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Date Sent: 2012-01-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 20, 2012 PM edition |
Federal official in Arizona to plead the fifth and not answer questions on 'furious'
Jim Rogers: Lazy Bank and Ratings Clique Must Take a Hit -- Auditing the FED's Gold -- L. Neil Smith's new book, DOWN WITH POWER, released -- Palestinians to renew efforts for bid to U.N. -- HURT: Why use ‘despicable,’ clueless left-wing media to moderate GOP debates? -- Agency: Iran shuts down shops selling Barbie dolls -- Abortion rates
higher where illegal -- Republicans (now) stand together to oppose
piracy law -- Egyptian critic of military rule beaten in street -- Dems propose 'Reasonable Profits Board' to regulate oil company profits -- From Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let My People Go! -- CNN Smackdown by Ron Paul Supporters at South Carolina -- Ron Paul's
Weapon - The Constitution "Whip" Part 1 -- Ayatollah Santorum the
Sanctimonious (ASS) -- 'A' Was For America: My Journey to Voluntaryism - by Pete Eyre -- Jan 20th, 2012 - Luis Ewing-L. Neil Smith-John Bush, Catherine Bleish-LRN.FM M-F, 9-Noon, EST -- Wisconsinites v. Governor Scott Walker - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Obama to visit Phoenix area on Jan. 25; Jan. 28, "God on Trial" Book
Signing; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6
pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY TICKETS NOW!)
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Federal official in Arizona to plead the fifth and not answer questions on 'furious'
01-20-2012
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www.foxnews.com
The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona is refusing to testify before Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious, the federal gun-running scandal that sent U.S. weapons to Mexico.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Camcorder device allows for live, computer-free video streaming
01-20-2012
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www.gizmag.com
The Live Shell is an add-on device that allows existing video cameras to stream live to the internet, without the need of a computer.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CNN Debate: Gingrich “Appalled” at Question on Marital Infidelity
01-20-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
“To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine,” Gingrichtold King in the January 19 South Carolina debate.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
OS:Utah Safe Haven Village Project
01-20-2012
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www.peswiki.com
Mission Statement: "Safe Haven Villages are intentional communities based on principles of sustainability, educational outreach, healthy living, natural healing, individual responsibility, cooperation, and renewable energy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Sterling D. Allan - Founder and CEO of PES Network, Inc. and the New Energy Congress
01-20-2012
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www.pureenergysystems.com
Pure Energy Systems (PES) Network, of which he is CEO, is the premier news, directory, and networking service whose mission is to find and facilitate the best exotic free energy technologies.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers: Lazy Bank and Ratings Clique Must Take a Hit
01-20-2012
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lewrockell.com/Jim Rogers
“It means that you should not bother to pay any attention to the rating agencies. Everything they have done in the past 15 or 20 years has been wrong,” he raged. “I stopped bothering about them long ago.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Auditing the FED's Gold
01-20-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Gary North
Bernanke is facing what no Federal Reserve chairman has ever faced: public awareness of the Federal Reserve System
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Books
L. Neil Smith's new book, DOWN WITH POWER, releases today
01-20-2012
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DownWithPower.Com
I have named and arranged the chapters of this book so it will be easy to discover what libertarians think about any given issue of the day. This is intended to help those who are new to the movement to educate themselves, and encourage candidates
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Palestinians to renew efforts for bid to U.N.
01-20-2012
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www.washingtontimes.com
Palestinian officials say that they will resume their effort to gain U.N. membership, and that they could launch a nonviolent third intifada because they see no chance of reaching a peace deal with the current Israeli government.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
HURT: Why use ‘despicable,’ clueless left-wing media to moderate GOP debates?
01-20-2012
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www.washingtontimes.com
There is growing consternation in Republican circles and among conservatives over why Republicans keep allowing the various Communist, leftist and otherwise anti-American TV networks to host GOP debates.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Agency: Iran shuts down shops selling Barbie dolls
01-20-2012
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Associated Press
Police have closed down dozens of toy shop for selling Barbie dolls, part of a decades-long crackdown on signs of Western culture in Iran, the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported Friday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Abortion rates higher where illegal
01-20-2012
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USA Today
A new study concluded abortion rates are higher in countries where the procedure is illegal and nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, with the vast majority in developing countries.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Internet
Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline
01-20-2012
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gizmodo.com
Anonymous has sure been quiet lately, but today's federal bust of Megaupload riled 'em up good: a retaliatory strike against DoJ.gov (and plenty of other foes) leaving them completely dead.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republicans stand together to oppose piracy law
01-20-2012
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Associated Press
Standing in near unison, the four remaining contenders seeking the Republican presidential nomination are condemning a proposed anti-online piracy law that its critics say is overly aggressive.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Egyptian critic of military rule beaten in street
01-20-2012
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www.apnews.myway.com
A clip posted on social networks showed a small crowd punching and kicking Nawara Negm, and hurling abuse at her. Her assailants could be heard saying she wanted to drive a wedge between the ruling military and the people.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Dems propose 'Reasonable Profits Board' to regulate oil company profits
01-20-2012
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www.thehill.com
The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a "windfall profit tax" as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil and gas, according to their legislation.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Redford slaps Romney as Sundance filmfest opens
01-20-2012
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www.breitbart.com
Veteran US actor Robert Redford took a dig at Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney, his party's White House nomination battle and Congress as he opened the annual Sundance film festival.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Man arrested after spitting on sidewalk in Daytona Beach
01-20-2012
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www.clickorlando.com
An 18-year-old Daytona Beach man was arrested after he violated a city ordinance by spitting on a sidewalk, which police said created an unsanitary environment for others in the area.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Teacher Accused Of Pouring Hot Tea On Battling Students
01-20-2012
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www.detroit.cbslocal.com
Police are reportedly investigating a claim that a teacher dumped hot tea on a 15-year-old high school student and an 18-year-old classmate after they refused to stop fighting in school.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
What is it about Ron Paul?
