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Date Sent: 2013-02-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 27, 2013 PM edition |
Lobbyist Demands Approval For "Lethal" Drones Within United States - VIDEO
LAPD sings ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ after burning Christopher
Dorner alive -- 02-27-13 -- Jacek Spendel (from Katowice, Poland) -
LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Government Spending
Cuts? No. Spending Increases. -- Statue Of Obama To Be Put Up In
Israel? -- Verizon, Comcast & Other Internet Providers Have A
New Tactic To Stop Your Illegal Downloads -- City Wants Power to
“Disarm Individuals” During Crisis -- The Big Dogs On Wall
Street Are Starting To Get Very Nervous -- 50 Signs That The U.S.
Health Care System Is A Gigantic Money Making Scam That Is About To
Collapse -- Obama's Ex-Secret Service Agent: It's Not Gun
Control... Its People Control -- Louisiana Says Homeless Can’t
Eat Deer Meat -- Ben Swann: #LibertyIsRising -- Private US Military Firms Spread to Switzerland: US$100 Billion
Market Seen -- Man Bites Dog: Columnist Reveals Truth About
History of 'Journalism' -- Two Mighty Libertarian Brains to
Debate Copyright and IP? -- Yes, Hitler & Stalin Did Take The
Guns -- Australian Billionaire Unveils Blueprints Of Titanic
II -- Kerry: US to Hasten Syria Regime Change -- Obama to
Inform Netanyahu of Plans for Summer Iran War -- Boots on Campus -- Obama's Asia Pivot -- University of Ottawa Racism,
Censorship and Abuse of Power - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: "No Dinosaurs in Heaven" Screening (The Objectivists
host) Thurs. 28th; Arizona Breakfast Club Sat., March 2nd.; FIRST EVER PRIVATE GUN SHOW - Sat, March 9th, 2013 in Lakeside,
AZ; Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction with Keynote
Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Lobbyist Demands Approval For "Lethal" Drones Within United States - VIDEO
02-27-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Testifying against a bill that would put limits on the use of unmanned drones in Washington state, industry lobbyist Paul Applewhite shocked a House Committee hearing when he said that drones had been used for "indiscriminate killings,"
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News Link • Sick Humor
LAPD sings ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ after burning Christopher Dorner alive
02-27-2013
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Prison Planet
After clearly plotting to set the fire, then setting the fire, then confirming they set the fire, and then burning fugitive Christopher Dorner to death without trial or due process, the LAPD now insists that, “We didn’t start the fire!”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Three-Quarters of Progressive Caucus Not Taking a Stand
02-27-2013
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Common Dreams
For the social compact of the United States, most of the Congressional Progressive Caucus has gone missing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court Shields Warrantless Eavesdropping Law from Constitutional Challenge
02-27-2013
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Common Dreams
The five right-wing justices hand Obama a victory by accepting his DOJ's secrecy-based demand for dismissal
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Statue Of Obama To Be Put Up In Israel?
02-27-2013
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govtslaves.info
Obama finally announced he will visit Israel.
With Obama’s trip to slated for March 20 conspiracy theorists are running rampant with news of an ice statue exactly 666 meters from the Temple Mount.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese Regime Labor Camp Reforms Bring Panic, Puzzlement, Hope
02-27-2013
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arclein
According to interviews conducted by The Epoch Times, officials in Chongqing, a major city in the southwest, are in a state of panic as they try to figure out how the new guidelines will impact them personally.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
So God Made a Farmer
02-27-2013
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arclein
As a Midwesterner who comes from a family just one generation removed from the farm (both of my parents grew up on family farms that have since been lost), some of the heartland pandering in the video worked on me. At the same time, the main feeling
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Health Care Spending: A 21st Century Gold Rush
02-27-2013
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arclein
The Los Angeles Times reported on a case where a teacher’s group health plan was billed $87,500 by an “out of network” provider for a knee procedure that normally costs $3,000. Her health plan was willing to pay it. Outraged, the teacher ratted on th
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Mediterranean Diet Skunks Low Fat
02-27-2013
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arclein
The latest smack-down in the diet wars appears to deal a knock-out blow to the notion that high-fat olive oil and tree nuts " walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts " are a no-no for those wishing to improve their health. On the contrary, Spanish researchers
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robert klein
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News Link • Gun Rights
Unintended Consequences - DOWNLOAD PDF, MOBI, OR AZW File of book (UPDATED 2019-09-18)
02-20-2013
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Accurate Press
The next printing is going to be softcover and will probably be priced at $28.95 and $6 shipping. Download PDF, MOBI or AZW of entire book - NOW While you still can. Also available on AccuratePress.Net and Amazon (links provided)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Verizon, Comcast & Other Internet Providers Have A New Tactic To Stop Your Illegal Downloads
02-27-2013
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Business Insider
The nation's biggest Internet service providers have teamed up to stop their customers from enjoying illicit downloads of their favorite music, TV, and movies, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A Gigantic Money Making Scam That Is About To Collapse
02-27-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The U.S. health care system is a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money as possible out of all of us before we die.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama's Ex-Secret Service Agent: It's Not Gun Control... Its People Control
02-27-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Obama's Former Secret Service Agent Slams Gun Control on Fox & Friends.This is a fascinating conversation between Tucker Carlson and the originator of that statement, former Secret Service agent Dan Boingino
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News Link • Government Waste
Louisiana Says Homeless Can’t Eat Deer Meat
02-27-2013
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townhall.com
The Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals would rather the homeless go hungry than let them eat deer steaks provided by generous hunters.
