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Date Sent: 2012-08-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 29, 2012 AM edition |
Downtown Mpls. Becomes Black Hawk Helicopter Training Zone
Ron Paul on Fox News w/ Neil Cavuto 8/28/12 -- Ron Paul supporters walk out of GOP convention -- Ron Paul delegates stir presidential unrest at GOP convention -- Final Delegate Vote Count at Convention -- Ron Paul's Maine Delegates Erupt After Getting Barred from Republican Convention -- Anger Erupts At Convention Due To GOP Corruption -- Brandon Raub Interviewed by John Whitehead -- Reich Here, Reich Now -- Amnesty International Web site hacked by supporters of Syrian government --
Texas redistricting discriminates against minorities, federal court
says -- Paul Supporters Criticize Process, Party and Rules -- A storm inside the GOP convention -- Ron Paul, Republican problem child -- Judge orders cash-starved Harrisburg Executive Branch to raise tax -- The Real Cause of High Oil Prices -- How to Steal Personal Data From Someone's Brain, Using a $300 Off-the-Shelf Brain Scanner -- A Mechanical Scale Capable of Weighing a Single Molecule -- Federal Robotics Initiative Gives $1 Million to Make Brain-Controlled Exoskeletons -- Soldiers Missing From Vietnam War Identified -- Israel’s First Drone Strike Inside Egyptian Territory Kills Sinai Bedouin -- US Veterans Forcibly Sequestered in Mental Hospitals is Indefinite Detention -- Drone U. rides flight boom -- If you're a patriot, you likely suffer from ODD and are a "Mentality III". -- ‘We believe that the USA is the major player against Syria and the rest are its instruments’ -- Police outnumber convention protesters by 4-1 in Tampa --
Egyptian designer runs afoul of Saudi princess, gets 500 lashes --
Egypt allows Iranian warship through Suez despite U.S. objection
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News Link • Military
Downtown Mpls. Becomes Black Hawk Helicopter Training Zone
08-28-2012
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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com
If you see military helicopters flying low over Minneapolis, don’t be alarmed. They’re just training in an urban environment.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
RP Delegate Update
08-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
UPDATE from Travis: "So far Alaska and Arizona have given Paul 9 and 3 votes respectively. The big story is the roll taker. She's completely ignoring the Paul votes, only repeating those of Romney."
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul supporters walk out of GOP convention
08-28-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Ron Paul supporters at the Republican National Convention erupted in fury over decisions that weakened their delegate count and other rule changes that will make it harder for non-establishment candidates in future elections.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul delegates stir presidential unrest at GOP convention
08-28-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Perhaps more significantly, pro-Paul delegates announced that they had submitted nomination forms from six states that could require that his name be placed in nomination alongside Romney's.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul's Maine Delegates Erupt After Getting Barred from Republican Convention
08-28-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
What a complete fraud. Hopefully all of you will now see that there is a conspiracy happening and it is very very massive. And it hates true liberty. RON PAUL
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Anger Erupts At Convention Due To GOP Corruption
08-28-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
The GOP showed how corrupt their Party is after the way they treated Ron Paul and his supporters this past year. Sad that they won't win any over to vote for Mitt Romney!
