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Date Sent: 2011-10-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
Feds Order You Tube To Remove Video For Containing “Government Criticism”
Taibbi: Occupy Wall Street Aimed at WS Corruption NOT Money or Banking -- Phoenix out more for pensions -- Weekend Homesteaders -- FBI Crime Maps Now ‘Pinpoint’ Average Muslims -- Euro plunges on reported crisis talk deadlock -- Welcome to Copenhagen Suborbitals -- William Buppert Speeches at Libertopia -- Obama Admin Seeks Permission To Lie... ( well, at least he asked :) -- Police brutality charges sweep across the US -- What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars We Have Spent On Wars In Afghanistan, Iraq And Libya? --
Nationwide Gang Presence by County 2010 -- Recommended Retreat Areas -
SurvivalBlog.com -- 230. Resist the Police State -- Inside the DIY
Weapons Workshop of the Libyan Rebels -- Aerospace Entrepreneur/Motelier Robert Bigelow Thinks the Chinese Will Take Over the Moon -- Video: Microsoft's Holodesk Lets You Play With Virtual 3-D Objects -- A Tightly Knit Network of Companies Runs the World Economy, Says Network Analysis -- BULLOCKS! UNFATHOMABLE RUBBISH! This Voting Rights Decision Must
Not Be Allowed To Stand -- Genetically Modified Algae Are Magnetic, For
Ease of Manipulation -- McCain: No Defense Cuts if Supercommittee Deadlocks
Want to hold Government accountable? Join WTP’s Constitution Lobby webinar tonight, WED. Oct. 26, 9 pm EDT
AZ: "Politics On The
Rocks" With Gary Johnson, tomorrow, Thurs Oct 27, 2011, 5:30 p.m.; Phoenix - Rock the Revolution Tour
is now set; Project
Appleseed 2011 Tour - November 5-6, 2011
CA: Libertopia in San Diego this weekend October
21-23!!!!
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Feds Order You Tube To Remove Video For Containing “Government Criticism”
10-26-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
“US authorities also called for the removal of 113 videos from YouTube, including several documenting alleged police brutality which Google refused to take down.”
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
New Street Lights To Have “Homeland Security” Applications
10-26-2011
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Info wars
You knew it was only a matter of time...
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix out more for pensions
10-26-2011
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Arizona Republic
Phoenix residents for a second straight year will pay more than $100 million in fiscal 2012-13 to maintain the city's ailing employee-pension system, while a task force considers whether current city employees should shoulder more of the cost.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mapping Where GOP Candidates Raise Their Campaign Donations
10-26-2011
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The Daily Viz
These maps visualize the geographic source of candidates’ campaign cash by plotting symbols that represent the number of donors in each zip code.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Says Real Unemployment Figure is 20%
10-26-2011
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CNN
"I think the downturn in the economy occurred in the year 2000," Paul told CNN, adding that there have been no new jobs since then "and yet we've had a 30 million increase in population."
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
An Occupy Wall Street sympathizer created a free app called "I'm Getting Arrested"
10-26-2011
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www.nydailynews.com
Users craft a text message in advance and program a list of recipients. Then, as cops get the bracelets out, they can hit one button and tell everyone on their list that they're in danger of being pinched.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Taibbi: Occupy Wall Street Aimed at WS Corruption NOT Money or Banking
10-26-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
I was thinking about this "jealousy" question, and I just kept coming back to all the different ways the game is rigged. "Dude," I said. "These people aren't protesting money. They're not protesting banking. They're protesting corruption on Wall Stre
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Weekend Homesteaders
10-26-2011
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LewRockwell.com
This is the story of how two middle-aged city dwellers became weekend homesteaders, and how we bumbled our way through planning and building an off-grid survival cabin. Top to bottom, the project took about two years to complete, working only on week
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
FBI Crime Maps Now ‘Pinpoint’ Average Muslims
10-26-2011
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Wired
It started out as a crimefighting tool. But over the years, an FBI effort known as “geo-mapping” evolved into something more expansive " a method to track Muslim communities, without any suspicion of a crime being committed.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Euro plunges on reported crisis talk deadlock
10-26-2011
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hosted.ap.org
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The euro is plunging against other currencies after European leaders and banks appeared deadlocked over how much of Greece's debt should be forgiven.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Welcome to Copenhagen Suborbitals
10-26-2011
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Wired
Human space flight has always been “untouchable.” It has been for big companies or governments only to take on. But Copenhagen Suborbitals would like to show the world that it can be done by thinking unconventionally in all areas
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
The Evolution of the Spacesuit
10-26-2011
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Wired
...spacesuits have grown into machines of impressive complexity, even becoming miniature spacecraft that fly independently. Spacesuits have allowed people to grab rocks from the lunar surface, make repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope, ...
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
The Man Behind Cloud Valley
10-26-2011
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Technology Review
Edward Tian wants to bring the Chinese people the power of a supercomputer at the price of a book.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Admin Seeks Permission To Lie... ( well, at least he asked :)
10-26-2011
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www.opednews.com
In Response To Freedom Of Information Requests - Even To The Courts
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars We Have Spent On Wars In Afghanistan, Iraq And Libya?
10-26-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Whether you are for the wars or against the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what we have really gotten for all of that money.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Internet
Google News: Friend or Foe for Local News Services?
