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Date Sent: 2012-05-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 1, 2012 AM edition |
Ex-CIA counterterror chief says Pelosi ‘reinventing the truth’ about waterboarding
TSA screening 'hurt my privates,' lawmaker says -- CISPA Passes The House With Tea Party Support -- Roșia Montană and the Price of Gold -- School district fights subpoena of Penn State victim records -- UK court tells service providers: Block Pirate Bay -- US not reporting all Afghan attacks -- Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman on Bloomberg TV - April 30, 2012 -- Women in Chechnya Terrified as Government Openly Backs Honor Killings -- Bin Laden’s last stand: In final months, terrorist leader worried about his legacy -- May Day Protests In San Francisco: Demonstrations May Disrupt Traffic -- California: Federal Court Takes on Photo
Enforcement Hearsay Issue -- Did Mohammad Exist? with Robert Spenser
-- Geert Wilders of the Netherlands reveals a resurgent far right in
Europe -- Obama strategy of taking credit for Osama bin Laden
killing risky, observers say -- Obama calls on China to improve
human rights as activist’s fate debated -- Risky Investments in a Market Full of Conmen --
Water Floats on Oil, Defying Conventional Wisdom -- Interesting Facts About the Student
Loan Debt Bubble -- Strange Organism Has Unique Roots in
the Tree of Life -- CBS Runs Defense For ‘Everyone’s a Terrorist’
FBI Flyers -- Court returns
MegaUpload founder’s cash, cars -- The Ultimate Green
Bombshell: New Study Finds Wind Farms Cause Actual Climate Change --
Activist decries CISPA as ‘a Patriot Act for the Internet’ -- Girl punished for sitting during the
Pledge of Allegiance -- Microsoft eyes tablet lift via
Barnes & Noble deal -- White
House: U.S. drone killings legal to combat threats -- Eco
Mama, Personal Trainer, and the Muslim Agorist! -- Ron Paul Coverage
from DailyPaul - All the weekend WINS! -- Steve Forbes on Ron Paul's
Monetary Policy -- Ron Paul's
Texas Straight Talk 4/30/12: The Alarming Suicide Epidemic in the
Military -- Gary Johnson endorses former Fed Prosecutor,
Jim Gray, for Libertarian Party Vice-President
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News Link • Torture
Ex-CIA counterterror chief says Pelosi ‘reinventing the truth’ about waterboarding
04-30-2012
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Washington Post
In an explosive memoir released today, former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez provides new evidence that Rep. Nancy Pelosi lied when she declared she had not been briefed about the use of waterboarding.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA screening 'hurt my privates,' lawmaker says
04-30-2012
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USA Today
A Texas congressman is at loggerheads with the Transportation Security Administration over a pat-down last week that he says "hurt my privates."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
CISPA Passes The House With Tea Party Support
04-30-2012
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Forbes
CISPA is full of problematic intrusions into individual privacy and online liberty, and yet those members of the House who associate themselves with limited government were largely responsible for its passage.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Roșia Montană and the Price of Gold
04-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
What happens after the social dislocation caused by the (partial) system change in 1989 and the related appearance of Western firms who climb into bed with the "new" rulers who have more than a foot in the old world
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School district fights subpoena of Penn State victim records
04-30-2012
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Reuters
A Pennsylvania school district on Monday moved to quash a subpoena asking for psychological and other records of one of the 10 boys Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
UK court tells service providers: Block Pirate Bay
04-30-2012
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Mashable
If you're an Internet user in the UK, you're about to be in for a surprise when you try to access file-sharing website The Pirate Bay: nothingness. The UK High Court ruled the country's ISPs must block their users from accessing the Swedish site, acc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
US not reporting all Afghan attacks
04-30-2012
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AP
The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops.
The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an American or other foreign soldier is killed by an Afghan in u
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul VS Paul Krugman 4-30-12 FULL VIDEO Bloomberg
04-30-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
LIKE Ron Paul U.S.A. on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/RonPaulUSA
Ron Paul educates Paul Krugman on why we cannot inflate our way out of the economic crisis!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Women in Chechnya Terrified as Government Openly Backs Honor Killings
04-30-2012
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The Blaze
Chechnya's government is openly approving of families that kill female relatives who violate their sense of honor, as this Russian republic embraces a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bin Laden’s last stand: In final months, terrorist leader worried about his legacy
04-30-2012
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Washington Post
A few months before Osama bin Laden’s death, al-Qaeda Web sites proposed a new killing machine: the “human lawn mower.” The idea was to attach rotating blades to the front of a pickup truck and drive the contraption into crowds.
