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Date Sent: 2012-02-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 14, 2012 PM edition |
Gas prices' earliest-ever rise above $3.50 a bad sign for motorists
Justice Breyer robbed by machete-wielding intruder at West Indies vacation home -- 4409 UPDATE #2 - Portable 80' Ron Paul Sign -- Rating Action: Moody's adjusts ratings of 9 European sovereigns to capture downside risks -- 20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of America From The Death Of Detroit -- Obama’s budget calls for pay raises; federal workforce size would remain flat --
GOP critics hit Obama's $3.8 trillion budget -- Oliver Stone's son
converts to Islam in Iran -- Israeli attack on Iran would be complex
operation -- Iranian Boats Shadow USS Aircraft Carrier in Gulf -- Israel blames Iran for Bangkok blasts -- What Happened Yesterday When Mitt Romney Showed Up in Arizona? -- Is Sarah Palin Stumping for Romney VP Slot? -- The Judge's Final Word on the Last Freedom Watch! -- Muslim Brotherhood Warns U.S. Aid Cut May Affect Egypt’s Peace Treaty With Israel --
Canadian Prime Minister Shills Alberta Oil Sands in China -- ‘Doomsday
Prepper’ Star Determined Mentally Defective, Stripped Of Firearms --
February 14th, 2012 - Happy Birthday, Arizona! - Listen Live M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Obama seeks tax credit for NY's World Trade Center -- After "lemming" exodus, manufacturers look to U.S. -- EU to punish Spain for deficits, inaction -- U.S. Navy: Iran prepares suicide bomb boats in Gulf -- Financial Oligarch Power Raping Greece
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gas prices' earliest-ever rise above $3.50 a bad sign for motorists
02-14-2012
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www.mcall.com
American motorists have seen the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline rise above $3.50 a gallon on just three occasions, but it has never happened this early in the year.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Justice Breyer robbed by machete-wielding intruder at West Indies vacation home
02-14-2012
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www.foxnews.com
Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week by a machete-wielding intruder at his vacation home in the West Indies, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Monday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Rating Action: Moody's adjusts ratings of 9 European sovereigns to capture downside risks
02-14-2012
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www.moodys.com
As anticipated in November 2011, Moody's Investors Service has today adjusted the sovereign debt ratings of selected EU countries in order to reflect their susceptibility to the growing financial and macroeconomic risks emanating from the euro area c
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of America From The Death Of Detroit
02-14-2012
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Detroit, you better be ready to fight because there are hordes of desperate criminals that are quite eager to take literally everything that you have got. But don't look down on Detroit too much, because what is happening in Detroit will soon be hap
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government Waste
Obama’s budget calls for pay raises; federal workforce size would remain flat
02-14-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
President Obama wants to give raises to people collecting federal paychecks, but in his new budget proposal, troops would get a larger pay boost than civilian employees.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GOP critics hit Obama's $3.8 trillion budget
02-14-2012
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Associated Press
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress Tuesday that the president's new $3.8 trillion spending plan would impose new taxes on only 2 percent of the nation's wealthiest families and the alternative would be to seek more painful cuts in othe
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Oliver Stone's son converts to Islam in Iran
02-14-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
"The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with. It means I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets," he said in a brief telephone call from the central Iranian city of Isfahan, where he underwent the cerem
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Israeli attack on Iran would be complex operation
02-14-2012
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www.usatoday.com
If Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities, the strike would probably take the form of a complex air assault involving scores of planes that would have to penetrate Iranian air defenses and attack up to a couple of dozen targets simultaneously, ana
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iranian Boats Shadow USS Aircraft Carrier in Gulf
02-14-2012
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www.myfoxdc.com
The American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, shadowed by Iranian patrol boats.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel blames Iran for Bangkok blasts
02-14-2012
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Israel's defence minister has accused Iran of being behind a bombing that rocked a crowded residential area of Bangkok on Tuesday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
What Happened Yesterday When Mitt Romney Showed Up in Arizona?
02-14-2012
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Ed Vallejo/Daily Paul
He was greeted by 'THE R3VOLUTION'.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The Judge's Final Word on the Last Freedom Watch!
