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Date Sent: 2011-03-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 17, 2011 PM edition |
US Press UN for ‘Military Authorization’ Against Gadhafi -- US: We should 'go beyond' no-fly zone
Live chat via Skype with George Donnelly - Agora I/O "un-conference"
georgedonnelly.com -- Atheist group sues governor over prayer day --
Hillary Clinton on The Situation Room says no, no, no, no.... -- GAO
Rips Carbon Offset Market - NOT Ready For Cap and Trade -- Public
Unions Paid by Taxpayers to Ask for More Money? -- Arms from Iran: A Rash of Intercepted Shipments -- Skype security weaknesses could endanger 'vulnerable users' -- FBI Announces Initial Operating Capability for Next Generation Identification System -- Next Stop, Mercury: NASA Probe to Arrive at Innermost Planet Tonight -- IAEA warned Japan over quake risk: WikiLeaks -- Unknown Amount Of Radiation to Hit U.S. By Friday -- US charters planes to help its citizens leave Japan -- Tokyo Residents Start to Panic: Rush For Cash, Rice, Passports, And Gold -- "Fukushima Fifty": The good of the many outweighs the good of the few -- Obama Fiddles While Fukushima Burns -- EPA Increases radiation monitoring In U.S. -- Yen Hits Highest Against Dollar Since 1995 on Radiation Concern
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Pressing UN for ‘Military Authorization’ Against Gadhafi
03-17-2011
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AntiWar.com
Obama's position on Libya appears to have transitioned yet again toward a more hawkish stance, and they are now said to be pressuring the United Nations to expand their Thursday vote on Libya beyond a “no-fly zone” into a authorization for attack.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
West should 'go beyond' no-fly zone, US says
03-17-2011
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Daily Telegraph
The US has signaled that the international community should "go beyond" a no-fly zone in Libya, suggesting military intervention for the first time.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Hillary Clinton on The Situation Room says no, no, no, no....t so sure! (Video)
03-17-2011
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The Political Commentator
In a case that smells of political self-preservation, Hillary Clinton says no way to serving another term in an Obama administration cabinet position. This occurred during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room"!
In the first plac
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Food
Janet's Whizbang Chicken Plucker In Action! / Whizbang Chicken Plucker
03-17-2011
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youtube.com
Located in San Jose, California. A homemade chicken plucking machine built from Herrick Kimball's book "Anyone Can Build A Whizbang Chicken Plucker". / Pluck faster now! Ask me how! Everyone thought I was crazy. No rednecks were injured making this v
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics
GAO Rips Carbon Offset Market - NOT Ready For Cap and Trade
03-17-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
According to the Oversight and Reform Committee, the Government Accountability Office, the official investigative arm of the Congress released a report on the carbon offset market and its readiness for cap and trade.
Apparently, it didn’t go so we
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Politics
Public Unions Paid by Taxpayers to Ask for More Money?
03-17-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Representative Phil Gingrey from the Republican Study Committee has some great points in his arguments against public unions being able to haggle for more money on the dime of the taxpayer.
What I personally don’t like is the ability to have union
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Israel
Arms from Iran: A Rash of Intercepted Shipments
03-17-2011
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TIME Magazine
The Israeli seizure of an arms shipment to Gaza is one of many instances where Israeli forces have halted shipments of weapons from Iran to Hamas since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Internet
Skype security weaknesses could endanger 'vulnerable users'
03-17-2011
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guardian.co.uk
The free messaging and internet phone service Skype carries a number of worrying security concerns which could put users living in oppressive regimes in danger, says the advocacy group Privacy International.
The free internet telephony service has
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Politics
Obama Administration is Transparent as...MUD?
03-17-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
It is what shall surely go down as one of the Obama Administration’s most delightfully ironic moments ever. Wednesday, March 16 was Freedom of Information Day and is annually celebrated during “Sunshine Week”. Sunshine Week is held every year in mi
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI Announces Initial Operating Capability for Next Generation Identification System
03-17-2011
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The State Journal
The new system serves as an incremental upgrade to existing fingerprint identification system.
The Next Generation Identification System, designed to revolutionize law enforcement’s ability to process fingerprints has reached its initial operatin
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Next Stop, Mercury: NASA Probe to Arrive at Innermost Planet Tonight
03-17-2011
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Space
After a nearly 5-billion-mile journey that took more than six years, a NASA probe is finally ready to make history tonight (March 17) and become the first spacecraft ever to enter into orbit around the planet Mercury.