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News Link • Activism
May Day Protests In San Francisco: Demonstrations May Disrupt Traffic
04-30-2012
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
SAN FRANCISCO " May Day protests may disrupt the morning commute in major U.S. cities Tuesday as labor, immigration and Occupy activists rally support on the international workers' holiday.
Demonstrations, strikes and acts of civil disobedience a
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Kal Krieger
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Sonic Screwdriver?
04-30-2012
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arclein
t creates angular momentum in a vortex beam using a number of intertwined helices similar in shape to DNA. The team showed how they could generate vortex beams with many intertwined helices, using a 1000-element ultrasound transducer array as an acou
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robert klein
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News Link • Camera Fraud
California: Federal Court Takes on Photo Enforcement Hearsay Issue
04-30-2012
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The Newspaper
California courts are split on the issue of whether US Supreme Court precedent invalidates evidence typically provided by red light cameras. The Court of Appeal issued a pair of contradictory rulings within a few weeks.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Did Mohammad Exist? with Robert Spenser
04-30-2012
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arclein
Spencer’s careful, detailed, well-reasoned survey and analysis of the historical evidence offer strong evidence that Muhammad and Islam itself were post facto creations of Arab conquerors who needed a “political theology” delivered by a “warrior prop
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News Link • Immigration
Geert Wilders of the Netherlands reveals a resurgent far right in Europe
04-30-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Anthony Faiola
Europe’s most controversial politician lives in a government safe house fitted with a panic room and guarded round-the-clock. A self-avowed foe of Islam who compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and called for a ban on Muslim immigrants..
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama strategy of taking credit for Osama bin Laden killing risky, observers say
04-30-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Scott Wilson
President Obama has placed the killing of Osama bin Laden at the center of his reelection effort in a way that is drawing criticism for turning what he once described as an American victory into a partisan political asset.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama calls on China to improve human rights as activist’s fate debated
04-30-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Steven Mufson
Without specifically mentioning negotiations over blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng, President Obama on Monday urged China to do more to improve its record on human rights issues “because we actually think China will be stronger as it opens up an
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News Link • Anthropology
Humans Really Are Still Evolving, Study Finds
04-30-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Charles Choi
Natural forces of evolution still continue to shape humanity despite the power we have to profoundly alter the world around us, researchers say.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Risky Investments in a Market Full of Conmen
04-30-2012
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dailyreckoning.com
There is the world of real things…real work and real results. And there is a whole phony world of economists… commentators… speculators… blowhards and show-offs… hustlers and conmen… fools and knaves. Wall Street…and its victims.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Water Floats on Oil, Defying Conventional Wisdom
04-30-2012
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http://www.livescience.com,Charles Choi
Water can float on oil, suggest new findings defying conventional wisdom that could have important applications in cleaning up oil spills that endanger seashores and fisheries, researchers say.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Interesting Facts About the Student Loan Debt Bubble
04-30-2012
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dailyreckoning.com
Nothing much happened last week. Except that Ben Bernanke told investors that the fix was in…and the stock market went up. The chief of America’s central bank told the world that he was prepared for more QE whenever it was needed.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Should Peace Prevail? Of Course!
04-30-2012
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lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski
Americans, in particular, embrace the language of liberty, even as the American state itself has become ominously and voraciously antithetical to liberty.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
CBS Runs Defense For ‘Everyone’s a Terrorist’ FBI Flyers
04-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Report fails to mention numerous banal activities characterized as suspicious behavior
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News Link • Internet
Court returns MegaUpload founder’s cash, cars
04-30-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Kim Dotcom, the eccentric founder of cyber-locker website MegaUpload, will have more than $800,000 in assets returned to him thanks to a decision Monday by the High Court of New Zealand, according to Radio New Zealand.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
The Ultimate Green Bombshell: New Study Finds Wind Farms Cause Actual Climate Change
04-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Patrick Henningsen
For decades they have been touted by green warriors and global warming believers as the lynch pin of their brave new utopian future. Now it seems that something is truly rotten in the state of Denmark, or the great state of Texas in this case.
