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Date Sent: 2012-02-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 15, 2012 PM edition |
Iran makes own nuclear fuel rods for reactor -- Hillary Clinton 'wants to quit to run World Bank'
Rick Santorum and "Holy Mother State" -- Mexican official: US travel warning 'ridiculous' -- Swiss craft janitor satellites to grab space junk -- Chinese blocked visit by U.S. religious freedom envoy, advocates say -- Greeks direct cries of pain at Germany -- Obama On Failed Promise To Cut Deficit In Half: "Recession Turned Out To Be A Lot Deeper" -- Can Just 3% of America Organize and Reclaim our Constitution? - Live Webinar TONIGHT! Feb. 15 -- Demand
Fully Public Elections! Lawsuit to ban all voting machines now at U.S.
Court of Appeals -- Silver Circle Comes to MegaCon 2012 -- Reaction to defense budget: Atlas shrugs? Pentagon, contractors seem OK with 2013 spending plan -- February 15th, 2012 - Francis Boyle - Cindy Sheehan - Listen Live M-F, LRN.FM, 9-Noon (EST) -- Space research here faces a
horizon of closures, cuts -- German GDP drops, France edges up,
periphery deep in gloom -- Lawmakers Move To Cusp Of Deal On Payroll Tax
Cut -- SOCIAL MEDIA "TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION": Spying and
Propaganda using Facebook, Twitter -- Iran Falsely Charged with India
and Georgia Attacks -- Graphene Electronics Moves to Three Dimensions
AZ: Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY
TICKETS NOW!)
WA: Ron Paul in town for two days
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News Link • Iran
Iran to load own nuclear fuel rods in Tehran reactor
02-15-2012
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Reuters
Iran will load domestically made nuclear fuel rods into its Tehran Research Reactor on Wednesday for the first time to keep it running, a senior official told a national news agency.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Hillary Clinton 'wants to quit to run World Bank'
02-15-2012
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about stepping down from her job as Secretary of State to become head of the World Bank, according to reports.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rick Santorum and "Holy Mother State"
02-15-2012
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Becky Chandler
Subsidiarity, Dorothy Day and why Rick Santorum gets an F in Catholic Social Teaching
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Reported by:
Becky Chandler
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News Link • Mexico
Mexican official: US travel warning 'ridiculous'
02-15-2012
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Associated Press
Mexico's top domestic security official says a U.S. State Department travel warning on almost half of Mexico's states is "ridiculous" and "out of proportion."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Swiss craft janitor satellites to grab space junk
02-15-2012
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Associated Press
The 10-million-franc ($11-million) satellite called CleanSpace One - the prototype for a family of such satellites - is being built by the Swiss Space Center at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne, or EPFL.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Chinese blocked visit by U.S. religious freedom envoy, advocates say
02-15-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
Chinese officials denied a visa to a top State Department envoy and refused to meet with her to discuss issues of religious freedom days before this week’s high-profile visit to Washington by China’s vice president, according to rights advocates and
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Greeks direct cries of pain at Germany
02-15-2012
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www.ft.com
Rioters burn the German flag in street protests. A demonstrator defaces the façade of the Bank of Greece, the central bank, so that it reads “Bank of Berlin”.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama On Failed Promise To Cut Deficit In Half: "Recession Turned Out To Be A Lot Deeper"
02-15-2012
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www.realclearpolitics.com
In an interview with Atlanta's local Fox affiliate WAGA-TV President Obama explains why he was unable to cut the deficit in half in his first term, a promise he made as a candidate.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
Demand Fully Public Elections! Lawsuit to ban all voting machines now at U.S. Court of Appeals
02-15-2012
FACT: Voting Machines record and count our votes in secret! FACT: Secret vote counting is unconstitutional! FACT: Machines deprive your Right to Public Elections! WHY would the state wage a 5-year battle against counting votes in public?
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Silver Circle Comes to MegaCon 2012:
02-15-2012
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www.megaconvention.com
The Sunshine State will be hosting stars from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars, and even Stan Lee will be there! As Silver Circle’s second appearance at MegaCon and with our movie premiere right around the corner, this will surely be a can’t miss
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Reaction to defense budget: Atlas shrugs?
