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Date Sent: 2013-07-11
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
Miami Police Department Is Accused of Pattern of Excessive Force
Lawyers for theater shooting suspect say he did it -- Greenwald's Courage Can Be Contagious. So Can Fear. Choose. -
by Wendy McElroy -- Schools Seeking to Arm Employees Hit
Hurdle on Insurance -- Defense rests in court-martial
of Bradley Manning accused of WikiLeaks disclosures -- Defense rests case in
George Zimmerman trial -- Boston bombing suspect pleads not
guilty -- The Journalistic Practices of the Washington Post
and Walter Pincus -- Washington Post's WikiLeaks/Snowden/Greenwald
Conspiracy Theory -- Oliver Stone: 'Our Civil Liberties Are
Being Eaten by the NSA Surveillance Machine' -- The Tricky
Business of Innovation: Can You Patent a Magic Trick? -- Student
Invents Clever Online Market for Eating Locally -- Lessons from
Hiking the Grand Canyon, by Andy in New England -- Where to Find
Reclaimed Wood
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014 - Phoenix, Arizona. February
14th - 16th
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Miami Police Department Is Accused of Pattern of Excessive Force
07-10-2013
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New York Times
Feds found the Miami Police Dept. engaged in a pattern of excessive force that led to a high number of shootings by officers, among them episodes that resulted in the deaths of 7 young black men over an 8-month period in 2011.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Lawyers for theater shooting suspect say he did it
07-10-2013
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AP
For the first time, lawyers for accused theater shooter James Holmes say he killed 12 people and wounded dozens more at an Aurora movie theater last summer. But Holmes' lawyers say he was "in the throes of a psychotic episode" at the time.
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News Link • Police State
Greenwald's Courage Can Be Contagious. So Can Fear. Choose.
07-10-2013
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by Wendy McElroy
In response to this leak (and others in the last three years), Obama is attempting to criminalize the act of investigative reporting. He prefers the alternative of a press that reports only what the state permits and never asks independent questions.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Schools Seeking to Arm Employees Hit Hurdle on Insurance
07-10-2013
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New York Times
As more schools consider arming their employees, some districts are encountering a daunting economic hurdle: insurance carriers threatening to raise their premiums or revoke coverage entirely.
During legislative sessions this year, seven states ena
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Defense rests in court-martial of soldier accused of WikiLeaks disclosures
07-10-2013
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Reuters
The soldier accused of the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history chose not to testify at his court-martial on Wednesday, when the defense rested its case.
U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, is charged with disclosing
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Defense rests case in George Zimmerman trial
07-10-2013
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Defense attorneys have rested their case in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial after calling 18 witnesses over less than a week.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston bombing suspect pleads not guilty
07-10-2013
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AP
His arm in a cast and his face swollen, a blase-looking Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty in the Boston Marathon bombing in a 7-minute proceeding that marked his first appearance in public since his capture in mid-April.
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News Link • General Opinion
The Journalistic Practices of the Washington Post and Walter Pincus
07-10-2013
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Common Dreams
Fifteen hours after acknowledging that an innuendo-filled article is factually false, the Post still has not corrected it
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News Link • Conspiracies
Washington Post's WikiLeaks/Snowden/Greenwald Conspiracy Theory
07-10-2013
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Common Dreams
To Washington Post columnist Walter Pincus (7/9/13), something about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden just doesn't smell right.
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News Link • General Opinion
Oliver Stone: 'Our Civil Liberties Are Being Eaten by the NSA Surveillance Machine'
07-10-2013
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Common Dreams
"I won't stand idly by while our civil liberties are eaten by the NSA surveillance machine," Stone says. "You shouldn't either."
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News Link • Intellectual Property
The Tricky Business of Innovation: Can You Patent a Magic Trick?
07-10-2013
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Wired.com
I created a magic trick with a balloon. You stretch out the balloon’s nozzle, rip it off, and then magically reattach it as the balloon deflates.
