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Date Sent: 2012-08-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 7, 2012 PM edition |
Pentagon Drops Plan to Close Domestic Military Bases
Jared Loughner is found competent to stand trial -- 08-07-12 -- Josh Irino, Justin Paup - PropertySix - Online Education & the State -- Will The Real Transformer Please Stand Up? -- Cronyism, political donations likely behind Obama, Holder
failure to charge bankers -- James Holmes' Psychiatrist
Contacted University Police Weeks Before Movie-Theater Shooting --
08-07-12 -- Josh Irino, Justin Paup - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F,
9-Noon (EST) -- Russian prosecutor demands 3 year jail terms for
Pussy Riot -- Chemotherapy backfires – causes healthy cells
to feed growth of cancer tumors -- Bloomberg blasts ‘deafening
silence’ on guns from Obama and Romney -- Moving Toward War in Syria --
NASA releases some interesting Mars photos -- Texas set to
execute mentally disabled prisoner -- They Really Do Want To
Implant Microchips Into Your Brain -- Only 24.6 Percent Of All
Jobs In The United States Are Good Jobs -- 65 Year Old Woman
With A Gun Chases Off 5 Armed Robbers -- Philippines crippled by
heavy floods -- Morales vows to fight Bolivia poverty -- To War or
Not to War -- Cybersecurity Bills Threaten Freedom -- If You
See This Google Warning, Act Fast: Big Brother is Watching
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD
- August 2012 Edition
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Drops Plan to Close Domestic Military Bases
08-07-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
America's enormous standing army doesn't seem to be getting smaller, at home or abroad
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Jared Loughner is found competent to stand trial
08-07-2012
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AP
Pietz also said Loughner expressed shock that Giffords survived, telling her he was disappointed that he failed to kill the lawmaker. He said of himself, "Jared is a failure."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Cronyism, political donations likely behind Obama, Holder failure to charge bankers
08-07-2012
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The Daily Caller
A new report finds President Obama’s and Attorney General Holder’s failure to criminally charge any top Wall Street bankers is likely a result of cronyism inside the Justice Dept. and political donations made to Obama’s campaign.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
James Holmes' Psychiatrist Contacted University Police Weeks Before Movie-Theater Shooting
08-07-2012
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ABC News (video)
Fenton would have had to have serious concerns to break confidentiality with her patient to reach out to the police. Under law, a psychiatrist can breach confidentiality if they believe their patient might cause harm to others.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russian prosecutor demands 3 year jail terms for Pussy Riot
08-07-2012
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Daily Telegraph
A Russian state prosecutor asked a Moscow court on Tuesday to impose three-year jail sentences on three women from the Pussy Riot punk band who performed a "punk prayer" in a church.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Will The Real Transformer Please Stand Up?
08-7-2012
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gamesmedic.com
The age of robotics has taken root. While this "robot" looks more like a "Mech Warrior", it echoes the infamous words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, "I'll be back". This video states in the beginning that this robot/exosuit "is an art piece", it
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Alan Neuman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Cyber Attack Scope
08-07-2012
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arclein
McAfee’s trillion-dollar estimate is questioned even by the three independent researchers from Purdue University whom McAfee credits with analyzing the raw data from which the estimate was derived. “I was really kind of appalled when the number
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Eight Trillion Terran Population Becomes Feasible
08-07-2012
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arclein
'Can we find something that has the right features, the ability to live in saltwater, the ability to have a robustness for our process, the ability to withstand the right sorts of thermal tolerances to be productive outside, and the ability to prod
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Chemotherapy backfires " causes healthy cells to feed growth of cancer tumors
08-07-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
Why does chemotherapy seem to work at first, but then cancer tumors cells grow back even more aggressively while the body becomes resistant to chemotherapy?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Chemical Massacre
08-07-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
According to U.S. government statistics, you are 6200% more likely to be killed by your doctor than by a homicidal shooter.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bloomberg blasts ‘deafening silence’ on guns from Obama and Romney
08-07-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kevin Liptak
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg bemoaned Monday what he called a “deafening silence” on gun control from the two presidential candidates after a pair of high-profile shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin killed a combined 18 people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Moving Toward War in Syria
08-07-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Rep. Ron Paul
Last week, the House passed yet another bill placing sanctions on Iran and Syria, bringing us closer to another war in the Middle East.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA releases some interesting Mars photos
08-07-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity beamed back an incredible image of its surroundings, Aug. 6, showing a spectacularly clear view of the enormous mountain that it will clamber up in the next few years. NASA's Mars science rover Curiosity landed on Mars lat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Only 24.6 Percent Of All Jobs In The United States Are Good Jobs
08-07-2012
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http://endoftheamericandream.com
Do you want to know why it seems like good jobs are very rare in the United States today?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
65 Year Old Woman With A Gun Chases Off 5 Armed Robbers
08-07-2012
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http://endoftheamericandream.com
In Garden Grove, California the other day, a 65 year old woman with a gun chased 5 armed criminals out of her jewelry store.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Philippines crippled by heavy floods
08-07-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Flood waters reach up to two metres in capital, forcing schools and offices to shut and people to flee to higher ground.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Morales vows to fight Bolivia poverty
