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Date Sent: 2011-11-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, November 30, 2011 AM edition |
U.S. Declares Cold War With China -- FDA Considers Mandatory Salt Reductions
Concord Cop Gives Off-Duty Police Lieutenant a Ticket, Captain Voids it “In the Interest of Justice” -- Voting Rights Advocate Held At Gunpoint By SWAT Team With No Warrant -- U.S. Settles Suit Over Anthrax Attacks -- Georgetown students shed light on China’s tunnel system for nuclear weapons -- Despite earmark ban, lawmakers try to give money to hundreds of pet projects -- Jackson doctor, Murray, sentenced to max; judge cites documentary -- Lame-duck Barney Frank joins effort to repeal Obamacare ‘death panels’ -- Marine Who Received Medal of Honor Fights Allegations He is Mentally Unstable -- "Michael Crow, a former agent [of the CIA], is now president of Arizona State University" -- Scott Olsen, Iraq Vet Injured by Police at Occupy Oakland, Interviewed After Release From Hospital -- How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word -- Ron Paul 2012 - Who Can You Trust? -- Leading economic professor: Production falling off cliff, Eurozone dead -- Maplewood MN rejects citizens demands concerning garbage collection -- Dear Friends of PBI (Public Banking Institute) -- Two Scandals, One Connection: The FBI link between Penn State and UC Davis
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News Link • China
U.S. Declares Cold War With China
11-29-2011
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humanevents.com
Last week, President Barack Obama was in Asia to declare a cold war with China. Hopefully the U.S.-China cold war won’t be like the one fought with the Soviet Union that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation and cost trillions of do
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food
FDA Considers Mandatory Salt Reductions
11-29-2011
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CATO Institute
The Food and Drug Administration has begun laying groundwork for one of the more audacious regulatory initiatives of the Obama administration: mandatory reductions in the salt content of processed foods in the supermarket and at restaurants.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Concord Cop Gives Off-Duty Police Lieutenant a Ticket, Captain Voids it “In the Interest of Justice”
11-29-2011
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On October 7th at 8:37am, an off-duty Concord Police Lieutenant was issued a citation by a Concord Police Officer for the Lieutenant’s role in a traffic collision, directly in front of the Concord Police Department. The off-duty Lieutenant, identifie
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Voting Rights Advocate Held At Gunpoint By SWAT Team With No Warrant
11-29-2011
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Crooks and Liars
Attorney Barbara Arnwine was rudely awakened by the sounds of a police raid on her home. She's the Executive Director for the Lawyers' Committee on Civil Rights and is actively challenging Voter ID laws around the country, as depicted in the video at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. Settles Suit Over Anthrax Attacks
11-29-2011
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NY Times
The federal government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the widow and children of the first person killed in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, settling a lawsuit claiming that the Army did not adequately secure its supply of the deadly pathogen.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Georgetown students shed light on China’s tunnel system for nuclear weapons
11-29-2011
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Washington Post
The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” " a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal. A small band of obsessively dedicated students at Georgetown University has
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Despite earmark ban, lawmakers try to give money to hundreds of pet projects
11-29-2011
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Washington Post
Members of the House and the Senate attempted to pack hundreds of special spending provisions into at least 10 bills in the summer and fall, less than a year after congressional leaders declared a moratorium on earmarks, congressional records show.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Jackson doctor, Murray, sentenced to max; judge cites documentary
11-29-2011
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Washington Post
Dr. Murray is no doubt wishing he hadn’t done that Michael Jackson documentary after an angry judge cited them several times to explain why he was sentencing the late pop star’s doctor to the max possible: four years in the slammer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Lame-duck Barney Frank joins effort to repeal Obamacare ‘death panels’
11-29-2011
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The Daily Caller
Retiring Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank announced on Tuesday his support for the repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a significant portion of President Obama’s health care overhaul.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Marine Who Received Medal of Honor Fights Allegations He is Mentally Unstable
11-29-2011
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Yahoo! News
Sgt. Dakota Meyer, 23, is having trouble getting a job because of allegations by defense contractor BAE Systems that he has a drinking problem and is mentally unstable.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Scott Olsen, Iraq Vet Injured by Police at Occupy Oakland, Interviewed After Release From Hospital
11-29-2011
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www.bradblog.com
'Stay peaceful, because that's what this is about,' advises the now-wounded, but still-optimistic warrior...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word
11-29-2011
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mobile.bloomberg.com/
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stepped off the elevator into the Third Avenue offices of hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management LP in Manhattan. It was July 21, 2008, and market fears were mounting. Four months earlier, Bear Stearns Cos. had sold
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul 2012 - Who Can You Trust?
11-29-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Wouldn't it be great if the first thing people asked themselves about their candidate is "Which one would I allow to watch my kids if I had to pick?".
So who can you trust? The guy who lies openly? The guy who cheats openly? Or the guy who get's o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
Leading economic professor: Production falling off cliff, Eurozone dead
11-29-2011
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Terrence Aym
One of America's leading economic professors, Dr. Thomas Carl Rustici, of George Mason University and Georgetown University recently granted an interview to Alasdair Macleod, Senior Fellow of the GoldMoney Foundation. The two discussed the economic
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Government
Maplewood MN rejects citizens demands concerning garbage collection
11-29-2011
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The Hals Report
You can’t blame Allied Waste Services for being competitive, but you can blame local officials in Maplewood, Minnesota for not listening to their citizens. On Monday night, despite citizen demand, the city of Maplewood made a decision to cut down gar
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The Real News
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dear Friends of PBI (Public Banking Institute)
11-29-2011
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verticalresponse.com
What's going on at the Public Banking Institute? Plenty! For a start, we are going to have a national public banking conference, planned to be in Philadelphia in mid-April, 2012. This conference is a direct result of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) mov
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Two Scandals, One Connection: The FBI link between Penn State and UC Davis
11-29-2011
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www.thenation.com
Two shocking scandals. Two esteemed universities. Two disgraced university leaders. One stunning connection. Over the last month, we’ve seen Penn State University President Graham Spanier dismissed from his duties and we’ve seen UC Davis Chancellor L
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iranian protesters storm UK diplomatic compounds
11-29-2011
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www.reuters.com
Iranian protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, smashing windows, torching a car and burning the British flag in protest against new sanctions imposed by London.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
11-24-11 Freedom Watch - The Plain Truth
11-29-2011
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www.youtube.com
The Judge questions whether our constitution means anything anymore..
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The Making of a Prison Society
11-29-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Will Grigg
This taunt, which issued from the sneering lips of an armored riot policeman, struck Don Joughin with the force of a billyclub as he tried to comfort his children " a three-year-old and a newborn " after they had been showered with a chemical agent b
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
LOOKING BACK ON THE ROAD TO FOLLY
11-29-2011
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ericmargolis.com
I observed, “A war that fails to achieve clear political objectives is merely an exercise in violence and futility.” Having covered 14 conflicts as a war correspondent and the Mideast, I’ve seen a lot of violence and futility.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
1914 DEJA VU IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
11-29-2011
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ericmargolis.com
United Germany’s fast-rising economic and military power was seen by the British Empire, which then ruled a quarter of the globe, as a dire threat.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
SYRIAN TIME BOMB
11-29-2011
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www.ericmargolis.com
It’s dark and foggy here today along the mighty Bosphorus that separates Europe and Asia. Just as murky and dangerous as exploding next-door Syria.
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Ernest Hancock
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