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Date Sent: 2011-09-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, September 17, 2011 |
U.S. increases Yemen drone strikes -- Arab Spring Ending in Anglo-American Whimper
Obama Adviser Discusses Using Military on Terrorists -- Geithner calls for inflation, unified Euro zone wants him to leave -- USDA may compensate farmers for GM pollen contamination -- Israeli-Greek defense pact invoked versus Turkish naval and air movements -- Merck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hilleman admitted presence of AIDS in vaccines -- Postal Service Could Get Slower -- America to the World: We Want Everything --
Skin Disease Linked to GMOs – Don’t let this happen to you! -- Ron
Paul: Mutually Assured Respect (Video + Transcript) -- Peoria (AZ) will
deactivate its red-light cameras on Oct. 3 for good -- 9/11: What the Telephone Records Reveal about Calls from AA Flight 77
Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23 (Video)
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. increases Yemen drone strikes
09-16-2011
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Washington Post
The Obama administration has significantly increased the frequency of drone strikes and other air attacks against the al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen in recent months amid rising concern about political collapse there.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Arab Spring Ending in Anglo-American Whimper
09-16-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Tripoli is still unsecured, and entire cities still stand firmly in defiance against constant NATO bombing and multiple attempts by “thousands” of rebels to surround and starve out cities.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Obama Adviser Discusses Using Military on Terrorists
09-16-2011
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NY Times
The top counter-terrorism adviser to President Obama defended a broad conception of where the United States can use military force against members of Al Qaeda and its allies. Mr. Brennan also denounced a proposal in Congress to mandate military deten
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Geithner calls for inflation, unified Euro zone wants him to leave
09-16-2011
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Washington Post
Treasury Secretary Geithner delivered an unusually direct plea to pump money into their economies now to his counterparts in Europe. But he got a chilly response. The European finance ministers seemed to bristle at him intruding on their affairs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
USDA may compensate farmers for GM pollen contamination
09/16/2011
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It's Genetically Modified
In a recent issue of Food Chemical News, USDA secretary Tom Vilsack laid out a set of instructions to his department’s new Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture. Vilsack told the committee to come up with a plan to compensa
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The Real News
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News Link • TERRORISM
Prof. Robert Pape on "Dying to Win"
09-16-2011
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YouTube
This is part one of a lecture titled Dying to Win delivered by Dr. Robert Pape (read more below) at Duke University on March 23, 2011. This lecture was sponsored by the Muslim Life at Duke University.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Sovereign Curtis: Case Closed
09-16-2011
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http://cdevolution.org
Facing a possible 16 years in a NH prison, for the crime of being in possession of, and willfully giving a marijuana cigarette amassing 0.46 grams to an undercover police officer with the Nashua Problem Oriented Policing Unit.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israeli-Greek defense pact invoked versus Turkish naval and air movements
09-16-2011
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www.debka.com
Israel and Greece have invoked the mutual defense pact they signed secretly only 12 days ago in the light of heavy Turkish sea and air movements in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Merck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hilleman admitted presence of AIDS in vaccines
09-16-2011
One of the most prominent vaccine scientists in the history of the vaccine industry " a Merck scientist " made a recording where he openly admits that vaccines given to Americans were contaminated with leukemia and cancer viruses
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Imperialism
America to the World: We Want Everything -- If You Stand in the Way We'll Kill You
09-16-2011
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www.alternet.org
Here we go again. The cheering crowds. The deposed dictator. The encomiums to freedom and liberty. The American military as savior. You would think we would have learned in Afghanistan or Iraq. But I guess not.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
History Unfolding
09-16-2011
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http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/
For the past 34 years I have been a historian of international and domestic politics, as well as an authority on some of the more famous criminal cases in American history. For the past five years I have been using this space to comment on current ev
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Skin Disease Linked to GMOs " Don’t let this happen to you!
