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Date Sent: 2012-03-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 2, 2012 PM edition |
Obama wants to solve Iranian nuke problem 'permanently'
March Edition of FreedomsPhoenixMagazine (eZine Release 1st Friday each
Month 11:59pm) -- 03/02-12 - Ross Edwards In Studio - Megan Duffield
SilverCircleMovie -- Speech-Jamming Gun!?! -- We May Have Just Witnessed The Presence Of Artificial Intelligence In The Stock Market -- Corporate Media Officially Stops Covering Paul Campaign -- The 10 Best Cities To Buy Bank-Owned Properties -- Air Force Chief: What Would Bombing Iran Do, Exactly? -- Pentagon prepares “aerial refueling” for Israeli planes striking Iran -- Saudi Officials Deny Reports Of Pipeline Explosion -- Iran: Scapegoat for a Bankrupt Empire -- Video Captures Struggle Of Citizens To Receive A Complaint Form To Report Police Abuse -- Hillary Clinton Admits US and Al-Qaeda On Same Side in Syria -- In Afghanistan, another two more U.S. troops killed over Koran burning -- Costa Rica Tax Plan Imperiled, Urges Drug Debate -- Tornado Threat Looms Large in Storm-Rattled Midwest and South -- Leaders' comments from European Union summit -- Former Obama backers now supporting Ron Paul -- International Human
Rights Commission to Review Chevron's Abuses In Ecuador -- Britain warns of 'a day of reckoning' for Syrian regime amid reports of executions --
Iran conservatives contest poll for parliament -- Fukushima: Far More
'Chronic and Lasting' Cesium Contamination Than Previously Believed --
The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind the Gas Boom -- Justice on
Trial: Lynne Stewart's Appeal -- Solutrean Blades Identified in Chesapeake Bay 20,000 Years Old --
Bulletin of Christian Persecution February 2012 -- Google’s New Privacy
Policy: What Has Changed and What You Can Do About It -- Secret Army Bomb Jammers Stolen in Afghanistan
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow, March 3rd; Super Tuesday Party at Hancock's - Tuesday, March 6th, 6 p.m. til ???!!
Freedom Law School's 2012 Freedom
Rally - March 16-19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel - Irvine, CA
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama wants to solve Iranian nuke problem 'permanently'
03-02-2012
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By JPOST.COM STAFF
US President says a premature Israeli strike on Iran could help the isolated regime "portray itself as a victim," says both Iran and Israel are aware that "I don't bluff."
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
We May Have Just Witnessed The Presence Of Artificial Intelligence In The Stock Market
03-02-2012
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Sam Ro
Wednesday morning, there was a violent sell-off in stocks that seemed to start exactly at 10:00 AM. This had some New York Stock Exchange floor traders scratching their heads.
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News Link • Iran
Air Force Chief: What Would Bombing Iran Do, Exactly?
03-02-2012
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By Spencer Ackerman
If the U.S. ever bombs Iran’s nuclear facilities, it’ll be Gen. Norton Schwartz’s planes and pilots that pull off the attack. So the Air Force chief of staff wants someone to explain what the hell the military objective of bombing Iran will actually
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News Link • Israel
Pentagon prepares “aerial refueling” for Israeli planes striking Iran
03-02-2012
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
In a dramatic U-turn to show Israel that Washington is serious about its military option against Iran’s nuclear program, Pentagon officials disclosed Thursday, March 1, that “military options being prepared start with providing refueling for Israeli
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News Link • World News
Saudi Officials Deny Reports Of Pipeline Explosion
03-02-2012
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Simone Foxman
Earlier, Zero Hedge cited reports that a Saudi oil pipeline had exploded"both from Iranian Press TV as well as a blog titled The Arab Digest.
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News Link • Iran
Iran: Scapegoat for a Bankrupt Empire
03-02-2012
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by Tim Kelly
Over the last few years the United States has been obsessed with preventing Iran from developing its own nuclear weapon.
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News Link • Police State
Video Captures Struggle Of Citizens To Receive A Complaint Form To Report Police Abuse
03-02-2012
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JONATHAN TURLEY
The concern is that few citizens are likely to persist in such efforts once they encounter such obstruction or anger from police.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Super Tuesday Party at Hancock's - Tuesday, March 6th, 6 p.m. til ???!!
