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Date Sent: 2012-01-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 7, 2012 |
News Link • Military
You’re Welcome, Tehran! U.S. Navy Frees Iranians From Pirates
01-06-2012
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
Just days after Iran threatened the U.S. Navy and bloviated about closing off the Strait of Hormuz, the Navy saved 13 Iranian commercial sailors from pirates. Anytime you want to express your gratitude, Tehran, the Pentagon will take your call.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
GOP Debate Party at Hancock's - 6 p.m. Sat January 7th, 2012
01-06-2012
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www.2012electionnewscentral.com
Party starts at 6 p.m. - Debate starts at 7 p.m. - Coming up this Saturday will be the first post-Iowa GOP debate heading into New Hampshire. The debate will be held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester and sponsored by ABC News, Yahoo! and WMUR.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
State Sen. Scott Bundgaard resigns from Legislature
01-06-2012
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Arizona Republic
Peoria Sen. Scott Bundgaard abruptly resigned from the Arizona Senate on Friday, shortly before he would have been called before the Senate Ethics Committee to defend his actions in a Feb. 25 altercation with a then-girlfriend.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US commander visits Israel to finalize missile drill
01-06-2012
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Jerusalem Post
Israel is moving forward with plans to hold the largest-ever missile defense exercise in its history this spring amid Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.The commander of the US’s Third Air Force visited Israel to finalize plans for the upcomin
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
EU stands firm on airline emissions despite Chinese fury
01-06-2012
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The RawStory.com
The European Union refused Thursday to back down from a disputed airline emissions fee despite China’s refusal to pay the new charge to land in Europe.
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News Link • Drug War
Gingrich Says Washington and Jefferson Would Have Violently Suppressed Their Own Crops
01-06-2012
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Reason magazine
This morning Newt Gingrich, the historian, insisted that renowned hemp growers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have violently suppressed their own crop:
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News Link • Precious Metals
25 dead, 150 missing in Philippine landslide
01-06-2012
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The RawStory.com
At least 25 people were killed in the southern Philippines on Thursday when a landslide buried gold prospectors who had refused to leave an area declared too dangerous for habitation.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Doctors to remove Vietnamese man’s 90kg tumour
01-06-2012
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The RawStory.com
A man left unable to walk by a tumour on his right leg that weighs more than the rest of his body went under the knife in Vietnam on Thursday to have the growth removed, hospital officials said.
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News Link • Death
Gordon Hirabayashi, World War II Internment Opponent, Dies at 93
01-06-2012
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New York Times
Gordon Hirabayashi, who was imprisoned for defying the federal government’s internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II but was vindicated four decades later when his conviction was overturned, died on Monday in Edmonton, Alberta. He was 93.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Dumbest Thing Ever Said About Gold Investments
01-06-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
So funny you would swear it must be a prank. Girl needs to let her hair go back to blonde.
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News Link • Military
Last US Marine faces trial over 2005 Iraq killings
01-06-2012
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The RawStory.com
After years of appeals and delays, the last US Marine charged over the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha faces a court martial on Thursday in California.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Dept. expands definition of rape to include other forms of sexual assault
01-06-2012
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Washington Post
The Obama administration on Friday announced a significant expansion of the FBI’s definition of rape, which will now cover several forms of sexual assault and include male rape.
Justice Department officials said the revision would make reporting o
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News Link • Iran
U.S. rescues Iranian hostages [VIDEO]
01-06-2012
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Washington Post
Forces from the aircraft carrier’s strike group swiftly made the most of the moment. They seized 15 Somali pirates without firing a shot and rescued 13 hungry Iranian fishermen who had been held hostage for several weeks.
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News Link • Energy
Iran to hold new wargames soon in key oil waterway
01-06-2012
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The RawStory.com
Iran is to hold fresh military exercises in and around the strategic Strait of Hormuz within weeks, the naval commander of its powerful Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Friday.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Promising to bring nearly all troops home, Paul pulls in campaign cash from military donors
01-06-2012
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Washington Post
Paul arrived Friday in New Hampshire riding the momentum of a top-three finish in Iowa, a fundraising haul of $13 million in the last quarter and bragging rights of having more donors who list military affiliations than his Republican rivals combined
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News Link • Military
Navy Balloon Launches Drone, Which Drops Two More Spy Bots
01-06-2012
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Katie Drummond via WIRED.com
It just might be the most convoluted spy program in the Pentagon’s history: Fly a balloon up to 60,000 feet, and have it unleash a drone. Then, have that drone deploy several smaller surveillance drones that glide to the ground and collect data.
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News Link • Military
Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Program Delayed, But Still Tracking
01-06-2012
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David Axe via WIRED.com
The Pentagon will delay acquisition of more than 100 early-model Joint Strike Fighters, a bid to save up-front money and to give more time for testers to work out the finicky F-35 warplane’s many technical kinks.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
A Short, Strange History of Anonymous
01-06-2012
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Ryan Singel via WIRED.com
Anonymous has come a long way in a few short years, graduating from filling the web with Pedobears and Rickrolls to fighting oppressive regimes and trying to get revenge on the companies that cut off WikiLeaks.
