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Date Sent: 2012-01-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 7, 2012
 



 
You’re Welcome, Tehran! U.S. Navy Frees Iranians From Pirates News Link  •  Military
 You’re Welcome, Tehran! U.S. Navy Frees Iranians From Pirates
01-06-2012  •  Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com 
Just days after Iran threatened the U.S. Navy and bloviated about closing off the Strait of Hormuz, the Navy saved 13 Iranian commercial sailors from pirates. Anytime you want to express your gratitude, Tehran, the Pentagon will take your call.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday - All About Silver... Feature Article  •  Events: Arizona
 Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday - All About Silver...
Powell Gammill
   Topic will be about "Silver" along with some activist updates.
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GOP Debate Party at Hancock's - 6 p.m. Sat January 7th, 2012 News Link  •  Events: Arizona
 GOP Debate Party at Hancock's - 6 p.m. Sat January 7th, 2012
01-06-2012  •  www.2012electionnewscentral.com 
Party starts at 6 p.m. - Debate starts at 7 p.m. - Coming up this Saturday will be the first post-Iowa GOP debate heading into New Hampshire. The debate will be held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester and sponsored by ABC News, Yahoo! and WMUR.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock
State Sen. Scott Bundgaard resigns from Legislature News Link  •  Arizona's Top News
 State Sen. Scott Bundgaard resigns from Legislature
01-06-2012  •  Arizona Republic 
Peoria Sen. Scott Bundgaard abruptly resigned from the Arizona Senate on Friday, shortly before he would have been called before the Senate Ethics Committee to defend his actions in a Feb. 25 altercation with a then-girlfriend.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
US commander visits Israel to finalize missile drill News Link  •  Military Industrial Complex
 US commander visits Israel to finalize missile drill
01-06-2012  •  Jerusalem Post 
Israel is moving forward with plans to hold the largest-ever missile defense exercise in its history this spring amid Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.The commander of the US’s Third Air Force visited Israel to finalize plans for the upcomin  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Seattle PD suing attorney over dash cam videos News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
 Seattle PD suing attorney over dash cam videos
01-06-2012  •  . 
Suing lawyer for filing a public info request stating videos can only be releaased after the cops in them can no longer be sued!   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
EU stands firm on airline emissions despite Chinese fury News Link  •  Transportation: Air Travel
 EU stands firm on airline emissions despite Chinese fury
01-06-2012  •  The RawStory.com 
The European Union refused Thursday to back down from a disputed airline emissions fee despite China’s refusal to pay the new charge to land in Europe.  Read Full Story
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Gingrich Says Washington and Jefferson Would Have Violently Suppressed Their Own Crops News Link  •  Drug War
 Gingrich Says Washington and Jefferson Would Have Violently Suppressed Their Own Crops
01-06-2012  •  Reason magazine 
This morning Newt Gingrich, the historian, insisted that renowned hemp growers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have violently suppressed their own crop:  Read Full Story
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25 dead, 150 missing in Philippine landslide News Link  •  Precious Metals
 25 dead, 150 missing in Philippine landslide
01-06-2012  •  The RawStory.com 
At least 25 people were killed in the southern Philippines on Thursday when a landslide buried gold prospectors who had refused to leave an area declared too dangerous for habitation.  Read Full Story
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Doctors to remove Vietnamese man’s 90kg tumour News Link  •  Health and Physical Fitness
 Doctors to remove Vietnamese man’s 90kg tumour
01-06-2012  •  The RawStory.com 
A man left unable to walk by a tumour on his right leg that weighs more than the rest of his body went under the knife in Vietnam on Thursday to have the growth removed, hospital officials said.  Read Full Story
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Gordon Hirabayashi, World War II Internment Opponent, Dies at 93 News Link  •  Death
 Gordon Hirabayashi, World War II Internment Opponent, Dies at 93
01-06-2012  •  New York Times 
