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Date Sent: 2012-02-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 29, 2012 AM edition |
Report Claims Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Secretly Indicted In U.S.
More Americans believe in climate change: poll -- DOJ refuses to confirm Assange indictment revealed by Stratfor leak -- Remains of some 9/11 victims ‘dumped at landfill’ -- If you start making nukes, we’ll build more of these! KFC opens first Iranian branch in 30 years -- Don't try to file a complaint against a cop. You'll get arrested. -- 9/11 victims’ remains dumped in the garbage by government -- State
Department budget request too high, Senate panel tells Clinton -- Mitt Romney wins Arizona and Michigan -- UN: Killer Asteroid On Course To Strike Earth -- How Ron Paul Can
Throw a Big Wrench Into Romney's Campaign -- Israel: ‘We’ll attack Iran
without telling U.S.’ -- Happy New Year! Iran War to Start by March 20th? -- Short Video: Ron Paul Introduction & Crowd Ovation at MSU -- Iran Moves Further To End Petrodollar, Announces Will Accept Payment In Gold Instead Of Dollars -- China cautious on euro bailout -- Volcker Rule faces protests of local, foreign governments -- Survey: Home prices declined in 18 of 20 cities back to 2002 level -- State Pension Fund Managers Must Be IMPRISONED -- States Get Serious In Confronting Sovereign Citizen Movement -- Life inside Japan’s dead zone -- Report: Gov't "collapsed" during Japan nuke crisis -- Ireland to Hold Referendum on EU Treaty -- Silver Soars 4.5%; Gold Hits Three-Month High -- Ye olde photoshoppe:
The first ever altered images (including portrait of Lincoln) -- A
'euthanasia roller coaster' that thrills you... then kills you -- Carlos Miller's Near-Arrest At NH Courthouse -- Feb 28th, 2012 - Missouri Gregg Special In Studio Guest - (Video & MP3 LOADED) --
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Saturday, March 3rd
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Report Claims Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Secretly Indicted In U.S.
02-28-2012
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Ryan J. Reilly
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was secretly indicted by federal prosecutors in the U.S., according to an email from private intelligence company Stratfor obtained by the hacking group Anonymous and published by Wikileaks this week.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Climate Change
More Americans believe in climate change: poll
02-28-2012
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The RawStory.com
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that climate change is real " the highest level in two years " as the public trusted its own observations of rising temperatures, a poll said Tuesday.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
DOJ refuses to confirm Assange indictment revealed by Stratfor leak
02-28-2012
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Rawstory
The stolen documents revealed a private spy agency used by corporations and top government officials. Hackers at the time revealed a list of the firm’s clients, which includes companies like Dow, the U.S. Defense Department, the U.S. Air Force, the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Remains of some 9/11 victims ‘dumped at landfill’
02-28-2012
Partial remains of some victims of the September 11 attacks were dumped in a landfill, the Pentagon revealed for the first time, issuing a report that exposed years of bungling at the US military’s most important mortuary.
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News Link • Food
If you start making nukes, we’ll build more of these! KFC opens first Iranian branch in 30 years
02-28-2012
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Daily Mail
The last place you would expect to be able to order a Kentucky Fried Chicken Bargain Bucket would be in Iran.
But, as unlikely as it might sound, KFC has opened its first branch in the country for more than 30 years.
The U.S. fast-food chain ha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
‘Cloud’ Data Center Closes Because Federal Agencies Prefer Earth
02-28-2012
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Caleb Garling via WIRED.com
Harris Corporation is selling its super-secure data center in Harrisonburg, Virginia and leaving the “cloud computing” business, saying both its government and commercial customers prefer hosting “mission-critical information” on their own premises.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The Patient of the Future
02-28-2012
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Jon Cohen via TechnologyReview.com
Internet pioneer Larry Smarr's quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life.
