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Date Sent: 2012-06-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 27, 2012 AM edition |
Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned By China?
Court Backs E.P.A. Over Emissions Limits -- Magnitsky documentary suggests fraud, collusion between Russian officials, police detectives -- Egyptian court curbs military’s power to arrest civilians -- Student Loan Deal Taking Shape on Capitol Hill -- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leaders sue to block receiver -- You Will Want Google Goggles -- Army Looks to Strike Foes with Lightning Weapon -- Supercameras Could Capture
Never-Before-Seen Detail -- Marco Tempest: The electric
rise and fall of Nikola Tesla -- Politics or gang warfare? -- Jardis & Krueger State-Free
Wedding at PorcFest 2012 -- DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and
Snooping Feds -- Small-Town Cops Pile Up on Useless Military
Gear -- Virgin Galactic to Launch
New Cargo Plan, Spaceship Design -- Case worker gives the
inside scoop on US food stamps -- Signs point towards a new global currency -- Forget The
Election Results - Greece Is Still Doomed And So Is The Rest Of
Europe -- EU
Officials Unveil Plan for Closer Union -- History is the enemy as
'brilliant' psy-ops become the news -- So You Think You Can Be a Hair Braider? -- What Is
the Point of My Libertarian Anarchism?
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News Link • China
Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned By China?
06-26-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.
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News Link • Environment
Court Backs E.P.A. Over Emissions Limits
06-26-2012
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New York Times
A federal appeals court upheld a finding by the EPA that heat-trapping gases from industry and vehicles endanger public health, dealing a decisive blow to companies and states that had sued to block agency rules.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Magnitsky documentary suggests fraud, collusion between Russian officials, police detectives
06-26-2012
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Washington Post
Shortly before the Russian government was defrauded of $230 million in 2007, the officials who approved the whopping tax refund at the heart of the scheme traveled to a sunny Mediterranean resort with the police who would later investigate the theft.
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News Link • European Union
Egyptian court curbs military’s power to arrest civilians
06-26-2012
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Washington Post
The report â€" with suggestions such as allowing a central European authority to override national budgets, as well as the issuing of common debt â€" outlined what amounted to talking points for a much-anticipated European Union summit starting here Thur
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student Loan Deal Taking Shape on Capitol Hill
06-26-2012
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Reuters
The student loan deal may be coupled legislatively with the highway bill extension, which negotiators intimated might be the more efficient way to pass the deal, avoiding numerous votes and passing both with one fell swoop.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leaders sue to block receiver
06-26-2012
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Reuters
The City Council in Pennsylvania's capital of Harrisburg sued the state on Tuesday to halt work by a receiver overseeing the city's fiscal recovery plan.
The federal lawsuit challenges the state's takeover of Harrisburg, claiming that state lawmak
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
You Will Want Google Goggles
06-26-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Farhad Manjoo
I thought that glasses with "augmented reality" would be hopelessly dorky and could never go mainstreamâ€"until I saw the technology in action.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Thin Film Solar Upstarts Claim New Records but Still Chase Success
06-26-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Martin LaMonica
Stion is the latest company to tout the technology. But with plummeting prices of commodity silicon panels, thin-film manufacturers need to be both more efficient and cheaper.
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News Link • Military
Army Looks to Strike Foes with Lightning Weapon
06-26-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Staff
Today's military lasers can blind spy satellites or burn enemy vehicles, but tomorrow's could guide lightning bolts to strike and destroy battlefield targets.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Octopus Hitches Ride on Dolphin's Genitals
06-26-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie Pappas
An octopus got the joyride of its life last week when it somehow became stuck on the belly of a bottlenose dolphin in the Ionian Sea. More specifically, the tentacled sea creature had a seat on the dolphin's genital slit.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Supercameras Could Capture Never-Before-Seen Detail
06-26-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Charles Q. Choi
A supercamera that can take gigapixel pictures â€" that's 1,000 megapixels â€" has now been unveiled.
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News Link • History
Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla
06-26-2012
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http://www.ted.com
The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Living Brain Image Wins Photography Prize
06-26-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie Pappas
Bright-red blood vessels and thick purple veins meander across the surface of a living human brain in the winning image in this year's Wellcome Image Awards contest.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Would Finding Aliens Shatter Religious Beliefs?
