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Date Sent: 2012-01-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 6, 2012 |
After Santorum Left Senate, Familiar Hands Reached Out -- Asia Stocks Down as Euro Debt Multiply
TSA “Behavioral Detection” Officer Sentenced For Helping Drug
Dealers Through Security -- Californians Are Asked for $6.9 Billion in
New Taxes -- Army Considering Reprimanding Soldier Who Appeared With Ron Paul --
Another Kennedy to run for Congress -- BlackBerry
messages help crack Canada mafia murder -- Prosecutor seeks death
for Egypt's Mubarak -- Obama Administration Official Says "Kill the
Dollar" -- Why Has Gold Been Down? -- January 5th, 2012 - Peter
Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital 2012 Predictions (MP3 Loaded) --
January 5th, 2012 - Ademo Freeman, CopBlock.Org (MP3 Loaded) --
Chalking the Police - The Conclusion
AZ: Arizona Breakfast
Club this Saturday; Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific
Capital, coming to Phoenix Jan 9th
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
After Santorum Left Senate, Familiar Hands Reached Out
01-05-2012
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New York Times
In the years before he lost his Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2006, Rick Santorum worked hard to win hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Medicare money for hospitals in Puerto Rico. He sponsored at least two Senate bills and pushed to amend
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News Link • Economy - International
Asia Stocks Down as Euro Debt Woes Multiply
01-05-2012
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AP
Asian stock markets faltered Friday amid worries over the health of Europe's banks and fears that the continent's debt crisis might be spreading beyond a handful of small economies.
Japan's Nikkei 225 Index fell 1 percent to 8,401.32. Hong Kong's
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA “Behavioral Detection” Officer Sentenced For Helping Drug Dealers Through Security
01-05-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
A TSA “Behavioral detection” officer was sentenced to two years in prison on conspiracy charges Wednesday after being found guilty of providing information to suspected drug traffickers and helping them get past security checkpoints with minimum scru
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: State
Californians Are Asked for $6.9 Billion in New Taxes
01-05-2012
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New York Times
Gov. Jerry Brown called on California voters Thursday to approve $6.9 billion in temporary new taxes, including a surcharge on big earners, as part of yet another bad-news budget proposal, this one for 2012. He warned that without those tax increases
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Army Considering Reprimanding Soldier Who Appeared With Ron Paul
01-05-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
The US Army said Wednesday that it is considering disciplining Reserve Corporal Jesse Thorsen, the soldier who spoke out against a militaristic foreign policy at Ron Paul’s post-Iowa caucuses rally.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Revenge of the Electric Car
01-05-2012
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Mahendra Ramsinghani via TechnologyReview.com
The Nissan Leaf is the first all-electric car to try to connect to a mass market. Now Nissan is betting on a U.S. factory that can turn out 150,000 cars a year.
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News Link • Transportation
GM Announces Retrofit to Address Volt Fires
01-05-2012
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Coolant sensors and structural improvements are designed to make the electric car safer.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Adult Stem Cell Technology
Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras
01-05-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Scientists have produced the world’s first chimeric monkeys, developed from stem cells harvested from separate embryos. They contain genetic material from as many as six genomes. The infant rhesus monkeys are totally healthy and could hold great prom
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Another Kennedy set to run for Congress: reports
01-05-2012
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The RawStory.com
Joseph P. Kennedy III, a 31-year-old Massachusetts prosecutor, will run for Congress this year in a bid to resurrect the dynasty of America’s most famous political family, reports said Thursday.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
BlackBerry messages help crack Canada mafia murder
01-05-2012
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The RawStory.com
Canadian police used the BlackBerry messages of suspects in the assassination of a New York mafia boss to crack the case, a Montreal-based newspaper reported Thursday, citing “several sources.”
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Boondoggle and white elephants
"Candy Man" Parody Bound to be Hit with Libertarians
9/21/2011
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Tim Hawkins
"The Government Can" leaves the Beatles' "Tax Man" in the dust.
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Dennis Treybil
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News Link • World News
Prosecutor seeks death for Egypt's Mubarak
01-05-2012
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Reuters
The prosecution in the case against Hosni Mubarak on Thursday demanded the death sentence for the former Egyptian president and other defendants including his two sons and the former interior minister.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Official Says "Kill the Dollar"
01-04-2012
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Silver Underground
Up and coming investment guru, Kyle Bass recently disclosed a conversation he had with a senior Obama administration official. The official admitted the government's economic strategy was to "kill the dollar" which Bass called "a dead answer."
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Feature Article • Activism
Chalking the Police - The Conclusion
Drew
For those that have been following this blog, you might remember that myself and eight others were arrested while protesting the Manchester (NH) police - after four of its officers were cleared of wrong doing in the Strange Brew incident. It took abo
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News Link • LOVE
Stuff Yogis Say
01-05-2012
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http://www.avantgarland.com
Lulumon has come forward with some rather untraditional commentary on yoga values lately. They made a bold statement by putting “Who is John Galt?” on their shopping bags and with this post in November and I’ve been wanting to share my thoughts on th
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