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Date Sent: 2012-06-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, June 24, 2012 |
Saudi Arabia and Qatar bankroll Syrian rebels? -- Syrian military says it downed Turkish fighter jet
Alternative Voices from Rio+20 -- Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Occupy Belo Monte Dam Site -- Did Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Anti-Immigrant Zeal Kill David de la Fuente? -- The Pentagon Is Developing Cyber Weapons That Launch Without Human Intervention -- Former Head Of Star Wars Program Says Cheney Main 9/11 Suspect -- DEA’s Michele Leonhart: If Science Disagrees, We’ll Shut Down Research -- Comprehensive List Of FEMA Camps -- San Antonio, Texas Students To Be Tracked Via RFID In Their IDs --
Revolution in the balance: Thousands on Tahrir await election results
(PHOTOS) -- Israeli strike on Iran would end Jewish state – Iran’s top brass -- Iraqi press crackdown: Police to close media agencies -- Oregon
Officials Use Fear to Coerce Parents into Vaccinating Their Children -- Fast and Furious rhetoric insensitive to whistleblowers and victims -- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Non-cosponsors -- EXPERT: China Resembles The USSR Right Before The Fall -- The Great German Energy Experiment -- Primitive Eye, Tiny Liver Grown in the Lab -- Mysterious Structure May Have Led to Ancient Artificial Island -- Scientists remember Turing, father of modern computers -- 14-year-old boy shoots man breaking into S. Phoenix home -- Moroccan man pleads guilty to U.S. Capitol bomb attempt -- President Obama as 'warrior-in-chief': Militaries always need enemies to justify their existence -- Police Ticketing Informal Rideshare Participants Based On No Law, But To Protect Port Authority Revenue -- Julian Assange's right to asylum: Given the travesty that is American justice -- Gulf of Tonkin Redux? - by Stephen Lendman -- Cold War Politics Redux - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Syria
Saudi Arabia and Qatar bankroll Syrian rebels?
06-23-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Free Syrian Army (FSA) militants are about to go on the Saudi payroll, the country’s officials shared with The Guardian.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syrian military says it downed Turkish fighter jet
06-23-2012
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BBC News
The Syrian military has said that it shot down a Turkish warplane "flying in airspace over Syrian waters".
A spokesman said the plane, an F-4 Phantom, was dealt with "according to the laws that govern such situations", the state news agency Sana s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Alternative Voices from Rio+20
06-23-2012
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http://amazonwatch.org, Preethi Nallu
While world leaders negotiate in the Rio+20 meeting halls, thousands of activists have launched "The People's Summit"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Occupy Belo Monte Dam Site
06-23-2012
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http://amazonwatch.org
Indigenous peoples affected by the controversial Belo Monte dam complex now under construction along the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon have occupied a coffer dam that cuts across channels of the river since last Thursday June 21.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Bike Porn: 7 Awesome Innovations
06-23-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, Kacey Deamer
Your good old 10-speed just got a whole lot cooler.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Did Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Anti-Immigrant Zeal Kill David de la Fuente?
06-23-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Aura Bogado
An SB 1070-style traffic stop, an unattended illness in jail, and one family's tragedy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Pentagon Is Developing Cyber Weapons That Launch Without Human Intervention
06-23-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Joe Wolverton
The United States government is developing a computer system that would allow it to conduct cyber warfare without the intervention of a human programmer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Former Head Of Star Wars Program Says Cheney Main 9/11 Suspect
06-23-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Laura Tyco
The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Che
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
DEA’s Michele Leonhart: If Science Disagrees, We’ll Shut Down Research
06-23-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, MAPS
Despite plentiful scientific that marijuana has the potential to ease pain, reduce depression, and even reduce the likelihood of certain kinds of cancer, the DEA still clings to their dogma that marijuana has no medical uses.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
Comprehensive List Of FEMA Camps
06-23-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, WorldTruth TV
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency? Simply put, it is the “secret government”.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Revolution in the balance: Thousands on Tahrir await election results (PHOTOS)
06-23-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Egyptians have congregated in the thousands on Cairo's Tahrir Square in anticipation of the election results that could make or break the revolution.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Israeli strike on Iran would end Jewish state " Iran’s top brass
06-23-2012
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http://www.rt.com
If Israel goes from threats to military actions, “it is Israel who will be destroyed,” says a high-ranking Iranian general.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi press crackdown: Police to close media agencies
06-23-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Iraqi police are under orders to shut down a number of foreign and local media outlets across the country, reports Iraqi journalist rights group.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Oregon Officials Use Fear to Coerce Parents into Vaccinating Their Children
06-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In Oregon, parents have opted out of vaccinating their children in such large numbers that researchers are growing concerned.
A new study concluded that infants on alternative immunization schedules are growing from 2.5% in 2006 to 9.5 % in 2009.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fast and Furious rhetoric insensitive to whistleblowers and victims
06-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Certain reporters in the mainstream media and progressive politicians in Washington have engaged in rhetoric that exhibits a marked insensitivity to the whistleblowers and victims in the Fast and Furious scandal.
In the aftermath of the vote Wedne
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Federal Reserve
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Noncosponsors
06-23-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Noncosponsors
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a markup on Audit the Fed, H.R. 459, possibly even as soon as next week!
