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Date Sent: 2011-01-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, January 25, 2011 AM edition |
2 states take aim at distracted walkers, runners -- McDonald's to raise prices as food costs rise
Engineer gets 32 years for military secrets sale -- Outstanding Jacob
Hornberger speech-a must hear and a must share! Wish all Americans
heard this. -- Bush officials broke electioneering law, federal agency reports -- Defense calls death accident, not 'honor killing' -- It's Cold out There, Even for Hardy New Englanders -- Hawaii official now swears: No Obama birth certificate. Signs affidavit -- Peruvian court: No more prison for Lori Berenson -- Air Force's new surveillance system for aerial drones not working as hoped -- Italian Scientists Claim To Have Discovered Nickel-Hydrogen Cold Fusion -- Foreclosure-Gate: 91% of BofA Securitized Mortgage Loans Were Fraudulent -- Foreclosure-Gate: Lenders Seek To Destroy 22,100 Boxes Of Loan Docs -- Pete Eyre was arrested Monday, January 24th allegedly for wearing a hat inside a courtroom -- Local Police May Get Aerial Drones -- Outrage: Man sentenced to life imprisonment for skipping highway tolls -- 5 Biggest Hyperinflations in World History
National: FREE PETE – Wearing a Hat is NOT a Crime
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News Link • TAXES: State
2 states take aim at distracted walkers, runners
01-24-2011
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AP
Attention texting pedestrians and iPod-obsessed runners on the street: You may soon get unplugged. Lawmakers have proposed restrictions on using cell phones and music players such as iPods by people running and walking on the street or sidewalk.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inflation: McDonald's may raise prices as food costs rise
01-24-2011
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AP
McDonald's affordable food drew even more customers in its fourth quarter, but the burger chain said it may raise prices this year as its own food tab rises. Worries about rising costs at the world's largest hamburger chain gave some investors pause
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Engineer gets 32 years for military secrets sale
01-24-2011
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AP
A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer was sentenced to 32 years in prison for selling military secrets to China in the latest of several high-profile cases of Chinese espionage in the U.S. He would likely be in his late 80s by the time he is released
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Outstanding Jacob Hornberger speech-a must hear and a must share! Wish all Americans heard this.
01-24-2011
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At LibertyInOurTime YouTube-recommended by C.Smith
A speech he gave at an event sponsored by the Young Americans for Liberty Purdue University Chapter. "The Income Tax and the Welfare-Warfare State"
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush officials broke electioneering law, federal agency reports
01-24-2011
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Washington Post
At least 7 Cabinet secretaries to President Bush took politically motivated trips at taxpayer expense while aides falsely claimed they were traveling on official business, the independent Office of Special Counsel said in concluding a 3-year probe.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Defense calls death accident, not 'honor killing'
01-24-2011
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AP
Prosecutor Laura Reckart told them that Falel Almaleki was increasingly incensed at his daughter's failure to obey him. She told jurors in her opening statement in his murder trial that he believed she had dishonored the family by becoming too Wester
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
It's Cold out There, Even for Hardy New Englanders
01-24-2011
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AP
Train equipment froze, cars sputtered, schools canceled classes as a bitter blast of below-zero temperatures gripped the Northeast. The gasp-inducing cold â€" temperatures reached into the minus-30s with wind chill factors even colder
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hawaii official now swears: No Obama birth certificate. Signs affidavit declaring long-form, hospita
1/24/11
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Worldnet Daily
Former Hawaii elections clerk Tim Adams has now signed an affidavit swearing he was told by his supervisors in Hawaii that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate existed for Barack Obama Jr. in Hawaii and that neither Queens Medical Cente
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • World News
Peruvian court: No more prison for Lori Berenson
01-24-2011
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AP
A Peruvian appeals court rejected a prosecutor's attempt to revoke the parole of U.S. activist Lori Berenson, who was released in May after serving 15 years for aiding leftist rebels. Berenson said the ruling is final and cannot be appealed by prosec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Air Force's new surveillance system for aerial drones not working as hoped
01-24-2011
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Washington Post
Air Force field testers concluded in a draft report that a new wide-area surveillance system for use with remotely piloted aircraft is "not operationally effective" and should not be fielded, but Air Force officials said they expect the system will s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Italian Scientists Claim To Have Discovered Nickel-Hydrogen Cold Fusion
01-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
According to PhysOrg.com, two Italian scientists from the University of Bologna have taken on one of physics' historically most discredited concepts, cold fusion, and have actually succeeded in creating a sustainable reaction.
