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Date Sent: 2010-07-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 23, 2010 PM edition |
Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns
White House Backs Bill to Collect Employee Pay Information from Businesses -- Is the Tea Party Revolution Imploding? --
Vindicated for Removing Saddam -- David Cameron unveils national
service pilot scheme -- "Alongside Night" Set for Film Adaptation -- BP accused of 'buying academic silence' -- Calif. council accepts resignations of 3 managers -- Reuters and Attributor Corporation begin censoring "online Internet forums"
-- As Democrats begin to break ranks, more Democrats call for keeping
tax cuts -- Unisys tapped to compete for slice of $1 billion federal
intelligence contract -- Pentagon workers tied to child porn: Security agencies were left at risk, investigators say -- New lawsuit challenges no-fly orders -- Chemtrails on KSLA News 12
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News Link • Government
Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns
07-22-2010
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Lee Tien
The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" (NSTIC). In previous iterations, the project was known as the "National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions" and emphasi
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News Link • Conspiracies
Letter from the Heart
07-23-2010
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Farm Wars
Surrounded by people who think you are a crazed conspiracy theorist, and knowing the truth, but unable to convey that truth to those closest to you.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Backs Bill to Collect Employee Pay Information from Businesses
07-23-2010
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CNS News
Massive government database to determine and set "fair" pay. The Obama administration is backing legislation that includes regulations requiring U.S. businesses to provide to the government data about employee pay as it relates to the sex, race and n
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanotubes Boost Battery Performance
07-23-2010
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arclein
These batteries are routinely used in portable electronics but their power output and charge-storage capacity still remain far below those of electrochemical capacitors. Batteries, however, have several advantages over capacitors, not least that they
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphene Touch Screen et Al
07-23-2010
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arclein
By submerging graphite in a mixture of dilute organic acid, alcohol, and water, and then exposing it to ultrasonic sound, the team discovered that the acid works as a “molecular wedge, ” which separates sheets of grap
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robert klein
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News Link • Tea Party
Is the Tea Party Revolution Imploding?
07-23-2010
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Tenth Amendment Center
Will the Tea Party Revolution implode or continue to gain steam? That depends on you. As far as leaders go, if you want to see the real leaders of the movement, simply walk into your restroom and look in the mirror. You are the People who make the mo
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News Link • Saddam's Trial
Vindicated for Removing Saddam
07-23-2010
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arclein
testified that the M16 Directorate “had a plan to produce and weaponize nitrogen mustard in rifle grenades and a plan to bottle sarin and sulfur mustard in perfume sprayer and medicine bottles which they would ship to the United States and Europe.
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robert klein
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News Link • Government
David Cameron unveils national service pilot scheme
07-23-2010
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Hélène Mulholland via guardian.co.uk
PM hopes plan will encourage people from all backgrounds to mix and will address 'tragic waste of potential in this country'
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News Link • Agriculture
Do Bats REALLY Eat Mosquitoes?
07-23-2010
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arclein
We know bats occasionally eat mosquitoes. They live in the same habitat, are voracious predators of flying insects. We’ve found mosquito parts in bat droppings. There have been caged studies where bats have been observed preying on mosquitoes and obs
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robert klein
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"Alongside Night" Set for Film Adaptation
07-23-2010
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The Open Press
Production on adapting J. Neil Schulman's Prometheus award-winning science fiction novel "Alongside Night" into a movie will soon begin with actor Kevin Sorbo ("Hercules", "Andromeda") to be Executive Producer and star in the film.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Environment
BP accused of 'buying academic silence'
07-23-2010
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BBC News
The head of the American Association of Professors has accused BP of trying to "buy" the best scientists and academics to help its defence against litigation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
"This is really one huge corporation trying to buy fa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Calif. council accepts resignations of 3 managers
07-23-2010
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AP
3 administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles have agreed to resign, the City Council said. Council members emerged from an hours-long closed session at midnight Friday and announced that they'd
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Whale watchers recount bizarre yacht jump
07-23-2010
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The Upshot (video)
South African couple Paloma Werner and Ralph Mothes went on NBC's "Today" show Thursday morning to discuss the amazing pictures that have spread all over the world of a 40-ton whale landing on the deck of their yacht.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
In the age of the Internet, Clever Internet Ads?
07-23-2010
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Yahoo! Who Knew?
Everyone is trying to figure out how to make a buck off of the Internet, which is a good thing. This struck me as a good way to get people to watch your ads. Kind of a trivial pursuit on the web. Got the crop circle people up in arms too.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Reuters and Attributor Corporation begin censoring "online Internet forums"
07-23-2010
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The Real News
Recently, a forum I am personally a part of, "God Like Productions" has been under attack by a company named "Attributer corporation" on behalf of "Reuters."
It looks like this company has been scanning websites (aggressively) to see if ther
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
As Democrats begin to break ranks, more Democrats call for keeping tax cuts
07-23-2010
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Wall Street Journal
In what appears to be a breakdown of the party's consensus on the how to handle the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts, two more Senate Democrats called for extending tax cuts for all earners"including those with the highest incomes.
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News Link • New World Order
Time to Get Local...Assemblies Taking Hold
07-22-2010
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Jim Palmisano
John Stadtmiller of Republic Broadcasting Network probably aired his most important "Intel Report" on Thursday, July 15, 2010. His guests, Joyce Rosenwald and Peter Niece, discussed the true history of what has happened to our country. This show
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
The Post Covers Spy Town
07-22-2010
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Tim Shorrock, The Atlantic
The Washington Post showered its readers with 20,000 words, hundreds of statistics, and dozens of pie-charts - not to mention a database of the 1,931 contractors doing top-secret work for the government - that paint a dazzling, mind-boggling picture.
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News Link • Drones
Pentagon workers tied to child porn: Security agencies were left at risk, investigators say
07-23-2010
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Bryan Bender
Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers t
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
New lawsuit challenges no-fly orders
07-22-2010
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Papers Please
In a lawsuit filed today by the ACLU in Federal court in Oregon, Latif, et al. v. Holder, et al., ten U.S. citizens who have been refused permission to board flights to, from, or within the US, or have boarded flights to the U.S. only to have them t
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Inventions
An Impressive, Custom Underwater 3-D Camcorder Setup
07-22-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
Fancy yourself the Steve Zissou of the digital age? Photog Eric Cheng is bringing his underwater footage into the 21st century with a really nice-looking custom dual camcorder setup that lets him shoot Shark Week-worthy video in 3-D.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Spitzer Telescope Finds First-Ever Buckyballs in Space
07-22-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
The space discoveries are piling up this week. Next up: Astronomers working with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered buckyballs in space for the very first time, putting an end to a decades-long search for the largest molecules now known t
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
300 solar masses: Scientists find most massive star ever discovered (w/ Video)
07-22-2010
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PHYSORG.com
Using a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth more than 300 times the mass of the sun, or twice as much as the currently accepted limit of 150 solar
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