Gordon Hirabayashi, who was imprisoned for defying the federal government’s internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II but was vindicated four decades later when his conviction was overturned, died on Monday in Edmonton, Alberta. He was 93.  Read Full Story
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The Dumbest Thing Ever Said About Gold Investments News Link  •  Gold and Silver
 The Dumbest Thing Ever Said About Gold Investments
01-06-2012  •  youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog) 
So funny you would swear it must be a prank. Girl needs to let her hair go back to blonde.  Read Full Story
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Last US Marine faces trial over 2005 Iraq killings News Link  •  Military
 Last US Marine faces trial over 2005 Iraq killings
01-06-2012  •  The RawStory.com 
After years of appeals and delays, the last US Marine charged over the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha faces a court martial on Thursday in California.  Read Full Story
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Justice Dept. expands definition of rape to include other forms of sexual assault News Link  •  Criminal Justice System
 Justice Dept. expands definition of rape to include other forms of sexual assault
01-06-2012  •  Washington Post 
The Obama administration on Friday announced a significant expansion of the FBI’s definition of rape, which will now cover several forms of sexual assault and include male rape. Justice Department officials said the revision would make reporting o  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
U.S. rescues Iranian hostages [VIDEO] News Link  •  Iran
 U.S. rescues Iranian hostages [VIDEO]
01-06-2012  •  Washington Post 
Forces from the aircraft carrier’s strike group swiftly made the most of the moment. They seized 15 Somali pirates without firing a shot and rescued 13 hungry Iranian fishermen who had been held hostage for several weeks.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Iran to hold new wargames soon in key oil waterway News Link  •  Energy
 Iran to hold new wargames soon in key oil waterway
01-06-2012  •  The RawStory.com 
Iran is to hold fresh military exercises in and around the strategic Strait of Hormuz within weeks, the naval commander of its powerful Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Friday.  Read Full Story
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Promising to bring nearly all troops home, Paul pulls in campaign cash from military donors News Link  •  Politics: Republican Campaigns
 Promising to bring nearly all troops home, Paul pulls in campaign cash from military donors
01-06-2012  •  Washington Post 
Paul arrived Friday in New Hampshire riding the momentum of a top-three finish in Iowa, a fundraising haul of $13 million in the last quarter and bragging rights of having more donors who list military affiliations than his Republican rivals combined  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Navy Balloon Launches Drone, Which Drops Two More Spy Bots News Link  •  Military
 Navy Balloon Launches Drone, Which Drops Two More Spy Bots
01-06-2012  •  Katie Drummond via WIRED.com 
It just might be the most convoluted spy program in the Pentagon’s history: Fly a balloon up to 60,000 feet, and have it unleash a drone. Then, have that drone deploy several smaller surveillance drones that glide to the ground and collect data.  Read Full Story
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Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Program Delayed, But Still Tracking News Link  •  Military
 Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Program Delayed, But Still Tracking
01-06-2012  •  David Axe via WIRED.com 
The Pentagon will delay acquisition of more than 100 early-model Joint Strike Fighters, a bid to save up-front money and to give more time for testers to work out the finicky F-35 warplane’s many technical kinks.   Read Full Story
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A Short, Strange History of Anonymous News Link  •  Hacking, Cyber Security
 A Short, Strange History of Anonymous
01-06-2012  •  Ryan Singel via WIRED.com 
Anonymous has come a long way in a few short years, graduating from filling the web with Pedobears and Rickrolls to fighting oppressive regimes and trying to get revenge on the companies that cut off WikiLeaks.  Read Full Story
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Romanian Man Charged in $1.5 Million ATM Skimming Scam News Link  •  World News
 Romanian Man Charged in $1.5 Million ATM Skimming Scam
01-06-2012  •  Kim Zetter via WIRED.com 
A Romanian man has been arrested in a $1.5 million card-skimming operation that targeted 40 ATMs belonging to HSBC branches in New York.  Read Full Story
