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Date Sent: 2011-01-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 27, 2011 AM edition |
CBO: Social Security to run permanent deficits -- Rand Paul proposes $500 billion in budget cuts
Border guard fired, ‘interrogated’ for saying pot should be legalized -- Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban -- International Space Station Could Get Private Inflatable Room -- Afghan officials want to prolong detentions -- Egypt unrest enters third day, ElBaradei to return
-- State's universities say their campuses will ban medical marijuana
-- Suicide Bankers Win: Kill Off Mark-To-Market Accounting For Good -- US Postal Service considering axing thousands of post offices -- UK eyes rationing: Gas price expected to hit $13 gallon in 2011 -- Hawaiian Gov. Admits There Are No Obama Birth Records In Hawaii -- Why Europe Should Pay Attention to Algeria
-- Michelle Obama – Dictatoress in the Making?! -- US judges consider
fate of 13 year old --RESTORE THE REPUBLIC: CIVIL RELIGION’S ROLE IN
GOVERNMENT -- Bachmann Stepped On Toes? Only Because Of The Crowd -- Senate leaders eye option of state bankruptcy -- Virginia House Rejects Federal Commerce Power, 65-33
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News Link • Social Security
CBO: Social Security to run permanent deficits
01-26-2011
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AP
New congressional projections show Social Security running permanent annual deficits unless lawmakers act to shore up the massive retirement and disability program. The Congressional Budget Office said Social Security will pay out $45 billion more in
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Rand Paul proposes $500 billion in federal budget cuts
01-26-2011
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AP
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul wants to slash numerous federal programs, including food stamps for the poor, to save $500 billion in a single year. A legislative proposal Paul introduced on Tuesday would slash $42 billion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Border guard fired, ‘interrogated’ for saying pot should be legalized
01-26-2011
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Rawstory
Bryan Gonzalez alleged that he lost his job in 2009 after telling a colleague on the Mexican border that he believed legalizing marijuana could reduce drug war violence.
Gonzalez was issued a termination letter stating that he was fired because h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban
01-26-2011
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AFP
Bolivians chewed coca leaves in demonstrations around the country Wednesday to push for a change in a 1961 UN convention to remove a ban on a practice that has been part of indigenous cultures here for millennia.
Protesters gathered outside the US
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
International Space Station Could Get Private Inflatable Room
01-26-2011
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Space
The International Space Station could get a new inflatable module supplied by the private American company Bigelow Aerospace, sources say.
NASA is apparently in discussions with Bigelow to acquire a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, called BEAM
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan officials want to prolong detentions
01-26-2011
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Washington Post
Afghan justice and security officials want to adopt the U.S. practice of detaining suspected insurgents indefinitely without trial, according to senior U.S. and Afghan officials involved in efforts to have the government in Kabul take control of dete
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Egypt unrest enters third day, ElBaradei to return
01-26-2011
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Reuters
Activists trying to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak played cat-and-mouse with police on the streets into the early hours of Thursday, as unprecedented protests against his 30-year rule entered a third day.
Prominent reform campaigner Mohamed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
State's universities say their campuses will ban medical marijuana
01-26-2011
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Capitol Media Services
Students, faculty and visitors to the state's universities are going to go without their medical marijuana even though it's legal. School policies say their campuses will remain drug-free zones. Officials said obligations under federal law trump Ariz
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Republic for the united States of America
The switch in time and the way home to liberty
01-26-2011
Ed Wahler, his wife and 2 of his best friends were attacked by the federal government for challenging the banking and monetary systems in 2003.
They sued in federal court to make the government prove they were following the law as written. When
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Democrat Budget Fear Tactics Starting Already?
01262011
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www.drscoundrels.com
What are they thinking? November 2010 didn't count? That we really don't care if we bankrupt everything? That it's all ok to keep adding to what we know is a problem and have them poo poo us like it isn't really there? Do you feel the patronizing
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Breakthrough: Laser light transforms material into a superconductor
01-26-2011
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Terrence Aym
For decades researchers have been searching for a way to achieve superconductivity other than bringing special materials down to a temperature near absolute zero. Now Oxford University researchers report non-superconducting material can be made a sup
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Corruption
Suicide Bankers Win: Kill Off Mark-To-Market Accounting For Good
01-26-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
What moron would propose that in an economy that is so obviously healthy and surging. After all, the only way to validate a surging stock market, er, economic recovery, is through bullshit numbers pulled out of the ass.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
Daily Show: 24 Hour Nazi Party People
01-26-2011
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Jon Stuart
Jon challenges his staff to find someone on Megyn Kelly's show making a Nazi comparison before he finishes a home perm kit. Hysterical!
