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Date Sent: 2011-06-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 15, 2011 AM edition |
Probe clears SWAT of killing Marine in Tucson -- Cyber Vandals Breach US Senate
Report describes federal agents' ‘state of panic' over gun sales -- Activist sues Russell Pearce over his removal at Capitol -- Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid
-- Court allows Wisconsin's union law to take effect -- White House
wants business to aid in debt cap fight -- Stem-Cell Therapy Works
Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next? -- Patient
Identification "In The Palm Of Your Hand" -- Egypt: 7,000 Civilians Jailed Since Mubarak’s Ouster -- Anonymous vows to attack Federal Reserve -- Obama Wants To Keep US Troops In Afghanistan Past 2014 -- Why Facebook Is Losing U.S. Users -- The Battle Is On - Silk Road vs Government, and Bitcoin Anonymity -- China inflation at near three-year high -- Did Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul Win Monday's Debate? -- Is Gold in Fort Knox Real? Ron Paul Wants to Know -- Boehner warns Obama that Libya will violate war powers -- Why the NATO powers are trying to assassinate Moammar Gaddafi -- Around
the Globe, US Military Bases Generate Resentment, Not Security --
Proposed U.S. law would shut down websites on accusation of copyright
infringement -- AZ Legislature adjourns without unemployment vote --
Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice -- US Bonds Downgraded From AAA To AA – Numerous Warnings Cited -- Nissan car secretly shares driver data with websites
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
SWAT killing of Marine in Tucson: Probe clears officers
06-14-2011
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AP
The five SWAT officers who fatally shot a former Marine [22 times out of 71 shots and let him bleed to death] while serving a warrant in Tucson have been cleared of any wrongdoing.
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News Link • Government
Report describes federal agents' ‘state of panic' over gun sales
06-14-2011
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McClatchy News
Federal gun agents in Arizona - convinced that "someone was going to die" when their agency allowed weapons sales to suspected Mexican drug traffickers - made anguished pleas to be permitted to make arrests but were rebuffed, according to a new congr
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Activist sues Russell Pearce over his removal at Capitol
06-14-2011
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Arizona Republic
Immigration activist Salvador Reza has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that Senate President Russell Pearce violated Reza's First Amendment rights by denying him access to Senate buildings earlier this year.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid
06-14-2011
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NY Times
Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Court allows Wisconsin's union law to take effect
06-14-2011
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AP
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court handed Republican Gov. Scott Walker a major victory Tuesday, ruling that a polarizing union law that strips most public employees of their collective bargaining rights could take effect.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
White House wants business to aid in debt cap fight
06-14-2011
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Reuters
Worried that Congress will not act in time to raise the country's borrowing cap, the Obama administration is enlisting the fascist taxpayer titsucking corporations to bribe lawmakers that a U.S. default will have dire consequences.
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News Link • History
You Built What?! A Colossal Flying Reproduction of a 1935 Airship
06-14-2011
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Gregory Mone via PopSci.com
The first time retired computer engineer Jack Clemens tried to build a scale model of the USS Macon, a helium-filled naval airship lost in bad weather in 1935
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airbus Offers a Peek at the Translucent Future of Passenger Air Travel
06-14-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Airbus has seen the future, and it's spacious, sunlit and full of interactive screens. Oh, and cocktails will be served in the virtual bar, assuming someone isn’t playing 18 holes in there.
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News Link • Adult Stem Cell Technology
Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next?
06-14-2011
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Emily Anthes via PopSci.com
Doctors generally reserve stem-cell therapy, which draws on those cells’ unique ability to regenerate and form into nearly any tissue, for patients with major medical problems, such as cancer and spinal-cord injuries.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Inside FAST, Soon to be the World's Biggest and Baddest Radio Telescope
06-14-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory will soon be the world’s largest radio telescope no more. After years of planning, China has broken ground on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robot Hand Picks Up and Deposits Messes Without Leaving A Trace
06-14-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Today in things that may leave you scratching your head: the SWITL, the robotic hand that can pick up, move, and put down sol-gel materials without altering their shape or arrangement in the least.
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News Link • Transportation
MIT Demonstrates Smart Cars That Predict Each Others' Moves to Avoid Collisions
06-14-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Someday, our cars will all be connected to each other, sharing traffic information, connecting us into “road trains,” and swapping position info so that collisions become a thing of the un-wired past.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Patient Identification "In The Palm Of Your Hand"
06-14-2011
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PRNewswire
NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NYU Langone Medical Center announced today that it is the first medical center in the Northeast to use PatientSecure™ -- a cutting-edge biometric technology " to identify patients. Utilizing near infrared light
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News Link • World News
Egypt: 7,000 Civilians Jailed Since Mubarak’s Ouster
06-14-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Egypt’s increasingly less-than-interim military junta has confirmed today that it has imprisoned at least 7,000 civilians since it took power in early February.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The War on Digital Currency
06-14-2011
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http://dailyreckoning.com/
How many Senators does it take to dismantle a cryptographically secured, completely decentralized, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network of voluntary, free market traders exchanging goods and services across six continents....
