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Date Sent: 2012-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, August 18, 2012 |
Diplomat cables reveal Australia expects US to charge Assange -- German army's crisis role widened
Costs and Benefits of Modern “Sex Crime” Witch Hunts -- New Haven Cop who Confiscated Phone Suspended, but not for that -- Russia's female punk band protesters jailed for two years --
Thousands of pot fans rally at Seattle festival -- ADVENTURES IN LEGAL
LAND - by MARC STEVENS (Audiobook) -- Beard debate delays Fort Hood
shooting trial -- Treasury changes Fannie and Freddie bailout deal -- How to Teach a Robot to Improvise --- 500K Credit Cards Stolen in Australian Point-of-Sale Hack -- Shell shuts
oil station in Nigeria, activists report spill -- U.S. holds
‘serious’ talks with Russia on Syria -- North Korea could produce
dozens more nukes: study -- Ron Paul Still Mum As His Son Endorses Paul Ryan -- Anti-Obama Navy SEAL leader admits belief in ‘birther’ conspiracy --
Dallas launches chemical warfare on mosquitoes amid historic West
Nile outbreak -- Ron Paul Backer Owns RomneyRyan.com, Willing to
Sell -- SABOTAGE! Ron Paul Being Obliterated From Wiki Tea Party
Entry! -- Before Shooting: Southern Poverty Law Center Put Family
Research Council on ‘Hate Map’ -- U.S. says it doesn’t believe in
‘diplomatic asylum’ despite having offered it in the past -- Pentagon Producing
Terminator Like Machines -- Binyamin Netanyahu’s aides
launch stinging rebuke to Israeli president Shimon Peres -- Twitter
horrifies third-party developers with warnings of cutoffs -- Sioux
tribes take to the Internet to buy back sacred land -- Climate
change driving Australian fish south -- U.S. Army reports suicides
more than doubled -- U.S. carbon emissions drop to 20-year low -- Fmr. Marine Arrested By FBI For Patriotic Facebook Posts! -- Pro-GMO
Propaganda in California Dismantled by New Cost Study -- Big Changes Ahead: Gold Just Became
Money Again
AZ: POOL PARTY AT HANCOCK'S SUNDAY, AUG 19, 2012
from 1 P.M. TIL ??
FL: Ron Paul Festival - August 24-26, 2012 - Florida State
Fairgrounds - Tampa
Paul Festival Commemorative Dime Cards Fundraiser - READY FOR
PURCHASE NOW!
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Diplomatic cables reveal Australia expects U.S. to charge Julian Assange
08-17-2012
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Rawstory
Declassified diplomatic cables from Australia’s embassy in Washington DC, obtained through freedom of information requests reveal Australian officials have begun laying the groundwork for the USA to pursue charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Ass
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News Link • Police State
German army's crisis role widened
08-17-2012
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BBC News
The German military will in future be able to use its weapons on German streets in an extreme situation, the Federal Constitutional Court says. The armed forces can be deployed if Germany faces an assault of "catastrophic proportions",
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Costs and Benefits of Modern “Sex Crime” Witch Hunts
08-17-2012
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The Agitator
People of our present era like to believe they are incapable of engaging in the kind of witch hunts that made Salem, Massachusetts, famous, yet in the past 30 years prosecutors have pursued what only could be described as witch hunts
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Haven Cop who Confiscated Phone Suspended, but not for that
08-17-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Chris Rubino, the New Haven cop who arrested a woman in June, then confiscated her phone after she recorded him physically abusing a suspect, received a 15-day unpaid suspension. But only for planting his foot on the suspect’s face.
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News Link • World News
Russia's female punk band protesters jailed for two years
08-17-2012
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Reuters
Three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail on Friday for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin in a church, a ruling supporters described as his "personal revenge".
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News Link • Drug War
Thousands of pot fans rally at Seattle festival
08-17-2012
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AP
Others say the measure doesn't go far enough because it wouldn't allow people to grow their own pot for recreational use, although medical patients still could; it doesn't contemplate the industrial growing of hemp; and it would not allow recreationa
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
ADVENTURES IN LEGAL LAND - by MARC STEVENS (Audiobook)
08-17-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Get the the full ebook here, donations welcome to support the author
http://marcstevens.net/store/aillbook.html
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
New spider family identified in Oregon
08-17-2012
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AP
The spindly, six-eyed members of the worldwide arachnid tribe appear to have evolved their fearsome elongated claws over hundreds of millions of years, but how they attack their prey and how and what they eat are still unknown, the scientists say.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Beard debate delays Fort Hood shooting trial
08-17-2012
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Reuters
A military appeals court indefinitely postponed the court martial for accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan on Friday while it decides if the trial judge can order his beard forcibly shaved, U.S. Army officials said.
