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Date Sent: 2010-02-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 22, 2010 |
Homeland Security Lost Dozens of Guns -- At CPAC, the biggest draw is Ron Paul
NATO airstrike kills at least 33 -- Accused War Criminals Make Home in U.S --The Government's Thugs Turn Inward;...as
they always do.Israel Unveils New Drone Fleet That Can
Reach Iran -- Obama Giving Control of Internet to the Gun Hating
United Nations -- Nazis Concentration Camps and Eugenics Were an
American Idea -- Municipal Bond
Threat: Cities Weigh Chapter 9 -- George Soros Invests In a
People Tracking Company -- First Religious Temple: Built 9,500 BC,
Mysteriously Buried 8,000BC -- Public
schools ask kids: How old were you when you first used meth? Carried a
handgun? - by Michael Kielsky -- Bob Schulz - "There Are People
Out There That Say 'Hey It's Time to Lock and Load.' -- Nevada Casinos
Lose $6.7 Billion in 2009 -- Britain
& Netherlands to Iceland;... "All your futures are belong to us."
-- Jonathan Turley: You Can't Facilitate War Crimes as Lawyers -- Away
from the Sinking Ship of State - by Thomas L. Knapp -- Man Destroys
Home to Keep the Bank From Taking it in Foreclosure -- Woman, 61, arrested for asking ‘why' -- White House Efficiently Pre-Excuses Future
Unemployment Rate Increase - by Sharon Secor --
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Lost Dozens of Guns, According to Internal Report
02-21-2010
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ABC News
Guns to safeguard America found their way into the hands of criminals after absent-minded federal officers left firearms unsecured everywhere from fast-food restaurants to bowling alleys, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghan Cabinet: NATO airstrike kills at least 33
02-22-2010
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AP
A NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan killed at least 33 civilians, the Afghan cabinet said Monday, an incident that is inflaming already heightened sensitivities over noncombatant casualties in the war. NATO forces confirmed its planes fired on w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Olympic Cherry Blossom Festival
02-22-2010
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arclein
That suggests that the last week of the Olympics will see the bulk of the trees reach full blossom. It is one of the most gorgeous trees we have and it is no surprise it is esteemed in Japan. I have never seen it make any fruit, but that is certain
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
The Gagging of Henk Tennekes
02-22-2010
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arclein
Tennekes: “Why does the IPCC ignore the oceans? The top 2½ meters of all sea-water contain as much heat as the total amount of heat in the atmosphere. Why has the topmost kilometre of the oceans turned colder during the last five years? We don’t know
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
A Reminder to Mitch McConnell: Lack of Bipartisanship Did Not Cause Tea Party Protests
02-21-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Mitch McConnell says Republicans may very well go along with Porkulus II. And why not? It's not more of the taxpayers money--it's their kid's money.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Accused War Criminals Make Home in U.S.
02-21-2010
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ABC News
Barre and the men are accused by the UN of committing horrific war crimes throughout the '70s thru the '90s that Somalia is still reeling from. Shockingly, along with refugees and victims of war crimes, some war criminals emigrated to the US, escapin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
The Government's Thugs Turn Inward;...as they always do.
02-21-2010
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AP
DHS Secretary Napolitano says terrorists who are U.S. citizens...and plot against the U.S. are just as big of a concern as international terrorists.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Israel
Israel Unveils New Drone Fleet That Can Reach Iran
02-21-2010
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AP
Israel introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and fly as far as the Persian Gulf, putting rival Iran within its range. The Heron TP drones have a wingspan of 86 feet making them the size of Boeing 737 an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Time For Anti Freedom Brady Campaign To Act Stupid…Again
02-21-10
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
With 4 million new guns last year and violent crime now at historic lows the Brady Campaign still insists more guns equal more crime…LOL
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Reported by:
Fredy Riehl
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama Giving Control of Internet to the Gun Hating United Nations
02-21-2010
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
United Nations and IANSA would stop at nothing to ban, block, reduce access too or tear down pro gun websites…
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Reported by:
Fredy Riehl
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Video: CPAC Convention Speech - Part 3
02-21-2010
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YouTube.com
This is part 3 of Ron Paul's CPAC convention speech, and to me this was the most relevant part because he talked of how Freedom can bring people with different philosophies together.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Nazis Concentration Camps and Eugenics Were an American Idea
02-21-2010
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GeorgeWashington2.blogspot.com
Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Municipal Bond Threat: Cities Weigh Chapter 9
02-21-2010
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finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker & WSJ.com
The economic slump, however, is forcing debt-laden cities, towns and smaller taxing districts throughout the U.S. to consider using Chapter 9. As their revenue declines faster than expenses, some public entities are scrambling...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Technology: Software
George Soros Invests In a People Tracking Company
02-21-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The first stop may be Ghana, but when a billionaire global interventionist invests in a tiny company that seems bent on developing more and more people tracking systems starting when a kid grabs his kindergarten lunch, I get real nervous.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Archaeology
First Religious Temple: Built 9,500 BC, Mysteriously Buried 8,000BC
02-21-2010
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NewsWeek.com
Most startling is the elaborate carving found on about half of the 50 pillars Schmidt has unearthed. There are a few abstract symbols, but the site is almost covered in graceful, naturalistic sculptures and bas-reliefs of the animals...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED FACE YEARS WITHOUT JOBS !!
