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Date Sent: 2013-08-16
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, August 16, 2013 |
Kerry: Internet, Instant Communication Making It Much Harder to Govern
08-16-13 -- Dee Lusby - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT)
-- Dream Chaser Taken Out For A Spin In Ground Test -- Stocks: Dow
closes down 225 as Wal-Mart warns -- The Habeas Corpus Myth -- Scientists Achieve On-Demand Quantum Teleportation For The First Time -- Watch This Tiny Robot Leap Over Walls [Video] -- If Eric Holder won't prosecute reporters, why did the FBI target me? -- The real problem with the new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks -- Egyptian protestors pushed an armored police van 50ft off a bridge -- As crisis deepens, Egypt braces for more violence -- Egypt's Bloody Wednesday -- Bradley Manning Addresses Sentencing Hearing -- Jackson Given Less Than Three Years For Stealing $750,000 -- Report: Secret Service Targeted Aaron Swartz -- Ending the GMO Scourge -- AZ Bitcoin Meetup, Satoshi Square Event - Tempe Farmers Market
Offline eXchange -- Quantum teleportation approaches the computer
chip -- Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal By
Matt Taibbi -- You Don’t Plan on Being Retired Very Long, Do
You? -- Private Space Race Heats Up With Some Key Breakthroughs -- 08-15-13 -- Robert Fernandes - Moray King - (VIDEO & MP3
LOADED w/ 1 Hour Bonus)
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News Link • Media: Internet
Kerry: Internet, Instant Communication Making It Much Harder to Govern
08-16-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Informed Public Not So Easy to Organize, Kerry Laments
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Dream Chaser Taken Out For A Spin In Ground Test
08-16-2013
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space.com
Sierra Nevada Corp. ran its flight vehicle through a series of tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California. The braking and landing systems were tests at speeds ranging from 10 to 60 mph.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Starship Congress Warps Into Dallas This Week: How to Watch Online
08-16-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Miriam Kramer
Scientists from around the world will descend on Dallas, Tex., Thursday (Aug. 15) for a summit aimed at understanding the major challenges to launching humanity on interstellar voyages across the universe.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Devices Connect with Borrowed TV Signals, and Need No Power Source
08-16-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite
Devices that can make wireless connections even without an onboard battery could spread computing power into everything you own.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks: Dow closes down 225 as Wal-Mart warns
08-16-2013
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http://www.usatoday.com, Adam Shell
The Dow Jones industrial average shed about 1.5% -- 225 points -- on disappointing Wal-Mart earnings, news of job cuts at Cisco, weak economic reports and 2-year high in 10-year Treasury yield. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite were down by similar p
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Habeas Corpus
The Habeas Corpus Myth
08-16-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Anthony Gregory
We know many things about habeas corpus. We know that it goes back to the Magna Carta and that the U.S. Constitution affirmed this bulwark of Anglo-American liberty.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Watch: A Welding Robot That’s Learning to Create Art Forgeries
08-16-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Kyle VanHemert
The collision of art and technology takes many forms. One recurring, especially straightforward one is a robot with a paintbrush.
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Robert Lee
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![Watch Lab-Grown Heart Tissue Beat On Its Own [Video]](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/522/08/522-0816031004.jpg)
News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Watch Lab-Grown Heart Tissue Beat On Its Own [Video]
08-16-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Shaunacy Ferro
A team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has created lab-grown human heart tissue that can beat on its own, according to a new study in Nature Communications.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Achieve On-Demand Quantum Teleportation For The First Time
08-16-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Nosowitz
Quantum teleportation, more reliable than ever before, at greater distances than ever before.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
If Eric Holder won't prosecute reporters, why did the FBI target me?