Hasan is accused of ope
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News Link • Conspiracies
Treasury changes Fannie and Freddie bailout deal
08-17-2012
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AP
The government is changing the terms of its bailout agreement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a way that will shrink the holdings of the 2 mortgage giants more quickly and will require payment to the government of all quarterly profits the compani
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
A New Robot Dismantles Pipe Bombs While Leaving Forensic Evidence Intact
08-17-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
The first priority in a bomb-related emergency is, of course, to safely dismantle the bomb. If it's a pipe bomb--the basement-built explosive device--a robot could be sent in to do the job.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Facebook Will Ice Backup Data in ‘Sub-Zero’ Building
08-17-2012
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Robert McMillan via WIRED.com
We now know what Facebook is up to in Sub-Zero " the mini data center it’s building right beside its 330,000-square-foot Prineville, Oregon, facility: It’s reinventing the way it does emergency backup.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
500K Credit Cards Stolen in Australian Point-of-Sale Hack
08-17-2012
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
Police in Australia are investigating a breach of half a million credit card numbers that reports say was conducted by the same gang that struck the Subway restaurant chain in the United States.
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News Link • Energy
Shell shuts oil station in Nigeria, activists report spill
08-17-2012
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The RawStory.com
Shell said Thursday it had shut down an oil processing facility in southern Nigeria over a pump failure, but denied reports that a significant amount of oil had spilled in the area.
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News Link • World News
U.S. holds ‘serious’ talks with Russia on Syria
08-17-2012
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The RawStory.com
The United States said Thursday it held “serious” talks with Russia about Syria and renewed its call for a political transition after months of disagreement over the bloodshed.
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News Link • Military
North Korea could produce dozens more nukes: study
08-17-2012
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The RawStory.com
North Korea could build an arsenal of up to 48 nuclear weapons, several times more than it has now, if the communist state were able to step up its program unchecked, a US think tank said Thursday.
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News Link • World News
106 year-old Japanese man travels round the world on public transport
08-17-2012
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The RawStory.com
Saburo Shochi has been recognised by Guinness World Records for his feat, which saw him travel through North America, Europe and Africa, the Mainichi daily said.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
November’s choices -- tough to support either Romney-Ryan or Obama-Biden
08-17-2012
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By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
We are in terrible straits this presidential election. We have a choice between a president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government.
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News Link • Military
Anti-Obama Navy SEAL leader admits belief in ‘birther’ conspiracy
08-17-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
A new anti-Obama Navy SEAL group called Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund was created by a man who believes the president is secretly a socialist communist foreign-born interloper, or so he told Foreign Policy Magazine.
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News Link • Environment
Dallas launches chemical warfare on mosquitoes amid historic West Nile outbreak
08-17-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
Amid one of the worst outbreaks of West Nile virus ever seen in the U.S., officials in the Dallas area of north Texas have declared war, launching all-out chemical warfare on mosquitoes.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Backer Owns RomneyRyan.com, Willing to Sell
08-17-2012
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http://www.rollcall.com, By Niels Lesniewski
If you happen to visit RomneyRyan.com, you might think you have reached a website operated by a Democratic political action committee, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign or maybe the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
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News Link • Events: America
Before Shooting: Southern Poverty Law Center Put Family Research Council on ‘Hate Map’
08-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Elizabeth Harrington
The man who shot a security guard at the Family Research Council (FRC) on Wednesday was “given a license” to do so because of groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that have labeled the FRC a “hate group,” said FRC President Tony Perk
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News Link • Government
U.S. says it doesn’t believe in ‘diplomatic asylum’ despite having offered it in the past
08-17-2012
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The RawStory.com
The United States said Friday that it did not believe in “diplomatic asylum” after Ecuador offered to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stay indefinitely in its embassy in London.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Romney, Obama campaign spar again over taxes
08-17-2012
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The RawStory.com
White House hopeful Mitt Romney offered his fullest explanation yet about his tax status Thursday, saying he paid at least 13 percent a year over the past decade, but President Barack Obama’s campaign offered a prompt retort: prove it.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Producing Terminator Like Machines
08-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
The Department of Defense has awarded a lucrative contract to an engineering and robotics design company to develop and build humanoid robots that can act intelligently without supervision.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Team Obama promises to drop push for tax returns if Romney releases 5 years
08-17-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
President Barack Obama’s campaign manager offered Mitt Romney’s campaign manager a “deal” on Friday, essentially saying that if Romney releases just three more years of tax returns, they’ll stop hammering him for not releasing more
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News Link • World News
Binyamin Netanyahu’s aides launch stinging rebuke to Israeli president Shimon Peres
08-17-2012
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Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian
Aides to Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu launched a stinging rebuke to the country’s president, Shimon Peres, after he said that Israel should not act alone in launching military action against Iran’s nuclear programme.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Twitter horrifies third-party developers with warnings of cutoffs
08-17-2012
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Charles Arthur, The Guardian
Twitter has horrified third-party developers by hinting that it will in future limit their size by preventing them having more than a certain number of users, as part of a wide-ranging shift in the company’s strategy
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News Link • Internet
Sioux tribes take to the Internet to buy back sacred land
08-17-2012
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Arturo Garcia via The RawStory.com
Members of the Sioux Nation are attempting to raise $1 million dollars to buy back a section of South Dakota land known in their culture as “the Center and heart of everything that is.”