02/21/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
By PETER S. GOODMAN
BUENA PARK, Calif. â€" Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
Bob Schulz - "There Are People Out There That Say 'Hey It's Time to Lock and Load.'
02-21-2010
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ABC News
"Extremist groups are already aligning behind Joe Stack, beginning to talk about him as a hero," said Mark Potok, director of the SPLC. "The growth of those groups has been astounding."
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • NeoCons
CPAC Likes Bob Barr Less Than Torture
02-21-2010
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The Raw Story
Republican congressman-turned-Libertarian Bob Barr got a chorus of jeers at the CPAC conference Friday when he declared that waterboarding is torture.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate Change Unravels But Refuses to Die!
02/21/10
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Uncommon Sense
What in the world is happening? Could it be? Climate change is a scam?
So you are probably thinking… Climate Change, Cap & Trade and the like are dead… Why is he still writing about this? Wake up, people this is the administration that refuses to
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Reported by:
Dave Johannes
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It'sThe Economy,Stupid!
02/21/10
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Uncommon Sense
Today’s labor department job report shows initial claims for unemployment benefits increased 31,000 to 473,000. There are now approximately 14,577,800 officially unemployed Americans. That is almost 9 million jobs lost since mid 2007.
Further ag
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nevada Casinos Lose $6.7 Billion in 2009
02-20-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Total revenues were down from $25.0 billion in fiscal 2008 to $22.0 billion in fiscal 2009. Gambling was off 12.7%, room revenue off 16.6% (hotels are getting crushed everywhere), but beverage sales were flat!
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Britain & Netherlands to Iceland;... "All your futures are belong to us."
02-20-2010
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AP
In closed meetings, ambasadors are thrashing out terms of a deal to return funds spent by Britain and the Netherlands to compensate their citizens' depositors in Icesave, an Internet bank that collapsed with its parent, Landsbanki, in October 2008.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Iran
Propaganda Works: 71 Percent of Americans say Iran has nuclear weapons
02-20-2010
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
If economic and diplomatic efforts fail, support for military action rises to 59 percent, with only 39 percent opposing military action under those circumstances," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Savannah Mayor says "Sue Us" if you don't like it.
02-20-2010
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www.LCLReport.com
We talk to some Savannah activists about the new Bartending law and how they are getting stonewalled by the local bureaucrats about removing it. We interview Shaun Beaudry , Nicole Edge and Anthony Migchelbrink about the new law and how it will effec
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Torture
Jonathan Turley: You Can't Facilitate War Crimes as Lawyers
02-20-2010
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MSNBC.msn.com
Jonathan Turley discusses the facts surrounding the Obama Justice Department finding the authors of the Bush torture memos guilty of bad judgement.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Away from the Sinking Ship of State
02-20-2010
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C4SS / Thomas L. Knapp
We can’t make a real revolution on an unseaworthy vessel. No matter how many times we let ourselves be conned into floating this kind of slave ship, the ending will remain the same and the next chapter will read just like the previous one.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Torture
Obama "Let Them Eat Cake": Foreclosures $1.5 Billion vs Bank Bailout Trillions
02-20-2010
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RawStory.com
Distributed to housing agencies in California, Nevada, Florida, Michigan, and Arizona â€" states where home prices have dropped more than 20 percent since the peak of the market, in a bid to help keep struggling homeowners in their houses.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Teach Your Children Well: There Is No Law but Might and Murder
02-20-2010
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Chris-Floyd.com
Obama "Children, the law is nothing but a rag smeared with blood and shit. "It is only for suckers, rubes and losers. "Claw your way to the top - by any means necessary - and the law can never touch you. "This is the American way."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Housing Cheerleaders: 6.1 Million New Foreclosures Won't Effect Home Prices
02-20-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Of the 7.7 million delinquent homeowners, we actually think that only about 1.6 million will be able avoid losing their homes, and that the remaining 6.1 million will lose their homes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
1,000 Architects & Engineers Call for New 9/11 Investigation
02-20-2010
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news.yahoo.com
Government officials will be notified that "Misprision of Treason", US Code 18 (Sec. 2382), is a serious federal offense which requires those with evidence of treason to act.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Man Destroys Home to Keep the Bank From Taking it in Foreclosure
02-20-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
There is a deep well of angry sweeping across the land.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Greece finished; USA to follow: Gerald Celente
02/19/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Judge Napolitano interviews famous Gerald Celente and he gives us his views on the Greece financial default, as well as the ultimate fate of the European Union, as well as the fate of the United States.
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Letter from Dr. Sam Kennedy: de Jure Grand Juries
02-20-2010
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Dr. Sam Kennedy, The Ghostfighters
In his February 2nd letter, Dr. Sam Kennedy promised a final remedy to enslavement at the hands of corporations posing as legitimate government. Now, Dr. Kennedy represents an end, once and for all, at the source, to the arrests & foreclosures.
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman, 61, arrested for asking ‘why'
02-19-2010
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"I was blown away. I had heard about people in the community being harassed by the police … It really didn’t shock me as much as it probably would have if I had not heard of people going to jail for no reason. I figured I was just another one."
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Powell Gammill
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