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Date Sent: 2011-02-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 10, 2011 AM edition |
Army official: US troops needed in Mexico -- FBI trained Egypt’s state security ‘torturers’
Egypt's long-standing emergency law becomes lightning rod as protests
continue -- Patriot Act extension to be brought up again today -- Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt -- Egypt's
state-run media starting to shift from pro-Mubarak coverage -- New York Congressman Resigns Over E-Mails -- Suez Canal strike may ignite oil price: Obama Sends Aircraft Carriers --Ron Paul holds first hearing to scrutinize Fed -- Ron Paul Running for President? Could He Be First Tea Party Candidate? -- Obama Proposing 2 Year Delay On Imposing EPA Regs? -- Egypt protests mount as US presses Mubarak -- UK court bans man from having sex because of low IQ -- Now Michelle O is Determining What Restaurants Can Offer! -- Democratic Senator Jim Webb not seeking re-election in 2012 -- Man says ex-CIA agent Posada gave him explosives for hotel bombing -- Blizzard roars through US's snow-weary midsection -- Besmirching Libertarianism
CA: Annual Freedom Law Conference Aims to Uncover Controversial Topics Banned by Major Media
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News Link • Military
Army official suggests U.S. troops might be needed in Mexico
02-09-2011
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www.sltrib.com
Fretting over a scenario in which armed U.S. soldiers could be called to the border " or even over it " to hold back lawlessness and violence, Undersecretary of the Army Joseph Westphal invoked a contentious word to describe Mexico’s problem with dru
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Torture
FBI trained Egypt’s state security ‘torturers’
02-09-2011
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Rawstory.com
Egypt's secret police, long accused of torturing suspects and intimidating political opponents of President Hosni Mubarak, received training at the FBI's facility in Quantico, Virginia...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Egypt's long-standing emergency law becomes lightning rod as protests continue
02-09-2011
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NY Times
For 30 years, Egyptians who protested their government or organized a political party did so knowing they could be arrested under an emergency law that gives the government broad powers to act against perceived threats to the country's stability.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Patriot Act extension to be brought up again today
02-09-2011
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Washington Post
The House on Thursday will again take up a bill that would extend until December key provisions of the Patriot Act counterterrorism surveillance law, two days after the measure fell seven votes short of the super-majority required for passage under f
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt
02-09-2011
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NY Times
Yet they brought a sophistication and professionalism to their cause " exploiting the anonymity of the Internet to elude the secret police, planting false rumors to fool police spies, staging “field tests” in Cairo slums before laying out their battl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
Egypt's state-run media starting to shift from pro-Mubarak coverage
02-09-2011
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Washington Post
Over the past few days, journalists working for Egyptian state media have orchestrated a remarkable uprising of their own: They have begun reporting news that casts the embattled government in a negative light.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
New York Congressman Resigns Over E-Mails
02-09-2011
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NY Times
Representative Christopher Lee of New York abruptly resigned on Wednesday night after a shirtless photo of himself, which he had e-mailed to a woman, was published on the Internet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Study reveals allergy sufferers less likely to get brain cancer
02-09-2011
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Terrence Aym
University of Illinois medical researchers made a startling discovery: allergies might protect the suffer from glioma"a cancerous brain tumor. Yet the brain cancer glioma is not the only one that might be suppressed by the immune system of those suff
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Constitution
Imagining Freedom
02-09-2011
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The Tenth Amendment Center
As Mr. Hancock’s statement points out, if we can no longer imagine what it is to be free, then our future is going to be one where we lose more and more of our freedoms to the surveillance of the nanny state. Patrick Henry didn’t give his impassioned
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Energy
Suez Canal strike may ignite oil price: Obama Sends Aircraft Carriers
02-09-2011
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commodityonline.com
Giving more momentum to anti Mubarak protests in Egypt, thousands of Suez Canal service workers began an indefinite strike threatening crude oil supply disruptions.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul holds first hearing to scrutinize Fed
02-09-2011
Three economics experts were scheduled to testify at the hearing, including Sillinger School of Business economics professor Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder, and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Tea Party
Ron Paul Running for President? Could He Be First Tea Party Candidate?
02-07-2011
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http://drscoundrels.com
Ron Paul's ideology is the cornerstone of the Tea Party movement. If he runs for president, will the Tea Party form a Party and nominate him?
