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Date Sent: 2009-05-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, May 24, 2009 Sunday edition |
Obama Orders Update to Iran Attack Plan: "All Options Are On the Table"
FBI Agent on Synagogue Case Has Questionable Record -- Arizona inmate
dies after hours in outdoor cell -- Peter Schiff on CNBC - "The Dollar
is going to fall like a stone" -- Obama: Ladies and Gentlemen, the US
Is Insolvent -- US says more documents needed soon to enter from
Mexico -- FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts --
Sheldon Richman: Obama’s Betrayals -- Embattled SKorean ex-president
jumps to his death -- Eric "Mancow" Muller Gets Waterboarded -- ACLU
Successfully Assists Border Patrol Agents Retaliated Against For
Whistleblowing
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News Link • World News
FBI Agent on Synagogue Case Has Questionable Record
05-24-2009
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Village Voice
The FBI agent with a high-profile role in yesterday’s arrests of four men for plotting a terror attack in New York has a pretty interesting " and controversial " track record.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • World News
The parent of Fox News, to usher in a state of “global governance.
05-24-2009
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Cliff Kincaid NewsWithViews.com
The media proposal, which was included in “The Global Agenda 2009” report, is to create “a new global network” with “the capacity to connect the world, bridging cultures and peoples, and telling us who we are and what we mean to each other.”
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Arizona inmate dies after hours in outdoor cell
05-24-2009
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Philly.com
An Arizona inmate who died after spending nearly four hours in the desert heat was left in an outdoor holding cell for twice as long as she should have been, the state prisons director said Wednesday.
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Energy
Mass Production of Plastic Solar Cells
05-24-2009
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Technology Review
Deployment of flexible, printed photovoltaics, Konarka, a solar-cell startup based in Lowell, MA, has opened a commercial-scale factory, with the capacity to produce enough organic solar cells every year to generate one gigawatt of electricity, equiv
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Five Amazing ’80’s Geek Toys and Their Modern Equivalents
05-24-2009
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Wired
’80’s were a magical decade for gadgets for kids. Computing power and display technology were evolving and cost effective enough to penetrate the toy market in a big way. Purely mechanical toys evolved into electromechanical toys and gave birth to th
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Books
How to Choose an E-Book Reader
05-24-2009
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Wired
How do you know which one is right for you? All e-book readers promise to do one thing well: display text, especially for books. But there are a few more basic requirements: It must offer long battery life, be easy to carry, have a screen that doesn’
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff on CNBC - "The Dollar is going to fall like a stone" - 5/22/09
05-23-2009
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Revolutionary Politics
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istvan lettang
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News Link • Energy
Nanocapacitors with Big-Energy Storage
05-24-2009
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Technology Review
Nanopore arrays combine high power and storage capacity.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Five-Dimensional Data Storage
05-23-2009
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Technology Review
A new material could eventually be used to store vast amounts of data on a disc. InPhase presented a prototype that stores 713 gigabytes per square inch.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
An Escape Harness for Skyscrapers
05-24-2009
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Popular Science
The Rescue Reel lets upper-floor workers descend in safety in case of disaster
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Ripsaw Tank Delivers Death at 60MPH
05-24-2009
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Popular Science
See the Ripsaw in action: An unmanned beast that cruises over any terrain at speeds that leave an M1A Abrams in the dust
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Army Terminators Walk Like Men
05-24-2009
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Wired
Round four of mankind’s epic battle against the walking, talking, killer machines starts tonight with the opening of Terminator Salvation. But humanoid robots aren’t confined to the movies.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Mitochondria Close-Up and in Color
05-23-2009
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Technology Review
The mitochondria, often called "the powerhouses of the cell" in biology textbooks, are one of the coolest parts of the cell. They're the primary site of metabolism
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Pushing Plastic Solar Cells
05-23-2009
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Technology Review
Plastic solar cells are lightweight, flexible, and, most important, cheap to make.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Jesse: Ladies and Gentlemen, the US Is Insolvent
5-23-09
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NakedCapitalism.com
In a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: "We are out of money."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Scottish National Liberation Army admits to posting explosives to politicians
05-23-2009
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Scotland STV News
One was addressed to Liberal Democrat MSP Mike Rumbles and contained two shotgun cartridges and a note which read: “Just because you can’t see us doesn’t mean we’re not there. Next one’s a bomb.”
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Homeland Security
U.S. says more documents needed soon to enter the U.S. from Mexico,...but they lie!
05-23-2009
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AzRepublic
Those without proper ID will be given "non-compliance notices," a written warning without consequences, before they are allowed into the country. "People may be delayed, but we're not going to deny entry to U.S. citizens."
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • World News
Man Claimed To Have Placed Bombs At Wal-Mart And Federal Building in Topeka Kansas
05-23-2009
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ARM
A man has claimed to have placed bombs at a Wal-Mart and a Federal building in Topeka, Kansas.the Govt. is trying to suppress this incident as it is just one of a growing number of recent incidents across our nation.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Bailouts
Bursting The Big Banker’s Bubble
05-23-2009
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Take Back Washington
Exposing the “con” in the confidence game, how profits are privatized and losses socialized, how the rule makers bend and break the rules to enrich themselves and their financial backers, a new film skillfully identifies key aspects of the systemic n
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Torture
Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame on you... President Obama
05-22-2009
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Youtube
In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever. (h/t Antiwar.com blog)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Obama Orders Update to Iran Attack Plan: "All Options Are On the Table"
5-23-09
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AntiWar.com
On NBC’s Today Show this morning, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that President Obama has ordered him to update the plans for a US attack on Iran, plans which were last updating during the Bush Administration
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Sheldon Richman: Obama’s Betrayals
5-23-09
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Future of Freedom Foundation.org
This is truly astounding. In Obama we have a new Jekyll and Hyde. From harsh critic of Bush’s trampling of individual rights, Obama has transmogrified into a champion of the omnipotent state
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts
05-23-2009
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Wired Magazine
The FCC claims it derives its warrantless search power from the Communications Act of 1934, though the constitutionality of the claim has gone untested in the courts. That’s largely because the FCC had little to do with average citizens for most of t
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff on CNBC - "The Dollar is going to fall like a stone" - 5/22/09
05-23-2009
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Revolutionary Politics
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Reported by:
istvan lettang
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News Link • Israel
Why are we sending BILLIONS to Israel while states go broke?
05-23-2009
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Revolutionary Politics
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istvan lettang
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News Link • World News
Embattled SKorean ex-president jumps to his death
05-23-2009
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AP
[How different things are here.] Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun " whose hard-won reputation as a corruption fighter was tarnished by bribery allegations that drew in his family and closest associates " jumped to his death Saturday
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Eric "Mancow" Muller Gets Waterboarded
05-23-2009
He lasts 6 seconds and says "I didn't want to say this, but it's most definitely torture."
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Jet Lacey
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