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Date Sent: 2012-02-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 28, 2012 PM edition |
Vaccination rights attorney Patricia Finn threatened with criminal charges
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: What about the ranger’s M14 rifle? -- The price of silver jumps another full dollar in just 4 hours,...again! -- U.S. water bills to triple -- Credit Card Debt Nears Toxic Levels -- 3 doomsaying experts who foresee economic devastation ahead -- Is the IRS Attempting to Intimidate Local Tea Parties? -- Quiet fade-out for Obama’s faith council -- Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize -- Obama Promises Israel Use Of Bases For Iran Attack If It Will Wait -- Feb 28th, 2012 - Missouri Gregg Special In Studio Guest - Listen Live LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) --
Police arrest protesters as they remove Occupy London camp -- 2nd
student dies from Ohio school shooting -- Obama to create trade law enforcement bureau -- Ron Paul speaks in Dearborn, urges end to overseas military action -- Gay Marine's Homecoming Kiss Is Lighting Up The Web -- America's Credit and Housing Crisis: New State Bank Bills -- Pentagon Demands $100 Million More For War With Iran --
EU targets Syria ministers with sanctions -- Millions of Indian workers
strike for rights -- Japan leaders 'played down nuclear crisis' -- Fishing boat assists stricken cruise ship in pirate infested waters -- Michelle Ugenti, Arizona State Representative, Defends Tuition Bill To Students: 'Welcome To Life' -- Corporate Personhood Case Forces Supreme Court To Hack New Path -- Looting the Seas - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Vaccination rights attorney Patricia Finn threatened with criminal charges
02-28-2012
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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Vaccine rights attorney Patricia Finn is being targeted by the Ninth Judicial District of New York State, which has threatened to strip her of her license to practice law and even file criminal charges against her.
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News Link • Drug War
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: What about the ranger’s M14 rifle?
02-28-2012
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The Ticket
On a hot desert morning last week, a group of 20 tourists gathered in the visitor center in Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to attend a mandatory safety briefing before taking a guarded van tour to Quitobaquito springs. The springs is p
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More bad news: U.S. water bills to triple
02-28-2012
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The Examiner
First high gas prices, now water. A shocking new report about the nation's crumbling drinking water system says that Americans should expect their bills to double or triple to cover repairs just to keep their faucets pouring.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
State moves to prevent military base closings
02-28-2012
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Brad Petrishen/Daily News staff MetroWest Daily Ne
“It is critical that we retain and promote the operations and missions at all of our military installations,” Murray said " including the Army Natick Soldier Systems Center.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Global Intelligence Files
02-27-2012
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Wikileaks
The material contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 emails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Credit Card Debt Nears Toxic Levels
02-28-2012
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myfoxdc
More American households are falling back into the debt hole, this time without the safety net of home values to help bail them out, the New York Post reported Sunday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
3 doomsaying experts who foresee economic devastation ahead
02-28-2012
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By Adam Shell
Behind the mainstream Wall Street happy talk about more stable financial markets and an improving economy are grim warnings of tough times ahead from a small cadre of doomsayers who warn that the worst of the financial crisis is still to come.
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News Link • Tea Party
Is the IRS Attempting to Intimidate Local Tea Parties?
02-28-2012
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by Colleen Owens
In January and February of this year, the Internal Revenue Service began sending out letters to various local Tea Parties across the country.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Quiet fade-out for Obama’s faith council
02-28-2012
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By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN
His faith under attack, his contraception decision savaged on all sides, President Barack Obama could use backup in the religious community right now.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul speech draws thousands at MSU
02-28-2012
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LSJ
It seemed like a fair trade for an 11th-hour campaign stop in another state where polls indicate Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul likely will finish out of the money in today’s Michigan primary.