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James Hyde
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News Link • Gun Rights
Loaded Lust: Sex Toys for Guns
02-09-2011
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abcnews.go.com
An adult novelty store in Alabama starts a unique gun-swap program.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Chemtrails
2011 SUPERBOWL CHEMTRAILS 4 AZ
02-08-2011
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Real News Tucson
2011 Superbowl Funny commercials were great weren't they, New World Order agenda commercials but even better yet...we were being poisoned heavily here in Tucson Arizona as the skies were completely covered for two days with artificial clouds made of
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Environment
Obama Proposing 2 Year Delay On Imposing EPA Regs?
02-09-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
By DRScoundrels: Say it isn’t so. His supporters will be enraged, his base will be furious. Lisa will pout. We have seen the GOP going after the NLRB and EPA by funding already, with an ominous statement that EPA Chief Lisa Jackson “might want to ha
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Biggest Scam in World History Exposed
02-09-2011
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Mercola.com
The greatest scam in history has been exposed -- and has largely been ignored by the media. In fact, it’s still going on.
The specifics of a secret taxpayer funded “backdoor bailout” organized by unelected bankers have been revealed. The data rele
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • World News
Ernie Hancock, Mark Hinkle, Mary Ruwart help bring libertarian message to Arab world
02-09-2011
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www.independentpoliticalreport.com
Ernie Hancock, Mark Hinkle, Mary Ruwart join with others to help bring libertarian message to Arab world
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Egypt protests mount as US presses Mubarak
02-09-2011
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RawStory.com
Galvanised by the biggest day of protest since their campaign to oust Hosni Mubarak's regime began, Egyptian pro-democracy campaigners attempted to blockade parliament Wednesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Now Michelle O is Determining What Restaurants Can Offer!
02-09-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
By Ladybug4Freedom: Yep. The first lady of hype; oh she of the hips now has those piggy fingers inserted into the restaurant trade clean up to the second knuckle. When will this woman butt OUT? I knew this was coming. I knew she would work her w
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Reported by:
Rich Hilts
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News Link • Internet
Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down too
02-09-2011
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RawStory.com
The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Man says ex-CIA agent Posada gave him explosives for hotel bombing
02-09-2011
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RawStory.com
A Salvadoran man told The Associated Press that a former CIA operative gave him powerful explosives and cash to carry out a 1997 hotel bombing in Cuba.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Blizzard roars through US's snow-weary midsection
02-09-2011
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news.yahoo.com
A second powerful blizzard in a week roared through parts of the nation's midsection on Wednesday, dumping more than a foot of snow on areas still digging out from last week's major storm and contributing to at least two traffic deaths.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Political Parties
Besmirching Libertarianism
02-09-2011
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dailybell.com
Now that libertarianism has gotten some publicity in mainstream forums, those who are convinced of its merit have much work to do. This is because of the well publicized distortions of the position in prominent forums, especially by well credentialed
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
$20-Trillion War Costs Bankrupting US
02-09-2011
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dailybell.com
Out of control spending must be examined and admitted so that the task of protecting the Homeland can be updated and maintained.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics
Poll: Ron Paul Has Greater Chance Of Beating Obama Than Palin Does In 2012
02-09-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Will the Libertarian Congressman take up the mantle?
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
A Behind the Scenes Look: How We Make Our Products
02-09-2011
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youtube.com
Lexar, a division of Micron technology, is a leading global provider of memory products for digital media. Check out this behind the scenes look at the extensive work and care put into each Lexar product.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
02-09-2011
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Ted.com
As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds robots that teach, learn -- and play. Watch for a
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Legal expert slams Assange case
02-09-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
Former Swedish prosecutor says there were serious irregularities in case built against the WikiLeaks founder.
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News Link • Military
Senior US Marine Says "Multiple Platoons" Are Headed To Egypt
02-09-2011
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www.businessinsider.com
A senior member of the US Marine corps is telling people "multiple platoons" are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphene Could Help Physicists Probe the Higgs Boson's Secrets
02-09-2011
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popsci.com
One of the most promising materials in science could answer some questions about one of the most elusive particles in the universe, according to a new paper. A trio of Spanish physicists believes that graphene, that simple, special Nobel-winning stuf
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Tiny Rubik's-Cube-Sized Cell Towers Could Increase Coverage and Decrease Cost
02-09-2011
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popsci.com
Smaller, more efficient antenna tech could cut the cost of a network in half.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Construction Begins on 1,000-MPH Rocket Car
02-09-2011
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wired.com
After three years of planning, a missile on wheels designed to top 1,000 mph is finally under construction.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Moon Race Team Signs Rocket Deal with SpaceX
02-09-2011
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space.com
A privately funded team hoping to win a multimillion-dollar race to the moon has figured out how it's going to get most of the way there " aboard a commercial rocket that could launch in 2013.
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