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Date Sent: 2011-02-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 21, 2011 |
Qaddafi’s Son Warns of Civil War as Libyan Protests Widen
U.S. entering direct talks with Taliban: report -- GPS To Track Truant Students -- Pentagon aide 'was killed by hitman' claims distraught widow -- Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people -- Experts warn US must take space storm threat seriously -- NATO disputes claims of 64 Afghan civilian deaths
-- Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead -- US economics: One
big Ponzi scheme -- Does A Surging Gold Price Mean The Fed Will Be
Forced To Sell Treasurys? -- Germans Say No To More European Bail Outs: PIIGS Go To Slaughter? -- Gigantic volcano Mount Nyiragongo predicted to erupt, cities in danger -- Rick Santelli's On "Meet The Press": A Future Rounding Error of $113 Trillion
-- LIVE from the Sovereign Man Offshore Workshop -- 60 lab studies
confirm cancer link to polio vaccine -- A "Drastic" Budget Proposal -- China rounds up 100 activists to rapidly quash pro-democracy 'Jasmine Revolution' organised -- Libya protests death toll close to 300 -- Obama's Insidious Plan to Hand the Entire Housing Industry Over to the Big Banks -- The Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt -- Iceland To Put "Suicide Banker" Legislation To A Vote Of The People -- How "Economic Hit Men" Will Profit Off Emerging Market Food Inflation
AZ: Ron Paul in
Phoenix, Feb. 25-27 for Tea Party
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News Link • World News
Qaddafi’s Son Warns of Civil War as Libyan Protests Widen
02-20-2011
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NY Times
The son of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, warned in a nationally televised address early on Monday that continued anti-government protests could lead to a civil war.
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. entering direct talks with Taliban: report
02-20-2011
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The New Yorker
The United States has entered into direct talks with leaders of the Taliban in Afghanistan, but contacts are exploratory and not yet a peace negotiation. The talks are to assess who in the Taliban leadership might engage in formal peace negotiations
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
GPS To Track Truant Students
02-20-2011
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CBS News
Students with at least four unexcused absences will be given a handheld device with a GPS signal to verify their location, which officials hope will cut down on truancies.
Anaheim School District Director of Safe Schools Rick Martens says particip
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Pentagon aide 'was killed by hitman' claims distraught widow
02-20-2011
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Daily Mail
Prominent Washington aide John Wheeler was assassinated by a hitman in a targeted killing, his widow has claimed. Katherine Klyce said the way her late husband’s body was dumped at a landfill site could only have been carried out by a professional.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people
02-20-2011
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Rawstory
Not only did they plot to destroy WikiLeaks and discredit progressive bloggers, they also crafted detailed proposals for software that manages online "personas," allowing a single human to assume the identities of as many fake people as they'd like.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Experts warn US must take space storm threat seriously
02-20-2011
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Terrence Aym
Scientists have underscored their previous warnings by issuing another at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. “We have to take the issue of space weather seriously,” said Sir John Beddingt
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO disputes claims of Afghan civilian deaths
02-20-2011
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AP
Tribal elders in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan claimed Sunday that NATO forces killed 64 civilians in air and ground strikes over the past four days. The international coalition denied the claim, saying video showed troops targeting and k
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Coming solar storms could slam USA into 'Greatest Depression'
02-20-2011
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Terrence Aym
The activity of the sun not only drives the weather, but to a great extent also drives the world's economy: Farming, fishing, horticulture, solar industries, even the chemical industry and animal husbandry depend on a quiet, predictable sun. But whe
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Activism
Hay Now! Boycott Time - Land O Lakes, This Means You!
02-20-2011
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farm wars
To produce its Round-Up Ready Alfalfa seeds, Monsanto partnered with Forage Genetics
International, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O’Lakes dairy co-op. Land O’Lakes stands to make a fortune from polluting our food supply with GMOs.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Environment
Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
02-20-2011
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Reuters
Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.
That report is at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Civic group in Virginia elects dog as president
02-20-2011
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Terrence Aym
Some people think government has gone to the dogs…in Annandale, Virginia they know it has. The people of Annandale have never had quite anything happen to them as they did recently. As a matter of fact few towns anywhere have experienced anything lik
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Rick Santelli's On "Meet The Press": A Future Rounding Error of $113 Trillion
02-20-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
On February 28, 2001 George Bush said this about his 2002 Budget: “It will retire nearly $1 trillion in debt over the next four years.” Instead, US debt, which at that point was $5.7 trillion, rose to $7.7 trillion. $3 trillion rounding error?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US economics: One big Ponzi scheme
02-20-2011
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Aljazeera.net
The population in the United States is angry, frustrated and full of fear and irrational hatreds. And the folks not far from you on Wall Street are just doing fine. They're the ones who created the current crisis. They're coming out stronger and...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics
“Give me deficit reduction or give me death”
02-20-2011
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Becky Chandler
Apparently the stability of dictators, government micro-management of the public schools, and deficit reduction are the noble ideas which stir the hearts of today's American Revolutionary....
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Precious Metals
Does A Surging Gold Price Mean The Fed Will Be Forced To Sell Treasurys?
