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Date Sent: 2012-08-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, August 26, 2012 |
Reality Check: RNC Pulling Out All Stops To Keep Ron Paul's Name Out Of Nomination
U.S. Appeals Court Backs Ruling Against Graphic Images on Cigarette Packs --
From Bug Drones to Disease Assassins, Super Weapons Rule U.S. War Game
-- Tesla’s Revenge: Filmmakers Kickstart Electrifying Docudrama About
Cult Genius -- Inventing an Iranian Threat -- Getting Away with Torture in Israel -- Obama
vs. Romney Electoral Map -- The US Job Market Is Just Awful For College
Graduates -- BofA: 'CODE RED..RISK OF SELL-OFF IS HIGH' -- VIDEO: Father of US marine killed by Afghan officer speaks out -- America's Descent into Poverty -- P.A.U.L Festival / Ron Paul Sun Dome Rally: Live Stream Links + Open Thread -- Fed to Deliver More Stimulus "Fairly Soon" -- United Nations Sponsors Another Gun-Grabber Conference in New York -- Who knew? Curiosity photos show Mars teeming with UFOs -- Brit brother: Drones to watch over UK streets -- Neil Armstrong, The 1st Man On The Moon, Has Died -- Silver Aug 25th 2012 - (High of $30.93 today) -- C-SPAN to cover Ron
Paul’s We Are the Future Rally -- The Candlemakers’ Petition, Frédéric Bastiat -- Gold Stocks Got You Down? This History Lesson
Will Pick You Up… -- DPS officers conduct sweep looking for drug
smugglers along I-10 -- Don't Believe The Report Going Around About
Veterans Flocking To Right Wing Extremist Groups -- T. Boone
Pickens: Wind And Solar Will Never Take Over For Coal -- The US Loses Another Policeman in Africa
-- Naomi Wolf on the Crackdown on Dissent in America -- Maine
Delegation Thrown Out -- No Ron Paul revolution at
convention -- Justin Raimando: The Iron Fist in Tampa -- Psychiatrist Threatens &
Terrorizes Marine Over 9/11 Facebook Posts -- Veteran Declared
‘Mentally Defective,’ Has Guns Seized -- Risking Nuclear Armageddon
-- Trillions Stashed in Tax Havens
Libertarian write-in candidates need your ink
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News Link • Political Parties
Reality Check: RNC Pulling Out All Stops To Keep Ron Paul's Name Out Of Nomination
08-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, sharpsteve
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the RNC is attempting to change the 5 state rule and decredential the entire Maine delegation only 4 days before the Republican National Convention
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News Link • Justice and Judges
U.S. Appeals Court Backs Ruling Against Graphic Images on Cigarette Packs
08-26-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, By Steven Reinberg
A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that would block the federal government from requiring tobacco companies to put graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packaging.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Alzheimer's Drug Shows Some Promise in Trials
08-26-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, HealthDay News
An experimental drug is showing some promise in slowing the decline in thinking and memory that comes with Alzheimer's disease, especially in people with milder forms of the illness.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Rover Curiosity's Tracks Are More Than Just Skid Marks in the Martian Dirt
08-26-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
The Mars rover Curiosity’s first roll was more than a cause for celebration " it will help pinpoint where the rover set down, and emblazon the name of its maker into the Martian soil. Curiosity’s wheels have holes arranged in the Morse code pattern f
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News Link • Military
I Am Warplane
08-26-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
How the first autonomous strike plane will land on aircraft carriers, navigate hostile airspace and change the future of flight
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News Link • Military
From Bug Drones to Disease Assassins, Super Weapons Rule U.S. War Game
08-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
A rogue state is on the verge of developing a deadly biological weapon against which the rest of the world has no defense. Through its connections to extremist groups and smugglers, the regime could be planning to launch bio attacks on U.S. allies an
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Inside Larry Ellison’s Insane Plan to Turn America’s Cup Into a TV Spectacle
08-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Fisher
The America’s Cup World Series is the circus Ellison has brought to town, and he himself is the ringmaster. It is a warm-up to the America’s Cup match, the one-on-one winner-take-all main event.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Tesla’s Revenge: Filmmakers Kickstart Electrifying Docudrama About Cult Genius
08-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Hugh Hart
Inspired by maverick genius Nikola Tesla, Wil Cashen invented an electric pickup truck. Now the Los Angeles-based engineer and entrepreneur wants to pay homage to his role model by making a docudrama about the eccentric Serbian-American inventor.
