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Date Sent: 2013-02-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 25, 2013 PM edition |
Leaked DOJ Memo: Outlaw And Confiscate All Guns -- US Court: No Right To Carry A Concealed Weapon
What Americans Believe: Iran War
Propaganda -- Resounding victory for Correa and Alianza PAIS
in Ecuador -- Jackpot: Nevada expects big money after online
gambling legalization -- 'Day of Resistance': Thousands of gun
law protesters rally across US (PHOTOS) -- Afghan President: US
Military Torturing, Murdering Innocent Civilians -- Autopsy: Palestinian Prisoner Died of 'Extreme Torture' in Israeli
Custody -- “I Begged for Them to Stop”: Waterboarding
Americans and the Redefinition of Torture -- Hollywood History:
CIA Sponsored “Zero Dark Thirty”, Oscar for “Best Propaganda
Picture” -- Chavez warns that Africa and South America Must
Unite or face Western Interventions -- Israeli Murder by Torture -- IAEA Report Confirms Iran's Peaceful Nuclear Program -- Ron
Paul: When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers…
AZ: "No Dinosaurs in Heaven" Screening (The Objectivists
host) Thurs. 28th; Arizona Breakfast Club Sat., March 2nd.
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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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Reported by:
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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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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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 • World News
Resounding victory for Correa and Alianza PAIS in Ecuador
02-25-2013
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http://www.granma.cu, Joaquín Rivery Tur
PRESIDENT Rafael Correa and his party Alianza País obtained a resounding victory in Ecuador’s February 17 general elections, leaving the right-wing opposition and fragmented small groups far behind at the polls.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Jackpot: Nevada expects big money after online gambling legalization
02-25-2013
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http://rt.com,
Nevada has beaten their casino rivals from New Jersey to become the first US state to legalize online gambling and open doors to a potential national market of $4 billion to $10 billion per year.
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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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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Small-molecule Drug Drives Cancer Cells to Suicide
02-25-2013
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arclein
TIC10 had potent effects against a variety of tumours, including breast, lymphatic, colon and lung cancer. It was especially effective at triggering cell suicide in glioblastoma, a kind of brain tumour that is notoriously difficult to treat2. Mice w
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
new Bone Repair Therapies on Nanoscale Surfaces
02-25-2013
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arclein
Scientists were able to use the nanotopographical patterns on the biomedical plastic to manipulate human embryonic stem cells towards bone cells. This was done without any chemical enhancement.
The materials, including the biomedical implantabl
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robert klein
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
An NFL Insider Says NFL Teams Want To Know If Manti Te'o Is Gay
02-25-2013
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Business Insider
After facing the media over the weekend at the NFL Combine, most seem to believe that Manti Te'o has successfully moved on from the fake girlfriend story and that it will have little impact on his status in the NFL draft.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
LaGuardia's Delta Terminal Is Packed With iPads As Far As The Eye Can See
02-25-2013
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Business Insider
If you want to see how big an impact Apple's iPad is having on the world, look no further than the Delta terminal in New York City's LaGuardia airport
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan President: US Military Torturing, Murdering Innocent Civilians
02-25-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Craig Brown
President Hamid Karzai had ordered the Ministry of Defense to kick out the US Special Forces
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Autopsy: Palestinian Prisoner Died of 'Extreme Torture' in Israeli Custody
02-25-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Craig Brown
An autopsy on the body of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two, showed that he died of "extreme torture" in Israeli custody and did not have a cardiac arrest, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Detainee Affairs said Sunday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
“I Begged for Them to Stop”: Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture
02-25-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Nick Turse
Try to remain calm -- even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Hollywood History: CIA Sponsored “Zero Dark Thirty”, Oscar for “Best Propaganda Picture”
02-25-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Patrick Henningse
‘Hollywood history’ is all the rage these days, but it comes at a huge cost
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Chavez warns that Africa and South America Must Unite or face Western Interventions
02-25-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in an open letter has urged countries of the South American and African continents to unite into a “true pole of power”, while railing against recent Western interventions in Africa.
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Robert Lee
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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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Powell Gammill
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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 • 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 • 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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News Link • United Nations
US Blocks UN Resolution Condemning Damascus Bombing
02-23-2013
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Antiwar.com
UN Envoy Issues Personal Statement Calling Attack a 'War Crime'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Communist Propaganda Poster: Comrades, Turn In Your Weapons!
02-23-2013
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Prison Planet
Gun control advocates claim historical gun grabs by tyrannical regimes are a “myth”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
China, Japan, and the US May Go to War Over These Rocks
02-22-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here is a link to the Google Maps Satellite view of the Senkaku Islands. Take a moment to contemplate how insignificant these scrubby rocks really are. First, there are no visible houses, bases, airstrips, factories, or really anything of value other
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
When solitude is torture - by George Will
02-22-2013
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Washington Post
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of American prison inmates are kept in protracted solitary confinement that arguably constitutes torture and probably violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishments.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Guerrilla surveillance camera destruction hits the U.S.
02-22-2013
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Salon
A group identifying itself as “the Barefoot Bandit Brigade” released a statement claiming to have “removed and destroyed 17 security cameras throughout the Puget Sound region,” with ostensible photo evidence published alongside
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Carnage in Syria Courtesy of US Allies
02-22-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
While the US and its Western partners pretend to be engaged in a global war against terrorism, their terrorist allies in Syria have set off another car bomb, tellingly very close to the ruling Baath party offices and the Russian embassy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Mission to transport 23,000 liters of bomb-grade uranium from Canada to US
02-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Up to 76 truckloads of radioactive waste could soon be crossing into the US from Canada, local media reveal. Relocating the weapons-grade uranium (HEU) in liquid form would be the first operation of its kind, and is set to cost $60 million.
The tr
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
Campus Rape Victim: ‘I Was In A Safe Zone And My Attacker Didn’t Care’
02-24-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Recently, Revealing Politics released a video of Colorado Rep. Joe Salazar arguing that college women don’t need guns to prevent rape because they can use whistles, “safe zones”, and call boxes instead. His theory behind this was that just because wo
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Department joins whistleblower lawsuit against Lance Armstrong
02-22-2013
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Washington Post
The Justice Department on Friday joined a whistleblower lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, increasing the odds Armstrong may have to forfeit millions of dollars paid out by his team sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Whistleblower files federal lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, FINRA
02-22-2013
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Reuters
A former Morgan Stanley broker who tried to blow the whistle on what he called unethical sales practices, and was later ordered to pay $1.2 million following his departure, is seeking his day in federal court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Gov: 6 underground Hanford nuclear tanks leaking
02-22-2013
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AP
Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state officials said Friday, prompting calls for an investigation from a key senator.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
US troops in Niger to set up drone base
02-22-2013
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AP
President Barack Obama said Friday that about 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger. Two U.S. defense officials the troops would be setting up a base for unarmed drones to conduct surveillance.
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