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Date Sent: 2011-02-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 25, 2011 PM edition |
American CIA contractor appears in court -- Wis. House pass bill removing union rights
Analysts: More Libyan bloodshed could prompt U.S., NATO intervention -- Iraqi Shiite cleric returns to Iraq from Iran -- Feds spy on news reporter in CIA leak probe -- For chronic truants, a GPS program can help them make the grade -- Tea party vision for Montana raising concerns --
Pathogen in Roundup Ready Soy and Corn Could Lead to Calamity --
Tumeric and Strokes -- Excess Reserves Surge, Fed Owns 37% More
Treasurys Than China -- Death Panels in ObamaCare? How About RATIONING Organ Transplants? -- Interactive map of the Middle East for ethnocentric Americans -- Stagflation 2011: Why It Is Here And Why It Is Going To Be Very Painful -- Local Fees and Regulations Spank Solar in the US: Inverse of Germany -- Bruce Krasting: 60,000 Baby Boomers A Week Enroll in Social Security -- Redding Police Department Moves Into The Realm Of "Minority Report" -- Each was branded by the US with the letter "H" in ink on the back of their right hand -- Foreclosure-Gate: Banks Whine Over Pennies On The Dollar Settlement -- Your Roadside Mouth Swab Please: New portable DNA screener to debut this summer -- Propaganda Ensues as Bloomberg Buys Objective Consumer Confidence Poll -- Arizona’s Most Toxic Assets: Redflex and ATS
AZ: Ron Paul speaks in
Phoenix, tomorrow for Tea Party event
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
American CIA contractor appears in Pakistani court
02-25-2011
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AP
The judge also asked whether Davis had engaged a defense attorney, according to Asad Manzoor Butt, a lawyer for a Pakistani bystander who was killed when struck by an American car rushing to assist Davis after the shootings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wis. Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
02-25-2011
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AP
Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Analysts: More Libyan bloodshed could prompt U.S., NATO intervention
02-25-2011
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CNN
[preparing the public] If the U.S. military were to intervene in an increasingly chaotic Libya, it would most likely be part of a NATO action in which Libyan bloodshed has reached a humanitarian crisis, analysts said Thursday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi Shiite cleric returns to Iraq from Iran
02-25-2011
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Xinhua
Iraqi radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday returned home in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an official from Sadr's office said.
"Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr, head of al-Sadr movement, has arrived home in Najaf in the afternoon, coming fro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Feds spy on news reporter in leak probe
02-25-2011
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Politico
Sterling is accused of giving Risen details about what Risen describes as the CIA’s plan to give Iran faulty nuclear blueprints, hoping to temporarily thwart the regime’s ambitions to build an atomic bomb.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Not So Much States' Rights When It Comes to Gays
02-25-2011
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Becky Chandler
Ron Paul was in Iowa discussing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The “Defender of the Constitution” took an alarmingly unconstitutional anti-states' rights position in regard to it. Representative Paul's reasoning is not only profoundly disappo
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Surveillance
For chronic truants, a GPS program can help them make the grade
02-25-2011
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LA Times
Five times a day " when he wakes up, when he gets to school, after lunch, after school and at 8 p.m. " Ramos is required to enter his code into the machine. If he's not where he's supposed to be, the GPS provides a way to find him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Tea party vision for Montana raising concerns
02-25-2011
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AP
With each new bill, newly elected lawmakers from the loose-knit, largely conservative anti-tax tea party coalition are offering Montanans a vision of the future. Their state would be a place where officials can ignore US laws, force FBI agents to get
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Bruce Krasting: FASB’s Karma
02-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Unfortunately FASB has folded like a cheap suit in the rain. There will be no better disclosure in the future than in the past. Therefore the past will be repeated in the future. The scary thing is that FASB is a financial slave to those who benefit.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Pathogen in Roundup Ready Soy and Corn Could Lead to Calamity
02-25-2011
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motherearthnews.com
A new self-replicating, micro-fungal virus-size organism could be causing spontaneous abortions in livestock, sudden death syndrome in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soy and wilt in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, a plant pathologist has warned...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
GE Joins Wind Tower Revolution
02-25-2011
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arclein
General Electric today announced it will buy Wind Tower Systems, a move that could change the look, height and economics of wind turbines.