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News Link • History
Farewell Neil Armstrong, the Ultimate Test Pilot
08-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
Neil Armstrong " who has died at the age of 82 " was best known as the commander of Apollo 11, but his career at NASA began nearly a decade earlier as a research test pilot.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Making Stretchable Electronics
08-26-2012
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David Talbot and Kyanna Sutton
A startup prepares to manufacture electronics that conform to skin, arteries, and organs, allowing new surgical and measuring methods.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Quiz: Which Presidential Candidate Is Right for You? Online quiz helps voters find their candidate
08-23-2012
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Kristi Reed kristi.reed at patch.com
ISideWith.com offers a short quiz to gauge participants' views on domestic and foreign policy issues. If you are having a hard time deciding which candidate to support in the November presidential election, this online tool may provide some help.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Police State
DPS officers conduct sweep looking for drug smugglers along I-10
08-25-2012
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abc 15
CASA GRANDE, AZ - Department of Public Safety officers cracked down on Interstate 10 looking for drug smugglers and illegal aliens, conducting a sweep of the interstate between Tucson and Phoenix.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The Curiosity rover: Worth the cost?
08-25-2012
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Terrence Aym
Many of the critics then raised issues of cost (Apollo's price tag was about $20 billion), the danger of risking human life in the unforgiving environment beyond Earth, and the ultimate return on investment. They argued that robotic space probes cou
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News Link • General Opinion
Everyday Preps
08-25-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Eric Peters
When people talk about “preps” they’re usually talking about things like ammunition and food " both of which, obviously, are good things to keep handy in the event the SHTF.
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News Link • General Opinion
After the Storm
08-25-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Jeff Thomas
With all the study and thought that are required to make sense out of how the Great Unraveling will play out, we seldom take time to think of what it will be like on the other side.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BofA: 'CODE RED..RISK OF SELL-OFF IS HIGH'
08-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
Yesterday, BofA's top North America economist Ethan Harris penned a bearish note on the the U.S. economy, writing that it "is in the eye of the storm" and that a number of troubling headwinds loom on the horizon.
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News Link • General Opinion
When Will It Happen? What Will It Be?
08-25-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Son Of Texas
There as many opinions and even more guesses than those who are guessing about what will cause the collapse of the world as we know it.
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News Link • Death
VIDEO: Father of US marine killed by Afghan officer speaks out
08-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by TheLorax
As a fervent Ron Paul supporter the first twenty seconds really gets me, as the dad explains the reason and incident that triggered this unfortunate outcome.
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News Link • Events: America
P.A.U.L Festival / Ron Paul Sun Dome Rally: Live Stream Links + Open Thread
08-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by P.Au.L
P.A.U.L Festival / Ron Paul Sun Dome Rally: Live Stream Links + Open Thread
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News Link • United Nations
United Nations Sponsors Another Gun-Grabber Conference in New York
08-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Following the failure of the United Nations to reach a consensus on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the internationalist gun-grabbers are looking forward to Review Conference 2012 (RevCon 2012), to be held in New York beginning next week, on August 27.
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News Link • Military
Defending Abducted Marine, Brandon Raub
08-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
Alex covers the abduction and disappearance of former Marine Brandon Raub who was involuntarily committed to a psych ward for the crime of criticizing the government.
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News Link • Surveillance
Brit brother: Drones to watch over UK streets
08-25-2012
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http://rt.com,
Unmanned police drones, comparable to those used in war zones such as Afghanistan, could soon be secretly watching over the streets of UK cities, according to a National Police Air Service director.