02-20-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
As part of GATA's ongoing crusade against the Fed's gold price manipulation efforts, the organization recently succeeded in extracting some novel clues on how and why the Fed views its sworn duty as keeping the price of gold low.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • European Union
Germans Say No To More European Bail Outs: PIIGS Go To Slaughter?
02-20-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
As the results of the first of seven German regional elections hits the wire, the German people are heard loud and clear: "no more bail outs." The outcome of the Hamburg election is nothing short of a disaster for Angela Merkel and her ruling CDU par
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics
Koch Brothers are paupers compared to those evil, wealthy Unions
02-20-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
The Left is constantly demonizing the Koch Brother for everything from paying social media users to spreading Conservatism to financing any and all Conservative movements. They have been painting them as ‘evil‘ because that’s what the Left does. Th
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Corruption
Probate Courts: Criminal racketeering sanctioned by government
02-20-11
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The PPJ Gazette
One of the worst pseudo courts in the US is the system of probate courts. Across the board, in absolutely every state is a so-called court system that operates for profit at the expense of any individual or family unfortunate enough to have any asse
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Environment
Gigantic volcano Mount Nyiragongo predicted to erupt, cities in danger
02-20-2100
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Terrence Aym
If anyone had any doubt that the world's volcanoes are all becoming more active they need look no farther than the giant Mt. Nyiragongo in the east Congo. Vulcanologists monitoring the awakening giant believe that previous eruptions may be dwarfed b
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Drug War
Step Up Arizona Republic! If Steattle Times Can Call For Marijuana Legalization...
02-20-2011
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Moxnews on YouTube via Rense.com
"There will be an interesting Editorial in this Sundays' Seattle Times. The paper is coming out in favor of legalizing pot, and all that will allow the state to profit from the sale of cannabis."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Wake up, Americans. Your economic dream is a nightmare
02-20-2011
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TheGlobeAndMail.com/
The dream? Economic recovery followed by the return of prosperity, built on borrowed money. And not just some borrowed money, but trillions and trillions of borrowed money.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • States' Rights
Communists, Doctor Fraud and a Tea Party " Oh My!
02-20-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
By Kimerly Morin: The union protests continued in Wisconsin over the past couple of days but there have been a few new faces joining in the fray. Friday the uber criminal and ever corrupt Obama cohort and head of the AFL-CIO Trumka was there for ‘so
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
LIVE from the Sovereign Man Offshore Workshop
02-20-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
As I write this, Simon Black is onstage, addressing more than 300 people in Panama City, Panama as we begin our unique workshop on internationalizing your life and assets.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
60 lab studies confirm cancer link to polio vaccine
02-20-2011
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Terrence Aym
Dr. Maurice Hilleman was a very angry man, and if his 2002 allegations are true he had every right to be. Hilleman made mind-numbing allegations during an in-depth interview in "The Health Century""a landmark book and later a PBS television series.
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Sat. & Sun. Feb 19-20 2011
02-20-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Mankind's Bitter Enemy, Murray N. Rothbard on the rise of statism - A Middle East Without America?, Let's hope so, says Pat Buchanan - 7 Antibiotics for Your Medical Stockpile, Cynthia Koelker explains each type and what it treats best.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Architecture
Custom Furniture Made from Car Parts
02-20-2011
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Mega Machine
Remember those car beds you see advertised in a Sears catalogue for little kids, with the matching sheets and pillowcases? Jake's Chop Shop car beds are sort of like that but definitely for grown ups and you have to provide your own sheets.
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Pavle Glumerys
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
A "Drastic" Budget Proposal
2/20/2011
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Free Patriot Press
New York Daily News reports, “The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted for massive spending cuts Saturday, slashing $60 billion from the budget and setting up a potential showdown with President Obama.” This Congress is under pressure
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
China rounds up 100 activists to rapidly quash pro-democracy 'Jasmine Revolution' organised
02-20-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Chinese authorities moved quickly and with force to quash a pro-democracy 'Jasmine Revolution', believed to have been inspired by the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Obama's Insidious Plan to Hand the Entire Housing Industry Over to the Big Banks
02-20-2011
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alternet.org/
Obama should be punishing the big banks that sabotaged the American dream of home ownership -- instead he's giving them the whole enchilada.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
The Coming American Rebellion " We Are Egypt
02-20-2011
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ampedstatus.org/
The global banking cartel, centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paid off politicians and dictators the world over " from Washington to Greece to Egypt. In country after country, they have looted national economies...
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News Link • Corruption
Iceland To Put "Suicide Banker" Legislation To A Vote Of The People
02-20-2011
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icelandreview.com
President of Iceland "lafur Ragnar Grímsson just announced in a press conference that he will not sign the new Icesave legislation but instead send it to a national referendum. He reasoned that the majority of the nation wants to vote on the...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
How "Economic Hit Men" Will Profit Off Emerging Market Food Inflation
02-20-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
They are going to force even more debt on the governments of emerging markets, and cause them to buy questionable agricultural equipment from the global elite through this Global Agriculture and Food Security Program. (Run by the World Bank)
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Secret Societies
The 15 Most Powerful Members Of 'Skull And Bones'
02-20-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The most famous secret society in America, Skull and Bones was co-founded at Yale in 1832 by the father of a future president and has come to signify everything that attracts and repulses the public about "The Elite." (Photo of Prescott Bush)
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