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Date Sent: 2012-07-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, July 7, 2012 |
15 Killed in U.S. Drone Strike in Pakistan -- Ron Paul's New Crusade: "Internet Freedom"
"Obama," the Song -- New Hampshire
Strikes a Blow Against the Sovietized Amerikan 'Justice' System -- How Is Dr. Copper Feeling? -- George Zimmerman
Out of Jail on $1 Million Bond -- Jets Are Crucial to Afghan War,
Until a U.S. Exit -- British Airways Googling
Its Passengers: Good Customer Service or Freaky Privacy Invasion? -- Best Buy cutting 600 Geek Squad
jobs, 1,800 store workers as part of turnaround attempt --
Tesla's Model S Just Got The Most Effusive Review We've Ever Seen
From The WSJ's Car Guy -- What If the New Particle Isn't the Higgs
Boson? -- Amazon Maps? -- New
Solar Panel Designs Make Installation Cheaper -- The
‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club today; Party at Hancock's -
Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X, aka
Kane (WWF) - Friday, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine
release date to be Friday, July 13th, 2012
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News Link • Afghanistan
15 Killed in U.S. Drone Strike in Pakistan
07-06-2012
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New York Times
At least 15 people suspected of being Taliban militants were killed by an American drone strike late Friday in northwestern Pakistan, according to a Pakistani intelligence official and local residents.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Pauls' New Crusade: "Internet Freedom"
07-06-2012
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BuzzFeed
Ron and Rand Paul are set to shift the central focus of their family's long libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom. KY Senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the GOP presidential nomination
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
July 8, 2012 Edition
07-06-2012
John Semmens
Administration Shrugs Off Negative Jobs Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the official unemployment rate remained above 8% for the 41st straight month. The picture for Black unemployment was even more discouraging bumping up in J
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama, the Song
07-06-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Political parody of the Ritchie Valens song, "Donna." Words by David Martin. Performed by Mark and Danny (Mark Lentz and Danny Martin). Lyrics and supporting links at http://www.dcdave.com/poet15/120526.htm
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Hampshire Strikes a Blow Against the Sovietized Amerikan 'Justice' System
07-06-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
When New Hampshire Governor signed HB 146 into law on June 18, the Granite State became the first in the nation to enact a measure explicitly recognizing and protecting the indispensable right of jury nullification.
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
How Is Dr. Copper Feeling?
Louis James
Copper is sometimes referred to as "Dr. Copper," because the metal is used in so many industrial applications and is essential for many different sectors of the economy, from infrastructure to housing to consumer electronics.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Way It’s Supposed To Work
07-06-2012
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The Agitator
Teresa Culpepper didn’t assault anybody. She didn’t match the description of the person who did. Nobody claimed she did it. The victim of the assault said that it wasn’t her " he even said it in open court. But, ....
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News Link • Food
I Say Tomato, You Say No
07-06-2012
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Reason magazine
Why does it seem like local government officials are competing with each other to see who can implement the most obnoxious rules against people in their respective communities growing food?
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News Link • Gun Rights
George Zimmerman Out of Jail on $1 Million Bond
07-06-2012
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ABC News
George Zimmerman walked out of jail on $1 million bond today to await his trial on charges of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Dressed in a gray suit covering a bullet-proof vest, Zimmerman walked out of Seminole County Correctional Facility just
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News Link • Afghanistan
Jets Are Crucial to Afghan War, Until a U.S. Exit
07-06-2012
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New York Times
The killing of Mr. Qayum and his driver demonstrates the extraordinary technical and tactical abilities of American air power. For better and worse, that power has become a defining facet of the Afghan conflict and the American way of waging war.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
British Airways Googling Its Passengers: Good Customer Service or Freaky Privacy Invasion?
