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Date Sent: 2012-02-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 16, 2012 PM edition |
Saved Again: Border Patrol stops illegal hair dryers from entering the country
February 16th, 2012 - L. Neil Smith - Steve Neil - (Audio & Video Loaded) -- How Will Increased Iranian Sanctions
Affect South Africa -- "Remember The Maine" - GOP Election Fraud -- Victims Wonder Why World's Toughest Sheriff Arpaio Let Sex-Abuse Cases Languish -- Power struggle in Quartzsite spills into court, Internet -- Maldives president clears way for early elections to end violence -- 17 European Countries Force Transgender Sterilization (Map) -- Internal Heartland Institute Email Blasts "Lamestream Media" for
Climate Leak -- Iran wants early resumption of nuclear talks: letter --
Negotiators reach deal; vote expected soon on $150B economic package -- U.S. Says Iran’s Nuclear Claim Is ‘Hype;’ Oil Pares Gain -- The New York Times:
America's Unofficial Propaganda Ministry -- Deepening Greek Tragedy --
Obama proposes bringing jobs home from overseas. Would his plan work? -- Amnesty International report brands Libya's militias 'out of control' -- Ice caps not shrinking as much as once thought
AZ: Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY
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ID & WA: Ron Paul in town for 2 days starting today
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News Link • Immigration
Whew…. That was a close one. Border Patrol stops illegal hair dryers from entering the country
02/16/2012
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http;//papatodd.com
Age-old story really, Mexican hair dryers coming into the country to take jobs from American hair dryers.
Washington " U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized thousands of hair dryers recently that were determined to constitute a “subs
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News Link • Energy
How Will Increased Iranian Sanctions Affect South Africa
02-16-2012
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Oilprice.com
The Iranian sanctions’ fallout is now hitting South Africa, Africa's biggest economy, which receives nearly 25 percent of its needs from Iran, roughly 98,000 barrels per day (bpd), or about 4 percent of Iran’s total exports.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com
02-16-2012
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LewRockwell.com
How To Tame the Federal Beast, Put a game-changer in the White House, says Andrew Napolitano / Should Ron Paul Go 3rd-Party?, Justin Raimondo / One Ring To Rule the World / Human Rights Violator Lectures the Globe / Sick Dinosaur on Life Support
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Victims Wonder Why World's Toughest Sheriff Arpaio Let Sex-Abuse Cases Languish
02-16-2012
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Phoenix New Times
Late 2005 to October 2007 was not a good time to be raped or molested in El Mirage.
During that time, the town had signed a contract to pay the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office $3.6 million for police services. But Sheriff Joe Arpaio didn't use th
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Power struggle in Quartzsite spills into court, Internet
02-16-2012
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Arizona Republic
A power struggle at Quartzsite Town Hall has now moved into the courts, with allegations that the municipal attorney is criminally prosecuting political enemies while smearing them on the Internet with spoof websites.
In recent weeks, two defense
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Prophets of Science Fiction - New Series on Sci Fi Channel
02-16-2012
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www.science.discovery.com
Executive Producer Ridley Scott presents Prophets of Science Fiction. The "Science Fiction" of the past has now simply become "Science". And the science of the future was strangely prophesied by a group of visionaries whose dreams once may have de
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News Link • Science
Iron Pyrite a Catalyst?
02-16-2012
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arclein
However, with current catalytic materials becoming increasingly expensive, scientists are exploring viable alternatives.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Explosive Evolution Need Not Follow Mass Extinction
02-16-2012
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arclein
In the absence of competition, the common theory goes, surviving species hurry to adapt, evolving new physical attributes to take advantage of newly opened niches in the ecosystem. But that's not what researchers found in graptoloid populations th
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News Link • Energy
US Grid Energy Storage Poised for Exponential Growth
02-16-2012
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arclein
Though all sectors of the energy storage market show strong potential, from an application perspective distributed generation devices, renewable systems, and ancillary services show the greatest near term growth potential. Global opportunity over the
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News Link • World News
Maldives president clears way for early elections to end violence
02-16-2012
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By Dean Nelson, New Delhi
The new Maldives president on Thursday cleared the way for early elections in an Indian-brokered deal to end the political violence on the archipelago.
