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Date Sent: 2011-06-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 29, 2011 AM edition |
Obama Admin Fires ATF Whistleblower -- NATO trying to kill Gaddafi: top US commander
Google report reveals British government web snooping -- Peace activists sue after group infiltrated
by military informant -- Activists rally to push for maximum
sentence for NYPD cops acquitted of rape -- 2 years in prison for
former Nogales, AZ mayor after plea deal -- Texas House, Senate approve watered down
bills over airport pat-downs -- ‘Anonymous’ declares war on
Orlando -- FBI Raids Iowa Woman’s Home
in Lulz Security Hacker Investigation -- New Jersey police
misuse and abuse informants: ACLU report -- Maryland Adds Environmental Literacy in
High Schools -- New Mexico Wildfires Threaten Los Alamos Labs,
America's Nuclear Research Hub -- Lagarde's selection marks a break
with IMF's past -- NATO helicopters
end Kabul hotel siege, 7 dead -- World's first flying motorbike:
Helicopter pilot invents the 'hoverbike' in his garage -- Beau Kidnapped For Wearing Hat in District
Court -- German Lab Generates the Strongest Magnetic Field Ever
Created -- Federal Study of Power Grid Might Disrupt The Nation's
Clocks -- Haptic Vibrating Belts
Guide U.S. Soldiers Through the Darkness -- The American Police
State Is the 'New Normal' -- Ron
Paul’s Anti-Fed Message Gains Respect -- Migrant Workers Riot Across
Southern China -- Privately Built SpaceShipTwo Keeps Passing Glide
Tests with Flying Colors -- As Obama Hails DARPA, Senate Panel Knifes
Its Budget -- Cancer Surges In Body
Scanner Operators; TSA Launches Cover-Up -- Greek PM: Austerity
is Patriotic Duty -- Greece:
Possibility of a Military Coup? -- Radioactive water leaks from
Japan’s damaged plant
AZ: Arizona
Breakfast Club this
Saturday with Alan Korwin on "The Global Collapse"; POOL PARTY-Saturday, July 2nd, at Hancock's
PA:
Outreach Table - DECLARE
PEACE FAIR this Saturday in Philadelphia
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Obama Administration Fires ATF Whistleblower
06-28-2011
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FOX News
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is being accused of retaliating against an agent who helped publicize the agency’s role in allowing thousands of guns to cross the U.S. border and fall into the hands of Mexican drug gangs.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Nato is trying to kill Gaddafi, admits top U.S. commander
06-28-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Nato forces are trying to kill Colonel Gaddafi, the top U.S. commander in the Libyan conflict has admitted.
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News Link • Surveillance
Google report reveals British government web snooping
06-28-2011
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Daily Telegraph
The dominant search engine's Transparency Report shows that in the six months to last December, British intelligence agencies, police and other government bodies asked it to hand over data 1,162 times.
In raw numbers of requests, the United States
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News Link • Police State
Peace activists sue after group infiltrated by military informant
06-28-2011
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Rawstory (video)
Port Militarization Resistance explained why the organization is currently involved in a lawsuit against several branches of the military and local law enforcement for violating civil rights, civil liberties and the Posse Comitatus Act.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Activists rally to push for maximum sentence for NYPD cops acquitted of rape
06-28-2011
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Rawstory
A group of activists gathered across from the Courthouse in New York City to demand the maximum sentencing for NYPD officers at the center of the well-publicized “rape cops” trial. Acquitted of rape, despite substantial evidence against them,
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
2 years in prison for former Nogales mayor after plea deal
06-28-2011
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AP
The former mayor of Nogales accepted a plea deal that will likely send him to prison for two years. Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel had been charged with soliciting bribes while mayor. He pleaded no contest to illegally conducting an enterprise.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
9 Things Parents Should Know About Transformers: Dark of the Moon
06-28-2011
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GeekDad Guest Writer via WIRED.com
1. What’s it about?
Robots in disguise. The Autobots are fully integrated into American society when a discovery is made in Russia that leads to a secret buried on the surface of the moon
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Texas House, Senate approve watered down bills over airport pat-downs
06-28-2011
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The Texas House on Monday gave preliminary approval to legislation that prohibits invasive pat-downs by federal airport security agents after incorporating changes that led House Speaker Joe Straus to drop his resistance to the bill.
The Senate pa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
‘Anonymous’ declares war on Orlando
06-28-2011
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AP
“Operation Orlando” will take down a different Orlando-related website every day with distributed denial of service attacks. The attacks are reportedly retaliation for Orlando’s decision to arrest members of a non-profit group for feeding the homeles
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI Raids Iowa Woman’s Home in Lulz Security Hacker Investigation
06-28-2011
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Adrian Chen, Gawker via WIRED.com
The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but law enforcement’s hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman’s home because of her connections to the group.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Jersey police misuse and abuse informants: ACLU report
06-28-2011
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Rawstory
The use of confidential informants by New Jersey police leads to violations of civilians' rights and botched investigations thanks to inconsistent polices and insufficient oversight. Some departments throughout New Jersey failed to put agreements in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Maryland Adds Environmental Literacy in High Schools
06-28-2011
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FOX News
Maryland is the first state in the country to impose a new requirement to graduate from high school -- something called environmental literacy.
But what is that? That is the question State Senator J. B. Jennings is asking.
"What kind of educati
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
New Mexico Wildfires Threaten Los Alamos Labs, America's Nuclear Research Hub
06-28-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The wildfires burning in across the Southwest have threatened homes, economies, and communities, but today the Las Conchas fire in New Mexico is taking the threat to a new level.
