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Date Sent: 2012-09-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 17, 2012 PM edition |
Japanese Businesses Shuttering Chinese Facilities As Mainland Anger Spreads
Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say -- The Taliban Attack On Camp Bastion Sends An Unmistakable Signal -- This Heavily-Armed Drone Is Changing The Way America Wages War -- By 2015, Hard Commodity Prices Will Have Collapsed -- America's Scariest Electronic Weapons -- The Fed Has Failed, Failed, Failed -- Europhoria Officially Over: Spanish 10Y Breaks 6% The Wrong Way -- Mortgage Spread Collapses... More -- Full Summary Of The Latest In Anti-American Sentiment -- How QE3 Will Make The Wealthy Even Wealthier While Causing Living Standards To Fall... -- The Drums Of War -- Why Ron Paul's Campaign Manager Is Now Taking A Job With The GOP Establishment -- Rense & Celente - Anti-Islam Film Did Not Cause The Violence -- US scrambles to rush spies, drones to Libya --
A Decade of Denial and Deception -- Tarpley: Middle East Riots a
Provocation to Sink Obama -- ‘Muslims’ Movie Producer Was Arrested for
PCP, Snitched for Feds -- Can Crowdsourcing Bring Unused Patents Back from the Dead? -- What you need to know about the Chicago Teachers Union strike -- What the Arab Spring Really Was -- New Orleans "Reforms" Cab Industry, Gives Government Access to Your Credit Card Information
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News Link • Economy - International
Japanese Businesses Shuttering Chinese Facilities As Mainland Anger Spreads
09-17-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
When you have central planners printing inverse-wealth (because money printing dilution by definition means less wealth for everyone), who needs that cornerstone of old school economics: trade. Certainly not Japan...
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
09-17-2012
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Space
A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physi
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News Link • Afghanistan
The Taliban Attack On Camp Bastion Sends An Unmistakable Signal
09-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
The implications of the recent attack on the biggest bases in Helmand, Afghanistan, are bigger than a stab at Harry or two dead Marines.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
This Heavily-Armed Drone Is Changing The Way America Wages War
09-17-2012
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Walter Hickey, Allison Churchill, Robert Johnson
The Predator drone is a key tool in the Pentagon's War on Terror, logging more than 1 million miles over scores of countries since its 1995 introduction.
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News Link • Future Predictions
By 2015, Hard Commodity Prices Will Have Collapsed
09-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Pettis
For the past two years, as regular readers know, I have been bearish on hard commodities. Prices may have dropped substantially from their peaks during this time, but I don’t think the bear market is over. I think we still have a very long way to go.
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News Link • Military
America's Scariest Electronic Weapons
09-17-2012
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Robert Johnson and Geoffrey Ingersoll
Controlling the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is a major asset in military operations.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Has Failed, Failed, Failed
09-17-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Charles Hugh Smith
Bernanke knows QE3 will fail to revive the real economy, but he doesn't care; his real job is to protect the Fed's political power and the banking sector's wealth.
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News Link • Economy - International
Europhoria Officially Over: Spanish 10Y Breaks 6% The Wrong Way
09-17-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
We warned that the shine was coming off Draghi's rally late last week but since mid-morning on Friday, Spain's 10Y spread has risen a very notable 36bps and the 10Y yield has just broken back above 6% for the first time in over two weeks.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Spread Collapses... More
09-17-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Since QEternity was announced, the spread between the 30Y mortgage and 10Y Treasury has collapsed from an already very tight (in anticipation of QE3) level to simply incredible levels.
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News Link • World News
Full Summary Of The Latest In Anti-American Sentiment
09-17-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Having trouble keeping track of how many countries have now officially rebelled against Pax Americana in the past week? Here is your handy one-stop resource to keep you abreast of all the latest in the embassy storming fad.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How QE3 Will Make The Wealthy Even Wealthier While Causing Living Standards To Fall...
09-17-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
How QE3 Will Make The Wealthy Even Wealthier While Causing Living Standards To Fall For The Rest Of Us
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Why Ron Paul's Campaign Manager Is Now Taking A Job With The GOP Establishment
09-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Grace Wyler
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced today that Jesse Benton, the grassroots political operative who ran Ron Paul's presidential campaign, is leaving Paul World at the end of this year to run McConnell's 2014 re-election campaign.