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
CREDIBLE RUMORS OF COMEX DEFAULT IN FEBRUARY/MARCH
01/25/2011
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godlikeproductions.com
[Read the whole article, but this paragraph made my eyes pop out of their sockets]
There have been rumours that certain hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds are willing to take possession of all gold and silver. In gold it is the February month
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Government
US Postal Service considering axing thousands of post offices
01-26-2011
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Terrence Aym
The failing U.S. economy has caught up with the United States Postal Service (USPS). After closing 491 locations during 2010, the struggling independent agency of the federal government has announced it will close up to an additional 2,000 branches a
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Energy
UK eyes rationing: Gas price expected to hit $13 gallon in 2011
01-26-2011
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Terrence Aym
Amidst rising fears of a return to the devastating 1970s "stagflation" economy and an increasing dearth of resources, the UK has moved to a series of rationing plans. The first such draconian plan affected the British National Health Service late i
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Environment
Supervolcanoes "caused largest mass extinction" a quarter billion years ago
01-26-2011
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Terrence Aym
Gigantic eruptions from amazing "supervolcanoes" at the top of the world caused the largest mass extinction on Earth, scientists have declared. Supervolcanoes can be found around the planet and three exist in the United States, the most famous of t
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Mysterious crop circle appears in Indonesian rice field
01-26-2011
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Terrence Aym
Long seen in the UK, parts of the United States, Canada and Western Europe, Indonesia now has its first crop circle. A phenomenon first documented by UFO researchers back in the 1950s, crop circles-strange geometric patterns that seem to suddenly app
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hawaiian Gov. Admits There Are No Obama Birth Records In Hawaii
01-26-2011
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youtube
Neil Abercombie, new Govenor of Hawaii, has admitted to his close friend Mike Evans, a reporter, that there are no records of Obama's birth in Hawaii. Clip is from the morning show on KQRS-FM from 1/20/2011.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Michelle Obama " Dictatoress in the Making?!
01262011
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www.drscoundrels.com
By LadyBug4Freedom
Last year, Michelle Obama, oh she of great pride in being American (finally), launched her “Let’s Move” project; which really means, “I’m Going to Tell All You Parents How You Should Feed Your Children Because, Well, Let’s Face
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
US judges consider fate of 13 year old
01-26-2011
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AFP
US appeals judges have begun considering whether a 13-year-old boy accused of murder could be tried as an adult. Jordan Brown, who was 11 at the time of his alleged crime, might be imprisoned as an adult and never be released.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
01-26-2011
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popsci.com
Bats " you know we love ‘em " have a remarkable ability to turn, swirl and dive on a dime while in mid-flight, dodging obstacles and grabbing food from the air. Engineers would like to give robots and autonomous vehicles this ability, and they’re tur
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Hubble Peers 13.2 Billion Years Back in Time to Capture the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen
01-26-2011
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popsci.com
While the astronomical community anxiously awaits the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope keeps reminding us just how remarkable of an instrument it really is.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics
Bachmann Stepped On Toes? Only Because Of The Crowd
01262011
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www.drscoundrels.com
The main stream media is at it again. Another blatant attempt to spur on the conservative cannibalism - to try to get us to eat our own. Part will fuss at Bachmann, part will fuss at GOP leaders for "fussing" at Bachmann. Here's our take - what do
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Senate leaders eye option of state bankruptcy
01-26-2011
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Reuters.com
Senate Republican leaders said on Tuesday they were considering introducing legislation to allow financially stressed U.S. states to declare bankruptcy...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • States' Rights
Virginia House Rejects Federal Commerce Power, 65-33
01-26-2011
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Tenth Amendment Center
Today, the Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed House Bill 1438 (HB1438), the Intrastate Commerce Act. The bill, “Provides that all goods produced or manufactured within the Commonwealth, when such goods are held, retained, or maintained
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Michael Boldin
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