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Date Sent: 2012-02-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 13, 2012 PM edition |
Obama seeks higher taxes on big business -- Obama unveils big spending election-year budget
Helpers in a hostile world: the risk of aid work grows -- Malaysia sends Saudi home, where he's threatened with death for a tweet -- TSA Underwear Airport Outreach -- Was Maine Stolen from Ron Paul? -- February 13th, 2012 - Adam Kokesh - Shelton "4409" (MP3 and Video Loaded) -- Max Keiser: Financial holocaust looms as Germany storms Greece -- Wall St higher on Greek deal -- Oil demand and forecasts: getting it wrong again in 2012 --
Navy’s Rail Gun Blasts Through Budget Restrictions -- Wired Opinion:
The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox -- How The Pentagon’s Top Killers Became (Unaccountable) Spies -- Mitt’s Problem With Conservatives -- Obama Campaign Launches 'Truth Teams' -- Health bosses: We overreacted to airport flu scare -- Libya on alert after warning from Gaddafi’s son -- Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America -- AT&T customers surprised by 'unlimited data' limit -- Privately,
Obama sees recovery 1-2 years off -- In Orwell's Newspeak: "Isolation"
Means Mandatory Military Service For All -- Criminal Justice - by L. Neil Smith -- Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015 -- Eye in the Sky Spying on Americans -- Cats Make You Mental -- A Silver Bullet for Cancer? -- BBC: Caught
in the Act -- February 13th, 2012 - Adam Kokesh - Listen Live M-F,
LRN.FM, 9 a.m.- NOON
AZ: Help build an 80 foot portable Ron Paul 2012 sign TODAY, starting at 3PM at the Hancock's! -- AND a Danish Volunteer for Ron Paul in Phoenix Seeks Lodging Until Our Primary; Feb 22 – ARIZONA
REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama seeks higher taxes on big business
02-13-2012
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www.reuters.com
President Barack Obama's 2013 budget proposal, released on Monday, calls for raising hundreds of billions of dollars from U.S.-based global companies, while ending cherished deductions and tax breaks for oil companies and other big firms.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Obama unveils big spending election-year budget
02-13-2012
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www.reuters.com
President Barack Obama called on Monday for aggressive spending to boost growth and for higher taxes on the rich, laying out an election-year vision for America in a budget that was criticized sharply by Republicans for failing to curb the deficit.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Helpers in a hostile world: the risk of aid work grows
02-13-2012
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www.csmonitor.com
Some 242 aid workers were killed in 2010, up from 91 a decade before. Is 'humanitarian space' shrinking, or are aid groups spreading out to more conflict zones than before?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Malaysia sends Saudi home, where he's threatened with death for a tweet
02-13-2012
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www.csmonitor.com
A Malaysian lawyers' group blamed Malaysia for handing Hamza Kashgari over to the Saudi authorities 'on a silver platter.' Mr. Kashgari allegedly insulted the prophet Muhammed on Twitter.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
TSA Underwear Airport Outreach, Kelly V. & Derrick J.
02-13-2012
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www.freekeene.com
Kelly Voluntaryist and Derrick J. Freeman went to Manchester Airport in New Hampshire to protest the TSA’s blatant violation of human (natural) rights. This was round 2 for Kelly, she intends to do several more TSA protests, so she may be coming to a
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Was Maine Stolen from Ron Paul?
02-13-2012
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www.thenewamerican.com
The mass media have repeated the official results for the Maine GOP presidential caucuses that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney narrowly beat Texas Congressman Ron Paul by a 39 percent to 36 percent margin
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Max Keiser: Financial holocaust looms as Germany storms Greece
02-13-2012
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www.youtube.com
Protesters in Athens are clashing with police, some throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. Greece's coalition government managed to agree on a new austerity deal their creditors demanded.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Entering into The Age of Darkness with Dr. Francis Boyle
02-13-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Harvard University Fellow Boyle discusses the preparations for war and the fallout of a possible attack on Iran and Syria.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Wall St higher on Greek deal
02-13-2012
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www.reuters.com
Stocks rose Monday as Greece's parliament approved strict financial reforms needed to obtain its latest international bailout package.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Nazis in space pack in the crowds at Berlin film fest
02-13-2012
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www.breitbart.com
A sci-fi black comedy about Nazis from the moon invading Planet Earth is one of the hottest tickets at the Berlin film festival, which is better known for its gritty political fare.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil demand and forecasts: getting it wrong again in 2012
02-13-2012
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www.reuters.com
Trying to forecast world oil demand growth is a tricky job at the best of times. This year abnormal levels of uncertainty about the global economy are making the job even more difficult.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Navy’s Rail Gun Blasts Through Budget Restrictions
02-13-2012
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www.wired.com
The Navy came very, very close to losing its futuristic gun that shoots bullets with a giant electric charge. But while a congressional committee recommended axing the Electromagnetic Railgun in June, the program survived
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Wired Opinion: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox
02-13-2012
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www.wired.com
The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
How The Pentagon’s Top Killers Became (Unaccountable) Spies
02-13-2012
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www.wired.com
This is what people think of when they imagine the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC " the secretive, über-elite military unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mitt’s Problem With Conservatives
02-13-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
The first is ideological: conservatives know that Romney was once a moderate and they don’t consider his swing to the right sincere. The second is personal: whether because of his money, his faith or his hair, average Republican voters just don’t rel
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Obama Campaign Launches 'Truth Teams'
02-13-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
