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Date Sent: 2012-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, December 10, 2012 AM edition |
Ron Paul condemns "terrible treatment" of Bradley Manning from House Floor
Montgomery County, PA Libertarians Holiday Party 2012 (video) -- Mortgage Crisis Presents a New Reckoning to Banks -- GOP sides with Mickey Mouse on copyright reform -- State mulls pay-by-mile gas tax in response to fuel-efficient cars -- D'oh! Police Drone Crashes Into It's Police SWAT Team -- In Girl’s Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia -- Jumping Off the Fiscal Cliff -- Egyptian opposition formally rejects constitutional referendum -- B.C. woman fined for renting garden shed to homeless couple --
US households already went off their fiscal cliff and breached their
debt ceiling -- New Egypt protest call as Morsi sticks to constitution
plan
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 • Whistleblowers
Ron Paul condemns "terrible treatment" of Bradley Manning from House Floor
12-09-2012
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Liberty Fight
Ron Paul: "If Congress really is concerned about the human rights of prisoners, perhaps they might take a look at the terrible treatment of US Army Private Bradley Manning while incarcerated and awaiting trial...."
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News Link • Activism
Montgomery County, PA Libertarians Holiday Party 2012 (video)
12-07-2012
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The International Libertarian
The Montgomery County, PA libertarians gave out the Monty Awards for distinguished activism at their holiday party on December 7, 2012. Great acceptance speeches were given by Larken Rose, Betsy Summers, Lou Jasikoff, Mike Salvi, and Richard Schwarz.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Crisis Presents a New Reckoning to Banks
12-09-2012
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New York Times
The nation’s largest banks are facing a fresh torrent of lawsuits asserting that they sold shoddy mortgage securities that imploded during the financial crisis, potentially adding to the tens of billions of dollars banks have already paid to settle o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Intellectual Property
GOP sides with Mickey Mouse on copyright reform
12-09-2012
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Washington Examiner
The law and law enforcement around copyright has moved far beyond its purpose of promoting arts and sciences and has become a textbook case of collusion between big business and big government.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
State mulls pay-by-mile gas tax in response to fuel-efficient cars
12-09-2012
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Drivers of fuel-efficient cars are spending less at the pump, which means they are paying less in gas tax while driving the same amount of miles. So the state is a considering a pay-by- mile tax to even the playing field since as it stands now,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
D'oh! Police Drone Crashes Into Police SWAT Team
12-09-2012
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Salon
A report expressed concern drones were being pushed into the domestic market before safety had been sufficiently addressed. The first police dept in the country to acquire an aerial drone crashed the $300,000 aircraft into its own SWAT team.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
In Girl’s Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia
12-09-2012
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New York Times
The treatment very nearly killed her. But she emerged from it cancer-free, and about seven months later is still in complete remission. She is the first child and one of the first humans ever in whom new techniques have achieved a long-sought goal "
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jumping Off the Fiscal Cliff
12-09-2012
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Free Press Publications
The federal government is nearing the edge of the “fiscal cliff.” The term is used to describe the simultaneous expiration of tax cuts, increase in tax rates and supposedly massive spending cuts. Some argue that allowing the federal budget to be cut
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News Link • World News
Egyptian opposition formally rejects constitutional referendum
12-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Egyptian opposition has rejected a constitution referendum set for December 15, saying the it fails to represent all Egyptians. It comes after President Mohamed Morsi rescinded a decree granting himself sweeping powers.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
B.C. woman fined for renting garden shed to homeless couple
12-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A B.C. woman has been fined $500 for renting out a garden shed to a homeless couple and their three dogs.
A power cord that ran from the woman’s house in Kelowna, B.C., supplied electricity to the small metal building, for which she was charging r
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US households already went off their fiscal cliff and breached their debt ceiling
12-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Few people realize that the debt ceiling is aligning right on track with the fiscal cliff. Total public outstanding debt is now at $16.369 trillion and is only $63 billion away from breaching the limit. Not a coincidence that the fiscal cliff is al
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Chris Menke
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News Link • World News
New Egypt protest call as Morsi sticks to constitution plan
12-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
President Mohammed Morsi met one of the opposition’s demands, annulling his Nov. 22 decrees that gave him near unrestricted powers. But he insisted on going ahead with the referendum on a constitution hurriedly adopted by his Islamist allies during a
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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 • 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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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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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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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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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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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Platinum Coin Scam to "Solve" the U.S. debt crisis?
12-06-2012
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Washington Post
Under current law, the Treasury is technically allowed to mint as many coins made of platinum as it wants and can assign them whatever value it pleases.
Under this scenario, the U.S. Mint would make a pair of trillion-dollar platinum coins.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Orleans U.S. attorney resigns amid scandal over anonymous online postings
12-06-2012
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Washington Post
The top federal prosecutor in New Orleans, the longest-serving U.S. attorney in the country, resigned Thursday amid an investigation into possible prosecutorial misconduct by two of his top deputies.
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Online sales tax to be added to defense authorization bill
12-06-2012
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The Daily Caller
This may be the last Christmas of online shopping without paying sales tax. A proposed online sales tax has been offered as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, much to the ire of opponents.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
I Told You So! Of Course Washington will Steal Your Retirement Benefits
12-06-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Ron Holland
Today the twin fake memes of a "Fiscal Cliff" and "Austerity" are combining to create a contrived excuse to tax and steal far more of your wealth and income, including your retirement benefits.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
‘No Food Rights’ Judge quits to work for Monsanto law firm
12-06-2012
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http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com, Rady
As courts and bureaucrats continue to assert that citizens have no fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice, we find Monsanto lurking nearby.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • North American Union
George W. Bush: 'Canada, Mexico and US Should Merge'
12-06-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Former President George W. Bush stressed the importance of immigration on Tuesday at a speech in Dallas, throwing himself back in the ring as the debate over reform heats up in Washington.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Pentagon planning for multinational military operation in Mali
12-06-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
U.S. military planners have begun to help organize a multinational proxy force to intervene next year in Mali, the famine-stricken, coup-wracked African country that has become a magnet for Islamist extremists, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Here's What Life Is Really Like In Post-Apocalyptic Afghanistan
12-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
People told me I was crazy for doing it.
I hadn't even opened the package containing my shiny new NYU Master's in Journalism and I was already heading to Afghanistan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
US Aircraft Carrier’s Arrival Near Syria Sparks War Fears
12-06-2012
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news.antiwar.com
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has reportedly arrived off the coast of Syria in recent days, having passed through the Suez Canal and joined a team of other ships loitering off the coast in the event President Obama orders a US invasion of Syria.
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