03-02-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
10 states will have their primaries/caucuses Tuesday, March 6th, so come and watch the caucus/primary returns and fellowship with other activists. Lots of delegates are up for grabs....
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Hillary Clinton Admits US and Al-Qaeda On Same Side in Syria
03-02-2012
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Paul Joseph Watson
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has admitted that Al-Qaeda and other groups on the State Department’s terror list are on the same side as the United States in Syria and that they are aiding opposition rebels.
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News Link • World News
Wall Street to dip at open, eyes on oil prices
03-02-2012
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By Rodrigo Campos
Wall Street was set to fall at the open on Friday in a light day on the economic calendar, but S&P futures were still on track to close their ninth straight week of gains, the longest such run since January 2004.
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News Link • Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, two more U.S. troops killed over Koran burning
03-02-2012
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By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
The desert's nighttime chill had taken hold at a small U.S.-Afghan base in the Taliban's heartland: the home village, in fact, of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the movement's founder and supreme commander.
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News Link • World News
Chinchilla Says Costa Rica Tax Plan Imperiled, Urges Drug Debate
03-02-2012
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By Adam Williams and Flavia Krause-Jackson
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla said her administration may not succeed in winning legislative approval of a tax system overhaul aimed at paring a deficit that has grown to more than 5 percent of gross domestic product.
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News Link • Environment
Oceans Acidifying Fastest in 300 Million Years Due to Emissions
03-02-2012
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By Alex Morales
The Earth’s oceans may be acidifying faster than at any point during the last 300 million years due to industrial emissions, endangering marine life from oysters and reefs to sea-going salmon, researchers said.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Tornado Threat Looms Large in Storm-Rattled Midwest and South
03-02-2012
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By KEVIN DOLAK, KATIE KINDELAN, CATHERINE COLE and
Stronger twisters and extreme weather are expected today to again hit the areas of the Midwest and South rattled earlier this week by 33 confirmed tornadoes that left 13 people dead.
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News Link • European Union
HIGHLIGHTS-Leaders' comments from European Union summit
03-02-2012
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Reuters
European Union leaders met for a second day of talks in Brussels on Friday, where 25 of the bloc's 27 countries signed a "fiscal compact" enshrining common debt rules among the 17 members of the euro zone.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Here’s the thing about Ron Paul
03-02-2012
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By Michael DeCrescenzo
Following a recent letter to the editor and its feedback, it may be appropriate to remind everybody that Ron Paul will never be president. This is not up for debate.
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News Link • World News
International Human Rights Commission to Review Chevron's Abuses In Ecuador
03-02-2012
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By Amazon Defense Coalition
Rainforest Communities to Provide More Information About Health Impacts of Chevron Contamination.
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News Link • World News
Britain warns of 'a day of reckoning' for Syrian regime amid reports of executions
03-02-2012
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By the CNN Wire Staff
The opposition accused Syrian forces of executing 10 people Friday in a shattered rebel stronghold in Homs as Britain's leader warned President Bashar al-Assad's regime will face a "day of reckoning."
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News Link • Iran
Iran conservatives contest poll for parliament
03-02-2012
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BBC News
Voters in Iran are taking part in elections to choose the 290 members of the country's parliament, the Majlis.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Save the Lorax: Shun the Stuff
03-02-2012
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by Josh Golin and Susan Linn
For more than forty years, the Dr. Seuss classic has been a clarion call for reducing consumption and promoting conservation. But the book’s eloquent environmental message is being crushed by the film’s slew of corporate cross-promotions.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima: Far More 'Chronic and Lasting' Cesium Contamination Than Previously Believed
03-02-2012
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Common Dreams staff
A "mind-boggling" amount of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11
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News Link • Energy
The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind the Gas Boom
03-02-2012
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Common Dreams staff
A report from Rolling Stone about the financial disaster that lingers beneath the environmental one
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News Link • Archaeology
Solutrean Blades Identified in Chesapeake Bay 20,000 Years Old
03-02-2012
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arclein
t the core of Stanford’s case are stone tools recovered from five mid-Atlantic sites. Two sites lie on Chesapeake Bay islands, suggesting that the Solutreans settled Delmarva early on. Smithsonian research associate Darrin Lowery found blades, anvils
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Bulletin of Christian Persecution February 2012 - Bill Warner
03-02-2012
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arclein
The underlying hope of the West is that advancing economic development will counter these tendencies over time. The problem of course is to actually get these societies to fully engage in the modernization process and much of what I see is generally
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Opinion • Activism
Remembering The Alamo
03-02-2012
Chuck Baldwin
March 6 marks the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo back in 1836. For more than 13 days, 186 brave and determined patriots withstood Santa Anna's seasoned army of over 4,000 troops. To a man, the defenders of that mission fort knew they would neve
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Dawn Forest Reconstructed
03-02-2012
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arclein
"Those trees were covered in little branches which sprung out in all directions and made a sort of thicket on the floor of the forest," Berry said. "That was a big surprise."