01-20-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
I wrote this article, "From Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let my People Go!" on December 29th. Since then it has gone viral.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
From Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let My People Go!
01-20-2012
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www.settlersofsamaria.org
Lately I’ve been having trouble sleeping. I sit here in my living room in Karnei Shomron, Israel, on the 8th night of Chanukah, wondering what other miracles lay in store on January 3rd and in the months ahead. The name Ron Paul is constantly at my f
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
Cleansing Land Titles With Ellen Brown
01-20-2012
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arclein
Only 16 percent of the mortgage assignments were valid.
Twenty-seven percent of the invalid assignments were fraudulent, 35 percent were "robo-signed" and 10 percent violated the Massachusetts Mortgage Fraud Statute.
The identity of fina
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CNN Smackdown by Ron Paul Supporters at South Carolina
01-20-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
CNN was giving very little time to Ron Paul at the SC Debate. And at one point Santorum, Romney, and Gingrich answered a question and gave their views on abortion.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Stephen Colbert Comes Out for Ron Paul
01-20-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
..... asked by Mika Brezenski on MSNBC's Morning Joe about who he likes, Colbert being funny initially says "Herman Cain" .... Mika then presses him asking who he likes that is still running and Colbert replies: "Ron Paul"
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News Link • Constitution
Ron Paul's Weapon - The Constitution "Whip" Part 1
01-20-2012
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www.youtube.com
Dr. Manning shares some light on Ron Paul's Weapon "THE CONSTITUTION". Vote Ron Paul 2012 - "The truth is the only weapon the wicked fear"
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ayatollah Santorum the Sanctimonious (ASS)
01-20-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Thomas J. DiLorenzo
In a January 18 interview with Glenn Beck Rick Santorum decided to compare his view of the Constitution with that of Ron Paul. His statements can only be described as delusional and totalitarian.
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News Link • Marriage
Marriage Revival?
01-20-2012
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arclein
What is behind this shift? Another recent Pew survey reported that four in 10 Americans think marriage is "becoming obsolete." Particularly interesting is that 47 percent of those who think marriage is becoming obsolete say they would like to marry
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News Link • Science
Ancient Mechanism For Mammalian Evolution
01-20-2012
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arclein
The retro-transposon's copy-and-paste behaviour has long been considered totally self-serving. However, the study showed that when a retro-transposon containing a CTCF-binding sequence spreads around a mammal's genome, it can deposit functional CTC
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul Highlights in 1.19.12 Debate (Video)
01-19-2012
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StopTheLie.com
Visit RonPaulNow.com for past highlights plus other interviews.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Internet
7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site
01-19-2012
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New York Times
In what the federal authorities called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the FBI seized the Web site Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise bas
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
EPA drops jackboot on necks of couple for daring to build on their own land
01-19-2012
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www.naturalnews.com
Stories about overreach from Washington, D.C. abound, but just when you think you've heard them all comes yet another that makes you shake your head in disbelief and wonder just whom is supposed to be working for whom in this grand old Republic of ou
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News Link • Corruption
In MF Global, JPMorgan again at center of a financial failure
01-18-2012
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Reuters
In late October, as MF Global Holdings Ltd teetered toward bankruptcy, Jon Corzine phoned his close-knit circle of Wall Street friends for help.
His firm, facing demands from customers and other firms for cash, needed to sell billions of dollars i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt
01-18-2012
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news.yahoo.com
The Treasury on Tuesday started dipping into federal pension funds in order to give the Obama administration more credit to pay government bills.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF seeks more funds
01-18-2012
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www.reuters.com
The International Monetary Fund is seeking to more than double its war chest by raising $600 billion in new resources to help countries deal with the fallout of the euro zone debt crisis, but the United States and other countries are throwing up road
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News Link • Gun Rights
MILLER: Emily gets her gun, Part 2 (Washington Times Senior Editor goes through process)
01-18-2012
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www.washingtontimes.com
Over the past couple months, I’ve been trying to get a legal gun in the District. I always knew this would be a challenge, but I had no idea how time-consuming it would be to complete all 17 steps the city requires. I’m not even halfway done.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
“Conservatives” Angling for a NEW National Tax?
01-18-2012
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www.SonoranAlliance.Com
Right when we should be CUTTING spending (not just the rate of increase, but ACTUAL spending) and lowering taxes, certain elements of the RNC and “think tanks” are angling not just to keep existing spending and taxes going but ADD an entirely NEW fed
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News Link • Drug War
Don't think the drug war is the new Jim Crow? Then read this book
01-18-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
...although white Americans are far and away the nation's biggest dealers and users of illegal drugs, African-Americans are far and away the ones most likely to be jailed for drug crimes
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