08-07-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Agencies
President uses Independence Day address to call for complete eradication of extreme poverty in his country by 2025.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
If You See This Google Warning, Act Fast: Big Brother is Watching
08-05-2012
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WorldTruth.tv
"Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police use Taser on deaf crime victim
08-06-2012
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kirotv
Responding to a call from a deaf woman about an attacker, police arrived on the scene and Tasered a the woman who had placed the call instead of the attacker. They then threw her in a cage without a translator and kept her there for 60 hours.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Drug War
Tax court burns entire U.S. medical marijuana industry
08-06-2012
In Olive v. Commissioner, judges unanimously found the owner of the Vapor Room Herbal Center, one of San Francisco’s largest dispensaries, was not allowed to take business deductions because it was trafficking in controlled substances
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Second person sought in connection to Wisconsin temple shooting
08-06-2012
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Rawstory
Police said Monday they are seeking a second person in connection to the shooting assault on a Sikh temple that left six people dead and an officer in critical condition, but did not comment on civil rights groups’ allegations about the primary suspe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street lenders want bankrupt city to pay them before own retirees
08-06-2012
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Rawstory
In 2007, Stockton borrowed $125 million in the bond market to pay for enhanced pension benefits and invested the money in its California Public Employees’ Retirement System account, where it lost a third of its value
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Mafia cashes in as hard-up Italians flog their gold
08-06-2012
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AFP
Italy’s traditional goldsmiths are up in arms over a boom in the poorly regulated cash-for-gold sector that is making billions for the mafia as hard-up Italians rush to sell off their bling.
Cash-for-gold shops have filled Italy’s streets in recen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security not deal it once was for workers
08-06-2012
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AP
People retiring today are part of the first generation of workers who have paid more in Social Security taxes during their careers than they will receive in benefits after they retire. It's a historic shift that will only get worse for future retiree
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud
08-06-2012
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AFP
"With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away" through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to. "I want to feel that I own things," Wozniak said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • False Flag Operations
WI Eyewitness: "FOUR Men Opened Fire"
08-06-2012
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YouTube via Daily Paul
"...four white males, who were dressed darkly... uh... dressed in all black clothing, fired on the, uh, our congregation."
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Reference Link • General Opinion
The End Does Not Justify The Means
C. Smith blog
The unnecessary bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are more glaring examples...The truth is no evil action is justified by having a good end in mind. This is true for a nation, as it is for you as an individual.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Sikh Temple Shooter Named as Army Vet Wade Michael Page
08-06-2012
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The gunman who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and killed six people has been identified as Army veteran Wade Michael Page, a PsyOp specialist. Page, 40, opened fire outside the temple before entering and killed 6 people.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Texas to execute mentally disabled prisoner on Tuesday
08-06-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Ed Pilkington
A death row prisoner who has been medically diagnosed as “mentally retarded” and therefore exempt from execution is set to die on Tuesday in Texas
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Should Obama And Congress Be Arrested Under The NDAA?
08-06-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, John Aziz
Should President Obama (alongside Lindsay Graham and John McCain) be wearing an orange jumpsuit?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Chemical Warfare: Agent Orange in Vietnam
08-06-2012
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Globalresearch, by Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn
AUGUST 10, 2012, AT NOON: 51 YEARS AFTER THE CHEMICAL WAR BEGAN IN VIETNAM, WE SHOULD BE SILENT IN MEMORY, THEN TAKE ACTION TO REMEDY
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News Link • United Nations
UN General Assembly Vote On Syria: World Gone Unipolar " And Mad
08-06-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
On August 3 the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution written by Saudi Arabia condemning both the government of Syria for the preponderance if not all the violence in the country
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Where’s the gold? NY Fed undergoes first-ever audit
08-06-2012
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http://rt.com
A massive trove of gold kept under lock and key five stories below Manhattan at the New York Federal Reserve has been undergoing its first audit in history.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
South China Sea feud: Beijing rebukes Washington's 'biased' stance
08-06-2012
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http://www.rt.com
China’s Foreign Ministry has called on an American diplomat to protest State Department accusations that Beijing is hindering diplomatic efforts in the South China Sea.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US, Israel arranging roles in Iran war theater?
08-06-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Reports are surfacing of a US-Israeli plan to attack Iran’s ballistic missile batteries, giving Israel extra space to tackle Syria and Hezbollah.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of backing Taliban enemy
08-05-2012
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Reuters
Pakistan's interior minister has said elements of the Afghan government are likely supporting a senior Pakistani Taliban leader who is fighting to topple the Islamabad government, accusations which could further raise tensions over cross-border raids
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Justice for Chavis Carter
08-05-2012
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The Agitator
A breaking story this week from Jonesboro, Arkansas, concerns the death of 21 year old Chavis Carter, a black man who was shot to death while handcuffed in the back seat of a Jonesboro Police Department squad car.
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