07-06-2012
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Slate
We all know by now that websites track our online activities in order to personalize ads and content. It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that offline businesses have started doing the same.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Best Buy cutting 600 Geek Squad jobs, 1,800 store workers as part of turnaround attempt
07-06-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Associated Press
Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. is laying off 600 staffers in its Geek Squad technical support division and 1,800 other store workers as it seeks to restructure operations and improve results, the company said Friday.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla's Model S Just Got The Most Effusive Review We've Ever Seen From The WSJ's Car Guy
07-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Esteemed Wall Street Journal car-reviewer Dan Neil is in love with Tesla's Model S.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Mathematicians use network theory to model champion Spanish soccer team's style
07-06-2012
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http://phys.org, by Bob Yirka
For years, sports fanatics have turned to statistics to help them gauge the relative strength or weaknesses of different teams, though some have been more amenable to the process than others.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Brain scanner, not joystick, is in human-robot future
07-06-2012
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http://phys.org, by Nancy Owano
Talk about fMRI may not be entirely familiar to many people, but that could change with new events that are highlighting efforts to link up humans and machines.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Keeping the flu away: Synthetic protein EP67 helps kick-start the immune system
07-06-2012
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bySan Diego State University
San Diego State University researchers at the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center may have found the secret to helping the immune system fight off the flu before it gets you sick.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What If the New Particle Isn't the Higgs Boson?
07-06-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, by Natalie Wolchover
They're not naming the newcomer outright, because there are subtle indications that the particle may not, in fact, be the plain old Higgs itself, but rather a close doppelganger.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
13 Animal-to-Human Diseases Kill 2.2 Million People Each Year
07-06-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Jeanna Bryner
Diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans, such as bird flu and tuberculosis, can wreak havoc on the health of both organisms. Now researchers have found 13 so-called zoonoses are responsible for 2.2 million human deaths every year.
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News Link • Inventions
High-Speed Materials Discovery
07-06-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, David H. Freedman
A new way to identify battery materials suitable for mass production could revolutionize energy storage.
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News Link • Inventions
New Solar Panel Designs Make Installation Cheaper
07-06-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis
Companies in Germany and China have made simpler designs that make it easier and quicker to mount panels to roofs.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Fertility drug usage and cancer risk
07-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Kristine Crane
...women using the drugs who conceived a 10-plus week pregnancy had a statistically significant increased risk of breast cancer compared to unsuccessfully treated women, but a comparable risk to nonusers....
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
UC Davis study finds that above-normal weight alone does not increase the short-term risk of death
07-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Karen Finney
An evaluation of national data by UC Davis researchers has found that extra weight is not necessarily linked with a higher risk of death.
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News Link • Drug War
Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana
07-06-2012
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Raw Story
Long attacked as a "gateway drug," the plant cannabis has gotten a bad rap over the years as many claimed that use leads to harder drugs. A new study suggests that alcohol is more likely than marijuana to lead people to harder drugs.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon Contractor (Pratt & Whitney) Caught Illegally Selling Military Technology to China
07-06-2012
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The Atlantic
A six-year U.S. probe found that Pratt & Whitney, a key military hardware supplier to the U.S., sold China the software and engines needed to make its first-ever modern attack helicopter.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles
07-06-2012
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wired.com, By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
On the evening of June 19, a group of researchers from the University of Texas successfully hijacked a civilian drone at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico during a test organized by the Department of Homeland Security.
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News Link • Death
Unverified Video Shows US Helicopter Pilot Singing 'American Pie' While Shooting Afghan Civi
07-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
It made headlines in British tabloids this morning so it will likely get exposure in the States, but this alarming LiveLeak video should be examined more closely before drawing conclusions.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
U.S. hiring stuck in low gear in June
07-06-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Jason Lange
U.S. employers hired at a dismal pace in June, raising pressure on the Federal Reserve to do more to boost the economy and further imperiling President Barack Obama's chances of reelection in November.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FIJA: William Lynch Found Not Guilty in Beating of Priest He Said Sexually Abused Him
07-06-2012
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ABC News
William Lynch, the 44-year-old California man who admitted he pummeled a Jesuit priest who he said abused him as a boy, has been found not guilty of felony assault and elder abuse charges.
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan's Azumi: govt could run out of cash by Oct
07-05-2012
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Reuters
Japan's government could run out of money to fund this fiscal year's budget by the end of October, the finance minister said, as a standoff in parliament over a deficit financing bill threatens to wreak havoc with the country's finances.
The defic
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News Link • Government
Hallandale Beach Lifeguard Fired For Leaving His Zone To Rescue Drowning Man
07-05-2012
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NBC News (video)
A Hallandale Beach lifeguard was offered his job back on Thursday after being fired for leaving his post to rescue a man drowning outside the zone he was hired to patrol.