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News Link • Police State
Brandon Raub Interviewed by John Whitehead
08-28-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Brandon Raub, a decorated marine was arrested by federal agents and incarcerated in a psych ward for simply posting thoughts and song lyrics to his Facebook page, discusses his ordeal and his thoughts about the state of our freedoms
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News Link • Homeland Security
Reich Here, Reich Now
08-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
If there’s a Blackhawk in your airspace, don’t be alarmed now; it’s just “urban warfare” training. That was the message issued to residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota by the local affiliate of the Homeland Security State
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News Link • Syria
Amnesty International Web site hacked by supporters of Syrian government
08-28-2012
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Washington Post
Supporters of the Syrian government hacked the Web site of Amnesty International, posting items that falsely accused the rebels of a string of atrocities. The sophisticated cyberattack was similar to the targeting of Reuters news service.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Texas redistricting discriminates against minorities, federal court says
08-28-2012
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Washington Post
A federal court on Tuesday threw out Texas’s redistricting plans, saying the maps drawn by the Republican-led legislature undermined the political clout of minorities who are responsible for the state’s population growth.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul Supporters Criticize Process, Party and Rules
08-28-2012
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New York Times
Earlier in the day, what was supposed to be a slow, orderly and only symbolic process erupted in anger, presenting a raucous scene that even the most seasoned delegates had not seen in some 30 years, an unexpected scene of disunity that, if for only
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
A storm inside the GOP convention
08-28-2012
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Washington Post OpEd
Delegates and audience members erupted into chants of “Let him speak!” and “Seat them now!” Some waved signs proclaiming, “I am the Ron Paul Revolution,” and burst forth with a soccer ditty: “Olé, olé, olé, olé. Ron Paul, Ron Paul!”
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul, Republican problem child
08-28-2012
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Washington Post OpEd
The lingering divide between Romney and Paul supporters broke into open display on the convention floor Tuesday afternoon in the moments before the formal program for the day began.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge orders cash-starved Harrisburg Executive Branch to raise tax
08-28-2012
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AP
Harrisburg residents were hit with a court-mandated income tax increase when a state judge sided with the financial receiver who is managing the city and ordered the City Council to double the earned income tax.
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News Link • Energy
The Real Cause of High Oil Prices
08-28-2012
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Oilprice.com
Nowadays the energy picture is confusing at best as the more information we are shown the murkier the picture seems to become. Mixed messages, poor reporting and a media hungry to sensationalize anything it thinks can grab a headline have led to many
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How to Steal Personal Data From Someone's Brain, Using a $300 Off-the-Shelf Brain Scanner
08-28-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
The Emotiv brain-computer interface was designed to let users control their computers with their thoughts alone, opening up a new avenue for hands-free computing as well as a potential means for those with disabilities to communicate through machines
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Federal Robotics Initiative Gives $1 Million to Make Brain-Controlled Exoskeletons
08-28-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Robots that can read and respond to brain waves will eventually help stroke patients regain movement, using new neural interfaces that can re-train damaged motor pathways.
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News Link • Death
Soldiers Missing From Vietnam War Identified
08-28-2012
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http://www.defense.gov
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of three servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, were recently identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full militar
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News Link • Israel
Israel’s First Drone Strike Inside Egyptian Territory Kills Sinai Bedouin
08-28-2012
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by Richard Silverstein
A week ago or so I wrote here that given Barack Obama’s expansive interpretation of U.S. interests, which involves massive drone attacks against targets in multiple Middle Eastern and African countries, that it was only a matter of time before Israel
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News Link • Military
US Veterans Forcibly Sequestered in Mental Hospitals is Indefinite Detention
08-28-2012
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http://www.infowars.com, Susanne Posel
US Veterans Forcibly Sequestered in Mental Hospitals is Indefinite Detention
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News Link • Transportation
GM: Chevy Volt output break due to Impala retooling
08-28-2012
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http://content.usatoday.com, By James R. Healey
General Motors is shutting down, for a month, the plant that makes its well-known Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car. But GM says its is for retooling to produce the coming new Impala, and not, as the report indicated, to cut back this year's
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News Link • Syria
‘We believe that the USA is the major player against Syria and the rest are its instruments’
08-28-2012
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http://www.independent.co.uk, Robert Fisk
Assad's Foreign Minister gives his first interview to a Western journalist since the conflict began
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News Link • Activism
Police outnumber convention protesters by 4-1 in Tampa
08-28-2012
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http://thehill.com, By Jordy Yager
Police outnumbered demonstrators Monday as hundreds took to Tampa’s streets to protest the Republican convention.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Egyptian designer runs afoul of Saudi princess, gets 500 lashes
08-28-2012
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com, Reem Abdellatif
Human-rights activists are demanding the release of Nagla Wafa, an Egyptian wedding planner and designer sentenced to 500 lashes and five years in prison in Saudi Arabia following a business dispute with a princess.
