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Date Sent: 2012-03-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 1, 2012 AM edition |
DARPA Warns: Your iPhone Is a Military Threat -- Court approves warrantless searches of cell phones
In California, City Teeters on Brink of Bankruptcy -- Radical theory of first Americans places Stone Age Europeans in
Delmarva 20,000 years ago -- Possible Earliest Evidence of Christianity
Resurrected from Ancient Tomb -- At least nine dead as tornadoes strike midwest --
Giant Bloodsuckers! Oldest Fleas Discovered -- New Navy Railgun Tests
Leading to Ship Superweapon by 2020 -- Consumer groups urge Google to
delay privacy revamp -- Obama ‘confident’ of keeping to Afghan pullout
plan -- Fukushima's 'cold' reactors pose a constant threat -- How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone --
Why We'll Never Get a Cashless Society -- The NSA Builds a Super-secure
Android Device -- Defense Department Wants More Control over the
Internet -- Why are we still in Afghanistan—just to kill our kids? --
Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Cleared for Flight Training -- 1 in 8
Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020 -- Education Cuts Spur
Huge Student Protests Across Spain -- Stop Starving Public Universities
and Shrinking the Middle Class -- Words Not To Say Online: Sick, Wave, Cops, Smart, Ice, Worm and Many More --
Under the Sea: In the Age of Wireless, Can't We Do Better than
Intercontinental Fiber Optic Cable -- EMERGING MARKETS-Brazil's real
slips on cenbank action, Latam FX mixed -- Ron Paul to skip Mike Huckabee forum, focuses on Washington caucuses --
Ron Paul Tells Bernanke He Killed The Dollar, Silver Coin In Hand --
Deadly tornadoes pound Midwest -- Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines? -- Chinese Drones Will Use Genetic Algorithms to Learn to Hunt For Submarines -- No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart -- Ross from
DontTreadOnMeme.com talks about the Silver Dime Card Project -- Money as a Marketing Medium --
Live video and Chat from Keen NH, Dime Card QR codes and more 8:15
p.m.-8:45 p.m. EST 2-26-12 -- Ron Paul at the Financial Services Hearing
Highlights Feb 29 2012
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Saturday, March 3rd
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Darpa Warns: Your iPhone Is a Military Threat
02-29-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
There’s a growing threat to the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon’s premier research wing. No, it’s not Iran’s nukes or China’s missiles. It’s the iPads, Android phones and other gadgets we all carry around with us every day.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In California, City Teeters on Brink of Bankruptcy
02-29-2012
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New York Times
The picturesque marina on the San Joaquin Delta, the gleaming waterfront sports arena, and the handsome high-rise meant to house city hall are now bitter reminders of how bad things are as this city of 300,000 moved closer to becoming the largest to
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News Link • Anthropology
Radical theory of first Americans places Stone Age Europeans in Delmarva 20,000 years ago
02-29-2012
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Washington Post
When the crew of the Virginia scallop trawler Cinmar hauled a mastodon tusk onto the deck in 1970, another oddity dropped out of the net: a dark, tapered stone blade, nearly eight inches long and still sharp.
Forty years later, this rediscovered p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Possible Earliest Evidence of Christianity Resurrected from Ancient Tomb
02-29-2012
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LiveScience
In an ancient tomb located below a modern condominium building in Jerusalem, archaeologists have found ossuaries " bone boxes for the dead " bearing engravings that could represent the earliest archaeological evidence of Christians ever found.
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News Link • Environment
At least nine dead as tornadoes strike midwest
02-29-2012
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The RawStory.com
A massive winter storm unleashed a string of tornadoes that cut a swath of destruction across the US midwest, killing at least nine people and threatening scores more as it pushed eastward Wednesday.
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News Link • Archaeology
Giant Bloodsuckers! Oldest Fleas Discovered
02-29-2012
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LiveScience
The oldest fleas were five to 10 times larger than today's bloodsuckers, new research finds. But at least they couldn't jump.
These ancient bloodsuckers are the oldest fleas ever found, and the oldest example of bloodsucking parasites in the fossi
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
New Navy Railgun Tests Leading to Ship Superweapon by 2020
02-29-2012
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LiveScience
The first weapon-scale prototype of a futuristic Navy railgun began undergoing firing tests last week, the next big step toward putting the electromagnetic superweapon on U.S. warships by 2020. The Navy envisions using railguns to destroy enemy ships
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Inventions
Consumer groups urge Google to delay privacy revamp
02-29-2012
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The RawStory.com
A coalition of European and US consumer advocacy groups made a last-ditch appeal to Internet search and advertising giant Google on Wednesday to delay changes to its privacy policies.