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Micromanagement Material: Electronic Sleeves Monitor Workers’ Efficiency News Link  •  Techno Gadgets
 Micromanagement Material: Electronic Sleeves Monitor Workers’ Efficiency
01-06-2012  •  Dave Mosher via WIRED.com 
Computerized sleeves may soon allow manufacturing bosses to monitor and record workers’ moves and mine them for efficiency data.  Read Full Story
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NASA Launches New Site for Open Source Coding Projects News Link  •  Space Travel and Exploration
 NASA Launches New Site for Open Source Coding Projects
01-06-2012  •  Scott Gilbertson via webmonkey.com 
If you’d like software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on. The Space Agency recently unveiled a new website, home for NASA’s various open source software projects.  Read Full Story
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Rick Santorum Asked If He's Googled Himself Feature Article  •  Activism
 Rick Santorum Asked If He's Googled Himself
Drew
   At a campaign stop in Keene, NH - Rick Santorum is asked if he's ever googled himself. He's also serenaded by the Shire Choir. Stay tuned to FreeKeene.com for a longer video showing more of what happened at the campaign event when the Shire Choir san
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Olympic Runner Auctions Ad Space News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Olympic Runner Auctions Ad Space " On His Body
01-06-2012  •  Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com 
Olympian Nick Symmonds, a vocal critic of what he calls track and field’s needlessly restrictive logo and sponsorship regulations, is auctioning advertising space on his body to raise money " and awareness.  Read Full Story
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Cleaner, Cheaper Liquid Fuel from Coal News Link  •  Energy
 Cleaner, Cheaper Liquid Fuel from Coal
01-06-2012  •  Peter Fairley via PopSci.com 
A new conversion process promises zero carbon emissions during production"but some question whether it will scale.  Read Full Story
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Nanotech Goes Big News Link  •  Science, Medicine and Technology
 Nanotech Goes Big
01-06-2012  •  Katherine Bourzac via TechnologyReview.com 
Large sheets made from carbon nanotubes could lead to lighter aircraft and more ­resilient space probes.  Read Full Story
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The USAF's X-37B Secret Space Plane Appears to Be Tracking China's New Space Station News Link  •  Space Travel and Exploration
 The USAF's X-37B Secret Space Plane Appears to Be Tracking China's New Space Station
01-06-2012  •  ClayDillow via PopSci.com 
Here at PopSci we don’t like to spread rumors. And that’s how I generally like to start off a post wherein I intend to propagate some kind of hearsay rooted mostly in speculation. Hearsay like this: America’s X-37B spaceplane  Read Full Story
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Spring-Loaded MEMS-Driven Pixels Could Enable 3-D Holographic Video Displays News Link  •  Science, Medicine and Technology
 Spring-Loaded MEMS-Driven Pixels Could Enable 3-D Holographic Video Displays
01-06-2012  •  Clay Dillow via PopSci.com 
Holographic video is sort of the holy grail of video display technology right now. Stereoscopic 3-D is fine and everything, but it basically works by tricking the brain into seeing that 3-D depth via two offset 2-D images  Read Full Story
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U.S. Navy Plans Autonomous Interplanetary Rovers Powered By Microbes News Link  •  Space Travel and Exploration
 U.S. Navy Plans Autonomous Interplanetary Rovers Powered By Microbes
01-06-2012  •  Revecca Boyle via PopSci.com 
Next-generation Mars rovers might not need solar panels or plutonium packs for juice " they’ll bring microbes with them to use in fuel cells. The Naval Research Laboratory is working on potential fuel cell designs  Read Full Story
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On Land Destroyed by the Tsunami, Japan is Building a Futuristic Robot Farm News Link  •  Robots and Artificial Intelligence
 On Land Destroyed by the Tsunami, Japan is Building a Futuristic Robot Farm
01-06-2012  •  Clay Dillow via PopSci.com 
You have to hand it to the Japanese; Last March’s Tohoku earthquake and associated tsunami wasn’t the first natural (or unnatural, for that matter) disaster to befall the island nation, but as just as before the country isn’t simply rebuilding.   Read Full Story
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Was 2011 a Dud or a Springboard for Gold? Feature Article  •  Casey Research Articles
 Was 2011 a Dud or a Springboard for Gold?
Jeff Clark
   2011 was remarkable in many ways for the precious metals markets.
