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Date Sent: 2011-11-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, November 25, 2011 |
Iran says arrests 12 CIA agents amid reports of compromised U.S. ring
Aircraft Carrier CVN-77 (USS George H.W. Bush) Parks Next To Syria -- France seeks Arab backing for Syria intervention -- Russia Arms Syria With Missiles To Defend Against NATO Attack -- Public Relations Campaign for Military Intervention in Syria Begins -- The Roads To War And Economic Collapse - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts --
Euro on ‘Death Watch’ After Investors Spurn German Bonds -- Family of
U.S. student freed in Egypt gives thanks -- Egypt braces for fresh rally
against army rule -- What the European debt crisis means for you --
Open Letter to UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi -- Free speech
about Gov. Sam Brownback lands Kansas teen in principal’s office -- US Judge Calls Harrisburg Bankruptcy Filing Illegal --Fitch cuts Portugal rating to junk bond status -- Heading for War on Syria?
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News Link • Iran
Iran says arrests 12 CIA agents amid reports of compromised U.S. ring
11-24-2011
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www.haaretz.com
An Iranian official disclosed new details Thursday concerning the reporting exposure of a U.S. spy ring in the Islamic Republic, saying that Tehran arrested 12 CIA agents.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Aircraft Carrier CVN-77 (USS George H.W. Bush) Parks Next To Syria
11-24-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
Just out from CBS: "The U.S. Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens in Syria to depart "immediately," and Turkey's foreign ministry urged Turkish pilgrims to opt for flights to return home from Saudi Arabia to avoid traveling through Syria."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
France seeks Arab backing for Syria intervention
11-24-2011
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Reuters
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe gave more details of his proposal for a "secured zone to protect civilians" in Syria and had said he would propose it to the Arab ministers in Cairo.
He said international monitors should be sent to protect civi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia Arms Syria With Missiles To Defend Against NATO Attack
11-24-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
The S-300 missiles, will be used to “deflect a possible attack by NATO or the U.S. and EU,” are long range surface-to-air missiles developed by Russia for the purpose of protecting large industrial and military bases from attack by aircraft and cruis
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Depression
17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Collapse That Will Make Your Hair Stand Up
11-24-2011
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Is the world on the verge of another massive global financial collapse? Yes. The western world is drowning in an ocean of debt unlike anything the world has ever seen before.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Public Relations Campaign for Military Intervention in Syria Begins
11-24-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Journalist and historian Webster Tarpley reported from Damascus this week and said that the CIA, Mossad and MI6 are orchestrating much of the violence in Syria (see Tarpley’s interview with Alex Jones).
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Roads To War And Economic Collapse - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
11-24-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
The Republican presidential campaign debate - The Russian President’s statement about his country’s response to Washington’s missile bases surrounding his country - The failure of a German government bond auction.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Euro on ‘Death Watch’ After Investors Spurn German Bonds
11-24-2011
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www.cnbc.com
Investors began to fear the worst for the euro after unusually weak demand at an auction for bonds from Germany, the region’s largest economy. One analyst went so far as to put the currency on a “death watch.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Namie machi, Fukushima is 33 times worse than Chernobyl
11-24-2011
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fukushima-diary.com
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology published the soil contamination data of 60 km area from Fukushima plants. The data was taken from 6/1/2011 ~ 11/22/2011.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Family of U.S. student freed in Egypt gives thanks
11-24-2011
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www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - Joy Sweeney's Thanksgiving wishes were granted in a predawn email on Thursday notifying her that her son and two other American students arrested on suspicion of throwing gasoline bombs in Egypt would be freed.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Egypt braces for fresh rally against army rule
11-24-2011
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www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - Activists vowed to crank up pressure on Egypt's generals on Friday with an overwhelming show of people power to cap almost a week of protests against army rule that have left 41 people dead.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Sarkozy, Merkel agree to stop sniping on ECB crisis
11-24-2011
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www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - France and Germany agreed on Thursday to stop arguing in public over whether the European Central Bank should do more to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
American Tech Know-How Drives Both Sides of Arab Revolution
11-24-2011
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www.wired.com
As activists take to the streets in Syria, using the power of Facebook and Twitter to organize one of the many revolutions across the Middle East, other American technologies are propping up the very regime these protesters hope to topple.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
11-24-2011
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mises.org
Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceivi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
What the European debt crisis means for you
11-24-2011
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www.totallymoney.com
UK banks are currently owed hundreds of billions of euros by the countries currently at the centre of the European debt crisis. France owes British banks €227 billion, while Ireland, Spain, Italy and Portugal owe...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Open Letter to UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi
11-24-2011
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Nathan Brown
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi
Posted on November 19, 2011 by crank
18 November 2011
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi
Linda P.B. Katehi,
I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Free speech about Gov. Sam Brownback lands Kansas teen in principal’s office
11-24-2011
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Sullivan was called to her principal’s office and told that the tweet had been flagged by someone on Brownback’s staff and reported to organizers of the Youth in Government program. The principal “laid into me about how this was unacceptable and an e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Family
Security guard fired over treatment of 4-year-old shoplifter
11-24-2011
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KOMO News
"She grabbed a bag of apricots - dried apricots - opened them, ate a couple, put it back and the security guard watched her do it," said the girl's mother, Alissa Jones.
