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Date Sent: 2011-03-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 4, 2011 |
US Preparing for Possible Libya Invasion -- Petraeus apologizes after forces kill 9 Afghan boys
Soldier in Leaks Case Was Jailed Naked, Lawyer Says -- Ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran is alive, Clinton says --
Computer expert says US behind Stuxnet worm -- Obama administration
prepares for possibility of new post-revolt Islamist regimes -- Economists: State, local pension funds understate shortfall by $1.5 trillion or more
-- Inmates who refuse hair cuts sent to high security -- House votes to
end unpopular new business tax rule -- Supreme Court: Corporations
don’t have ‘personal privacy’ rights -- Mary Coyle: Arizona Landmark Closing Because Business Is Off 30 to 40% -- Gallup Reports Underemployment Surges To 19.9% in February -- Biometric Slave State: House Republicans attempt to revive Real ID --
Phoenix police chief reassigned pending review of kidnapping numbers --
Ron Paul Phoenix Tea Party -- 6,000 Missouri State U. Students Have
Social Security Numbers Exposed on Web -- Gov. Jan Brewer's Personal Army? SB 1495 Paves the Way -- Pentagon now actively building a robotic army -- U.S. Mint Suspends Sales of Silver Eagles -- Judge Vinson orders DOJ to expedite appeal to his Obamacare ruling -- Wash. Police Use Cell Phone Pings in Manhunt
-- Wisconsin Senate OKs Resolution Ordering Arrest of 14 AWOL Dem
Senators -- The Awful Interest Rate Situation That Will Crush The Back
Of The US Government -- Karl Rove Sends Out Marching Orders to
Republicans -- Scott Horton Interviews Eric Garris -- Marque and
Reprisal -- Postal Service broke by October
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday; AGORA I/O Viewing Event! March
25, 2011, Phoenix, AZ
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News Link • Military
US Preparing for Possible Libya Invasion
03-03-2011
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AntiWar.com
Indeed, top officials continue to insist that they are mulling different options for how to use military force against Libya, and while some are warning that it might be hasty, more troops and warships continue to be moved into the area.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Petraeus apologizes after international forces kill 9 Afghan civilians
03-03-2011
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cnn.com
The commander of U.S. and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan apologized Wednesday after an investigation concluded that coalition troops accidentally killed nine civilians -- including some children -- in a strike Tuesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Soldier in Leaks Case Was Jailed Naked, Lawyer Says
03-03-2011
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NY Times
A lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking secret government files to WikiLeaks, has complained that his client was stripped and left naked in his cell for seven hours on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran is alive, Clinton says
03-03-2011
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Washington Post
A retired FBI agent who vanished in 2007 while investigating a smuggling case in Iran is apparently still alive, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday in a statement that deepened the mystery surrounding the man's nearly four-year d
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Computer expert says US behind Stuxnet worm
03-03-2011
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AFP
"My opinion is that the Mossad is involved," discussing his in-depth Stuxnet analysis. "But, the leading source is not Israel... There is only one leading source, and that is the United States."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama administration prepares for possibility of new post-revolt Islamist regimes
03-03-2011
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Washington Post
The Obama administration is preparing for the prospect that Islamist governments will take hold in North Africa and the Middle East, acknowledging that the popular revolutions there will bring a more religious cast to the region's politics.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economists: State, local pension funds understate shortfall by $1.5 trillion or more
03-03-2011
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Washington Post
The pension funds for state and local workers in the United States are understating the amount they will owe workers by $1.5 trillion or more, according to some economists who have studied the issue, meaning that the benefits are much costlier than m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Inmates who refuse hair cuts sent to high security
03-03-2011
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AP
Several Rastafarians and other inmates have been moved to a high-security prison as officials try to persuade them to cut their hair, which many refuse to do because it goes against their religious beliefs. Many inmates had spent more than a decade i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House votes to end unpopular new business tax rule
03-03-2011
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AP
An unpopular tax filing requirement for businesses tucked into the new health care law would be repealed. The provision would require millions of businesses to file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods each year, startin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Supreme Court: Corporations don’t have ‘personal privacy’ rights
03-03-2011
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Rawstory
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled Tuesday that AT&T and other corporations do not have personal privacy rights under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The Freedom of Information Act requires federal agencies to make documents publi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Mary Coyle: Arizona Landmark Closing Because Business Is Off 30 to 40%
03-03-2011
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AZcentral.com
Mary Coyle Ol' Fashion Ice Cream and Yogurt parlor, one of Phoenix's oldest restaurant landmarks, may close before summer.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gallup Reports Underemployment Surges To 19.9% in February
03-03-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
On one hand we have the Department of Truth about to tell tomorrow that NFP based on various seasonal and birth death adjustments increased by 250,000. On the other hand, we have Gallup which actually does real time polling without a propaganda bias.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Slave State: House Republicans attempt to revive Real ID
03-03-2011
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BlackListedNews.com & CNet
If you're a resident of one of at least 24 states including Arizona, Georgia, and Washington, your driver's license may no longer be valid for boarding an airplane or entering federal buildings as of May 11, 2011.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Miracle baby returns from dead, avoids brain damage
03-03-2011
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Terrence Aym
Ella, now known as the "ice baby" died in the womb and was stillborn. Yet 25 minutes later a miracle occurred: she came back to life. Some people believe that miracles occur every day. Maybe they do happen with that frequency, but to the world at l
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix police chief reassigned pending review of kidnapping numbers
03-03-2011
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Arizona Republic
Public Safety Manager Jack Harris will no longer be involved in the day-to-day operations of the Phoenix Police Department until the city completes another review of controversial kidnapping statistics used to win federal grant money.