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Flashback: Mitt Romney Demonstrated in Favour of Vietnam War Draft News Link  •  Politics: Republican Campaigns
 Flashback: Mitt Romney Demonstrated in Favour of Vietnam War Draft
01-06-2012  •  Dailymail.co.uk via RTR.ORG post 
A newly-unearthed photograph showing Mitt Romney demonstrating in favour of the Vietnam War draft might leave the presidential candidate feeling somewhat embarrassed.  Read Full Story
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Santorum: U.S. needs 'Jesus candidate' News Link  •  Politics: Republican Campaigns
 Santorum: U.S. needs 'Jesus candidate'
01-06-2012  •  www.onenewsnow.com 
Speaking Thursday night in New Hampshire, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum -- first runner-up in this week's Iowa Caucuses -- shared that he believes America "always need[s] a Jesus candidate."  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Is there a ‘best’ currency to hold right now? News Link  •  Currencies
 Is there a ‘best’ currency to hold right now?
01-06-2012  •  www.sovereignman.com/Simon Black 
We recently received a great question from a reader, Chuck, who asked, “Simon, I’m going to HK in 10 days to open a bank account, and I know there are options to do this in several foreign currencies. What foreign currency would you recommend to hold  Read Full Story
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Ron Paul Slams ‘Counterfeit Conservative’ Gingrich News Link  •  Politics: Republican Campaigns
 Ron Paul Slams ‘Counterfeit Conservative’ Gingrich
01-06-2012  •  www.prisonplanet.com 
The Paul campaign has issued a scathing mailout that takes Gingrich to task, labeling the former House Speaker a ‘counterfeit conservative’.  Read Full Story
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McCain goofs at Romney event: ‘Obama will turn this country around’ News Link  •  Politics: Republican Campaigns
 McCain goofs at Romney event: ‘Obama will turn this country around’
01-06-2012  •  www.rawstory.com 
Failed Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s endorsement of current candidate Mitt Romney may being doing more harm than good.  Read Full Story
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Poppy Harlow crushes car with tank! News Link  •  Just For Fun!
 Poppy Harlow crushes car with tank!
01-06-2012  •  www.cnn.money.com 
In Kosota, Minnesota, a small business lets people drive battle tanks and crush cars ... no joke!  Read Full Story
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Doctors going broke News Link  •  Healthcare Industry
 Doctors going broke
01-06-2012  •  www.money.cnn.com 
Industry watchers say the trend is worrisome. Half of all doctors in the nation operate a private practice. So if a cash crunch forces the death of an independent practice, it robs a community of a vital health care resource.  Read Full Story
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Ernest Hancock: Bringing The R3VOLUTION Back Home News Link  •  Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
 Ernest Hancock: Bringing The R3VOLUTION Back Home
01-06-2012  •  www.republicmedia.tv 
“There are two types of people in the world,… Those who wish to be left alone and those who just won’t leave them alone. What type are you?”  Read Full Story
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New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones News Link  •  Surveillance
 New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones
01-06-2012  •  ca.news.yahoo.com 
President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military presence in Asia but shrink the overall size of the force as the Pentagon seeks to reduce spending by nearly half a trillion dollars after a decade of   Read Full Story
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Commentary: Constructive U.S. role in Asia-Pacific welcome, but not warmongering News Link  •  China
 Commentary: Constructive U.S. role in Asia-Pacific welcome, but not warmongering
01-06-2012  •  news.xinhuanet.com 
BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama rolled out a new defense strategy Thursday that will shift the country's military focus to the Asia-Pacific region, and cut 489 billion U.S. dollars in defense spending in the next decade.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Baby-faced Harlem teens starring in controversial new film shot uptown; News Link  •  Entertainment: Movies
 Baby-faced Harlem teens starring in controversial new film shot uptown;
01-06-2012  •  www.nydailynews.com 
Anti-violence advocates threaten boycott   Read Full Story
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News Link  •  Energy
 Slovakia’s Nuclear Schizophrenia " Shut Down, Continue As Usual, or Boldly Go - Where?
01-06-2012  •  Oilprice.com 
The implosion of the USSR in December 1991 produced massive economic “collateral damage” in its East European allies, as they simultaneously sought both to assert their new-found independence and draw closer to their potential European allies on the   Read Full Story
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