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Date Sent: 2011-04-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 27, 2011 PM edition |
Obama releases birth form, decries 'silliness' -- Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA
The New National Security Team -- FDA raid: Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and steal natural health products --
Is the US Military America's biggest security threat? -- DOJ: Holder
nixed CAIR leader's prosecution -- Fanatics' fury at Muslim Playgirl --
Walter Reddy Update: Patriot SWAT Raid -- AA-12 Fully Automatic
Shotgun!!! --Lies, Damn Lies, and Misreporting about Gitmo
Detainees -- Putin On NATO Trying to Kill Gadhafi: What, there was a
trial? -- 17% of Full-Time Employed Americans Raiding Retirement Funds
Early -- Gitmo Doctors Hid Evidence of Torture -- The Bush Dynasty Laid Bare: Lew Rockwell
Interviews Russ Baker -- One Eye on the Future: Iris Scanners Are
Coming -- Oklahoma lawmakers approve life sentence for cooking hashish
-- Facebook Facial Recognition Could Get Creepy -- PlayStation Network
Hack Leaves Credit Card Info at Risk -- ARPA-E's PETRO
Program Plans to Create Better Biofuel Crops, Cutting Costs in Half --
In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Made of Jell-O and Foil
Detects Acute Pancreatitis -- African Potato Lab Fights Malnutrition
With Biofortification -- Apple, Google Summoned to Senate Hearing On Mobile Device Privacy --
Ernest Hancock Speaks at Fedstock II -- FBI vs. Coreflood Botnet:
Round 1 Goes to the Feds -- Australia Pistachio Disaster Hints at
Agricultural Breakdown
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama releases birth form, decries 'silliness'
04-27-2011
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AP
Responding to critics' relentless claims, President Obama produced a detailed Hawaii birth certificate in an extraordinary attempt to bury the issue of where he was born and confirm his legitimacy to hold office. "We do not have time for this kind of
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News Link • Obama Administration
Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA
04-27-2011
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AP
President Obama plans to name CIA Director Leon Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the national security leadership
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and steal natural health products in shocking FDA raid
04-27-2011
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Farm Wars
Agents from the FDA, the IRS, and the FBI conducted an unprovoked, full-scale raid on Hood River, Ore.-based Maxam Nutraceutics, a company that produces and sells nutritional supplements.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Is the US Military America's biggest security threat?
04-26-2011
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Rob Kall, OpEd News
The USA's military is supposed to make the US more secure. But it has become, for many reasons and in many ways, the biggest threat to American security, the American way of life and even America's future, , , The US Military is a huge cancer on our
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin On NATO Trying to Kill Gadhafi: What, there was a trial?
04-27-2011
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kyivpost.com
"Now several officials are saying, 'Yes, we're trying to destroy Gadhafi.' But who allowed you to do this? What, there was a trial? Who gave themselves the right to sentence someone to death, regardless what kind of person he is?" Putin said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
17% of Full-Time Employed Americans Raiding Retirement Funds Early
04-27-2011
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BlackListedNews.com/
Nearly one-fifth of full-time employed Americans have raided retirement accounts in the past year to cover emergencies, according to a national Bankrate survey.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Gitmo Doctors Hid Evidence of Torture
04-26-2011
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
They explained bone fractures, didn’t ask cause of lacerations, and called the hallucinations routine. Medical professionals entrusted with the care of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay turned a blind eye when there were clear indications of abuse.
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News Link • Bush Administration
The Bush Dynasty Laid Bare: Lew Rockwell Interviews Russ Baker
04-27-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Investigative journalist Russ Baker updates what he uncovered in Family of Secrets about the Bushes with his responses to the former President’s best-selling book. In sum, Bush started a war under false pretenses, allegedly left the cockpit...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
One Eye on the Future: Iris Scanners Are Coming
04-27-2011
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dailyfinance.com
The video has a slight delay, which creates a strange feeling of disconnection as you watch yourself watching yourself walking beneath it. If you are in the system, the monitor flashes green and welcomes you by name.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Oklahoma lawmakers approve life sentence for cooking hashish
04-27-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via The Raw Story
House Bill 1798 makes the conviction of a first time offense of manufacturing hashish a felony with a prison mandatory minimum sentence of two years and a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Facial Recognition Could Get Creepy
04-26-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Facial recognition may be just one more way for Facebook to push the visual part of the social graph (photos of us) toward being more public and far less private. Facebook has a history of asking for forgiveness after the fact...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
PlayStation Network Hack Leaves Credit Card Info at Risk
04-26-2011
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Jason Schreier via WIRED.com
Sony thinks an “unauthorized person” now has access to all PlayStation Network account information and passwords, and may have obtained the credit card numbers of the service’s 70 million users.
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News Link • Activism
A Liberty Upgrade for America
04-27-2011
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www.indiegogo.com
Join us as we reach 1.6 million Americans with a message of liberty!
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
The New Security Team
04-27-2011
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http://swampland.time.com/
The rumors have been floating around for months"I helped in the floating process, back in February"but it now seems likely that Leon Panetta will be the next Secretary of Defense.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
*** Obama's Birth Certificate Debunked Already ***Proof***
04/28/2011
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godlikeproductions.com
Just read something from the Fox News site by a poster which is VERY interesting regarding this possible FAKE BC: “Hate to bring this up, but I just checked the official web site for Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital and according to the i
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Releases Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate
04-27-2011
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http://www.foxnews.com/
The White House has released President Obama's long-form birth certificate, saying the document is "proof positive" the president was born in Hawaii.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
DOJ: Holder nixed CAIR leader's prosecution
04-27-2011
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Politico
Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed Tuesday that the Justice Department decided not to prosecute a key leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations who allegedly has ties to Hamas via the Holy Land Foundation.
