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Date Sent: 2012-01-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 25, 2012 PM edition |
US commandos free two pirate hostages in Somalia -- Buffett would profit from Keystone cancellation
KickSat - Your Personal Spacecraft... In Space -- January 25th, 2012 - Stephanie Murphy - Troilus Bryan - Karen Kwiatkowski (MP3 LOADED) -- Fried food heart risk 'a myth' -- Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out -- Solar storms may cause cellphones to drop calls -- Tax Evaders Renounce U.S. Citizenship -- Jury Slacker Ordered To Carry Sign: ‘I Failed To Appear For Jury Duty’ -- Former police chief: LAPD coordinated with CIA on terrorism -- NYPD played anti-Muslim movie ‘on continuous loop’ at training -- FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped before -- New York police officer pleads guilty in civil rights case -- Wife of alleged CIA leaker resigns from CIA -- Davos: World bosses gloomy about year ahead -- Pelosi On A Gingrich Presidency: "That Will Never Happen"
AZ: Debate watching party-Thurs, Jan 26th-Hancock's-6 p.m. til?? CNN GOP Debate from Jacksonville, Fla.; Jan. 28, "God on Trial" Book
Signing; Do You Know a Homeless Veteran? Arizona Standdown Can Help! Feb 3rd-5th at AVMC -- Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6
pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY TICKETS NOW!)
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News Link • Military
U.S. commandos free two pirate hostages in Somalia
01-25-2012
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Reuters
U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued an American and a Dane after a shootout with pirates holding them hostage, in a rare raid into the Horn of Africa nation to free foreign captives.
The aid workers, American Jessica
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Political
Buffett would profit from Keystone cancellation
01-25-2012
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www.washingtontimes.com
Warren Buffett, whom President Obama likes to cite as a fair-minded billionaire while arguing for higher taxes on the wealthy, stands to benefit from the president’s decision to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
U.S. Military Frees 2 Western Hostages From Somali Pirates
01-25-2012
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www.nytimes.com
American commandos raced into Somalia early Wednesday and rescued two aid workers, an American woman and a Danish man, after a shootout with Somali pirates who had been holding them captive for months.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • How to Help
Do You Know a Homeless Veteran? Arizona Standdown Can Help! Feb 3rd-5th at AVMC
01-25-2012
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Officer Al Knecht of PPD and NVNA
Every service pertaining to LIFE will be available to veterans at this Godsend event - PLEASE print some flyers and put them on the streets where those who desperately need it can find out!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul People - WHERE ARE YOU!?!
01-25-2012
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MeetUp.com/ronpaulphoenix
Phoenix Ron Paul MeetUp at 32nd Street and Washington - Knock Kneed Lobster Restaurant - Dinner & conversation at 6, MeetUp starts at 7. ALL AGES WELCOME!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Food
Fried food heart risk 'a myth'
01-25-2012
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U.K. Telegraph
The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, found no association between the frequency of fried food consumption in Spain - where olive and sunflower oils are mostly used - and the incidence of serious heart disease.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
01-25-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
Consumers won’t be able to opt out of the changes, which take effect March 1. And experts say the policy shift will invite greater scrutiny from federal regulators of the company’s privacy and competitive practices.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Solar Flares
Solar storms may cause cellphones to drop calls
01-25-2012
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LA Times
On Sunday, a massive explosion on the sun known as a solar flare sent an ejection of some of the sun's plasma hurtling toward earth at the ungodly speed of 1,000 kilometers...per second!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Solar Flares
Solar storm's effects to lash Earth until Wednesday
01-25-2012
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www.bbc.co.uk
Our planet is being bombarded by high-energy particles unleashed by the strongest solar storm since 2005, scientists say.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Emmigration
Tax Evaders Renounce U.S. Citizenship
01-25-2012
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www.allgov.com
Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Jury Slacker Ordered To Carry Sign: ‘I Failed To Appear For Jury Duty’
01-25-2012
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CBS News
A prospective juror in a fatal drunken driving crash case who left during jury selection has been ordered to stand in front of the Lake County Courthouse the next two Mondays with a sign that says, “I failed to appear for jury duty.”
Court officia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Former police chief: LAPD coordinated with CIA on terrorism
01-25-2012
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Rawstory
Former New York City Police Commissioner and Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said Tuesday that it was important for local police agencies to exchange and coordinate information with the CIA regarding terrorism.
