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Date Sent: 2011-03-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 15, 2011 AM edition |
DEA Raids Montana -- Sedgwick Maine declares local food sovereignty for raw milk, meat etc.
CA/Fed clash over medical marijuana clubs -- Police Officer Accused In
Tear-Gas Attack At Barbecue Cookoff -- Should You Donate to the Red
Cross? -- N.R.A. Declines to Meet With Obama on Gun Policy -- Deadly Japan Earthquake Upgraded to 9.0-Magnitude -- Higher food prices may be here to stay -- Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans say Afghan war isn’t worth fighting -- Microsoft Releases IE9 with Windows 7 Features -- Germany and Switzerland freeze development of nuclear reactors -- Status of spent nuclear fuel in question at crippled Japanese power plant
-- Radioactive levels "significantly" higher after plant blasts: 10
Hours To Tokyo -- Nikkei Flash Crash - Futures Plummet 16% As All Hell
Breaks Loose In Japan -- Japan crisis: third explosion raises specter
of nuclear nightmare -- Japanese Government Censors Itself -- Nuclear Melt-Down? The Government to the Rescue -- Time to Say Goodbye to Nuclear Energy
-- Tokyo Electric Struggles to Contain Cooling Failures at Quake-Hit
Reactors -- Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of
devastation -- How To Buy A Dozen Eggs With A Dime -- Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools -- Afghan Leader Questions U.S. Military Operations -- Gates says U.S. military could enforce a no-fly zone in Libya if Obama ordered one -- AU rejects use of force on Libya --
Multiple Fukushima Reactor Meltdowns Equal The Radiation of 100s of
Hiroshima Bombs -- DIY Cyborgify-Your-Own Cockroach Kit Lets You Steer
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News Link • Drug War
DEA Raids Montana
03-14-2011
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Montana NORML
Remember, kids. According to mother Hillary, only barbaric regimes use violence against peaceful protesters and activists. Never mind the dozen medical marijuana facilities raided today.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Food
Sedgwick Maine declares local food sovereignty for raw milk, meat etc.
03-14-2011
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thebovine.wordpress.com
“…On Friday evening, they became perhaps the first locale in the country to pass a “Food Sovereignty” law. It’s the proposed ordinance I first described last fall, when I introduced the “Five Musketeers”, a group of farmers and consumers intent on pu
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
CA/Fed clash over medical marijuana clubs
03-14-2011
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Rawstory
It may be the IRS and not the DEA that puts the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana out of business. Alliance founder Lynette Shaw was stunned when the IRS audited her 2008 and 2009 tax returns and disallowed the foundation's business deductions, th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
HPD Officer Accused In Tear-Gas Attack At Barbecue Cookoff
03-14-2011
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AP
A Houston Police officer has been relieved of duty [given a paid vacation] and faces a criminal investigation [coverup] after tear-gas was lobbed into a crowded tent at a barbecue due to anti-military sentiments being expressed.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Should You Donate to the Red Cross?
03-14-2011
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The Agitator
With millions of dollars at our disposal do we really lack the ability to support basic sanitation and clean water? Do we lack the ability to stop a preventable, deadly water-borne disease right off our coast? What happened to the money?
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
N.R.A. Declines to Meet With Obama on Gun Policy
03-14-2011
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NY Times
“Why should I or the N.R.A. go sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the Second Amendment in the United States?” said Wayne LaPierre, the longtime chief executive of the National Rifle Association.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Deadly Japan Earthquake Upgraded to 9.0-Magnitude
03-14-2011
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LiveScience
The deadly earthquake that struck Japan last week has been upgraded from an 8.9 to a 9.0-magnitude, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced today (March 14).
This magnitude places the earthquake as the fourth largest in the world since 1900 a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Higher food prices may be here to stay
03-14-2011
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Washington Post
The world now faces a crisis in food prices that has its roots in those warm Iowa evenings. Since last summer, several events " floods in Australia, blistering drought in Russia, the threat of a poor winter wheat crop in China " have compounded conce
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans say Afghan war isn’t worth fighting
03-14-2011
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Washington Post
Nearly two-thirds of Americans now say the war in Afghanistan is no longer worth fighting, the highest proportion yet opposed to the conflict, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Microsoft Releases IE9 with Windows 7 Features
03-14-2011
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Newsfactor
A "reimagined" Internet Explorer 9 is being released by Microsoft with capabilities from Windows 7. IE9 does not run on Windows XP. Microsoft pointed to "Pinned Sites" that can be accessed from the taskbar and JumpList, both of which can function wit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Germany and Switzerland freeze development of nuclear reactors
03-14-2011
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David Edwards via the raw story
Germany and Switzerland said Monday that they would be the first industrialized nations to freeze development of nuclear power facilities while they reassess safety procedures
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Status of spent nuclear fuel in question at crippled Japanese power plant
03-14-2011
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Pro Publica via the raw story
Concerns about a radiation release from the Fukushima Daiichi power facility have focused on its stricken nuclear reactors, but the plants of that design also store highly radioactive spent fuel in pools outside the protective containment structure
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Radioactive levels "significantly" higher after plant blasts: 10 Hours To Tokyo
03-14-2011
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Reuters.com/
"There has been a fire at the No. 4 reactor and radiation levels in the surrounding area have heightened significantly. The possibility of further radioactive leakage is heightening," a grim-faced Kan said in an address to the nation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan Imposes "Article 15" - News and Information Suppression
03-14-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Japan has banned all its government agencies, including its nuclear regulatory and protection agencies, from issuing any statements about the nuclear crisis situation in Japan, according to Yochi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Nikkei Flash Crash - Futures Plummet 16% As All Hell Breaks Loose In Japan
03-14-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
All hell is currently breaking loose following an explosion at reactor #2 and a another hydrogen explosion at reactor #4 per Kyodo, leading to a 16% drop in Nikkei futures as blind panic grips Japan. Kyodo essentially confirms there was a reactor...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Thousands of Spent Fuel Rods At Fukushima Reactors Now Fully Exposed?
03-14-2011
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FireDogLake.com
We’d be lucky if we only had to worry about the spent fuel rods from a single holding pool. We’re not that lucky. The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools for spent fuel rods. Six of these are located at the top of six reactor buildings.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japanese Government Censors Itself
03-14-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Japan has banned all its government agencies, including its nuclear regulatory and protection agencies, from issuing any statements about the nuclear crisis situation in Japan, according to Yochi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times.
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Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Nuclear Melt-Down? The Government to the Rescue
03-14-2011
This is a terrible situation indeed, but there is a very important lesson in life for all of us in this mess. I believe that this is a lesson that is teaching us personal responsibility and it is also teaching us to have a healthy skepticism of the s
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Time to Say Goodbye to Nuclear Energy
03-14-2011
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Paul Levinson
the risk of what happens when things go wrong with a nuclear fission plant is just too high
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Tokyo Electric Struggles to Contain Cooling Failures at Quake-Hit Reactors
03-14-2011
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bloomberg.com
Tokyo Electric Power Co. engineers tried to stabilize three nuclear reactors damaged by the biggest earthquake in Japan’s history after the plant was struck by a second explosion and as water levels dropped at one reactor, exposing fuel rods and incr
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation
03-14-2011
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www.abc.net.au
Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
How To Buy A Dozen Eggs With A Dime
03-14-2011
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MatrixUSA.org
Yes, that's right, you can still buy a dozen eggs for just one dime. Here is the catch... it has to be a "real" dime(Dismes). Specifically a dime with 90% silver and 10% copper content. In other words a dime that was minted before 1965. Once you h
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Robert Fisher
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