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Date Sent: 2012-11-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, November 27, 2012 PM ed. |
Government to start taxing 401k's -- Tax cut to benefit over 900,000 enterprises
Black Friday: Treasury Borrowed $211.69 Per U.S. Household on Day After Thanksgiving -- 11-28-12 -- Neal Conner - Thomas Woods - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- III: Jeb Bush Meets with Former Aides near White House -- 10-27-12 -- Henry Rosemont Jr. - Danny Muller - (Video & MP3 Loaded) -- "Boston Legal" Stick It (2006) -- Polynesian Expansion Between 2830 to 2840 BP -- Oldest Spear Points Date to 500,000 Years -- Smoking Causes Cognition Declines -- Elon Musk on a Mars Colony -- Black Friday: Treasury Borrowed
$211.69 Per U.S. Household on Day After Thanksgiving -- Intrade
shuts out American bettors -- Wikileaks GI to argue his detention
merits release -- Bankrupt San Bernardino to halt payments to
Calpers, bondholders -- Card firms' block on WikiLeaks did not break
rules: EU -- Ancient Microbes Found in Buried Antarctic Lake -- British court stops extradition of Iranian to U.S. in arms case -- The Death of Marine Col. Jim Sabow --
Israel Signals Hardline Policy Intentions -- ACLU Challenges
Warrantless Wiretapping -- Let Banks Fail -- Alternative Media King
Hires CIA–Stratfor Agent as Publishing Editor In Chief
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday; Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Government to start taxing 401k's
11-27-2012
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CNBC
As the debate around tax reform grows more heated, broker-dealers and other companies that service retirement plans offered by employers are increasingly concerned that the tax benefits of 401(k) plans are on the chopping block.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Tax cut to benefit over 900,000 enterprises
11-27-2012
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news.xinhuanet.com
China's new round of structural tax cutting is likely to benefit more than 900,000 enterprises nationwide, according to a working conference held here on Monday to discuss the country's piloting of replacing business tax with a value-added tax (VAT).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???
11-27-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
It's that time of year again for a holiday party - it has been a very busy year for all of us, so come and share in the fun and relaxation we all need - We will be raffling off a brand new Kindle Fire ($5/ticket) - Bring extra lawn chairs if you have
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Exclusive: Jeb Bush Meets with Former Aides near White House
11-27-2012
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nationalreview.com
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush met Monday with a group of his former staffers at the J. W. Marriott hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, just steps from the White House.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
"Boston Legal" Stick It (2006)
11-27-2012
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www.youtube.com
'The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the cloak of anti-Communism.' Today, it's the cloak of anti-Terr
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Archaeology
Polynesian Expansion Between 2830 to 2840 BP
11-27-2012
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arclein
Polynesia was one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans, and new techniques reveal that this settlement first occurred within a 16 year window nearly 3000 years ago.
The research, published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Da
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Oldest Spear Points Date to 500,000 Years
11-27-2012
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arclein
ound that human ancestors were making stone-tipped weapons 500,000 years ago at the South African archaeological site of Kathu Pan 1 -- 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. This study, "Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology," is pu
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Smoking Causes Cognition Declines
11-27-2012
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arclein
"Cognitive decline as we age can develop into dementia, and unravelling the factors that are linked to this decline could be crucial for finding ways to prevent the condition. These results underline the importance of looking after your cardiovascul
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk on a Mars Colony
11-27-2012
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arclein
In Musk's vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who would journey to the Red Planet aboard a huge reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.
"At Mars, you can start
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Black Friday: Treasury Borrowed $211.69 Per U.S. Household on Day After Thanksgiving
11-27-2012
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CNS News
The U.S. Treasury increased the net debt of the United States $24,327,048,384.38 on the day after Thanksgiving, which equals approximately $211.69 for each of the nation’s 114,916,000 households.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Intrade shuts out American bettors
11-27-2012
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Washington Post
“We are sorry to announce that due to legal and regulatory pressures, Intrade can no longer allow US residents to participate in our real-money prediction markets,” the company said.“Unfortunately this means that all US residents must
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks GI to argue his detention merits release
11-27-2012
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AP
An Army private charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history is trying to avoid trial by claiming he was already punished enough when he was locked up alone in a small cell and forced to sleep naked for several nights.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bankrupt San Bernardino to halt payments to Calpers, bondholders
11-27-2012
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Reuters
Bankrupt San Bernardino, California, voted on Monday to present a plan to a bankruptcy judge that seeks to balance its budget through deferring payments to the state's public employee pension fund and to the city's bondholders.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Card firms' block on WikiLeaks did not break rules: EU
11-27-2012
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Reuters
A block on processing donations for WikiLeaks by Visa Europe and other credit card companies is unlikely to have violated EU anti-trust rules, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
DataCell, a company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Ancient Microbes Found in Buried Antarctic Lake
11-27-2012
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LiveScience
Beneath the icy surface of a buried Antarctic lake, in super-salty water devoid of light and oxygen that is also cold enough to freeze seawater, researchers have now discovered that a diverse community of bacteria has survived for millennia.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
British court stops extradition of Iranian to U.S. in arms case
11-27-2012
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Reuters
A British court blocked on Tuesday the extradition of a former Iranian diplomat wanted by the United States after he was caught in a sting operation trying to export night-vision weapons' sights to Iran.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The Death of Marine Col. Jim Sabow
11-27-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Salem-News.com) Jim Sabow was a career Marine, a Harrier pilot, third in command of El Toro, and he wasn’t going to allow the illegal drug running to keep taking place on his base.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Let Banks Fail
11-26-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Whereby government intervention " not the rigours of the free market " is the cause of the financial mayhem on Wall Street that becomes economic crises on Main Street. The Global Financial Crisis shows that it is not ‘capitalism’ (Karl Marx’s insult
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Propaganda
Alternative Media King Hires CIA"Stratfor Agent as Publishing Editor In Chief
11-26-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Molly Maroney is the Editor in Chief and Graphic Designer for InfoWars.com. This is the same website run by Alex Jones; who also runs PrisonPlanet.com, PrisonPlanet.tv and PlanetInfoWars.com (a social networking site).