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate change driving Australian fish south
08-17-2012
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The RawStory.com
Australian scientists said Friday there was now “striking evidence” of extensive southward migration of tropical fish and declines in other species due to climate change, in a major ocean report card.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Army reports suicides more than doubled
08-17-2012
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The RawStory.com
Suicides among US Army soldiers more than doubled in July compared to June, the Pentagon said, the latest evidence of a worrisome trend that has vexed military leaders.
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News Link • Environment
U.S. carbon emissions drop to 20-year low
08-17-2012
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RawStory.com
US emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change fell in 2011 and have slipped to a 20-year low this year as the the world’s largest economy uses more natural gas and less coal, data shows.
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News Link • Police State
Fmr. Marine Arrested By FBI For Patriotic Facebook Posts!
08-17-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Just in on the Josh Tolley Show.
Interview with mom.
He talked about how the Govt. lies.
WAS NOT READ HIS RIGHTS!
SENT TO A PSYCH HOSPITAL
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News Link • Food
Pro-GMO Propaganda in California Dismantled by New Cost Study
08-17-2012
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Farm Wars
Opponents of GMO labeling say it will raise food costs by hundreds of dollars per family when in fact it will likely cause NO cost increase at all!
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News Link • Communications
What does it mean to make something?
08-17-2012
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www.diasporaproject.org
During the last two years that we have been building Diaspora, we have uncovered lots of interesting problems related to our core mission"giving people ownership over their data.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Government's Foreign Debt Hits Record $5.29 Trillion
08-16-2012
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CNS News
The money the U.S. government owes to foreign entities rose to a record $5.2923 trillion in June, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury. In May, the U.S. Treasury had owed $5.2581 trillion to foreign entities. On net, in June, the U.S. gove
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News Link • Corruption
No Criminal Case in Loss at MF Global
08-16-2012
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The Atlantic Wire
With the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal charges despite "borrowing" money from its customer's accounts to try and salvage its own losses.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Exclusive: Bond insurer sues California over development agencies
08-16-2012
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Reuters
Bond insurer Syncora Guarantee has filed a lawsuit to prevent California from eliminating the state's 400 local redevelopment agencies, claiming that the plan unfairly deprives bondholders of money they are owed.
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News Link • Surveillance
'Black box' standards coming for cars
08-16-2012
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The Hill
New federal standards for "black boxes" that record information leading up to auto accidents will will take effect Sept. 1, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ruled on Tuesday.
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News Link • Surveillance
Federal Judge: Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car
08-16-2012
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PC World
In United States v. Skinner it ruled that because we all know cell phones have GPS transponders that can broadcast our locations at any time, we have no reasonable expectation of privacy when we carry them.
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News Link • Police State
South African police open fire on striking Lonmin miners, several dead
08-16-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT " South African police open fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, killing at least a dozen men in the deadliest episode of a week of union violence. The SAPA domestic news a
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News Link • Activism
Mothers To Regulators: We Will Not Comply!
08-16-2012
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Farm Wars
August 18, 2012 a group of mothers and others, members of the advocacy groups, the Raw Milk Freedom Riders and Lemonade Freedom Day, will take their raw milk and lemonade to the lawn of the US Capitol to celebrate their right to “voluntary exchange.”
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News Link • Media: Internet
The Military's Version Of The Onion Is Now So Popular Its Server Just Crashed
08-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Hickey
The satirical news site for the military, published by BI Smoke Pit Contributor and owner of CollegeVeteran.com Paul Szoldra, was brought down this morning after a link in an Army Times article about the blog overloaded the site with traffic.
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News Link • China
China Is Replacing Its Workers With Robots
08-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Max Nisen
Credit Suisse is out with a massive report on the growth of industrial automation. Yesterday we highlighted their favorite seven stocks in the sector.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
See The Insane Amounts Of ADHD Drugs Prescribed To Children In The Last Decade
08-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
This graphic by Allied Health World shows that doctors prescribed children 46 percent more ADHD drugs from 2002 to 2010.
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