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Wants To Keep US Troops In Afghanistan Past 2014
06-14-2011
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AntiWar.com
According to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, his government is already engaging in serious talks with the Obama Administration about keeping American troops in Afghanistan beyond the end of 2014, the current date at which...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NFIB: Small Business Optimism Just Fell To 8-Month Low, Hiring Plans Plunge
06-14-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com & BusinessInsider.com
The headline number of 90.9 is an 8-month low.
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI Power to Snoop Expanded (Again)
06-14-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents " allowing them more leeway to search databases...
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News Link • Internet
Why Facebook Is Losing U.S. Users
06-14-2011
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www.pcmag.com
Has the world's No. 1 social network finally peaked in its home country?
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Did Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul Win Monday's Debate?
06-14-2011
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http://www.benzinga.com/
Political pundits seem to pull their analysis out of thin air, filtering the candidate's performances through their own filters and expectations. The result seems to be support for bland candidates whose ideas most closely match the reporters involve
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Is Gold in Fort Knox Real? Ron Paul Wants to Know
06-14-2011
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http://www.cnbc.com/
Are the gold bars in Fort Knox really made of the precious metal? Or has the U.S. government secretly sold off the nation's stockpile and replaced it with metal bars that are only painted gold?
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Ron Paul: “I am the Commander in Chief”
06-14-2011
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http://www.unitedliberty.org/
Watching the CNN-hosted New Hampshire debate on Monday evening, it became clear just how much different the 2012 Replican primary race is from 2008 and yet, how it is the same.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Boehner gives Obama Friday deadline on Libya
06-14-2011
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/
Stepping up a simmering constitutional conflict, House Speaker John A. Boehner warned President Obama on Tuesday that unless he gets authorization from Congress for his military deployment in Libya...
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Boehner warns Obama that Libya will violate war powers
06-14-2011
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent President Obama a letter Tuesday afternoon warning him that the operation in Libya will be violating the War Powers Resolution by this Sunday...
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
06-14-2011
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http://www.space.com/
Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Why the NATO powers are trying to assassinate Moammar Gaddafi
06-14-2011
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/
Wikileaks-released State Department cables from November 2007 and afterwards show the real reason for the mounting U.S. hostility to the Libyan government prior to the current civil war.
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News Link • World News
Around the Globe, US Military Bases Generate Resentment, Not Security
06-14-2011
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http://www.thenation.com/
As we debate an exit from Afghanistan, it’s critical that we focus not only on the costs of deploying the current force of more than 100,000 troops, but also on the costs of maintaining permanent bases long after those troops leave.
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News Link • Internet
"LINK to US" (And You Could Earn a Free Subscription)
06-14-2011
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FreedomsPhoenix
Send an email to Publisher-at-FreedomsPhoenix.com with a link to your website that displays a linked graphic from below to our site and we'll make sure you get at least 30 days of Subscriber status. Depending on your site traffic we may do more.
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News Link • Police State
SPECIAL REPORT: Blocking Police Brutality with CopBlock.org
06-14-2011
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http://rtr.org/
In this special report Gary Franchi is joined by Nick Saorsa and Drew Phillips, contributors to the website CopBlock.org.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Economic Statistic US Elites Keep ‘Hush-Hush’
06-14-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Due to the message it is delivering, most US economists employed in financial institutions, governments and private industry, as well as financiers and politicians, want to ignore it.
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News Link • Surveillance
"The Internet of Things" and Unlicensed White Space Spectrum
06-14-2011
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electronicsweekly.com
This 'Internet of Things' notion reared its head again yesterday with the announcement by CSR co-founder James Collier's new start-up Neul that it was launching a radio system to use unlicensed white space spectrum.
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News Link • Surveillance
Proposed U.S. law would shut down websites on accusation of copyright infringement
06-14-2011
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themarknews.com
As written, the Protect IP Act gives the attorney general and private intellectual property holders the power to not only sue owners and operators of U.S.-based websites, but to execute what is known as an in rem action " essentially an action...
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Video
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Susanne Dahlgren - Yemen and Syria / GOP Debate: 06-13-11
Susanne Dahlgren writes frequently on Yemen. She is Academy of Finland research fellow with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the author of "Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen."
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday June 14th, 2011
06-14-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The US Ministry of Truth - Bill Clinton wants one, which means even he knows the jig is up. Article by Butler Shaffer. / Battle Stations! - Time for more imperial spending and death expeditions. Article by Eric Margolis.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
AZ Legislature adjourns without unemployment vote
06-14-2011
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http://www.forbes.com/
The Arizona Legislature adjourned a two-day special session Monday without voting on a proposal to keep 20 weeks of federally funded extended unemployment benefits flowing to thousands of jobless people.
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Mitt Romney Faces Voter Fraud Complaint as List of Apparent GOP Vote Fraudsters...
06-14-2011
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http://www.bradblog.com/
What is it about Mormon Republican Presidential candidates and their proclivity for committing voter fraud?
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The sharia myth sweeps America
06-14-2011
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http://www.usatoday.com/
If you are not vitally concerned about the possibility of radical Muslims infiltrating the U.S. government and establishing a Taliban-style theocracy, then you are not a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination.
