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Date Sent: 2012-06-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, June 15, 2012 |
Part 2: Mercs run US spying missions in Africa -- Mexican police on video kidnapping murder victims
Glucose-Powered Fuel Cell Could Use Your Body's Resources to Drive
Neural Prosthetics -- Sniff Test Does Not Prove Public Drinking, a Judge
Rules -- U.S. Says American Jailed in Cuba Cannot Walk -- A Star System 12.9 Billion Light Years Away is the New Most Distant Galaxy -- Ebola Virus Cured in Monkeys a Full Day After Infection -- Capital & Travel Controls and Preparing for Chaos in Europe -- New Political Showdown in Egypt as Court Invalidates Parliament -- Britain unveils electronic mass surveillance plan --Extradition edges closer for WikiLeaks' Assange -- Warping the Doors of Perception: The Drug War -- Et Tu, Rand Paul? -- Rand Paul claims violence/death threats made against him by liberty advocates... -- Logistics Announcement for VFRP Action in Tampa @RNC -- Blue Green Algae Status Tool -- High Levels of Omega-3 in Amerindian Brest Milk -- Dinosaurs Much Lighter
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Part 2: Contractors run U.S. spying missions in Africa
06-14-2012
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Washington Post
The aircraft are Pilatus PC-12s, turboprops favored by the U.S. Special Operations forces for stealth missions precisely because of their nondescript appearance. There is no hint that they are carrying high-tech sensors and cameras that can film man-
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Mexican police caught on video kidnapping murder victims
06-14-2012
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AP
It was all caught on video: Five heavily armed policemen barge into a hotel in western Mexico before dawn and march out with three handcuffed men in underwear.
But police weren't making an arrest; they were apparently taking orders from a drug gan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
06-14-2012
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Kyle Wiens via WIRED.com
This week, Apple delivered the highly anticipated MacBook Pro with Retina Display â€" and the tech world is buzzing. I took one apart yesterday because I run iFixit, a team responsible for high-resolution teardowns of new products and DIY repair guides
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Glucose-Powered Fuel Cell Could Use Your Body's Resources to Drive Neural Prosthetics
06-14-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Future neural prosthetics could not only tap into brain signals, but also brain fluids, using the cerebrospinal medium to power a fuel cell. Researchers at MIT designed a new silicon wafer with embedded fuel cells that generate power using glucose.
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News Link • Drug War
Sniff Test Does Not Prove Public Drinking, a Judge Rules
06-14-2012
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New York Times
The NYC police wrote 124,498 summonses last year for drinking in public â€" far more than for any other violation. After having to adjudicate so many of these public drinking cases, a Brooklyn judge has decided he has had enough.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Cuba
U.S. Says American Jailed in Cuba Cannot Walk
06-14-2012
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Reuters
The Obama administration on Thursday called on Cuba to immediately release jailed American contractor Alan Gross, saying his health has worsened and he can no longer walk.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
A Star System 12.9 Billion Light Years Away is the New Most Distant Galaxy
06-14-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The telescopes get bigger and more sophisticated, the light we can see comes in from deeper in the cosmos, and the most-distant visible objects keep getting further away.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Ebola Virus Cured in Monkeys a Full Day After Infection
06-14-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
The Ebola virusâ€"one of the world's deadliest diseasesâ€"has a kill rate of 90 percent. That's largely because the best current treatment must be applied within one hour of infection.
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News Link • Economy - International
Capital & Travel Controls and Preparing for Chaos in Europe
06-14-2012
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The Dollar Vigilante
Then, in something we have not seen reported anywhere else, we received contact from a reader, Pierre J., who told us that bank branches are limiting withdrawals now almost everywhere in France.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • World News
New Political Showdown in Egypt as Court Invalidates Parliament
06-14-2012
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New York Times
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled the Islamist-led Parliament must be immediately dissolved, while also blessing the right of Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister to run for president, escalating a battle for power between the remnants of the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Britain unveils electronic mass surveillance plan
06-14-2012
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AP
British authorities unveiled an ambitious plan to log details about every email, phone call or text message in the U.K., and the nation's top law enforcement official accused those worried about it of being criminals or conspiracy theorists.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Extradition edges closer for WikiLeaks' Assange
06-14-2012
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Reuters
His lawyers argued some of the judges reached their decision based on a legal point they had not had a chance to counter and asked for the appeal to be reopened. The court announced all 7 judges had rejected the application.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Warping the Doors of Perception: The Drug War
06-14-2012
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Angela Keaton - www.lewrockwell.com/blog
The state which suppresses our basic instincts to keep us docile on the issues of killer robots, embarrasses anyone who dare not think like his neighbors and shames us out of enjoying an herb amongst our comrades.
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Dollar Meltdown
Et Tu, Rand Paul?
06-14-2012
Charles Goyette
Twice I was asked to host a Rand Paul Moneybomb, one time on his father's birthday. Out of respect for Ron Paul, I agreed. Once. But by the time the next opportunity came around a few weeks later, I declined.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Logistics Announcement for VFRP Action in Tampa @RNC
06-14-2012
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Adam Kokesh YouTube Channel
Paul Festival, Veterans For Ron Paul March, and the RNC! SEE YOU THERE! - Ed
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Blue Green Algae Status Tool
06-14-2012
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arclein
Blue-green algae is not your average pond scum - rather than consisting of plant-like organisms, blue-green algae actually are cyanobacteria, and some species are linked to the production and release of the toxin microcystin into the water. Human exp
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
High Levels of Omega-3 in Amerindian Brest Milk
06-14-2012
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arclein
the percentages of DHA in breast milk did not significantly decrease across the first two years postpartum, the period during which infant brains experience peak growth and maximal uptake of DHA. This was also true for the U.S. women, and the study
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Dinosaurs Much Lighter
06-14-2012
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arclein
They discovered that the animals had almost exactly 21% more body mass than the minimum skeletal 'skin and bone' wrap volume, and applied this to a giant Brachiosaur skeleton in Berlin's Museum fur Naturkunde.
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