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Date Sent: 2011-04-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 7, 2011 AM edition |
US lawmakers target ‘rogue websites’ with online infringement act
County Supervisors Mull Severance Packages for Themselves -- El Paso Police Harassing Citizens Who Videotape Them -- Colorado police pepper-spray misbehaving boy, 8 -- US general voices concern over Iran-Venezuela ties -- Canada Okays GMO Wheat -- Tired of violence, Mexicans ready for mass protests -- Earliest, most complete dinosaur fossil found by accident -- Silver Is Getting Too Popular… Right? -- Obama's Advice To Those Complaining About Surging Gas Prices: Suck It In And Cope --
US to Expand Food Stamp Program As America Prepares For Surge In Hunger
-- In honor of his pending departure: The top 10 craziest things Glenn
Beck ever said
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News Link • Property Rights
US lawmakers target ‘rogue websites’ with online infringement act
04-06-2011
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AFP
Democratic and Republican members of the US Congress pledged Monday to pass legislation that would give US authorities more tools to crack down on websites engaged in piracy of movies, television shows and music and the sale of counterfeit goods.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
County Supervisors Mull Severance Packages for Themselves
04-06-2011
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Reason magazine
But the Polk County Compensation Board thinks supervisors have sacrificed too much in the name of fiscal austerity recommending they and the county's 5 other elected officials receive severance payments up to $30,000 if voters fired them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
El Paso Police Harassing Citizens Who Videotape Them
04-06-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
El Paso police attempted to intimidate a man who was videotaping them in public, insinuating that they could cost him his job.
They even called his supervisor to the scene, even though he had done nothing illegal.
Jesus Lopez-Ledesma, a taxicab
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Colorado police pepper-spray misbehaving boy, 8
04-06-2011
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AP
Eight-year-old Aidan Elliott had thrown a TV and chairs at his Colorado elementary school and was trying to use a cart to bust through a door to an office where teachers and other students fled for safety.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
US general voices concern over Iran-Venezuela ties
04-06-2011
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AFP
"My concern, as I look at it, is the fact that there are flights between Iran and Venezuela on a weekly basis, and visas are not required for entrance into Venezuela or Bolivia or Nicaragua," said General Douglas Fraser, head of the US Southern Comma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Canada Okays GMO Wheat
04-06-2011
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Farm Wars
Canada is giving the go ahead to GMO wheat. Although it is not ready for production yet, the plans are set.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Mexico
Tired of violence, Mexicans ready for mass protests
04-06-2011
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AFP
The murder of a well-known author's son in Mexico's out-of-control drug war has become a key catalyst for organizing nationwide protests set for Wednesday against crime and violence.
Juan Francisco Sicilia, 24, was found dead in a car along with f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Dinosaurs Likely Lousy With Lice
04-06-2011
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LiveScience
Dinosaurs might have been the first animals tormented by the kinds of lice that now often bedevil children, scientists now suggest.
These new findings also hint that birds and mammals actually began diversifying and spreading across the world bef
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Some herbivorous dinosaurs ate like vacuum cleaners
04-06-2011
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Terrence Aym
Large swamp-dwelling dinosaursâ€"like the Brachiosaurusâ€"had heads that floated on the water and sucked up their food like massive vacuum cleaners. So declare two scientists that compare the physiology of the gigantic brutes to the bulky, noisy househol
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Science
Earliest, most complete dinosaur fossil found by accident
04-06-2011
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Terrence Aym
Some paleontologists have spent careers tromping around many of the most inhospitable places on Earth seeking the elusive perfect dinosaur fossil. Now a workmanâ€"a busy oil sands worker in Alberta, Canadaâ€"literally bumped into the momentous discovery:
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Energy
Obama's Advice To Those Complaining About Surging Gas Prices: Suck It In And Cope
04-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"If you're complaining about the price of gas and you're only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know," Obama said laughingly. "You might want to think about a trade-in."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Underwater robots swim with the penguins
04-06-2011
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Terrence Aym
Penguin populations are mysteriously diminishing, but if penguin biologist and president of the Polar Oceans Research Group, Bill Fraser, has his way schools of advanced underwater robots will discover the reason why. The autonomous, underwater robot
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Food
US to Expand Food Stamp Program As America Prepares For Surge In Hunger
04-06-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The states are getting nervous. Never fear: the US taxpayer is here. In a press release, the USDA has just announced that it "will award grants to improve access to and increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
In honor of his pending departure: The top 10 craziest things Glenn Beck ever said
04-06-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via The Raw Story
Conservative conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that he's leaving his Fox News show in favor of a different arrangement that could see him work behind the scenes at Fox or attempt to launch his own cable channel.
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