The following members of the committee have y
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Chris Menke
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News Link • China
EXPERT: China Resembles The USSR Right Before The Fall
06-23-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The panel topic was, "How Stable is China: Can Its Economic Miracle Continue Under Its Current Political System?"
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News Link • Media: Radio
Review: Spotify's Mobile Internet Radio
06-23-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Rachel Metz
The addition of Internet radio to the music service's iPhone app could also be a boon to its bottom line.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
A Camera Made from Many Produces Gigapixel Images
06-23-2012
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technologyreview.com, Duncan Graham-Rowe
A research project shows how a revolutionary type of camera could be commercialized.
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News Link • Energy
The Great German Energy Experiment
06-23-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, David Talbot
Germany has decided to pursue ambitious greenhouse-gas reductions"while closing down its nuclear plants. Can a heavily industrialized country power its economy with wind turbines and solar panels?
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Might Have a Lot More Water Than We Knew
06-23-2012
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http://www.popsci.com
Researchers have discovered evidence that there's a lot more water on Mars--at least on parts of Mars--than anyone previously thought. Using new technology, scientists examined the water content in meteorites from the planet, and it points to a lot o
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Primitive Eye, Tiny Liver Grown in the Lab
06-23-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Natalie Wolchover
Japanese scientists claim to have coaxed stem cells to develop into a rudimentary human liver, replete with working blood vessels and the ability to metabolize. At the same time, another group in Japan reports the growth from stem cells of a precurso
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News Link • Archaeology
Mysterious Structure May Have Led to Ancient Artificial Island
06-23-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Joseph Castro
Archaeologists have unearthed the foundation of what appears to have been a massive, ancient structure, possibly a bridge leading to an artificial island, in what is now southeast Wales.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
NASA satellite sees several western US fires blazing
06-23-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Rob Gutro
Fires are raging in the western U.S. and in one overpass from its orbit around the Earth, NASA's Aqua satellite picked up smoke and identified hot spots from fires in Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
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News Link • Environment
Disappearing grasslands: ASU scientists to study dramatic environmental change
06-23-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Sandra Leander
The Earth's grasslands and savannas are experiencing a major transformation as woody plants, such as trees and shrubs, have begun to dominate arid lands around the globe.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Mild thyroid dysfunction in early pregnancy linked to serious complications
06-23-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Aaron Lohr
Even moderate thyroid dysfunction during early pregnancy significantly increases the risk of serious complications, underscoring the need for universal screening in the first trimester, a new study finds.
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News Link • History
Scientists remember Turing, father of modern computers
06-23-2012
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http://phys.org, by Mariette le Roux
Scientists will gather from Bangalore to Texas on Saturday to honour British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose code-cracking is credited with shortening World War II.
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News Link • Transportation
First Tesla electric sedans hit the road
06-23-2012
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http://phys.org, by HAVEN DALEY
Electric car maker Tesla's first mass-market sedans took to the road Friday, but it's not certain whether their debut will make or break the fledgling company.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Select developers can get inside Microsoft's SmartGlass
06-23-2012
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http://phys.org, by Nancy Owano
Microsoft has released a SmartGlass software development kit (SDK) for Xbox developers, giving them tools and the green light to create applications for SmartGlass before the technology makes its debut later this year.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Moroccan man pleads guilty to U.S. Capitol bomb attempt
06-23-2012
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Reuters
He intended to shoot bystanders before detonating a bomb inside the building, which is home to Congress, they said. His gun and the explosives, however, had been rendered inoperable by U.S. agents, according to the FBI.
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News Link • Gun Rights
14-year-old boy shoots man breaking into S. Phoenix home
06-22-2012
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ABC 15 Phoenix
Phoenix police Officer James Holmes said the teen was home with his 8, 10 and 12-year-old siblings when a woman started knocking on the door.
The 14-year-old did not recognize her so he didn't answer the door of the home near 55th Avenue and Base
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Police State
Police Ticketing Informal Rideshare Participants Based On No Law, But To Protect Port Authority Reve
06-20-2012
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TechDirt
You see, if you are in a carpool (of at least 3 people) and cross the George Washington Bridge (between the Bronx and New Jersey) you save $6 on the toll. That's a decent-sized savings, so people have set up an informal sort of ride share, in that
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
President Obama as 'warrior-in-chief': Militaries always need enemies to justify their exist
06-23-2012
This war [on terror] was never really just about terrorists, of course. It's largely about keeping the military-industrial complex steaming ahead.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Julian Assange's right to asylum: Given the travesty that is American justice
06-20-2012
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Glenn Greenwald, Guardian
The primary fear is being turned over to the US. That is the crucial context for understanding Julian Assange's 16-month fight to avoid extradition to Sweden, a fight that led him to seek asylum, Tuesday, in the London Embassy of Ecuador.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
June 24, 2012 Edition
06-22-2012
John Semmens
Press Secretary Parries Questions on “Fast & Furious” Scandal
Press Secretary Jay Carney denied that President Obama's grant of “Executive Privilege” status to the Department of Justice correspondence on the scheme to get guns into the hands of Me
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Feature Article • Activism
JULY 4th: PROTEST!
David McElroy
We have NO INDEPENDENCE in America. Psychopath Uncle Sam recognizes none of our God-given rights nor respects the constraints of the U.S. Constitution. He wars against us! PROTEST!
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