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News Link • Iran
Obama Promises Israel Use Of Bases For Iran Attack If It Will Wait
02-28-2012
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Richard Silverstein
There have been endless recent visits to Israel from high-ranking U.S. officials regarding the Iran issue, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and most recently National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Police arrest protesters as they remove Occupy London camp
02-28-2012
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LONDON (AP)
Authorities dismantled Occupy London's camp outside the famous St. Paul's Cathedral in a dramatic early hours raid Tuesday, clearing away one of the longest-surviving encampments inspired by the New York protest against capitalist excess.
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News Link • World News
Rebels whisk injured British reporter out of Syria
02-28-2012
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USA Today
Syrian rebels smuggled a wounded British journalist out of the besieged central city of Homs Tuesday and whisked him to safety in neighboring Lebanon, activist groups said.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul speaks in Dearborn, urges end to overseas military action
02-28-2012
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By Niraj Warikoo
Speaking to an overflow crowd of more than 1,200 in Dearborn on Monday night, Republican candidate Ron Paul called for a restoration of domestic liberties and an end to overseas military action.
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News Link • World News
UPDATE 3-Ecuador's Correa pardons media accusers in libel case
02-28-2012
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By Eduardo Garcia
Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, on Monday pardoned three newspaper publishers and a former columnist who had been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay $40 million damages in a libel case that angered media freedom advocates.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
To Get Out The Vote, Evangelicals Try Data Mining
02-28-2012
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by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
When Bill Dallas first heard that 15 to 20 million Christians in the U.S. are not registered to vote, he couldn't believe it.
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News Link • Military
Gay Marine's Homecoming Kiss Is Lighting Up The Web
02-28-2012
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by Mark Memmott
Since the Gay Marines Facebook page posted it on Saturday, a photo of Sgt. Brandon Morgan and his partner Dalan Wells sharing a welcome home kiss in Hawaii has been getting quite a bit of attention:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Casting Himself As Outsider, Santorum Benefited From D.C. 'Revolving Door'
02-28-2012
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by Tamara Keith
Rick Santorum is trying to shake up the Republican primary by winning the primary Tuesday in Michigan
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Matt Kenseth Wins Daytona 500 After Fire and Rain
02-28-2012
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by The Associated Press
There was rain, fire, soap suds and fog in the most bizarre Daytona 500 in history.
When it was all over, Matt Kenseth was the only sure thing.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Michigan Primary A Test Of Romney's Family Legacy
02-28-2012
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by Don Gonyea
Michigan and Arizona hold presidential primaries Tuesday, and in Michigan, where Mitt Romney was born, the race has been as hard fought as anywhere in the country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
America's Credit and Housing Crisis: New State Bank Bills
02-28-2012
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by Ellen Brown
Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in the works.
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News Link • Iran
Pentagon Demands $100 Million More For War With Iran
02-28-2012
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Global Research
Pentagon wants $100 million extra to be prepared for a war with Iran. The money, requested from the Congress, is to beef up US military presence in the Persian Gulf and rapidly upgrade weapons to more effectively combat Iranian armed forces.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
EU targets Syria ministers with sanctions
02-28-2012
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ALJAZEERA
The European Union has published a list of senior Syrian officials, including several government ministers, targeted by a latest round of sanctions as the death toll from a crackdown on an anti-government uprising continued to grow.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran 'intensified clampdown' ahead of vote
02-28-2012
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ALJAZEERA
Amnesty says government has increased "wave of arrests" in attempt to curb free speech before assembly elections.
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News Link • World News
Millions of Indian workers strike for rights
02-28-2012
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ALJAZEERA
Millions of workers in India have begun a 24-hour strike to demand improved rights for employees and to protest over rising prices.
