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Date Sent: 2012-05-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 4, 2012 PM edition |
NATO Summit Mean Nazi Germany-Style Security On Chicago Trains---But will they run on time?
The Everyday Evil of America's Torture State - by William Grigg -- Sept 11 case returns to Guantanamo tribunal -- Is an Economic Deluge Nigh? -- Robert Spencer on The Libertarian Solution -- EU PLOT TO SCRAP BRITAIN -- Bit Coins! The future of Money? -- 05-04-12 -- Alma Sommer in Studio - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F,
9-Noon (EST) -- High-Speed Data Link Made from Laser Pointers Works
Where Wi-Fi Won't -- SDN Launch ‘Validates’ Next-Gen Networking --
Ron Paul talks about liberty,
freedom with UC Davis crowd -- A Decade of War – for What? -- Three
journalists slain in Mexico's Veracruz -- Deadly blast hits
northwestern Pakistan -- I believe I can fly: Jetman soars
over Rio (VIDEO) -- Energy crisis looms: Japan closes last reactor -- Spanish ‘Second Conquest’ backfiring in Latin America? -- Choice
Not on Ballot in French Election -- United Methodist Church Rejects
Divestment -- Romney & Son Investigated for $8 Billion Ponzi
Scheme
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club - Sat. May
5th 2012 - Lots of Events... lots to do -- The Bill of Rights Comedy
Concert This Sunday at Phoenix Symphony Hall
Freedom's Phoenix Magazine ready for DOWNLOAD by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!
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News Link • Police State
Summit Could Mean Nazi Germany-Style Security On Trains
05-04-2012
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CBS News (video)
Some stations on the Metra Electric Line and South Shore Line could be shut down during the upcoming NATO summit, and passengers at other stations could face airport-style security screenings, due to the Secret Service security plan that could be rel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Magazine ready for DOWNLOAD (here are just a few articles for our subscribers)
05-04-2012
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Freedom's Phoenix Magazine
May 2012 edition will feature the art and science of communicating liberty using music, art, literature, humor/comedy, and activism.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
The Everyday Evil of America's Torture State
05-04-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
After Daniel Chong was arrested in a federal drug raid, he wasn’t taken to Gitmo. Instead, the Feds thoughtfully arranged to bring Gitmo to him, nearly torturing him to death in the process.
Chong, a senior at the University of California-San Dieg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Sept 11 case returns to Guantanamo tribunal
05-04-2012
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AP
The men never entered formal pleas, but Mohammed told the court he would confess to planning the attacks and dismissed the justice system, saying, "After torturing, they transferred us to inquisition land in Guantanamo."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Researchers say they have new clue to Lost Colony
05-04-2012
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AP
A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
EU PLOT TO SCRAP BRITAIN
05-04-2012
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The new bureaucrat, who would not be directly elected by voters, is set to get sweeping control over the entire EU and force member countries into ever-greater political and economic union.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
Bit Coins! The future of Money?
05-04-2012
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www.whatisthiscoinworth.info
Bitcoins has been the talk of the town amongst the supper geeky over the last year or so but this completely digital currency is starting to make headline in some big publications.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
High-Speed Data Link Made from Laser Pointers Works Where Wi-Fi Won't
05-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Clay Dillow
Wi-Fi isn’t always practical--in places like hospitals or labs, for instance, where radio transmitters are prohibited--and physical USB cables can be slow and cumbersome as well.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
SDN Launch ‘Validates’ Next-Gen Networking
05-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, Mike Barton
While there’s lots of buzz still about the potential disruptive nature of software-defined networking (SDN), other than for big players like Google, the cloud-friendly technology has not been something everyday companies can order up.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study Reveals Joggers Live 5 Years Longer
05-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Chuck Squatriglia
Jogging is good for you. So good, in fact, that it may extend your life by more than five years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Video: James Cameron Wants to Convert Everyone to ’5-D’
05-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Annaliza Savage
James Cameron wants everyone to adopt “5-D,” a term coined by the film and television industry to describe shooting in 2-D and 3-D simultaneously.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul talks about liberty, freedom with UC Davis crowd
05-04-2012
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http://www.dailydemocrat.com, By KATHERINE JARVIS
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul rallied a crowd of thousands at UC Davis Thursday evening in a "fight for liberty."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
A Decade of War " for What?
05-04-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchana
"My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war," said Barack Obama from Bagram Air Base.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
Three journalists slain in Mexico's Veracruz
05-04-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Photojournalists found slain and dumped in plastic bags, less than a week after the killing of another journalist.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Deadly blast hits northwestern Pakistan
05-04-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Taliban claim responsibility for suicide bomb attack targeting police, that killed at least 20 people in Bajur.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Meet the Astroturfer Planning to Swift Boat Obama
05-04-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Adam Weinstein
"Yes, it's the swift boating of the president," says the founder of a dark-money group claiming to speak for ticked-off Navy SEALs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney's Biggest Fib?
