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Date Sent: 2011-06-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 14, 2011 PM edition |
CIA to Begin Drone Strikes Against Yemen -- Grand jury probing CIA war crimes in Iraq
No Deal Reached, Panetta Leaves Pakistan in Failure -- Navy Chief: Britain Can’t Afford to Continue Libya War -- Egypt: 7,000 Civilians Jailed Since Mubarak’s Ouster -- Syrian troops 'widening' crackdown
-- Libyan rebels make fresh advances -- China inflation at near
three-year high -- Identification and the Security State - by L. Neil
Smith -- Proposed U.S. law would shut down websites on accusation of
copyright infringement -- ICE Declares 'Mission Accomplished' On Domain Seizures --
Long Term Food Storage for Survival, Health and Prosperity. -- The Key
Task Of The Resistance - by Lucifer Geraldo -- Paul: GOP rivals bigger
challenge than Obama -- The American Viceroy L. Paul Bremer and The
Looting Of Iraq -- No Freedom of Food
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News Link • WAR: About that War
CIA Poised to Begin Drone Strikes Against Yemen
06-14-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
It is already well-documented that the Obama Administration has been escalating the number of air strikes against targets inside Yemen. While the CIA has played a role in those military strikes...
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Grand jury probing possible CIA war crimes in Iraq
06-14-2011
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Time magazine
It has been nearly a decade since Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner known as "the Iceman" " for the bungled attempt to cool his body and make him look less dead " perished in CIA custody at Abu Ghraib. But now there are rumbles in Washington
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google Censorship Initiative Thwarted by ‘Gee! No Evil!’ Add-On
06-14-2011
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torrentfreak.com
Earlier this year Google launched a piracy blacklist and began filtering keywords from its Instant and Autocomplete services. A necessary measure to counter online copyright infringement according to the search giant, but not everyone agrees.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
The Secret History of Iraq’s Invisible War
06-14-2011
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wired.com
In the early years of the Iraq war, the U.S. military developed a technology so secret that soldiers would refuse to acknowledge its existence, and reporters mentioning the gear were promptly escorted out of the country.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Why Facebook Is Losing U.S. Users
06-14-2011
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www.pcmag.com
Has the world's No. 1 social network finally peaked in its home country?
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
‘NATO bombs civilians!’ " Cynthia McKinney from Tripoli with truth
06-14-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Former US congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney told RT she went to Libya because she wanted to know the truth.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wal-Mart loses $187.6 million appeal over worker breaks
06-14-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has lost its appeal of most of a $187.6 million verdict for Pennsylvania hourly workers who accused the world's largest retailer of denying them meal and rest breaks.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Navy Chief: Britain Can’t Afford to Continue Libya War
06-14-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Speaking today British Naval leader Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope warned that he was uncomfortable continuing Britain’s involvement in the War in Libya for more than another three months...
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News Link • World News
Egypt: 7,000 Civilians Jailed Since Mubarak’s Ouster
06-14-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
Egypt’s increasingly less-than-interim military junta has confirmed today that it has imprisoned at least 7,000 civilians since it took power in early February.
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News Link • Police State
Identification and the Security State - by L. Neil Smith
06-14-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
America is based on the idea that an individual's fundamental rights are his or hers by virtue of having been born.... So why, in order to exercise a good many of those rights, are you required to present government-issued credentials?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Gov. Scott Walker Hates Good Beer. And Small Business. And Free Markets.
06-14-2011
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The Agitator
Tucked into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) budget was a provision to make it much more difficult for the Wisconsin’s burgeoning craft breweries to operate by barring them from selling directly to restaurants and liquor stores, and preventing them
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Susanne Dahlgren - Yemen and Syria / GOP Debate: 06-13-11
Susanne Dahlgren writes frequently on Yemen. She is Academy of Finland research fellow with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the author of
"Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen."
