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Date Sent: 2012-02-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 20, 2012 PM edition |
Animal rights group says its drone shot down -- 500 U.S. Deaths From Police Tasers
U.S. official "optimistic" on global accounting move -- New and improved
Dime cards, QR codes tracking map. -- Strong evidence of vote fraud in
SC GOP Primary -- Ron Paul is the Choice of the Troops! March on the White House - Monday Feb 20 -- February 20th, 2012 - Drew Phillips - Muhammad Sahimi - Listen Live M-F, LRN.FM, 9-Noon -- Congress set to hand our highways and freeways over to foreign corporations -- The American Ghosts of Abu Ghraib -- Study: Rocky Flats area still as contaminated with plutonium as 40 years ago -- Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman -- ACLU Files On Behalf Of Gun Owner Abusively Arrested By Philadelphia Police --
Journalist Jason Leopold Talks About His FOIA Lawsuit Against FBI, DOJ,
CIA -- Kalashnikov 5: Brand-New AK-12 Rifle Unveiled -- 85 Things That
Might Get You on a DHS Terrorist Watch List -- Iran halts oil shipments to Britain, France -- CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Defends Virginia ‘State-Sponsored Rape’ Bill -- Does AIPAC want war? -- Political prisoners rot in US prisons - by Stephen Lendman -- Escalating Syrian Tensions - by Stephen Lendman -- Germany drawing up plans for Greece to leave the euro
AZ: 4409 Activism: The 80 foot Ron Paul 2012 banner to be utilized TODAY! HELP!; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center AND Debate/Concert/Party
- Ron Paul will Attend!
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News Link • Activism
Animal rights group says drone shot down
02-20-2012
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T&D Staff Report
A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday near Ehrhardt, S.C.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
500 U.S. Deaths From Police Tasers; Amnesty Calls For Strict Guidelines
02-20-2012
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by Mary Shaw
On February 13, Johnnie Kamahi Warren died after a police officer used a Taser on him at least twice outside an Alabama bar.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul is the Choice of the Troops! March on the White House - Monday Feb 20
02-15-2012
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Submitted by truthhope on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 03:56
We need to get the word out about the March on the White House organized by Veterans for Ron Paul. Here are a few sites with info on the march for all to share!
Facebook Event Page
Adam vs. the Man
Vets for Ron Paul
Don't forget the A
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Ron Paul to make an appearance at the Mesa debate watching after party
02-19-2012
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az4ronpaul2012.com
Ron Paul will visit Arizona on February 22nd to particpate in the CNN televised debate being held at the Mesa Arts center.
Congressman Paul will be hosting a fundraiser breakfast and lunch at the Hilton in Mesa AZ. The breakfast event has already
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Annette Freeman
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News Link • World News
Syrians sense war in Damascus while Assad tries to score points
02-20-2012
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By Zvi Bar'el
Syrians report electricity shortages in Homs and Damascus, as Syrian President Bashar Assad tries minimizing pressure by a referendum on changes to the constitution that do not satisfy the opposition.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun lobby launches Starbucks 'buycott' to counter boycott called over 'open carry'
02-16-2012
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Global Post
Gun owners have responded to a boycott of Starbucks locations by a gun victims advocacy group by encouraging large turnouts to the coffee chain and the "open carry" of weapons in those states that allow it.
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Hal Scoggins
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News Link • Police State
NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
02-20-2012
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AP
One autumn morning a college student logged into her email and found a message announcing an upcoming Islamic conference in Toronto. She clicked "forward," sent it to a group of fellow Muslims at the University at Buffalo, and promptly forgot about i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
U.S. official "optimistic" on global accounting move
02-20-2012
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Reuters
A senior U.S. regulator was "optimistic" on Monday about finding a framework for the world's top economy to use global book keeping rules for investors to compare cross-border companies.
"We are hopeful we can put forward a model," James Kroeker,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Wallet Voting
New and improved Dime cards, QR codes tracking map.
02-20-2012
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http://onceuponadime.info
Its not 1984, just a friendly way of seeing who can get a cards the furthest...
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Drew
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News Link • Transportation
Congress set to hand our highways and freeways over to foreign corporations:
02-20-2012
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Submitted by Marti Oakley
The efforts to parcel off and sell out entire sectors of America’s infrastructure to foreign interest continues daily.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
The American Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
02-20-2012
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By Sam Provance
Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance was one of the heroes of the Abu Ghraib scandal
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
America's nuclear guinea pigs
02-20-2012
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By Daily Mail Reporter
They were the nuclear guinea pigs of the Cold War.
And this is the shocking film to show how U.S. Marines were used in hundreds of experiments by the US military to test the limits of nuclear bombs between 1951 and 1957.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Study: Rocky Flats area still as contaminated with plutonium as 40 years ago
02-20-2012
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By Laura Snider, Camera Staff Writerdailycamera.co
Driven by concerns that running the Jefferson Parkway across a strip of land along the eastern edge of the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge would stir up clouds of plutonium-laden dust
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The War Horse " an Anti-Human Story?