Lifeguard Tomas Lopez told NBC 6 that he won't be taking the job back.
Lo
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News Link • Corruption
Countrywide won influence with discounts
07-05-2012
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AP
The former Countrywide, whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government officials and
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Scientists finally measure cosmic ‘dark matter’
07-05-2012
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Rawstory
While the rest of the world was celebrating the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, researchers announced another major discovery that will likely lead to fundamental changes in humanity’s understanding of the universe.
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News Link • Police State
Long Beach Officers Shown Walking on Employee
07-05-2012
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jonathanturley.org
The video below is now the basis for an investigation into a raid by Long Beach California officers of the THC marijuana dispensary.
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News Link • Police State
New Jersey ACLU Releases New App To Record Police
07-05-2012
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jonathanturley.org
A colleague sent me the link to the new ACLU App designed to allow citizens to more easily record police on their cellphones and to make it more difficult for police to delete the recording.
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News Link • Declaration of Independence
When Americans Understood the Declaration of Independence
07-05-2012
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lewrockwell by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
The Fourth of July was not always a national celebration of the militarization of American society and of the federal government’s never-ending quest for world domination (disguised as "defending our interests abroad").
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD - August 2012 Edition
07-05-2012
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Freedom's Phoenix Magazine
The August 2012 Edition of the Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine will feature, 'What Do We Do Now'? How do we prepare for a future, beyond the darkness that is surely coming, that will provide light? ; how are you going to survive; how are you prep
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
San Diego man stranded after told on no-fly list
07-04-2012
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AP
A US citizen of Somali descent has been stranded in Bahrain for 2 weeks after being told his name appears on the U.S. government's no-fly list does not understand why he has been tagged as a suspected terrorist and is talking to U.S. lawyers.
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News Link • Syria
Ocean explorer Bob Ballard finds bodies of Turkish pilots shot down by Syria
07-04-2012
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Washington Post
elebrated ocean explorer and Titanic finder Bob Ballard, working for the Turkish government, has located the bodies of two Turkish pilots shot down by Syria over the eastern Mediterranean last month, the Turkish military said in a statement released
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News Link • Syria
The faces of the dead in Syria’s unrest
07-04-2012
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Washington Post
Day by day, the death count in Syria climbs as headlines mark dozens of men, women and children shot and stabbed in Houla, or entire families killed in Qubeir.
But beyond the numbers, scant attention is paid to the individuals who have lost their
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News Link • Corruption
Barclays’ Ex-Chief Spreads the Blame in Rate-Rigging Scandal
07-04-2012
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New York Times
Mr. Diamond also sought to deflect attention from the bank’s role in the authorities’ continuing investigation, pointing out that other major global financial institutions also had been implicated. United States and British regulators, who announced
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News Link • Energy
Why Recent Oil Price Falls are a Good Buying Opportunity - An Interview with Jim Rogers
07-04-2012
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Oilprice.com
Interview with Jim Rogers covering: Why oil prices could fall to $40 a barrel, Investment opportunities with the renewable energy sector, Why we should let Greece fail
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News Link • Police State
Second Checkpoint Nullification Night Lower Moreland PA
07-02-2012
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Bensalem Patch
Valley Forge, PA " Building on the success of their first checkpoint nullification on June 15, 2012 (See video: http://youtu.be/Mwx6283n81A) the Valley Forge Revolutionaries will be establishing
warning stations several blocks on either side of the
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News Link • Books
The Passionless People Revisited by Gordon McLauchlan
07-04-2012
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By Kiran Dass nzherald.co.nz
Two tremendously eloquent pieces of social commentary of New Zealand are Bill Pearson's classic, piercing essay, Fretful Sleepers, initially published in Landfall in 1952, and Gordon McLauchlan's 1976 book Passionless People.
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News Link • World News
Paleontologists: Feather fossil could change look of predatory dinosaurs
07-04-2012
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Stacey Pounsberry .thebunsenburner
Evidence has mounted in recent years that some dinosaurs gained feathers on their way to evolving into birds. But a new study suggests feathered dinosaurs were more prevalent.
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