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Date Sent: 2013-02-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 26, 2013 AM edition |
Afghan officials say NATO ignored complaints of abuses by U.S. Special Operations forces
Washington Hypocrisy Skyrockets, Credibility Plummets -- US Congress: 'Fight Terrorism, Arm The Terrorists!' -- Court Nixes Va. Appeal in Case of Low IQ Inmate -- Obama to Meet on Immigration With McCain, Graham -- 02-26-13 -- Ernest Hancock to guest host for John Bush's Rise Up Radio - LRN.FM, M-F, 8-9 a.m. EST -- The California tax that terrifies tech -- Shining a light on the heavily manipulated silver market... The NeoAbolition Silver Index -- The Coming Water Wars -- Trusts Offer a Legal Loophole for Buying Restricted Guns -- Assault weapons ban could get committee vote Thursday -- Senators near a deal on background checks for most private gun sales -- White House releases state-by-state breakdown of sequester’s effects -- Congressional Abdication
AZ: "No Dinosaurs in Heaven" Screening (The Objectivists
host) Thurs. 28th; Arizona Breakfast Club Sat., March 2nd.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan officials say NATO ignored complaints of abuses by U.S. Special Operations forces
02-25-2013
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Washington Post
Afghan officials said they demanded the pullout of U.S. Special Operations forces because the NATO for months has ignored residents’ allegations of severe abuses committed by American troops and armed Afghans working with them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Washington Hypocrisy Skyrockets, Credibility Plummets
02-25-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Obama supports a UN treaty on "illicit arms trafficking and proliferation". At the same time, the US and ally Saudi Arabia are sending heavier arms into Syria. These shipments to Syria violate the UN charter to which they solemnly pledged to adhere.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
US Congress: 'Fight Terrorism, Arm The Terrorists!'
02-25-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
What is a Member of the US House who strongly and passionately supports the State of Israel doing introducing legislation that would result in a gusher of arms flowing to "the fastest-growing al Qaeda front in the world, attracting fighters from
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Court Nixes Va. Appeal in Case of Low IQ Inmate
02-25-2013
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AP
The lower court had concluded that Winston's lawyers did not try hard enough to show Winston was mentally disabled, and thus, ineligible to be executed under a 2002 Supreme Court ruling. The state argued Winston waited too late to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Obama to Meet on Immigration With McCain, Graham
02-25-2013
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AP
President Barack Obama will meet with two top Republican lawmakers Tuesday to discuss overhauling the nation's immigration laws.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
The California tax that terrifies tech
02-25-2013
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CNN
Entrepreneurs and investors in California can expect a rude shock in the mail if they sold their company in the last 4 years. Not only did the state's Tax Board eliminate a tax break on capital gains, it announced the tax would be retroactive to 2008
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Shining a light on the heavily manipulated silver market... The NeoAbolition Silver Index
02-25-2013
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neoabolition.com
The NeoAbolition Silver Index is a project of NeoAbolition.com in an effort to highlight government and corporate manipulation of the silver commodity market vs. the free market, person-to-person selling price of ‘junk’ US minted silver coins. The i
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Ryan Gauger
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News Link • Gun Rights
Trusts Offer a Legal Loophole for Buying Restricted Guns
02-25-2013
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New York Times
A growing number of shooting enthusiasts are creating legal trusts to acquire machine guns, silencers or other items whose sale is restricted " a mechanism that bypasses the need to obtain law enforcement approval or even undergo background checks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Assault weapons ban could get committee vote Thursday
02-25-2013
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Washington Post
A proposed ban on military-style assault weapons faces a key test vote as early as Thursday when the committee considering gun control legislation is scheduled to decide whether to refer the proposal to the full Senate.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senators near a deal on background checks for most private gun sales
02-24-2013
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Washington Post
A bipartisan group of senators is on the verge of a deal that would expand background checks to all private firearms sales with limited exemptions, but significant disagreements remain on the issue of keeping records of private gun sales,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
White House releases state-by-state breakdown of sequester’s effects
02-25-2013
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Washington Post
The White House detailed how the deep spending cuts set to begin this week would affect programs in every state and the District, as President Obama launched a last-ditch effort to pressure congressional Republicans to compromise
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Court Rules There Is No Right To Carry A Concealed Weapon
02-25-2013
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Business Insider
In a sweeping ruling, the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that there is no Second Amendment right to carry a concealed firearm in public.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The true national debt
02-25-2013
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Washington Post
How big is the national debt? You’d think this would be an easy question. Surely we know how much the government owes. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. It could be triple the conventional estimate, anywhere from $11 trillion to $31 trillion
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Need Bitcoins? This ATM takes dollars and funds your account
02-23-2013
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Cnet
NASHUA, N.H. -- Zach Harvey has an ambitious plan to accelerate adoption of the Internet's favorite alternative currency: installing in thousands of bars, restaurants, and grocery stores ATMs that will let you buy Bitcoins anonymously.
It's the op
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
IDF Sends Helicopter to Save the Life of PA Arab Rioter
02/25/2013
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David Lev for Arutz Sheva
Israeli taxpayers laid out tens of thousands of shekels to transport to hospital by helicopter a hurt Arab rioter who attacked IDF soldiers
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Economy - International
Mark Thornton Explains the Real Meaning of Austerity
02-25-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Real austerity is not adding more difficulties on the productive sector of the economy in the form of higher taxes. The private sector produces, the public sector consumes. The IMF’s idea of raising taxes on individuals to pay off banksters
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Shaming Bad Prosecutors
02-25-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor scolded a federal prosecutor for a racist comment he made during a drug trial. While questioning the defendant, the prosecutor asked, "You've got African-Americans, you've got Hispanics, you've got
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Opinion • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Scarcity: Humanity’s Final Chapter?
02-25-2013
Frosty Wooldridge
Erik Davis referred to as, “Consensus trance.” With such definite realities facing us and very close at hand, how could an educated and free people with limitless news media and academic institutions choose to ignore our harsh realities?
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran Nukes
02-22-2013
Ray McGovern
MEMORANDUM FOR: Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
SUBJECT: Due Diligence on John Brennan
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News Link • Economy - International
Everyone's Rooting For Germany To Pull Europe Out Of Its Funk
02-23-2013
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Business Insider
All hopes rest on Germany: its vibrant economy teeming with globalized, ultra-competitive, export-focused companies would drag France and other Eurozone countries out of their economic morass.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Firearms Companies Restricting Sales To GOVERNMENT Agencies In Areas That Restrict Gun Rights
02-23-2013
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Prison Planet
A growing number of firearm and firearm-related companies have stated they will no longer sell items to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens’ rights to own them
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Child Porn Is A Much Bigger Problem Than You Realize
02-23-2013
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Business Insider
In 1990, there were only 7,000 hard copy images of child porn in the United Kingdom, according to non-profit group NSPCC.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Major DHS Insider Tells Of Coming False Flag And Gun Events Planned By The Government.
02-23-2013
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Daily Paul.com
MAJOR DHS INSIDER TELLS OF COMING FALSE FLAG AND GUN EVENTS PLANNED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption
02-23-2013
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ted.com
Trinidad and Tobago amassed great wealth in the 1970s thanks to oil. But in 1982, a shocking fact was revealed -- that 2 out of every 3 dollars earmarked for development had been wasted or stolen.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Georgiana Vines: Ron Paul to speak at GOP dinner in Knoxville
02-23-2013
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knoxnews.com
Ron Paul, former Texas congressman and Republican presidential contender, will speak at the Knox County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner on April 12, having been invited by his friend, U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., R-Knoxville.
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Robert Lee
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