“In dealing with informatio
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD played anti-Muslim movie ‘on continuous loop’ at training
01-25-2012
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Rawstory
The New York Police Department showed an anti-Muslim film “on a continuous loop” for between three months and one year of training at its COBRA (Chemical, Ordinance, Biological, and Radiological) Unit, which provides terrorism awareness training.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped before
01-25-2012
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www.apnews.myway.com
There can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry subsidies - something he could not get through a Democratic Congress, much less today's divided Congress, much less in this election year.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New York police officer pleads guilty in civil rights case
01-25-2012
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Reuters
A New York City police officer pleaded guilty to federal charges that he violated an African-American man's civil rights by arresting him on false charges. Michael Daragjati, an 8-year veteran of the NYPD, was later heard using a racial slur to brag
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Wife of alleged CIA leaker resigns from agency
01-25-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
A senior CIA analyst resigned Tuesday amid accounts that she had been pressured to step down after her husband " a former agency employee " was charged with leaking classified information to the press.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Jagger pulls out of UK event
01-25-2012
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www.breitbart.com
Veteran rocker Mick Jagger said Tuesday he has pulled out of an event hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Davos forum because he was being used as a "political football".
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Davos: World bosses gloomy about year ahead
01-25-2012
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www.breitbart.com
European business leaders were the most pessimistic, amid fears governments are not up to the task of resolving their debt crises and concerns about the stability of capital markets, the firm said at the ski-resort summit.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Pelosi On A Gingrich Presidency: "That Will Never Happen"
01-25-2012
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www.realclearpolitics.com
Pelosi: "There is something I know. The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him that's their prerogative. I don't even think that's going to happen."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Value flow connections
01-25-2012
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http://freedomengineering.org
Now let’s say that Sue runs a hairdressing shop out of her house. She has a limited clientele but she wants to expand. But recently Sue has read in the news about the crack down on ‘illegal home based black-market businesses’ such as hers. How does S
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Drew
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Debate watching party-Thurs, Jan 26th-Hancock's-6 p.m. til?? CNN GOP Debate from Jacksonville, F
01-25-2012
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meetup.com
Hispanic Leadership Network to co-sponsor CNN debate in Florida - Ron Paul educates the establishment once again with clear thought, common sense, and truth.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Curious Breast Milk Recommendation
01-25-2012
en researchers from the CDC's National Centers for Immunization and Respiratory Disease (NCIRD) released the ridiculous paper, entitled Inhibitory effect of breast milk on infectivity of live oral rotavirus vaccines, which claims the immune-boosting
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Monkeys Provide Human Malaria Reservoir
01-25-2012
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arclein
Researchers led by Professor Balbir Singh at the Malaria Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, collaborating with Sarawak State Health Department, St George's University of London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, exa
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Unveiling Malaria's Invisibility Cloak
01-25-2012
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arclein
The discovery by researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of a molecule that is key to malaria's 'invisibility cloak' will help to better understand how the parasite causes disease and escapes from the defenses mounted by the immune sy
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robert klein
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News Link • Government
Ron Paul Responds To Obama's State Of The Union Speech
01-24-2012
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Chicago Sun-Times
"Tonight, President Obama once again showed that he does not represent the fundamental change this country needs."
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
1 out of every 318 adults in USA is a registered sex offender
01-24-2012
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The organization's most recent survey of states found there are 747,408 registered sex offenders in the country today, which represents an increase of 7,555 offenders from the previous survey in June 2011.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops
01-24-2012
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by Declan McCullagh (cNet)
American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Ron Paul starts campaign to end the TSA
01-24-2012
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www.rt.com
Ron Paul has long opposed the TSA and has campaigned for its abolishment for years. Following an episode on Monday that left his son, Sen. Rand Paul, stranded in a Nashville airport, the presidential hopeful is asking for help to finally end the TSA.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
‘Digital DNA’ May Soon Be Required To Take SAT And ACT Exams
01-24-2012
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www.newyork.cbslocal.com
Since the SAT and ACT cheating scandals broke wide open on Long Island, lawmakers have pledged to come up with unique cutting edge ways to combat identity theft.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Red Spotlights to Mark ‘Precrime’ Suspects
01-24-2012
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www.infowars.com
East Orange, New Jersey to beam suspects of future criminal activity with flashy, hi-tech police surveillance equipment
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
LA Military Exercises
01-24-2012
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www.kfiam640.com
Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI arrests 4 officers in troubled Conn. suburb
01-24-2012
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AP
4 police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested by the FBI on charges they assaulted illegal immigrants and created false reports to cover up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life wa
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