Maroney was hired by Jones i
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Chris Menke
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Sasquatch Genome Sequenced
11-26-2012
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arclein
confirms the existence of a novel hominin hybrid species, commonly called “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch,” living in North America. Researchers’ extensive DNA sequencing suggests that the legendary Sasquatch is a human relative that arose approximately 15,
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
European Union budget talks collapse
11-25-2012
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Washington Post
After 2 days of divisive talks, leaders from 27 European Union nations failed to reach an agreement on their trillion-dollar budget. The leaders met in Brussels to try to hammer out a strategic 7-year budget that aims to spur economic activity in Eur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
You are committing a crime right now
11-25-2012
Are you reading this blog? If so, you are committing a crime under 18 USC 1030(a) (better known as the “Computer Fraud & Abuse Act” or “CFAA”). That’s because I did not explicitly authorize you to access this site, but you accessed it anyway.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
I Hate Cops - by Kent McManigal
11-25-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
"Law enforcement" is an inexcusably evil "job". There is absolutely no decency in it. That wasn't true of "peace officers", but once replaced by "law enforcement officers" no good person could fill that "job". Once a cop enforces even one counterfeit
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Spirit of Liberty
11-25-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
.....I have come to some conclusions regarding what must be done if we expect, as individuals or a society, ever to see another good year again. First and foremost, once and for all, the Republican Party has to go away.
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News Link • Iran
Iran Accepts Payment in Gold to Get Around Sanctions
11-25-2012
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Yet another reason the US government hates gold, unlike dealing with paper money in bank accounts, there is no way they can stop international trade in gold and it is difficult to track gold movements.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Suit targets human smuggling-law prosecutions
11-25-2012
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AP
Arizona passed a ban on human smuggling in 2005 that has led to more than 2,100 arrests and drawn criticism for a tactic in which people who pay to be sneaked into the country are charged as conspirators to the crime.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Obama promises rules for his Murder, Inc.
11-25-2012
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New York Times
Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks before the election to develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
US reporter who broke story on Nazi Germany’s surrender fired for it
11-25-2012
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Washington Post
Ed Kennedy’s story ran big in newspapers around the world. It should have been his greatest moment, but it became an ordeal. The military revoked his credentials, but that was the least of the indignities. His fellow correspondents turned on him,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Lindsey Graham, Peter King break with Grover Norquist
11-25-2012
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Washington Post
A pair of congressional Republicans reiterated their willingness to violate an anti-tax pledge in order to strike a deal on the “fiscal cliff,” echoing Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the Georgia Republican who suggested the oath may be outdated.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Courts Divided Over Searches Of Cellphones
11-25-2012
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New York Times
Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects’ cellphones, and the cornucopia of evidence they provide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Appeals court: State raiding of special funds OK
11-25-2012
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AP
The Arizona Court of Appeals says the Legislature acted within its authority in 2009 when it took nearly $4.7 million from a special fund for injured workers in order to help keep the state in the black during a budget crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
These Next Generation Drones Will Do Even More With No Human Input At All
11-25-2012
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Walter Hickey and Robert Johnson
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become more sophisticated their, capacity for abuse only grows.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Both Benghazi And The Petraeus Scandal Suggest US Media Is Way Too Cozy With The State
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
If there is just one lesson to take away from the Benghazi and Petraeus affairs it's that the American media is way too cozy with heads of state.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Syria
The Gaza And Syria Conflicts Highlight A Complex Web Of Alliances In The Middle East
11-25-2012
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Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll
The 20-month civil war in Syria and the eight-day Israeli offensive in Gaza highlights the often contradictory web of alliances that fuels conflicts in the Middle East.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Drug War
Finally, A Politician Admits That Winning The Drug War Is "Impossible"
11-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, The Economist
ENDING the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government
Sheriff Mack State Sovereignty Rendered Express Preview
11-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, fonzdrew
This is an excerpt from a seminar that was presented by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Russian expert warns of possibility of large-scale war in Middle East
11-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Voice of Russia
“Deploying these missiles in Turkey will be dangerous for Syrian military planes " this is obvious.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
British Lord Calls for Nuking Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
11-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Lord Gilbert, aka Life Peer Baron Gilbert, a House of Lords fixture, has suggested using a neutron bomb on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to clear out pesky natives who were radicalized by his country, the United States, and Pakistan.
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