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt allows Iranian warship through Suez despite U.S. objection
08-28-2012
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http://www.worldnewstribune.com
Egypt has again allowed an Iranian Navy ship to pass the Suez
Canal toward Syria.
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News Link • Activism
The Impact of Choosing Independence
08-28-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by lonelantern
What happens if you make the switch and choose independence? Watch this short video to learn the simple action you can take and what impact it will have.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Disaster Readiness: Taking the Preparedness Test
08-28-2012
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http://www.strategic-living.net,
During our weekly video conference on Friday, the Two Gs discussed topics for today’s article. (And BTW, ain’t Skype great for free videoconferencing?
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Teens Beware: Using Marijuana Could Make You Dumber
08-28-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Tanya Lewis
Marijuana is the world’s most widely used illicit drug. But smoke too many joints too soon, and you might lose IQ points: A new study suggests extensive marijuana use starting as a teenager could lead to cognitive decline.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Friendly Cops so far at RNC; An Update on (the not-so-friendly) MDPD Major Nancy Perez
08-28-2012
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http://www.pixiq.com, By Carlos Miller
I arrived in Tampa Sunday afternoon with the threat of a tropical storm plowing a path behind me, threatening to turn into a hurricane.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Is eye scan technology the future of airport security?
08-27-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Will the airport of the future be able to verify the identity of passengers with a quick eye scan? Aoptix Technologies developed iris scan technology that can be used by the TSA to verify passenger identification in a matter of seconds.
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News Link • Syria
Britain and US plan a Syrian revolution from an innocuous office block in Istanbul
08-27-2012
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Daily Telegraph
An underground network of Syrian opposition activists is receiving training and supplies of vital equipment from a combined American and British effort to forge an effective alternative to the Damascus regime.
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News Link • China
Asian cities to become top finance centers by 2022 - survey
08-27-2012
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Reuters
Top UK traders and dealmakers bruised by intense banker bashing believe an Asian city will take over as the world's dominant financial centre within 10 years, according to a survey. They also relegated London to third place from second
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News Link • Afghanistan
Two More U.S. Troops Killed by Rogue Afghan Soldier
08-27-2012
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Reuters
A rogue Afghan soldier shot dead two U.S. troops in east Afghanistan, the NATO-led coalition said, the latest in a series of insider killings that have strained trust between the allies ahead of a 2014 pullout by foreign combat troops.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Adam Kokesh Has Had Enough of "Ron Paul Inc."
08-27-2012
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www.reason.com
Kokesh referred to the Paul political organization as "Ron Paul Inc." and said he was attempting to transition over to "Rand Paul Inc.," something he is not thrilled about.
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News Link • Declaration of Independence
In the matter of the United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton
08-27-2012
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The Agitator
Federal civil asset forfeiture complaint in the matter of United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton. This is an unusual case as the government’s case nakedly asserts, with no supporting evidence, that
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Assembly Paid $103,000 in Harassment Case
08-27-2012
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New York Times
Sheldon Silver, the New York State Assembly speaker, authorized a secret payment of $103,080 to settle sexual harassment claims against Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez this year, according to records released by the Assembly on Monday night.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Superior Court Judge Kyle Bryson Affirms His Own Ruling and Push
08-27-2012
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The Intercept
"The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die"
- Martin Luther King
Well the status quo in Pima County wants this case - and the truth - to die. The case in question is “We the People” attempt at court-ordered reforms s
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News Link • Police State
NYPD chief Ray Kelly defends officers over Empire State Building shooting
08-27-2012
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
Raymond Kelly, the New York police commissioner, has defended two of his officers whose decision to fatally shoot an armed man outside the Empire State Building on Friday led to nine bystanders being injured.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban beheads 17 Afghan partygoers for dancing; 2 NATO troops killed
08-27-2012
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Washington Post
Taliban insurgents beheaded 17 Afghans in a rebel-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, and two NATO troops were killed by an Afghan soldier in the eastern part of the country.
