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Date Sent: 2011-02-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 25, 2011

14 TSA Fascists Harass Families Getting Off The Train In Savannah

Baby dolphins dying along oil-soaked US Gulf Coasta -- DEA to legalize marijuana only for ‘Big Pharma,’ NORML claims -- Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie bombing: Ex-minister -- Justice drops defense of Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz -- Rising Oil Prices Pose New Threat to U.S. Economy -- U.S. Pulling Back in Afghan Valley It Called Vital to War -- Libyan Rebels Repel Qaddafi’s Forces Near Tripoli -- Now in Brooklyn, Homegrown Tobacco: Local, Rebellious and Tax Free -- Yarbrough: Ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors -- Immigration activist accused of trespassing at Capitol -- What You Need to Know About Buying Silver Today -- Fannie, Freddie, FHA combined REO Inventory at Record Level -- QE2: The Road to a Gold Standard -- Homeward Bound: the planned use of water as a weapon -- Husain Abdulla - "The Revolt in Bahrain" / John Green - In Studio - Goldwater Institute -- What Good is Obamacare if Doctors Are Waving Goodbye to Medicare Patients? -- Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA’s Historic Spy Kit -- Could Baja Arizona be 51st state in US? -- Shrinking Supply Side is the Real Elephant in the Room for Medicare and Obamacare -- Sink- or Swim-Time for the EU -- Privatize the US to Avoid Default? -- Washington's War & Middle East Policy Racket -- What Are Chemtrails? -- Yemen to 'protect protesters' -- Pakistan's intelligence ready to split with CIA

AZ: Ron Paul speaks in Phoenix, Sat., Feb. 26 for Tea Party event

Christine Smith USTREAM Show - Friday, Feb. 25

News Link • Homeland Security
14 TSA Fascists Harass Families Getting Off The Train In Savannah
02-24-2011 • m.gizmodo.com & Market-Ticker.org
What security argument can be made once the train trip is OVER? It's not security. It's simply this: There is no longer a Fourth Amendment - at all? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Environment
Baby dolphins dying along oil-soaked US Gulf Coast
02-24-2011 • AFP
Baby dolphins are washing up dead along the oil-soaked US Gulf Coast at more than 10 times the normal rate in the first birthing season since the BP disaster, researchers said. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Drug War
DEA to legalize marijuana only for ‘Big Pharma,’ NORML claims
02-24-2011 • Rawstory
A Drug Enforcement Administration proposal to reclassify the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana as a Schedule III substance would allow pharmaceutical companies to market the drug while still penalizing common recreational use Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie bombing: Ex-minister
02-24-2011 • .
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, former justice minister Mustapha Abdeljalil told Swedish daily Expressen. "I have proof that Gaddafi gave the order on Lockerbie," said the minister, who stepped down to Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Torture
Justice drops defense of Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz
02-24-2011 • Politico
The Justice Department under President Obama has quietly dropped its legal representation of more than a dozen Bush-era Pentagon and administration officials - including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and aide Paul Wolfowitz - in a lawsuit Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rising Oil Prices Pose New Threat to U.S. Economy
02-24-2011 • NY Times
The American economy just can’t catch a break. Last year, as things started looking up, the European debt crisis flustered the fragile recovery. Now, under similar economic circumstances, comes the turmoil in the Middle East. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. Pulling Back in Afghan Valley It Called Vital to War
02-24-2011 • NY Times
After years of fighting for control of a prominent valley in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the United States military has begun to pull back most of its forces from ground it once insisted was central to the campaign against the Taliba Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
Libyan Rebels Repel Qaddafi’s Forces Near Tripoli
02-24-2011 • NY Times
Rebels seeking to overturn the 40-year rule of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi repelled a concerted assault by his forces on Thursday on cities close to the capital, removing any doubt that Libya’s patchwork of protests had evolved into an increasingly well- Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Drug War
Now in Brooklyn, Homegrown Tobacco: Local, Rebellious and Tax Free
02-24-2011 • NY Times
The cigarettes Audrey Silk used to smoke �" Parliament Lights �" are made at a factory in Richmond, Va. The cigarettes she smokes these days are made and grown in Brooklyn, at her house. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Drug War
Yarbrough: Ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors
02-24-2011 • Cronkite News Service
A state senator wants to keep electronic cigarettes out of kids’ hands by making it a petty offense for merchants to sell them to minors and for minors to buy them. “If we’re going to say minors can’t buy regular cigarettes, it doesn’t seem valid Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Immigration activist accused of trespassing at Capitol
02-24-2011 • Arizona Republic
Phoenix activist Salvador Reza was arrested and accused of trespassing at the State Capitol Thursday afternoon. Reza and one other activist, Anayanse Garza, were taken to the Maricopa County Fourth Avenue Jail around 5 p.m., though authorities have n Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Casey Research Articles
What You Need to Know About Buying Silver Today
Jeff Clark
   It’s hard to believe that less than three years ago, silver was $8.80 an ounce. Since then it has nearly quadrupled in value (up 385%) and more than doubled in the last 12 months alone.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Gresham’s Law Squared �" Gearing Up For Game Over
02-24-2011 • ZeroHedge.com
When it happens, the speed at which capital will move in today’s over-liquefied world will take people’s breath away. Where will it go? This is the global end of normal, first and foremost, it will go into the strategic assets - gold/silver, energy.. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Housing
Fannie, Freddie, FHA combined REO Inventory at Record Level
02-24-2011 • CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The REO inventory increased 71% compared to Q4 2009 (year-over-year comparison). Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • Federal Reserve
QE2: The Road to a Gold Standard
02-24-2011 • news.goldseek.com/
The hidden message behind the QE2 chapter, the second of many, is that the USFed is planning to give every working man and woman in the US a big pay cut, so the USEconomy can more capably compete with foreign labor. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson

