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Date Sent: 2009-12-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 2, 2009 PM edition |
Iran will produce 20% uranium fuel! -- Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops 8 million times
Babies to have genetic code mapped at birth from 2019 -- MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood -- Google to Require Registration to Read Google First Free Clicks -- Iran newspaper editor gets 9-years in jail for vote protest -- Afghans unimpressed by Obama's troops surge -- Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers -- Iran whistleblower died from drug-laden salad -- Atheist Groups Campaign During Holidays -- Abolish the Fed and Return Money Creation Power to Congress - by Stephen Lendman -- Law Enforcement Magazine Argues for Counterinsurgency Against Americans -- Dubai - the Ugly Details -- Poverty in Brazil, China and India -- Leftist disappointment with Obama not total, not by a long shot - by Call Me Oyate
AZ: Strategic-Edge Breakfast tomorrow
offering weapons demonstration. Movie premier, "For Liberty: The Ron
Paul Revolution" documentary Tomorrow. Ron Paul and the "Campaign for
Liberty" Friday at ASU. 2009 Freedom Summit starts Friday.
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News Link • Iran
Iran president says will produce 20 percent fuel
12-02-2009
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Reuters
President Ahmadinejad said Iran would enrich uranium to a higher level itself, apparently ruling out a U.N.-brokered deal meant to dispel fears Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons capability. Western diplomats said Iran two months ago accepted in prin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times
12-02-2009
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ARS Technica
A blogger has released audio of Sprint's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing the carrier's cooperation with law enforcement. Among the revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from LEOs for customer GPS data.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists
12-02-2009
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Wired
On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.
In many ways, the split followed predictable patterns, requiring a hybr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Using faulty data to demand settlements from innocent surfers
12-02-2009
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ARS Technica
A Princeton researcher finds himself bombarded with demands to pay up after swapping adult movies online"but he didn't do it. It appears to be another case of extremely-lazy IP "enforcement" using bad BitTorrent data collection.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
ATT Drops Lawsuit Against Verizon Commericals
12-02-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Those ads showing Verizon covering most of the USA with its cell phone 3G network--with AT&T's network coverage looking anemic--will continue to roll. AT&T has dropped its lawsuit against Verizon over the ads.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Government
Babies to have genetic code mapped at birth from 2019
12-02-2009
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Daily Telegraph
Babies born from 2019 onwards will have their genetic code routinely mapped at birth, Jay Flatley, one of the world's leading genome sequencing experts has predicted. Dr Flatley, the chief executive of Illumina, the world's leading genome sequencing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
12-02-2009
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Wired
If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create.
At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google to Require Registration to Read Google First Free Clicks
12-02-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Google announced changes--including a proposed registration--to head off a challenge by Bing. Bing is attempting to partner with media that's upset over Google's workaround of paid subscription sites.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tiger Woods Confesses to Affairs
12-02-2009
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Mondo Frazier
Tiger Woods quit trying to fight it and confessed to his affairs after it was disclosed that 1-there were more than one; and, 2-he paid for one of his mistresses to fly to Australia. What's next for the One Billion Dollar Man?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Iran
Iran editor gets 9-year jail term for vote protest
12-02-2009
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Reuters
A newspaper editor and well-known critic of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sentenced to 9 years in jail for fomenting unrest after June's disputed elections, his lawyer said. Saeed Laylaz, whose daily paper Sarmayeh was banned
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
12-02-2009
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Wired
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? Under a Freedom of Information Act request filed a few months ago
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghans unimpressed by Obama's troops surge
12-02-2009
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Reuters
30,000 more US troops for Afghanistan? Esmatullah shrugged. "Even if they bring the whole of America, they won't be able to stabilize Afghanistan. Only Afghans understand our traditions, geography and way of life."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran whistleblower died from drug-laden salad
12-02-2009
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AP
A doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of a blood pressure drug in a salad, prosecutors say. The findings fueled opposition fears that he was killed because of what he knew.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Atheist Groups Campaign During Holidays
12-02-2009
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The New York Times
Over the next two weeks, atheist-themed ads will go up across the country and abroad as part of a holiday kickoff of campaigns sponsored by secular groups.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Police State
Law Enforcement Magazine Argues for Counterinsurgency Against Americans
12-02-2009
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infowars.com
In the February, 2010, issue of Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement, Donald J. Mihalek argues that suspected criminals in the US should be treated the same way “insurgents” are in Iraq.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Agriculture
Electric Tractors
12-02-2009
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arclein
“Our electric ‘G’ is absolutely the most important tractor on the farm. It has three times the power of the original ‘G’ which is huge and [has] enough battery life to do everything we need to on our diversified 8-acre farm… It’s totally silent. You
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
Dubai - the Ugly Details
12-02-2009
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arclein
Dubai suffered the world’s steepest property slump in the global recession, with home prices dropping 50 percent from their 2008 peak, according to Deutsche Bank AG.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
Poverty in Brazil,China and India
12-02-2009
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arclein
Between them, Brazil, China and India account for half the world’s poorest people and an even bigger share of those who have escaped poverty.
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robert klein
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify
12-01-2009
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TED Talks
Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West -- and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another.
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Ernest Hancock
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