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Date Sent: 2011-03-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, March 16, 2011 AM edition |
White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown -- Ex-Cop Uses GPS To Track His Date
Illinois Man Files Suit Against "Abnormal" State Wiretapping Law -- Guatemalans sue over 1940s U.S. syphilis experiments -- Sen. Al Franken: ‘They're coming after the Internet’ -- If Market Keeps Falling, Fed Will Keep Printing: 'Dr. Doom' -- Amazon Pressured on Sales Tax -- The Abuse of Private Manning -- No Supermax for Ex-Detainee in ’98 Attacks -- Miami-Dade voters remove Mayor Carlos Alvarez
-- Nevada's boom ends in record number of empty homes -- Geologist:
Alarming magnetic field changes signal major quake for West Coast -- AT&T to cap users’ Internet access, impose fees for too much information
-- Leaked cable: Japanese lawmaker pointed to cover-up of nuclear
accidents -- Radiation at 20 Times Normal In Tokyo: Will Tokyo Have to
be Abandoned? -- Radiation Surge Forces Workers To Suspend Nuclear Containment Efforts -- TEPCO Evaluates Dispersing Boric Acid On Reactor 4: Fuel Rod Damage at 33 and 70% -- Tea Party shirts now ok at voting polls as long there is no "party" -- A First Person Account From Japan's Ground Zero -- Calif. home prices’ biggest fall in 14 months
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News Link • Internet
White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown
03-15-2011
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news.cnet.com
In a 20-page white paper (PDF), the Obama administration called on the U.S. Congress to fix "deficiencies that could hinder enforcement" of intellectual property laws.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-Cop Uses GPS To Track His Date
03-15-2011
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CBS News
A former police officer pleaded no contest today to using a GPS to keep tabs on a woman he was dating.
Aaron Paul Parsons, 31, of Costa Mesa pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of unlawful use of an electronic tracking device, according to c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Illinois Man Files Suit Against "Abnormal" State Wiretapping Law
03-15-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
An Illinois man who was arrested last year on felony wiretapping charges after he videotaped a traffic stop has filed a lawsuit, questioning the Constitutionality of the state's law. Illinois has the most absurd wiretapping law in the nation, making
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Guatemalans sue over 1940s U.S. syphilis experiments
03-15-2011
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AP
The lawsuit comes after revelations that U.S. scientists studying the effects of penicillin in the 1940s deliberately infected about 700 Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients, soldiers and orphans. None was informed or gave consent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Sen. Al Franken: ‘They're coming after the Internet’
03-15-2011
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Politico
"I came here to warn you, the party may be over," Franken said. "They're coming after the Internet hoping to destroy the very thing that makes it such an important [medium] for independent artists and entrepreneurs: its openness and freedom.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
If Market Keeps Falling, Fed Will Keep Printing: 'Dr. Doom'
03-15-2011
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CNBC
"We may drop 10 to 15%. Then QE 2 will come, (then) QE 4, QE 5, QE 6, QE 7"whatever you want. The money printer will continue to print, that I'm sure," said Marc Faber. He added, "Actually I made a mistake. I meant to say QE 18."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Amazon Pressured on Sales Tax
03-15-2011
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NY Times
Across the country, state officials struggling with big budget shortfalls are trying to get Amazon.com to take on a role it does not want: tax collector.
Amazon’s skirmishes with states over whether it should collect sales taxes have been an ongo
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
The Abuse of Private Manning
03-15-2011
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NY Times
Pfc. Bradley Manning, has been imprisoned for 9 months on charges of handing government files to WikiLeaks, has not even been tried let alone convicted. Yet the military has been treating him abusively with President Obama’s support to do so.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
No Supermax for Ex-Detainee in ’98 Attacks
03-15-2011
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NY Times
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first former detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to be tried in the civilian system, has avoided being sent to the so-called Supermax prison, where the nation’s most notorious terrorists are typically held, a Bureau of Priso
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Miami-Dade voters remove Mayor Carlos Alvarez
03-15-2011
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AP
Mayor Carlos Alvarez was ousted Tuesday by voters angry over a property tax rate increase and salary raise for county employees in a county struggling to recover from the recession.