02-20-2012
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by Allan Stevo
This is one of those movies that makes me feel sort of heartless because as everyone else in the packed theater "ooohs" and "aaaaahs" I’m seething with anger at what a bunch of idiots I’m surrounded by.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Payroll Tax Cut: President Finally Scores Coveted Win
02-20-2012
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By ANDREW TAYLOR
The $143 billion payroll tax cut won by President Barack Obama may be the last significant measure he receives from a deeply divided Congress that promises to only get more polarized as Election Day approaches.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • General Opinion
Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman
02-20-2012
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Jonathan Tasini
Pointing to his relentless attacks on the Bush administration--which usually included creative ways to say 'liar'--conservatives fume that Krugman is a partisan Democrat.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Constitution
ACLU Files On Behalf Of Gun Owner Abusively Arrested By Philadelphia Police
02-20-2012
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JONATHAN TURLEY
We previously discussed the abusive arrest of Mark Fiorino by Philadelphia police.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Questions surface on Gingrich campaign travel payments
02-20-2012
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By Luke Rosiak
When Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign disclosed in October that it planned to pay the candidate $70,000, the transfer was unusual for a campaign committee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Journalist Jason Leopold Talks About His FOIA Lawsuit Against FBI, DOJ, CIA
02-20-2012
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By The Public Record
It can sometimes take years for a FOIA request to be processed and for a response to come. That’s why in 2007, a provision was put in by Congress mandating that each government agency give an estimated date to those who file a request of when they’ll
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • World News
Kalashnikov 5: Brand-New AK-12 Rifle Unveiled
02-20-2012
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Russia Today
Kalashnikov have unveiled the latest incarnation of their iconic assault rifle, the AK-47. The company says new generation firearm called the AK-12 combines reliability with precision, and can be used with one hand.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Greece and the Melian Dialogue of Thucydides (obscure)
02-20-2012
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Recently by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Athens (then the big bully on block) wanted control over the little island of Melos as a strategic asset in its quarrel with Sparta. It gave the Melians an ultimatum: either submit to Athenian control or face annihilation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
85 Things That Might Get You on a DHS Terrorist Watch List
02-20-2012
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by Robert Wenzel
Because the Department of Homeland Security has asked parts of the public to report suspicious activity through the “Communities Against Terrorism” program
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran halts oil shipments to Britain, France
02-20-2012
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Associated Press
Iran has halted oil shipments to Britain and France, the Oil Ministry said Sunday, in an apparent pre-emptive blow against the European Union after the bloc imposed sanctions on Iran's crucial fuel exports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
I vote/we agree with Oil-monopoly price-gouging, fracking, etc.
02-20-2012
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Tracy Turner
I vote for emphysema from diesel trucks and buses. I vote for an industry with chemists who turned 1980's purple-brown smog to clear, transparent poison that's out of sight and out of mind.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Prices of Mortgage-Backed Securities Prove Irresistible
02-20-2012
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By AZAM AHMED
The attraction is the price. Some mortgage bonds are so cheap that even in the worst forecasts
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Defends Virginia ‘State-Sponsored Rape’ Bill
02-20-2012
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By Travis Waldron
This week, a Virginia state House committee overwhelmingly approved a bill requiring women to receive an ultrasound before they can have an abortion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Cenk: The media is ‘grossly deceiving people’ on Iran
02-20-2012
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By Andrew Jones
The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur accused CNN host Erin Burnett and the establishment media Friday evening for trumping up Iran’s weapons capability and trying to start another war in the Middle East.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Brutality and Hillary Clinton -- A Year Later
02-20-2012
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by Ray McGovern
After I was beaten, cuffed, and arrested a year ago at George Washington U. for silently protesting Secretary of State Clinton, many folks asked me why I stood and turned my back to her.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Why Students Are Hunger Striking in Virginia
02-20-2012
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by David Swanson
Twelve students at the University of Virginia on Saturday began a hunger strike for a living wage policy for university employees.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
CIA Drone Strikes Targeting Funerals, First Responders
02-20-2012
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by Sherwood Ross
Ignoring the possibility that emergency responders rushing to the aid
of Middle East drone-strike victims may be medical personnel, U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency(CIA) operators have also marked them for death.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Frontrunner Santorum: Obama Agenda Based on "Phony Theology'
02-20-2012
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By Adele Stan
Here's the state of our national politics: The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination says that that President Barack Obama embraces a 'phony theology'; that large-scale public education is an outdated idea, and that contraception is
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Does AIPAC want war?
02-20-2012
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by Robert Naiman
If a bill pushed by Lieberman passes, it could give the US "political authorization for military force" against Iran
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Germany drawing up plans for Greece to leave the euro
02-19-2012
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U.K. Telegraph
Plans for Greece to default, potentially leaving the euro, have been drafted in Germany as the European Union begins to face up to the fact that Greek debt is spiralling out of control - with or without a second bailout.
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Mike Renzulli
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