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Date Sent: 2010-02-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 2, 2010 |
President Obama's Budget Heavy on Higher Taxes -- US military responsibilities to expand
Doctor in MMR vaccine-Autism Scare Ruled Unethical -- US attorney has left Landrieu phone caper case -- 26 States Are Now Insolvent -- Democracy: The Joke's on You! - by Larken Rose -- Imam killed in FBI sting was shot 21 times -- Phoenix finalist for 2012 GOP Convention -- Rosenberg: Expect Big Time Revisions To The Houdini Q4 GDP -- No Naked Body Scan? No Fly - starts in UK -- China fumes after US arms sales to Taiwan -- New Theory of Primate Origins
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama's Budget Heavy on Higher Taxes
2-1-10
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The budget plan calls for nearly $1 trillion in tax increases on upper-income families"largely through allowing Bush tax cuts to expire. Banks, bankers and multinational corporations would face new fees and levies.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
US military responsibilities to expand
02-01-2010
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Financian Times
The US will take on a broader range of military responsibilities, including defending space and cyberspace, in spite of growing pressure on budgets, a long-awaited administration report is set to conclude on Monday.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Doctor in MMR-Autism Scare Ruled Unethical
02-01-2010
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Time magazine
In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a gastroenterologist at London's Royal Free Hospital, published a study in the prestigious medical journal Lancet that linked the triple Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine with autism and bowel disorders in children.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
New World Order's New Tactics for Bringing Down the Gladiator
02-01-2010
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www.OffTheGridGuy.com
The article, “Why do people often vote against their own best interests” by a BBC staff author, uses sophisticated, multi-layered psychological manipulation to sell the idea that elites in Washington know what is best for Americans. The article atte
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Wiccans get worship area at Air Force Academy
02-01-2010
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AP via MSNBC
The Air Force Academy has set aside an outdoor worship area for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers, school officials said Monday.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Climate Change
IPCC Chief was told of false glacier claims
02-01-2010
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The London Times Online
Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but waited two months to correct it.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Conspiracies
Rebutting (Again!) 9/11 Conspiracists
02-01-2010
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True Slant
Skeptic Magazine founder Michael Shermer rebutts multiple claims made by 9/11 conspiracists who challenged him to answer numerous assertions about the September 11th, 2001 WTC attack.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • TERRORISM
[James] Randi Responds to the Arrest of James McCormick
02-01-2010
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James Randi Educational Foundation / Jeff Wagg
Several recent bomb attacks in Iraq have left hundreds dead, and it is hoped that this arrest will shed some light on the dangerous practice of marketing "woo-woo" instead of technology.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Activism
US attorney has left Landrieu phone caper case
02-01-2010
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AP
The top federal prosecutor for New Orleans has removed himself from the case of 4 conservative activists arrested last week while trying to capture hidden camera footage in a senator's office, the Department of Justice said. Recusing himself from the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • States' Rights
Nullification: It’s Official.
1-28-2010
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Tenth Ammendment Center
While speaking to a large crowd of over a thousand people on the campus of Arizona State University last December, Congressman Ron Paul mentioned one thing that might come about as the result of the federal government habitually ignoring the Constitu
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Gun Rights
The NRA Elbows Its Way Into The Mcdonald Case
2/1/2010
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Ammoland
Washington, DC --(AmmoLand.com)- One wonders if NRA members should be proud of their organization’s apparent newfound fiduciary conservatism.
The so-called “premier” gun rights organization has now managed to finagle its way into the spotlight aft
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S&P: Commercial Real Estate Losses Could Wipe Out Banking System
2-1-10
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ZeroHedge.com
S&P confirms that should all losses be recognized all at once, without the aid of accounting and regulatory gimmicks, the financial system is likely entirely underwater, and this is only on account of CRE exposure...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
June: Warren Buffet and Wells Fargo Expecting Much Higher Interest Rates
2-1-10
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Wells Fargo isn't giving up a billion dollars worth of interest income unless it is expecting a major spike in interest rates.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
The Next Environmental Threat: School Choice
02-01-2010
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Caleb O. Brown
Our findings underscore the need to critically evaluate transportation-related environmental and health impacts of currently proposed changes in school policy.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
Visualizing The Abyss: An Itemized Representation Of The U.S. Budget Deficit
2-1-10
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ZeroHedge.com
A terrific chart out of the New York Times, demonstrating succinctly the endless abyss that the actual US budget is becoming...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
26 States Are Now Insolvent: Quantifying The Disastrous Unemployment Situation
2-1-10
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ZeroHedge.com
Using data provided by ProPublica we have been able to confirm that indeed standalone states are for the most part now bankrupt and have no reserves left in their coffers when it comes to funding ever increasing insurance benefits.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Imam killed in FBI sting was shot 21 times: report
02-01-2010
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Rawstory
A Detroit-area imam who died in a shootout with the FBI in October was shot 21 times -- at least once in the back -- and found by police lying down with his wrists in handcuffs behind him. The FBI has not alleged any terrorist activity against him, a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
Virgin Oceanic: Richard Branson's new underwater plane
02-01-2010
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Daily Mail
Billionaire Sir Richard Branson may already own an airline, a record label, a mobile phone company, several luxury restaurants and a Caribbean island. But today the entrepreneur unveiled his latest toy - an underwater plane.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix finalist for 2012 GOP Convention
02-01-2010
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East Valley Tribune
;-D [We can't wait!!!!] Phoenix has been named 1 of 4 finalists for the 2012 Republican National Convention. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon says political conventions are big business and the hard work will now begin as Phoenix prepares for
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Hollywood Celebs Love Their Photo Ops with Dictator Chavez
02-01-2010
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Mondo Frazier
A look at the celebrities who've had their pictures taken with Venezuela dictator, Hugo Chavez--and a look at the victims from a free speech protest in that same country. Might they not be so anxious to support Chavez if they actually lived in Venezu
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
4th Quarter-Office, Mall and Lodging Investment: Basement Floor Anyone?
