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Date Sent: 2013-02-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 5, 2013 AM edition |
Foreigners' accounts in US banks eyed in tax crackdown -- US Seen Halting General's Rise in Mexico
The Pseudo-Courage of Chris Kyle -- Court Silences Man Who Painted Protest Sign on His House -- NJ Sen. Menendez calls prostitution allegation false ‘smears,’ denies wrongdoing -- Senators demand secret memos on targeted killing -- Justice prepares civil suit against S&P over grading of financial products before crisis -- U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Africa defined by a decade of
missteps -- Janet Napolitano: A woman to watch for 2016 -- 02-04-13 -- Ernest Hancock on Liberty Conspiracy tonight with Gard Goldsmith - 10:20-11:00 p.m. EST -- Christine Smith Radio Interview - Audio Archive of interview on the "Gadsen Rising" show -- Energy Department Hit In The Most Dangerous Cyber Attack Yet -- Meet America's Youngest Female Billionaire, An Heiress To The
In-N-Out Burger Fortune -- Telecom Corporations Are Trying To Stop The
Government From Offering Free 'Super WiFi' -- 02-04-13 -- Ernest Hancock SAFE gunowners against Database sellout (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Immigration 'Reform' Will Turn the US into a Police State - by Ron Paul -- Obama: Jobs Destroyer -- Phobos Artificial Claims European Space Agency -- Allah Keeps His Promises: Jerusalem Belongs to Israel -- The day Rosa Parks made history by riding a bus
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine February 1st, 2013 Edition NOW AVAILABLE
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Foreigners' accounts in U.S. banks eyed in tax crackdown
02-04-2013
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Reuters
The Obama administration may soon ask Congress for the power to require more disclosure by U.S. banks of information about foreign clients' accounts to those clients' home governments, as part of a crackdown on tax evasion, sources said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Hand of U.S. Is Seen in Halting General’s Rise in Mexico
02-04-2013
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Washington Post
As Mexico’s military staged its annual Independence Day parade in September, spectators filled the main square of Mexico City to cheer on the armed forces. Nearly 2,000 miles away in Washington, American officials were also paying attention.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
The Pseudo-Courage of Chris Kyle
02-04-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
As a sniper with the Navy SEALs in Iraq, Chris Kyle was shot twice and wounded on several other occasions. He is credited with 160 confirmed kills. He received several commendations. Of his fierceness there is no reasonable doubt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Court Silences Man Who Painted Protest Sign on His House
02-04-2013
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Reason magazine
William Bowden painted “Screwed by the Town of Cary” on his house after a road-widening project directed runoff onto his property, damaging his home. Within hours, zoning officials paid him a visit, ordering him to remove the sign
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
NJ Sen. Menendez calls prostitution allegation false ‘smears,’ denies wrongdoing
02-04-2013
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Washington Post
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez says allegations that he engaged with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic are false “smears.” He says he has done nothing wrong.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Senators demand secret memos on targeted killing
02-04-2013
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Washington Post
Eleven senators sent a letter to President Obama on Monday demanding access to secret legal memos outlining the administration’s case for the targeted killing of U.S. citizens in counterterrorism operations overseas.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Justice prepares civil suit against S&P over grading of financial products before crisis
02-04-2013
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Washington Post
The Justice Department is preparing to file a civil lawsuit against the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s that will allege the company gave its seal of approval to toxic investments at the heart of the financial crisis, according to the company and pe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Africa defined by a decade of missteps
02-04-2013
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Washington Post
The U.S. military was closely tracking a one-eyed bandit across the Sahara in 2003 when it confronted a hard choice that is still reverberating a decade later. Should it try to kill or capture the target, an Algerian jihadist named Mokhtar Belmokhtar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Janet Napolitano: A woman to watch for 2016
02-04-2013
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Washington Post
It is hard to imagine the presidential field without a woman contender, and here’s one to keep your eye on: Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano. She is quietly making it known that she is considering the race, and there is reason to take her serio
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Gun Rights
Death By Doctor vs. Death By Firearms
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The attacks on the Second Amendment, by government, has extended to persecuting a decorated war hero and charging him with five counts of third degree criminal possession of a weapon, for having completely empty 30 round AR-15 Magazines in his vehicl
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Meet America's Youngest Female Billionaire, An Heiress To The In-N-Out Burger Fortune
02-04-2013
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Business Insider
Lynsi Torres, the 30-year-old owner and president of In-N-Out Burger, is one of the youngest female billionaires on the planet, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
Telecom Corporations Are Trying To Stop The Government From Offering Free 'Super WiFi'
02-04-2013
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Business Insider
The $178 billion telecom industry is scrambling to kill a government plan to provide free "super WiFi" across the country, The Washington Post's Cecilia Kang reports.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Immigration 'Reform' Will Turn the US into a Police State - by Ron Paul
02-04-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Whenever the federal government decides to reform something we can be fairly sure that the problem is about to get worse, especially if they call the plan bi-partisan. The bi-partisan immigration reform proposal launched last week
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Researchers discover amazing honey that kills all bacteria
02-04-2013
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Terrence Aym
For many thousands of years honey has been known to have health benefits including medicinal qualities. The ancient Greek and Chinese doctors used it with their patients. Now Australian researchers have discovered a new type of the substance created
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Science
Nature's Death Formula
02-04-2013
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arclein
There is a mathematical formula which says if you tell me how big something is, I can tell you " with some variation, but not a lot " how long it will live. This doesn't apply to individuals, only to groups, to species. The formula is a simple quart
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Municipal Waste Conversion to Diesel
02-04-2013
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arclein
A Red Deer company wants to turn local garbage into fuel " and it insists it’s got the technology to do so. Blue Horizon Bio-Diesel Inc. Conducted a demonstration in a Blindman Industrial Park shop on Wednesday, feeding a mix of municipal solid waste
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Phobos Artificial Claims European Space Agency
02-04-2013
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arclein
"We report independent results from two subgroups of the Mars Express Radio Science (MaRS) team who independently analyzed Mars Express (MEX) radio tracking data for the purpose of determining consistently the gravitational attraction of the moon Ph
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robert klein
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Allah Keeps His Promises: Jerusalem Belongs to Israel
02-04-2013
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arclein
If you listen in Arabic to the hate-speeches made by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; or to Turkish President Erdogan; or to the calls made from Qatar by Muslim Brotherhood leader SheikhYusuf al-Qaradawi and from the Gaza Strip by the head of Hamas,
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gas Prices Heading Up Again
02-03-2013
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CBS News (video)
Hold on to your wallets: we are in the middle of a gas price spike, and experts say it will only get worse.
