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Date Sent: 2011-02-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 1, 2011 AM edition |
Federal judge rules Obamacare unconstitutional--Rumsfeld receive Defender of the Constitution Award
TSA shuts door on private airport screening program -- New law could foster community radio boom -- Farewell to Modernity in the New Age of Surveillance
--Muslim Brotherhood Verifies Obama's Birth Certificate -- Nearly 11
Percent of US Houses Empty -- The Ardor Of Joe Lieberman: Internet Kill
Switch Is Waiting To Be Flicked -- Microsoft and DHS Can See You In Your Living Room -- Leading economist: China facing real estate crash -- No license to drive? Lawmaker wants it so -- Strangling the Internet in Egypt: Why the U.S. Could be Next
-- Wrights takes “stop all war” message to Arizona -- Secret to Bank's
Comeback: A Rich Uncle Named Sam -- -- Professor Cornpone - Ethanol
lobbyist Newt Gingrich and us—and the future of the GOP -- Chomsky:
Strategic and Economic Objectives, Not Anti-Islamization, Drives U.S.
Policy -- Defense Dept.’s Meddling Around the World costs US Taxpayers Billions to Enrich Contractors -- The GOP's Wild Plan To Avoid U.S. Default Is To "Pay China First"
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News Link • Healthcare
Federal judge rules Obamacare unconstitutional
01-31-2011
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Mark Hemingway, Sfexaminer.com
The full text of the decision from Federal Judge Roger Vinson is not available yet, but according to reporters who've seen the decision, he's ruled the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The ruling favors of the 2
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Reported by:
Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CPAC Fascists: Rumsfeld to receive ‘Defender of the Constitution Award’
01-31-2011
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Rawstory.com
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will be honored with the "Defender of the Constitution Award" at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual event attended by numerous conservative activists, journalists...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA shuts door on private airport screening program
01-31-2011
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CNN
A program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners is being brought to a standstill, just a month after the Transportation Security Administration said it was "neutral" on the program.
TSA chief John Pistole sai
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Radio
New law could foster community radio boom
01-31-2011
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Reuters
It directs the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the national airwaves, to allow more low-power stations access to the FM radio dial. Once implemented, the law is expected to result in as many 2,000 new stations, beginning in about 2
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Farewell to Modernity in the New Age of Surveillance
01-31-2011
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truthout
An increasing number of premises and public spaces are permanently monitored. Stationary radars deployed by the roads monitor our vehicles and the speed at which they move. Our every entrance, not only into banks, but also shopping malls, is immortal
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Muslim Brotherhood Verifies Obama's Birth Certificate
01/31/2011
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godlikeproductions.com
Now if only SOMEONE in Congress or the Supreme Court will act on this. This is what Obama has spent almost $2M (so far) to hide. Pix at url.
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Road to Madness Is Paved With $100 Bills
01-31-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Bernanke will drive us all to ruin, pushing ever harder on the gas pedal and repeating, “I must act, I must act, I must act” under his breath in order drown out the cries of, “stop, you’ll kill us” from the 308+ million of us sitting in the backseat.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control
01-31-2011
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Rense.com
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Nearly 11 Percent of US Houses Empty
01-31-2011
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CNBC.com
Homeownership is falling at an alarming pace, despite the fact that home prices have fallen, affordability is much improved and inventories of new and existing homes are still running quite high.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
The Ardor Of Joe Lieberman: Internet Kill Switch Is Waiting To Be Flicked
01-31-2011
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TheAge.com.au
The proposed legislation, introduced into the US Senate by senator Joe Lieberman, who is chairman of the US Homeland Security committee, seeks to grant the President broad emergency powers over the internet in times of national emergency.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Microsoft and DHS Can See You In Your Living Room
01-31-2011
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Market-ticker.org
DHS has to be salivating over this development:
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
Leading economist: China facing real estate crash
01-31-2011
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Terrence Aym
China's economy has been forging ahead at a sizzling rate. The last quarter of 2010 came in with a bang louder than Chinese New Year"analysts pegged the growth in their economy at more than 10 percent. Yet a leading Chinese economist sees warning si
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Transportation
No license to drive? Lawmaker wants it so
01-31-2011
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ktar.com
If one Georgia lawmaker has his way, drivers licenses will go the way of the dinosaurs.
According to CBS Atlanta, State Rep. Bobby Franklin, R-Marietta, has filed House Bill 7, calling it the "Right to Travel Act."
In his bill, Franklin s
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Egypt and the Imperial Achilles Heel
01-31-2011
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Becky Chandler
Just as the Soviet Union's Empire in Eastern Europe ended , so is America's rule in the Middle East"the only remaining issue is how it ends.....
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Reported by:
Becky Chandler
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Let My People Go
01-31-2011
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C4SS / Thomas L. Knapp
Any lasting coalition between secularist and Islamist statists seems unlikely. Eventually they’ll duke it out. But they’re pulling together for the moment to combat the specter of anarchy.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Government
Strangling the Internet in Egypt: Why the U.S. Could be Next
01-31-2011
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SovereignMan
In today's post over at SovereignMan.com, Simon Black looks at the Egyptian government's reaction to the current strife and makes a compelling argument for why the United States could very well be next to impose draconian measures on the Internet a
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Sovereign Man
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Secret to Bank's Comeback: A Rich Uncle Named Sam
01-31-2011
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online.wsj.com
FDIC., which sold the failed BankUnited to a group on Wall Street led by a longtime New York banker. The FDIC agreed to reimburse as much as $10.5 billion in future loan losses"and gave the new owners $2.2 billion in cash. The buyers paid $945 millio
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
A Plea to the American Farmer…
01-31-2011
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Farm Wars
These are the people who will replenish the earth. These are the people who will “reboot the American Dream.” Only this time, with a whole new operating system.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Professor Cornpone - Ethanol lobbyist Newt Gingrich and us"and the future of the GOP
01-31-2011
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online.wsj.com
The former Speaker blew through Des Moines last Tuesday for the Renewable Fuels Association summit, and his keynote speech to the ethanol lobby was as pious a tribute to the fuel made from corn and tax dollars as we've ever heard
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Chomsky: Strategic and Economic Objectives, Not Anti-Islamization, Drives U.S. Policy
01-31-2011
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Noam Chomsky via www.accuracy.org
It is well-established, including the major scholarly literature, that the U.S. supports democracy if and only if that accords with strategic and economic objectives.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Defense Dept.’s Meddling Around the World costs US Taxpayers Billions to Enrich Contractors
01-29-2011
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Nathan A. Bauer's blog
With a budget proposal of 3.8 Trillion Dollars for FY 2011 about to be presented by Obama to Congress February 1st and $928.5 Billion dollars allocated for Defense, then maybe we should take a look there first to find a paltry 1 Trillion to stave off
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The GOP's Wild Plan To Avoid U.S. Default Is To "Pay China First"
01-31-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
If passed, Toomey's plan would require the government to cut large checks to foreign countries, and major financial institutions, before paying off its obligations to Social Security beneficiaries and other citizens owed money by the Treasury...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • Federal Reserve
Inflation is Theft! - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
Unemployment continues to plague our economy. In spite of constant claims we have just turned the corner into recovery, the jobs report remains grim with no real signs of improvement. While Keynesian economists and big government apologists
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