With 100 percent of precinct votes counted, 88 percent voted to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Nevada's boom ends in record number of empty homes
03-15-2011
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AP
The promise of palm tree groves and low-priced real estate lured Alan and Katherine Ackerly across the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Nevada in 2004, where thousands of new houses beckoned brightly as any neon sign.
They came to buy their retireme
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Future Predictions
Geologist: Alarming magnetic field changes signal major quake for West Coast
03-15-2011
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Terrence Aym
A former United States Geological Survey scientist says a major quake on the West Coast is imminent. Jim Berkland predicts earthquakes…accurately. Never heard of him? Perhaps you should"especially if you live on or near the West Coast of the United S
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
AT&T to cap users’ Internet access, impose fees for too much information
03-15-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via the raw story
Telecommunications giant AT&T said this week that it will join Comcast and other providers in a controversial business model that limits the amount of information subscribers can access, and imposes penalties for overages.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Leaked cable: Japanese lawmaker pointed to cover-up of nuclear accidents
03-15-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via the raw story
As engineers and scientists struggle to control six Japanese nuclear reactors the world watches with horror. The search for why this is happening has already begun.
At least one man might have some theories.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Radiation at 20 Times Normal In Tokyo: Will Tokyo Have to be Abandoned?
03-15-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The Japan Times reports that radiation reached around 20 times normal levels in the capital Tuesday morning, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said,
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Radiation Surge Forces Workers To Suspend Nuclear Containment Efforts
03-15-2011
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MSNBC.msn.com
"All the workers there have suspended their operations. We have urged them to evacuate, and they have," Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano said, according to a translation by NHK television.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Infowars Includes Musicians 4 Freedom in Top 20 Finalists
03-15-2011
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Sharlene Holt, Musicians for Freedom
The “Answer to 1984 is 1776 Video Contest” has drawn a large number of excellent entries. Below we proudly feature the Top 20...
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima Update Via Lew Rockwell: More Trouble From a Crippled Nuke Plant
03-15-2011
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LewRockwell.com & EconomicPolicyJournal.com
My opinion was confirmed with the recent suggestion of using helicopters to dump stuff on the reactors, which is clearly well beyond the point of utter desperation in nuclear ops. If one recalls, this is what the Soviets resorted to at Chernobyl...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday March 15th 2011
03-15-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Is Libertarianism Compatible With Religion? - The Cold Turkey Bust, David Calderwood on bad times ahead " then a better America - Can Japan Rise Again?, Pat Buchanan on the worries - Debt Makes a Comeback, Bill Bonner
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
TEPCO Evaluates Dispersing Boric Acid On Reactor 4: Fuel Rod Damage at 33 and 70%
03-15-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
How that will do anything to prevent the nuclear fall out from the containment bed which is now supposedly exposed to the open air, remains a mystery. And an update: "Fuel rods damage at Fukushima's 2 reactors estimated at 70%, 33%"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Free Speech
Tea Party shirts now ok at voting polls as long there is no "party".
03-15-2011
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New Times
A settlement's been reached in a lawsuit filed by the Goldwater Institute on behalf of a Coconino County woman who was told in 2010 by election officials that her Tea Party T-shirts were not allowed in polling places.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
A First Person Account From Japan's Ground Zero
03-15-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Eventually I reached a saturation point. There’s a limit to how much disaster I’m capable of processing. The adjectives peter out somewhere beyond tragic and catastrophic and devastating, and then those once horrible emotionless facts...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Calif. home prices’ biggest fall in 14 months
03-15-2011
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lansner.ocregister.com
CoreLogic’s latest reports shows ..
Statewide values were down 4.25 percent for the year ended January vs. a 2.6 percent year-to-year drop in the previous month.
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