06-26-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Mike Wall
The discovery of life beyond Earth would shake up our view of humanity's place in the universe, but it probably wouldn't seriously threaten organized religion, experts say.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and Snooping Feds
06-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
In 1992, former hacker Jeff Moss invited a bunch of hacker friends he'd met primarily on electronic bulletin boards to come to Las Vegas to party in the desert. That party grew into a legendary conference that's become one of the premiere gatherings
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News Link • Inventions
19 Patents Invented by Ingenious Celebrities (Plus One by Paula Abdul)
06-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com,By Roberto Baldwin
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted well over 8 million patents, so it would stand to reason that at least of few of them were authored by people with a certain degree of fame. Like Lawrence Welk, for instance.
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News Link • Police State
Small-Town Cops Pile Up on Useless Military Gear
06-26-2012
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By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Small police departments across America are collecting battlefield-grade arsenals thanks to a program that allows them to get their hands on military surplus equipment â€" amphibious tanks, night-vision goggles, and even barber chairs or underwear â€" at
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic to Launch New Cargo Plan, Spaceship Design
06-26-2012
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http://www.space.com, Rob Coppinger
A new initiative could be on the horizon for suborbital spaceship company Virgin Galactic, founded by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Creativity: The Secret Behind the Secret
06-17-2012
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Steven Kotler,
How do you identify creative talent in a few quick rounds of interviews? The short answerâ€"talk to a skateboarder. The long answer… well, it’s long… and it starts with a Swarthmore University psychologist named Solomon Asch.
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Food
Case worker gives the inside scoop on US food stamps
06-26-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com
The American entitlement system has grown immensely since the founding of the country. Only 53% of Americans pay federal income tax and the amount of people on food stamps have hit record highs.
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News Link • Economy - International
Signs point towards a new global currency
06-26-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com,
With the extension of operation twist and and the inevitable QE3, continued volatility and devaluation of the USD is the in the near future.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
25 Things to Always Have With You
06-26-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by R. in New York
Yes, we all know that an end of world event could happen at any time. However I look at things statistically and realistically. I think I have a greater chance of getting into a car accident than getting hit with an asteroid or meteor. So I first
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Selecting Equipment for Years of Use
06-26-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by M.C. in Arizona
I am at home sitting safely on my couch, however, between 2001 and 2009 I was a soldier serving in the GWOT campaign. I have served three tours in Iraq, one tour in Afghanistan, and a year assisting the African theater (proxy war.)
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News Link • European Union
Forget The Election Results - Greece Is Still Doomed And So Is The Rest Of Europe
06-26-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely. It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party)
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News Link • European Union
EU Officials Unveil Plan for Closer Union .
06-26-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, BY GABRIELE STEINHAUSER
A powerful European supervisor should be charged with overseeing the region's banks, and national budgets should be pre-approved by the rest of the bloc before euro-zone states take on responsibility for each others' finances....
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News Link • History
History is the enemy as 'brilliant' psy-ops become the news
06-26-2012
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http://www.johnpilger.com
Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong river, where the forests were petrified and silent, smal
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
So You Think You Can Be a Hair Braider?
06-26-2012
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http://www.nytimes.com, By JACOB GOLDSTEIN
Jestina Clayton grew up in a village in Sierra Leone where every girl learns traditional African hair-braiding. Then, when she was 22, she moved to Centerville, Utah, a place where no one learns traditional African hair-braiding.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
What Is the Point of My Libertarian Anarchism?
06-26-2012
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http://www.voluntaryist.com, By Robert Higgs
After I began work as a professor, in 1968, I gravitated quickly from my collegiate New Leftism toward classical liberalism. As I learned more about Austrian economics, political economy, public choice, and history, I became increasingly libertarian
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News Link • Climate Change
The Carbon Charade Continues
06-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
This is a pretty incredible observation â€" that British politicians have no idea how they are going to attain the "goals" they voted for regarding the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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News Link • Government
One World Government: Conspiratorial Fantasies or Reality Check?
06-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Nick Cohen over at the leftist UK Observer is declaiming against political paranoia. The putative target is Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame but the dissertation is far wider than that and basically damns paranoia generally as a response to what is t
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News Link • Bush Administration
Condoleezza Rice's Authoritarian Fantasy and Her CBS Enablers
06-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
This is an article (along with a video) that reports on former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's determination not to be the vice presidential candidate for the Mitt Romney GOP campaign.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
‘K2′ blamed after Texas man tries to eat dog in ‘zombie style’ attack
06-26-2012
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Raw Story
A form of synthetic "marijuana" named K2 has been blamed in a gruesome attack on a dog from a man experiencing a "bad trip."
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