quaker church
12-30-2012
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The site where Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting is building a new meetinghouse was damaged by arsonists during Christmas week, and police are now "absolutely" sure the attack was the result of a dispute between members of a construction union and the pr
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
“Reflections on the Loss of Liberty” by Judge Napolitano (Excellent Video)
12-30-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Louis E. Carabini Distinguished Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: “The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach”. Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 26 October 2012. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. R
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News Link • Gun Rights
Former New York Times Editor Makes A 'Liberal Case' For The 2nd Amendment
12-30-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Whitney, a former New York Times editor, argues in his new book "Living With Guns: A Liberal 's Case for the Second Amendment" that Americans have a long-standing common-law right to have guns for self-defense.
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News Link • Police State
Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
12-30-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk
The document shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity:
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News Link • Gun Rights
Insider: Obama To Fully Engage Gun Owners with Armed Feds in 2013
12-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex talks with Doug Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network about information released by his high-level DHS contact concerning government gun confiscation and other important topics.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Restrictions Have Always Bred Defiance, Black Markets
12-30-2012
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http://reason.com, J.D. Tuccille
For reasons of their own, most people, in many countries, defy anti-gun laws
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Iceland puts a banker in jail!
12-30-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fishyculture
Two former executives at an Icelandic bank which collapsed in the 2008 financial meltdown were sentenced to jail on Friday for fraud which led to a 53 million euro loss, in the first major trial of Icelandic bankers linked to the crisis.
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