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Date Sent: 2011-07-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
Gun-smuggling cartel figures possibly were paid FBI informants
Qaddafi Government Holds Talks With U.S. Officials -- Petraeus steps down in Afghanistan to run the CIA -- Banks continue robo-signing -- Dildos for Justice -- City Council bans citizens group -- NYPD Handcuff Videographer In Times Square For Recording Arrest -- How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism -- D.C. Mayor's campaign accepted cash donations above legal limit -- Amid Privacy Fears, Police Across the Nation Will Roll Out Face-Recognizing iPhone Tech This Year -- American Legislative Exchange Council writes bills for lawmakers -- Another Poppy Seed-Based Child Abduction -- Burt Rutan Designs a Hybrid Flying Car -- MIT Prof Teaches Game-Playing Computer to RTFM -- The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust (Part Three) -- Yukari Mihamae: An American Hero - by Powell Gammill --
AZ L202 -HOV LANE PROJECT FUNDED BY PROP 400, AFFECTS EVERYONE YET IT
IS A RESTRICTED LANE -- "News of the World" phone-hacking whistleblower
found dead -- Gold Settles Above $1,602, Extends Record Rally -- Debt Ceiling Silliness - by Larken Rose
national: Trial continues today: The “State of MA” aka Todd M Dodge vs. Ademo
& Pete Eyre
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun-smuggling cartel figures possibly were paid FBI informants
07-18-2011
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LA Times
Congressional investigators probing the controversial “Fast and Furious” anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at least six Mexican drug cartel figures involved in gun smuggling also were paid FBI informants, officials said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Qaddafi Government Holds Talks With U.S. Officials
07-18-2011
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NY Times
Representatives of Moammar Gadhafi's embattled government held face-to-face talks with U.S. officials in neighboring Tunisia over the weekend, a Libyan government official said Monday, describing the meeting as a first step in opening dialogue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Petraeus steps down in Afghanistan to run the CIA
07-18-2011
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Rawstory
Petraeus is leaving to head up the CIA, after a week in which Afghan President Hamid Karzai saw his younger brother and a key aide assassinated at their homes, and as NATO began transitioning areas of the country to Afghan control.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Banks continue robo-signing
07-18-2011
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Reuters
America's leading mortgage lenders vowed in March to end the dubious foreclosure practices that caused a bruising scandal last year.
But a Reuters investigation finds that many are still taking the same shortcuts they promised to shun, from sketch
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Dildos for Justice
07-18-2011
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The Agitator
I’m currently working on a story about a pot raid in which the cops emptied a woman’s “lady drawer” onto her bed, lined up her sex toys, took a photo, then mocked her for what they found. That’s only a small part of the story. But it’s a weird part.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
City Council bans citizens group
07-18-2011
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The City Council, unhappy about a civic betterment group, the Gould Citizens Advisory Council, adopted an ordinance "disallowing" the organization from existing and further declaring "no new organization" can be formed without council approval.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD Handcuff Videographer In Times Square For Recording Arrest
07-18-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
New York City police officers handcuffed a videographer after he refused to show them identification early Saturday morning.
Felix Maurent, who was wearing a National Press Photographers Association badge around his neck, was videotaping an arrest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism
07-18-2011
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Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Entitled "the CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia," the article documented that the CIA uses and effectively controls a secret prison in Mogadishu, where foreign nationals who are rendered off the streets of their countries (at the direction of the U.S.) a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Imperial Priorities: Obedience First " Character Last - by Will Grigg
07-18-2011
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Pro Liberate
In preparation for the Iraq war, the Pentagon’s war planners devised a computer modeling program called “Bugsplat” to estimate the percentage of civilian casualties that would result in a given bombing raid. Just before the “Shock and Awe” assault on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
D.C. Mayor's campaign accepted cash donations above legal limit
07-18-2011
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Washington Post
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s campaign accepted cash contributions above the city’s legal limit and in some cases recorded donations from people who say they didn’t contribute to his mayoral bid, according to a Washington Post review of District recor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Amid Privacy Fears, Police Across the Nation Will Roll Out Face-Recognizing iPhone Tech This Year
07-18-2011
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Popular Science
A controversial piece of facial recognition technology (and a PopSci “Best of What’s New 2010” alum) is rolling out in police stations across the country this fall, and naturally not everyone is happy about it. The Mobile Offender Recognition and Ide
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Discreet nonprofit American Legislative Exchange Council writes bills for conservative lawmakers
07-18-2011
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Pro Publica
This week, both the Los Angeles Times and The Nation put the spotlight on a little-known but influential conservative nonprofit that creates "model" state legislation that often make its way into law. The organization has helped craft some of the mos
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Another Poppy Seed-Based Child Abduction
07-18-2011
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The Agitator
For the second time in a year, Lawrence County Children and Youth Services has been accused in a federal lawsuit of removing a child from a mother’s custody after a positive test for opiates allegedly triggered by poppy seeds.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Burt Rutan Designs a Hybrid Flying Car
07-18-2011
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Jason Paur via WIRED.com
Burt Rutan has designed a flying car, and it is no surprise that it’s unlike any other flying car that’s come before. It’s a hybrid.
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News Link • Precious Metals
MIT Prof Teaches Game-Playing Computer to RTFM
07-18-2011
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Duncan Geere via WIRED.com
To a computer, words and sentences appear like data. But AI researchers want to teach computers how to actually understand the meaning of a sentence and learn from it.
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News Link • Transportation
‘Quick Charge’ Trucks Will Save Your Stranded EV
07-18-2011
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com
AAA is rolling out North America’s first fleet of quick-charge trucks that will rescue dead electric vehicles and get them back on the road.
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News Link • Transportation
How Intelligent Cars Will Make Driving Easier and Greener
07-18-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Lawmakers in Nevada made a pretty forward-thinking move a couple weeks ago when they passed a measure ordering new regulations for driverless cars. Many vehicles already participate in once-human-driven activities like parking and skid control
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Mice Engineered to Lack Muscle Contraction Gene Have Superior Endurance (and Humans Might, Too)
07-18-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Around mile 10 of a recent half marathon, my quadriceps started to tighten and my feet increasingly felt like lead. Along with improving my training, perhaps in the future I will use zinc-finger nuclease scissors to snip out a gene called IL-15Rα
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News Link • Transportation
AZ L202 -HOV LANE PROJECT FUNDED BY PROP 400, AFFECTS EVERYONE YET IT IS A RESTRICTED LANE
09-01-2010
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www.maricopa.gov
I just love when the government misuses our funds. The HOV lane project on Arizona Loop 202 is a 12 mile project to add a HOV lane to the 202 between Gilbert Road and the I-10. Everyone pays for this project through funds allocated from Prop 400 an
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News Link • Whistleblowers
"News of the World" phone-hacking whistleblower found dead
07-18-2011
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The Guardian
Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead. Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson befo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Settles Above $1,602, Extends Record Rally
07-18-2011
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CNBC
Gold settled at an all-time high above $1,602 an ounce Monday, extending a record rally as investors sought a safe haven on fears that U.S. lawmakers could fail to raise the debt limit, resulting in a default.
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