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Date Sent: 2015-04-15
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, April 15, 2015 |
The Nasty Blowback from America's Wars
The New Militarism: Who Profits? -- Apparently, the Fantasy Cop Package Doesn't Include "Qualified Immunity" -- Watch: This Is What Happens Inside Your Body When You Eat Fast Food -- Hibernation for humans may not be a pipe dream forever -- Airbnb Offering Rentals In Cuba -- The Obama Doctrine -- Same Surveillance State, Different War -- The Netflix of China Is Invading the US With Smartphones -- Crowdsourced smartphones may warn of earthquakes -- 'Human Sat Nav' guides users with electrodes -- The world of threats to the US is an illusion -- US Expands Role in Saudi Arabia's War on Yemen -- Peace Must Be Stopped At Any Cost; Lies and Hypocrisy on Iran -- 2015 Bilderberg Meeting -- Fancy a tasty byte? Cookbook written by artificial intelligence -- The 3DR Solo Is One Scary-Smart Drone -- Hands-on with the DJI Inspire 1 -- Forget Musk's Mars: Billionaires Branson, Allen Seek Earth Orbit -- Alan Turing's notebook sells for $1.025 million -- This Man Deserves a Pardon -- IMF cuts forecast for US economy, upgrades Europe and Japan -- Dahr Jamail | Report Shows US Invasion, Occupation of Iraq Left 1 Million Dead -- Man shoots at armadillo, bullet hits mother-in-law -- CBS4 Investigation: TSA Screeners At DIA Manipulated System To Grope Men's Genitals -- Android Muscle Material - RLcntrctEAP2013 -- Iran Urges New Yemeni Govt, Offers Help in Transition -- Putin Ends Ban on Sale of Defensive Missiles to Iran -- US Court Sentences Blackwater Guards Over 2007 Baghdad Massacre -- How the Fed Feeds War --
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The New Militarism: Who Profits?
04-14-2015
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antiwar.com
Militarism and military spending are everywhere on the rise, as the new Cold War propaganda seems to be paying off.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Apparently, the Fantasy Cop Package Doesn't Include "Qualified Immunity"
04-14-2015
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Wealthy Robert Bates bought the full Fantasy Cop package â€" but it was Eric Harris who paid the premium when Bates fatally shot him following an undercover "sting" operation. He now faces second-degree manslaughter
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Watch: This Is What Happens Inside Your Body When You Eat Fast Food
04-14-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
What happens inside your body when you eat processed junk food? We all have a vague idea, and we certainly see what it does to the exterior portion of our bodies -- but most of us have never seen the actual digestion process take place.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hibernation for humans may not be a pipe dream forever
04-14-2015
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Eric Niiler
What better way to pass a long stretch of time than by entering a deep sleep to shut down some bodily functions and conserve energy?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Airbnb Offering Rentals In Cuba
04-14-2015
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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Airbnb is taking advantage of the renewed relationship between the U.S. and Cuba by offering vacation rentals there.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama Doctrine
04-14-2015
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antiwar.com
At the Summit of the Americas where he met with Raul Castro, the 83-year-old younger brother of Fidel, President Obama provided an insight into where he is taking us, and why:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Same Surveillance State, Different War
04-14-2015
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theatlantic.com
How government justification for mass surveillance during the war on drugs turned into rationalization for spying on citizens in the war on terror
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
The Netflix of China Is Invading the US With Smartphones
04-14-2015
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Wired.com
When I describe Letv as the Netflix of China, Mark Li corrects me. "It's the other way around," he says. "Netflix is the Letv of the US."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Crowdsourced smartphones may warn of earthquakes
04-14-2015
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gizmag.com
While countries such as Japan have sophisticated earthquake warning systems, the fact is that many less-developed countries do not.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
The world of threats to the US is an illusion
04-14-2015
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bostonglobe.com
When Americans look out at the world, we see a swarm of threats. China seems resurgent and ambitious. Russia is aggressive. Iran menaces our allies. Middle East nations we once relied on are collapsing in flames.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NeoCons
Peace Must Be Stopped At Any Cost; Lies and Hypocrisy on Iran
04-14-2015
