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Date Sent: 2013-02-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 5, 2013 PM edition |
How Obama Decides to Send Drones to Kill Americans -- US Expands Military Reach in Latin America
02-05-13 -- Susan Marie Weber - David Fitzgerald - LISTEN LIVE on
LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Obama Says U.S. Needs Revenue Along
With Spending Cuts -- Gun Control in Australia - Watch and Weep -- Colin Powell: Conned or Con-Man? - by Ray McGovern -- CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert
support' -- Half-ounce surveillance drones have been used by
British soldiers in Afghanistan since 2012 -- Virginia Close
To Banning Government Spy Drones -- Two killed, four injured in
Ecuador pro-government rally -- Boy freed in FBI operation to
end Alabama hostage crisis -- Israeli/Palestinian Peace
Process Hypocrisy -- Does Netanyahu Want Regional War?
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine February 1st, 2013 Edition NOW AVAILABLE
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News Link • Obama Administration
Take a Rare Look at How Obama Decides to Send Drones to Kill Americans
02-05-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
Put simply, the government believes that a lethal drone attack against an American citizen is justified if the targets are a) "senior operational leaders" of al Qaeda or b) "an associated force." Associated force?!!!!
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Expands Military Reach in Latin America
02-05-2013
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Antiwar.com
The US continues to militarize all of Latin America, spending enormous amounts of cash in order to prop up obedient regimes, train armies and militias, build new military bases, deploy more troops, and keep the military industrial complex fat ...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'
02-05-2013
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The Guardian
At least 54 countries co-operated with the global kidnap, detention and torture operation that was mounted after 9/11, many of them in Europe. It is now clear the CIA could not have operated its program without their support, according to the OSJI.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Half-ounce surveillance drones have been used by British soldiers in Afghanistan since 2012
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Apparently the United States isn’t the only Western country pouring money into futuristic drone technology as it is now being reported that British soldiers are using tiny drones for surveillance in Afghanistan and have been since 2012.
The drones
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday February 05 2013
02-05-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Where Is Germany's Gold?, Peter Schiff shock waves at the Fed / You'll Be Killed by the Medical-Pharma Complex, Not firearms, says Dave Hodges / All Those Guns and Ammo, Are they for Obama's civilian stormtroopers? / Gun Grabbers Are Nervous
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Superior Lighting Developed
02-05-2013
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arclein
"This is the first new light bulb in about thirty years," says Dr. David Carroll, a professor of physics at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, who developed the new light source.
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
New Type of Volcanic Eruption
02-05-2013
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arclein
he formation and expansion of bubbles in the magma created a buoyant foam, which rose to the seafloor and then buoyantly detached from the volcano as molten pumice balloons but with chilled margins. During its ascent to the sea surface, the vesicles
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News Link • Agriculture
Permafrost Agriculture
02-05-2013
What I would attempt is to use a blade to scrape the top soil aside from the underlying frozen subsoil to produce windrows on either side of the exposed surface. I would create these bands say thirty to forty feet wide while producing a windrow just
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Real Employment Continued Contraction
02-05-2013
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arclein
Back in 2007, more than 146 million Americans were employed. Today, only141.6 million Americans are employed even though our population has grown steadily since then. When the government and the media tell you that we are in a "recovery"
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robert klein
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama Says U.S. Needs Revenue Along With Spending Cuts
02-05-2013
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www.bloomberg.com
President Barack Obama said there is “no doubt” the government needs new revenue from closing tax “loopholes” and limiting deductions, along with enacting spending cuts, to reduce the federal deficit.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control in Australia - Watch and Weep
02-05-2013
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www.youtube.com
When a country takes away guns from its citizens it's in big trouble as they are finding out in Australia.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Race against the tide, risking death under huge blocks of ice - Human Planet: Arctic - BBC One
02-05-2013
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www.youtube.com
The people of Kangiqsujuaq in Canada go to great lengths to add variety to their diet of seal meat, venturing under the sea ice during the extreme low tides of the spring equinox to gather mussels. It's a race against time. They have less than half a
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Colin Powell: Conned or Con-Man?
02-05-2013
Ray McGovern
Ten years ago, Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations in a speech which routed what was left of American resistance to the Bush/Cheney push for invading Iraq. The next day, the Washington Post’s editorial pages spoke for the con
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Virginia Close To Banning Government Spy Drones
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Legislation to stave off the use of drones by law enforcement and government agencies in Virginia has advanced in the State Senate, as well as the House, bringing closer a two-year moratorium on the unmanned craft.
