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Date Sent: 2010-07-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, July 22, 2010 PM edition |
Top Officials Reiterate Pledge to Continue Afghan War -- Nat. Police Misconduct Statistical Report
Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repression" - by Stephen Lendman -- Arpaio opens ‘Section 1070’ at Tent City for violators of new law -- Pertussis Vaccine -- US imposes new sanctions on N Korea -- Walking Robot Breaks Distance Record -- RNC fails to report $7M in debt to FEC -- California's New Pot Patch
-- China's Oil Spill PHOTOS -- Death of capitalism? Tragedy of the
commons redux. -- Google Buys 20 Years' Worth Of Wind Energy To Power
Data Centers -- Repudiate Government Debt: A Modest Solution - by Butler Shaffer -- Max Keiser: NSA & CIA: The Secret America -- Blinding laser beam newest police tool -- Ships flee leaky BP oil well as storm brews -- Bill Targets Abusive Bosses
-- AK Couple Pleads Guilty to Lying about Hit List -- Legacy of nuke
drilling site in Colorado lingers -- BP Oil cleanup workers protest
‘flotel’ housing -- WHO criticizes Amnesty report into NKorea health -- Alan Moore: "I Don't Want Watchmen Back" -- The Case For War - Israel and Iran -- Top Secret America: Google Launches Cover Up Of ‘Google Spies’ Story
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
2010 Q2 NPMSRP National Police Misconduct Statistical Report
07-22-2010
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Injustice Everywhere
The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) was started in March of 2009 s to generate statistical and trending information about police misconduct in the United States.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Immigration
Arpaio opens ‘Section 1070’ at Tent City for violators of new law
07-22-2010
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Imani Randolph via UPI.com
The new section is called Section 1070 to house violators of the new illegal immigration law, SB 1070.
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News Link • Secret Societies
The secrets next door
07-22-2010
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Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, Washingtion Post
In suburbs across the nation, the intelligence community goes about its anonymous business. Its work isn’t seen, but its impact is surely felt.
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News Link • Government
US imposes new sanctions on N Korea
07-22-2010
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ALJAZEERA.NET
The United States will impose new sanctions on North Korea in a bid to stem its nuclear weapons ambitions, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Walking Robot Breaks Distance Record
07-22-2010
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Stuart Fox via TechNewsDaily
While it looks more like a toaster with legs than Usain Bolt, Cornell University’s Ranger robot has set some track records all the same. On July 6, Ranger set a world record for untethered robotic walking, traveling 14.3 miles in only 11 hours.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
RNC fails to report $7M in debt to FEC
07-22-2010
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Ralph Z. Hallow via The Washington Times
Party treasurer faults Steele
The Republican National Committee failed to report more than $7 million in debt to the Federal Election Commission in recent months - a move that made its bottom line appear healthier than it is heading into the midte
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News Link • China
China Oil Spill PHOTOS: Official Warns Of 'Severe Threat'
07-22-2010
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The Huffingtion Post
China's largest reported oil spill had more than doubled by Wednesday, closing beaches on the Yellow Sea and prompting an environmental official to warn the sticky black crude posed a "severe threat" to sea life and water quality.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Oakland Considering Licensing Large Pot Farms
07-22-2010
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ENFRAPVS via The Huffingtion Post
The Oakland City Council is considering a plan to license four production facilities where medical marijuana would be grown, packaged and processed.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
California's New Pot Patch
07-22-2010
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Tamara Audi via The Wall Street Journal
Northern California's so-called Emerald Triangle, famous for marijuana farms that supply much of the U.S. with high-quality pot, is facing competition from hundreds of miles away"in Los Angeles County
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News Link • Internet
Google Buys 20 Years' Worth Of Wind Energy To Power Data Centers
07-22-2010
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Bianca Bosker via The Huffington Post
Hot on the heels of its $38.8 billion investment in two wind farms in North Dakota, Google has just signed a 20-year contract with an Iowa wind farm that enables the search giant to purchase wind power at a set rate over the next two decades.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Unemployment Extension Bill Clears Hurdle, Standoff Likely Over Until November
07-22-2010
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Arthur Delaney via The Huffingtion Post
The Senate voted 60-40 on Tuesday to move forward with reauthorizing unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, 2.5 million of whom have missed checks since the end of May as Republicans and conservative Democrats filibustered several bills to
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News Link • Afghanistan
We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan.
07-18-2010
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Richard N. Haass, Council on Foreign Relations
Haass, the president of CFR, all-but-admitting the war in Afghanistan was a lost cause and suggesting ways that Western goals of terrorist containment could be achieved via other, less costly and invasive strategies.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Transportation
Honda Discovers Cars With Cords
07-22-2010
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED
Honda, realizing this electric car thing isn’t a fad, says it will have a plug-in hybrid and a battery electric vehicle on the road in 2012. But that doesn’t mean it’s giving up on hydrogen.
