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Date Sent: 2012-01-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, January 24, 2012 PM edition |
If The TSA Will Treat A U.S. Senator Like A Scumbag, What Will They Do TO YOU?
Fed sees zero interest bond rates until at least 2014 -- JFK library releases last of his secret tapes -- LA Military Exercises -- Gingrich Threatens to Skip Debates if Audiences Can’t Participate -- FBI arrests 4 officers in troubled Conn. suburb -- Boycott SOPA Apps on Android Market -- Ron Paul Ignored In GOP Debate Once Again -- January 24, 2012 - Chris Bliss,
MyBillOfRights.Org - A View of the Past to Understand the Future -- No,
the Fed Does NOT ‘Print Money’: Just Explain It -- An open letter to my
Christian friends -- Director Oliver Stone On History. And America, Jim
Morrison & Ron Paul. -- Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin Over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA -- Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and GOP Forget Iraq Mistake in Push for Iran War -- Soros Mouthpiece Calls On Google To Police “Conspiracy Theories” -- The Other New World Order: Michael Collins and the End of Empire - by Bill Buppert -- Jesus, Anarchy, and the Golden Rule -- Creeping authoritarianism on Capitol Hill -- Newt Gingrich: I
supported Rockefeller over Goldwater -- Pot-based prescription drug
could receive FDA approval -- Israel Needs Blockbusters -- The End
of The Mainstream Media And The Rebirth of Fact-Based Journalism --
America's military contractors: Privatizing the war on terror -- Marine faces 3 months in brig for Iraqi deaths (24 unarmed Iraqi
civilians) -- TEDxRainier - Chris
Bliss - This is Your Brain on Comedy -- The Public Pension Time Bomb! -- Arab League
Arrogance -- Israeli-Saudi Cyberwar Heats Up -- Violence Rages in
Libya -- Tim Thomas' Statement on His White House Absence: 'Government Has Grown Out of Control'
AZ: Obama to visit Phoenix tomorrow, Jan. 25; Jan. 28, "God on Trial" Book
Signing; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6
pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY TICKETS NOW!)
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News Link • Police State
If The TSA Will Treat Senator Rand Paul Like A Scumbag, What Will They Do TO YOU?
01-24-2012
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www.endoftheamericandream.com
On Monday, U.S. Senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA for about two hours at an airport in Nashville. By doing so, TSA officials directly violated the U.S. Constitution and they demonstrated once again why the rest of the world is coming to rega
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed sees zero interest bond rates until at least 2014
01-24-2012
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Reuters
The Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting on Tuesday that is expected to end with a signal that interest rates will be held near zero into 2014.
Outside of words, however, the central bank appears unlikely to take any action to prop up the econ
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News Link • History
JFK library releases last of his secret tapes
01-24-2012
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AP
Final recordings President John F. Kennedy secretly made in the Oval Office include an eerie conversation about what would become the day of his funeral.
In talking to staffers while trying to arrange his schedule, Kennedy remarked that Nov. 25 wa
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News Link • Police State
LA Military Exercises
01-24-2012
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www.kfiam640.com
Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI arrests 4 officers in troubled Conn. suburb
01-24-2012
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AP
4 police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested by the FBI on charges they assaulted illegal immigrants and created false reports to cover up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life wa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Boycott SOPA Apps on Android Market
01-24-2012
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www.market.android.com
SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) if passed will drastically change the internet for the worse. This app will help you avoid SOPA supporting products to show your displeasure with the bill and help get it voted down! Read more about SOPA here.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
No, the Fed Does NOT ‘Print Money’: Just Explain It
01-24-2012
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The Daily Ticket
You probably have a sense the Fed is super important and powerful, but here's something you probably don't know: The Fed doesn't print money. Yes, that's right. Despite all the chatter on the campaign trail (hello, Ron Paul) and on cable TV, the Fed
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News Link • American History
Director Oliver Stone On History. And America, Jim Morrison & Ron Paul.
01-24-2012
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www.rockcellarmagazine.com
Stone also chats about his related TV documentary series, rock ’n’ roll, his preference in the current presidential race (Ron Paul?), and oh…the fall of the American empire…
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin Over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA
01-24-2012
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www.youtube.com
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and GOP Forget Iraq Mistake in Push for Iran War
01-24-2012
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www.thedailybeast.com
Gingrich, Romney and Santorum pushed for the Iraq War. Now the media should make them explain what they’ve learned from being wrong and why we should trust their eagerness to bomb Iran.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Soros Mouthpiece Calls On Google To Police “Conspiracy Theories”
01-24-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Stanford scholar wants search engines to flag global warming, vaccine skepticism as thought crimes
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
The Other New World Order: Michael Collins and the End of Empire by Bill Buppert
01-24-2012
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www.zerogov.com/Bill Buppert
Ten years from now, you will not recognize a map of North America because of the significant changes in nation-state destruction and creation that will occur after the inevitable economic collapse of the Western world.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Jesus, Anarchy, and the Golden Rule
01-24-2012
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www.striketheroot.com
It is truly amazing what politics and the State have done to Christianity--and nowhere is this more evident than the recent GOP "debate" in South Carolina.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Emmigration
1.4 MILLION Gang Members And More Pour Into The United States Every Single Day
01-24-2012
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www.infowars.com
In fact, nearly every community in America is now affected by these thugs. Drugs, theft and brutal violence are all part of the every day lifestyle of the members of this army.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Creeping authoritarianism on Capitol Hill
01-24-2012
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www.salon.com
What we can learn from one congressman's convoluted defense of the NDAA
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Pot-based prescription drug could receive FDA approval
01-24-2012
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www.rawstory.com
A British pharmaceutic firm is completing clinical trials of a drug derived directly from marijuana and hopes to receive approval to market it from the Food and Drug Administration by the end of 2013.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel Needs Blockbusters
01-24-2012
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www.antiwar.com
But apart from the rift between the Jews and the Arabs, the main problem is the resentment of the Orientals, the Russians, and the religious against what they call “the Ashkenazi elite.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The End of The Mainstream Media And The Rebirth of Fact-Based Journalism
01-24-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
“The West is headed to dictatorship. It’s already happening. The merger of state and corporate power is by definition called fascism. I just mentioned the Defense Authorization Act.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Mercenaries
America's military contractors: Privatizing the war on terror
01-22-2012
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John Whitehead - The Daily Progress
At the same time that President Obama is reducing the number of troops in Iraq, he’s replacing them with military contractors at far greater expense to the taxpayer. In this way, the war on terror is privatized, the American economy is bled dry and t
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Marine faces 3 months in brig for Iraqi deaths (24 unarmed Iraqi civilians)
01-24-2012
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Fox News
The 31-year-old Marine pleaded guilty Monday to negligent dereliction of duty for leading the squad that killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha.
