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Date Sent: 2011-08-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 12, 2011 |
Police officer seeks criminal charges against woman who videotaped police beating
C.I.A. Is Disputed on Civilian Toll in Drone Strikes -- Cops saw video of them beating man to death before writing reports -- From JFK to Sept. 11, conspiracy theories thrive -- London Cops are
Testing out Facial Recognition Tech to Identify Rioters -- Texas Ranger
says polygamist ranch raid vindicated -- Ron Paul spars with other candidates over foreign policy --
SETI to resume hunt for extraterrestrial life following successful
fundraiser -- 8 From G.O.P. Trade Attacks at Iowa Debate -- Postal Service proposes cutting 120,000 jobs, pulling out of health-care plan -- Willow Garage Introduces Discount PR2 SE, a One-Armed Personal Robot for the Rest of Us -- In Defense of Flashmobs -- After Cheating Scandal, FBI Agents to Be Tested On Surveillance Tactics -- Senator Grassley's Probe of TV Ministries Spells Trouble for America's Churches -- DHS says Terror Watchlist is exempt from Privacy Act -- Mike Adams: FDA Is Conducting a Secret War Against Dairy Farmers -- Central Bankers Race Toward Global Currency Solution -- Post S&P Downgrade, Chicagoans Take to Streets, Demand Arrest of Bankers -- Bill Gates’ Surveillance House -- Meredith Whitney: Financial Giants Turning Into 'Zombie Banks'
AZ: Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite,
AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.
Nationwide: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police officer seeks criminal charges against woman who videotaped police beating
08-11-2011
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rawstory.com
A police officer from Springfield, Massachusetts has filed an application for a criminal complaint against a woman who recorded his fellow officer beating a black suspect while he stood by
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
C.I.A. Is Disputed on Civilian Toll in Drone Strikes
08-11-2011
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NY Times
A CIA drone fired a volley of missiles at a pickup truck carrying nine militants and bomb materials through a desolate stretch of Pakistan near the Afghan border. It killed all the militants â€" a clean strike with no civilian casualties,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops saw video of them beating man to death before writing reports
08-11-2011
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LA Times
Supervisors allowed Fullerton officers involved in a violent confrontation with a homeless man to view the footage to help them write up accounts of the incident. A former LAPD official calls it a 'bad practice.'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
From JFK to Sept. 11, conspiracy theories thrive
08-11-2011
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ABC News
A few years later, a friend of Theimer's wife casually mentioned that 9/11 "was an inside job." Theimer was livid and turned to the Internet, to prove the friend wrong.
The websites, the books and the documentaries he saw online persuaded him. He
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
London Cops are Testing out Facial Recognition Tech to Identify Rioters
08-11-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Police in London likely aren’t relishing their jobs this week, but Scotland Yard is getting a chance to test drive facial recognition technology that’s under consideration for use during the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Texas Ranger says polygamist ranch raid vindicated
08-11-2011
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AP
Investigators made no mention of child sex tapes, or seized photos of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs kissing young girls, after their April 2008 raid on the sect's remote Texas compound. Instead, the public saw the televised spectacle of more than 40
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul spars with other candidates over foreign policy
08-11-2011
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caucuses.desmoinesregister.com
After getting scant air time early on Thursday, Ron Paul’s foreign policy views took center stage during the debate’s second half in a heated exchange about U.S. relations with Iran.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SETI to resume hunt for extraterrestrial life following successful fundraiser
08-11-2011
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Yahoo! News blog
In April, the future was looking dim for the SETI Institute's search for signs of extraterrestrial life, but a successful fundraiser means that some of its most key space-scanning equipment is back in action. After a drought of funding, SETI was forc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
8 From G.O.P. Trade Attacks at Iowa Debate
08-11-2011
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NY Times
A withering critique of President Obama’s handling of the economy was overshadowed by a burst of incivility among the GOP presidential candidates who gathered to debate and fought to stay alive in the party’s increasingly fractious nominating race.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Postal Service proposes cutting 120,000 jobs, pulling out of health-care plan
08-11-2011
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Washington Post
The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is proposing to cut its workforce by 20 percent and to withdraw from the federal health and retirement plans because it believes it could provide benefits at a lower cost.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Willow Garage Introduces Discount PR2 SE, a One-Armed Personal Robot for the Rest of Us
08-11-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Willow Garage’s PR2 has provided a unique, open source robotics platform to all kinds of labs and institutions that otherwise wouldn’t have access to a complex robotics system--but not to that many.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
'Epidermal Electronics' Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo
08-11-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Someday soon, hospital patients won’t be hooked up to wires and monitors -- instead, electronic patches will be temporarily tattooed onto their bodies. Doctors will be able to monitor their vital signs without poking and prodding
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Hit the Hills and Highways on Hungary's $35,000 Hybrid Hyperbike
08-11-2011
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WIRED.com
M55’s Terminus is an imposing, uncanny $35,000 contraption which looks and works unlike any bike I’ve ever seen.
