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Date Sent: 2012-02-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 8, 2012 PM edition |
Marines assault US beaches in drill -- Black Hawks In Boston: American Military Empire Comes Home
After Ron Paul's 2nd place in 4-way in Minnesota says Romney can be
caught -- Ron Paul Billboard Arizona -- U.S. authorities looking into
Murdoch foreign payments -- Video shows officers beating motorist in diabetic shock -- Court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves' -- China and US have 'trust deficit': senior official -- Hacked emails allege Russian youth group Nashi paying bloggers -- Airline industry split widens over EU carbon 'tax' row -- White House defends contraception rules as criticisms mount -- Google Testing Experimental Devices In Hundreds Of Employees’ Homes -- Phoenix police detectives on paid vacation after evidence photos shown at Christmas party -- Israel to build migrant detention camp -- German Bank Offers ‘Islam-Compliant’ Investment -- Assad's gunmen 'murder three entire families in Homs' -- CDC: Bread beats out chips as biggest salt source -- 'Doomsday
Preppers' highlights extreme survival techniques -- Messages show
conflict within NRC after Japan’s earthquake and tsunami -- February
8th, 2012 - ON THE ROAD TO QUARTZSITE - Listen Live, M-F, LRN.FM, 9-Noon
(EST) -- Attack on the drones -- Iran to deploy 15,000 troops to help Syria’s Assad -- Israel embassies preparing for Iran strike? -- Dependency Index Shoots Up 23% Under President Obama -- Ron Paul Speech in Golden Valley, MN - CNN - 2-7-12 -- Targeting Syria and Iran - by Stephen Lendman -- Economic Recovery? What Recovery?
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News Link • Military
Marines 'assault' US beaches in amphibious drill
02-08-2012
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www.breitbart.com
With beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United States and eight other countries are staging a major amphibious exercise on the US East Coast this week, fighting a fictional enemy that bears more than a passing resemblance to Iran.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Black Hawks In Boston: The American Military Empire Comes Home
02-06-2012
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John W. Whitehead, NJToday.net
The bedrock of the American republic is fracturing. The Constitution is being eviscerated by government leaders and their corporate allies. The system of checks and balances embodied in that document, the mechanism which prevents the United States fr
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
After Ron Paul's 2nd place in 4-way in Minnesota says Romney can be caught
02-08-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
The Texas congressman was headed for a solid second-place in Minnesota's caucuses, which were won by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Santorum also won Missouri and was in the hunt for a victory in Colorado's caucuses.
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Activism
Ron Paul Billboard Arizona
Thomas Costanzo
Patriots Morpheus, Psychic Taxi, Oyate and John Pentrose replace AE911Truth.org Billboard with New Banner that says simply "Ron Paul" in 9 foot tall letters. Got space got a billboard? Lets make it say RON PAUL
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News Link • World News
U.S. authorities looking into Murdoch foreign payments
02-08-2012
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www.reuters.com
U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch's media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law enforcement and
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Video shows officers beating motorist in diabetic shock
02-08-2012
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Las Vegas Review Journal
"Stop resisting," officers on the video yell, but Greene, his face pushed into the pavement, hasn't resisted. He doesn't even move -- maybe can't move -- because he's gone into diabetic shock caused by low blood sugar.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
02-08-2012
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www.breitbart.com
A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China and US have 'trust deficit': senior official
02-08-2012
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www.breitbart.com
A top Chinese official has warned of a "trust deficit" between Beijing and Washington and expressed hopes that a key visit to the United States next week by China's leader-in-waiting will strengthen ties.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Hacked emails allege Russian youth group Nashi paying bloggers
02-08-2012
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www.guardian.co.uk
Pro-Kremlin organisation reportedly pays hundreds of thousands of pounds to network of internet users to help political cause
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Airline industry split widens over EU carbon 'tax' row
02-08-2012
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www.breitbart.com
A day after China barred its airlines from complying with what many consider a tax, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned that several nations view the EU scheme as an "attack on sovereignty".
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
White House defends contraception rules as criticisms mount
02-08-2012
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Yahoo
The Obama administration is willing to work with Catholic universities, hospitals and other church-affiliated employers to implement a new policy that requires health insurers to offer birth control coverage,
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google Testing Experimental Devices In Hundreds Of Employees’ Homes
02-08-2012
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www.seattle.cbslocal.com
Google is testing 252 “mystery” devices in its employees’ homes, but what the device is, nobody outside of Google knows.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix police detectives on leave after evidence photos shown at a holiday party
02-08-2012
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AZ Family TV-3 (BELO)
A power point presentation showing pictures of police scenes - even some bodies - are not the kind of thing you'd expect to see at a Phoenix police holiday party.
