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Date Sent: 2012-08-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 8, 2012 PM edition |
Court gives government unfettered go-ahead for warrantless wiretaps
Wisconsin Sikh temple gunman killed himself: FBI -- 08-08-12 -- Ross Edwards In Studio - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Foreclosure Settlement Fails To Force Mortgage Companies To Improve -- Journalist faces 21 years in jail for recording police -- Superinsects Are Thriving in This Summer's Drought -- How Secret Foreign Money Could Infiltrate US Elections -- Gaza Christians can pray in Israel, not Muslims: court -- Tucson gunman Loughner pleads guilty to rampage, spared death penalty -- Hacker succeeds, forces Apple, Amazon to change security policies -- Chemtrails: Aerosol and Electromagnetic Weapons in the Age of Nuclear War -- We are the Media Revolution: The Battle for Truth and Empowerment -- Standard Chartered rejects laundering claims -- Future covered: NASA developing space-bound submarines and printable spacecraft -- Egypt fires missiles against suspected militants in Sinai -- Philippines floods: 11 killed, 1 million displaced (VIDEO, PHOTOS) -- Whistle Blower Michael Springman: 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Agents -- Rare Snowfall Stuns Much Of South Africa -- Micro Robots Used To Deliver Drugs In Patients Bloodstream -- Obama's War on Humanity - by Stephen Lendman -- A Beautiful Mind: Stunning Paintings Depict Grey Matter in a Colorful New Light
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News Link • Surveillance
Court gives government the go-ahead for warrantless wiretaps
08-08-2012
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http://rt.com
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government is immune to wireless wiretapping lawsuits in a decision that the plaintiff’s attorney says releases Washington and the White House from ever being held accountable for spying on citizens.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Wisconsin Sikh temple gunman killed himself: FBI
08-08-2012
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Reuters
The white supremacist gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the FBI said. A police officer shot and wounded the gunman in the stomach outside the temple
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Paul Festival Commemorative Dime Cards Fundraiser - READY FOR PURCHASE NOW!
08-01-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
August 24-26, 2012 - Tampa State Fairgrounds, Tampa Florida - Music, Entertainment, Activism
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Settlement Fails To Force Mortgage Companies To Improve
08-08-2012
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, By Peter S. Goodman
Katie Diaz arrives at the Bronx County Courthouse hoping for clarity, if not a reprieve from the foreclosure case threatening her home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Journalist faces 21 years in jail for recording police
08-08-2012
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http://rt.com
The journalist behind a popular activism site is facing 21 years in prison for publishing conversations with law enforcement officials that he says were on-the-record while investigating a police brutality case in the state of New Hampshire.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Fungus and Microbiomes Soil Conditioning Resets Environment Response
08-08-2012
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arclein
The results were immediate: within 24 hours of being sprayed, the seeds began sprouting a greater number of longer roots than untreated seeds, and the team found that they expressed genes involved in stress-resistance and drought-tolerance. That su
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Robotic Hand Achieved
08-08-2012
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arclein
"The capability of the robotic hand is so near to that of humans that the vision of robots as personal assistants in the household, in the operating room as well as in industrial settings is becoming ever more realistic," said fellow Bologna resear
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robert klein
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Giant Sloth Country
08-08-2012
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arclein
believes that Jan's story is credible...he is from the area of the incident and has talked to others who have met Jan. I also want to give credit to Barton Nunnellywho brought this story to the public's attention in his documentary Hunt the Dogman:
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Current Arctic Sea Ice
08-08-2012
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arclein
. The record has further revealed that the ice extension is not more than 6.53 million square kilometers, which is said to be the lowest since 34 years.
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robert klein
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Superinsects Are Thriving in This Summer's Drought
08-08-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com,
This summer, a severe drought and genetically modified crops are delivering a one-two punch to US crops.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Wallet Voting
How Secret Foreign Money Could Infiltrate US Elections
08-08-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Andy Kroll
Think the United States is immune from foreigners' campaign cash? Think again.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
A Peruvian Gift and A Toxic Poison
08-08-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Jeani-Rose Atchison
Potatoes are one of the worlds most popular foods. It ranks right up there with wheat and corn.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Gaza Christians can pray in Israel, not Muslims: court
08-08-2012
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AFP
The High Court rejected on Wednesday an appeal filed on behalf of seven Muslim women from Gaza, who asked to be allowed to pray at the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount.
The appeal noted that the IDF currently allows Christian women
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Tucson gunman Loughner pleads guilty to rampage, spared death penalty
08-08-2012
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Reuters
A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing six people and wounding 13 others, including then-U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, in an Arizona shooting rampage last year and will be spared the death penalty in exchange.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hacker succeeds, forces Apple, Amazon to change security policies
08-08-2012
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http://asia.cnet.com, Aloysius Low
The big news this week was the hijacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan's iCloud account.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Chemtrails
Chemtrails: Aerosol and Electromagnetic Weapons in the Age of Nuclear War
08-08-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Amy Worthington
North America is now suffering its seventh year of conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by the U.S. government under the guise of national security.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
We are the Media Revolution: The Battle for Truth and Empowerment
08-08-2012
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http://tv.globalresearch.ca, by grtv
This interview was conducted with Mickey Huff, the Director of Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Standard Chartered rejects laundering claims
08-08-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera and agencies
As British bank denies accusations it hid $250bn in transactions with Iranian banks, its share price falls sharply.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Future covered: NASA developing space-bound submarines and printable spacecraft
08-08-2012
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http://www.rt.com
As Curiosity takes its first steps on the surface of Mars, NASA has already decided what comes next after the rover, namely a submarine to explore Jupiter’s ice-covered moon, Europa, and a robot to land-sail across Venus.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt fires missiles against suspected militants in Sinai
08-08-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The Egyptian military has launched an assault against suspected Islamist militants after they attacked security checkpoints along the Egyptian-Israeli border.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Philippines floods: 11 killed, 1 million displaced (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
08-08-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The Philippines’ capital has been paralyzed by fast moving floods that poured into the city from surrounding dams, overflowing after 12 days of monsoon downpours.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Whistle Blower Michael Springman: 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Agents
08-08-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Source Watch
J. Michael Springman worked for the US government for 20 years with the foreign service and consulate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Rare Snowfall Stuns Much Of South Africa
08-08-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Jon Gambrell
People slowly came outside despite the cold wind Tuesday across South Africa, pointed their mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths to taste a rare snowfall that fell on much of the country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Micro Robots Used To Deliver Drugs In Patients Bloodstream
08-08-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Georgia Tech
When you’re just a few microns long, swimming can be difficult. At that size scale, the viscosity of water is more like that of honey, and momentum can’t be relied upon to maintain forward motion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Art
A Beautiful Mind: Stunning Paintings Depict Grey Matter in a Colourful New Light
08-02-2012
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Daily Mail UK
In matters of the brain, art and science have always been inexplicably connected. Greg Dunn, who received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, explores that connection, painting images of the hippocampus, cortex and
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Mike Shipley
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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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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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