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Date Sent: 2012-01-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 27, 2012 PM edition |
Ron Paul calls for diplomatic relations with Cuba -- Twitter announces it will now censor tweets
Picture Of Sleeping Classroom Teacher Gets Student Suspension --
Monsanto’s Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested
-- Italy On the Verge of a Full Revolt -- Adelson, Gingrich, and the Selling of America -- Video: Divers find
large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea -- Marijuana Mouth
Spray Sativex May Hit Shelves By 2013 -- Dole assails Gingrich in plea
to conservatives -- Iran arrests journalists, to execute bloggers --
Gov. Brewer releases copy of letter she handed to Obama -- President
Obama leaves event promoting clean energy in a motorcade of 22
fossil-fueled vehicles -- Egypt activists to hold mass rally Friday -- Syrian revolt creeps closer to Damascus -- When shooting guns at image of the President, do not post it on Facebook -- Israel Senses Bluffing in Iran’s Threats of Retaliation -- Doctors baffled as Tourettes-like syndrome SPREADS among high school students -- State of the Union: Will the US be saved by its military? -- MIT’s Online Threat to the Higher Education Cartel -- Is Now The Time To Move Away From Major U.S. Cities? -- Jon Stewart defends Ron Paul from Newt Gingrich -- Torture and Abuse in Libya - by Stephen Lendman -- Nevada GOP Changing The Rules!
AZ: AZ GOP Convention! Saturday, Jan. 28th; Jan. 28, "God
on Trial" Book Signing; Sign painting for Ron Paul - 'Revenge of the Patriots' - Noon
til ?? Sunday 1/29/12 - At the Hancock's
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News Link • Cuba
Ron Paul calls for diplomatic relations with Cuba
01-27-2012
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www.latimes.com
Ron Paul took a risky position in Florida in Thursday’s debate, calling for communication and diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying that people's positions have changed dramatically over the last few years.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Twitter announces it will censor some tweets; activists worried
01-27-2012
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www.nydailynews.com
Policy would allow same message to be seen in some countries but not others
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Signs for Ron Paul - 'Revenge of the Patriots' - Noon til ?? Sun 1/29/12 - At Hancock's
01-26-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
There will be a sign painting party at the Hancock's this Sunday from Noon til ?? to paint Ron Paul Patriot signs that will be shipped to Indiana - they will be put up by activists there to blanket around the Superbowl!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Meet SOPA's evil twin, ACTA
01-27-2012
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CNN Money
The brouhaha over the American internet piracy bill has died down, giving way to proposed international legislation with many similar elements.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Active duty cop: ‘The war on drugs is a war on people’
01-27-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Speaking to Raw Story recently, an active duty police officer who asked not to be named threw down the gauntlet over the part of his job he hates most: the drug war.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA to pull officer from NYPD after internal probe
01-27-2012
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www.miamiherald.com
The inspector general opened its investigation after a series of AP articles that revealed how the NYPD, working in close collaboration with the CIA, set up spying operations that put Muslim communities under scrutiny.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Pic Of Sleeping Sub Nets Student Suspension
01-27-2012
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Mustang Public Schools officials said a ninth-grader snapped a photo of a snoozing substitute with a cellphone last Friday at Mustang Mid-High School.
The student was later suspended.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Monsanto’s Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested
1-27-12
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http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/monsantos-infe
A recent study conducted by a German university found very high concentrations of glyphosate, a carcinogenic chemical found in herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup, in all urine samples tested.
The amount of glyphosate found in the urine was stagger
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Food
My Top 6 Anti-Inflammatory Foods
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Mark Sisson
Before I begin, let me preface this post with the identification of a simple confounder for everyone to consider as they read: context. Any discussion of a concept as nebulous, multifaceted, and confusing as inflammation must integrate the question o
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News Link • World News
Italy On the Verge of a Full Revolt
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Alexander Jousse
This past week has been a very turbulent time for Italy. And it wasn't just the grounding of the Concordia cruise ship by a playboy captain; but the grounding of the country by Euro-technocrat usurper Darth Monti, trying to impress his Keynesian budd
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News Link • World News
Of Bankers and Ship Captains
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Bill Bonner
The poor man is calumnied as a pusillanimous incompetent. Just because he hit a rock. Heck, anyone with a ship that big could hit a rock. And the rock wasn’t s’posed to be there!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Adelson, Gingrich, and the Selling of America
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Justin Raimondo
If you want to know what’s wrong with our campaign finance laws " and our political system in a more general sense " look at the way Sheldon Adelson is buying the Republican nomination for his sock puppet, Newt Gingrich.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Clyde Wilson
The document describes itself not as "the U.S. Constitution" or the "Constitution of the United States," but as a "Constitution FOR the United States of America."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Video: Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea
01-27-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
Sonar readings show that the mysterious object is about 60 meters across, or, about the size of a jumbo jet. And it's not alone. Nearby on the sea floor is another, smaller object with a similar shape. Even more fascinating, both objects have "drag m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Marijuana Mouth Spray Sativex May Hit Shelves By 2013
01-27-2012
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www.stlouis.cbs.local.com
A British drug manufacturer is hoping for a big score from consumers and a green light from the FDA for its medical marijuana mouth spray in 2013.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sabato Warns of Electoral 'Newt-Mare'
01-27-2012
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www.usnews.com
Newt Gingrich's nomination as the GOP presidential candidate would not only lock in an Obama victory in November, but would also keep the Senate in Democratic hands and make Nancy Pelosi speaker again, according to elections predictor Larry Sabato's
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Indignation of Newt
01-27-2012
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www.decoded.nationaljournal.com
You know it's an ugly, brutish debate when Newt Gingrich of all people turns to his rival and says, "You have to be realistic in your indignation."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Dole assails Gingrich in plea to conservatives
01-27-2012
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www.politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