The researchers also found a fragment of a third type of tree, lycop
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News Link • Science
Earthshine Helps Determine Life Bearing Exoplanets
03-02-2012
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arclein
One promising solution involves taking advantage of the fact that light that has reflected from a planet is polarized, whereas light from a star is normally unpolarized. In principle, a technique called spectropolarimetry could be used to distinguish
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. Wants You to Hunt Fugitives With Twitter
03-01-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
A worldwide manhunt kicks off at the end of March " a search across America and Europe for five fugitives, identifiable only by their mugshots. The successful team of trackers not only gets a $5,000 bounty from the U.S. State Department.
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News Link • Energy
Battery-Boosted Quick-Charger Doesn’t Shock System
03-01-2012
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Keith Barry via WIRED.com
The battery buffer EV charger, manufactured and installed by Kanematsu, includes a battery pack that allows EV drivers to charge up in 30 minutes or less with minimal impact to the grid and their wallet.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Tiny Antennas Don’t Prevent Copyright Suit
03-01-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
Fox Television, PBS and Univision Television and others Thursday asked a federal judge to halt an impending subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device.
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News Link • Internet
Google’s New Privacy Policy: What Has Changed and What You Can Do About It
03-01-2012
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Jon Brodkin - Ars Technica
Today’s the day Google’s broad new privacy policy goes into effect. European regulators are claiming it violates data protection laws, but it’s here and it may be here to stay.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers Seized Control of Computers in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
03-01-2012
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
Hackers seized control of networks at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory last November, gaining the ability to install malware, delete or steal sensitive data, and hijack the accounts of users in order to gain their privileged access
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News Link • Military
Secret Army Bomb Jammers Stolen in Afghanistan
03-01-2012
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David Axe via WIRED.com
On Jan. 7, someone strolled into a supply room at Camp Eggers, a coalition base near the U.S. embassy in downtown Kabul, pocketed two sets of car keys and walked out undetected.
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News Link • Economy - International
Economy Squeezed As Debt Accelerates
03-01-2012
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www.thedailybell.com
Sen. Jeff Sessions, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, pointed out that our per capita government debt is already larger than Greece's. Per person, our government owes over $49,000 compared to $38,937 per Greek citizen.
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News Link • Bailouts
Geithner Is A Criminal! So How Is It He COULD Face Criminal Charges?
03-01-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Judge Napolitano discusses Treasury Sec. Timothy Geitner's soon to be presidential pardon or prison term.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Ron Paul Flashes a Silver Circle to Bernanke in Financial Committee Meeting
03-01-12
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Silver Underground
For immediate release 03-01-12
Contact: Megan Duffield, megan@lineplot.com | 617-864-8300 x122
This is no handy working of Photoshop. During Ben Bernanke’s testimony to the Committee on Financial Services yesterday, Congressman Ron Paul responde
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Koch Brothers sue Cato Institute, president
03-01-2012
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The Washington Post
Billionaires Charles and David Koch filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Cato Institute in a fight for control of the influential libertarian think tank.
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News Link • World News
Andrew Breitbart dead at 43
03-01-2012
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www.foxnews.com
Widely read conservative Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart, whose flare for battle with politicians and the mainstream media earned him a reputation as one of the nation's most influential commentators, died Thursday.
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News Link • Conferences
Freedom Law School's 2012 Freedom Rally - March 16-19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel - Irvine, CA
03-01-2012
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www.freedomlawconference.org
This 4-day event includes an in depth class on Avoiding and Defeating IRS Criminal Charges, two keynote banquet speakers, 14 of the most exciting Freedom speakers in the country, and a seminar on Stopping Mortgage Fraud.
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