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News Link • Internet
Activist decries CISPA as ‘a Patriot Act for the Internet’
04-30-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Swartz told Russia Today that whereas SOPA was exclusively “about giving the government the power to censor the Internet,” CISPA has the same kind of censorship provisions but “is more like a Patriot Act for the Internet.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Girl allegedly punished for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance
04-30-2012
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www.rawstory.com
In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that compelling students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance violated their First Amendment rights.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Books
Microsoft eyes tablet lift via Barnes & Noble deal
04-30-2012
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reuters.com, By Phil Wahba and Bill Rigby
Microsoft Corp is jumping into the fast-growing e-books market by investing $300 million in Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook e-reader and college business, as it looks to unlock Amazon.com and Apple Inc's grip on the exploding tablet computer market.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
White House: U.S. drone killings legal to combat threats
04-30-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Tabassum Zakaria
The U.S. campaign of drone strikes to kill militants in other countries is legal under international law, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser insisted on Monday in a rare public admission and justification of the controversial tactic.
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News Link • Free Trade
Eco Mama, Personal Trainer, and the Muslim Agorist!
04-30-12
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http://agoristmarketplace.rayneberry.com/2012/04/3
♥Agorist Marketplace is continuing to connect with many agorists. It is amazing getting to meet all these different people, to learn what they do and create and to be able to come to an environment where we all can meet and trade services with
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Steve Forbes on Ron Paul's Monetary Policy
04-30-2012
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YouTube.com
Steve Forbes says other candidates should listen to Ron Paul monetary policy.
"Ron Paul Should be Chairman of the Federal Reserve"... NOT!
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police blow up Wash. mountain bunker, find man dead
04-29-2012
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AP
Seattle-area tactical officers who slogged for hours over dangerously steep, muddy ground to find him were prepared. They pumped in tear gas, called for him over bullhorns, and, set off explosives along the top of the bunker
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Wrong Guy
04-29-2012
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The Agitator
The City Council approved a $250,000 settlement Wednesday to a man mistaken by police as a tagger and was hit with a stun gun over and over.
A jury wanted the city to pay for a police officer using excessive force.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
“Structuring”: who can get away with it, and who can’t
04-29-2012
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“Structuring,” as readers may recall, is the federal criminal offense of splitting up bank deposits so as to keep them under a threshold such as $10,000 above which banks have to report transactions to the government.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama escalates in Yemen " again
04-29-2012
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
It was virtually impossible to imagine that a request from David Petraeus to Barack Obama for authority to target even more people in Yemen for death, without even knowing who they are, would be quickly and eagerly approved.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA to My Mother-in-Law: 'There's an Anomaly in the Crotch Area'
04-29-2012
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The Atlantic Monthly
My mother-in-law was traveling home to Rhode Island from Washington Reagan airport when, passing through the TSA naked-porno machine, she triggered an alarm. My mother-in-law is 79-years-old, 4'11" and 110 pounds.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer Regina Tasca Goes "Rogue"
04-29-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Regina Tasca is a “rogue cop” " and God bless her for it. Tasca is in the middle of disciplinary hearings that may result in her termination from the Bogota, New Jersey Police Department. She stands accused of “bizarre and outlandish” behavior in two
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A Policeman's Lot - by L. Neil Smith
04-29-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
My nominal superiors bragged to each other about the dents their heavy aircraft aluminum flashlights had acquired. They were a new thing at the time and were used as batons. Debate whether it was more fun to beat up Mexicans
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.
04-29-2012
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http://www.nytimes.com, By DAVID K. SHIPLER
THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years " or so it has seemed.
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News Link • Israel
Zionist Plans To Assassinate US Citizens - Including Presidents
04-29-2012
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http://archersofokcular.blogspot.com, Alison Weir
Bush & Obama? Israeli assassinations and US Presidents
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Jeremy Scahill - America's Covert Wars (video)
04-28-2012
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The International Libertarian
Jeremy Scahill is an investigative journalist, public speaker and award winning author. Scahill's work focuses on the use of private military companies. This is his speech given at the Brooklyn Peace Fair on April 28, 2012.
Scahilll is a Puffin F
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