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Date Sent: 2011-02-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 14, 2011 AM edition |
Egyptian military dissolves parliament, declares martial law
Iranian Leaders Vow to Crush March -- Yemeni Youth Square Off With Forces -- Dual Uprisings Show Potent New Threats to Arab States -- Supreme Court confronts conflicting laws on post-conviction DNA testing -- Obama spending plan criticized for avoiding deficit commission's major proposals -- Cuban political prisoners freed against wishes -- Directing Public Energy 101: The Petitioning Scam --
Washington State: The predatory guardianship of Dorothy Grega --
Foreclosure-Gate: Time To Put A Fork In MERS? -- Who’s Afraid of a Free
Society? by Thomas E. Woods -- Bernanke's Secret FCIC Interview Is Now A Matter Of National Security? -- Clueless FCIC Interviews "Yves Smith" (The Pen Name of Susan Webber) -- Obama, integrity or a missing birth certificate -- Karl Denninger: Fannie, Freddie, and False Claims --
Three giant asteroids heading towards Earth -- You Can't Spell "Hosni
Mubarak" Without U.S.A. -- Bionic breakthrough: The prosthetic arm
amputees can control with their mind -- The BLM’s Internal “Investigation”: The Fox Guarding the Henhouse -- MERS takes a hit in N.Y.
AZ:Join GATA this weekend at the Phoenix
conference; Moving the Freedom's Phoenix warehouse this weekend
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News Link • World News
Egyptian military dissolves parliament, declares martial law
02-13-2011
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Washington Post
Egypt's military chiefs seized near-complete control of the country Sunday by dissolving the parliament and suspending the constitution. The leaders of the armed forces, however, said they would only keep power for six months, or until new elections
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iranian Leaders Vow to Crush March
02-13-2011
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NY Times
The Iranian leaders who cheered the popular overthrow of an Egyptian strongman last week have promised to crush an opposition march planned for Monday in solidarity with the Egyptian people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Yemeni Youth Square Off With Forces
02-13-2011
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NY Times
Young protesters in Yemen squared off against security forces on Sunday, and some marched on the presidential palace here, witnesses said, as a third day of demonstrations sought to emulate the revolution in Egypt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Dual Uprisings Show Potent New Threats to Arab States
02-13-2011
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NY Times
As protesters in Tahrir Square faced off against pro-government forces, they drew a lesson from their counterparts in Tunisia: “Advice to the youth of Egypt: Put vinegar or onion under your scarf for tear gas.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court confronts conflicting laws on post-conviction DNA testing
02-13-2011
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Washington Post
The news brings almost routine stories about wrongfully convicted prisoners who are exonerated by DNA testing, but they often have traveled widely divergent paths to freedom.
In some states, only prisoners facing execution have the right to DNA te
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama spending plan criticized for avoiding deficit commission's major proposals
02-13-2011
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Washington Post
President Obama drew fire Sunday from congressional Republicans and independent budget experts for his reluctance to advance a plan that would tackle the nation's biggest budget problems in the spending blueprint he will submit to Congress on Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Cuban political prisoners freed against wishes
02-13-2011
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Reuters
Two political prisoners who had refused to leave prison were freed against their wishes on Saturday as Cuba released more jailed government opponents.
Hector Maseda and Angel Moya were among the last of 52 prisoners President Raul Castro agreed to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
UK scientist obtains hard scientific data proving ghostly phenomena real
02-13-2011
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Terrence Aym
What are ghosts? Are they nocturnal specters that drift above the floors of drafty castles? Or as Scrooge asserted, spirits are nothing more than a bit of undigested cheese? Many researchers over the years have asked this question of themselves and o
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • New World Order
Directing Public Energy 101: The Petitioning Scam
02-13-2011
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Farm Wars
So, why do certain groups urge us to sign petitions that they must know will lead absolutely nowhere? The petitioning scam is a very lucrative business.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Corruption
Washington State: The predatory guardianship of Dorothy Grega
02-15-11
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The PPJ Gazette
O’Brien is arguing that Sally Lanaham, an attorney, Gregory Miller, an attorney, and Michael Longyear, an attorney, misrepresented their capacity to the courts.