Pentagon, contractors seem OK with 2013 spending plan
02-14-2012
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Russ Britt, MarketWatch
Most Pentagon watchers are saying the cuts are mild. The proof? Not even military personnel and defense contractors are crying foul. The mood struck this week by Obama’s defense budget stands in sharp contrast to what was expected just a few weeks ag
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space research here faces a horizon of closures, cuts
02-15-2012
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Tom Beal Arizona Daily Star
Budget cuts proposed by the president Monday could also accelerate closure of the iconic McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope on Kitt Peak.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
German GDP drops, France edges up, periphery deep in gloom
02-15-2012
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By Sarah Marsh and Daniel Flynn
Germany's economy contracted slightly in the fourth quarter but both it and France, which eked out anemic growth, performed better than forecast
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Antibiotics No Help for Sinusitis
02-15-2012
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By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Antibiotics won't chase away patients' sniffles any faster than watchful waiting, researchers found.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP contender Ron Paul to visit Washington
02-15-2012
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The Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul plans to hit three Washington state cities in a two-day campaign visit this week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Militia
US militia 'set for war on the anti-Christ and government'
02-15-2012
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Meghana Keshavan
A militia group in the US planned to "go to war" against the government with assault rifles and homemade bombs and dressed in military style helmets, a court heard today.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Visit Offers Little Insight Into Next China Leader
02-15-2012
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by The Associated Press
China's Vice President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington's power centers is boosting his international profile but offering little insight into the man destined to rule the world's most populous nation.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Lawmakers Move To Cusp Of Deal On Payroll Tax Cut
02-15-2012
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by The Associated Press
Congressional leaders are gauging lawmakers' reactions to a tentative deal extending a 2 percentage-point payroll tax cut and extra jobless benefits through 2012.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Why California Almonds Need North Dakota Flowers (And A Few Billion Bees)
02-15-2012
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by Dan Charles
Here's the web of connections: a threat to California's booming almond business; hard times for honeybees in North Dakota; and high corn prices.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
SOCIAL MEDIA "TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION": Spying and Propaganda using Facebook, Twi
02-15-2012
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by Julie Lévesque
A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org's Joseph Fitsanaki
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
Oxygen Molecule Survives Enormous Pressure
02-15-2012
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arclein
The oxygen atoms in the O2 molecule are held together by a double covalent bond. Nitrogen (N2), on the other hand, possesses a triple bond. "You would think that the weaker double bond is easier to break than the triple bond and that oxygen would th
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphene Electronics Moves to Three Dimensions
02-15-2012
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arclein
Dr Leonid Ponomarenko, who spearheaded the experimental effort, said: "We have proved a conceptually new approach to graphene electronics. Our transistors already work pretty well. I believe they can be improved much further, scaled down to nanometr
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Electronic Function Engineered Inside Optical Cable
02-15-2012
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arclein
We have managed to build the junction - the active boundary where all the electronic action takes place - right into the fibre. Moreover, while conventional chip fabrication requires multimillion dollar clean room facilities, our process can be perfo
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain Capacity Limits Exponential Online Data Growth
02-15-2012
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arclein
Scientists have found that the capacity of the human brain to process and record information - and not economic constraints - may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of globally stored information. These findings have just
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robert klein
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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 • 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 • Justice and Judges
Controversy in court: AG's office seizes attorney's phone
02-13-2012
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Defense Attorney Donna Uhlmann is questioning the legality of an incident in which the Attorney General’s office seized her cell phone from courtroom 9 in the Licht Judicial Complex.
“My cell phone contains highly privileged information between my
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
False Fears About a Nuclear Iran
02-13-2012
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Reason magazine
"The stupidest thing I have ever heard." " Meir Dagan, former head of Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, on attacking Iran's nuclear facilities.
Stupid it may be, but it's also the hottest trend since the iPhone. Defense Secretary Leon Pane
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Britain Shouldn’t Aid a Lawless America
02-13-2012
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New York Times
THE British government will be held in contempt of court later this week if it does not physically produce a prisoner of war whom its special forces captured in 2004 and then handed over to American soldiers.
The current legal drama began in Febru
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Innovative Apps: Rat Out Your Neighbor Anonymously
02-13-2012
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appadvice.com
The town of Gilbert, Arizona, just released its first app which is described in iTunes as a “Citizen Engagement app for the Town of Gilbert Arizona.”
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Ernest Hancock
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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 • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Harassment by Baltimore City Police
02-13-2012
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Baltimore Sun
When tech entrepreneur Scott Cover happened upon a group of Baltimore Police standing over a handcuffed man near Cross Street market, he pulled out his camera phone and started recording. He'd seen news reports of the Police Dept affirming citizens'
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Powell Gammill
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