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Date Sent: 2012-02-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 8, 2012 AM edition |
Santorum wins Minnesota and Missouri and possibly Colorado, Paul second in Minnesota
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock LIVE on the road to Quartzsite today, Feb 8th, 2012 -- RON PAUL Billboard on I-40 in the Arizona High Desert -- US Weapons Man: F-35 Fighter Plan Was 'Acquisition Malpractice' -- Argentina condemns British "militarization" in Falklands --
Israeli Ad Mocks Iran's Nuclear Program, Mystery Explosions -- Israeli
court grants reprieve to abandoned Palestinian village -- House
Republicans’ transportation bill survives a beating in committees -- Bernanke stands firm with low-rate stance -- Obama’s Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran -- Prosecutors Won’t Charge Police Commissioner’s Son in Rape Accusation -- U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Half -- New radio show streaming live on Dacast.com -- The Fed Resumes Printing
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Santorum wins Minnesota and Missouri and possibly Colorado
02-07-2012
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The Ticket
No delegates were at stake on Tuesday night, but Rick Santorum still scored two big victories in the race for the Republican presidential nomination by winning Minnesota's caucuses and Missouri's primary.
"Conservatism is alive and well in Missour
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock on the road to Quartzsite Wednesday, Feb 8th, 2012
02-07-2012
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FreedomsPhoenix.Com
Nicola Doula, activist who was arrested and silver was taken by authorities, is due back in Quartzsite Magistrate Court at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb 8th, 2012. If you would like to go, please see meetup site in body of this post.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
RON PAUL Billboard on I-40 in the Arizona High Desert
02-07-2012
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Psychictaxi YouTube Channel
Seven hours each way from Phoenix with a stop in Prescott to pick up Trevor, and we're beat - but ecstatic. Take THAT, Lamestream media!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Weapons Man: F-35 Fighter Plan Was 'Acquisition Malpractice'
02-07-2012
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ABC News
The man now in charge of buying weapons for the U.S. military said that the stealth F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- one of the most expensive defense programs in U.S. history at three quarters of $1 trillion -- was put in production so prematurely the e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Argentina condemns British "militarization" in Falklands
02-07-2012
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Reuters
Argentina's president on Tuesday accused Britain of "militarizing the South Atlantic" and vowed to complain to the United Nations as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.
Britain and Argentina went to war over the dispu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Israeli Ad Mocks Iran's Nuclear Program, Mystery Explosions
02-07-2012
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ABC News (video)
The Israeli government had nothing to do with the ad.
Samsung had nothing to do with the ad.
But an ad for an Israeli cable company featuring cross-dressing Mossad agents who blow up an Iranian nuclear facility using a Samsung tablet has caused
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli court grants reprieve to abandoned Palestinian village
02-07-2012
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Washington Post
A Jerusalem court has ruled against plans to build a luxury housing development on the remains of a Palestinian village abandoned in the 1948 war that followed the establishment of Israel.
The court battle was seen as a test case for preservation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
House Republicans’ transportation bill survives a beating in committees
02-07-2012
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Washington Post
Under the GOP plan, that trust fund money would be redirected to pay for roads and bridges. Mass transit would turn, instead, to a one-time $40 billion allocation from the general fund that would be shared with other popular programs, including bicyc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke stands firm with low-rate stance
02-07-2012
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AP
Ben Bernanke on Tuesday reiterated the Federal Reserve's plan to hold interest rates near record lows until at least late 2014. The Fed has kept its benchmark interest rate near zero for the past three years. In its policy statement in January, the F
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Obama’s Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran
02-07-2012
Ray McGovern
In a televised interview before the Super Bowl, President Obama had the chance to send a clear signal to Israel not to launch a preemptive war against Iran but instead offered ambiguous remarks that Israeli hard-liners might read as a partial green l
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors Won’t Charge Police Commissioner’s Son in Rape Accusation
02-07-2012
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New York Times
Manhattan prosecutors have decided not to file rape charges against a son of Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly after a two-week investigation of a woman’s accusation that he had attacked her inside the Lower Manhattan law office where she worked,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Half
02-07-2012
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New York Times
Less than two months after American troops left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as half the enormous diplomatic presence it had planned for Iraq, a sharp sign of declining American influence in the country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
RON PAUL Billboard on I-40 in the Arizona High Desert
02-07-2012
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Psychictaxi YouTube Channel
Seven hours each way from Phoenix with a stop in Prescott to pick up Trevor, and we're beat - but ecstatic. Take THAT, Lamestream media!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Two Parties = Zero Difference
02-07-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Mises Institute chairman and founder Lew Rockwell and Future of Freedom president Jacob Hornberger sit down with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Freedom Watch to explain how both political parties are really just two wings of the same bird of prey. Fox Bu
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
February 7th, 2012 - John Perkins
John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and "Hoodwinked", talks about the current and future economy
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The AGs Must Not Settle
02-07-2012
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arclein
A foreclosure settlement between five major banks guilty of “robo-signing” and the attorneys general of the 50 states is pending for Monday, February 6th; but it is still not clear if all the AGs will sign. California was to get over half of the $25
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robert klein
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News Link • Israel
Obama says U.S. working ‘in lockstep’ with Israel on Iran
02-06-2012
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AFP
President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans over the threat posed by Iran, saying the United States was working “in lockstep” with Israel to bring Tehran to heel over its suspect nuclear program.
Obama said the Islamic republic was “feelin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
02-06-2012
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals. Just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “ha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Judge sets trial date in Loudoun school-tardiness case
02-06-2012
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Washington Post
Amy and Mark Denicore are headed to a full-blown trial to defend themselves against charges that they violated Virginia law by making their kids late to elementary school too often. The Loudoun County couple was arraigned in juvenile and domestic rel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
When it comes to tardiness, shouldn’t the punishment fit the crime?
02-06-2012
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Washington Post
I was late delivering the carpool kids to school. I was late filing this column. And no matter how hard I try, I will likely be late to my parent-teacher conference. I am perpetually fighting the tardy gene. But I’ve never been hauled into criminal c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Guns and Self-Defense
02-06-2012
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The Agitator
A new Cato study finds 5,000 incidents from 2003-2008 in which a gun was used in self defense. But the authors point out that even that figure likely low-balls the real number.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Welcome to the O.D.D. People Club - by Neale Osborn
02-06-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Oppositional Defiance Disorder. A wonderful new disease. Now, if you oppose eauthority figures for philosophical reasons, and will not compromise your standards, you are mentally ill. If you oppose certain government programs, such as TSA sexual assa
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News Link • Future Predictions
The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm Up Act For The Economic Horror Show That Is Coming
02-06-2012
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www.theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning to Face All Charges in Court-Martial
02-06-2012
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www.wired.com
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is headed for a general court-martial, according to the commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington in an announcement released late Friday.
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