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
The Republican attack dogs were all over Rand Paul when he made the statement "I'm going to keep an open mind" on Obama's deal with Iran.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
2015 Bilderberg Meeting
04-14-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
Austrian police have confirmed the date of the 2015 Bilderberg meeting. The security for the annual conference will take place from June 9th-14th.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Fancy a tasty byte? Cookbook written by artificial intelligence
04-14-2015
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http://www.telegraph.co, By Lauren Davidson
A new cookbook has been compiled by Chef Watson, the cognitive computer from IBM that famously won Jeopardy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
The 3DR Solo Is One Scary-Smart Drone
04-14-2015
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Wired.com
Great drone footage is mesmerizing, no matter what it depicts. (Exhibit A: This video of a truck driving through mud in super-slow-motion.) But perfect shots--the swooping landscapes, the hovering overheads--are hard to come by.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Hands-on with the DJI Inspire 1
04-14-2015
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gizmag.com
We recently had a chance to spend some time with the most advanced all-in-one video drone on the market, DJI's Inspire 1. It's a clear step forward from the Phantom 2 Vision+ we've been playing with lately, but what's it like to fly, and where does i
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Forget Musk's Mars: Billionaires Branson, Allen Seek Earth Orbit
04-14-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com, Julie Johnsson
As Elon Musk dreams of missions to Mars, fellow billionaires Paul Allen and Richard Branson focus on breakthrough spaceflight closer to home: cheap cargo trips to Earth orbit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Alan Turing's notebook sells for $1.025 million
04-14-2015
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gizmag.com
A remarkable scientific document went under the hammer today at Bonhams in New York. The rare handwritten manuscript by Alan Turing in which he made notes on symbolic logic and mathematics during the Second World War for sold for US$1,025,000.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
This Man Deserves a Pardon
04-14-2015
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Slate
He has been in prison for 29 years for an attempted rape he almost certainly did not commit. For much of that time, the lead prosecutor who secured his conviction, the original lead detective on the case, have argued his innocence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
IMF cuts forecast for US economy, upgrades Europe and Japan
04-14-2015
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http://hosted.ap.org, By PAUL WISEMAN
The International Monetary Fund, citing the consequences of a strong dollar, is downgrading its outlook for the U.S. economy but raising its forecast for Europe and Japan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Dahr Jamail | Report Shows US Invasion, Occupation of Iraq Left 1 Million Dead
04-14-2015
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truth-out.org
A recently published report has revealed that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq was responsible for the deaths of approximately 1 million Iraqis, which is 5 percent of the total population of the country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Seriously?
Man shoots at armadillo, bullet hits mother-in-law
04-14-2015
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By Tara Herrschaft With Christian McKinney
Authorities say a woman was accidentally shot by her son-in-law while he was trying to shoot an armadillo.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
CBS4 Investigation: TSA Screeners At DIA Manipulated System To Grope Men's Genitals
04-14-2015
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http://denver.cbslocal.com, By Brian Maass
A CBS4 investigation has learned that two Transportation Security Administration screeners at Denver International Airport have been fired after they were discovered manipulating passenger screening systems to allow a male TSA employee to fondle the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran Urges New Yemeni Govt, Offers Help in Transition
04-14-2015
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antiwar.com
FM Cites Creation of New Afghan Govt in 2001 as Model
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Putin Ends Ban on Sale of Defensive Missiles to Iran
04-14-2015
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antiwar.com
Iran: Deal Could Enhance Regional Stability
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
US Court Sentences Blackwater Guards Over 2007 Baghdad Massacre
04-14-2015
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antiwar.com
Slatten Gets Life in Prison, Others Get 30 Years
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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