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News Link • Energy
Battery to Take On Diesel and Natural Gas
02-28-2012
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Aquion Energy says its batteries could make the power grid unnecessary in some countries.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 victims’ remains dumped in the garbage by government
02-28-2012
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Washington Post
Some human remains recovered from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., were incinerated and dumped in a landfill, the Defense Department said in the latest revelation about mishandled body parts at the Dover Air Force
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
State Department budget request too high, Senate panel tells Clinton
02-28-2012
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Washington Post
The international debate over whether to arm opposition fighters in Syria remains at “an early stage,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday, adding that “there’s no plan that we can point to.”
Clinton told the Senate Foreign Rela
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News Link • Internet
City with Superfast Internet Invites Innovators to Play
02-28-2012
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David Talbot via TechnologyReview.com
A Tennessee city with one-gigabit-per-second Internet runs a $300,000 contest to find ways of using it.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mitt Romney wins Arizona primary; Michigan still undecided
02-28-2012
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Washington Post
Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential primary in Arizona [based solely on exit polls] on Tuesday, but remained locked in a close battle with Rick Santorum in the crucial GOP contest in Michigan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Thursday decision making by the ISDA begins for naming the Greek sovereign debt default! (Jim Sincla
02-28-2012
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The
Greece sovereign debt, a "credit event", CDS and the ISDA!
On Thursday the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, or ISDA, is reportedly going to begin work on its decision for what the Greek sovereign debt "credit event" will ultima
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Science
UN: Killer Asteroid On Course To Strike Earth
02-28-2012
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Terrence Aym
They checked the calculations and re-checked them again. Yet the terrible truth refused to go away. The cold, deadly numbers stared back at them from their computer printouts. So little doubt remained the United Nations Action Team of concerned scien
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
The Message of Liberty in One Minute
02-28-2012
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Adam Kokesh
http://adamvstheman.com
You, as a free, beautiful, independent human being with inalienable rights, own yourself. As a result, you can do what you want with your own body and own the product of your labor. The implication is that it is morally wro
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Ryan Gauger
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
How Ron Paul Can Throw a Big Wrench Into Romney's Campaign
02-28-2012
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by Mike "Mish" Shedlock
There are 2,286 republican delegates. It takes 1,144 delegates to win the Republication nomination.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel: ‘We’ll attack Iran without telling U.S.’
02-28-2012
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UK Daily Mail
Israel said it will not warn the U.S. if it decides to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, American intelligence has revealed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Happy New Year! Iran War to Start by March 20th?
02-28-2012
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by Staff Report
Iran Is Celebrating the New Year by Ditching the Dollar ... March 20th is a holiday in Iran. It is called NOWRUZ and it's the equivalent of New Year's Day.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran Moves Further To End Petrodollar, Announces Will Accept Payment In Gold Instead Of Dollars
02-28-2012
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by Tyler Durden
Iran will take payment from its trading partners in gold instead of dollars.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Kinect-enabled carts coming to a Whole Foods near you?