It was at a private home in an off-duty capacity last year, according to Phoenix pol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Judge Orders Florida Man To Take His Wife on a Date
02-08-2012
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www.nbcmiami.com
Just in time for Valentine's Day, a Florida judge ruled on Tuesday that a man involved in a scuffle with his wife treat her to an evening at a local bowling alley and a romantic meal at Red Lobster.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel to build migrant detention camp
02-08-2012
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www.breitbart.com
Israeli planning authorities on Tuesday approved construction of a detention centre for illegal immigrants, at a projected cost of 250 million shekels ($67 million, 51 million euros), the defence ministry said.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
German Bank Offers ‘Islam-Compliant’ Investment
02-08-2012
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The Weekly Standard
Last month, German bank WestLB rolled out a new “Islam-compliant” investment product named the Islamic Strategy Index Certificate. The value of the certificate is based on the value of the WestLB Islamic Deutschland Index, consisting of shares of ten
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Assad's gunmen 'murder three entire families in Homs'
02-08-2012
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Gunmen loyal to President Bashar al Assad murdered three entire families in Homs on Tuesday night, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
CDC: Bread beats out chips as biggest salt source
02-08-2012
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Associated Press
Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
'Doomsday Preppers' highlights extreme survival techniques
02-08-2012
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USA Today
For some people, the end of the world as we know it is upon us, and there is no better time than now to start preparing.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Messages show conflict within NRC after Japan’s earthquake and tsunami
02-08-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
While assuring Americans publicly that there was no danger, the NRC did not disclose one worst-case scenario, which did not rule out the possibility of radiation exceeding safe levels for thyroid doses in Alaska, the e-mails show.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Attack on the drones
02-08-2012
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www.thesun.co.uk
PAKISTAN yesterday warned Britain to help stop the American "Drone Wars" that are slaughtering hundreds of its innocent civilians.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Iran to deploy 15,000 troops to help Syria’s Assad
02-08-2012
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infowars.com
Prominent Syrian lawmaker says the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force has recently arrived in the country to help manage Assad’s regime brutal suppression of a 11-month-long popular unrest.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel embassies preparing for Iran strike?
02-08-2012
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www.ynetnews.com
Diplomats stationed in Israel request gas masks, prepare contingency plans in case of missile attacks; envoys fear that thousands of dual-citizenship Israelis will seek evacuation
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Dependency Index Shoots Up 23% Under President Obama
02-08-2012
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www.news.investors.com
he American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Speech in Golden Valley, MN - CNN - 2-7-12
02-08-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Location: Paul HQ, Golden Valley, MN - Broadcast: CNN - AC360 [Special Election Coverage] - Participants: Ron Paul
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Understanding 'Atlantis' Blast
02-08-2012
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arclein
From these signatures, the picture that emerges is of final, fatal spurts of magma injection which happened in the last decades -- maybe even just the final months -- before the great eruption.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
More Efficient Solar Cells
02-08-2012
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arclein
so that incoming light is reflected back to the wafer, increasing the amount of energy captured from the cell. The combination of these two technologies creates a cell design that sign
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Do the Dead Outnumber the Living?
02-08-2012
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arclein
It is often said that there are more people alive today than have ever lived - and this "fact" has raised its head again since the UN announcement about the planet's
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Santorum wins Minnesota and Missouri and possibly Colorado
02-07-2012
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The Ticket
No delegates were at stake on Tuesday night, but Rick Santorum still scored two big victories in the race for the Republican presidential nomination by winning Minnesota's caucuses and Missouri's primary.
"Conservatism is alive and well in Missour
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
RON PAUL Billboard on I-40 in the Arizona High Desert
02-07-2012
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Psychictaxi YouTube Channel
Seven hours each way from Phoenix with a stop in Prescott to pick up Trevor, and we're beat - but ecstatic. Take THAT, Lamestream media!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
RON PAUL EXPOSED!!! Is this the man we want to see running the U.S.A.? (video)
02-06-2012
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www.youtube.com
Ron Paul is a great man and this video shows he has been fighting for the American people for decades and will be there to end the tyranny of psychopathic criminals that have hijacked our great nation.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Weapons Man: F-35 Fighter Plan Was 'Acquisition Malpractice'
02-07-2012
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ABC News
The man now in charge of buying weapons for the U.S. military said that the stealth F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- one of the most expensive defense programs in U.S. history at three quarters of $1 trillion -- was put in production so prematurely the e
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Obama’s Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran
02-07-2012
Ray McGovern
In a televised interview before the Super Bowl, President Obama had the chance to send a clear signal to Israel not to launch a preemptive war against Iran but instead offered ambiguous remarks that Israeli hard-liners might read as a partial green l
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors Won’t Charge Police Commissioner’s Son in Rape Accusation
02-07-2012
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New York Times
Manhattan prosecutors have decided not to file rape charges against a son of Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly after a two-week investigation of a woman’s accusation that he had attacked her inside the Lower Manhattan law office where she worked,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Nobel peace prize jury under investigation
02-07-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize's original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed We
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
02-06-2012
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals. Just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “ha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • American History
CIA Claims Release of its History of the Bay of Pigs Debacle Would “Confuse the Public.”
02-07-2012
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www.nsaarchive.wordpress.com
Late last year, the Central Intelligence Agency explained to Judge Kessler of the US District Court in Washington DC that releasing the final volume of its three-decade-old history of the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle would “confuse the public,” and shoul
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Guns and Self-Defense
02-06-2012
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The Agitator
A new Cato study finds 5,000 incidents from 2003-2008 in which a gun was used in self defense. But the authors point out that even that figure likely low-balls the real number.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Major Obama Donors Tied to Fugitive Who Fled to Mexico
02-06-2012
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New York Times
Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama’s re-election campaign.
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