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Date Sent: 2012-02-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 27, 2012 AM edition |
PayPal As Moral Police? Forces E-Book Sellers To Remove Certain Erotica Content
It Is Only Murder When They Kill Us -- 'Progressive' Elizabeth Warren Is
a Right-Wing Fanatic When It Comes to U.S. Foreign Policy -- PETA kills more than 95 percent of animals in its care -- U.S. shouldn't speed up Afghanistan pull out: ambassador -- Scotland moves toward vote on independence -- Clinton says ‘every possibility’ of civil war in Syria -- Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drive Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules -- Nigeria suicide attack targets church service -- BP says U.S. oil spill trial could ‘last until 2014′ -- Ron Paul Only Candidate To Warn of Fascist Takeover in America -- US advisers shot dead 'after Koran row' -- France to EU: Stop Monsanto's Corn -- Huge Anti-Putin Human Chain Protest Encircles Moscow -- Study: Combination tetanus, whooping cough vaccine linked to seizures in babies -- U.S. does not believe Iran is trying to build nuclear bomb -- Advice From Our Founders - by Howard Blitz
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday, March 3rd
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
PayPal As Moral Police? Forces E-Book Sellers To Remove Certain Erotica Content
02-26-2012
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techcrunch.com
Adult content has long been a big draw, and one of the most profitable, in the world of digital media, but a recent move by PayPal is a sign of how one part of that business may be facing some problems up ahead.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
It Is Only Murder When They Kill Us
02-26-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
I keep seeing reports in the media about the murder of two US military officers in Afghanistan. Two things. 1. Why is it only murder when they kill us? Has no one in Afghanistan been murdered by US forces? 2. Why does the largest, most powerful milit
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
'Progressive' Elizabeth Warren Is a Right-Wing Fanatic When It Comes to U.S. Foreign Policy
02-26-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The "darling" of the "progressives" Elizabeth Warren sounds like Bill O'Reilly on her National Security/Foreign policy page of her campaign for Massachusetts Senator website. Here are a few choice excerpts:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
PETA kills more than 95 percent of animals in its care
02-26-2012
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The Daily Caller
Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization known for its uncompromising animal-rights positions, killed more than 95 percent of the pets in its care in 2011.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. shouldn't speed up Afghanistan pull out: ambassador
02-26-2012
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Reuters
The United States should resist the urge to pull troops out of Afghanistan ahead of schedule due to the violence against Americans over the burning of the Koran at a U.S. military base, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said. "Tensions are
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Scotland moves toward vote on independence
02-26-2012
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Washington Post
After centuries of war with England, politicians in this stately city signed away Scotland’s sovereignty in the early 1700s for the promise of riches and the glory of empire. Three hundred years later, resurgent nationalists here are plotting a new r
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News Link • World News
Colombia’s FARC promises to free all hostages
02-26-2012
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The RawStory.com
Colombia’s FARC rebels pledged Sunday to end decades of kidnapping civilians, a historic shift for Latin America’s longest-fighting leftist guerrillas, who also vowed to release remaining police and military hostages.
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News Link • World News
Clinton says ‘every possibility’ of civil war in Syria
02-26-2012
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The RawStory.com
There is “every possibility” that Syria could descend into a civil war which could be worsened by foreign intervention, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the BBC on Sunday.
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News Link • World News
Ecuador libel case pits Correa against the press
02-26-2012
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Simeon Tegel
Ecuador President Rafael Correa’s high-stakes showdown with the media could entirely prevent local reporters from covering presidential elections in the South American nation next January.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama juggles needs for campaign money, mass appeal
02-26-2012
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The RawStory.com
As his reelection campaign heats up, President Barack Obama is attending fundraisers about one of every four days, with experts saying he is working to raise a whopping billion dollars to stay in the White House.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drive Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
02-26-2012
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Wired.com
Thursday’s decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that an encrypted hard drive is akin to a combination to a safe, and is off limits, because compelling the unlocking of either of them is the equivalent of forcing testimony.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Military
Afghan president calls for calm over Koran-burning
02-26-2012
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The RawStory.com
Afghan President Hamid Karzai went on television Sunday to appeal for calm after five days of violent anti-US protests across his country over the burning of Korans at a US military base.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Nigeria suicide attack targets church service
02-26-2012
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The RawStoyr.com
A suicide bomber smashed his explosives-laden car through the gates of a packed church during Sunday service in Jos, central Nigeria, killing three people and injuring dozens, church leaders said.
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News Link • World News
Anti-Putin human chain protest hits Moscow
02-26-2012
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The RawStory.com
Thousands of Russians linked hands around Moscow on Sunday in a protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s expected return to the Kremlin for a third term in elections next weekend.
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News Link • Climate Change
‘Super sherpa’ says climate change may make Mount Everest unclimbable
02-26-2012
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The RawStory.com
Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb, some of the world’s top mountaineers have warned.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
BP says U.S. oil spill trial could ‘last until 2014′
02-26-2012
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The RawStory.com
British energy giant BP is prepared for a multi-billion-dollar US legal case into the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill to last until 2014, its chief executive told the Sunday Telegraph.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Santorum Insists Obama is a Snob
02-26-2012
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Thedailybeast.com
Rick Santorum is on quite a roll. He made the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows and appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to defend calling President Obama a "snob" for saying that everyone in the country should be able to go to college.
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News Link • Afghanistan
US advisers shot dead 'after Koran row'
02-26-2012
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ABC.net
Two United States advisers who were shot dead in Afghanistan's interior ministry by an Afghan colleague had been mocking anti-US protests over the burning of the Koran, a government source said.
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News Link • Food
France to EU: Stop Monsanto's Corn
02-26-2012
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Agence France-Presse reports:
France has asked the European regulators to suspend the authorization to plant Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) MON810 corn.
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News Link • World News
Huge Anti-Putin Human Chain Protest Encircles Moscow
02-26-2012
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Common Dreams staff
Just a week before Russia's election, tens of thousands of anti-Putin protesters formed a continuous human chain stretching 10 miles around the center of Moscow on Sunday afternoon.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Huawei Officially Announces The ICS-Powered Ascend D Quad Smartphone
02-26-2012
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Jordan Crook
We haven’t heard much from Huawei lately. Aside from a few smartphones here and there, the company hasn’t really made a huge push or impression as of late.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study: Combination tetanus, whooping cough vaccine linked to seizures in babies
02-26-2012
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Jonathan Benson, staff writer
If you choose to have your baby vaccinated with the combination diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type 2 vaccine, a mega-jab collectively known as the DTap-IPV-Hib, your child may be at an increased ris
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
The Candidate Interview Process
02-26-2012
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Farm Wars
People elected to hold public office are employees. Of whom? We the People. Therefore, every meeting with these people should be conducted as a job interview.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Iran
U.S. does not believe Iran is trying to build nuclear bomb
02-23-2012
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Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
As U.S. and Israeli officials talk publicly about the prospect of a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, one fact is often overlooked: U.S. intelligence agencies don't believe Iran is actively trying to build an atomic bomb.
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Opinion • Foreign Policy
Advice From Our Founders
02-26-2012
Howard Blitz
With our government officials beating the drum again for more war, this time with Iran, they might want to take a step back and heed the advice of our forefathers, principles that were consistently expressed through all of their writings.
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Feature Article • Arizona's Top News
Checkpoint USA Is Going To Trial!
Terry Bressi
After more than eight long years, hundreds of legal documents later and several court challenges (including a reversal by the 9th circuit court of appeals), Checkpoint USA's lawsuit is finally being scheduled for trial after being launched in Decembe
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