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News Link • Death
Neil Armstrong, The 1st Man On The Moon, Has Died
08-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, AP
The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Al-Qaeda’s ‘Suicide Bombers Wanted’ Ad
08-25-2012
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arclein
The ad on the forum, which is accessible only to al-Qaeda members, specifies the targets of the terror attacks that applicants will be expected to carry out, including “People who fight Islam and Muslims” and enemy “financial, military and media targ
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Major Stress & Depression Physically Changes the Brain
08-25-2012
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arclein
how that the genetic switch known as a transcription factor represses the expression of several genes that are necessary for the formation of synaptic connections between brain cells, which in turn could contribute to loss of brain mass in the prefro
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News Link • Science
Advance Warning for Solar Flares
08-25-2012
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arclein
oticed a change in the decay rate of a radioactive sample 39 hours before a solar flare. Since joined by a Purdue University professor of Physics named Ephraim Fischbach, Jenkins' subsequent research has reinforced the discovery, using two samples o
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News Link • Science
Human Combustion Understood
08-25-2012
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arclein
The most recent case was 76-year-old Michael Faherty who died on December 22, 2010. West Galway coroner Ciaran McLoughlin recorded the cause of death as spontaneous human combustion.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
C-SPAN to cover Ron Paul’s We Are the Future Rally
08-25-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Ron Paul will speak to a live national audience via coverage from C-SPAN on Sunday, Aug 26th at 3pm ET from the University of South Florida’s 17,000 seat Sun Dome. The event is themed as a constitutional conservative and libertarian friendly alternat
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News Link • Political Theory
The Candlemakers’ Petition, Frédéric Bastiat
08-25-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting.
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News Link • Military
Don't Believe The Report Going Around About Veterans Flocking To Right Wing Extremist Groups
08-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
When I saw the Reuters report, I didn't believe it. So I started digging.
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News Link • Energy
T. Boone Pickens: Wind And Solar Will Never Take Over For Coal
08-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
T. Boone Pickens acknowledges that while renewable energy sources have a role to play in powering the nation, they will never outpace coal and natural gas.
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Will Hit One Billion Users Any Day Now
08-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Owen Thomas
Facebook is about to cross one billion users.
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News Link • Architecture
The Suspended Pool At A Shanghai Holiday Inn Looks Pretty Freaky
08-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julie Zeveloff
You might not expect family-friendly Holiday Inn to have such a daredevil design feature in one of its hotels, but this cantilevered pool is truly striking.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
5 Steps To Survival When Bullets Start To Fly
08-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
You’re in public, minding your business, on your way to work " and gunshots ring out.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
The US Loses Another Policeman in Africa
08-25-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Eric Margolis
It says much when the long-time rulers of two of Africa’s largest, most important nations, Egypt’s Husni Mubarak and Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi, had to fly to Europe for critical medical treatment because their own nations lacked facilities and speciali
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News Link • Government
Naomi Wolf on the Crackdown on Dissent in America
08-25-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, Naomi Wolf
With the world watching the case of Wikileaks Julian Assange, Russia Today sat down with American author Naomi Wolf to discuss why journalists are finding it increasingly difficult to publish information the US government doesn’t want them to.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Maine Delegation Thrown Out
08-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, GingerTaylor
The RNC has voted NOT to seat the elected Maine delegation, and NOT to follow rule 13 which will allow the remaining five delegates to vote on who to seat in Tampa.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
I just got off the Delegate/Alternate Conference Call
08-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, entropypressStAt
More questions were asked (or were allowed to be asked) about busing and VIP passes than what our delegate count really is. And how the Platform went. Or what exactly we should do on the floor.
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News Link • Political Parties
Justin Raimando: The Iron Fist in Tampa
08-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, celeste
As the Republican convention-goers gather in Tampa, Florida, the Republican party Establishment is eager to crush any public expressions of dissent " both inside and outside the convention hall.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul compared to Ghandi - Predictions for Republican Paul at the RNC-SuccessCouncil.com ep#7
08-25-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, successcouncil
Ron Paul Compared to Ghandi. These are my predictions for Ron Paul and Ron Paul supporters at the (RNC) Republican National Convention.
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News Link • Constitution
Psychiatrist Threatens & Terrorizes Marine Over 9/11 Facebook Posts
08-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
Brandon Raub’s lawyer talks with Alex Jones about threats to “brainwash” Raub with forced medication.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Veteran Declared ‘Mentally Defective,’ Has Guns Seized
08-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
News of similar case emerges day after release of Brandon Raub
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
August 26, 2012 Edition
08-24-2012
John Semmens
Dems Reject Cardinal's Offer
The Obama campaign rejected an offer from Cardinal Timothy Dolan to deliver a prayer at the Democratic National Convention in September. As head of the Archdiocese of New York and president of the Conference of Catholi
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