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News Link • General Opinion
Rense & Celente - Anti-Islam Film Did Not Cause The Violence
09-17-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by JRense
Jeff and Gerald see that the film was incidental to the storm of protests that have been unleashed.
It was instead a decade of killing by the US.
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News Link • Libya
US scrambles to rush spies, drones to Libya
09-17-2012
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http://hosted.ap.org, By KIMBERLY DOZIER
The U.S. is sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya, trying to speed the search for those who killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans...
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Voyager Soldiers On
09-17-2012
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arclein
Thirty-five years after it was launched, the doughty explorer is on the brink of leaving the Solar System and heading into the deep chill of interstellar space.
More than 18 billion kilometres (11.25 billion miles) from home, Voyager is still yiel
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News Link • Archaeology
Petra's Agriculture
09-17-2012
The Udhruh Archaeological Project started in 2011 as a cooperative project between the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Leiden and the Petra College for Tourism and Archaeology of the Al-Hussein Bin Talal University. Surveys carried out i
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News Link • History
Geography Strikes Back with Robert Kaplan
09-17-2012
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arclein
But this is nonsense. Elite molders of public opinion may be able to dash across oceans and continents in hours, allowing them to talk glibly of the "flat" world below. But while cyberspace and financial markets know no boundaries, the Carpathian M
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EEStor Updated
09-17-2012
This layer with the CMBT had a permittivity of approximately 1000 and was tested at several voltages ranging from 1 volt to 1250 volts. There was no observed decline in permittivity throughout the test. Further, observed leakage throughout the test w
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
A Decade of Denial and Deception
09-17-2012
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http://dont-tread-on.me, By Silver Shield
9/11 is the biggest event in our life time, and yet here we sit a decade later, and the average American has not put any logical thought into what happened that day.
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News Link • World News
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday September 17th 2012
09-17-2012
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LewRockwell.com
Twin Demons - Lew Rockwell on war and central banking / Of Infants and 'Fetuses' - Butler Shaffer on abortion / Paying the Price - For ignoring Ron Paul's foreign policy / From Hyperinflation, to Default, to Collapse / About That 'Mohammed' Movie
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Tarpley: Middle East Riots a Provocation to Sink Obama
09-17-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
an ambitious international intelligence operation aimed at an Oct. Surprise to shock world and US public opinion for the purpose of discrediting and “Carterizing” the current tenant of the White House, and installing Netanyahu’s friend Mitt Romney in
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
‘Muslims’ Movie Producer Was Arrested for PCP, Snitched for Feds
09-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman
Before he was involved in the making of a noxious video that provided an excuse for anti-American riots in the Middle East, and before he was convicted of federal bank fraud, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was arrested on charges relating to the making of
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News Link • Inventions
Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards
09-17-2012
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http://www.ted.com, TEDxBoston 2012
Timothy Prestero thought he'd designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world -- but his team learned a hard lesson when it failed to go into production. A manifesto on the importance of designing for real-world use, rather than a
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Rob Legato: The art of creating awe
09-17-2012
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http://www.ted.com
Rob Legato creates movie effects so good they (sometimes) trump the real thing. In this warm and funny talk, he shares his vision for enhancing reality on-screen in movies like Apollo 13, Titanic and Hugo.
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News Link • Inventions
Can Crowdsourcing Bring Unused Patents Back from the Dead?
09-17-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Jessica Leber
University patents often sit there on the shelf. One startup thinks crowdsourcing could revive them.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
What you need to know about the Chicago Teachers Union strike
09-17-2012
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http://redalertpolitics.com
Teachers have been striking in front of the Chicago Public Schools headquarters and various school throughout the city for two days now over a new teacher evaluation system that would make students’ standardized test scores count for 40 percent of th
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News Link • Government
What the Arab Spring Really Was
09-17-2012
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http://www.counterpunch.org, by PATRICK COCKBURN
The murder of the American ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, and three of his staff in Benghazi in retaliation for a US-made video slandering the Prophet Mohamed will have serious repercussions in the US weeks before the presidential election.
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News Link • Iran
Naval Power Massing in Gulf as Israel Prepares Iran Strike
09-16-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war.
Western leaders are conv
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News Link • Foreign Policy
An Open Letter to All Muslims
9-16-2012
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Free Press Publications
I would like to send a friendly message to all Muslims.
