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Date Sent: 2011-09-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, September 21, 2011 |
U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula
FBI is on your cell phone. Do you care? - by Nat Hentoff -- Montana Freemen leader dies in Colorado prison -- TSA Searches Dallas Woman's Hair for Explosives -- $16 muffins, $8 coffee served in Justice audit -- Florida firm welcomes clients with AK-47 -- U.S. calls online poker
site a ‘global Ponzi scheme’ -- Hands-On: Ditching Cards and Cash for
the Google Wallet App -- Less than 50% of U.S. troops believe Afghanistan war is winnable -- Former Afghan President Rabbani Assassinated -- OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service -- New Libyan government 'within 10 days' -- Bullion Vaults Run Out of Space on Gold Rally -- China takes first step towards space station -- Cafferty File: Is anyone besides Ron Paul serious about our deepening national financial crisis? -- Is the US Monetary System on the Verge of Collapse? -- Scientists make major breakthrough with AIDs -- Court Wires Defendant With TASER - City Street Checkpoints
AZ: GOP Debate Thursday, Sept
22nd, 2011. Debate Party at Hancock's, 6 p.m. until ??
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23 (Video)
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say
09-20-2011
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www.washingtonpost.com
The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Television
After Disclosures by WikiLeaks, Al Jazeera Replaces Its Top News Director
09-20-2011
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NY Times
Al Jazeera named a member of the Qatari royal family to replace its top news director after disclosures from WikiLeaks that the news director had modified the network’s coverage of the Iraq war in response to pressure from the United States.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI is on your cell phone. Do you care
09-20-2011
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WND
John Adams lost the 1800 presidential election to Thomas Jefferson in large part because Adams, in 1798, pushed through Congress the Alien and Sedition Acts that punished any of the new Americans who stirred up "sedition within the United States" by
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Montana Freemen leader dies in Colorado prison
09-20-2011
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Reuters
The leader of anti-government extremists known as the Montana Freemen, who clashed with federal authorities in the 1990s, died on Tuesday of apparent natural causes at the U.S. government's highest-security prison.
Leroy Schweitzer, 73, was found
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Searches Dallas Woman's Hair for Explosives
09-20-2011
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Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after she went through security.
Brantley said an agent asked her if someone had checked her hair. She said no one had and continue
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
$16 muffins, $8 coffee served in Justice audit
09-20-2011
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Reuters
As the government grapples to find ways to trim the bloated federal deficit, a new report suggests officials might start with cutting out $16 muffins and $10 cookies.
"We found the Department (of Justice) spent $16 on each of the 250 muffins serve
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Florida firm welcomes clients with AK-47
09-20-2011
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AFP
A Florida company is giving new clients a voucher to buy an AK-47 assault rifle to defend themselves from violent crime.
Sarasota-based MerchantService.com is a business that provides small stores and businesses with cash machines and credit card
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
U.S. calls online poker site a ‘global Ponzi scheme’
09-20-2011
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Globe & Mail
They go by nicknames “Jesus” and “The Professor” and are considered super stars to poker players around the world.
But now Christopher Ferguson and Howard Lederer have been accused of bilking fellow players out of more than $100-million (U.S.) thr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
09-20-2011
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www.ted.com
Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Google Invites Everyone to Be Friends"on Its Social Network
09-20-2011
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www.technologyreview.com
After 12 weeks of socializing in select circles, Google has announced that anyone can sign up for its fledgling social network, Google Plus. The uptake of the service now it is widely available will be crucial to the success of Google Plus
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Books
What we learned from 5 million books
09-20-2011
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www.ted.com
Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Hands-On: Ditching Cards and Cash for the Google Wallet App
09-20-2011
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www.popsci.com
Until today, that NFC chip on your Sprint Nexus S 4G hasn't been living up to its potential. Google Wallet is Android's long-awaited mobile payment app, which allows you to morph a smartphone into a full-fledged spending machine.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Less than 50% of U.S. troops believe Afghanistan war is winnable
09-20-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
U.S. troops are losing confidence in the military's long-term chances of success in Afghanistan, a new poll has revealed. The Military Times survey found less than half of serving soldiers believe the U.S. is 'very likely' or 'somewhat likely' to suc
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Former Afghan President Rabbani Assassinated
09-20-2011
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news.antiwar.com
Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated on Tuesday by a suicide bomber with explosives hidden in his turban, according to Kabul police officials.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service
09-20-2011
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www.wired.com
Navigation-and-emergency-services company OnStar is notifying its six million account holders that it will keep a complete accounting of the speed and location of OnStar-equipped vehicles, even for drivers who discontinue monthly service.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe
09-20-2011
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www.popsci.com
As fantasy teams across the nation crumbled in Week 1, football’s greatest current quarterback (yeah, that’s right) sat down for the first time in his NFL career, following a third procedure on his neck that may have ended his season. But before that
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?