Savannah's father didn't notice his daughter's sticky fingers, but a store se
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Typo Leads To Wrong Candidate’s Election In Connecticut
11-24-2011
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CBS News
A typo has led to the election of the wrong man to a finance board in Derby.
James J. Butler was the highest vote-getter, winning 1,526 votes for the 10-member Board of Apportionment and Taxation, which oversees the town’s finances.
However, hi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Judge Calls Harrisburg Bankruptcy Filing Illegal
11-24-2011
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CNBC
Federal bankruptcy Judge Mary D. France has ruled that Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg may not seek bankruptcy protection, calling such a filing illegal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
5-Year-Old Handcuffed, Charged With Battery On Officer
11-24-2011
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Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
After Apology, Egypt’s Military Rejects Quick End to Its Rule
11-24-2011
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www.nytimes.com
CAIRO " Egyptian generals offered an unusual apology on Thursday for the killings of protesters in Tahrir Square, the iconic landmark of the country’s revolution, but rejected the demonstrators’ demands for an immediate end to military rule.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
At least 20 bodies found in western Mexico
11-24-2011
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www.cnn.com
About 43,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced a crackdown on cartels in December 2006, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Fitch cuts Portugal rating to junk bond status
11-24-2011
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Reuters
Fitch downgraded Portugal's credit rating to junk status on Thursday, citing large fiscal imbalances, high debts and the risks to its EU-mandated austerity program from a worsening economic outlook.
The ratings agency cut Portugal to BB+ from BBB-
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Angels: An Ancient Tradition Revived
11-24-2011
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arclein
In late antiquity, the identity of angels was much broader than what it is now: some Christians spoke of Christ as an angel, or suggested that Christian ascetic monks who renounced family, food, drink and sex and lived out in the desert were really a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Pale Billed Woodpecker in Guatemala
11-24-2011
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arclein
Somehow I suspect this bird is the kissing cousin to the extinct ivory billed woodpecker. It is surely exploiting similar environments. It will also make actual renewal very easy as it will be a matter of identifying minor differences in the DNA an
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robert klein
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Real Middle East Conflicts
11-24-2011
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arclein
Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran may be bitter rivals but they share in common the desire to implement Sharia law globally, and both these rivals support the restoration of the Caliphate. In more contemporary and immediate terms they both express h
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Polygamy Not Protected by Religious Freedom in Canada
11-24-2011
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arclein
To the first question, Bauman said the law does indeed violate the freedom-of-religion rights of Bountiful residents, but he said the harms to women and children outweigh those rights.
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robert klein
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News Link • Internet
Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees
11-24-2011
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NY Times
Adding a new chapter to research that cemented the phrase “6 degrees of separation," scientists at Facebook and the U. of Milan reported the average number of acquaintances separating any 2 people IN THE WORLD was not 6 but 4.74.
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News Link • Activism
Taking the Occupiers at their Word
11-20-2011
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Notes & Observations
Thanks to The International Libertarian for the following series of interviews with Occupy Philadelphia protesters. The three stars of the clip"a member of the Philadelphia Socialists, a unionist nurse, and a Karl Marx impersonator"are representative
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Energy
Google abandons renewable energy project
11-23-2011
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Matt Warman via The Telegraph
Google has pulled out of its bid to encourage renewable energy and ditched its Wikipedia rival Knol.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Planes, Trains, Automobiles, & Foursquare Check-ins
11-23-2011
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Will Knight via TechnologyReview.com
This visualization, from Foursquare, nicely illustrates the travel chaos that many in the U.S. will experience over the next few days (as if anyone really needed reminding).
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Feature Article • Energy
Uranium Boom in Kazakhstan
Staffoilpricedotcom Erik
Kazakhstan produces 33 percent of world’s mined uranium, followed by Canada at 18 percent and Australia, with 11 percent of global output. Kazakhstan contains the world's second-largest uranium reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tons.
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