News Link • TERRORISM
Homeward Bound: the planned use of water as a weapon
02-24-11 • The PPJ Gazette
Janet Phelan/PPJ Gazette “the planned use of water as a weapon, authorized under Section 817 of the U.S. Patriot Act. Section 817, The Expansion of the Biological Weapons Statute, is authorizing the use of toxins (poisons) and delivery systems (wh Read Full Story
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Reported by: Marti Oakley

News Link • r3VOLution Continues
RON PAUL CAN WIN IN 2012!
022411 • www.varight.com
John Hood at NRO says that beating Obama will require "powerful, transformational ideas" and one who can mobilize millions to his cause. He's right - that sounds like Ron Paul! Run Ron Run! Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sandy Sanders

News Link • Food
DIY Solar Dehydrator Video and Instructions
02-24-2011 • SMCC
Dry your excess veggies, fruit and herbs this season. Video and instructions for building your own solar dehydrator. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Barbara Peterson

Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Video
Host: Ernest Hancock
Husain Abdulla - "The Revolt in Bahrain" / John Green - In Studio - Goldwater Institute
Husain Abdulla - director of Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain - "The Revolt in Bahrain" / John Green - In Studio - Goldwater Institute
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
What Good is Obamacare if Doctors Are Waving Goodbye to Medicare Patients?
02-24-2011 • http://ww.drscoundrels.com
Doctors are dropping Medicare patients by the busload, and the problem has been largely ignored by Congress and the media. In state after state, more doctors are closing the door on Medicare patients. Is it a question of cost or rebellion against Ob Read Full Story
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Reported by: James Hyde

News Link • Internet
Facebook App Reveals Your Social Cliques
02-24-2011 • technologyreview.com
The app uses either your photos or e-mail history to organize your various social worlds into distinct groups. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Techno Gadgets
The First Full-Color Display with Quantum Dots
02-24-2011 • technologyreview.com
Samsung's new four-inch display could eventually lead to flexible screens. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Energy
Super-thin Superconducting Cables
02-24-2011 • technologyreview.com
New compact cables show promise for power transmission and high-field magnets. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Energy
New Materials Make Photovoltaics Better
02-24-2011 • technologyreview.com
A startup says it can beat the performance of the most efficient solar cells on the market today. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Rumor: New MacBooks Come With Light Peak, Renamed ‘Thunderbolt’
02-24-2011 • wired.com
Today’s big Apple rumor concerns Intel’s super-fast Light Peak connection, an optical (or copper) cable which can transmit just about anything along its skinny length. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
3 Great Ways to Watch the Last Space Shuttle Missions
02-24-2011 • wired.com
NASA’s space shuttle Discovery is queued up for its final mission Thursday Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. Eastern time, but you don’t need to race to the Space Coast to catch the action. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA’s Historic Spy Kit
02-24-2011 • wired.com
Whenever James Bond needed a nifty device to snap a surreptitious surveillance picture or escape the gilded clutches of Auric Goldfinger, he could count on the ingenious minds in the Secret Service's Q Division to devise a solution. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Who's Who in Space Innovation
02-24-2011 • space.com
Space may be TV's final frontier, but it's only the beginning for many pioneers and entrepreneurs hoping to expand humanity's reach beyond planet Earth. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Could Baja Arizona be 51st state in US?
02-24-2011 • azstarnet.com
A political committee made up of attorneys, including the former chairman of the Pima County Democratic Party, has been formed to try to get Southern Arizona to secede from the rest of the state. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ryan Gauger

