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Date Sent: 2011-12-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 14, 2011 AM edition |
Internet piracy bill: A free speech 'kill switch' -- EU PLOTS REVENGE AGAINST BRITAIN
City Settles in Liability Suit Against DA -- Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents -- Broward Considers Airport Body Scanner Ban --
Pakistani Actress Defies Mullah Accusing Her of Immoral Behavior on an
Indian Reality TV Show -- Agenda 21 ends your property rights. -- In Iowa, Paul closes to within one point of front-runner Gingrich -- Billionaire Paul Allen's New Space Project Has Deep Roots -- Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’ -- Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Protocol, Making it the First Country to Legally Opt Out -- Send In The Drones: The Predator State Goes Domestic - by William N. Grigg -- The US Treasury's Secret, 75-Year-Old Fund and Its Dark History Has Been Exposed? ... -- FBI turns down request for info. on Carrier IQ -- Trump Gone -- Sheriff’s Department Sponsors Secret Meeting On Small Government ‘Terrorists’
AZ: Bill of Rights Day
celebration, Tomorrow, Dec. 15, 2011
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News Link • Internet
Internet piracy bill: A free speech 'kill switch'
12-13-2011
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The Hill
Federal legislation purporting to protect online intellectual property would impose sweeping new government mandates on internet service providers " a positively Orwellian power grab that would permit the Justice Dept to shut down any internet site i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
EU PLOTS REVENGE AGAINST BRITAIN
12-13-2011
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BRITAIN last night faced a revenge attack for David Cameron’s EU snub when a senior Brussels bureaucrat promised a new deluge of damaging red tape on UK business.
They insisted that the EU could override the Prime Minister’s veto to slap more regu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
City Settles in Liability Suit Against DA
12-13-2011
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The Agitator
A former University of Northern Colorado student has settled his lawsuit against a county prosecutor who signed off on a criminal libel investigation into the student over writings the student posted on a satirical website.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents
12-13-2011
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ARS Technica
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case that raises a fundamental question: whether a physician can infringe a patent merely by using scientific research to inform her treatment decisions.
Unfortunately, this issue was barely
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Broward Considers Airport Body Scanner Ban
12-13-2011
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CBS News
In the wake of most countries in Europe vowing to stop using full-body scanners at airports; the Broward County Commission is looking into banning the scanners from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
The ban would be in place until t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
Will Nickels and Pennies Soon Disappear?
12-13-2011
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mises.org
Back in December 2006, the US Mint, in yet another power grab over economic life, made it illegal to melt pennies and nickels in addition to exporting large quantities of either.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Survival and The Survival Knife: Everything You Need to Know and More
12-13-2011
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Strategic Living
The threat of a natural disaster seems to be increasing and whether real or not, our mindset is affected because the effect of such a disaster threatens our sense of safety and security.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Ron Paul and the Environment
12-13-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Walter Block
A strong advocate of private property rights, Dr. Paul correctly sees this as the cornerstone of a sound libertarian-based environmental policy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Google's Street View Car Just Drove Through Tsunami-Ravaged Japan
12-13-2011
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businessinsider.com
Google's Street View car just took a tour of many of the tsunami-affected areas of Japan, and the images are up for everyone to see.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Positive News
A German Janitor Just Made The Discovery Of The Century
12-13-2011
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businessinsider.com
Two weeks ago, a janitor at the Passau State Library in Germany was making her typical rounds when she came across an unassuming jewelry box.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
If Silver Goes Down All Hell Will Break Loose In The Physical Market: Silver Investment Update
12-13-2011
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youtube.com
There simply isn't enough physical silver to deal with the demand of a fiat currency crisis. As the paper silver market pushes prices down, all hell will break loose in the physical market.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food Recipes - Long Term Storage Foods
"I Can See You" -- A Digital View of Your Survival Preparations, by Dave X.
12-13-2011
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survivalblog.com
I design and operate databases for a living. The newest of these are assembled on analytic platforms structured to “draw conclusions” for clients in a wide (and formerly random) variety of scenarios.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Beware of Silver Scam on eBay!
12-12-2011
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Gold Scams Blog
Now I usually do my dealing face to face with a local bullion shop, but just as Christmas shopping isn't always done in a store anymore, neither are all precious metal purchases. Many friends and associates have mentioned the gold and silver buying
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Megan Duffield
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News Link • Housing
Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years
12-13-2011
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www.cnbc.com
Data on sales of previously owned U.S. homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of double counting, indicating a much weaker housing market than previously thought.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
November 23rd, 2011 - RP2012.Org - Guest: Jun Dam
Ernest Hancock interviews Jun Dam of RP2012.Org about their efforts to get Ron Paul elected. How to help Ron Paul NOW for free from your own home with your phone - Totally Automatic
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Election 2012: New Hampshire Republican Primary
12-13-2011
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www.rasmussenreports.com
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney remains on top of the New Hampshire Republican Primary field, but the race for second place between Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul is a lot closer than it was just two weeks ago.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
In Iowa, Paul closes to within one point of front-runner Gingrich
12-13-2011
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dailycaller.com
Texas Rep. Ron Paul has surged to second place in a new Iowa poll of likely Republican caucus goers, just one percent behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the current front-runner.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Billionaire Paul Allen's New Space Project Has Deep Roots
12-13-2011
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www.space.com
Allen announced today (Dec. 13) that he is forming a new company called Stratolaunch Systems, which plans to launch payloads to orbit from a huge plane at high altitude. Stratolaunch Systems continues a trend for Allen
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Startup Ducks Immigration Law With ‘Googleplex of the Sea’
12-13-2011
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www.wired.com
U.S. immigration law is choking the flow of “bold and creative” entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley. So it’s building a floating IT fortress where entrepreneurs can be bold and creative right next to Silicon Valley without actually setting foot on U.S.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
VIDEO: Now Internet Reformation Demands Tesla's Research on Limitless Energy
12-13-2011
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The Daily Bell
Is the American bureaucracy holding deep insights and papers of Nikola Tesla? That's the argument this video (below) is making. The makers of the video advocate a day of protest demanding the release of Nikola Tesla's research to take place on Jan. 7
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Getting Ultrafast Internet by Ditching the Phone (and Cable) Company
12-13-2011
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www.technologyreview.com
"It's a recognition of the fact that high-speed Internet access is now a necessity and a public good, so it's not inappropriate for governments to step in and give it a push."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015
12-13-2011
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www.popsci.com
Now China plans to make some purposeful atmospheric changes " namely making it rain, for the purpose of growing crops.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Death Penalty
Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’
12-13-2011
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rawstory.com
Over the weekend, struggling Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson reminded MSNBC viewers that GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich had once to called to punish some drug offenders with death.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Silver Circle Invited to Two More Film Festivals in 2012!