09-16-2011
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Farm Wars
I wasn’t alone. Someone else was experiencing a horrible itchy skin disease in another country that spread all over his body. And he works in GM fields. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • How To
How to build a bike trailer from a shopping cart and old bicycles
09-16-2011
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SMCC
Building your own free utility trailer from an old shopping cart and parts from a bicycle - free instructions.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul: Mutually Assured Respect (Video + Transcript)
09-16-2011
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StopTheLie.com
-- It was with great pleasure and hope that I observed the collapse of the Soviet Empire between 1989 and 1991. This breakup verified the early predictions by the free market economists, like Ludwig Von Mises, that communism would self-destruct beca
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Peoria (AZ) will deactivate its red-light cameras on Oct. 3 for good
09-16-2011
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Arizona Republic (h/t Stacey)
The city will not renew its contract with Redflex Traffic Systems after learning from police that crashes at red-light camera monitored intersections actually increased 29% at the four intersections during the three-year pilot program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Blackberry’s UK service would shut down on government orders
09-16-2011
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Rawstory
BlackBerry said it would work with mobile operators to switch off its popular messenger service if they were ordered by authorities to do so during civil unrest, after police singled out the system as a key tool used in last month's riots.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Ultrasecret satellite spy shop NRO turns 50
09-16-2011
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AP
Red Dot works by monitoring Afghan roadways for the electronic signals given off by the transmitters meant to trigger the explosives. Those signals are married up "within minutes" to other intelligence streams, from observation blimps, drones and spy
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Mexican drug cartel threatens bloggers and website owners
09/16/2011
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The Hals Report
Two young victims of the drug war have been found hanging from a bridge in Mexico. The victims were found with signs hanging from their necks warning social media users, bloggers and websites to stop reporting violence linked to the cartels. Along wi
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The Real News
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Subway station billboard battle is latest flareup in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
09-16-2011
"This is a highly political campaign with a controversial underlying anti-Israel message," Councilman Lewis Fidler (D-Brooklyn) wrote MTA President Prendergast. "I would urge you to disallow and/or remove these advertisements."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
3-Year-Olds Branded “Racist,” “Homophobic” Put In Government Database
09-16-2011
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InfoWars
Over 30,000 British schoolchildren, some as young as three, have had their names registered on a government database and branded “racist” or “homophobic” for using playground insults, infractions that could impact their future careers.
The shockin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate approves billions in disaster (?) aid
09-16-2011
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AFP
The US Senate approved $6.9 billion in disaster relief funds over a yearlong period by a 62-37 vote, for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help communities cope with natural disasters such as Hurricane Irene, which
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Contact AZ Dept of Health to allow licensed midwives to attend home VBAC
09-16-2011
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www.rightsforhomebirth.com
The mission of “Rights for Homebirth” is to bring awareness of the inequities and limitations in the rules and regulations that govern Arizona Licensed Midwives.
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Gwendolyn Strmic
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News Link • Gun Rights
15-year-old arrested with unloaded and legal military issue rocket launcher
09-16-2011
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Rawstory
An unnamed 15-year-old was arrested in Novato, California this week after police discovered a U.S. military issue rocket launcher commonly used during the worst of the fighting in Iraq. Officers discovered the weapon during a routine traffic stop.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
New Arctic Ice Low Established
09-16-2011
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arclein
Floating Arctic sea ice naturally melts and re-freezes annually, but the speed of change in a generation has shocked scientists " it is now twice as great as it was in 1972, according to the NSIDC, with a decline of about 10% per decade.
Arctic te
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Glass towers and Birds
09-16-2011
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arclein
As glass office and condominium towers have proliferated in the last decade, so, too, have calls to make them less deadly to birds. The San Francisco Planning Commission adopted bird-safety standards for new buildings in July, and this month that cit
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robert klein
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News Link • World News
Turkey Reforms Political Islam
09-16-2011
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arclein
The sense of peace and inner reflection, of profound tolerance and solidarity among far-flung people from every walk of life, was deeply moving. "This is what we see in our religion," a young man from western China's Yunnan Province said, "not su
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robert klein
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