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Date Sent: 2011-05-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, May 12, 2011 AM edition |
What Else Will The Government’s “Special Chip” In Your Cellphone Do?
China Takes Over Africa? -- Google Wants to Control Your Home -- NASA Offers $200 Million for an Orbiting Gas Station -- Libya stalemate leaves Nato with New Insect Repellent is 'Thousands of Times' More Effective than DEETout 'Plan B' -- Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future -- Religious Right Leader Colson warns of Ayn Rand’s Negative Influence
-- Forbes Predicts U.S. Gold Standard Within 5 Years -- Florida's
Bestiality Law May Have Accidentally Outlawed Sex Entirely -- Greeks
Strike Over New Austerity Proposals -- Why the West Is Attacking
Gaddafi -- New Defense Bill Authorizes US Government To Launch
“Defensive” Cyber Attacks -- Memo
To The President From Dick Cheney -- Japan to abandon nuclear power
expansions, focus on green technology -- Mississippi River crests near
record at Memphis -- Ron Paul To Decide On 2012 Run “Within The Week” -- Rajaratnam Guilty on All Counts in Insider-Trading Case -- Slumping oil, commodity prices halt stock rally -- Kerry heads for Pakistan to soothe fury over bin Laden raid -- Libyan Rebels Seize Control of Misurata’s Airport -- Syrians Report Shelling of City and Mass Arrests
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News Link • Surveillance
What Else Will The Government’s “Special Chip” In Your Cellphone Do?
05-11-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The Obama administration is engaged in a totalitarian takeover of all communications
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Government
Congress Urged to Increase Oversight of Peace Corps
05-11-2011
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NY Times
The mother of a murdered Peace Corps volunteer told Congress on Wednesday that the agency’s mishandling of confidential e-mails “ultimately led” to her daughter’s death, and she said the Peace Corps later cut off communications with her family, “leav
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Imperialism
China Takes Over Africa?
05-11-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Africa's tense ties with West ... Tense Britain-Malawi relations are symptomatic of how African nations are increasingly intolerant of Western criticism as China steps up its no-pressure approach to aid and trade.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Insect Repellent is 'Thousands of Times' More Effective than DEET
05-11-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Researchers at Vanderbilt looking for better ways to control the spread of malaria have stumbled across an insect repellent that is thousands of times stronger than DEET.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
Libya stalemate leaves Nato without 'Plan B'
05-11-2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/
"Stalemate" is not a word you will hear in public from the lips of ministers or media handlers in the Ministry of Defence here in London.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Surveillance
China: The New Bin Laden
05-11-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the Amerika of today and, I fear, also his native Great Britain,
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Religious Right Leader Colson warns of Ayn Rand’s Negative Influence
05-11-2011
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Epiphanyblog
Former Watergate conspirator-turned Christian evangelist Chuck Colson, fulminates against Ayn Rand's growing cultural influence, regurgitating just about every single misrepresentation of her views.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Forbes Predicts U.S. Gold Standard Within 5 Years
05-11-2011
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Human Events
Steve Forbes predicted a return to the gold standard by the United States within the next five years now seems likely, because that move would help the nation solve a variety of economic, fiscal, and monetary ills.
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Mike Renzulli
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Opinion • Conspiracies
Determinism and Liberty
05-11-2011
Mike Renzulli
Conspiracy theories are a strand of faith largely grounded in determinism and are not compatible with liberty or free will. Therefore, if you subscribe to conspiracy theories are you are not a libertarian.
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Florida's Bestiality Law May Have Accidentally Outlawed Sex Entirely
05-11-2011
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
There may be some terrible news to report out of Florida today, depending on how the state's residents have collectively decided to apply the basic science of biological classification to their lives.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why the West Is Attacking Gaddafi
05-11-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Outside powers in the West stirred up and blessed the rebellion against Gaddafi. Through NATO and the UN, they are now aiding these same rebels.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The World’s Largest Street Gang
05-11-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
Sure, the "3,000 Boys" are a group of tattooed thugs from Los Angeles who spend a lot of time in jail, share cryptic hand signs, have a cultivated sensitivity to being "dissed," routinely beat up people at parties and instigate fights in bars " but d
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
New Defense Bill Authorizes US Government To Launch “Defensive” Cyber Attacks
05-11-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Within the chairman’s mark of the 2012 Defense Authorization bill is language that would allow DoD to carry out clandestine operations in cyberspace against targets located outside the United States and to defend against all attacks on DoD assets.