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News Link • New World Order
Lagarde's selection marks a break with IMF's past
06-28-2011
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AP
The IMF's 24-member board decided it would have the first woman to lead the global lending organization, which is recovering from a sex scandal involving the man she'll replace. When Christine Lagarde begins a five-year term next week, Lagarde will t
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO helicopters end Kabul hotel siege, 7 dead
06-28-2011
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AP
NATO helicopters fired rockets at gunmen on the rooftop of a besieged Kabul hotel early on Wednesday, ending a more than four-hour standoff between militants and police that left at least seven dead and eight others wounded, Afghan officials said.
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News Link • Police State
Normalizing the Police State
06-28-2011
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Allison Kilkenny
Treating children as suspects is the new normal in American culture. There is something innately wrong with children. If they’re too chatty, they need to be medicated. If they’re too angry, they need to be suppressed by a “peace officer.” They are no
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Thomas Costanzo
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Feature Article • Police State
How to Wear your Hat in Court!
Thomas Costanzo
Morpheus heads in to court for the heinous crime of having a blinking light on his bicycle! Plus they have a hard time deciding is it a bike or is it a moped. Interesting the cop said on the record I was in commerce 2 times...Interesting. I learne
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
World's first flying motorbike: Helicopter pilot invents the 'hoverbike' in his garage
06-28-2011
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Dailymail.co.uk via Rense.com
"...10,000ft and speeds of over 100mph."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
Beau Kidnapped For Wearing Hat in District Court
06-28-2011
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freekeene.com
Copblock reports with a multi-angle, comprehensive report from the scene of Beau’s arrest yesterday at Keene district court:
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
German Lab Generates the Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Created
06-28-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Using a two-layer, 440-pound copper coil the size of a water bucket, they managed to coax 91.4 teslas from their creation for just a few milliseconds, surpassing the previous record of 89 teslas.
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News Link • Energy
Federal Study of Power Grid Might Disrupt The Nation's Clocks
06-28-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Soon, when you sleep through your Monday morning alarm, it may be Uncle Sam’s fault. Federal officials are considering an experiment on the nation’s electrical grid that could interrupt the way your appliances tell time.
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News Link • Military
Haptic Vibrating Belts Guide U.S. Soldiers Through the Darkness
06-28-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Goggles can be clunky and obtrusive, and backlit GPS displays can betray a lurking warfighter’s position. A new haptic interface developed by Army researchers will help soldiers feel their way through the darkness instead.
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News Link • Police State
The American Police State Is the 'New Normal'
06-28-2011
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Jared Spurbeck
According to The New York Times, the FBI just raided a data center in Virginia and seized many of its servers, causing websites owned by "tens of clients" to go offline - including those belonging to people who hadn't broken a law, and were not suspe
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
New Documents Prove TSA “Mischaracterized” Safety Aspects Of Full Body Scanners
06-28-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Newly released internal government documents, obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act, reveal that the TSA, and specifically the head of the Department of Homeland Security, “publicly mischaracterized” the findings of the...
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News Link • World News
China and the West: One and the Same?
06-28-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
China, a democratic leader among the countries of the world, shall march into a glorious future shoulder-to-shoulder with the West.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Real Freedom Works
06-28-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
America is not as free as it seems to be. The government needs to pass laws to empower shareholders. Then shareholders will run corporations and America's Constitutional republic shall blossom once more.
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News Link • World News
Migrant Workers Riot Across Southern China
06-28-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Hong Kong television showed seething crowds of migrant workers from the southwestern province of Sichuan running through the streets of Zengcheng, smashing windows, setting fire to government buildings and overturning police vehicles.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Privately Built SpaceShipTwo Keeps Passing Glide Tests with Flying Colors
06-28-2011
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http://www.space.com/
SpaceShipTwo, a privately built rocket plane designed to take tourists on suborbital flights, continues to chalk up more flight time as it glides through the skies over the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
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News Link • Government
As Obama Hails Darpa, Senate Panel Knifes Its Budget
06-28-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
On Friday, President Obama celebrated Darpa, the Defense Department’s premiere research arm, as a hothouse of “cutting-edge ideas to create new jobs, spark new breakthroughs, [and] reinvigorate American manufacturing.”
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Two iPhones in September? Don’t Hold Your Breath
06-28-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore claims that Apple will be releasing two iPhone models in September: a completely new model " referred to as the iPhone 5 " and an essentially souped-up iPhone 4 called the iPhone 4S.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
When Active-Safety Systems Fail, Who Pays?
06-28-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Instead of stopping, however, my big-ticket sedan moved forward as if that jerk wasn’t even there. I slammed on the brakes " stopping just in time " and immediately shut off the active cruise control.
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News Link • Economy - International
Greek PM: Austerity is Patriotic Duty
06-28-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has told his fellow countrymen it is their patriotic duty to accept the austerity plan cooked up by the IMF and the EU. If not accepted, Greece will not get the fifth installment of an international bailout, he
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News Link • World News
Greece: Possibility of a Military Coup?
06-28-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
While the IMF stalls on its rescue package for Greece, many in the market are beginning to question whether the country would not in fact be better off out of the euro altogether.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Radioactive water leaks from Japan’s damaged plant
06-28-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Tons of radioactive water were discovered on Tuesday to have leaked into the ground from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, the latest in a series of leaks at the plant damaged in a March earthquake and tsunami, the country’s nuclear watchdog said.
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