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Jack Gregson
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Reference Link • Justice and Judges
FREE PETE â€" Wearing a Hat is NOT a Crime
http://www.copblock.org
This morning, two activist from Keene, NH had court for different reasons. As is common in Keene several other folks show up to support those who are facing justice from the man which is why Pete and I were in court, even though it was -15 degrees (s
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Drew
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Karl Denninger "And Now, For The Real Sh$%show"
01-24-2011
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Market-ticker.org
If you want it distilled down into one sentence, it's this: You told us you were selling us good paper, and in fact you were knowingly selling us a box of dogcrap.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: 91% of BofA Securitized Mortgage Loans Were Fraudulent
01-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Now it is all the way up to 91% after a just released lawsuit by the bulk of the world's biggest insurance companies has been made public, in a fresh lawsuit again Bank of America/Countrywide over "Massive mortgage fraud."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Lenders Seek To Destroy 22,100 Boxes Of Loan Docs
01-24-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The solution to the ongoing Foreclosure-Gate fiasco is so simply and yet so brilliant (in a way that benefits the banks naturally) is so brilliant, that it has to date evaded most... but not all. The solution: just shred it all.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Pete Eyre was arrested Monday, January 24th allegedly for wearing a hat inside a courtroom
01-24-2011
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Free Pete Eyre
Pete Eyre, known peaceful person, was arrested Monday, January 24th allegedly for wearing a hat inside a courtroom in Keene, NH. These ridiculous shows of subservience are only made more laughable by caging people for disobedience. Pete is a loved an
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Local Police May Get Aerial Drones
01-24-2010
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myfoxphoenix.com
The use of predator drones has revolutionized surveillance overseas and along both U.S. borders. Now local law enforcement hope the extra eyes in the skies will keep the public safer.
When you think about drones, you might think about large unmann
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • China
Outrage: Man sentenced to life imprisonment for skipping highway tolls
01-24-2011
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Terrence Aym
Shi Jianfeng tried to save himself some money and ended up being yanked into court and sent to jail for life. Most people in the world face life imprisonment for premeditated murder, serial rapes, terrorism, kidnapping, habitual sex crimes, and plots
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Constitution
Citizens United and the Big Progressive Lie
01-24-2011
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Becky Chandler
Nothing that the Supreme Court has done in decades has infuriated liberals/progressives as much as Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission he president scolded the court in his State of the Union Address, and now there is an attempt by the l
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Economy - International
5 Biggest Hyperinflations in World History
01-24-2011
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The World's Biggests
In economics, hyperinflation is inflation that is very high or "out of control". While the real values of the specific economic items generally stay the same in terms of relatively stable foreign currencies, in hyperinflationary conditions the gen
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Veljko Rauski
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News Link • Corruption
King Cronyism The Absurd - Let Them Eat Waivers
01242011
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www.drscoundrels.com
When is enough enough? When does the helping of friends stray into the scratching of backs in an improper or illegal manner? Questions will abound over the course of many political "regimes" from local to Federal, but this seems particularly tellin
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Washington State Joins Movement for Public Banking
01-24-2010
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Ellen Brown, Huffingtonpost.com
Bills were introduced on January 18 in both the House and Senate of the Washington State Legislature that add Washington to the growing number of states now actively moving to create public banking facilities.
The bills, House Bill 1320 and Senate
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Technology: Software
Roger Ebert's Proof 3D TV 'Doesn't Work With Our Brains'
01-24-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
In a new blog post written for the for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert, who has railed against 3D movies and television, offers up what he says is proof that the technology "doesn't work with our brains and it never will."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Jack LaLanne Dead: Fitness Guru Dies At 96
01-24-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who inspired television viewers to trim down, eat well and pump iron for decades before diet and exercise became a national obsession, died Sunday. He was 96.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics
Court: Rahm Emanuel Can't Run For Mayor, Not Chicago Resident
01-24-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
A prominent Illinois election lawyer who asked to remain anonymous because of his many political clients in Chicago, told the Huffington Post that there may be hope for Emanuel yet.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
European 'Road Train' Cars Drive Themselves While You Sleep
01-24-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
Imagine you're driving down the highway, when you pass a column of cars cruising in tandem. You notice with awe that the steering wheel in each car moves autonomously while the drivers eat, read and get ready for work--some drivers even appear to be
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Is NPR partnering with Soros in his war with Fox News
01-24-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Is NPR partnering with George Soros in his war on Fox News? One could be forgiven for believing Juan William’s dismissal from NPR was a wink-and-nod concession to Soros in exchange for a boatload of cash.
No question, George Soros is a far left-wi
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