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Date Sent: 2011-06-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, June 16, 2011 AM edition |
House Votes to Defund Libya War -- Yemeni Deputy Governor: 130 Killed by US Drones This Month
U.S. lawmakers file suit against Obama over Libya war -- Judge: ‘Copyright troll’ Righthaven may have lied in hundreds of lawsuits -- Beijing battling protest fires on all fronts -- CIA website down temporarily; LulzSec takes credit for the hack -- Soccer player sues Murdoch’s UK newspaper over hacking scandal -- Weapons smuggled in U.S. sting linked to deaths -- Sheila Jackson Lee asks about ‘Christian militants’ during anti-Muslim hearing
-- Magic mushroom’s positive effects lasting over a year, say
researchers -- Selling America to China: Treason by any other name… --
County validates more than enough signatures for Pearce recall election
-- Solutions: Do you have more confidence in yourself or your government? -- Would-be pot shops sue Arizona for right to open -- ‘Libya war driven by O.I.L.: Oil, Israel & Logistics’ – Angry Protests Erupt Throughout China -- 1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have Jobs Today Than When Obama Signed Stimulus -- Eleven dead in twin Afghan suicide blasts
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News Link • WAR: About that War
House Votes to Defund Libya War
06-15-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
A surpise late Monday vote saw the House of Representatives pass the Sherman Amendment to the military appropriations bill by a a vote of 248-163.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Yemeni Deputy Governor: 130 Killed by US Drones This Month
06-15-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Officials with Yemen’s Defense Ministry have confirmed that the US has been launching drone strikes on a daily basis against the nation in June, with more than 15 confirmed strikes already this month.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Massachusetts Case Will Set Precedent Regarding Videotaping Of Cops
06-15-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Four years ago, Boston police officers arrested a man for videotaping them making an arrest in a public park.
They charged Simon Glik with felony wiretapping, disturbing the peace and aiding the escape of a prisoner " even though all he did was ho
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News Link • Voting and Elections
On the Morality of Voting - by Tom Woods
06-15-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Thanks to Lew for running my blog post on this. In the ensuing discussion I wound up explaining my position further, and then linking to a good article by Roderick Long that to my mind answers all the key objections.
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News Link • Drug War
American Banks 'High' On Drug Money
06-15-2011
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Alternet
It wasn't long after taking the job that he discovered that his own employer, one of America's leading banks, was a major player in aiding the "bloodthirsty" Mexico drug cartels to launder billions of dollars in drug money through Wachovia banks. Woo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Still No Explanation On Why Cop Confiscated Newsman's Camera
06-15-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Miami Beach officials say they are still investigating why an officer snatched a video camera from a television news reporter and locked it in the back of his trunk in the aftermath of an officer-involved shooting on Memorial Day.
In other words,
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Cleveland Cops Caught On Tape Brutally Beating Suspect
06-15-2011
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A jail video in Cleveland surfaced disputing official police statements on a booking incident last January, where the arrestee claimed police brutality. During the pretrial, prosecutors subpoenaed the surveillance tape but were told that it did not e
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News Link • Bush Administration
Ex-Spy Alleges Effort to Discredit Bush Critic
06-15-2011
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NY Times
A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him. The White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: ‘Copyright troll’ Righthaven may have lied in hundreds of lawsuits
06-15-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via RawStory
The liberal political forum Democratic Underground, LLC. (DU) has escaped a lawsuit filed by Righthaven, LLC. that claimed a user illegally appropriated several paragraphs of a news story.
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News Link • China
Beijing battling protest fires on all fronts
06-15-2011
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www.theaustralian.com.au
AN eruption of protests throughout China has sent armoured vehicles into town centres, prompted an internet blackout by the government and left thousands across the country blogging about "crazy" violence on the streets.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA website down temporarily; LulzSec takes credit for the hack
06-15-2011
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Nathan Olivarez-Giles via Los Angeles Times
Lulz Security, the hacker group that recently attacked the U.S. Senate, Sony and PBS, said on Twitter that its taken down the website for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Soccer player sues Murdoch’s UK newspaper over hacking scandal
06-15-2011
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RawStory.com
Manchester United great Ryan Giggs became the latest celebrity to take legal action against the News of the World over allegedly hacking into his mobile phone, his lawyer announced on Wednesday.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Weapons smuggled in U.S. sting linked to deaths: report
06-15-2011
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RawStory.com
Weapons smuggled into Mexico as part of a US sting operation -- and then lost -- have been linked to numerous killings, including that of an American federal agent, a congressional report disclosed Wednesday.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Magic mushroom’s positive effects lasting over a year, say researchers
06-15-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
Scientists atJohns Hopkins claim to have determined the proper dose levels needed to create positive change that persist for more than a year with the psychoactive substance in so-called "magic mushrooms."
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
The Future of Atomkraft
Marin Katusa
In a dramatic about-face, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced last Monday that Germany will phase out nuclear power completely by 2022, shutting down its nine operational reactors and never restarting the seven reactors that were suspended in the wake
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News Link • Treason and Sedition
Selling America to China: Treason by any other name…
06-15-2011
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Farm Wars
Selling off pieces of America to a foreign government so that government can plant a city inside our country that is not subject to our laws is treason.
