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Date Sent: 2010-07-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, July 29, 2010 PM edition |
White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity
Why The U.S. Is Just Like Japan -- Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring -- An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet --
Dan Ellsberg on WikiLeaks & the Essential Democratic Question: Who
Will Tell the People? -- FBI assisting DOD on WikiLeaks -- Sen. Graham: Prosecute WikiLeaks for ‘Undermining the War Effort’ -- China conducts naval drill in disputed southern seas -- Fed's Bullard: Time To Start Talking About More Quantitative Easing -- Ariz. sheriff: I’ll jail immigration protesters -- Arizona's concealed-weapon law takes effect -- Congress Passes Drug Legislation Fixing Crack Disparity -- AZ Gov. plans swift appeal of blocked immigration law
AZ: "Indocrinate U" Screening tonight; Barry Hess for Governor - Friday Fundraiser w/ Special Guest Michael Badnarik
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News Link • Internet
White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity
07-29-2010
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washingtonpost.com/
The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Richard Koo Video Interview: Why The U.S. Is Just Like Japan
07-29-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
This video of Koo explaining this reality is vital viewing for anyone trying to come to grips with our deflationary reality. This article also has a slide show explaining how the US is like Japan.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
07-29-2010
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time " and says it uses that information to predict the future.
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News Link • Internet
An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet
07-29-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
You may have heard the rumor that swirled briefly last month about an Internet “kill switch” that could power down the Web in the case of a critical cyber attack. Those rumors turned out to be largely overblown, but it turns out there are now seven i
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News Link • Transportation
The Chevy Volt Gets a Price Tag: $41,000 Before Tax Credit, First Deliveries in November
07-29-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
When the Chevy Volt concept first materialized a few years back, there were a lot of questions surrounding America’s first mass-market electric car. While answers to most of those questions dribbled out over the last few years, GM remained mum on one
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News Link • Inventions
Antibacterial Graphene 'Paper' Could Lead to Better Bandages
07-29-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
A new antibacterial paper could lead to food wrappers that keep food fresh longer, shoes that never stink, and bandages with a built-in ability to deter infection. It turns out a paper-like material made of graphene " thin sheets of carbon just a sin
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Barry Hess for Governor - Friday Fundraiser w/Special Guest Michael Badnarik
07-29-2010
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Phoenix R3VOLUTION MeetUp Group
One Night only - Michael Badnarik to speak in support of the Hess Campaign at a Pot Luck Dinner/Barbeque/Pool Party!
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
IBM Researchers Create the Most Detailed Brain Map Yet
07-29-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
Researchers at IBM have created the most complex neurological map ever seen, detailing the comprehensive long-distance network that makes up the macaque monkey brain in unprecedented detail.
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News Link • Books
President, revolutionary … literary giant? Fidel Castro to release memoirs
07-29-2010
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Rory Carroll via guardian.co.uk
Ex-comandante publishes The Strategic Victory " but readers hoping for revelations and score-settling will be disappointed
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan war logs: Shattering the illusion of a bloodless victory
07-29-2010
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Richard Norton-Taylor via guardian.co.uk
Real picture of a conflict longer than Vietnam, or either world war, refutes the idea of a 'revolution in military affairs'
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News Link • Government
Dan Ellsberg on WikiLeaks & the Essential Democratic Question: Who Will Tell the People?
07-29-2010
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John Nichols via The Nation
The Obama White House was quick to condemn the publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents detailing the monumentally misguided and frequently failed attempt by the United States to occupy Afghanistan.
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News Link • Inventions
In iPhone, adult industry sees pocket porn market
07-29-2010
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Joel Schectman via MyWay.com
It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.
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News Link • China
China conducts naval drill in disputed southern seas
07-29-2010
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Ben Blanchard via
Chinese naval forces have carried out a series of drills in the South China Sea, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, strategic waters which are disputed by a number of Southeast Asia countries.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Feeding The Matrix: 5 Reasons Not to Pay Your Credit Cards
07-29-2010
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Infowars.com/
Sure, you get to “rent” a flat-screen TV, a car, or a home from them, making life in the matrix almost worth it. But, ultimately, you only temporarily use that stuff at great expense to you and massive profits to the banks.
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News Link • Future Predictions
The Year America Dissolved
07-29-2010
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Paul Craig Roberts via InfoWars.com
It was 2017. Clans were governing America.