2-1-10
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Reis economist Ryan Severino: "Our outlook for retail properties as a whole is bleak ... we do not foresee a recovery in the retail sector until late 2012 at the earliest."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Freezer Burn
02-01-2010
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C4SS / Thomas L. Knapp
Between “non-discretionary” and “security-related” spending, government expenditures excluded from Obama’s “freeze” proposal for 2011 come to about as much as total government expenditures did in 2005.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rosenberg - Expect Big Time Revisions To The Houdini Q4 GDP
2-1-10
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ZeroHedge.com
With economic data increasingly unreliable, and China having the ability to make or break the U.S., what is the point of continuing the charade that the U.S. is nothing more than an extension of the Chinese experiment across the Pacific.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Stimulus Blip Fades Away: Construction Spending Declines in December
2-1-10
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Take a look at the Obama housing stimulus in action during the summer and fall of 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
'Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11'
02-01-2010
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PressTV
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the "global arrogance" on this year's anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Bankers in favour of paying global fee
02-01-2010
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Financian Times
Some of the world’s most prominent bankers have come out in favour of a global bank wind-down fund, a concession from the industry after weeks of fighting proposals for new taxes in the US and Europe.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Nasa mission to unravel sun’s threat to Earth
02-01-2010
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TimesOnline
A new probe could help scientists predict the solar storms that cause chaos for us.
NASA is to embark on one of its most ambitious missions in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the sun.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Egypt set to unveil Tutankhamun DNA results
02-01-2010
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Breitbart.com
One of the great remaining mysteries from ancient Egypt, the ancestry of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, may soon be solved, the country's antiquities supremo hinted on Sunday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Box Office Report: “Avatar” Passes $2 Billion in World-Wide Grosses
02-01-2010
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Wall Street Journal
Today, after just 45 days of release, the Fox sci-fi epic reached $2.039 billion in world-wide grosses, pushing its record mark still higher, according to early estimates from Hollywood.com.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China fumes after US arms sales to Taiwan
02-01-2010
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Financian Times
Chinese state media attacked the US on Monday after the Obama administration announced its first arms package for Taiwan, a move that prompted China to impose sanctions on the companies involved.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
A seed shortage this summer?
02-01-2010
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AP
A poor growing season last year and increased orders from Europe could make it difficult for home gardeners to get seeds.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Agriculture
Global Nitrogen Problem
02-01-2010
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arclein
Billions of people today owe their lives to a single discovery now a century old. In 1909 German chemist Fritz Haber of the University of Karlsruhe figured out a way to transform nitrogen gas"which is abundant in the atmosphere but nonreactive and th
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
New Theory of Primate Origins
02-01-2010
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arclein
For instance, Heads suggested that at roughly the same time as intense volcanic activity in Africa about 180 million years ago, the group that includes humans, other simians, and tarsiers " altogether known as the haplorhines, or dry-nosed primates
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Barney Franks' Fantasy World
02-01-2010
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arclein
So it turns out there was no increase in 2004 and a minimal increase in 2005. The big increase was in 2001, the legacy of Clinton and Andrew Cuomo his HUD chief. Of course Bush embraced the housing goals and did increase them.
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Kokesh money bomb has begun and off to a good start!
02-01-2010
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Kokesh For Congress!
The former Marine turned grassroots warrior's birthday is today, Feb. 1st. Supporters give him a "Birthday Bomb". Join in the fun and support a candidate who supports the WHOLE liberty platform.
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Found Zero
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