Wuterich who was indicted in 19 of the 24 deaths now faces no more than three months i
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Public Pension Time Bomb!
01-24-2012
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The Political Commentator
The growing crisis of public pension fund liabilities!
Pension fund liabilities for states and municipalities is an extremely apropos topic on the day of the State of the Union Address (#SOTU) when President Obama will be doing one of the things h
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Comet Disintegrates into the Solar Wind
01-24-2012
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arclein
A key finding was the amount of material deposited into the sun's atmosphere. "The comet dissolved into more than a million tons of electrically charged gas," says Pesnell. "We believe these vapors eventually mixed with the solar wind and blew
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Israeli-Saudi Cyberwar Heats Up
01-24-2012
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arclein
OxOmer claims he is 17 years old and belongs to a four-member team of hackers who call themselves Israel Defenders. In the earlier counterattack, they published hundreds of Saudi credit card numbers. They told the Jerusalem Post they were also behind
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News Link • Environment
Moringa Tree Protein Identified For Water Cleansing
01-24-2012
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arclein
Past research showed that a protein in Moringa seeds can clean water, but using the approach was too expensive and complicated. So Velegol's team sought to develop a simpler and less expensive way to utilize the seeds' power.
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News Link • Agriculture
Natural Rain-forests Nitrogen Positive
01-24-2012
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arclein
He decided to look at forests in Costa Rica and Trinidad because he already had colleagues there and they, like him, were intrigued by the fact that some tropical forests have dramatic nitrogen exports without apparent human causes.
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News Link • Adult Stem Cell Technology
Study confirms groundbreaking advance in stem cells
01-24-2012
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RawStory.com
The first use of embryonic stem cells in humans eased a degenerative form of blindness in two volunteers and showed no signs of any adverse effects, according to a study published by The Lancet on Monday.
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News Link • Solar Flares
A Massive Solar Eruption, the Strongest in 7 Years, Has Earth Bracing for a Radiation Storm
01-24-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
There was a time when one rarely had to worry about incoming doom born of outer space, but that time is not now. Between mysterious space ball, falling satellite after falling satellite after falling satellite, and the buildup to 2013’s solar maximum
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News Link • Energy
Are Expensive Batteries Worth the Extra Cost?
01-24-2012
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Rhett Allain via WIRED.com
For me, I have found the best place to pick up batteries is at one of these “dollar” stores. Sure the batteries are cheaper, but are they any good? Who knows. Let’s find out.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tim Thomas Releases Statement on White House Absence, Says Government 'Has Grown Out of Control*
01-23-2012
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www.nesn.com
The Boston Bruins made a trip to the White House on Monday afternoon to celebrate their Stanley Cup championship. However, the man perhaps most responsible for that Cup title, Tim Thomas, was absent.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Highlights in 1/23/12 Debate (Video)
01-23-2012
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StopTheLie.com
Visit RonPaulNow.com for previous Ron Paul highlights and other interviews.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-C.I.A. Agent Accused of Leaking Identity of Covert Officer
01-23-2012
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New York Times
The Justice Department on Monday charged a former Central Intelligence Agency officer with disclosing classified information to journalists about the capture and brutal interrogation of a suspected member of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah " adding another ch
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News Link • Drug War
It’s time to end the failed war on drugs
01-23-2012
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Over the past 50 years, more than $1 trillion has been spent fighting this battle, and all we have to show for it is increased drug use, overflowing jails, billions of pounds and dollars of taxpayers’ money wasted, and thriving crime syndicates. It i
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Opinion • Political Theory
A monkey explains the popularity of Gingrich, Obama, and other scoundrels
01-23-2012
Menckens Ghost
You’ve no doubt seen the standing ovations for Newt Gingrich, the cheering and swooning for Barack Obama, and the similar cooing for other venal, lying, hypocritical, platitudinous, populist, egotistical, power-hungry, control-hungry, war-mongering p
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News Link • Surveillance
Justices rule against police, say GPS surveillance requires search warrant
01-23-2012
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www.cnn.com
Police erred by not obtaining an extended search warrant before attaching a tracking device to a drug suspect's car, the Supreme Court said in a unanimous ruling Monday.
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Reference Link • Bill of Rights
Yes! Supremes Throw Out GPS Surveillance!
Gene Kernan
In an essentially unanimous decision (Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Sotomayor joined. Sotomayor also filed a concurring opinion, and Alito filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Ginsb
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News Link • Police State
Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Obama Admin’s Effort to Conduct Warrantless GPS searches
01-23-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
I previously wrote about the pending case of United States v. Jones and the effort of the Administration to establish precedent allowing the government to follow citizens with Global Positioning Devices (GPS) without any showing of probable cause.
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