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News Link • World News
Israeli airstrike targets Hamas camps in Gaza
08-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
Israeli aircraft attacked three Hamas training camps in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, causing no injuries, eyewitnesses in the enclave said.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
American Taliban fights prison prayer rule
08-27-2012
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AP
American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh says a federal prison rule barring him and other Muslims from praying together daily is "absurd". (Aug. 27)
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News Link • Military
Army soldiers allegedly bought $87K worth of weapons to kill Obama
08-27-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The RawStory.com
Prosecutors alleged Monday that four Army soldiers arrested for killing a former soldier and his girlfriend were plotting to assassinate the President and overthrow the government.
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. troops tried to burn 500 copies of Koran, investigation says
08-27-2012
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Washington Post
US troops tried to burn 500 copies of the Koran as part of a badly bungled security sweep at an Afghan prison in February, despite repeated warnings from Afghan soldiers that they were making a colossal mistake,
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
4409 -- Open Video to the Ron Paul "Delegates"
08-27-2012
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YouTube.com - 4409
Do NOT forget that these people (not you) stabbed you and Ron Paul in the back for the last 6 years and will do it again and again and again.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
A First Look at the Sneakiest Tank Outside of the NSA
08-27-2012
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Roberto Baldwin via WIRED.com
World news is thick with stories about flying drones spying on an unsuspecting public. These are largely reports of military or law enforcement drones flying over the Middle East, Africa and the Southwestern United States.
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News Link • Internet
How Pacific Island Missile Tests Helped Launch the Internet
08-27-2012
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Noah Shachtman via Wired.com
There are a thousand stories about the origin of the internet, each with their own starting point and their own heroes. Charles Herzfeld’s tale began in 1961 on a series of tiny islands in the South Pacific.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
U.S. Spies Summon Star Wars for 3-D Hologram Displays
08-27-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
It’s one of the most memorable scenes in science fiction: a 3-D, holographic Princess Leia, begging for Obi-Wan’s help. America’s spy services have just plunked down $58 million to make it real.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Wireless Sensor Tags Help You Keep Track of Your Stuff
08-27-2012
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Roberto Baldwin via WIRED.com
Stuff goes missing. Maybe you misplaced something, or maybe one of the uninvited guests at your last shindig is “borrowing” it. Regardless, now you need it, and you can’t find it.
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News Link • Activism
Twitter Fights Back to Protect ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protestor
08-27-2012
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
Twitter is standing firm against a court order to turn over user data related to an Occupy Wall Street protestor.
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News Link • Precious Metals
...Major Development in Precious Metals: 'The Time to Buy Cheap Will Soon Be Gone'
08-27-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com,by Mac Slavo
...the stars for precious metals seem to be in alignment. So says Peter Schiff, CEO of Europacific Precious Metals.
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News Link • Anonymous
‘Operation Free Assange’: Anonymous take down Interpol website
08-27-2012
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http://rt.com
Hactivist group Anonymous claims to have taken down the websites of Interpol and a British police force as part of a campaign calling for the freedom of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
World's smallest neutron generator " it's not just for nukes anymore
08-27-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Brian Dodson
Neutron generators provide materials analysis and non-destructive testing tools to many industries, including oilfield operations, heavy mechanical production, art conservancy, detective work, and medicine.
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News Link • Economy - International
German minister rejects more time for Greece
08-27-2012
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http://www.boston.com, By FRANK JORDANS
Germany’s economy minister has rejected calls for Greece to get more time to implement economic reforms, saying in an interview Sunday that Athens needs to respect the bailout deal reached with its international creditors.
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