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Date Sent: 2012-02-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 2, 2012 AM edition |
Panetta Sets End to Afghan Combat Role for U.S. in 2013 After Elections
The TSA Left Suspected 'Pipe Bombs' Lying Around for Six Hours --
ACLU sues to force release of drone attack records -- McDonald’s confirms that it’s no
longer using ‘pink slime’ chemical in hamburgers -- “I just
happened to glance over and saw this huge chainsaw ripping down the
side of my door” -- DEA
investigates Montana state legislator for medical marijuana views -- The Pirate Bay moves to .se domain after Supreme Court sends
founders to jail -- Iran warns
currency speculators as rial continues to fall --
Pakistani intelligence helping Taliban: NATO report -- Grassley investigates FDA monitoring of
whistleblowers -- Ron Paul supporter says Gingrich
security officer fractured his foot -- "War Breeds War" Campaign Video - Lee Wrights for President -- Human Speed Camera (VIDEO- Publisher Recommended :) -- Media Belligerence Against Ron Paul
Reaches a Pathetic Point - by Sibel Edmonds -- Charles Goyette on Iran and India; Oil
for Gold
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday, Feb. 4, Phranq Tamburri on
the AZ GOP State Convention -- Do You Know a Homeless Veteran?
Arizona Stand-down Can Help! Feb 3rd-5th at AVMC
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News Link • Afghanistan
Panetta Sets End to Afghan Combat Role for U.S. in 2013
02-01-2012
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New York Times
In a major milestone toward ending a decade of war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Wednesday that American forces would step back from a combat role there as early as mid-2013, more than a year before all American troops are sc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The TSA Left Suspected 'Pipe Bombs' Lying Around for Six Hours
02-01-2012
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The Atlantic Wire
"Another screener saw the objects, one gold, the other silver, and both 6-inches long with 'springs' inside, and thought they could be bombs." TSA officials let the passenger catch his flight, but left the pipes on a [hot?] radiator and then forgot t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
ACLU sues to force release of drone attack records
02-01-2012
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The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court Wednesday to force the Obama administration to release legal and intelligence records related to the killing of three U.S. citizens in drone attacks in Yemen last year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
McDonald’s confirms that it’s no longer using ‘pink slime’ chemical in hamburgers
02-01-2012
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The Sideshow
The food industry uses ammonium hydroxide as an anti-microbial agent in meats, which allows McDonald's to use otherwise "inedible meat." "Basically we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest form for dogs and making it 'fit' for humans
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
“I just happened to glance over and saw this huge chainsaw ripping down the side of my door.”
02-01-2012
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The Agitator
It’s going to be a while before things get back to normal for Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter.
Last Thursday, a team of FBI agents swarmed her apartment building as part of a massive citywide drug and weapons gang raid.
Trouble is,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
DEA investigates Montana state legislator for medical marijuana views
02-01-2012
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The Sideshow
A member of Montana's state legislature says the Drug Enforcement Agency began investigating her over support for medical marijuana laws.
State House Democrat Diane Sands tells the Missoulian she was contacted by a defense attorney with some unusu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
The Pirate Bay moves to .se domain after Supreme Court sends founders to jail
02-01-2012
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Digital Trends
It’s a tough day to be a pirate. Sweden’s Supreme Court decided today not to hear an appeal by The Pirate Bay’s four founders, which means their sentences of fines and jail time, originally imposed in 2009, will stand. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gott
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran warns currency speculators as rial continues to fall
02-01-2012
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Washington Post
Faced with a plummeting currency in the wake of toughened international sanctions, Iran is cracking down on black-market money changers and warning that major speculators could face execution.
The crackdown comes as Iranian authorities are struggl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pakistani intelligence helping Taliban: NATO report
02-01-2012
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ABC News
A leaked NATO report has provided further evidence that Pakistan's ISI security service has been helping the Taliban.
The report, which will further strain ties between Western powers and Islamabad, is the result of interrogations of thousands of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Alzheimer’s Spreads Like a Virus in the Brain, Studies Find
02-01-2012
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New York Times
Alzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell, two new studies find. But instead of viruses or bacteria, what is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau. The surprising finding answers a longstanding que
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Grassley investigates FDA monitoring of whistleblowers
02-01-2012
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Washington Post
A senior Senate Republican has launched an investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s secret e-mail monitoring of scientists who warned that unsafe medical devices were approved over their objections, saying whistleblowers often are treate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul supporter says Gingrich security officer fractured his foot
02-01-2012
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The Ticket
The Ron Paul supporter who had his bare foot stepped on Tuesday in Florida by one of Newt Gingrich's private security agents says a doctor has diagnosed him with a bone fracture, and that he is planning to file a lawsuit and press charges.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
"War Breeds War" Campaign Video - Lee Wrights for President
02-01-2012
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My good friend Lee himself
If it weren't for Ron Paul, this is the man I'd be campaigning for for President! His 'Stop War' message hits home with me.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Media Belligerence Against Ron Paul Reaches a Pathetic Point - by Sibel Edmonds
02-01-2012
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boilingfrogspost.com via rense.com
Of course it looks nothing like that NOW, but they're still using the same photo of Ron, looking sour... Keep blowing that whistle, Sibel!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Internet
Beware of teenagers bearing computer keyboards!
02-01-2012
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The Political Commentator
Round 1 to Anonymous as Dana White of UFC.com learned the hard way after he crossed the group and had his personal information disclosed online and his website "defaced!"
In light of this, conventional wisdom has said that as we move further int
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Charles Goyette on Iran and India; Oil for Gold
02-01-2012
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dailypaulradio.com
Charles Goyette of American Breaking Point and international bestselling author of ‘The Dollar Meltdown’ joins Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace for ‘Iran and India; Oil for Gold’ to discuss the impact of a direct exchange between India and Iran
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama Denies ‘Huge Number of Civilian Casualties’ in Drone War
01-31-2012
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AntiWar
President Obama confirmed the drone war in Pakistan, breaking with protocol which demands US officials not speak publicly about the classified program. “I want to make sure people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Disgraceful Reporting by the Boston Herald and Others
01-31-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
the testimony of Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper today. See here for his actual testimony in written form. Most important is that he said clearly that Iran is not building nuclear weapons and CIA chief David Petraeus said the same
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Dover mortuary whistleblowers suffered retaliation, say investigators
01-31-2012
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Washington Post
Federal investigators have concluded that supervisors at Dover Air Force Base retaliated against four civilian whistleblowers after they reported missing body parts and other failures at the mortuary that handles America’s war dead.
The Office of
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