Executive As
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Activism
Ron Paul Phoenix Tea Party
Thomas Costanzo
The Phoenix Crew gets the balloons that were made for the 2008 Ron Paul presidential run and blows them up for the Phoenix Tea Party. Guess what the convention center doesn't allow them in the inside. Switch to plan "B"
Morpheus grabs the balloons
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News Link • Privacy Rights
6,000 Missouri State U. Students Have Social Security Numbers Exposed on Web
03-03-2011
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databreaches.net
Missouri State University officials are notifying 6,030 College of Education students that their social security numbers may have been compromised as a result of an internal security breach.
In October and November 2010, in preparation for an accr
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Media: Television
Rothfuss pledges to buy Firefly from Fox and give it away
03-03-2011
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Boing Boing
Bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss has pledged to help Nathan Fillion buy the rights to Firefly from Fox. Fillion, who starred in the series, has publicly said that if he had the money to get Firefly back, he'd make it free and release it on the net
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Brock Lorber
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Making the Chicken Run
Doug Casey
With the U.S. government’s ever-increasing stranglehold on Americans’ assets, smart investors are now taking their wealth abroad. Doug Casey tells you how to do it, and why you shouldn’t put it off any longer.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Gov. Jan Brewer's Personal Army? SB 1495 Paves the Way
03-03-2011
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Phoenix New Times
Where are Arizona's Libertarians when you need them? Ernie Hancock and the folks over at Freedom's Phoenix should be raising bloody Cain right now.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon now actively building a robotic army
03-03-2011
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Terrence Aym
Over the past few years the US military has aggressively ramped up its commitment to battlefield robots. Now the Pentagon is forging ahead with fantastic plans to build robot armies. By 2015 it's expected that up to one-third of America's fighting
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Environment
Wind power technology 'greatest scam' of 21st Century
03-03-2011
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Terrence Aym
Blasting the darling of green technology proponents, Christopher Booker accuses wind power schemes of being the 21st Century's biggest scam. He describes the scheme as a "colossal and very dangerous act of self-deception." Maybe the pressure's be
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Healthcare
Judge Vinson orders DOJ to expedite appeal to his Obamacare ruling
03-03-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
oday in a Miami courtroom, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson ordered the DOJ to expedite their appeal of his judgement against them within a week. The DOJ had asked for clarification on his ruling because while Judge Vinson declared the Act unc
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Food
Cloned animals " Consumers shall have no choice
03-03-2011
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Farm Wars
Press Release: EU Commissioner for Trade: Products from offspring of cloned animals already on the market.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Surveillance
Wash. Police Use Cell Phone Pings in Manhunt
03-03-2011
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Officer.com
Cell phone pings proved crucial in helping Washington state police track a suspect in a child abduction case that spurred an Amber Alert.
Dustin Reed, 35, was arrested Tuesday in the kidnapping of his 4-year-old son about half an hour after police
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Politics
Breaking News: Wisconsin Senate OKs Resolution Ordering Arrest of 14 AWOL Dem Senators
03-03-2011
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http://drscoundrels.com
Wisconsin Senate Democrats have until 4:00 PM to return to the Wisconsin Senate chamber of they will be subject to arrest.
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James Hyde
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Awful Interest Rate Situation That Will Crush The Back Of The US Government
03-03-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
SocGen's Dylan Grice thinks the US debt crisis is imminent. On a gross basis the US government pays out 15% of its revenues on interest payments...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Karl Rove Sends Out Marching Orders to Republicans
03-03-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
They are co-opting the anti-government mood in the country by sponsoring candidates that will draw attention from the true advocates of liberty like Ron Paul. From the Koch-sponsored Herman Cain, who speaks in generalities, to Scott Walker, who...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Scott Horton Interviews Eric Garris
03-03-2011
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Antiwar.com
Eric Garris, founder and director of Antiwar.com, discusses why the Libyans had better hurry up with deposing Col. Gaddafi, before they get unsolicited “help” from the US or NATO
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Marque and Reprisal
03-03-2011
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libertyunbound.com
The AP reports that Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater US, is involved in training 2,000 Somali recruits to fight pirates who operate on the African coast. The financing for this venture “is being moved through a web of international companies, the a
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
CHARLEYWORLD: Need a job? We’re Hiring Now! Seriously!
03-03-2011
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www.hawaiireporter.com
Why does everyone whine about an unemployment rate just over 9 percent? Doesn’t that mean that the employment rate is at 91 percent? That’s pretty high in my book.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Inflation and the Value of Gold Explained
03-03-2011
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mises.org
As the story goes, someone asked an economist how his wife was doing, and the economist answered "compared to what?"
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Uncle NED Comes Calling
03-03-2011
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original.antiwar.com
It is difficult to conceive of how a nation that was founded to defend individual rights and liberties has moved so far from its moorings that it has now embraced exporting democracy and nation building worldwide as its principal raison d’etre.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Why Cops Love the Drug War
03-03-2011
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http://www.fff.org
After more than 30 years of death, destruction, and failure, the two primary advocates of the war on drugs are public officials and drug lords. The reason is obvious: these two groups are the biggest beneficiaries of the drug war.
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Sierra Hancock
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