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Date Sent: 2010-12-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 30, 2010 PM edition |
Last of Dutch Somalis in alleged terror plot freed -- Former President of Israel Convicted of Rape
I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians -- Ernest
Hancock - Recaps from the beginning of the Obama Administration / Being
Libertarian -- Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget
protest -- Washington Post's Ezra Klein: 'Constitution Confusing Because it's Over 100 Years Old' -- 'No Refusal' Weekend Program To Exist Year-Round in Texas -- The Puppet Masters: Fed SOMA and The Economy -- The Lull Before The Storm: What’s Coming in 2011 -- "No refusal" DUI checkpoints could be coming to Tampa -- Report from Iron Mountain; Using fear to make people subservient to government -- American Eagle Silver Coins Sales are Temporarily Suspended -- Non-Seasonally Adjusted Initial Claims Jump To 521K -- Foreclosure-Gate: Robosigning And Non-Judicial States -- We Have Sold Our Grandchildren Into Perpetual Debt Slavery -- Russian tycoon Khodorkovsky gets 6 more years --Wall Street bankers, publicly modest, eye fancy toys -- South Korea: North Korea builds up special forces -- "Eat' em" stratagem for lionfish invasion in Florida -- Countless Juarez residents flee 'dying city'
Aaron Zelman, RIP
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club WON'T meet
on 1/1/2011, but rather on 1/8/2011
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News Link • TERRORISM
Last of Dutch Somalis in alleged terror plot freed
12-30-2010
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AP
Prosecutors say the last of a group of 12 Somalis arrested in the Netherlands last week on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack has been freed. The group was taken into custody Dec. 24 after a tip from the country's intelligence agency and were
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Former President of Israel Is Convicted of Rape
12-30-2010
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AP
Former President Moshe Katsav of Israel was convicted of two counts of rape by a Tel Aviv court on Thursday, capping a four-year spectacle that began with accusations of sexual misconduct against him while he was still in office.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Books
I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians
12-30-2010
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mises.org
Walter Block leaned on 82 of the world's most prominent libertarian thinkers and ask them to tell their life stories with an eye to intellectual development.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget protest
12-30-2010
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NY Post
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Washington Post's Ezra Klein: 'Constitution Confusing Because it's Over 100 Years Old'
12-30-2010
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Breitbart TV
Staff Writer for "The Washington Post," contributor to MSNBC Ezra Klein in choice quotes on the CONstitution: ‘Constitution Has No Binding Power on Anything’; Confusing Because it’s Over 100 Years Old .... paper of record in our nation's capital.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday Dec. 30th 2010
12-30-2010
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LewRockwell.com
The Principles of LRC - And who hates them. Article by Lew Rockwell / Invest in Gold Ahead of the Chinese, Who are investing in it ahead of the Fed, says Richard Daughty, the Mogambo Guru.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
'No Refusal' Weekend Program To Exist Year-Round in Texas
12-30-2010
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ABC News
"They're saying, 'You give us a breath specimen or you give us a blood specimen or we're going to take it anyway.'" "If they don't have enough evidence against you to make a solid case, how is what little they have enough for a judge to sign a warran
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Puppet Masters: Fed SOMA and The Economy
12-30-2010
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wallstreetexaminer.com/
It’s mind boggling to me, just mind boggling, how nobody gets the simplicity of the pipeline from Ben Bernanke’s twisted brain to his henchmen the Primary Dealers, to the stock market and the economy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Lull Before The Storm: What’s Coming in 2011
12-30-2010
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gonzalolira.blogspot.com/
However you look at it, the States have a huge collective hole in their budgets. And this hole is going to get worse, before it gets any betterâ€"just like the Federal government’s massive yearly deficit.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
"No refusal" DUI checkpoints could be coming to Tampa
12-30-2010
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CBS News
Florida is among several states now holding what are called "no refusal" checkpoints.
It means if you refuse a breath test during a traffic stop, a judge is on site, and issues a warrant that allows police to perform a mandatory blood test.
It'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Report from Iron Mountain; Using fear to make people subservient to government.