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News Link • Internet
Student Invents Clever Online Market for Eating Locally
07-10-2013
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Wired.com
Hyperlocal Market is a concept that would allow people who grow food and produce goods to connect with interested buyers in their general vicinity.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Lessons from Hiking the Grand Canyon, by Andy in New England
07-10-2013
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Survivalblog.com
A successful trek is “won or lost” before it even begins. Having the right quantities of food, water, and first aid, proper gear and adequate physical fitness will determine if a hiker is able to complete a trip as planned, and respond to the unexpec
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News Link • Environment
Where to Find Reclaimed Wood
07-10-2013
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popularmechanics.com
Salvaged older wood can add warmth and character to your home"if you know where to look for it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Living on 'Gasland:' Q&A with Documentary Filmmaker Josh Fox
07-09-2013
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livescience.com
When Josh Fox received notice that a natural gas company was interested in drilling a well on his property in exchange for $100,000, he set out to investigate exactly how the towering derricks and .......
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News Link • Solar Flares
Solar Flares Fire Off Antimatter Particles
07-09-2013
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space.com
Astronomers have detected exotic antimatter particles flying from the sun during solar flares " a discovery that could help scientists understand this mysterious sibling to matter.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Can dental stem cell technology make root canals obsolete?
07-09-2013
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naturalnews.com
Stem cell technology is promising in many respects and nowhere is that more evident than in the field of dentistry where painful root canals could become a thing of the past if promising advances in treating tooth decay pan out.
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News Link • Government
U.S. State Dept. has confirmed history of running covert abductions of Americans in Ecuador
07-09-2013
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naturalnews.com
The U.S. government has a well-established track record of running covert kidnapping and abduction operations in Ecuador to capture anyone they want.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Interview with Oscar Winners Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, Directors of THE WAY WAY BACK
07-09-2013
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beaubehan.com
THE WAY, WAY BACK has the wits, charm, and sparkle of a rare movie gem. It coruscates with that heartwarming character resplendent with laughter, sadness, and triumph all captured in that monumental coming-of-age story.
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Backyard Chicken Farming's Ugly Side: Homeless Poultry
07-09-2013
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halfmoonbay.patch.com
Many people don't realize that chickens stop laying eggs and can become messy, noisy and difficult to care for.
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News Link • Solar Flares
Scientists warn DGCA of rare solar flares’ risk to flyers
07-09-2013
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mumbaimirror.com
A Kolkata-based science centre has warned the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) of a rare ongoing phenomenon near the Earth's atmosphere called solar flares, which can lead to cancer among frequent flyers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Michael Hastings Crash Investigation Heats Up, Police and Fire Told Not to Comment
07-08-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
San Diego 6 -- Kimberly Dvorak's Investigative Report On Michael Hastings "Crash"
Crash scene defies laws of physics as engine block found behind the car.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval
07-08-2013
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Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The IRS Mistakenly Exposed Thousands of Social Security Numbers
07-08-2013
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National Journal
Another day, another slipup by the Internal Revenue Service. The incident involves the unwitting exposure of "tens of thousands" of Social Security numbers, posted to the Internet for less than 24 hours after being discovered,
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News Link • History
Book by former CIA analyst sheds light on Cuba, Kennedy, Oswald
07-08-2013
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Reuters
Lee Harvey Oswald had closer ties to Cuba's intelligence agency in the months before his fatal shooting of John F. Kennedy than previously known, according to a new book by a former CIA analyst.
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News Link • China
Chinese police open fire on Tibetan monks: group
07-08-2013
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Reuters
Police in a restive Tibetan part of southwestern China opened fire on a group of monks and others who had gathered to mark the birthday of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, seriously injuring at least two of them, a rights group said.
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News Link • Activism
Turkish police fire water cannon to prevent park protest
07-08-2013
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Reuters
Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon on Monday at protesters who tried to defy a closure order and enter an Istanbul park at the center of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. soldier in WikiLeaks case had free access to secret files
07-08-2013
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Reuters
Private First Class Bradley Manning, accused of releasing more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks, had nothing to stop him from installing software for the high-speed download of secret State Department cables, the witnesses said.