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed's Bullard: Time To Start Talking About More Quantitative Easing
07-29-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The Federal Reserve President of St. Louis James Bullard has warned that current U.S. policy could lead to Japanese style deflation and that a new form of quantitative easing may be necessary, according to CNBC.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Schwarzenegger orders government worker furloughs
07-29-2010
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Judy Lin via Associated Press
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday brought back furloughs for thousands of state workers until California passes a budget that addresses a $19 billion deficit.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Nassim Taleb: "The Government Debt Is Becoming A Pure Ponzi Scheme"
07-29-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The problem is getting runaway. It's becoming a pure Ponzi scheme. It's very nonlinear: You need more and more debt just to stay where you are. And what broke Madoff is going to break governments. They need to find new suckers all the time.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Reminder Of How Much Deleveraging Households Still Have To Do
07-29-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Going back over the past 6 decades (Chart 6), household debt has been forever rising as a percentage of GDP, ramping up this decade to its peak in Q1 last year at 97.3%. Through the end of Q1 this year, it has dropped to 92.8%.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's cronies make the Mafia look like rank amateurs
07-29-2010
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Djour8142 via yourwebapps.com
Financial experts think this will be the largest "scam" or "legalheist" in world history. Obama's cronies make the Mafia look like rank amateurs. They will make Bernie Madoff's fraud look like penny ante stuff
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims: Eight Months of Moving Sideways
07-29-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The 4-week average of initial weekly claims has been at about the same level since December 2009 (eight months) and the 4-week average of 452,500 is high historically, and suggests a weak labor market.
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News Link • Police State
Motorcycle Videographer Faces 16 Years For Taping Cop With a Gun
07-29-2010
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SmirkingChimp.com
The scale of the Maryland State Police reaction to Graber’s video is “unprecedented,” (the cops raided his parents’ home and confiscated four of his computers,) but it certainly isn’t an isolated event.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday July 29th 2010
07-29-2010
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LewRockwell.com
Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, WikiLeaks Force Rare Debate - State Media Love Crime Waves, Especially Phony Ones - Was Bush Sr. Involved in Killing JFK and Framing Nixon? - Home Pharmacy Preparedness
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ariz. sheriff: I’ll jail immigration protesters
07-29-2010
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RawStory
The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona says he's "not going to put up with any civil disobedience" when the state's new immigration law takes effect.
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News Link • Immigration
Federal judge blocks major parts of S1070
07-29-2010
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Arizona Capitol Times
Brewer also said she was disappointed by the ruling, but encouraged by the fact that Bolton left some sections intact, such as the “sanctuary city” provision that prohibits cities from restricting the enforcement of immigration law. (National ID Part
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News Link • Gun Rights
Arizona's concealed-weapon law takes effect
07-29-2010
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Arizona Republic
Starting today, Arizona residents at least 21 years old can carry a concealed weapon without a permit. Arizona joins Alaska and Vermont as the only states to allow concealed weapons without a permit. The impact is likely to be different in Arizona
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Indocrinate U" Screening
07-15-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last July meeting which will take place on the 29th, Phoenix Objectivists will host a free screening of the documentary "Indoctrinate U".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Energy
Ozone Treatment Produces biofuel Production Efficiency
07-29-2-10
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arclein
By exposing the plant matter to gaseous ozone, with very little moisture, they are able to produce a carbohydrate-rich solid with no solid or liquid waste.
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News Link • Energy
Ocean Energy Industry Lobbies for Support
07-29-2010
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arclein
Ocean energy could provide 15 percent of Europe's energy needs by 2050, the industry says, adding that this target is only realistic if politicians increase support for the new technologies.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Superconducting at Room Temperature Indicated
07-29-2010
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arclein
We report the observation of an exceptionally large room-temperature electrical conductivity in silver and aluminum layers deposited on a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) substrate. The surface resistance of the silve
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News Link • Science
Predictions of Human Extinction
07-29-2010
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arclein
And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.
He has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a p
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Armedia Awarded a New Contract by the Defense Intelligence Agency: Part of $6.6 billion award!
07-27-2010
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Deepika Mala, TMCnet Contributor
The solutions for the information technology enterprise multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base period of performance, four one-year options, and a ceiling value of $6.6 billion for all awardees.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Conspiracies
National Health Care Bill Contains Skull & Bones Illuminati Signature. "322"
07-29-2010
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The Real News
What does the newly passed health-care bill have to do with skull and bones?
March 22nd, yes, March 22nd. This date holds quite an interesting story. This date correlates with the skull and bones secret society signature of
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona immigration law blocked: Governor plans swift appeal . Is block unconstitutional?
07-29-2010
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The Real News
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer plans to swiftly appeal a judge's ruling blocking key components of Arizona's new state immigration law, vowing to take it to the Supreme Court if she has to. In a statement, Jan Brewer stated "This fight is far from o
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News Link • Drug War
Congress Passes Drug Legislation Fixing Crack Disparity. Is it good? What's your opinion?
07-29-2010
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The Real News
On Wednesday, the House voted to reduce the disparity in the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine vs. powder cocaine. Before, in order to be charged with a felony, crack users need to posses 5 grams of crack, powder cocaine users needed to
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