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Date Sent: 2011-03-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 17, 2011 AM edition |
Young Leaders of Egypt's Revolt Snub Clinton in Cairo -- Ex-CIA agent viewed bombings as 'heroic'
Pr. George’s jury awards $11.5 million in fatal police shooting -- The Invasion of Bahrain -- GOP congressman says families should abandon city life -- Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest -- Japan's Meltdowns - Ernest Interviews Palo Verde Nuclear Station Fuel Supervisor -- White House wants new copyright law crackdown -- Judge: Free Speech No Defense for Urging Suicide -- Atom
Smasher Could Be Used As Time Machine, Physicists Propose --
Archaeologists may have discovered Blackbeard's fabled treasure --
rEVOLution is here -- Testosterone on the Right - the Friendly Atom's
Defenders -- Plutonium, MOX, and Chicken Little -- Japanese Bank Holiday Imminent: Will This Spread To The US? -- NYPD to Buy Counterterror Combat Vessel -- Tomorrow: Live chat via Skype with George Donnelly - Agora I/O "un-conference" georgedonnelly.com -- Wholesale prices up 1.6 pct. on steep rise in food -- U.S. Drug Stores Report Sudden Increase in Potassium Iodide Sales -- Mandatory Spending to Exceed all Federal Revenues — 50 Years Ahead of Schedule -- TSA now expected to testify at Chaffetz-chaired hearing -- Internet is world's 'greatest spying machine': Assange -- 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is Much Worse Than They Have Been Telling Us -- No-Fly Won't Fly Constitutionally -- Practicing the Principles of Non-Intervention - At Home and Abroad -- End of Nuclear Power?
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News Link • World News
Young Leaders of Egypt's Revolt Snub Clinton in Cairo
03-16-2011
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blogs.abcnews.com
A coalition of six youth groups that emerged from Egypt’s revolution last month has refused to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who arrived in Cairo earlier today, in protest of the United States’ strong support for former Egyptian Presi
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Reporter: Ex-CIA agent viewed bombings as 'heroic'
03-16-2011
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AP
A New York Times reporter who interviewed an elderly ex-CIA agent about masterminding deadly bombings that rocked luxury hotels and other top tourist sites in Cuba in 1997 testified he sought out the newspaper to better explain the heroism of those a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pr. George’s jury awards $11.5 million in fatal police shooting
03-16-2011
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Washington Post
The jury found Jackson intentionally violated Espina’s constitutional rights, that he acted with malice, and that he assaulted and battered Espina before wrongfully killing him. Jackson pepper-sprayed Espina and beat him with his fists and a metal ba
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Invasion of Bahrain
03-16-2011
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Wendy McElroy
A senior diplomat has told me for sure that Hillary Clinton agreed to the cross-border use of troops to crush democracy in the Gulf, as a quid pro quo for the Arab League calling for Western intervention in Libya. The hideous King of Bahrain has call
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
GOP congressman says families should abandon city life
03-16-2011
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Rawstory
"There are a number of events that could create a situation in our cities where civil unrest could be a very high probability. ... those who understand need to take advantage of this opportunity when the winds of strife are not blowing to move their
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest
03-16-2011
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ABC News (video)
35 years ago, Dale Bridenbaugh and 2 of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to a devastating acc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
White House wants new copyright law crackdown
03-16-2011
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Declan McCullagh (CNET)
The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: Free Speech No Defense for Urging Suicide
03-16-2011
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AP
Freedom of speech is no defense for a former nurse who engaged in "lethal advocacy" when he encouraged an English man and Canadian woman to kill themselves after searching for depressed people over the Internet, a Minnesota judge said in delivering a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Atom Smasher Could Be Used As Time Machine, Physicists Propose
03-16-2011
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LiveScience
In a 'long shot' theory, physicists propose that the world's largest atom smasher could be used as a time machine to send a special kind of matter backward in time. The scientists outline a way to use the Large Hadron Collider to send a hypothetical
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
CeBIT 2011: AMD Demos Llano Behind Closed Doors, & AMD Llano APU vs Intel Sandy Bridge laptop
03-16-2011
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Benjamin Kraft
(Forget about CPU's and GPU's the future of computing is APU (advance processing units) combining the best of CPU and GPU all into one 32 nanometer die. AMD seems to be better at multitasking, HD video, gaming, and multi-threaded aplications.) edito
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Andrew Strmic
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News Link • Archaeology
Archaeologists may have discovered Blackbeard's fabled treasure
03-16-2011
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Terrence Aym
Blackbeard the pirate. Rum and cannons. Gold doubloons and parrots. With pirates comes adventure and tales of the high seas…And for researchers exploring what may be the remains of the famous pirate's notorious flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, advent
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
rEVOLution is here
03-16-2011
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CameraFRAUD
Time to culture jam all media with #rEVOLution. Yes, my friend: rEVOLution is here. This video will confirm it for you.