It is O’brien’s contention that these individuals, by way of their removal of Do
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
YAF KICKED RON PAUL OFF ITS ADVISORY BOARD? FORMER YAFFER CALLS FOR YAFFERS TO LEAVE YAF AND JOIN Y
02132011
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www.varight.com
Young Americans for Freedom, the formerly conservative-libertarian organization founded by William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1960 has removed Cong. Ron Paul from its Advisory Board in insulting and offensive terms. As a former YAF member and officer in th
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Time To Put A Fork In MERS?
02-13-2011
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Market-ticker.org
This Court does not accept the argument that because MERS may be involved with 50% of all residential mortgages in the country, that is reason enough for this Court to turn a blind eye to the fact that this process does not comply with the law.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Who’s Afraid of a Free Society? by Thomas E. Woods
02-13-2011
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LewRockwell.com via e-mail from CampaignforLiberty
"Today is the release date for my new book... It could just as easily have been called Everything Needs to Be Abolished, and Here's Why." (from 2-07-11 - Ed)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke's Secret FCIC Interview Is Now A Matter Of National Security?
02-13-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
It appears to contain information so sensitive it would once again rain fire and brimstone on everyone, and like an audio medusa, lead to widespread petrifying contagion everywhere it was heard.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Clueless FCIC Interviews "Yves Smith" (The Pen Name of Susan Webber)
02-13-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The problem with this is that "Ms. Smith" is actually the pen name of of Susan Webber, the principal of Aurora Financial Advisors. This is not a major secret. Wikipedia has an entry that mentions her use of the pen name. Apparently the FCIC didn't...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Karl Denninger: Fannie, Freddie, and False Claims
02-13-2011
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Market-ticker.org
This has an interesting twist to it. As Zerohedge pointed out, there is a "blow your own brains out" problem no matter which way the case goes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Three giant asteroids heading towards Earth
02-13-2011
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Terrence Aym
Three huge asteroids are barreling through space on a rendezvous with Earth and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Tens of thousands of asteroids and comets haunt the space ways, some changing their orbits every time they pass near a l
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • World News
You Can't Spell "Hosni Mubarak" Without U.S.A.
2/13/2011
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Free Patriot Press
Hosni Mubrak has resigned as President of Egypt, now there is talk of whether or not he will be tried for “Crimes Against Humanity.” The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum states, Crimes Against Humanity "are par
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Constitution
WTP: LESSONS FROM EGYPT
02-13-2011
For the safety and well-being of our Republic, there are at least two lessons to be learned from the current Egyptian Event: 1) America's leaders have been hypocritical, failing to defend our Founding Principles and 2) A critical mass can peacefully
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bionic breakthrough: The prosthetic arm amputees can control with their mind
02-13-2013
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Terrence Aym
A brilliant research team has just successfully created the world's first prosthetic that obeys the commands given to it from the user's mind. Northwestern University scientists in Evanston, Illinois are researching how different patterns of brain
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Chemtrails
Chemtrails over Wisconsin: No permits, no records
02-13-11
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The PPJ Gazette
While Wisconsin DATCP (Department of Trade and Consumer Protection) denies any permits have been issued or obtained, or permits for exemptions granted from either Statute 93.35 nor ATCP 54.06; the skies in Wisconsin are covered in chemtrails.
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Corruption
The BLM’s Internal “Investigation”: The Fox Guarding the Henhouse
02-13-11
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The PPJ Gazette
”Under this option, any facility could become a focal point for public, media or Congressional attention. Increased levels of security would be needed at all locations, or the activity may need to be moved off-site to a more appropriate and secure
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Property Rights
MERS takes a hit in N.Y.
02-13-2011
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The Hallmark Abstract Sentinel
While this decision does not help Ms. Agard (due to Res judicata) it does seriously call into question the validity of MERS assigning mortgages on behalf of its members/lenders.
These are some excerpts from the decision which can be read in its en
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Archaeology
'Moby Dick' captain's ship found in Pacific
02-13-2011
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Terrence Aym
A sunken whaling shape"once commanded by the captain that inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick"has been found in shallow Pacific waters off Hawaii. The classic American novel that relates the metaphysical morality tale of a 19th Century sea captain
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Terrence Aym
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