The Obama campaign is today beginning a new effort to enlist and educate at least 2 million supporters for a "grassroots communications team" they're calling the Truth Team.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Health bosses: We overreacted to airport flu scare
02-13-2012
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www.tvnz.co.nz
Health authorities have admitted to overreacting to a health scare at Auckland Airport but say it's better to be safe than sorry.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Libya
Libya on alert after warning from Gaddafi’s son
02-13-2012
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www.ft.com
Libya’s interim authorities have ramped up security precautions ahead of the anniversary of the country’s revolution after threats of a counter-revolution by the former leader’s exiled son.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America
02-13-2012
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Associated Press
A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Communications
AT&T customers surprised by 'unlimited data' limit
02-13-2012
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www.apnews.myway.com
Under a new policy, AT&T has started cutting their data speeds as part of an attempt to manage data usage on its network.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Privately, Obama sees recovery 1-2 years off
02-13-2012
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Washington Examiner
The public President Obama, bubbly in his reelection campaigning about a recovering U.S. economy, isn’t as optimistic in private, telling a select few that it will likely take up to two years for any recovery to click in.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Draft
In Orwell's Newspeak: "Isolation" Means Mandatory Military Service For All
02-13-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
The drumbeat to enslave us never lets up. A few years ago, in my essay, "National Service: A Vicious Concept"And Its Antidote," I wrote about the Obama administration's drive to impose mandatory national service on all Americans.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Criminal Justice - by L. Neil Smith
02-13-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Hardly a week goes by we don't hear that any man, woman, or child who exercises a given unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, or human right (the particulars change from moment to moment) should be looked upon by local police as a terrorist
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Video Gallery: The Most Amazing Movies of the Minuscule World
02-13-2012
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www.popsci.com
Every year we’re enthralled by the smallest things among us, as scientists capture stunningly beautiful and bizarre images under the microscope. For the first time, the people who bring us the annual Small World Microphotography Competition have caug
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015
02-13-2012
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www.popsci.com
By Sept. 30, 2015, drones will have to have access to U.S. airspace that is currently reserved for piloted aircraft. This applies to military, commercial and privately owned drones " so it could mean a major increase in unmanned aircraft winging thro
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Attempt at the World's Highest Skydive, from 120,000 Feet, is Rescheduled for August
02-13-2012
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www.popsci.com
Felix Baumgartner would be the first human to go supersonic outside of a vehicle
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cats Make You Mental
02-13-2012
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arclein
The parasite, which is excreted by cats in their feces, is called Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii or Toxo for short) and is the microbe that causes toxoplasmosis"the reason pregnant women are told to avoid cats’ litter boxes. Since the 1920s, doctors ha
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robert klein
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News Link • Iran
The Mullah's Nuclear War
02-13-2012
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arclein
What can now be done? All the options are bad. Sanctions have slowed Iran’s progress but not stopped it. Bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would certainly inflict crippling pain and would set back Iran’s WMD quest by a year or so; but this course o
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Tree Ring Dating Issues and Volcanism
02-13-2012
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arclein
"The problem is that these trees are so close to the threshold for growth, that if the temperature drops just a couple of degrees, there is little or no growth and a loss of sensitivity to any further cooling. In extreme cases, there may be no growt
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robert klein
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Anonymous Takes Down CIA Web Site
02-12-2012
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PC Magazine
Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline.
"CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous," the @YourAnonNews feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Singer Tony Bennett calls for legalizing drugs
02-12-2012
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www.rawstory.com
In a speech reacting to the death of Whitney Houston, legendary singer Tony Bennett urged the U.S. government to legalize drugs once and for all. “First it was Michael Jackson, then it was Amy Winehouse, and now the magnificent Whiteny Houston,” Benn
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage problems? Turn your house into a billboard
02-12-2012
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www.reuters.com
When they saw the house on El Dorado Drive in this Los Angeles suburb being painted a startling orange and green and giant billboards hung on the outside, Scott and Beth Hostetler's neighbors were initially angry and confused. Some even considered ca
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Danish Volunteer for Ron Paul in Arizona Seeks Lodging Until the Primary
02-12-2012
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MeetUp.com/ronpaulphoenix
"My name is Christoffer Melson, I am 27 years old and from Denmark.
I feel very strongly about Mr. Paul’s course and I am therefore volunteering
for the campaign in Arizona from February 14th until February 28th."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Activism
Help Ed Vallejo get to DC for the Veterans for Ron Paul march on Feb 20th
02-10-2012
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www.youtube.com
Hi, my name is Ed Vallejo and this is my video promoting Adam Kokesh and his RON PAUL IS THE CHOICE OF THE TROOPS March on the White House February 20th, 2012.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Libya
Libya fighters-turned-jailors face heat over prisons
02-12-2012
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Reuters
The revolutionary fighters-turned-jailors who run what passes for a justice system in Libya's Gharyan region say they are making the best of a bad business.
"We need help from the government. We are paying for food and medicine from our own pocket
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