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News Link • History
Man Bites Dog: Columnist Reveals Truth About History of 'Journalism'
02-27-2013
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The Daily Bell
Unsolicited advice for Jeff Zucker, CNN's new boss ... As Zucker seeks inspiration for CNN, I can guarantee he won't devote himself to the 300-year history of the American newspaper.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Two Mighty Libertarian Brains to Debate Copyright and IP?
02-27-2013
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The Daily Bell
As for [Stephan] Kinsella's prediction that I won't debate him, I will walk through hell, if I have to, to debate him and chop up his defect laden anti-IP views. " Robert Wenzel
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News Link • Syria
Kerry: US to Hasten Syria Regime Change
02-27-2013
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Antiwar.com
In a news conference today in London, Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the Syrian government for offering peace talks to the rebels, insisting that he didn’t believe they should be taken seriously and promising to step up US involvement.
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News Link • Economy - International
ITALIAN STOCKS PLUNGE NEARLY 5% " Borrowing Costs Surge After Upset On Election Night
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
It is a very rough start for Italian markets, following last night's shock elections, which are likely to result in a hung government.
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News Link • Draft
The Draft: Forcing the Appearance of Equality
02-26-2013
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globalwealthprotection.com
The draft takes the perceived iniquity of targeting the poor, and evens the playing field so everyone has an equal chance at dying on a battle field… as opposed to the equal chance not to.
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News Link • Activism
Jury Nullification Activist Jailed 145 Days for Distributing Info
02-26-2013
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Activist Post
Vietnam Era Veteran, peaceful freedom activist, and local small businessman, Mark Schimdter, has been jailed for 145 days by Judge Belvin Perry. Schmidter's sentence began Thursday after he was found guilty for distributing jury nullification info ou
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James Babb
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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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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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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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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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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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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 • Gun Rights
Is Detroit a Self-Defense Haven?
02-24-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Detroit has been getting a lot of attention for its recent shootings. Not the usual criminal stuff, but the step-up in self-defense shootings as people have come to realize that the police only exist to mark the outlines of bodies with chalk.
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News Link • Food
Ron Paul: When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers…
02-24-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. The use of force by federal agents to enforce unjust and unconstitutional laws is one of the major threats to liberty.
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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 • Military Industrial Complex
Congressional Abdication
02-25-2013
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Jim Webb, The National Interest
European monarchs for centuries had whimsically entangled their countries in misguided adventures. America would not be such a place. Congress was given the power to declare war and appropriate funds, thus eliminating any resemblance to European-styl
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Iran
What Americans Believe: Iran War Propaganda
02-25-2013
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http://antiwar.com, John Glaser
A new Gallup poll found that 99% of Americans see Iran’s nuclear program as a threat to the US national security. They believe Iran’s imaginary weapons program is more of a threat than North Korea’s actual nuclear weapons.
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Robert Lee
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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 • Gun Rights
Leaked DOJ Memo: Outlaw And Confiscate All Guns
02-25-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Kurt Nimmo
The National Rifle Association has obtained a Department of Justice memo calling for national gun registration and confiscation. The nine page “cursory summary” on current gun control initiatives was not officially released by the Obama administratio
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
'Day of Resistance': Thousands of gun law protesters rally across US (PHOTOS)
02-25-2013
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http://rt.com,
Thousands of Second Amendment activists across the US took part in a Day of Resistance against President Obama's gun control measures, calling his plans unconstitutional. Words are not all they’re prepared to use to protect their right to bear arms.
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