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News Link • Healthcare
17 European Countries Force Transgender Sterilization (Map)
02-16-2012
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By Nicole Pasulka European Union Agency for Funda
People rightly flipped out across the internet last month over news that the Swedish parliament would not be repealing a barbaric law that forces sterilization on trans people seeking to change their gender on legal documents. While it's despicable t
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News Link • Environment
Internal Heartland Institute Email Blasts "Lamestream Media" for Climate Leak
02-16-2012
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By Kate Sheppard
It's been an interesting few days in the climate denial world. On Tuesday, DeSmogBlog and Think Progress posted what they described as internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a fossil-fuel funded right-wing think-tank that spends much of its
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Gene therapy helps regenerate injured brain cells
02-16-2012
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The Times of India
SYDNEY: Gene therapy not only helps injured brain cells live longer and regenerate but also changes the shape of the cells, says a new study.
Alan Harvey, professor of anatomy and physiology at The University of Western Australia, said brain cell
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News Link • Iran
Iran wants early resumption of nuclear talks: letter
02-16-2012
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By Fredrik Dahl
(Reuters) - Iran has proposed a resumption of long-stalled nuclear talks with world powers in which Tehran would have "new initiatives," according to a letter from Tehran to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton obtained by Reuters on
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Negotiators reach deal; vote expected soon on $150B economic package
02-16-2012
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By Paul Kane
Congressional negotiators gave final approval early Thursday to an economic plan worth more than $150 billion that would extend a payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Says Iran’s Nuclear Claim Is ‘Hype;’ Oil Pares Gain
02-16-2012
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By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan and Viola Gienger
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. played down Iran’s claim of a “major” nuclear breakthrough as an exaggeration to bolster nationalism amid tighter sanctions rather than a step toward developing an atomic weapon.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Barmaid Lands Two Income Properties
02-16-2012
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arclein
At 18, she began taking bar jobs, for years handing over every pay cheque to her mother and saving 75 per cent of her tips until she opened up a savings account of her own.
She paid the tuition for her undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Business
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Amish farmer targeted by FDA raids shuts down raw milk business
02-15-2012
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By James Eng, msnbc.com
An Amish man who was targeted by federal officials for selling raw milk across state lines " and whose cause was championed by GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul " has shut down his dairy farm.
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Treaties from hell
02-15-2012
Becky Fenger
Now that Dick Morris has switched sides from his days with President Bill Clinton, it would behoove us to listen to a warning he is issuing about a handful of treaties President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are negotiating, or
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Mali: U.S. Africa Command's New War?
02-15-2012
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By Rick Rozoff
The press wires are reporting on intensified fighting in Mali between the nation's military and ethnic Tuareg rebels of the Azawad National Liberation Movement in the north of the nation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
City of Phoenix Pension Fantasy Land
02-15-2012
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Member Blog:Roy5815 Blog
Today (14 Feb 2012) the City of Phoenix Pension Task Force made its report to the City Council. The fact that task force chairman Rick DeGraw never even mentioned a transition to 401k plans is only the most glaring example that they must live in some
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News Link • Obama Administration
The despicable truth emerges about FATCA
02-15-2012
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Simon Black
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance act, or FATCA, is one of the most arrogant pieces of legislation ever conceived. President Obama signed the Act into law in 2010, and there are a some key provisions that are important to understand.
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News Link • World News
SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?
02-15-2012
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by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
In this online interactive I-book, we bring to the attention of our readers a selection of feature articles on the Syrian crisis.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Responds to
Obama Administration’s ‘Global Tax’
02-15-2012
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For Immediate Release: February 15, 2012
Congressman and 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has issued a statement strongly condemning Gene Sperling's call for a global minimum tax.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Farmer ordered to stop interstate sales of raw milk
02-15-2012
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By Michael Hinkelman
A federal district judge here has found that a Lancaster County farmer violated federal law and ordered him to stop distributing unpasteurized, or raw, milk across state lines.
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News Link • Activism
Help Ed Vallejo get to DC for the Veterans for Ron Paul march on Feb 20th
02-10-2012
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www.youtube.com
Hi, my name is Ed Vallejo and this is my video promoting Adam Kokesh and his RON PAUL IS THE CHOICE OF THE TROOPS March on the White House February 20th, 2012.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
See for Yourself: The Pentagon’s $51 Billion ‘Black’ Budget
02-15-2012
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www.wired.com
The military keeps a lot of little things secret. It could be the exact range of a jammer, sensitive missile data or the timing of a raid. But the larger context " that jammers and missiles exist, or that our forces conduct raids " is unclassified an
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