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Date Sent: 2011-03-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 10, 2011 AM edition |
Egyptians Get View of Extent of Spying -- Israel Seeks Another $20 Billion in US Military Aid
Internet and cell phones the ‘best weapons against dictatorships’ -- Yemen police open fire on protesters wounding four -- Illinois repeals the death penalty -- Gross Eliminates Government Debt From Pimco's Flagship Total Return Fund -- Threats Continue, But Will US Attack Libya? -- Doctors: Yemen Used ‘Nerve Gas’ Against Protesters -- Mystery: Flamingos drop out of Siberian skies -- Geithner says lending cuts could hurt U.S. influence -- Dade Cops Waiting To Get Crime Fighting Drone Airborne --
ATF Knowingly Allowed over 3000 Firearms Into the Hands of Cartels --
The public/private sector compensation debate hits close to home in New
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News Link • World News
Egyptians Get View of Extent of Spying
03-09-2011
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NY Times
The files have started flowing out of Egypt’s dreaded state security headquarters, part of the post-uprising rush to excavate some of the state’s darkest corners. There are lists of informants from inside the Muslim Brotherhood and the names of judg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel Seeks Another $20 Billion in US Military Aid
03-09-2011
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news.antiwar.com
Though Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak termed the pro-democracy revolutions in the region “a movement in the right direction,” that apparently doesn’t mean that they can’t be used as an excuse to press for massive additional military aid.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Internet and cell phones the ‘best weapons against dictatorships’
03-09-2011
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Rawstory
Decentralized communication technologies, such as cell phones and the Internet, are the best way to ensure the spread of democracy around the globe, according to an study published in the International Journal of Human Rights.
Social networking si
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Yemen police open fire on protesters wounding four
03-09-2011
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AFP
Yemeni police opened fire on demonstrators attempting to expand a protest camp in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday wounding at least four, medics said.
The police fired both tear gas and live rounds in an effort to prevent the protesters against Presi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Illinois repeals the death penalty
03-09-2011
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Rawstory
The Governor of Illinois has signed a bill repealing the death penalty and commuting the sentences of 15 men
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Gross Eliminates Government Debt From Pimco's Flagship Total Return Fund
03-09-2011
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www.bloomberg.com/news
Gross in his February commentary urged investors to reduce holdings of Treasuries and U.K. gilts and buy higher-returning securities such as debt from emerging-market nations. “Old- fashioned gilts and Treasury bonds may need to be ‘exorcised’ from m
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Doctors: Yemen Used ‘Nerve Gas’ Against Protesters
03-09-2011
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news.antiwar.com
The regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh has off and on switched between its use of rubber bullets against protesters and live ammunition, and now, doctors say, it is swapping out traditional tear gas for a banned nerve agent of some sort.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Mystery: Flamingos drop out of Siberian skies
03-09-2011
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Terrence Aym
During an especially frigid day in November, two Russian brothers named Kolya and Maksim Muravyev were ice fishing on the Siberian Lena River. At the time it was a brisk -13 Fahrenheit. As they fished, one of them noticed something falling from the s
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Geithner says lending cuts could hurt U.S. influence
03-09-2011
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www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged lawmakers on Wednesday to approve capital increases for global lending institutions and warned that failure to do so could harm U.S. influence abroad.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Julianne Moore To Play Sarah Palin In HBO Movie About 2008 Presidential Election
03-09-2011
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www.deadline.com
Sarah Palin is getting the movie treatment with HBO Films' Game Change. Oscar-nominated actress Julianne Moore will portray the former Alaska governor in the project, which will chronicle Palin's burst into the national scene
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Dade Cops Waiting To Get Crime Fighting Drone Airborne
03-09-2011
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miami.cbslocal.com
Police admit the MAV, if flown low enough, has the ability to look into people’s home, but that is not its intended purpose.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Make, How, To, and DYI
03-09-2011
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http://www.instructables.com/
Make, How, To, and DYI: Website http://www.instructables.com/
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF Knowingly Allowed over 3000 Firearms Into the Hands of Cartels
03-09-2011
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Gun Owners of America
When Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was shot and mortally wounded in a gun battle about 10 miles from the Mexico border in Arizona in December, 2010, it appeared to be yet another example of Mexico drug gang violence spilling over the border. But as
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Christopher Kuper
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News Link • Government
The public/private sector compensation debate hits close to home in New York
03-09-2011
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The Political Commentator
Syosset School Superintendent salary and benefits package once again under the microscope!
In the current economic climate where federal, state, city and local governmental budgets are being stretched to the breaking point (if not already broken),
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Police State
Drivers detained for paying tolls with U.S. currency
03-09-2011
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Drew Zahn
A man in Tampa, Fla., has uncovered what he calls an illegal scheme by the state's turnpike authority to detain motorists who pay tolls with $20, $50 or $100 bills until they disclose personal information recorded by the state.
Joel Chandler first
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Warner Bros. to Rent Movies Digitally on Facebook, Starting With 'Dark Knight'
03-09-2011
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www.hollywoodreporter.com
The studio, which says it is the first to offer movies directly on the social media site, aims to roll out additional titles over the coming months.
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Sierra Hancock
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