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Date Sent: 2010-08-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 25, 2010 AM edition |
CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen
Defense official discloses cyberattack -- Dow Faces Bouncy Ride to 5,000: Strategist
-- New Canaan Considers Tracking Devices for Students --
Petroleum-eating microbes significantly reduced gulf oil plume -- It
isn't God who is keeping track of our sins…..it is a Homeland Security
satellite -- Keeping the Middle East Wars going: The US sells armament to both sides -- Fort Hood Disobeys, Politics and Illegal Occupations by Szandor Blestman -- Facial Recognition Software: IDs every photograph on the Internet --
ONLY the US Supreme Court has Constitutional Authority to Conduct the
(SB1070) Trial -- Synthetic Marijuana Is Legal, and It Might Get You
High, But Is It Safe? -- Government Uses Social Networking Sites for More than Investigations -- Security Researcher Arrested for Refusing to Disclose Anonymous Source
AZ: Thursday Breakfast Debate,
Arizona Congressional District 2 candidates
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen
08-24-2010
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Washington Post
For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Defense official discloses cyberattack
08-24-2010
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Washington Post
Malicious code placed on the drive by a foreign intelligence agency uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. military's Central Command. "That code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a d
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow Faces Bouncy Ride to 5,000: Strategist
08-24-2010
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CNBC
The Dow Jones Industrial Average will lose about half of its value over the next couple of years as it follows a Nikkei-like pattern of several sharp rallies in an overall decline, according to Charles Nenner, founder and president of Charles Nenner
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
New Canaan Considers Tracking Devices for Students
08-24-2010
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NBC News
Students might someday get tracking tags along with their textbooks. No decisions have yet been made, but school officials plan to look into the possibility of adding radio frequency tags to student or staff ID cards, or place them on school property
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Cured: A Cannabis Story
08-24-2010
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Farm Wars
The real reason the government doesn’t want us to have this medicine. There is no profit in it, and it actually works.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Environment
Petroleum-eating microbes significantly reduced gulf oil plume
08-24-2010
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Washington Post
Petroleum-eating bacteria - which had dined for eons on oil seeping naturally through the seafloor - proliferated in the cloud of oil that drifted underwater for months after the April 20 accident. They not only outcompeted fellow microbes, they each
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
It isn’t God who is keeping track of our sins…..it is a Homeland Security satellite
08-23-10
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http://www.ppjg.wordpress.com
Marti Oakley (c) copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
“As it turns out, it isn’t God who is keeping a list of our sins: It’s a Homeland Security satellite logging any and all information it can find and transmitting it to HSD, NSA, FBI, CIA, and
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • How To
How to Start Tomato Plants from Cuttings
08-24-2010
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SMCC
"Starting tomato plants from cuttings comes in handy when you're perusing someone else's garden and they have a particular tomato plant that you admire."
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Barbara Peterson
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Feature Article • Food
Billion Dollar Company Taps Individual Charity
BOULDER, CO â€" Most of us know that if you want a fast, healthy meal for a reasonable price you can head to Panera, but what about getting the same meal for a suggested price?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
When force is the preferred option, not the last resort
08-16-2010
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Bill Williams
Every US leader since World War II had embraced the idea that superior military power would guarantee American security. . . Washington wants guns, and the American people want butter. Massive, habitual deficit spending “satisfies both appetites, wit
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Keeping the Middle East Wars going: The US sells armament to both sides
08-24-2010
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Zochrot
an American sale of 84 F-15s and dozens of Blackhawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia as part of a 30 billion dollar deal. . . US offers Israel defence contract worth $4bn that will provide F-35s, which cost 150-160 million dollars apiece. Israel expected
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Activism
Fort Hood Disobeys, Politics and Illegal Occupations by Szandor Blestman
08-24-2010
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SzandorBlestman.com via e-mail from him
"It's about time we got some action on the anti war protesting front. It's about time real people started to once again voice their concern in a more pertinent way..."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Food
People Are Starting To Sabotage GMO Crop Trials
08-24-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Facial Recognition Software: IDs every photograph on the internet
08-24-2010
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DailyMail.co.uk
A software company is developing revolutionary software which provides the ability to identify people from photographs posted on the internet.
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Environment Cannot Withstand Endless Human Population Growth: Collapse
08-24-2010
Frosty Wooldridge
“Systemic collapse, societal collapse, the coming dark age, the great transformation, the coming crash, the post-industrial age, the long emergency, socioeconomic collapse, the die-off, the tribulation, the coming anarchy, perhaps even resource wars.
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Opinion • Activism
ANY LIBERTARIANS OUT THERE?
08-24-2010
Ed Vallejo
For the few who keep tabs on THE R3VOLUTION CONTINUES Edition (look under the tab 'Special Editions') you probably noticed I haven't posted much lately...
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News Link • Military
DRILL REPORTS: Military Drill Reports
08-24-2010
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US Martial Law & Financial - Instant Alert System
Interesting post on one of the MeetUp Groups I belong to. Most current: NORAD's multiple exercise coordination Aug 19, 2010 in CA, AK, and Alberta.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Fart Absorbing Underwear
2007-01-24
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http://www.vincentchow.net
Man, I had this brilliant idea a while back but it looks like others are already advancing the technology. My idea was you could use ebedded charcoal like in odor eaters for your shoes. Damn, that really stinks.
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G Cone
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News Link • Immigration
ONLY the US Supreme Court has Constitutional Authority to Conduct the (SB1070) Trial
08-24-2010
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Canada Free Press via e-mail
This article is from July 29th, but brings up some excellent points on the issue that bears review.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Immigration
Ashurst: A Border Manifesto #3
08-24-2010
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Federal Observer via e-mail from Winslow Joan
"I’m no Prophet but I think its naïve to the point of stupidity to think that the anarchy that now pervades Mexico will not become increasingly present north of the Mexican border."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
High Science: Synthetic Marijuana Is Legal, and It Might Get You High -- But Is It Safe?
08-24-2010
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phoenixnewtimes.com via Yahoo! News
"It was scary," Jones says, taking a hit of spice off his pipe. Then, through a cloud of white smoke, he says, "I'm fairly convinced this stuff is poison."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
First Indication that the St Louis Fed Knows Bernanke is a Mad Scientist
08-24-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Bottom line: The St Louis Fed knows Bernake is a mad scientist that has concocted a money control structure with his new "tools" that is likely at some point to blow the entire economic system in a thousand different directions
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government
Government Uses Social Networking Sites for More than Investigations
08-24-2010
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Tim Wayne via Electronic Frontier Foundation
In the midst of recent controversies over Facebook’s privacy settings, it’s easy to forget how much personal information is available from other sources on the Internet. But the government remembers.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Voting and Elections
UPDATED: Security Researcher Arrested for Refusing to Disclose Anonymous Source
08-24-2010
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Marcia Hofmann via eff.org
An Indian computer scientist was arrested this weekend when he refused to disclose an anonymous source who provided an electronic voting machine to a team of security researchers.
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