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Date Sent: 2012-05-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 1, 2012 PM edition |
Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vows to Fix Following Public Pressure
"...You May Not Transfer Firearms or Ammunition To them." -- Five arrested in U.S. plot to blow up bridge -- Appeals court allows Texas to exclude Planned Parenthood -- Maid's NY suit vs. Strauss-Kahn can proceed -- 05-01-12 -- Anthony Bermudez - Marc J. Victor - Renee Houlihan (MP3 & Video Loaded) -- Hold cops personally liable for camera arrests? Connecticut bill says yes --
QArt Codes - QR codes with pictures embedded in the code. Generate your
own -- The Empire Strikes Back: Attack of the Drones -- 4409: Ocean City Police go Nazi Over Electric Bike --
May Day unity on display: Hundreds of thousands rally worldwide
(FESTIVE PHOTOS) -- SURPRISE! Ron Paul Destroyed Mitt Romney In
Massachusetts This Weekend -- It Looks Like The Global Economy Is Rolling Over -- Oracle and Google Await Verdict After Final Battle Over Java Copyrights -- Inside The First Production-Ready Electric Airplane -- How it Would
Work: Destroying an Incoming Killer Asteroid With a Nuclear Blast -- Police State Harshness -- Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Painfully Force-Fed -- Brewing a Conflict with China
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vows to Fix Following Public Pressure
05-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, Threat Level
After ignoring a serious security vulnerability in its product for at least a year, a Canadian company that makes equipment and software for critical industrial control systems announced quietly on Friday that it would eliminate a backdoor login acco
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Five arrested in U.S. plot to blow up bridge
05-01-2012
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Reuters
U.S. authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge over a national park, but had no ties to foreign terrorism, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • States' Rights
Appeals court allows Texas to exclude Planned Parenthood
05-01-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the state of Texas can exclude Planned Parenthood from a state health program for low-income women because the organization performs abortions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Maid's NY suit vs. Strauss-Kahn can proceed
05-01-2012
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AP
A hotel maid's sexual assault lawsuit against Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her can go forward to trial, a judge ruled, rebuffing the former International Monetary Fund leader's diplomatic-immunity claim.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Oxford Docs: We Can Prevent PTSD … With Tetris
05-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Katie Drummond
In recent years, the military’s top brass have funded some truly bizarre approaches " from neck injections to Reiki " in an effort to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress afflicting today’s soldiers. Turns out, they could’ve just equipped troops w
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Agriculture
New GM Crops Could Make Superweeds Even Stronger
05-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Brandon Keim
Herbicide-resistant superweeds threaten to overgrow U.S. fields, so agriculture companies have genetically engineered a new generation of plants to withstand heavy doses of multiple, extra-toxic weed-killing chemicals.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Head-Mounted 3-D Mapping Device, Developed for Robots, Can Help Blind People Navigate
05-01-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
A system first made for robot navigation could give blind people the equivalent of a Braille head-up display, according to French researchers.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Police State
Hold cops personally liable for camera arrests? Connecticut bill says yes
05-01-2012
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www.arstechnica.com
The Connecticut state Senate passed legislation last week that would hold police officers in the state personally liable for violating a citizen's First Amendment right to videotape their actions.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
QArt Codes - QR codes with pictures embedded in the code. Generate your own
04-12-2012
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research.swtch.com
QArt Codes
QR codes are 2-dimensional bar codes that encode arbitrary text strings. A common use of QR codes is to encode URLs so that people can scan a QR code (for example, on an advertising poster, building roof, volleyball bikini, belt buckle,
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Empire Strikes Back: Attack of the Drones
05-01-2012
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Right Side News
Politicians stand to make money off the implementation of drones in America. 53 members of the House are part of the drone caucus which works to expand the use of drones domestically. 15 members of the caucus have received a total of $68,500 from Gen
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Peru examines deaths of more than 500 pelicans
05-01-2012
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BBC
The government of Peru is investigating the deaths of more than 500 pelicans along a 70km (40-mile) stretch of the country's northern coast.