At 8:45 p.m. EDT (0045 GMT F
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
President O'Bama? Irish-American relatives ID'd
03-17-2011
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AP
President Obama found out years ago he had an Irish ancestor who fled the potato famine in Ireland in 1850. He can claim 28 living relatives descended from that Irishman, including a Vietnam veteran, a school nurse and a displeased Arizona Republican
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
IAEA warned Japan over quake risk: WikiLeaks
03-17-2011
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Rawstory
The International Atomic Energy Agency warned Japan 2 years ago a strong earthquake could pose a "serious problem" for its nuclear power stations. IAEA had concern the reactors were only designed to withstand magnitude 7.0
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Unknown Amount Of Radiation to Hit U.S. By Friday
03-17-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The forecast assumes that radioactivity in Japan is released continuously and forms a rising plume. It ends with the plume heading into Southern California and the American Southwest, including Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Governing the Commons
03-17-2011
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arclein
And I get great satisfaction when I see students realize that advertising, free entry, and entrepreneurship, in the context of economic freedom, are what keep goods and services safe, cheap, and of good quality. Witness what happens when drugs and
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robert klein
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News Link • Racism
“Apartheid in Arizona” " An Obama Administration Presentation
03-17-2011
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http://papatodd.com
If you believe the President, it’s just another day of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Grand Canyon state.
Later this month, several Obama Administration officials are scheduled to participate in the 2nd annual Latino Education & Advocacy
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Todd Detry
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gigascale Energy Storage Advances
03-17-2011
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arclein
Hill assured me that "this is a real project." There have been meetings between Mexico's President Calderon and President Obama about the cross-border trade of energy, especially renewable energy. Hill also said that the CEO of NGK Japan had tol
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lock - in Enzyme for Memories
03-17-2011
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arclein
In earlier studies, the researchers conditioned rats to associate a nauseating sensation with saccharin by pairing it with lithium, so that they shunned the sweet taste. However, after the rats received a chemical that blocked the enzyme PKMzeta in t
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fukushima Compared to TMI and Chernobyl
03-17-2011
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arclein
The Fukushima nuclear incident will likely be upgraded from a level 4 to a 5 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. The scale runs from 0 to 7"the most severe. The incident will remain "an event with local consequences," althoug
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WOW! That's A High Price!
03-17-2011
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http://drscoundrels.com
Food prices rise sharply, new housing starts tank to second worst level ever.
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Reported by:
James Hyde
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
US charters planes to help its citizens leave Japan
03-17-2011
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MSNBC.msn.com
Airlines scrambled to fly thousands of passengers out of Tokyo on Thursday as fears about Japan's nuclear crisis mounted and the United States joined other nations urging their citizens to consider leaving.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Tokyo Residents Start to Panic: Rush For Cash, Rice, Passports, And Gold
03-17-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/ & ZeroHedge.com
ATMs in Tokyo are periodically failing because of a huge crush of withdrawals. "Millions" of citizens are stocking up on rice. Passport applications are going through the roof. Power is periodically failing. Restaurants are empty.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Natural Disasters
"Fukushima Fifty": The good of the many outweighs the good of the few
03-17-2011
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The Political Commentator
Not athletes or movie stars but true heroes in every sense of the word!
It's funny, or maybe just ironic, that in society people are given the status of hero or idol for the speed they can run, the points they can score or the movie roles that th
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Fiddles While Fukushima Burns
03-17-2011
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Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones via Prison Planet
History tells us that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but Barack Obama is providing the famous emperor with some serious competition when it comes to going AWOL while America and the world face crises which haven’t been experienced in decades.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Environment
EPA Increases radiation monitoring In U.S.
03-16-2011
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Steve Watson via Prison Planet.com
We have received many questions from readers who are alarmed over a perceived lack of radiation monitoring in the U.S., in the wake of the possibility of radiation from the stricken Japanese nuclear plant reaching both Alaska and West Coast.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Economy - International
Yen Hits Highest Against Dollar Since 1995 on Radiation Concern
03-16-2011
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Charles Mead and Catarina Saraiva via PrisonPlanet
The yen reached its strongest level since 1995 versus the dollar as risk of radiation leaks from crippled nuclear plants in Japan added to speculation insurers and investors will redeem overseas assets to pay for damages.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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