10-26-2011
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Technology Review
New sites often dismiss Google's claims that it helps them by driving traffic to their articles. Now, early results from Microsoft Research New England suggest that news aggregators like Google News increase visits to local news sites"providing they
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
New Google Smart Phone Recognizes Your Face
10-26-2011
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Technology Review
The Galaxy Nexus phone includes face unlocking, improved voice recognition, and touch-sharing.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
Legal Systems Around the World and Through Time
10-26-2011
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www.daviddfriedman.com
David Friedman explains the legal systems of many cultures, past and present.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
230. Resist the Police State
10-26-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano talks to Lew Rockwell about American totalitarianism.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
To Save Fuel, Cars Will Drop Off Drivers, Then Search For Parking Spaces on Their Own
10-26-2011
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PopSci.com
Fuel efficiency is one of the promised benefits of increasingly intelligent cars, which could cut down on fuel consumption by predicting where drivers will go, re-routing around predicted traffic jams and traveling in convoys.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Libya
Inside the DIY Weapons Workshop of the Libyan Rebels
10-26-2011
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PopSci.com
Former rebels took apart 14.5mm machine guns from Russian-designed ZPU-4 antiaircraft weapons and mounted each one on a pickup truck. They did the same with ZU-23mms, Soviet anti-aircraft twin-barreled autocannons, and Grad multiple rocket launchers.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
Want to hold Government accountable? Join WTP’s Constitution Lobby webinar WED. Oct. 26, 9 pm EDT
10-26-2011
Here's a wild concept: Organize the People to Institutionalize Vigilance, directly confront government wrongdoers, and execute organized Civic Actions, en masse, to force compliance to the Law & secure Redress - Just like our Founders intended.
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Reported by:
Bob Schulz
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News Link • World News
Aerospace Entrepreneur/Motelier Robert Bigelow Thinks the Chinese Will Take Over the Moon
10-26-2011
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PopSci.com
At the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, Bigelow laid out a timeline of a wild-west-style Chinese takeover of the moon, calling China "the new gunslinger in Dodge." Bigelow's timeline notes China's increasing success in
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
The Top 10 Lists of All Time
10-26-2011
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LewRockwell.com
And bloggers aren’t the first to realize that lists are an important historic tradition for holding people’s attention and getting an important point across. Here are 10 other lists that have changed the course of history.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
Video: Microsoft's Holodesk Lets You Play With Virtual 3-D Objects
10-26-2011
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PopSci.com
It uses a Kinect ("hacked" doesn't seem really correct when it's a Microsoft project) to see your hands and face, and allows you to juggle completely virtual 3-D objects--balance a virtual ball on a book, then tip it into a bowl of water, or stack vi
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
A Tightly Knit Network of Companies Runs the World Economy, Says Network Analysis
10-26-2011
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PopSci.com
A small, tightly woven network of companies, mostly banks, wields disproportionate control over the global economy, according to a new study. To the thousands of protesters swept up in the global Occupy movement, it may seem like a case of science co
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Foambot Creates Itself Out of Sprayable Foam, Becoming Whatever Robot You Need
10-26-2011
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PopSci.com
Programmed for a task, the mothership can configure the joints on the ground and spray them with a mixture of chemical reagents that harden and expand into a solid urethane foam.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
BULLOCKS! UNFATHOMABLE RUBBISH! This Voting Rights Decision Must Not Be Allowed To Stand
10-26-2011
A federal judge ruled he has no power under the Constitution to hear a constitutional challenge to the government’s system of counting votes in secret. If this Voter lawsuit fails, election integrity lawsuits will NOT be possible again.
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Science
Genetically Modified Algae Are Magnetic, For Ease of Manipulation
10-26-2011
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PopSci.com
Scientists at LANL have genetically engineered a new kind of algae that is magnetic, which could lead to new and simple ways of both extracting genetically engineered biofuel-producing algae from water and extracting the lipids that contain the hydro
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Pat Robertson: The Republican base is too ‘extreme’ right now
10-26-2011
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RawStory
On the latest installment of The 700 Club, the televangelist the televangelist admitted that even he believes many in the Republican Party have shifted too far to the right.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Day of Reckoning
‘Anonymous’ vows to ‘destroy’ Fox News website on Nov. 5th
10-26-2011
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RawStory
In a video statement carried recently by several official channels maintained by members of the hacker activist group “Anonymous,” a digitally generated voice explains that the online collective has decided to take down the Fox News website on Nov. 5
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Maddow: Herman Cain’s campaign basically is the Koch brothers
10-26-2011
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RawStory
On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow noted that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is an avid numerologist who is obsessed with the number 45.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
McCain: No Defense Cuts if Supercommittee Deadlocks
10-14-2011
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Michael Tennant , New American
McCain wants to repeal the part of the debt-ceiling deal that triggers automatic cuts to defense spending if the supercommittee fails to reach agreement on its own plan to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion over 10 years. "We can reverse it.”
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Ron Paul proposes saving $1T by scrapping five federal departments
10-17-2011
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Stephanie Condon, CBS News
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Monday unveiled a plan to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget within one year by eliminating a handful of federal departments, including the Energy and Education departments.
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Leon Felkins
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