News Link • Healthcare
Shrinking Supply Side is the Real Elephant in the Room for Medicare and Obamacare
02-24-2011 • http://drscoundrels.com
The shrinking supply side aspect to Medicare and thus Obamacare has been largely ignored by Congress and the media, and in state after state, more doctors are shunning Medicare patients. Read Full Story
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Reported by: James Hyde

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sink- or Swim-Time for the EU
02-24-2011 • dailybell.com
Germany will make a fuss and then go along. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Obama Administration
Privatize the US to Avoid Default?
02-24-2011 • dailybell.com
Give free-markets a chance. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Government
Washington's War & Middle East Policy Racket
02-24-2011 • dailybell.com
US Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler accurately described in his book, "War Is A Racket" how the American military is often forced to make war far more for Wall Street and big corporation profits than the false reasons usually provided for the Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It’ll never happen to me
02-24-2011 • www.sovereignman.com
Naturally, people pay. Cut off from their financial lifeblood, they’ll do whatever they have to do to be able to put food on the table for their families again. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

Feature Article  • Chemtrails
What Are Chemtrails?
Sierra Hancock
   Some call it a ridiculous hoax, but others are true believers.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Yemen to 'protect protesters'
02-24-2011 • english.aljazeera.net
President Saleh instructs security forces to protect demonstrators after at least 15 protesters have been killed. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Pakistan's intelligence ready to split with CIA
02-24-2011 • news.yahoo.com
Pakistan's ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert U.S. operation involving hundreds of contract spies Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Media: Internet
Glenn Beck’s Secret
02-24-2011 • prisonplanet.com
The truth Beck doesn’t want you to know. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Whistleblowers
London Court Grants Swedish Request to Extradite Assange
02-24-2011 • telegraph.co.uk
A British court on Thursday ordered Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, to be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of sexual abuse. His lawyers have seven days to appeal the ruling and immediately indicated that they would do so. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Foreign Policy
Foreigners Scramble To Leave Libya
02-24-2011 • slatest.slate.com
From ships to airplanes to vans, foreigners are fleeing the violence in Libya by any means possible, reports AP. Hundreds of U.S. citizens on a ferry bound for Malta could not leave Tripoli on Wednesday due to high seas. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Military
Another ‘runaway general’? Military reportedly employed ‘psyops’ against US Senators
02-24-2011 • RawStory.com
Michael Hastings has struck again. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Whistleblowers
PayPal cuts service to group supporting Bradley Manning: report
02-24-2011 • RawStory.com
Online payment provider PayPal has apparently frozen the account of Courage to Resist, a group raising funds to support US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the whistleblower accused of passing classified documents to WikiLeaks. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Drugs and Medications
DEA to legalize marijuana only for ‘Big Pharma,’ NORML claims
02-24-2011 • RawStory.com
A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposal to reclassify the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana as a Schedule III substance would allow pharmaceutical companies to market the drug while still penalizing common recreational use, according t Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Government
Extended Daily Show interview with Donald Rumsfeld
02-24-2011 • RawStory.com
Wednesday night, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show for a surprisingly polite conversation. Watch their complete extended interview here. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Doug Casey: Something Wicked This Way Comes
02-24-2011 • www.caseyresearch.com
Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Egyptian Protest Is No Tea Party
02-24-2011 • foxnews.com
In February of 2011, thousands of Egyptian protesters used social media to organize rallies to oppose their government. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sierra Hancock

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