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. mulls speeding up troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
07-08-2013
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Reuters
The US is considering leaving no American troops behind in Afghanistan after the planned 2014 withdrawal date, US officials said, amid ongoing tensions between the President Obama's administration and Afghan President Karzai's government.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer cleared of threatening Michelle Obama
07-08-2013
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Washington Post
A District police officer accused of threatening Michelle Obama was cleared of charges related to the first lady but was found guilty of posting a derogatory job description on social media and depicting the president as a communist,
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News Link • Iran
Web monitoring devices made by U.S. firm Blue Coat detected in Iran, Sudan
07-08-2013
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Washington Post
American-made devices used for Internet monitoring were detected on government and commercial computer networks in Iran and Sudan, in violation of US sanctions that ban the sale of goods, services or technology to autocratic states
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News Link • Economy - International
Spaniards Fight to Get Savings Back
07-08-2013
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New York Times
Mr. López is one of about 300,000 Spaniards who, in the midst of a brutal recession, have seen their life savings virtually wiped out in what critics call a deceptive and possibly fraudulent sales campaign by banks that were
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX's 'Grasshopper' Reusable Rocket Prototype Makes Highest Flight Yet
07-08-2013
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space.com
A private company's prototype reusable rocket made its highest leap to date last month, soaring 100 stories into the air before landing softly back at its launch pad as planned.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Kickstarter ion thruster would speed space exploration using nanosatellites
07-08-2013
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extremetech.com
For the past few decades, space exploration has largely focused on building incredible (occasionally incredibly expensive) high-end machines. It’s not hard to see why " machines like Curiosity and its rocket-powered hover crane are amazing accomplish
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News Link • Corruption
Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players
07-08-2013
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ted.com
When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture.
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News Link • Surveillance
THE INTERNET OF THINGS
07-08-2013
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http://www.wired.com,By Robert McMillan
When Dan Tentler wants to find something on the internet, he doesn’t use Google or Bing. Tentler, a freelance security consultant, is a road-less-traveled kind of guy. He likes to check out the internet’s alleyways and backroads. And for people like
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
George Zimmerman Friends Insist It's His Voice Screaming for Help
07-08-2013
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ABC News (video)
George Zimmerman's lawyer started his first full day of presenting his defense today by calling several of Zimmerman's friends and co-workers to testify that it was Zimmerman's voice screaming for help on 911 calls seconds before he shot teenager Tra
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Defense opens case in Manning's WikiLeaks trial
07-08-2013
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AP
Lawyers for an Army private who gave mountains of classified information to WikiLeaks opened their defense at his court-martial Monday with leaked video of a U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad _ footage in which airmen laugh and call targets "dead bas
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
UK medical doctors call for ‘immediate action’ against wireless technologies
07-08-2013
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http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/uk-medical-doc
Children’s health should be put ahead of convenience and commercial benefits. Children should not use mobile phones except in an emergency, and WiFi should be replaced with wired alternatives in schools and other settings where children spend conside
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Greece Hires Goldman Sachs, Rothschild to Help Economy
by Anthony Gucciardi
June 30th, 2013
07-08-2013
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http://www.storyleak.com/greece-goldman-sachs-roth
Who better to help Greece escape financial turmoil than Wall Street mafia head Goldman Sachs and the international banking elite family known as the Rothschilds?
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Using a Smartphone’s Eyes and Ears to Log Your Every Move
07-08-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite
New tricks will enable a life-logging app called Saga to figure out not only where you are, but what you’re doing.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
The Supreme Court Versus the Common Man
(Spoiler alert Banks Win...again!)
07-08-2013
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http://jonathanturley.org/2013/07/07/the-supreme-c
It should be no surprise that the Roberts Court is pro-business, but the road it has traveled to insure that large corporations are sacred cows that are infallible and immune to legal precedents and possibly Federal law is amazing. It is shocking th
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News Link • Science
750000 Year Old Horse Genome Mapped
07-08-2013
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arclein
We have beaten the time barrier,” says evolutionary biologist Ludovic Orlando of the University of Copenhagen, who led the work with colleague Eske Willerslev. Noting that the oldest DNA sequenced before this came from a polar bear between 110,000 an
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News Link • Archaeology
Untouched Royal Tomb Found in Peru
07-08-2013
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arclein
Long before the Inca built Machu Picchu, the Wari empire flourished between A.D. 700 and 1000 throughout much of present-day Peru. At a time when Paris had just 25,000 residents, the Wari capital Huari was home to 40,000 people at its height, accordi
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