Bob Dole, a Mitt Romney supporter and former Republican presidential nominee, issued a scathing statement Thursday blasting Newt Gingrich for being a "one-man-band who rarely took advice."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran arrests journalists, to execute bloggers
01-27-2012
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The Examiner
Iranian courts have sentenced two bloggers to death for "spreading corruption," and government security forces have arrested four other journalists, in the lead-up to the nation's March elections.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Brewer releases copy of letter she handed to Obama
01-27-2012
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www.azcentral.com
In a sudden about-face, Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday evening made public a copy of the letter she handed President Barack Obama during their high-profile encounter a day earlier that dominated national news, the blogosphere and water-cooler conversati
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama leaves event promoting clean energy in a motorcade of 22 fossil-fueled vehicles
01-27-2012
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www.nevadajournal.com
On January 26, 2012, President Obama visited a Las Vegas UPS plant. Stimulus subsidy for said UPS plant to purchase natural-gas-powered trucks: 5.6 million dollars.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Egypt activists to hold mass rally Friday
01-27-2012
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www.breitbart.com
Egyptian activists are preparing for a mass rally on Friday, after they spent the night in Cairo's Tahrir Square marking the first anniversary of the uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Syrian revolt creeps closer to Damascus
01-27-2012
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www.ft.com
This unexpected meeting with the militarised opposition who style themselves the Free Syrian Army was just the first of a series of striking insights offered by the capital’s restive suburbs into the country’s social faultlines and its dangerous stat
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News Link • Iran
Israel Senses Bluffing in Iran’s Threats of Retaliation
01-27-2012
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www.nytimes.com
Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional conflagration, widespread acts of
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
State of the Union: Will the US be saved by its military?
01-27-2012
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www.aljazeera.com
Obama's praise for the American military complex is misleading and potentially dangerous
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
MIT’s Online Threat to the Higher Education Cartel
01-27-2012
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www.thenewamerican.com
Just before Christmas the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a small improvement to its 2,100 free online courses: The free online service will now grant, for a modest affordable fee, credentials for those online students who gain
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Is Now The Time To Move Away From Major U.S. Cities?
01-27-2012
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www.endoftheamericandream.com
As the U.S. economy falls apart and as the world becomes increasingly unstable, more Americans than ever are becoming "preppers". It is estimated that there are at least two million preppers in the United States today, but nobody really knows.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
BREAKING: Nevada GOP Changing The Rules!
01-27-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Looks like Money really can purchase elections. Sheldon Adelson, who donated 5 million to Gingrich's PAC, and whose wife donated another 5 million, has been granted a Special Evening Caucus at a private school that Adelson owns.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
Washington St. looking to follow constitution and Legalize Gold and Silver.
01-27-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
HB 2731 was dropped this week by Rep. Cary Condotta, Rep. Matt Shea, and Rep. Overstreet to legalize gold and silver as legal tender in WA St. as directed by the US Constitution.
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
01-26-2012
Ray McGovern
However, this joint assessment that Iran has NOT decided to build a nuclear bomb apparently represented too big a change in the accepted narrative for the Times and the rest of the FCM to process.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man Held in Solitary Confinement 2 Years After DWI Gets $22M
01-26-2012
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www.nbcdfw.com
A man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico's Dona Ana County Jail.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Diapered U.S. soldiers
01-26-2012
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www.shahamat-en.com
There have been startling reports in the different blogs and websites and media release circulating around “diaper scarcity” or “the US-NATO troops in diapers” over the past couple of weeks.
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News Link • Events: America
American Apathy with Russell Means
01-26-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Alex talks to legendary native american activist, actor Russell Means about the decline of the american culture and the rise of global imperialism.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
AZ GOP Convention! Jan. 28th
01-26-2012
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meetup.com/Arizona Ron Paul for President 2012
If ever there was a time to participate in the fight for liberty and the constitution - THIS IS IT! This is our moment to represent Dr. Paul with more signage than ever seen before!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Return of the Activist
01-26-2012
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www.reuters.com
Hundreds of miles and a vast ideological divide separate Cecily Friday from Tim Dake. But what they share is a passionate dislike and distrust of the American political elite.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? Evidence Points To Yes
01-25-2012
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CBS News
They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes.
But are there plans to deploy drones in the Big Apple to keep an eye on New Yorkers?
More and more people believe it’s inevitable, reports CBS 2’s Don Dahler.
Drones are unmann
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Appeals court rejects Padilla torture lawsuit
01-25-2012
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Rawstory
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against current and former government officials for their alleged roles in the detention and torture of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen and convicted terroris
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News Link • Police State
Journalist Chris Hedges Files Lawsuit Over NDAA (Video)
01-25-2012
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InfoWars.com
Alex Jones talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author and Middle East expert Chris Hedges about challenging NDAA and other abuses of government power.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to launch political talk show
01-25-2012
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www.rawstory.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will host a new political talk show that focuses on power brokers, revolutionaries and where the world goes next, the anti-secrecy website announced on Monday.
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News Link • World News
Japanese Delegation Wants the U.S. Out of Okinawa
01-25-2012
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www.opednews.com
A 24-member delegation from Japan is in Washington, D.C., this week opposing the presence and new construction of U.S. military bases in Okinawa.
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