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News Link • Free Speech
In Defense of Flashmobs
08-11-2011
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Paul Levinson
banning flashmobs is unconstitutional and would get in the way of direct democracy
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Government
After Cheating Scandal, FBI Agents to Be Tested On Surveillance Tactics
08-11-2011
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning to test agents about their understanding of the bureau’s surveillance guidelines, a move coming more than a year after the Justice Department discovered widespread cheating on the exam.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Military
New Air Force Jet Concept: Like a Prius, But With Lasers
08-11-2011
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David Axe via WIRED.com
The jet fighter of the future could fire lasers, evade radars and heat-detecting sensors, and slip software viruses into enemy computer networks. All this while flying farther and more often, and using less gas.
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News Link • Surveillance
DHS says Terror Watchlist is exempt from Privacy Act
08-11-2011
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KALW
Last Friday, the federal government’s new anti-terror database, the Terror Screening Watchlist Service, went live. The database is loaded with an unknown amount of personal information, including names, photographs and biometric data. In a new turn t
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Mike Adams: FDA Is Conducting a Secret War Against Dairy Farmers
08-11-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
For the past several years, organic foods have witnessed an increase in popularity due to both the lack of pesticides used in their production and the lack of any use of genetic modification technologies. Many people are demanding that their food be
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Central Bankers Race Toward Global Currency Solution
08-11-2011
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TheDailyBell.com
This Bloomberg article is just another in a long line of disappointing mainstream financial reports that does nothing to address the real issues causing the crisis and, in fact, does everything to try to misinform the public into believing that the "
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
BREAKING: Post S&P Downgrade, Chicagoans Take to Streets, Demand Arrest of Bankers
8-11-11
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RTR.org
http://RTR.org | Immediately following the announcement of the S&P downgrade, defiant Chicagoans took the the streets and demanded the arrest of the Bankers and an the end of the Federal Reserve system. This was never covered on any news outlet.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meredith Whitney: Financial Giants Turning Into 'Zombie Banks'
08-11-2011
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CNBC.com
"The large banks which dominate most of the lending in the U.S. are effectively zombie banks," she said. "You've got an expense structure that just doesn't match the revenue structure. So it's a classic issue of negative operating leverage.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rick Perry to run for president
08-11-2011
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CBSnews.com
Perry spokesman Mark Miner said the governor would make his intentions known on Saturday while visiting the crucial early primary states of South Carolina and New Hampshire just as most of his presidential rivals compete in a test vote...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Yo B, pay your f***in' bills! Video on Obama and the national debt! (Adult content)
08-11-2011
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The Political Commentator
Great video by Felonius Munk on President Obama and the debt of the United States!
Felonius Munk voted for Obama the first time, but I would bet he isn't voting for him the next time.
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Boy tells teacher he spent vacation making explosives
08-11-2011
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Reuters
A 13-year-old Tennessee boy asked what he did on his summer vacation surprised his teacher by saying he made explosive devices. Police were summoned and found he was telling the truth. He was charged with felony manufacturing of explosive devices,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Doug Casey on NASA & Space Exploration (Aug 10, 2011)
08-11-2011
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www.caseyresearch.com
Doug Casey on NASA & Space Exploration
(Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator)
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Sierra Hancock
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