09-20-2011
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YouTube
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
What, Exactly, Is "Suspicious Activity?"
09-20-2011
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cato.org - by Nat Hentoff
More of us, including the new generation, are becoming aware of what the report "Surveillance in the Homeland" (Truth Out, Aug. 22) describes as the state of our personal privacy: "Our phone calls, our emails and web site visits, our financial record
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
New Libyan government 'within 10 days'
09-20-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
He was speaking at a press conference hosted by G8 foreign ministers after the new Libyan leaders were welcomed to the United Nations, enshrining their new-found status after ousting long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Bullion Vaults Run Out of Space on Gold Rally
09-20-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
Deep in the 7.4-acre Singapore FreePort next to Changi International Airport’s runways is the bullion vault of Swiss Precious Metals, behind seven-metric-ton steel doors built to survive a plane crash or earthquake.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China takes first step towards space station
09-20-2011
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www.ft.com
China is about to take the first step towards building its own space station with the launch of Tiangong 1, or Heavenly Palace, in a further sign of its race to catch up with the US and Russia.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Solyndra execs will decline to testify at hearing
09-20-2011
Sept 20 (Reuters) - Solyndra LLC's chief executive and chief financial officer will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer any questions put to them at a Congressional hearing on Friday, according to letters from their attorneys ob
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF warns world about ‘dangerous’ phase of decline
09-20-2011
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www.washingtontimes.com
The world economy has entered a “dangerous new phase” of declining growth that will require policymakers to take action, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Tuesday.
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
McElroy's Musings
Where is Spartacus?
09-20-2011
David McElroy
Perhaps we can once again be that “Shining City on a Hill”, the bastion of Truth, Justice, and Liberty for all. But we must not flinch in rising to meet the challenge. We need real men, warriors running to the battle. Where is Spartacus?
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists make major breakthrough with AIDs
09-20-2011
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Terrence Aym
Medical researchers on two continents have achieved an important breakthrough in their ongoing fight to defeat the AIDs virus. Their findings may eventually bring them to a vaccine preventing the deadly auto-immune disease. The key to their breakthro
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Inorganic Life Experiments
09-20-2011
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arclein
vide new insights into evolution by attempting to create "life" from carbon-free, inorganic chemicals. They've now taken the first tentative steps towards this goal with the creation of inorganic-chemical-cells, or iCHELLS.
Just like biological
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Stop the Islamization of America
09-20-2011
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arclein
courtrooms, the Internet, the workplace, the grocery store, the neighborhoods, and on the airwaves. That is the stealth jihad, the hidden war. And it is to teaching you how to fight that war"where and how and on what grounds"that this book is dedicat
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News Link • History
Charlie Chaplin's Time Traveller
09-20-2011
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arclein
he woman is convincingly speaking into a cell phone circa from now on into our immediate future. I can imagine no other object from 1928 that a person would hold up to their head in that manner. Even the body language is right.
It certainly was
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News Link • Science
Life Detected on Mars
09-20-2011
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arclein
R returned evidence of living microorganisms. Initially discounted by NASA and most space scientists, the results of this milestone project have, nonetheless, been causing excitement and controversy ever since. In 1997, after 21 years of study of the
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