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David Alpha
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Testosterone on the Right - the Friendly Atom's Defenders
03-16-2011
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Becky Chandler
Whats with all the conservative (even libertarian) enthusiasm for, and eagerness to defend, the nuclear power industry? Their position is not very conservative, and certainly not libertarian.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Plutonium, MOX, and Chicken Little
03-16-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Events in Japan go far beyond 3-Mile Island and it is well beyond foolish to think this is no big deal. None of us knows how it will play out, yet this is a major crisis with the potential to be a Chernobyl-type disaster if a MOX reactor blows.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chris Martenson: Nuclear (And Economic) Meltdown In Progress
03-16-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
This alert warns you that major world-changing events are now underway and that your personal preparations for an uncertain future should either be completed or take on a new sense of urgency. On the basis of the information contained...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
USDJPY Flash Crashes As All Support Taken Out - Record Collapse
03-16-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Support broken as the dollar yen plunges to an all time record low. Everyone now watching the Nikkei to see if it opens. That the BOJ has not intervened yet is beyond ominous, and nothing short of a death sentence for the Yen carry traders.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japanese Bank Holiday Imminent: Will This Spread To The US?
03-16-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The news agency said officials from more than 10 non-Japanese financial firms held a conference call Tuesday afternoon, with some firms calling for the market to be closed immediately, Nikkei reported, citing people familiar with the discussion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD to Buy Counterterror Combat Vessel
03-16-2011
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Officer.com
The NYPD will be getting a high-speed combat vessel to respond to Mumbai-style terror attacks in New York Harbor, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Tuesday.
More than $5 million in federal funding has been earmarked for the 71-foot craft, which c
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Environment
Magnetic monster: Geomagnetic field reveals increasing danger of 'continent killing' quakes
03-16-2011
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Terrence Aym
Russian geophysicist Pogrebnikov concurs with his colleagues at Harvard and Stanford: the earth may be in for a hell of a time. Imagine events just short of doomsday and you'll have a small glimpse of the global catastrophes that may lie just ahead.
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Constitution
WHERE IS THE CONSTITUTION LOBBY?
03-16-2011
WHERE IS THE CONSTITUTION LOBBY?
WHO IS LOBBYING FOR AMERICA’S CONSTITUTIONS?
ANSWER: TOMORROW...
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Food
Wholesale prices up 1.6 pct. on steep rise in food
03-16-2011
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finance.yahoo.com
Wholesale prices rise 1.6 pct. due to biggest jump in food costs in more than 36 years
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
U.S. Drug Stores Report Sudden Increase in Potassium Iodide Sales
03-16-2011
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foxnews.com
One drug supplier says it has sold 250,000 anti-radiation pills to people in the U.S. concerned about possible exposure from Japanese nuclear reactors.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Mandatory Spending to Exceed all Federal Revenues â€" 50 Years Ahead of Schedule
03-16-2011
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www.weeklystandard.com
We have now gotten to the point â€" as I noted yesterday â€" where if national defense, interstate highways, national parks, homeland security, and all other discretionary programs somehow became absolutely free, we’d still have a budget deficit.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA now expected to testify at Chaffetz-chaired hearing
03-16-2011
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www.sltrib.com
After initially saying they wouldn’t show, Transportation Security Administration officials are now expected to testify today before a congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, one of the agency’s biggest critics.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Internet is world's 'greatest spying machine': Assange
03-16-2011
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www.breitbart.com
Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has warned that the Internet was the "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen" and an obstacle to free speech.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan's emperor in historic speech: 'Never give up hope'
03-16-2011
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cnn.com
Japan's beloved emperor dramatically took to the national TV airwaves Wednesday and buoyed the spirits of his disaster-stricken citizens in an extraordinary address before a nation grappling with the aftermath of an epic earthquake and a devastating
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is Much Worse Than They Have Been Telling Us
03-16-2011
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prisonplanet.com
27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is Much Worse Than Either The Mainstream Media Or The Japanese Government Have Been Telling Us
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
No-Fly Won't Fly Constitutionally
03-16-2011
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dailybell.com
Last week we once again heard numerous voices calling for intervention in Libya. Most say the US should establish a "no-fly" zone over Libya, pretending that it is a benign, virtually cost-free action, and the least we could do to assist those trying
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Practicing the Principles of Non-Intervention - At Home and Abroad
03-16-2011
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dailybell.com
Events in other parts of the world, such as the civil war in Libya, and the revolutions and mass public demonstrations against various tyrannical and autocratic governments in several countries in the Middle East, have aroused a deep sympathy among t
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Sierra Hancock
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