08-16-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com, James Ball
It's unnerving to learn my journalism for WikiLeaks led to being named in an FBI probe. Mainstream media need to pay attention
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
The real problem with the new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
08-16-2013
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Daniel Levy
The Palestinians should insist on several major concessions before upcoming peace talks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egyptian protestors pushed an armoured police van 50ft off a bridge
08-16-2013
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk,
This is the horrifying moment an armoured police vehicle was pushed off a bridge by Egyptian protestors in a day of violence which left at least 343 people dead.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
As crisis deepens, Egypt braces for more violence
08-16-2013
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http://hosted.ap.org, By AYA BATRAWY
Egypt is bracing for more violence after the Muslim Brotherhood called for nationwide marches after Friday prayers and a "day of rage" to denounce this week's unprecedented bloodshed in the security forces' assault on the supporters of the country's
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Jackson Given Less Than Three Years For Stealing $750,000
08-15-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Jesse Jackson, Jr. was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for his crimes while a congressman from Illinois. His wife, former Ald. Sandi Jackson was sentenced to 12 months in prison for her role in the crimes. The couple was shocked by sentence,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Report: Secret Service Targeted Aaron Swartz
08-15-2013
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Jonathan Turley
This week we got another insight into the focus of the security agencies in the United States. Documents revealed that the U.S. Secret Service kept free-information activist Aaron Swartz under close watch until he killed himself following an abusive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Ending the GMO Scourge
08-15-2013
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Farm Wars
Want to get rid of GMOs? Each of us has to make the decision that we will do at least one thing… eliminate one GMO thing from our lives. That’s it. Just do it. Pick something. Like corn, for instance…
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Carbyne: A new form of carbon that’s stronger than graphene
08-15-2013
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http://www.extremetech.com, By Sebastian Anthony
A new form of carbon, dubbed carbyne, is stronger and stiffer than any known material.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chinese Scientists Are 3D Printing Ears and Livers " With Living Tissue
08-15-2013
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http://thediplomat.com, By J. T. Quigley
Researchers in China have been able to successfully print human organs using specialized 3D printers that use living cells instead of plastic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
By Matt Taibbi
08-15-2013
In a way, America itself is violating the Truth in Lending Act. It's cheering millions of high school graduates toward college every year, feeding them into the debt grinder under the banner of increased opportunity, when full disclosure would requi
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Space Race Heats Up With Some Key Breakthroughs
08-15-2013
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Wired.com
Even as Elon Musk got everyone’s attention with the Hyperloop, his wild idea to remake mass transit, his engineers at SpaceX did something far cooler: They proved their reusable rocket can go sideways.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Detroit: “There is No Government Here”
08-13-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Even Bloomberg.com gives a plug to anarcho-Detroit in this story on urban farming entrepreneurs. Detroit urban farmer Greg Willerer is right when he notes the city’s lack of government and the capability of people in Detroit’s anarcho-communities to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass
08-13-2013
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nytimes.com
In the course of reporting his profile of Laura Poitras, Peter Maass conducted an encrypted question-and-answer session, for which Poitras served as intermediary, with Edward J. Snowden. Below is a full transcript of that conversation.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Intelligence committee withheld key file before critical NSA vote, Amash claims
08-13-2013
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The Guardian
Republican who led Congress revolt against surveillance insists members did not see document before 2011 Patriot Act vote
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Surveillance
Former NSA Boss Calls Snowden's Supporters Internet Shut-ins;
08-13-2013
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techdirt.com
Some of the most ardent defenders of our nation's Skynet surveillance programs and other forms of cyber-overreach have one thing in common:
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dr. Doom Warns Of Major Market Crash This Fall: “20 Percent, Maybe More”
08-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
He made the crash call ahead of the 2008 crash, and predicted the market turn-around in 2009 to the exact day on which it happened.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Norway's Prime Minister Becomes a Taxi Driver for a Day
8/13/2013
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blog.paulstaxi.com
Jens Stoltenberg, the Prime Minister of Norway became a taxi driver for a day this June in an effort to find out what the people of Norway are really thinking. The video of his escapades was posted yesterday on the website of Verdens Gang, a Norwegi
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Paulthecabdriver Farah
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News Link • Police State
The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools
08-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Once upon a time in America, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after a summer’s hiatus, content in the knowledge that for a good portion of the day their kids would be gainfully occupied, out of harm’s way and out
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer: “Stolen” Libyan Missiles Will Be Used to Shoot Down Aircraft
08-13-2013
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Prison Planet
A former U.S. attorney, Joe DiGenova, who is representing a Benghazi whistleblower, told a Washington, D.C., radio station on Monday that 400 surface-to-air missiles were “stolen” in Libya and given to some “very ugly people,” aka al-Qaeda.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Benghazi and the Banality of Evil
08-13-2013
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americanthinker.com
Is it just me, or is the string of distractions that seem to pop up right on cue every time new light is about to be shed on the Benghazi story getting a little old?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
American Expatriate Rate Jumps Sixfold!
08-13-2013
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By Dylan Griffiths - Edits Morpheus Titania
Americans Giving Up Passports Jump Sixfold as FATCA Rules Loom
By Dylan Griffiths - Edits Morpheus Titania
Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce toug
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Bono: “Capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid”
08-13-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Our Research Fellow George Ayittey met the Irish rock star Bono in July 2007 during a TED conference. Professor Ayittey was speaking and in knowing that Bono would be in the audience, he explains that.....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
New Glenn Greenwald: Expose of Hayden and "journalist" Bob Schieffer
08-13-2013
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Daily Paul.com
In 2006, the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for having revealed that the NSA was eavesdropping on Americans without warrants.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
I Just Read Every Page Of Elon Musk's Hyperloop Plan
08-13-2013
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Business Insider
When I got home last night, I read every page of Elon Musk's 57-page plan for the Hyperloop.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
08-13-2013
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nytimes.com
This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Your mortgage documents are fake!
Prepare to be outraged. Newly obtained filings from this Florida
08-13-2013
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http://www.salon.com
If you know about foreclosure fraud, the mass fabrication of mortgage documents in state courts by banks attempting to foreclose on homeowners, you may have one nagging question: Why did banks have to resort to this illegal scheme? Was it just cheape
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Conspiracies
New JFK Assassination Theory
08-13-2013
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arclein
"It was his first time in the follow car, his first time holding the assault weapon he was using,"
McLaren said. Producers said the film's theory is that shots rang out, and Hickey grabbed his weapon to return fire. When his car stopped suddenly,
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