05-04-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By David Corn
Under Obama, the GOP candidate says, government will "control half the economy." Economic experts rate this scare tactic somewhere between "ridiculous" and "stupid."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
I believe I can fly: Jetman soars over Rio (VIDEO)
05-04-2012
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http://rt.com
Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy, known as Jetman, has performed another breathtaking flight. This time he spread his wings over Rio de Janeiro.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Spanish ‘Second Conquest’ backfiring in Latin America?
05-04-2012
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http://rt.com
Bolivia has announced the seizure of a Spanish energy company, hot on the heels of Argentina’s expropriation of YPF.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
A Salary Guide To 23 Of The Most Random Jobs In America
05-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the ultimate resource for those curious about jobs in America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
GET READY: Here's What You need To Know For Today's Huge Jobs Report
05-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
It's that day of the month again: jobs day!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Romney & Son Investigated for $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme
May 1, 2012
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Politicol News
Mitt Romney and his son Tagg Romney have been implicated in a $8.5 billion dollar ponzi scheme with Wall Street investors Allen Stanford and James M. Davis.
The pair are not cleared including their three partners in a court document verified, on
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Economy - International
Hugo Salinas Price: Elites Plan to Control the World
05-03-2012
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King World News
Today multi-billionaire Hugo Salinas Price told King World News in stunning detail what he believes to be the frightening plan to “control the world” going forward. He described this as a “very disturbing fact that is facing humanity.”
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Afghanistan
US-Afghan Pact Won’t End War or Night Raids
05-03-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Gareth Porter
The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s “Enduring Strategic Partnership” [.pdf] agreement with Afghanistan and the memorandums of understanding (MOU) accompanying it emphasize transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. wa
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
US, NATO Exploring Post-Assad Scenarios in Case of Regime Change
05-03-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Top U.S. and NATO military leaders have been exploring possible scenarios in Syria if Western powers decide to attack and eliminate the the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
"Overwhelming military-type response" - Oakland cops could face sanctions for OWS actions
05-03-2012
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http://rt.com
The city of Oakland, California has been issued an ultimatum by a federal judge: either figure out a way to handle the flood of complaints against the police or start being sanctioned.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Operation: Entrapment - Cleveland bomb "plot" masterminded by FBI agents
05-03-2012
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http://rt.com
Federal agents announced on Tuesday that they successfully thwarted plans to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio. What was left out of most reports, however, was that the FBI was instrumental in plotting the potential attack.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Tennessee man Arrested And Imprisoned For Using Cash
05-03-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
A Tennessee man was charged and jailed by police Friday after he used an old $50 bill to pay for goods at a Quik Mart store.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese activist pressured to leave US embassy, says friend
05-02-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
In an exclusive interview, a trusted friend of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng told the Monitor to protect his family, the blind legal activist agreed to leave the safety of the US embassy and stay in China.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Bush Administration
Court rejects torture-related case against Bush lawyer
05-02-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that John Yoo, a former legal counsel to the Bush administration, is immune from a lawsuit by an American citizen convicted on terrorism charges who said he was tortured at a military jail in South Carolina.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Accusations That Police Tried to Spy on Wall St. Protesters
05-02-2012
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New York Times
On Monday, the New York Police Department sent its warrant squads after an unusual set of suspects: people who had old warrants for the lowliest of violations, misconduct too minor, usually, to draw the attention of those squads.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
New Particle at CERN
05-02-2012
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arclein
The discovery of the new particle confirms the theory of how quarks bind and therefore helps to understand the strong interaction, one of the four basic forces of physics which determines the structure of matter.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
The Entire Global Economy Depends On Collateral That Doesn't Exist
05-02-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
A sound system of credit is built on collateral. A doomed system of debt sits precariously on phantom collateral.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Girl allegedly punished for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance
05-02-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
The Brownsville Area School District announced on Monday it would not discipline students who refused to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance, according to the Associated Press.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Velocity of Money Is Coming, Along With Big Price Inflation?
05-02-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
"We are humble because we are aware of the great monetary forces at work and will do all we can to triumph over them. Thank you. I am Ben Bernanke."
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News Link • Seriously?
A beating at Church and Brambleton
05-02-2012
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http://hamptonroads.com, Michelle Washington
Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
To Joliet jail for NATO offenders?
05-02-2012
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http://www.suntimes.com, BY FRAN SPIELMAN
Mothballed for a decade, the Joliet Correctional Center could be temporarily reopened to serve as a detention facility for those arrested for serious offenses during the May 20-21 NATO summit.
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