02-14-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Amazing! Everything he says is so true to what is currently going with public thought about the political system we have today. Hopefully he gets back on the air soon with a network like RT or Current.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
Muslim Brotherhood Warns U.S. Aid Cut May Affect Egypt’s Peace Treaty With Israel
02-14-2012
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www.cnsnews.com
A top Muslim Brotherhood official has warned that any cuts in U.S. aid to Egypt could affect Cairo’s peace treaty with Israel â€" the latest sign that Egypt’s emerging political forces intend to call Washington’s bluff over the diplomatic dispute trigg
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Canadian Prime Minister Shills Alberta Oil Sands in China
02-14-2012
Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in the midst of an official visit to China. His mission? To convince Beijing’s mandarins to buy Canada’s Alberta oil sands hydrocarbon production
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Staffoilpricedotcom Erik
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News Link • Gun Rights
‘Doomsday Prepper’ Star Determined Mentally Defective, Stripped Of Firearms
02/14/2012
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personalliberty.com
Officials have declared David Sarti, one of the preppers from the show last Tuesday, mentally defective and his guns were confiscated by the government.
After seeing a doctor for a medical condition during which the man felt as if he would suffocate
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Obama seeks tax credit for NY's World Trade Center
02-14-2012
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Reuters
Transportation upgrades for New York's World Trade Center rebuilding would get a $200 million tax credit under President Obama's budget plan proposed, providing support to finish this aspect of the long-delayed project.
The annual tax credit for l
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
After "lemming" exodus, manufacturers look to U.S.
02-14-2012
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Reuters
Big U.S. manufacturers moved their production out of the country too quickly over the past decades and now see a competitive advantage in building up their footprints back home. The chase for lower-paid workers drove the migration, which resulted in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
EU to punish Spain for deficits, inaction
02-14-2012
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Reuters
The European Union is likely to take action against Spain's newly installed government by May for delaying austerity measures. European Commission believes the new government overstated the deficit figures for 2011 so the current year's data would lo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Navy: Iran prepares suicide bomb boats in Gulf
02-14-2012
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Reuters
Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attacks, but the U.S. Navy can prevent it from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Brown Mountain Lights Revisited
02-14-2012
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arclein
However, Dan Caton, professor of physics at Appalachian State University, stated there is no proof that visiting Brown Mountain at a certain time of year will make the lights more visible. He also disputed Warren’s science and said that there simply
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Shale Gas Continues Expansion
02-14-2012
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arclein
But environmental concerns about the technology behind the boom - specifically hydraulic fracturing - receive near daily news coverage, with opponents saying that toxic additives in the water used for the fracturing have found their way into househol
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robert klein
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News Link • China
Chinese Village Experiments in Democracy
02-14-2012
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arclein
Guangdong provincial government eventually capitulated and sought to pacify the villagers as their case made headlines.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Time to Give SETI a Chance?
02-14-2012
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arclein
Answering that question will be hard. It is quite probable that Earth 2.0 will be hundreds or even thousands of light years away; too far from us to detect trace chemical "biosignatures" that would suggest life.
There is another way. We could lo
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robert klein
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News Link • Seriously?
Iranian man throws bomb at police; 5 hurt
02-14-2012
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Jerusalem Post
One day after attacks on Israeli embassies in India and Georgia, the English-language Thai newspaper Bangkok Post reported an Iranian man threw a bomb at Thai police that ricocheted off a tree and exploded while bouncing back toward him.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Internet
Infragard - The FBI's War On YOU !!!!!!! HTS 020908 p1
02-13-2012
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YouTube.com
America's Infrastructure (Utilities) is now controlled by the FBI
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
TSA Underwear Airport Outreach, Kelly V. & Derrick J.
02-13-2012
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www.freekeene.com
Kelly Voluntaryist and Derrick J. Freeman went to Manchester Airport in New Hampshire to protest the TSA’s blatant violation of human (natural) rights. This was round 2 for Kelly, she intends to do several more TSA protests, so she may be coming to a
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama seeks higher taxes on big business
02-13-2012
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www.reuters.com
President Barack Obama's 2013 budget proposal, released on Monday, calls for raising hundreds of billions of dollars from U.S.-based global companies, while ending cherished deductions and tax breaks for oil companies and other big firms.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Obama unveils big spending election-year budget
02-13-2012
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www.reuters.com
President Barack Obama called on Monday for aggressive spending to boost growth and for higher taxes on the rich, laying out an election-year vision for America in a budget that was criticized sharply by Republicans for failing to curb the deficit.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
How The Pentagon’s Top Killers Became (Unaccountable) Spies
02-13-2012
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www.wired.com
This is what people think of when they imagine the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC â€" the secretive, über-elite military unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Donna Hancock
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