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News Link • World News
Romanian Man Charged in $1.5 Million ATM Skimming Scam
01-06-2012
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
A Romanian man has been arrested in a $1.5 million card-skimming operation that targeted 40 ATMs belonging to HSBC branches in New York.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Micromanagement Material: Electronic Sleeves Monitor Workers’ Efficiency
01-06-2012
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Dave Mosher via WIRED.com
Computerized sleeves may soon allow manufacturing bosses to monitor and record workers’ moves and mine them for efficiency data.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Launches New Site for Open Source Coding Projects
01-06-2012
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Scott Gilbertson via webmonkey.com
If you’d like software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on. The Space Agency recently unveiled a new website, home for NASA’s various open source software projects.
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Feature Article • Activism
Rick Santorum Asked If He's Googled Himself
Drew
At a campaign stop in Keene, NH - Rick Santorum is asked if he's ever googled himself. He's also serenaded by the Shire Choir. Stay tuned to FreeKeene.com for a longer video showing more of what happened at the campaign event when the Shire Choir san
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Olympic Runner Auctions Ad Space " On His Body
01-06-2012
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com
Olympian Nick Symmonds, a vocal critic of what he calls track and field’s needlessly restrictive logo and sponsorship regulations, is auctioning advertising space on his body to raise money " and awareness.
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News Link • Energy
Cleaner, Cheaper Liquid Fuel from Coal
01-06-2012
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Peter Fairley via PopSci.com
A new conversion process promises zero carbon emissions during production"but some question whether it will scale.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The USAF's X-37B Secret Space Plane Appears to Be Tracking China's New Space Station
01-06-2012
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ClayDillow via PopSci.com
Here at PopSci we don’t like to spread rumors. And that’s how I generally like to start off a post wherein I intend to propagate some kind of hearsay rooted mostly in speculation. Hearsay like this: America’s X-37B spaceplane
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Spring-Loaded MEMS-Driven Pixels Could Enable 3-D Holographic Video Displays
01-06-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Holographic video is sort of the holy grail of video display technology right now. Stereoscopic 3-D is fine and everything, but it basically works by tricking the brain into seeing that 3-D depth via two offset 2-D images
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
U.S. Navy Plans Autonomous Interplanetary Rovers Powered By Microbes
01-06-2012
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Revecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Next-generation Mars rovers might not need solar panels or plutonium packs for juice " they’ll bring microbes with them to use in fuel cells. The Naval Research Laboratory is working on potential fuel cell designs
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
On Land Destroyed by the Tsunami, Japan is Building a Futuristic Robot Farm
01-06-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
You have to hand it to the Japanese; Last March’s Tohoku earthquake and associated tsunami wasn’t the first natural (or unnatural, for that matter) disaster to befall the island nation, but as just as before the country isn’t simply rebuilding.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Flashback: Mitt Romney Demonstrated in Favour of Vietnam War Draft
01-06-2012
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Dailymail.co.uk via RTR.ORG post
A newly-unearthed photograph showing Mitt Romney demonstrating in favour of the Vietnam War draft might leave the presidential candidate feeling somewhat embarrassed.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Santorum: U.S. needs 'Jesus candidate'
01-06-2012
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www.onenewsnow.com
Speaking Thursday night in New Hampshire, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum -- first runner-up in this week's Iowa Caucuses -- shared that he believes America "always need[s] a Jesus candidate."
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News Link • Currencies
Is there a ‘best’ currency to hold right now?
01-06-2012
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www.sovereignman.com/Simon Black
We recently received a great question from a reader, Chuck, who asked, “Simon, I’m going to HK in 10 days to open a bank account, and I know there are options to do this in several foreign currencies. What foreign currency would you recommend to hold
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Slams ‘Counterfeit Conservative’ Gingrich
01-06-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
The Paul campaign has issued a scathing mailout that takes Gingrich to task, labeling the former House Speaker a ‘counterfeit conservative’.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
McCain goofs at Romney event: ‘Obama will turn this country around’
01-06-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Failed Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s endorsement of current candidate Mitt Romney may being doing more harm than good.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Poppy Harlow crushes car with tank!
01-06-2012
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www.cnn.money.com
In Kosota, Minnesota, a small business lets people drive battle tanks and crush cars ... no joke!
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Doctors going broke
01-06-2012
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www.money.cnn.com
Industry watchers say the trend is worrisome. Half of all doctors in the nation operate a private practice. So if a cash crunch forces the death of an independent practice, it robs a community of a vital health care resource.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Ernest Hancock: Bringing The R3VOLUTION Back Home
01-06-2012
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www.republicmedia.tv
“There are two types of people in the world,… Those who wish to be left alone and those who just won’t leave them alone. What type are you?”
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News Link • Surveillance
New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones
01-06-2012
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ca.news.yahoo.com
President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military presence in Asia but shrink the overall size of the force as the Pentagon seeks to reduce spending by nearly half a trillion dollars after a decade of
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News Link • China
Commentary: Constructive U.S. role in Asia-Pacific welcome, but not warmongering
01-06-2012
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news.xinhuanet.com
BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama rolled out a new defense strategy Thursday that will shift the country's military focus to the Asia-Pacific region, and cut 489 billion U.S. dollars in defense spending in the next decade.
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News Link • Energy
Slovakia’s Nuclear Schizophrenia " Shut Down, Continue As Usual, or Boldly Go - Where?
01-06-2012
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Oilprice.com
The implosion of the USSR in December 1991 produced massive economic “collateral damage” in its East European allies, as they simultaneously sought both to assert their new-found independence and draw closer to their potential European allies on the
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