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News Link • Military
Obama ‘confident’ of keeping to Afghan pullout plan
02-29-2012
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The RawStory.com
President Barack Obama said he was “confident” the United States could stick to its Afghan drawdown timetable despite a week of deadly unrest over the burning of the Koran at a US base.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why We'll Never Get a Cashless Society
02-29-2012
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Christopher Mims via TechnologyReview.com
The End of Money, a new book from Wired contributing editor David Wolman, is ostensibly about the twilight of cash and its replacement with a panoply of more efficient means of exchange.
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News Link • Internet
Defense Department Wants More Control over the Internet
02-29-2012
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Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.com
The U.S. government says it must govern Internet technology more closely to protect against cyberattacks.
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News Link • Military
Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Cleared for Flight Training
02-29-2012
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David Axe via WIRED.com
The Air Force’s F-35A Joint Strike Fighter is finally cleared to begin introductory flights at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida " four months late.
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News Link • Transportation
Behold: The Most Fabulously Ferocious Ferrari Ever
02-29-2012
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com
At some point, automakers will realize there is more to life than horsepower, gearheads will see eyeball-flattening acceleration is overrated and … oh, who are we kidding? There will always be cars like the fabulously ferocious Ferrari F12berlinetta
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News Link • Solar Flares
1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020
02-29-2012
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Adam Mann via WIRED.com
The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover from.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Wikileaks: US Dept. of Homeland Security Kept File on Occupy Wall Street
02-29-2012
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Common Dreams staff
If there was any doubt among Occupy movement activists that the federal government was keeping close tabs on the development of their growing street protests and public encampments
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Lytro Camera Lets You Shoot Now, Focus Later
02-29-2012
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John Bradley via WIRED.com
After two weeks with the Lytro camera, I still can’t decide if it’s a highly refined proof-of-concept or an uneven look at the future of photography. It’s simultaneously addictive and frustrating. It’s also a truly unique photographic experience.
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News Link • European Union
Education Cuts Spur Huge Student Protests Across Spain
02-29-2012
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Common Dreams staff
Tens of thousands of students marched out of their schools across Spain today, protesting broad education cuts that have caused teacher layoffs, overcrowded campuses and unheated classrooms.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class
02-29-2012
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by Robert Reich
Last week Rick Santorum called the President “a snob” for wanting everyone to get a college education
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Words Not To Say Online: Sick, Wave, Cops, Smart, Ice, Worm and Many More
02-29-2012
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by Abby Zimet
Proving the Feds are even busier monitoring social media than perhaps you imagined
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Under the Sea: In the Age of Wireless, Can't We Do Better than Intercontinental Fiber Optic Cabl
02-29-2012
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Clay Dillow
On Saturday, a ship waiting to enter the Kenyan port city of Mombasa wandered into a restricted area and dropped its anchor, inadvertently severing a major undersea Internet and phone link to East Africa.
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News Link • Economy - International
EMERGING MARKETS-Brazil's real slips on cenbank action, Latam FX mixed
02-29-2012
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By Rachel Uranga and Asher Levine
The Brazilian real slipped sharply on Wednesday after the country's central bank stepped into currency markets to beat back the real's surge beyond the 1.70-per-dollar mark.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul to skip Mike Huckabee forum, focuses on Washington caucuses
02-29-2012
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The State Column
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will reportedly be skipping the upcoming Fox News presidential forum hosted by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee in Ohio this weekend.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Tells Bernanke He Killed The Dollar, Silver Coin In Hand
02-29-2012
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Forbes
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke had an interesting morning over on Capitol Hill, facing the ire of Ron Paul and receiving Democratic praise from Barney Frank.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines?
02-29-2012
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Ryan Bradley via PopSci.com
My first migraine arrived in a fuzzy cloud of reds and purples, a stab of pain that left me bent over in the back of an auto-rickshaw, squinting and nauseous, on my morning commute to Connaught Place, in New Delhi.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chinese Drones Will Use Genetic Algorithms to Learn to Hunt For Submarines
02-29-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
China usually holds its military hand very close to the vest-things “mysteriously” leak that it doesn’t (does) want the world to know about--so we wonder why the People’s Republic has decided to publish this in the journal Advanced Materials Research
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News Link • Activism
Ross from DontTreadOnMeme.com talks about the Silver Dime Card Project
02-27-2012
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www.youtube.com
Ross from DontTreadOnMeme.com talks about the Silver Dime Card Project while showing off some card designs, plugging the new silver apps, and showing off some clever new t-shirts.
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News Link • Wallet Voting
Money as a Marketing Medium
02-28-2012
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http://freedomengineering.org
So there are these Dime Cards that you can buy now at Don’t Tread on Meme. These guys use the government’s own junk silver and package it with their own brands. It’s awesome cool!
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul at the Financial Services Hearing Highlights Feb 29 2012
02-29-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Congressman Paul gives and opening statement and questions Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
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