12-29-2010
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Farm Wars
"It is clear from the start that the nature of the study was to analyze the different ways a government can perpetuate itself in power, ways to control its citizens and prevent them from rebelling." (Publisher: Recommended Reading)
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Precious Metals
American Eagle Silver Coins Sales are Temporarily Suspended
12-30-2010
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US Mint
Production of US Mint American Eagle Silver Uncirculated Coins continues to be temporarily suspended because of unprecedented demand for American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins. Until recently, all available silver bullion blanks were being allocated
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobless Claims: Hairy Hissmas And A Crappy New Year
12-30-2010
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Market-ticker.org
Here's the amusing spin machine! Yeah, ok. Amusing number, really - the Department Of Labor invented 133,000 seasonal adjustment jobs!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Non-Seasonally Adjusted Initial Claims Jump To 521K
12-30-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It is the Non-Seasonally adjusted number which probably provides a far better indication of what is happening: and at 521,834 it was a 24,879 increase from last week's 497k.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Robosigning And Non-Judicial States
12-30-2010
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Market-ticker.org
If I sell you something and you "pay" me with counterfeit currency the sale is void as you never gave actual consideration. Not only did you commit a felony passing the bad currency but as a matter of basic...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
We Have Sold Our Grandchildren Into Perpetual Debt Slavery
12-30-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
But the American people don't want to hear that we have spent decades creating a horrific debt crisis that is not going to be easy to fix.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
If We Close Our Eyes, The Monster Will Go Away
12-30-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Unfortunately, our own desires and derangements are feeding the Monster that is threatening us with change--a dynamic illustrated by the classic sci-fi film Forbidden Planet.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Room Temperature Superconductors
12-30-2010
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arclein
ased on the superconductivity mechanism proposed in this paper, clearly, the room temperatures superconductivity must lie in the materials in which the three criteria for superconductivity have to be optimally satisfied.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Science Supports Carb Wars
12-30-2010
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arclein
carbohydrates -- not fat -- are more likely to be responsible for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and the other ills of modern civilization.
The Los Angeles Times has a detailed report on the growing body of scientific evidence that until now h
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wild Seed Collecting
12-30-2010
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arclein
The plant material collected will be stored in seed banks in the long term, but will also be used in "pre-breeding trials" to find out if the wild varieties could be used to combat diseases already threatening food production.
"There is a real
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Amygdala Centre for Social Network
12-30-2010
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arclein
How many friends do you have? A rough answer can be predicted by the size of a small, almond-shaped brain structure that is present in a wide range of vertebrates, scientists report today in Nature Neuroscience.
Th
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robert klein
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News Link • World News
Russian tycoon Khodorkovsky gets 6 more years
12-30-2010
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AP
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to 6 more years in prison following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of Vladimir Putin’s power. Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky to 14 years after convicting him of stea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street bankers, publicly modest, eye fancy toys
12-30-2010
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Reuters
Wall Street executives may face smaller bonuses and a public that still eyes them with suspicion, but that isn't stopping them from rediscovering their love of luxury cars, oceanfront homes and private jets.
A soaring stock market, a surge in merg
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News Link • WAR: About that War
South Korea: North Korea builds up special forces
12-30-2010
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AP
The document reconfirmed the US will deploy an additional 690,000 troops, 160 navy ships and 2,000 military aircraft in the event of a war on the peninsula. South Korea has 650,000 troops of its own, while the North is thought to have 1.2 million sol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
"Eat' em" stratagem for lionfish invasion in Florida
12-30-2010
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Reuters
Florida marine conservationists have come up with a simple recipe for fighting the invading lionfish that is gobbling up local reef life -- eat them. The Key Largo-based REEF conservation organization has just released "The Lionfish Cookbook," a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Countless Juarez residents flee 'dying city'
12-30-2010
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AP
The mother of four raised a finger, pointing out abandoned and stripped concrete homes and counting how many families have fled the Western Hemisphere's deadliest city on her street alone. "One, two, three, four, here, and two more back there on the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Experts: Food and fuel shortages imminent as new Ice Age dawns
12-30-2010
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Terrence Aym
With an Ice Age comes abrupt change, and with change comes deathâ€"sometimes death on a massive scale. More of the world's top scientists in the disciplines of geology, ecology, meteorology, astrophysics, and heliology are predicting that the two majo
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