02-28-2012
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Y!Tech
The Kinect-enabled shopping cart experience begins with you scanning a loyalty card. The cart's motorized wheels push it along and steer it to follow you based on the sound of your voice and the image of your body picked up by the Kinect's motion sen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon Return To The Heartland Of America
02-28-2012
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The Economic Collapse
For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world. Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In 2012
02-28-2012
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The Economic Collapse
How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012? Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
8 Reasons Why The Greek Debt Deal May Not Stop A Chaotic Greek Debt Default
02-28-2012
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The Economic Collapse
The global financial system is not a game of checkers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
China cautious on euro bailout
02-28-2012
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By Keith B. Richburg
The ritual is now familiar. European officials meet with Chinese leaders seeking assurances of help for the continent’s debt crisis.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Ten Signs You're in an Abusive Relationship (with your government)
02-28-2012
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Wesley Messamore, The Silver Underground
When you think of an abusive relationship, what adjectives come to mind? Controlling? Violent? Humiliating? Jealous? Obsessive? Go figure, it doesn’t take a huge stretch of the imagination to apply these same adjectives to many of the world’s governm
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Volcker Rule faces protests of local, foreign governments
02-28-2012
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By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Howard Schneider
A new federal rule aimed at limiting the freewheeling trading of banks is prompting protests from local and foreign governments alike
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Survey: Prices declined in 18 of 20 cities in final months of 2011, prices back to 2002 level
02-28-2012
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By Associated Press
Home prices fell in December for a fourth straight month in most major U.S. cities, as modest sales gains in the depressed housing market have yet to lift prices.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
The Secret Media War of 2012
02-28-2012
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by Ron Holland
"See this room? Two-thirds of us laid off when Ron Paul is president." ~ A hot microphone picked up a reporter attacking Ron Paul before a Pentagon briefing began
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Pension Fund Managers Must Be IMPRISONED
02-28-2012
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by Karl Denninger
When New York State officials agreed to allow local governments to use an unusual borrowing plan to put off a portion of their pension obligations, fiscal watchdogs scoffed at the arrangement, calling it irresponsible and unwise.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Gold Transformers
02-28-2012
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by Morris Hubbartt
The world has an excess of fiat currency, yet world bankers seem ready to prove that the creation of yet more money will stimulate our economy. The more likely outcome is devalued currencies and a much lower standard of living.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul speech draws thousands at MSU
02-28-2012
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Written by Steven R. Reed
It seemed like a fair trade for an 11th-hour campaign stop in another state where polls indicate Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul likely will finish out of the money in today’s Michigan primary.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Feds Accuse Texas Doctor Of Largest Medicare Fraud In US History
02-28-2012
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Nick R. Martin
A Texas doctor was accused Tuesday in the largest Medicare fraud case in US history, with federal prosecutors charging him with scamming the government with $375 million in phony billings.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
States Get Serious In Confronting Sovereign Citizen Movement
02-28-2012
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Jillian Rayfield
$4 billion liens against police officers. Bankruptcy proceedings against the United States government. Claims of grammar-based conspiracies or “backwards-correct-syntaxing-modification fraud.”
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Report: Gov't "collapsed" during Japan nuke crisis
02-28-2012
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ByLucy Craft
The one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan is less than two weeks away, but details about the nuclear meltdown that happened that tragic day are just beginning to emerge.
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News Link • European Union
Ireland to Hold Referendum on EU Treaty
02-28-2012
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BY EAMON QUINN
The Irish government announced plans to call a referendum on the new European Union budget discipline treaty, a vote it"and the rest of the euro zone"had hoped to avoid.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver Soars 4.5%; Gold Hits Three-Month High
02-28-2012
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BY TATYANA SHUMSKY
Silver futures rallied 4.5% while gold settled at its highest level in three months amid growing investor interest in precious metals and a weaker dollar.
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News Link • History
Ye olde photoshoppe: The first ever altered images (including portrait of Lincoln)
02-28-2012
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Daily Mail
Take this 150-year-old portrait of President Lincoln, in which he looks every bit the all-American hero. All is not as it appears - as although it is undoubtedly the 16th Commander in Chief's face staring at the camera, the body in fact belongs to a
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News Link • Death
The macabre concept of a 'euthanasia roller coaster' that thrills you... then kills you
02-28-2012
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Daily Mail
The chilling Euthanasia Coaster is a theoretical machine engineered to ‘humanely, with elegance and euphoria, take the life of a human being’.
It is designed to subject the rider to a series of unique experiences from euphoria to thrill and from t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Videos Of Carlos Miller's Speech At NH Liberty Forum And Near-Arrest At NH Courthouse
02-28-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Whether you agree with Mueller's style of activism or not, the video shows that he never threatened Judge Edward Burke, which means that Burke ordered a false arrest.
I was threatened with arrest for recording inside the courthouse Monday, even th
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News Link • Climate Change
The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness - An Interview with Judith Curry
02-28-2012
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Oilprice.com
The IPCC might have outlived its usefulness. Let’s see what the next assessment report comes up with. But we are getting diminishing returns from these assessments
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