CBS 2′s Courtney Gousman learned several factors might push the price in our area to more than $4 a gallon.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
169,000 Americans Drop Out of Labor Force in January As Unemployment Ticks Up
02-03-2013
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CNS News
The number of Americans not in the labor force grew by 169,000 in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest jobs report. There were 89 million of them last month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Happy 100th Birthday U.S. Federal Income Tax
02-3-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
On February 3rd, 1913, one of the two most historic events in US history took place: the ratification of the 16th amendment, which established Congress’ right to impose a Federal income tax on Americans, and overturned Article I, Section 9 of the US
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Iran
Iranian Oops: US violated own sanctions buying Tehran's oil for war?
02-03-2013
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youtube
There is a high probability that US sanctions against Iran have been violated by its own army. Part of the $1.55 billion in fuel the US bought from Turkmenistan for the Afghan army in the last five years may have originated in Iran.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Misinformation
Shocking Numbers That Show The Media Is Lying To You About Unemployment In America
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Government and Top University Studies: Fluoride Lowers IQ and Causes Other Health Problems
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
Dentists Haven’t Read the Studies
Preface: This post doesn’t discuss any conspiracy theories. It simply presents a scientific review of the studies by mainstream sources on fluoride.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan government responds to torture charges
02-03-2013
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aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera visits detention facilities accused of torture by UN and rights agencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt to probe police brutality case
02-03-2013
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aljazeera.com
Interior minister says case of man stripped naked and beaten by police while cameras were rolling will be investigated.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Government Protects Criminals by Attacking Whistleblowers
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
It’s now obvious to everyone that " even though criminal fraud dominates Wall Street " the Obama administration refuses to prosecute white collar crime.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Rev. Jesse Jackson Says Gun Supporters Are Domestic Terrorists
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
During an interview with the Wall Street Journal posted on, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said “anti-government people” espousing what amounts to a “Confederate ideology” will engage in terrorist activities unless the government enacts draconian laws.
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News Link • Israel
Obama green light for Israel to strike Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah military links
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
The air raid over the Jamraya military complex near Damascus Wednesday, Jan. 30, attributed to Israel by Western sources was Israeli’s first assault on the Syrian-Hizballah military compact forged between Bashar Assad and Hassan Nasrallah.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ernest Hancock - SAFE, Second Amendment is For Everyone
02-03-2013
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youtube
#183 Libertarians are "impractical" - Ernest Hancock & Bill Still
To hear the full podcast: http://adamvstheman.com/podcast
Please address love mail to adam@adamvstheman.com
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News Link • Gun Rights
A Letter From The Special Forces Community Concerning The Second Amendment
02-03-2013
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asmdss.com
After a getting a "WARNO" previously, ASMDSS and Stolen Valor received this letter from members of the SOF community on their concerns for America and the Second Amendment.
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News Link • Agriculture
What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
02-03-2013
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Common Dreams
Back in the ’60s, Frances Moore Lappé realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Brooklyn College's Academic Freedom Increasingly Threatened Over Israel Event
02-03-2013
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Common Dreams
New York politicians join the Alan Dershowitz-led campaign to dictate to colleges what academic events they can hold
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Growing Wealth Gap Is Unsustainable
02-03-2013
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Common Dreams
The ever-increasing many who are struggling cannot support a structure that favours a tiny number of the very rich
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
In Egypt's tumult, the anarchist "Black Bloc" steps to the fore to engage the state
02-03-2013
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Brietbart.com
In both tactics and outward appearance, the Egyptian Black Bloc shares much in common with their Western counterparts, including the use of Guy Fawkes masks seen in Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street protests.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • World News
Urgent preparations in South Korea over North’s third nuclear test fears
02-03-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
South Korean leader Lee Myung-Bak has urged the country’s officials to ‘stand well prepared’ for a third nuclear test by North Korea, according to Yonhap news agency. The test is believed to take place before Lunar New Year starts on February 10.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
Henson Ong at Gun Violence Prevention Public Hearing - Hartford, CT
02-03-2013
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www.youtube.com
Incredible Speech on Gun Violence
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Police State USA: Military Drills Across America
2-3-2013
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Free Press Publications
Police and military are conducting scary drills that involve firing blanks in schools and downtown areas. ThinkProgress.com reports (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/31/1523091/guns-lockdown-blanks) , “Students at a high school in Illinois ex
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