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
Japan leaders 'played down nuclear crisis'
02-28-2012
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ALJAZEERA
Investigation reports that government covered-up true scale of Fukushima disaster, and considered Tokyo evacuation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Fishing boat assists stricken cruise ship
02-28-2012
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ALJAZEERA
Italian ship with 1,000 people aboard under tow to Seychelles after night adrift without power on the Indian Ocean.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Michelle Ugenti, Arizona State Representative, Defends Tuition Bill To Students: 'Welcome To Lif
02-28-2012
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By Leigh Owens
An Arizona House committee passed a bill last week that would require every student at a public college in the state, regardless of economic status, to pay a minimum of $2,000 in tuition.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Corporate Personhood Case Forces Supreme Court To Hack New Path
02-28-2012
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Mike Sacks
On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether corporations, like real people, can be held liable in American courts for international human rights violations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fungal Pathway to Reducing Plastic
02-28-2012
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arclein
mediation properties. It was discovered that a key enzyme in this fungal genus known as taxol is responsible for eating away PUR, and that this "extracellular, secreted and diffusible" substance diffuses to "a significant distance," which means i
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News Link • Agriculture
Study Links Industrial Milk to Cancer
02-28-2012
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arclein
s. It turns out that the concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) model of raising cows on factory farms churns out milk with dangerously high levels of estrone sulfate, an estrogen compound linked to testicular, prostate, and breast cancers.
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News Link • Economy - International
How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street With Ellen Brown
02-28-2012
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arclein
The Houses of Morgan, Goldman and the other Big Five are justifiably worried right now, because an “event of default” declared on European sovereign debt could jeopardize their $32 trillion derivatives scheme. According to Rudy Avizius in an article
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News Link • Wallet Voting
Money as a Marketing Medium
02-28-2012
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http://freedomengineering.org
So there are these Dime Cards that you can buy now at Don’t Tread on Meme. These guys use the government’s own junk silver and package it with their own brands. It’s awesome cool!
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News Link • Science
Studying the Evolution of Life's Building Blocks
02-28-2012
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arclein
Root-Bernstein wondered if there could be another level of paleontology embedded in the molecules that reflect evolution from the earliest stages of life and found in prebiotic chemistry, the study of chemical reactions that may have sparked the begi
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News Link • Iran
Wikileaks emails indicate Stratfor discovered Israel already destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities
02-27-2012
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Rawstory
Growing concerns over Iran’s nuclear facilities may prove to be all for naught. Officials from the global intelligence company Stratfor allegedly discussed that Israel may have already destroyed the Iranian nuclear facility, according to one of the e
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News Link • Military
U.S. vows no change in Afghan war strategy
02-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
The US military has no plans to alter its troop drawdown timetable in Afghanistan despite a week of deadly unrest over the burning of the Koran at an American base, the Pentagon said Monday.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
'Hallwalkers': The Ghosts Of The State Department
02-27-2012
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by NPR Staff
The halls of the State Department are haunted, not by actual ghosts, but by people who might as well be ghosts
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Secret £14million Bible in which 'Jesus predicts coming of Prophet Muhammad' unearthed in Tu
02-27-2012
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By Daily Mail Reporter
A secret Bible in which Jesus is believed to predict the coming of the Prophet Muhammad to Earth has sparked serious interest from the Vatican.
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News Link • Libya
New evidence casts doubt in Lockerbie case
02-27-2012
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ALJAZEERA
Fresh scientific evidence unearthed by a Scottish legal review undermines the case against the man convicted of being responsible for the Lockerbie aircraft bombing, an investigation for Al Jazeera has found.
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News Link • World News
Yemen’s Saleh formally steps down after 33 years
02-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down after 33 years at the helm on Tuesday at a ceremony at the presidential palace in Sanaa, formally handing power to his deputy, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi.
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News Link • Internet
ACTA: the Internet censorship “law” that can’t be repealed?
2-26-2012
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Free Patriot Press
Just last month millions of Americans rallied to defeat SOPA and PIPA. However, something worse has crept in the back-door and may not be able to be repealed. In October 2011, President Obama signed an international agreement called the Anti-Counterf
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News Link • World News
'US to announce aerial blockade on Syria'
02-27-2012
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Roi Kais
US readies for possibility of intervention without UN resolution, Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing US military official; plan to include humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees on Turkey's border.
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Assassinations and American Presidents
02-27-2012
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by Alison Weir
On Jan. 13 the Atlanta Jewish Times featured a column by its owner-publisher suggesting that Israel might someday need to “order a hit” on the president of the United States.
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