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News Link • Free Speech
U.S. Hopes "Internet in a Suitcase" Will Offset Internet Censorship
06-14-2011
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/
The U.S. government has created what it is calling an "Internet in a suitcase" to cheat the switches on the filtering regimes of repressive countries.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The Practical Idealist
06-14-2011
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http://mises.org/
Sometimes Ron Paul seems too good to be true. For decades he has championed the cause of liberty and sound monetary and geopolitical policy.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society
06-14-2011
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http://justlive.us/
I have read many articles stating that if you have any addictions to nicotine, caffeine or alcohol that now is the time to change your habits so that your dependency on them in their absence are easier to tolerate.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Bonds Downgraded From AAA To AA " Numerous Warnings Cited
06-14-2011
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http://www.libertariannews.org/
For those of you who are unfamiliar with how international bond markets work, let me quickly explain why the following comments by foreign banks should have you extremely worried.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Nissan car secretly shares driver data with websites
06-14-2011
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Electric cars manufactured by Nissan surreptitiously leak detailed information about a driver's location, speed and destination to websites accessed through the vehicle's built in RSS reader, a security blogger has found.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Easy First Steps To Building Your Barter Network
06-14-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
The trading of goods without the use of paper currency is not a difficult concept. People all across the country do it everyday. Barter, in its simplest sense, is not dead, and never will be.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
WiFi-sniffing picture frame
06-14-2011
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http://www.boingboing.net/
This picture frame, made from an ancient Pentium II laptop, displayes images sniffed out of public WiFi connections: "Many coffee shops in Vancouver feature both local art and wi-fi, so why not combine the two?"
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News Link • WAR: About that War
CIA Poised to Begin Drone Strikes Against Yemen
06-14-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
It is already well-documented that the Obama Administration has been escalating the number of air strikes against targets inside Yemen. While the CIA has played a role in those military strikes...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Study Finds Best Sunscreen Is Layer Of Human Blood
06-14-2011
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http://www.theonion.com/
According to a study released Monday by the Environmental Working Group, the best defense against the harmful effects of the sun's rays is a thick coating of human blood.
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News Link • Police State
SPECIAL REPORT: Blocking Police Brutality with CopBlock.org
06-14-2011
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youtube.com
In this special report Gary Franchi is joined by Nick Saorsa and Drew Phillips, contributors to the website CopBlock.org. They discuss the recent rise in police swat team usage and the practical and ways average Americans can take action to protect t
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News Link • Government
Politicians 'Lying Through Their Teeth' on Greek Aid (and Everything Else Too)
06-14-2011
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Everyone understands that Jean-Claude Junker, the head of euro-zone finance ministers is a liar. He has openly admitted such. To what extent are other politicians lying?
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News Link • The Cold War
Look Out Above! Russia May Target U.S. Sats With Laser Jet
06-14-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Back in the early 80s, Soviet engineers began outfitting an Ilyushin-76 jet with a laser cannon. Two models of the “Falcon-Echelon” planes were flown " presumably as counterweights to U.S. efforts to construct a fleet of missile-zapping jets.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
The Philosophy of Liberty: Plunder
06-14-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
We explore Frederic Bastiat's concept of Legal Plunder. Is it ever OK for government to steal your stuff and give it to someone else? Or is government just a glorified organized crime syndicate ala Tony Soprano?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Economic Statistic US Elites Keep ‘Hush-Hush’
06-14-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
It is a simple statistic that continues to warn of huge economic problems ahead for the US. Some economists call it the ‘marginal productivity of debt (MPD).
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News Link • Media: Television
10 Most Influential People in the Alternative Media (2011)
06-14-2011
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http://www.activistpost.com/
Many readers will expect to see Matt Drudge or Arianna Huffington on this list. Although they both indeed have leading Internet news websites that cover some fringe stories and report on systematic injustices more so than the mainstream media
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News Link • World News
Battle Stations. Battle Stations. The Red Chinese Navy Is Coming at Flank Speed!
06-14-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Those Cassandras who believe Cathay is about to rule waves after launching its first aircraft carrier are getting way, way ahead of themselves.
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News Link • Internet
Even Bill Clinton Knows It's Over!
06-14-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Bill Clinton " the examplar of truth in modern America " has proposed the establishment of a government "ministry of truth" " to be run by either the United States government or the United Nations
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Should Public Banks Print Money Without Holding Reserves?
06-14-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
The Giant Banks Are ALREADY State-Sponsored ... So Why Not Create Public Banks to at Least Share the Gains, Help Out Main Street, and Grow Our Local Economies?
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News Link • Internet
US Government Backs Suitcase-Sized "Shadow Internet" to Battle Censorship
06-14-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
The United States is developing what the New York Times is calling “shadow internet” " a prototype network that can fit into a suitcase and be carried across state borders to provide political dissidents with...
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Robot Roommates Prepare and Serve a German Sausage Breakfast
06-14-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Our favorite robot is learning to shop for, prepare and serve entire meals " from cookies to a round of beers and now, breakfast. In this latest robot-cook experiment, PR2 gets some help from a German ‘bot named Rosie..
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