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News Link • Immigration
County validates more than enough signatures for Pearce recall election
06-15-2011
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azcapitoltimes.com
Elections officials in Maricopa County have so far verified as valid more than 8,000 signatures submitted by a group seeking to recall Senate President Russell Pearce.
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News Link • Government
Texas Republican says it is ‘very insulting’ to use Spanish in his presence
06-15-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via RawStory
A man who gave testimony in Spanish before a Texas State Senate committee Monday was told by a Republican lawmaker that using his native tongue is “insulting” if he also knows how to speak English.
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News Link • Government
Solutions: Do you have more confidence in yourself or your government?
06-15-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
Over the last days, I’ve endeavored to explain why the economic reversal of fortune in the west is unstoppable… and what the social implications of this decline will be.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Would-be pot shops sue Arizona for right to open
06-15-2011
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http://www.azdailysun.com/
Arizona attorneys have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the agency that regulates the state's medical marijuana program to accept applications to operate from would-be pot shops.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
‘Libya war driven by O.I.L.: Oil, Israel & Logistics’ " McKinney to RT
06-15-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
As NATO attacks continue in Libya, ex US Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney went to the country on a non-governmental fact-finding mission to see what exactly is going on in the war-torn country.
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News Link • Solar Flares
Is the Sunspot Cycle About to Stop?
06-15-2011
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http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
Among the 320 solar physicists who have gathered for a conference in Las Cruces, New Mexico, word is buzzing about a claim that the 11-year solar-activity cycle, which some of them have spent their lives studying....
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News Link • Surveillance
Militarism Run Rampant
06-15-2011
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http://counterpunch.org/
I have a fairy tale for you. Once upon a time, a representative democracy was established with a constitution that distilled the wisdom of the ages.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Angry Protests Erupt Throughout China
06-15-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
AN eruption of protests throughout China has sent armoured vehicles into town centres, prompted an internet blackout by the government and left thousands across the country blogging about “crazy” violence on the streets.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have Jobs Today Than When Obama Signed Stimulus
06-15-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the summer of 2010 to be “Recovery Summer,” 1.9 million fewer people are employed.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO leaders in talks amid fresh Libya strikes
06-15-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
NATO's chief will hold talks on Libya with British leaders on Wednesday after the alliance battered Moamer Kadhafi's forces even as its top brass raised concerns about the 11-week aerial war.
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News Link • Government
‘Republicanism has become a religion’
06-15-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
HBO’s Bill Maher told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Tuesday that “as a sane person,” it was tough to watch the Republican presidential candidates debate.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Eleven dead in twin Afghan suicide blasts
06-15-2011
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http://news.yahoo.com/
The Taliban targeted top government officials in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 11 people in two suicide blasts and firing rockets at the vice president and interior minister, who escaped unhurt.
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News Link • Government
City Government demands all keys to properties belonging to Cedar Falls residents.
06-15-2011
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CrushingBastards
Ordinance #2740( An unfunded city-wide mandate) was passed with a resounding 6 to 1 vote, and it allows for the citizens of Cedar Falls to forcefully give the government keys to their comercial properties through universal 'lock boxes'. The intent of
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News Link • Government
Sen. McConnell Demands Iraqi Suspects Be Sent to Gitmo
06-15-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R " KY) today demanded that the Obama Administration immediately remove two Iraqis arrested in Kentucky as “suspected terrorists” from his home state.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Twin Supermassive Black Holes Found At Nearby Galaxy's Heart
06-15-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
A nearby galaxy that looks like a smiley face harbors a dark secret: It has twin supermassive black holes, not just one. This rare find could shed light on what happens when ginormous galaxies collide.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Five Iraqi soldiers killed in shootings
06-15-2011
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http://news.yahoo.com/
Five Iraqi soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a spate of shootings against patrols and checkpoints in Baghdad and the main northern city of Mosul, security officials said.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
New documentary shows Sri Lanka 'war crimes'
06-15-2011
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
UK calls for probe after British programme appears to show executions of Tamil prisoners by troops at end of civil war.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Spring-Loaded Arm Gives Superpower Strength to Office Workers
06-15-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The x-Ar arm reimagines a Steadicam’s spring system to make arms and tools feel weightless, diminishing the risk of repetitive-stress injuries without motors, batteries or external power.
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News Link • Economy - International
What are the social implications of economic collapse?
06-15-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
For the last few days, we’ve been having an important discussion about the magnitude of the economic challenges in the west; if you didn’t read yesterday’s letter, I really encourage you to do so before proceeding...
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News Link • Radical Gay Agenda
Gay Ops of American Intel?
06-15-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
A strange thing happened the other day. The blogosphere was swept by the confession of one Tom MacMasters that he was behind a well-known blog supposedly written by a lesbian and called Gay Girl in Damascus.
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News Link • Economy - International
Sino-Forest Is Leading Indicator of China Disaster?
06-15-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
We've been waiting for something like this (see above). Critics are starting to engage with China in earnest and this is just one more sign of it.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Marginal Utility of Silver
06-15-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
I welcome the Internet debate on the question whether the Mint should be opened to gold and silver. The latest contribution by Hugo Salinas Price, entitled Free Coinage of Gold and Silver " Then and Now, expresses doubts that such a measure..
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Free Coinage Of Gold & Silver - Then And Now
06-15-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Some people think that one of the fundamental institutions of the 19th century should be restored; we single out Great Britain as the great leader embracing this institution.
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