Officials say most appeared to have died on shore over the past few days. They were found in the same region
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
May Day unity on display: Hundreds of thousands rally worldwide (FESTIVE PHOTOS)
05-01-2012
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http://rt.com
Countries throughout the world are celebrating May Day, also referred to as International Labor Day.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Aversion to smart meters
05-01-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.es, Antonio Regalado
Some people equate with smart meters as the surveillance of Big Brother and oppose their installation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
SURPRISE! Ron Paul Destroyed Mitt Romney In Massachusetts This Weekend
05-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Grace Wyler
Ron Paul dealt a quiet, but embarrassing, blow to Republican rival Mitt Romney this weekend, scoring an impressive delegate victory on the presumptive nominee's home turf.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
This Is Occupy Wall Street's Huge Plan To Disrupt New York Today
05-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Lisa Du
Occupy Wall Street is trying to make a huge comeback today with an entire day of protests have been planned in honor of May Day.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
It Looks Like The Global Economy Is Rolling Over
05-01-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
In the past several hours, we've received two big negative datapoints indicating the world is slowing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
What an End to the Apple-Samsung Patent War Might Mean for Consumers
05-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Christina Bonnington
Apple and Samsung have been engaged in heated patent litigation since April 2011, but it looks like resolution could finally be imminent.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Oracle and Google Await Verdict After Final Battle Over Java Copyrights
05-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Caleb Garling
“Can somebody use another company’s property just because it suits them?”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Inside The First Production-Ready Electric Airplane
05-01-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Seth Fletcher
Range-Extending Gas Engine: A supercharged 1.5-liter gasoline engine backs up the electric system. A 23-gallon tank in the center fuselage holds enough unleaded gas to extend the GT4’s range up to 1,000 miles.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How it Would Work: Destroying an Incoming Killer Asteroid With a Nuclear Blast
05-01-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Simulations show how unleashing Earth's destructive arsenal into deep space could save the planet
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Brewing a Conflict with China
04-30-2012
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Paul Craig Roberts, LewRockwell.com
This is all about is provoking a long-term cold war conflict with China that will keep
profits and power flowing into Washington’s military-security complex. Large profits flow to armaments companies. A portion of the profits reflow into campaign co
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • TERRORISM
CBS Runs Defense For ‘Everyone’s a Terrorist’ FBI Flyers
04-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Report fails to mention numerous banal activities characterized as suspicious behavior
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
Court returns MegaUpload founder’s cash, cars
04-30-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Kim Dotcom, the eccentric founder of cyber-locker website MegaUpload, will have more than $800,000 in assets returned to him thanks to a decision Monday by the High Court of New Zealand, according to Radio New Zealand.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Activist decries CISPA as ‘a Patriot Act for the Internet’
04-30-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Swartz told Russia Today that whereas SOPA was exclusively “about giving the government the power to censor the Internet,” CISPA has the same kind of censorship provisions but “is more like a Patriot Act for the Internet.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Girl allegedly punished for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance
04-30-2012
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www.rawstory.com
In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that compelling students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance violated their First Amendment rights.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
White House: U.S. drone killings legal to combat threats
04-30-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Tabassum Zakaria
The U.S. campaign of drone strikes to kill militants in other countries is legal under international law, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser insisted on Monday in a rare public admission and justification of the controversial tactic.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Events: America
Concerns About NATO Summit Violence Leave Chicago Guessing About Security
04-30-2012
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www.chicago.cbslocal.com
Are There Evacuation Plans In Place? Will Armed Security Forces Blanket Federal Buildings? Nobody Can Really Be Sure
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Books
Ron Paul fans will love Charles Goyette's Red and Blue and Broke All Over
04-30-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Charles Goyette has more in common with Ron Paul than merely similar views. Like Paul, Goyette has paid a price for standing by his principles.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
A Different Philosophy of Civil Disobedience
04-30-2012
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www.batr.org
Conventional civil disobedience usually engages localized agencies and domestic government. Redress of grievances, constitutionally protected under law is a myth in practice.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
INNOVATIVE MOBILE APP TO COMBAT TSA PROFILING TAKES FLIGHT
04-30-2012
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Fly-Rights.Org
Introducing a quick and easy way to report complaints of air travel discrimination in real time, right after the incident occurs. The event will also be live streamed at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sikhcoalition
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Donna Hancock
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