12-12-2011
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SilverUnderground.com
December 13, 2011 - Despite the bad news from Sundance Film Festival earlier this month, we have some exciting news to share. We are honored to say two new film festivals have invited us to submit our film to their panel of judges.
Anthem Film Fes
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Megan Duffield
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News Link • Gold and Silver
3 Lessons From the European Mess
As the debt crisis unfolds overseas, prepare yourself...
12-13-2011
Question: A Greek, an Italian and a Spaniard walk into a bar. Who picks up the tab? --------
Answer: The Americans.
All financial eyes are once again trained on the European debt crisis, with investors worldwide wondering how it will p
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Charles Goyette
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
Over/Under Shotgun/Rifle Combos
Ernest Hancock
"It seemed like I always had a rifle when I would've done better with a shotgun, and when I had the shotgun, it seemed like Id always get a couple of easy-takers that were just outside the shotgun range."
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Astro Space Center RadioAstron
12-13-2011
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www.popsci.com
The Russian space agency’s RadioAstron, launched in July, is the final piece of the biggest radio-telescope array ever assembled. The satellite’s 33-foot carbon-fiber dish antenna is small, but it connects it to a worldwide network of terrestrial tel
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Video: A Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Camera Captures Individual Photons Moving Through Space
12-13-2011
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www.popsci.com
MIT researchers have built a camera with a visual capture rate of one trillion frames per second. That’s fast enough to watch photons travel the length of a one-liter bottle in the video below. In other words, absolutely nothing in the universe looks
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Protocol, Making it the First Country to Legally Opt Out
12-13-2011
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www.popsci.com
Canada has gone and done exactly what many feared it would do and pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol, making it the first country to formally do so. And today, the finger-pointing begins.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
National Destruction Authorization Act
12-13-2011
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StopTheLie.com
Dear "Representative,"
NO HUMAN BEING (let alone an American Citizen) should be stripped of his or her rights based on an ACCUSATION alone. Due process and EVIDENCE are required by our American system of justice.
If you vote for this un-Amer
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Military
Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws
12-13-2011
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www.wired.com
expected to cost $1 trillion dollars for development, production and maintenance over the next 50 years. Now that cost is expected to grow, owing to 13 different design flaws uncovered in the last two months by a hush-hush panel of five Pentagon expe
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Stewart: ‘Gingrich is a life support for bad ideas’
12-13-2011
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The Comedy Channel
Jon Stewart couldn’t believe Mitt Romney missed a chance to hammer Newt Gingrich at the last GOP debate. The Daily Show host thought Romney had many answers to choose from on what he disagreed with the former House Speaker over, listing some of them
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Send In The Drones: The Predator State Goes Domestic
12-13-2011
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“Eventually, we’ll have to put an end to this, one way or another.”
Sheriff Kelly Janke of North Dakota’s Nelson County uttered that ominous sentence in mid-September, during what the local media giddily described as a stand-off with local farme
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News Link • Just For Fun!
The HD HERO2: 2x as Powerful in Every Way
12-13-2011
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www.youtube.com
The HD HERO2 is the most advanced GoPro camera, yet. To celebrate its release, we traveled the world with some of our favorite athletes, adventurers, and filmmakers to see what we could capture and create with the HD HERO2.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Positive News
I couldn’t believe this happened
12-13-2011
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Sovereign Man/Simon Black
Something incredibly unusual happened yesterday" I was interviewed by a popular radio program broadcast on CNN Radio. This is unusual for a number of reasons; we receive countless interview requests… but I almost always turn them down.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI turns down request for info. on Carrier IQ
12-13-2011
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Washington Post
The FBI denied a request regarding Carrier IQ, a piece of software found on smartphones and designed to send information on handsets to carriers. The request asked for “manuals, documents of other written guidance used to access or analyze data” gath
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fearfully, the US Treasury's Secret, 75-Year-Old Fund and Its Dark History Has Been Exposed? ...
12-13-2011
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The Daily Bell
The US Government has taken over the world and the ESF has been its weapon of choice.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump Gone
12-13-2011
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Politico
This just in: Donald Trump has bowed out of moderating the NewsMax debate in Iowa later, announcing his decision in a statement saying he will not give up the option of running for president as an independent. Trump: The Republican Party candidates a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Sheriff’s Department Sponsors Secret Meeting On Small Government ‘Terrorists’
12-13-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department has teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League to sponsor a quasi-secret meeting in Camarillo, California that characterizes small government activists as violent terrorists.
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Donna Hancock
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