I do not support the foreign policy of the government of the United States of America. I do not condone the actions of the men and women in the American military, when those men and women k
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News Link • Transportation
New Orleans "Reforms" Cab Industry, Gives Government Access to Your Credit Card Informatio
09/15/2012
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Paul Farah
In the interest of improving the taxi industry for the upcoming Superbowl, the city of New Orlean's government has ordered changes that will nearly bankrupt many cab companies. Among these improvements are spy cameras only the city government can w
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News Link • Activism
Messengers for Liberty documentary
09-16-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The first episode of Messengers for Liberty has been uploaded and is ready to be seen by the world!
This was filmed in Nashville, TN and Missouri. It features interviews with Ron Paul, Austrian Economics Professor Robert Murphy, TMOT, and some fam
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News Link • Food
If You Eat Food, You Should Watch This (Video)
09-16-2012
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GeneticRouletteMovie.com
This is a 17-minute segment from the new GMO documentary "Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of our lives." This segment covers everything from GMO-linked digestive and reproductive disorders, to the "regulatory capture" that led to GMO approval. The f
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Reference Link • Economy - Economics USA
Burn Your House, Boost the Economy
Lawrence Parks, Free Market
The GDP measures all goods and services brought to market in a given year. But is it really an accurate measure of how well an economy is serving people's needs? Here are some outlandish ways the GDP can be boosted. War, floods, disease, are componen
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News Link • Testing
Marshall's Plans: Advanced Testing For DIY Projects
09-15-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Vin Marshall
The specialized test and measurement gear our DIY expert uses when the basics just won't cut it.
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News Link • Energy
Small Factory to Build Powerful Solar Panels
09-15-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis
Startup Semprius will soon open a plant to produce is concentrated solar modules.
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News Link • Currencies
Elites Promote Pure Fiat Currencies " Mutual and Social Credit " for Traceability?
09-15-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
It has been a puzzle to us why the United Nations would want to encourage alternative currencies and why there has been a surge of feedback comment on alternative websites about "usury" and the evils of interest.
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News Link • Libya
Reality Check: Does Libya Attacks Change U.S. Foreign Policy Moving Forward?
09-15-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by myajace
Reality Check: Does Libya Attacks Change U.S. Foreign Policy Moving Forward?
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News Link • Science
Laminating Superconductors to Semiconductors
09-15-2012
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arclein
Take it from an international team of physicists, led by the University of Toronto, which used double-sided Scotch tape to give a semiconductor the properties of a high-temperature superconductor.
The results of the experiment, published Tuesday i
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News Link • Transportation
California Is Going To Burn Money On A Bullet Train; Elon Musk Says He Has Something Much Better
09-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Super-hero entrepreneur Elon Musk says he has a plan to transport people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 30 minutes
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News Link • Future Predictions
FELIX ZULAUF: Stocks Will Collapse, Gold Will Surge, And The 30-Year Bond Bull Market Is Over
09-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
Felix Zulauf, a Swiss hedge fund manager, is out with another bearish forecast for stocks, bonds and currencies.
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News Link • Activism
This Is Blowback
09-15-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The YouTube video depicting Mohammed is nothing more than the straw that broke the camel’s back.
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News Link • World News
Anti-US Protests Spread To India, Bangladesh, Indonesia
09-15-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Did we say Arab Fall? We meant global fall.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Things Are Getting Worse: Median Household Income Has Fallen 4 Years In A Row
09-15-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
New numbers that have just been released show that things are getting worse for American families.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
QE3: Helicopter Ben Bernanke Unleashes An All-Out Attack On The U.S. Dollar
09-15-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com,
You can't accuse Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of not living up to his nickname.
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Want To Know Why The Muzzies Are Sacking Embassies?
09-15-2012
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http://market-ticker.org, Karl Denninger
There is a long history in Presidential elections, and the Muslims are not stupid -- The American people typically will not change a President during a significant armed conflict or other time of material international disruption.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed’s QE3: No Exit
09-15-2012
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com, Yves Smith
The Fed’s launch of QE3 looks more than a tad desperate.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Automatic Weapons for Fun and Profit
09-15-2012
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com, By Timothy Y. Fong
This may seem like a “now for something completely different” post, but this story about Blackwater and a much smaller miscreant is yet another window into our American two tier justice system. Plus you will learn something about gun laws.
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