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News Link • Humor
Memo To The President From Dick Cheney
05-11-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
From deep inside his self imposed Bunker, Dick “Darth Vader’ Cheney emails President Obama with advice on walking on the dark side and useful counsel regarding lies, deceptions and end game strategies .
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News Link • World News
Shock: Krugman Turns on 'Elites'
05-11-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Well, what I've been hearing with growing frequency from members of the policy elite " self-appointed wise men, officials, and pundits in good standing " is the claim that it's mostly the public's fault.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
What's the Awesomest 3-D Printed Bionic Titanium Implant You Can Imagine
05-11-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
i.Materialize recently announced the (somewhat wordy) Machine Man Human Augmentation Design Challenge, to be judged by (among others) our friend Hod Lipson of Cornell's Fab@Home.
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News Link • Energy
Japan to abandon nuclear power expansions, focus on green technology
05-11-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Japan's prime minister announced yesterday that further expansions of nuclear energy in the nation is now officially off the table, namely due to the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was crippled in March by a massive tsun
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Mississippi River crests near record at Memphis
05-11-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Reuters) - The Mississippi River was cresting at Memphis on Tuesday just inches below the all-time record as the swollen wall of water moved south toward the Gulf of Mexico.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rajaratnam Guilty on All Counts in Insider-Trading Case
05-11-2011
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http://www.bloomberg.com/
Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge-fund tycoon and Galleon Group LLC co-founder at the center of a U.S. insider-trading crackdown, was found guilty of all 14 counts against him in the largest illegal stock-tipping case in a generation.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Slumping oil, commodity prices halt stock rally
05-11-2011
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http://finance.yahoo.com/
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tumbling demand for commodities and a drop in the euro led to a broad stock sell-off Wednesday that pulled the Dow Jones industrial average down 130 points.
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News Link • Government
Kerry heads for Pakistan to soothe fury over bin Laden raid
05-11-2011
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http://news.yahoo.com/
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) " Senator John Kerry will travel to Pakistan in coming days to put relations "on the right track" after the killing of Osama bin Laden in a surprise Navy SEALs raid, but he is likely to face fury from the army over what it sees as
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Libyan Rebels Seize Control of Misurata’s Airport
05-11-2011
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http://www.nytimes.com/
MISURATA, Libya " Rebels in the contested western city of Misurata stormed the city’s airport on Wednesday afternoon, swarming over the grounds from the south and east and reclaiming it from the military of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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News Link • Surveillance
Yahoo! Tracks Internet Ads Using Biometrics
05-11-2011
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Huffingtonpost.com
"It's all in their eyes." Pupil dilation and eye tracking are supposed to tell consumer packaged goods companies and other larger advertisement spending entities (Vonage, AT&T and Verizon are the largest online advertisers) where the buyer is going.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Dozens of ex-prisoners in line for payouts
05-11-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Dozens of ex-prisoners in line for payouts after Supreme Court ruling on compensation for miscarriages of justice
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News Link • Government
BLOOD OF PATRIOTS
05-11-2011
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www.bloodofpatriotsmovie.com
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - T. Jefferson
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Great Ron Paul Coverage on The Daily Show!
05-11-2011
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dailypaul.com
Wow... the Daily Show just did SOOOOOOO much for our cause. Jon Stewart basically said everything we've said about Thursday's debate. Fantastic coverage. Could not have been better.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The 'Education' Mantra
05-11-2011
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townhall.com
One of the sad and dangerous signs of our times is how many people are enthralled by words, without bothering to look at the realities behind those words.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Pinal County implements iris-recognition technology .
05-11-2011
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AZFamily.com
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office unveiled its newest weapon in the fight against crime Thursday " iris-recognition technology. Pinal County is the first law-enforcement agency in Arizona to implement the Inmate Recognition & Identification System (I
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Government
The Story of Your Enslavement
05-11-2011
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youtube.com
We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement - up to and including your own. From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy conversation in the world.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Counter-Economics
Jim Davidson on Agorist Radio: The Curious Deaths of American Private Space Programs
05-11-2011
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agoristradio.com / Cypherpunkd
Jim Davidson discusses how his commercial space company and project were crushed by the state and NASA. Origins of his project, goals, and big names involved.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • TERRORISM
Osama Bin Laden's prodigal son Omar says President Obama no better than Al Qaeda leader after st
05-11-2011
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Daily News
"As [I] condemned our father, we now condemn the President of the United States for ordering the execution of unarmed men and women," Omar Bin Laden wrote.
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Brock Lorber
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