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News Link • Surveillance
Proposed U.S. law would shut down websites on accusation of copyright infringement
06-14-2011
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themarknews.com
As written, the Protect IP Act gives the attorney general and private intellectual property holders the power to not only sue owners and operators of U.S.-based websites, but to execute what is known as an in rem action " essentially an action...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
ICE Declares 'Mission Accomplished' On Domain Seizures
06-14-2011
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TechDirt
It appears that assistant deputy director of ICE, Erik Barnett, is going around talking up the massive success of ICE's potentially illegal domain seizure regime. He bragged in Stockholm about how successful the program has been, making a series of q
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Key Task Of The Resistance - by Lucifer Geraldo
06-14-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
The success of the resistance will lie solely in the hands of the individual will to resist bandied together around a single rallying cause. Think about that. This one statement tells you exactly the construction of a successful resistance effort.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
"The Internet of Things" and Unlicensed White Space Spectrum
06-14-2011
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electronicsweekly.com
This 'Internet of Things' notion reared its head again yesterday with the announcement by CSR co-founder James Collier's new start-up Neul that it was launching a radio system to use unlicensed white space spectrum.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Keys to Economic Growth
06-14-2011
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dailybell.ch
Recent economic data show that U.S. job growth in May was negligible, while the official unemployment figure " at least the figure the Labor Department admits to " rose to 9.1%.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul: GOP rivals bigger challenge than Obama
06-14-2011
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www.desmoinesregister.com
It might be harder for Ron Paul to beat his fellow Republicans for the opportunity to face Barack Obama than to defeat the president himself, the Texas Republican said Monday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
The American Viceroy L. Paul Bremer and The Looting Of Iraq
06-14-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Theft of such a staggering sum might seem unlikely, but U.S. officials aren't ruling it out. Some U.S. contractors were accused of siphoning off tens of millions in kickbacks and graft during the post-invasion period, especially in its chaotic...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Being Bradley Manning - by Jim Davidson
06-14-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Manning's motive?: Manning was asked to help investigate, arrest, and presumably rendition for torture, professors who had written a study of how the money for reconstruction in Iraq was actually being spent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Economic Statistic US Elites Keep ‘Hush-Hush’
06-14-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Due to the message it is delivering, most US economists employed in financial institutions, governments and private industry, as well as financiers and politicians, want to ignore it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
No Freedom of Food
06-14-2011
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Lew Rockwell
SWAT-style raids upon small, family farms are being conducted by the FDA, USDA, FBI, and other government terrorist organizations in the name of "protecting the public" from the "evils" of sustainable eco-agriculture as practiced by farmers who give
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
MERS Smackdown: Another Nail in the Coffin
06-14-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
This is the first ruling in New York to consider the question of whether MERS “can assign the right to foreclose” when it has neither rights in or possession of the note. Most courts that have considered whether MERS can make assignments...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Who Threatened To "Fucking Break" Face Of Citizen Suspended For 2 Days
06-14-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The Niagara Frontier Transit Authority cop who threatened to “fucking break” the face of a man who dared videotape him has been suspended for two days. Not only that, but NFTA officials are refusing to release his name, according to a WIVB.com news r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Student Loans and DOE S.W.A.T. Teams - by Wendy McElroy
06-14-2011
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
On March 11, 2010, Washington Post blogger Valerie Strauss asked an intriguing question: “Why is the Education Department purchasing 27 Remington Brand Model 870 police 12-gauge shotguns?” On June 7, 2011, the answer became clear.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
AT&T gave cash to merger backers
06-14-2011
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Politico
AT&T is lining up support for its acquisition of T-Mobile from a slew of liberal groups with no obvious interest in telecom deals " except that they’ve received big piles of AT&T’s cash. The NAACP, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and th
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Retail Sales Fell in May For The First Time in 11 Months
06-14-2011
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CNBC.com
U.S. retail sales fell in May for the first time in 11 months, dragged down by a sharp drop in receipts from auto dealerships, according to a government report that could raise fears of a prolonged economic slowdown.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Former cop pressured to keep quiet about training officer's misconduct
06-14-2011
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After rookie Portland Officer Lindsay Hunt reported alleged misconduct by her field training officer, Hunt says supervisors and other training officers told her to look the other way until after she completed probation.
She faced threats of being
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Wants To Keep US Troops In Afghanistan Past 2014
06-14-2011
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AntiWar.com
According to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, his government is already engaging in serious talks with the Obama Administration about keeping American troops in Afghanistan beyond the end of 2014, the current date at which...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Marie Callender's closes all Arizona locations
06-14-2011
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AZcentral.com
The four restaurants in the Phoenix area and one in Tucson were among 58 locations that were closed after the Perkins & Marie Callender's Inc.'s bankruptcy filing Monday. The restaurants each employ about 30.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NFIB: Small Business Optimism Just Fell To 8-Month Low, Hiring Plans Plunge
06-14-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com & BusinessInsider.com
The headline number of 90.9 is an 8-month low.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Spin Doctors: And the GOP Presidential Debate Winner Is...
06-14-2011
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The Daily Beast
Who won Monday night’s GOP debate? Michele Bachmann was the breakout star, Mitt Romney the most polished"and Herman Cain got lapped. Daily Beast contributors Howard Kurtz, Mark McKinnon, Michelle Goldberg, Michael Tomasky, and more weigh in.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul in 6/13/2011 Presidential Debate
06-13-2011
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YouTube
"Ron Paul" only highlights from the 6/13/11 debate.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Secret History of Boeing’s Killer Drone
06-14-2011
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arclein
oeing had just lost out to rival aerospace firm Northrop Grumman in a contest to develop a so-called “Unmanned Combat Air System” for the Navy, capable of taking off from, and landing on, aircraft carriers. That contest, known by its acronym N-UCAS "
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CNN GOP Debate - NH 6/13: "Everybody Repeat After Ron Paul"
06-14-2011
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dailypaul.com
Monday, June 13, CNN hosts the first New Hampshire Republican Presidential Debate, live from Manchester, NH at 8 p.m. ET. Highlight Reel - Answers separately:
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chameleon Magnets Can Revolutionize Computing
06-14-2011
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arclein
In the Japanese study, which also appears in the current issue of Science, a team led by researchers at Tohoku University added cobalt to titanium dioxide, a nonmagnetic semiconductor, to create a new material that, like a chameleon, can transform fr
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