A House panel approved sending t
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Chris Menke
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News Link • World News
Two killed, four injured in Ecuador pro-government rally
02-05-2013
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news.yahoo.com
Two supporters of Ecuador's president Rafael Correa were killed on Monday and four more suffered stab wounds during a campaign rally almost two weeks before a presidential election that the leftist leader is expected to win comfortably.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
Boy freed in FBI operation to end Alabama hostage crisis
02-05-2013
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youtube
A five-year-old boy taken hostage in the United States has been freed in an FBI operation. It ends a week long police standoff with his abductor Jimmy Lee Dykes. Dykes kidnapped the child after killing a bus driver in Alabama. He was killed in the FB
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Reference Link • Gun Rights
Death By Doctor vs. Death By Firearms
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The attacks on the Second Amendment, by government, has extended to persecuting a decorated war hero and charging him with five counts of third degree criminal possession of a weapon, for having completely empty 30 round AR-15 Magazines in his vehicl
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Internet
500 quintillion pages of text.
02-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Why the Internet will not be shut down...yet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Video: Angry New Yorkers Chewing Out Cops Over New Gun Law
02-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I guess the cops are going to have a tough time with this.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bravo Bravo Bravo! Pro-Gun Sandy Hook Father - Bravo!
02-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Finally someone within the Sandy Hook Circle speaking COMMON SENSE.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
Detroit high school coach with concealed pistol license shoots 2 attackers outside school
02-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Police sources in Detroit say that a women's basketball coach from Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School shot two men who attacked him as he was walking two basketball players to their cars in the school parking lot Friday night.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Prince George’s considers copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work
02-03-2013
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Washington Post
A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
US military expands its drug war in Latin America
02-03-2013
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AP
The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was happening on the fleeing go-fast boat: Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy guided-missile frigate later dropped anchor in Panamanian waters on that sunny Au
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News Link • Immigration
Senate plan would give Napolitano the final say on border security
02-03-2013
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The Hill
Under a bipartisan Senate framework, Democrats say, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano would have final say over whether the border is secure enough to put 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size
02-03-2013
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Daily Mail
The data includes weight, cholesterol levels, body mass index, pulse rate, family health history, alcohol consumption and smoking status. Diagnosis of everything from cancer to heart disease to mental illness would be covered.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Florence student suspended over picture of gun
02-03-2013
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ABC News (video)
A high school student said he was suspended because of a picture of a gun. Daniel McClaine Jr., a freshman, said he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer. A teacher noticed it and turned him in.
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Warns: Don't Photoshop Obama Gun Pic
02-03-2013
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Breitbart
This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way
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News Link • Government
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Sheehy quits after revelation of 2,000 improper late-night calls
02-03-2013
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Rawstory
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy (R) resigned on Saturday morning after a newspaper investigation revealed that he had made thousands of late-night phone calls to women who were not his wife over a four-year period.
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News Link • Housing
No-money-down mortgages are back
02-03-2013
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It’s 100% financing"the same strategy that pushed many homeowners into foreclosure during the housing bust. Banks say these loans are safer: They’re almost exclusively being offered to clients with sizable assets, and they often require two forms of
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News Link • Government
Chicago murder rate far worse than during Al Capone 'gangland' days
02-03-2013
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ABC News (video)
In this I-Team report, Chicago's rising murder rate in a new context, how the numbers of shooting deaths compare to the city's most notorious crime era, the one that has tarnished Chicago's reputation around the world for a century.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gas Prices Heading Up Again
02-03-2013
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CBS News (video)
Hold on to your wallets: we are in the middle of a gas price spike, and experts say it will only get worse.
CBS 2′s Courtney Gousman learned several factors might push the price in our area to more than $4 a gallon.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
169,000 Americans Drop Out of Labor Force in January As Unemployment Ticks Up
02-03-2013
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CNS News
The number of Americans not in the labor force grew by 169,000 in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest jobs report. There were 89 million of them last month.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Happy 100th Birthday U.S. Federal Income Tax
02-3-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
On February 3rd, 1913, one of the two most historic events in US history took place: the ratification of the 16th amendment, which established Congress’ right to impose a Federal income tax on Americans, and overturned Article I, Section 9 of the US
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Iran
Iranian Oops: US violated own sanctions buying Tehran's oil for war?
02-03-2013
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youtube
There is a high probability that US sanctions against Iran have been violated by its own army. Part of the $1.55 billion in fuel the US bought from Turkmenistan for the Afghan army in the last five years may have originated in Iran.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt on Edge: 'A few handshakes won't change desperate reality'
02-03-2013
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youtube
Even if the Egyptians manage to bring down another president - that won't instantly end their woes, says independent political analyst Dan Glazebrook.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Misinformation
Shocking Numbers That Show The Media Is Lying To You About Unemployment In America
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
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