Wind Tower has created something it calls the Space Frame Tower (see picture). Unlike the sleek, white pylon
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Closes on Tempel 1
02-25-2011
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arclein
Pancake-layers and a possible powdery flow are among the surface features of interest highlighted in this July 4, 2005, Deep Impact photo of Comet Tempel 1. The bright flash is where Deep Impact dropped an 820 lb copper projectile onto the comet. Sta
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tumeric and Strokes
02-25-2011
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arclein
A drug derived from the curry spice turmeric may be able to help the body repair some of the damage caused in the immediate aftermath of a stroke.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are preparing to embark on human trials af
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Leaving Las Vegas: Nevada Slips From Boom to Bust In 10 Years Time
02-25-2011
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Bloomberg.com
Nevada went to bust from boom in a decade as population growth, once the fastest in the U.S., slowed to almost zero while homeowners struggled with plunging values and the nation's highest unemployment rate.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Excess Reserves Surge, Fed Owns 37% More Treasurys Than China
02-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
There are two key datapoints to present in this week's Fed balance sheet update: the surge in excess reserves, and the comparative Treasury holdings between the Fed and other foreign countries.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Ret. Col. Reports on Reality of UFOs
02-25-2011
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arclein
Retired Col. John Alexander, using his military savvy and high security clearance, spent a quarter of a century going through the top levels of the U.S. government and military searching for the group of people who were allegedly responsible for UFO
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robert klein
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News Link • Propaganda
Desperate Propaganda: Consumer Sentiment Rises to Best Level in 3 Years
02-25-2011
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CNBC.com
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey's final February reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment came in at 77.5, up from 74.2 in January, and the highest since January 2008.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Death Panels in ObamaCare? How About RATIONING Organ Transplants?
02-25-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
All during the debates on ObamaCare, conservatives speculated (and were subsequently ridiculed) about what we saw as an obviously apparent necessity for the move to rationed health care. ‘No, No, No’ cried those liberals who forced this bill down ou
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Housing
Phoenix metro area experiences nation's biggest drop in home prices
02-25-2011
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eastvalleytribune.com
The situation is particularly bleak for homeowners in the Phoenix metro area, which the agency considers Maricopa and Pinal counties. There, prices declined in the last year by more than 15 percent, the biggest drop of any metro area in the nation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Geography
Interactive map of the Middle East for ethnocentric Americans
02-25-2011
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The Political Commentator
The who's who of the Middle East
Because we are ethnocentric Americans we can be excused for knowing that there is violence in the Middle East, but for not really knowing anything about the players involved.
We know all about Snooki and the ot
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stagflation 2011: Why It Is Here And Why It Is Going To Be Very Painful
02-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Are you ready for an economy that has high inflation and high unemployment at the same time? Well, welcome to "Stagflation 2011".
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Local Fees and Regulations Spank Solar in the US: Inverse of Germany
02-25-2011
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CNBC.com
Local government fees and processing can add an average of $2,516 to a residential rooftop solar installation"about 33 percent of what the homeowner would spend on solar panels.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Social Security
Bruce Krasting: 60,000 Baby Boomers A Week Enroll in Social Security
02-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
I try to forecast these numbers. My estimate last summer was -35b. So I was off by $14b. I thought I had a negative view. I still missed the revenue number by 3%. A year ago a fellow who knows SS quite well suggested that I was “Chicken Little”...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Redding Police Department Moves Into The Realm Of "Minority Report"
02-25-2011
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redding.com
And then there's something that would have come straight out of a sci-fi movie just a few decades ago.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Each was branded with the letter "H" in ink on the back of his right hand
02-25-2011
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MSNBC.msn.com
One by one they were finger-printed, swabs taken, retinas scanned. A soldier took a photograph of each man with a white board known as a "Capture Tag" hanging around his neck bearing his name and address.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Banks Whine Over Pennies On The Dollar Settlement
02-25-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The astonishing part is that the banking industry continues to maintain that it really didn’t do anything wrong, all it did was make some technical errors. That so grossly understates the degree of its recklessness and malfeasance as to be beyond...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Your Roadside Mouth Swab Please: New portable DNA screener to debut this summer
02-25-2011
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nextgov.com
The Homeland Security Department this summer plans to begin testing a DNA analyzer that's small enough to be easily portable and fast enough to return results in less than an hour.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Propaganda Ensues as Bloomberg Buys Objective Consumer Confidence Poll
02-25-2011
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Bloomberg.com
The biggest two-month drop in the jobless rate since 1958 may be helping lift households’ spirits, boosting the odds that spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy, will keep growing.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona’s Most Toxic Assets: Redflex and ATS
2/25/2011
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CameraFRAUD
(Send this to your Legiscritters) After sucking money out of the local economy, Redflex and American Traffic Solutions virtually launder [their] stolen funds through pseudo-local offices… and back to their respective faceless investment banks (Goldma
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David Alpha
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Too Late! The Government Already Did Do Something
02-25-2011
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Charles Goyette
Noticed Higher Grocery and Gas Prices?
Find Out What Happens Next!
Wage and price controls are the first refuge of the governing classes in inflationary times.
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Reported by:
Charles Goyette
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Christine Smith USTREAM Show - Friday, Feb. 25
02-23-2011
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Christine Smith
You're invited to tune in: Friday, Feb. 25, 1:00 pm Mountain Time. Interactive 30-min.show. Live discussion during show available at:smithchristine.chatango.com Live Video/audio at USTREAM & Chat at chatango when show is broadcasting.
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