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News Link • Internet
Five Things That Could Topple Facebook’s Empire
07-22-2010
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Ryan Singel via WIRED
A service of that size won’t disappear anytime soon, even if Facebook has hit its plateau in the U.S. But net users are fickle and the web’s short history includes dozens of sites that were once high-flying that have either since died (Geocities),
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News Link • Government
HUGE WASHINGTON POST EXPOSE: NSA HAS GOTTEN SO BIG, AREA AROUND IT HAS 112 ACRES OF PARKING SPACES
07-22-2010
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the raw story
In yet another terrifying expose, The Washington Post continues to lift the veil on just how massive the US government's spying operation has become.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Max Keiser: NSA & CIA: The Secret America " Alex Jones Tv
07-22-2010
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The Alex Jones Channel via Prison Planet.com
Alex discusses the removal of his video, The Obama Deception, from Google’s YouTube. On Thursday, Alex challenged activists to drive the popular documentary up in search engine ranking. Google trends rankings revealed a few hours later that it was th
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News Link • Humor
Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit
07-22-2010
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AIPnews.com
Order the Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit to send anonymously to friends and family.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Blinding laser beam newest police tool
07-22-2010
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KING5.com
One of the newest and most unusual less-than-lethal weapons to hit the market is the "Dazer Laser." It’s a powerful laser gun that can temporarily blind and disorient a suspect with a large modulating pool of green light.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Environment
Ships leave leaky oil well as storm brews
07-22-2010
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AP
Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico prepared Thursday to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug BP's ruptured oil well to a near standstill.
Though the rough weather was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Military-industrial complex, medical-industrial complex...
07-22-2010
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Wagner Rios
Business and government have become one big entity. As a stimulus of the industrial-military complex, tens of thousands of U.S. troops have been in S. Korea, Japan and Germany for 50 years. Alternet counts 737 U.S military bases with 2,500,000 person
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Workplace Bullying: New York Bill Targets Abusive Bosses
07-22-2010
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Time magazine
Workers' rights advocates have been campaigning for years to get states to enact laws against workplace bullying, and in May they scored their biggest victory. The New York state senate passed a bill that would let workers sue for physical, psycholog
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News Link • Conspiracies
The secret history of our downfall
07/22/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
video
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News Link • Energy
Legacy of nuke drilling site in Colorado lingers
07-22-2010
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AP
In 1969, the government detonated a subterranean nuclear bomb to break loose natural gas deposits from tight sandstone formations more than 8,000 feet below a Colorado mountain. The bomb was twice as powerful as the one that destroyed Hiroshima, Japa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
AK Couple Pleads Guilty to Lying about Hit List
07-22-2010
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Associated Press
A National Weather Service employee and his British-born wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to domestic terrorism charges of lying to the FBI about a hit list of possible targets who the couple suspected were enemies of Islam.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Environment
Oil cleanup workers protest ‘flotel’ housing
07-22-2010
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AP
[oh, it gets worse] BP told a New Orleans Fox affiliate that the flotels were useful for keeping workers close to cleanup sites, thereby eliminating travel time.
But some aren't happy about it. In fact, a group of fishermen decided to go on strike
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Archaeologists discover another ceremonial monument near UK's world famous Stonehenge
07-22-2010
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AP
Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge uncovered the foundations of a second circular structure only a few hundred yards from the world famous monument.
Like Stonehenge itself, the structure's precise purpose remains a mystery.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Alan Moore: "I Don't Want Watchmen Back"
07-22-2010
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Wired News
Alan Moore has revealed that he rejected a recent offer from DC Comics to return the rights to Watchmen. The legendary writer was offered the deal in return for allowing certain concessions.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Healthcare
WHO criticizes Amnesty report into NKorea health
07-22-2010
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AP
Amnesty's report on Thursday described North Korea's health care system in shambles, with doctors sometimes performing amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Energy
Wind Power Lowers Electrical Costs
07-22-2010
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arclein
With wind overtaking gas for power production in Europe, the economics obviously make sense. Even for people who aren't interested in the carbon emission reductions obtained through increased use of wind, the cost and capacity benefits wind offers w
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News Link • Science
Retooling The Ocean Conveyor Belt
07-22-2010
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arclein
The old model is no longer valid for the ocean's overturning, not because it's a gross simplification, but because it ignores crucial elements such as eddies and the wind field. The concept of a conveyor belt for the overturning was developed decad
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News Link • Climate Change
The Age of Stupid
02-09-2009
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Hulu.com
The actual timeline might be different than projected here but the outcome of this story of the end of humanity is all but inevitable. A very interesting 1 hr. 28 min. movie on Hulu.com, no matter what your political perspective is on global warming.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Case For War - Israel and Iran
07-22-2010
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arclein
Iran has already embraced terrorism against Israel and the United States. Via Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas in Gaza, and Fatah on the West Bank, the clerics have repeatedly backed suicide bombers and helped launch thousan
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robert klein
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Hangzhou UFO Airport Event
07-22-2010
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arclein
“There was an unknown object seen in the skies over the airport. So, according to our regulations, we had to close the airspace. Aircraft movements were suspended from 8:45 PM to 9:45 PM (on July 7, 2010).” - Ruan Zhouchang, Spokesperson, Xiaoshan Ai
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robert klein
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News Link • Internet
Top Secret America: Google Launches Cover Up Of ‘Google Spies’ Story
07-21-2010
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Prison Planet.com
There is some debate going on in the comments about the way Google Trends functions, with individuals questioning the evidence that our key terms were deliberately removed.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic Spaceship's 1st Glide Test Could Occur This Fall
07-21-2010
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Clara Moskozitz via SPACE.com
A private spaceship built to launch space tourists on suborbital joyrides could by flying on its own by this fall, SPACE.com has learned.
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