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Date Sent: 2012-12-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, December 30, 2012 |
Fed Members Gave Their Own Banks $4 Trillion During Bailout -- Fed Siege On Another Family Farm
Team BlackSheep | USA Highlights (Publisher Recommended!) -- Tokyo
Almost As Irradiated As Fukushima --
Drone Video (just a taste of what's already here) -- Attack of the Drones - USA -&- Rise of the Machines --
Everybody still crazy ’bout a gun-free zone -- RFID Chips To Be Used In
2016 Election? -- No Guns for Negroes -- Ex-Feds and Wall Street Execs Are Going Into Hiding –
Part One -- The Republican Party Is Self-Destructing Before Our Eyes --
This Air Force Is Replacing All Of This Unit's Jets With Unmanned Drones
-- The LAPD Bought Back 'Rocket Launchers' That Literally Do Nothing --
Here's Are My Views On Spending Cuts, Entitlements, And Dealing With
The Deficit -- Two Reporters Say The Fiscal Cliff Negotiations Are Going Badly -- Will Millionaires Start Dying Faster Because Of The Fiscal Cliff? -- The Ultimate Visual
Representation Of America's Boom, Collapse And Epic Comeback -- FORMER
ROMNEY ECONOMIC ADVISOR: Yes, Middle Class Tax Rates Might Have To Be
Hiked Too -- I Am a Peaceful AR-15 Assault
Rifle Owner - by Marc Victor -- Mass shootings: Who started the 'fires'? -- Athena -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satirical Look at Recent News, Best of 2012 (Part 2) --
LewRockwell.Com now taking Bitcoin donations -- Why Soldiers Keep Losing to Suicide -- DNA of Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza to be examined for 'evil' gene in first study of its kin -- 2013: It’s Going To Be A Rough Year - by Chuck Baldwin
Arizona Breakfast Club next Saturday
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News Link • Federal Reserve
New Specifics: Fed Members Gave Their Own Banks $4 Trillion During Bailout
12-29-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by go213mph
A report just released by the US Government Accountability Office explains how the Federal Reserve divvied up more than $4 trillion in low-interest loans after the fiscal crisis of 2008, and the news shouldn’t be all that surprising.
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News Link • Property Rights
Fed Siege On Another Family Farm
12-29-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The assault by government agencies against another family farm, which in this case has been ongoing for quite some time. Sadly this is not that uncommon in our time with over regulation, government power and land grabs while pushing policies such as
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Attack of the Drones - USA -&- Rise of the Machines
12-29-2012
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journeymanpictures
They can move together in swarms, build towers, dance, throw and catch, assess targets and soon will even make their own decisions. Both in war and at home, drones are developing fast and gaining control.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Everybody still crazy ’bout a gun-free zone
12-29-2012
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com/?p=1618
But the theater Holmes chose was the only one that posted signs saying it banned concealed handguns carried by law-abiding individuals with permits.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
RFID Chips To Be Used In 2016 Election?
12-29-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
We all know, or should know, of the evils, health hazards and invasion of personal privacy posed when RFID technology is considered as a tracking and data warehousing method considered for humans, pets or livestock in general. The documentation of t
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Chris Menke
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News Link • World News
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Saturday December 29th 2012
12-29-2012
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LewRockwell.com
The Anarcho-Capitalist Solution - Hoard Nickels - Why the War Party Fears Chuck Hagel, by Pat Buchanan - Seatbelt Mafia - Showdown on the Grassy Knoll - Diane Feinstein Wants Your Guns - The Neocons Are Spitting Mad
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • General Opinion
The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER...