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News Link • Free Speech
Fanatics' fury at Muslim Playgirl
04-27-2011
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The U.K. Sun
Sila Sahin has been branded a "whore", a "western slut" and has been threatened with death by Muslim fanatics after appearing topless on the cover of the German edition of a men's magazine.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Surveillance
Walter Reddy Update: Patriot SWAT Raid
04/27/2011
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Reality Report
Walter Reddy, of Committees Of Safety, updates Gary Franchi in this interview on the February 14th, 2011 SWAT team raid of his home.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
REALITY REPORT: Bleeding for Change
04/27/2011
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Reality Report
In this jam packed edition of the Reality Report, Gary Franchi compares the American political revolution with the violent Middle Eastern revolution that is now taking place. We take a look at what Ron Paul had to say to Sean Hannity on FOX about the
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News Link • Agriculture
Coconut Surprises
04-27-2011
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arclein
When I go to Jamaica, my friends have coconut palms on their property. They grow on both sides of the road, and they have all the coconut you can eat. We make drinks from them, eat the flesh, and when the coconuts are young, there’s a jelly inside
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robert klein
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Liquefaction in Japan
04-27-2011
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arclein
"We've seen localized examples of soil liquefaction as extreme as this before, but the distance and extent of damage in Japan were unusually severe," said Scott Ashford, a professor of geotechnical engineering at Oregon State University and a memb
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Blue Fin Fishery Rebounding
04-27-2011
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arclein
s concerns over depleting the natural stock of Bluefin Tuna have increased in recent years, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has reduced the total available catch for the Eastern Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (NBT)
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
SETI Allen Array Shut Down
04-27-2011
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arclein
The timing couldn't be worse, say SETI scientists. After millenniums of musings, this spring astronomers announced that 1,235 new possible planets had been observed by Kepler, a telescope on a space satellite. They predict that dozens of these plane
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robert klein
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News Link • Media: Radio
Truth Squad Radio " Chemtrails and Weather Modification
04-27-2011
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Farm Wars
Weather modification, stratospheric aerosol geoengineering programs " also known as chemtrails and U.S. Navy warfare testing programs.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Conspiracies
SETI forced to shut down search for alien life
04-27-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via The Raw Story
The SETI Institute has been forced to temporarily shut down operations at its telescope array due to federal and state funding cutbacks.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liquid, a Woven Material, and a Waterproof Raft
04-27-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Fire ants might be infuriating little beasts, an invasive species we'd all be pleased to see banished to its native Brazil, but it turns out a fire ant colony has some pretty amazing properties.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China Announces Plan to Build a Manned Space Station of its Own Within Ten Years
04-27-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
China has been dabbling in space station technology for years now, but until this week the nation's aims were less than concrete, mostly consisting of plans to launch testbed technologies into orbit at some nebulous future date.
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News Link • Transportation
ARPA-E's PETRO Program Plans to Create Better Biofuel Crops, Cutting Costs in Half
04-27-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
PETRO, or Plants Engineered to Replace Oil, looks to breed or genetically modify plants that boost energy-per-acre by boosting their abilities to capture and convert solar energy.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Made of Jell-O and Foil Detects Acute Pancreatitis
04-27-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Using a aluminum foil, gelatin, milk protein, and a cheap LED light--items that collectively sell for under a buck--he’s created a fast, one-hour test for acute pancreatitis.
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News Link • Food
African Potato Lab Fights Malnutrition With Biofortification
04-27-2011
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Matthew Shechmeister via WIRED.com
The sweet potato has become an unsung hero against malnutrition in Africa. High in vitamin A and suited to a variety of climates, it hass championed by advocates of biofortification, a movement to improve global health by breeding nutrient-rich crops
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News Link • Transportation
Superlight Electric Wolf Is an Apex Predator
04-26-2011
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Wes Siler via WIRED.com
They’re all perfectly capable of transforming electrons into motive power. And some, like Chip Yates’ 190.6-mph beast, are blindingly quick. But in their pursuit of powertrain innovation, the people building these machines have overlooked...
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple, Google Summoned to Senate Hearing On Mobile Device Privacy
04-26-2011
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Jacqui Cheng via WIRED.com
Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) has called upon Apple and Google to participate in a hearing with the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law in order to discuss consumer privacy.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
FBI vs. Coreflood Botnet: Round 1 Goes to the Feds
04-26-2011
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
The FBI’s unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earlier this month.
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News Link • Food
Australia Pistachio Disaster Hints at Agricultural Breakdown
04-26-2011
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Brandon Keim via WIRED.com
Australia’s pistachio farmers expected a bumper crop this year. Instead they had a harvest of horrors, with nuts blackened by a fungus that had never before caused an outbreak in pistachios.
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News Link • Conspiracies
WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010
04-26-2011
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
A German nonprofit that processes most of the donations submitted to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has finally made good on a nearly year-old promise to release a report detailing how those donations are spent
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Next Big Wave in Concussion Testing: Radar Scans
04-26-2011
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Erik Malinowski via WIRED.com
Georgia Tech engineers believe they’ve developed the next weapon in the ongoing challenge of detecting concussions and other traumatic brain injuries: deployable radar systems that could be tucked away on any NFL sideline.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Media Distorts Truth To Propagandize For NATO-Backed War On Syria
04-26-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Just like Libya, a civil war fought between a desperate regime and a western-backed force of Islamic militants is being misrepresented as a genocide against “pro-democracy”...
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News Link • TAXES: State
545 vs. 300,000,000 People
04-26-2011
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http://disc.yourwebapps.com/
Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel ... He has been a journalist for 49 years. He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN. Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.
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