12-29-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, James Bouder
Beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Energy
Manipulating Light to Double Solar Power Output
12-29-2012
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Technologyreview.com
An ARPA-E project will use advanced, nanostructured materials to make solar cells that convert far more of the energy in sunlight into electricity.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
This Air Force Is Replacing All Of This Unit's Jets With Unmanned Drones
12-29-2012
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Business Insider
The end of the fighter pilot, and nearly a century of military fighter planes, is an idea that garners a lot of attention lately and this report out of Nebraska is a prime example why.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Misinformation
The LAPD Bought Back 'Rocket Launchers' That Literally Do Nothing
12-29-2012
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Business Insider
When I saw “Rocket Launchers Turned in During LAPD Gun Buyback” flash across my twitter stream Thursday I had to check it out.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Here's Are My Views On Spending Cuts, Entitlements, And Dealing With The Deficit
12-29-2012
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Business Insider
A number of folks in recent weeks have question or criticized my views, both here at OTE and on TV, regarding endorsing spending cuts, including some targeted at the social insurance programs Medicare and Social Security.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Food
New York Magazine Chose A $15 Steak As NYC's Best In 2012
12-29-2012
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Business Insider
When it comes to knowing what's going on in New York City's culinary space, New York Magazine is second to none.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Will Millionaires Start Dying Faster Because Of The Fiscal Cliff?
12-29-2012
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Business Insider
Because the "fiscal cliff" will not stop for death, it looks as if death's carriage may make a "kindly" stop to pick up some American millionaires this year, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Ultimate Visual Representation Of America's Boom, Collapse And Epic Comeback
12-29-2012
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Business Insider
Since collapsing with the housing bubble and the financial crisis, the U.S. economy has staged a dramatic comeback.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
FORMER ROMNEY ECONOMIC ADVISOR: Yes, Middle Class Tax Rates Might Have To Be Hiked Too
12-29-2012
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Business Insider
Former Mitt Romney economic advisor Greg Mankiw admits something that he probably would never have said during the campaign: Middle class tax rates can't be set in stone. They might have to rise, too.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
And the Winner Is… Reader’s Choice for Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
12-29-2012
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Wired.com
After 73 nominated films, and 11,061 votes from 58 countries, the results are in from our poll to decide the Top 10 Sci-Fi movies of all time.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Red Rain Revisit
12-29-2012
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arclein
a few hours after a meteor airburst in July 2001, when a space rock exploded in the atmosphere. More than 120 such rain showers were reported that year, including yellow, green, and black ones. [ it took a lot of time to leach out of the upper atmosp
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
African Transition
12-29-2012
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arclein
continuous human occupation between modern times and at least 200,000 years ago, including during a late Ice Age period when a near extinction-level event, or "genetic bottleneck," likely occurred.
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robert klein
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News Link • Marc Victor
I Am a Peaceful AR-15 Assault Rifle Owner
12-29-2012
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Marc J. Victor
I am an American. Americans do not beg the government for rights nor are they required to demonstrate a "need" for rights.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mass shootings: Who started the 'fires'?
12-29-2012
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Bradlee Dean http://www.wnd.com
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” " Dr. Josef Mengele, German SS officer
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
Corruption Will Kill Regime, But Not China
12-29-2012
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arclein
He therefore proposed using the recent 18th National Congress as the start of a new timeline, and suggested only punishing those Party officials who continue to commit such crimes, while overlooking those who have corrected their behavior since the s
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robert klein
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News Link • Bitcoin
LewRockwell.Com now taking Bitcoin donations
12-29-2012
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LewRockwell.Com
Anonymous alternative currency usage on the rise
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The 8 Craziest Job Openings in the Military-Industrial Complex
12-29-2012
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By Noah Shachtman and Robert Beckhusen
Top-secret janitor. Pollster to the spies. Classified comic book artist. Any organization sufficiently large is bound to have the odd job opening within it.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Sword and Sorcery Precursor to Empire Strikes Back
12-29-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Nathan Mattise
It’s been a legend on geeky message boards for decades: a beautiful sword-and-sorcery flick made by a key person behind Star Wars. Many distinctly remembered seeing it as children, but no one could track it down.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Woman claims she is mother of "Sandy Hook victim" who is alive and well.
12-29-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fishyculture
Here is the post allegedly from the mother of Lily Gaubert who is incorrectly identified as Allison Wyatt.
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News Link • Military
Why Soldiers Keep Losing to Suicide
12-20-2012
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Sarah Childress, Frontline
The military’s suicide problem seems to be rooted partly in the strain of war. The U.S. has been fighting in Afghanistan for 11 years, most of them while also battling a protracted insurgency in Iraq. Deployments for many service members were extende
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
DNA of Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza to be examined for 'evil' gene in first study of its kin
12-29-2012
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Paul Thompson
The study will be the first one of its kind and will evaluate any genetic evidence for the mass killing of 20 first graders, six members of staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School and his own mother.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
MSNBC: Gun Owners Should be treated like Sex Offenders (video)
12-29-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Fortunateson
MSNBC: Gun Owners Should be treated like Sex Offenders (video)
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Woman slaps TSA Moleste...Agent!
12-29-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by timmy12688
An American Airlines passenger was arrested at Orlando International Airport on Wednesday after police say she hit two Transportation Security Administration agents while going through a security checkpoint.
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Opinion • Stay or Go?
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Larger Question of Chuck Hagel
12-28-2012
Ray McGovern
The up-in-the-air nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary has become a test of whether the Israel Lobby can still shoot down an American public servant who is deemed insufficiently passionate regarding Israel, a test that now confronts Pres
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: We Can't Solve Our Problems Without Going Over A Cliff
12-28-2012
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youtube
President Obama is headed back to Washington early, but Congress is still on Christmas vacation, with CNBC's John Harwood; Michael Farr, Farr, Miller & Washington; and Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
FEMA Was Running a "Drill" Between 9am and 4pm on December 14th, in Connecticut!
12-28-2012
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Daily Paul.com
Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection --in conjuction with FEMA -- was running a drill at exactly 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, December 14, 2012, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Syrian conflict threatens to fracture Iraq
12-28-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
Semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan and the central Iraqi government are on a collision course as the Kurds increasingly side with the Syrian opposition and Baghdad stands by the Assad regime.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Should We Bomb Iran to Save Money?
12-28-2012
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The National Interest
...there are substantial costs associated with a nuclear-armed Iran. Increasing tension in the region could certainly add to the security premium on Gulf oil.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Marc Victor
The Attorney For Freedom Show
12-28-2012
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KQCK Radio
Attorney Marc J. Victor talks about the Sandy Hook school shootings in Newtown Connecticut and why gun control does not work.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Politics
Matt Damon gives up on politics...‘Game is rigged’
12-28-2012
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www.politico.com
“I don’t think I said anything a lot of people weren’t thinking. It’s easier now more than ever in my life to feel the fix is in, the game is rigged and no matter how hard you work to change things, it just doesn’t matter.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
The NRA's Sorry Tale ...
12-28-2012
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Daily Bell
The Second Amendment states clearly that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. You wouldn't know that from the US government's success in abridging those "unabridgable rights." Or the NRA's unfortunate culpability in the process.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Judge: Media can intervene in priest files fight
12-27-2012
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AP
The media outlets sought to intervene because the archdiocese plans to make thousands of pages of files public by Jan. 14 under a previous judge's order that allows it to black out the names of some accused clerics and all members of the church hiera
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Just Normal Apprehension
12-27-2012
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Simple Justice
When Corporals Bass and Pope of the sheriff's office spied a green minivan traveling at the ridiculously high rate of speed of 73 in a 70 mile-per-hour zone, they took notice. Based upon my personal observation, it was likely because the van was the
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Record number of claims against NYC police in FY 2011: report
12-27-2012
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Reuters
A record number of legal claims were filed against the New York City Police Department in fiscal year 2011. A total of 8,882 claims were filed against the NYPD, up from the previous high of 8,110 filed in fiscal year 2010. The city also settled $185.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Bloggers post addresses of staff of newspaper that posted gun owners addresses
12-27-2012
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The map indicates the addresses of all Journal News Employees in the New York Tri-State area. Each dot represents an individual Journal News employee -- a reporter, editor or staffer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA’s Global Response Staff emerging from shadows after incidents in Libya and Pakistan
12-27-2012
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Washington Post
The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Dept. facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NATO driving export of RFID, NCTC database state policy in India, abroad
12-27-2012
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MoneyLife
[India's] NPR, NATGRID, NCTC and UID are unfolding without any legal mandate. It appears UID was, and remains, an attention diversion exercise. The real work is being done by Home Ministry to establish the world’s biggest surveillance database regime
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Economy - International
Icelandic Recovery
12-27-2012
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arclein
In the duration of five months, the main bank of Iceland was nationalized, government officials were forced to resign, the old government was liquidated, and a new government was put in its place. By March 2010, Iceland’s people voted to deny payment
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