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Date Sent: 2012-08-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 8, 2012 AM edition |
DHS requests plastic explosives and hides request -- Bankrupt CA cities fund 6-figure pensions
Paul to speak at GOP convention . . . Rand Paul -- It's Rip-Off Time -- Reality Check: Unanswered Questions About Colorado Theater Massacre -- Surge in D.C. tax office settlements reduces commercial property owners’ bills -- Psy-Op Specialist Gunman in Sikh Shooting Frames Veterans, Constitutionalist and 9/11 Truthers -- Ron Paul Barred From Speaking at Fascist RNC Convention in Tampa -- 08-08-12 -- Ross Edwards In Studio - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Ohio police arrest man for bringing gun into ‘Dark Knight’ screening -- Pharma giant Pfizer fined for bribing officials in Eastern Europe and China -- Greek authorities conducting mass arrests of undocumented immigrants -- U.S. stocks score 3-day rally on stimulus hopes -- Seven Olympians From Cameroon Have Gone Missing -- Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War? -- The Neoconservative War Criminals In Our Midst -- Obama Asks Public Schools to Ignore Bad Behavior by Black Students -- Colorado Massacre Linked To Historic Bank Fraud - Killer Does Not Appear To Be James Holmes -- Ten Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniversary of John Yoo’s “Torture Memos” -- Are High Frequency Traders Rigging the Stock Market?
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS requests plastic explosives and then hides request
08-07-2012
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http://www.activistpost.com, James Smith
With the odd purchases of ammunition by the Department of Homeland Security I decided to see what else they have purchased. To my surprise a solicitation for a flexible explosive was posted. This explosive is known as Prima Sheet. Prima sheet comes i
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bankrupt California cities slash public services to fund six-figure pensions
08-07-2012
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http://rt.com,
As some California cities face bankruptcy, public services are being slashed so unusually high pensions can stay on the books. Stockton’s former police chief rakes in a pension of more than $200,000 a year, while also working another job.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul to speak at GOP convention . . . Rand Paul
08-07-2012
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CNN
The former Pennsylvania senator is one of four Republicans including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, who will be announced as primetime convention speakers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
It's Rip-Off Time
08-07-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The last police chief of broke Stockton, CA, was in the job for 8 months, and then retired at age 52 with an annual pension of $204,000. Government officials looting the people with greedy pensions is not the only reason cities are going bankrupt
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Reality Check: Unanswered Questions About Colorado Theater Massacre
08-07-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at the questions the national media isn't bothering to ask about the Colorado theater massacre.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Surge in D.C. tax office settlements reduces commercial property owners’ bills
08-07-2012
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Washington Post
District officials have knocked $2.6 billion off the taxable value of commercial properties owned by some of the city’s most influential developers through a series of settlements negotiated this year by the Office of Tax and Revenue, The Washington
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Psy-Op Specialist Gunman in Sikh Shooting Frames Veterans, Constitutionalist and 9/11 Truthers
08-07-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Domestic terrorism has come to light with the Sikh shooting. The US government is not only coming after the 2nd Amendment, but now framing US Army veterans in a false flag operation where extremists are the new threat.
Mainstream media (MSM) are p
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Barred From Speaking at Fascist RNC Convention in Tampa
08-07-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Even though this is an outrage in one sense"Ron Paul is one of the very few non-sociopaths in Republican politics"it also makes sense. After all, he would have been required to Heil Romney in his speech, in words written by the Mittster's minions, an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Aurora, Co. Batman Movie Massacre
Ohio police arrest man for bringing gun into ‘Dark Knight’ screening
08-07-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via The Raw Story.com
A 37-year-old Ohio man was arrested last weekend after bringing a gun into a late night screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” police said.
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News Link • Government
Pharma giant Pfizer fined for bribing officials in Eastern Europe and China
08-07-2012
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Kay Steiger via The Raw Story.com
The US charged Pfizer and its subsidiary Wyeth on Tuesday with paying millions of dollars in bribes to build their business in Eastern Europe and China, and set hefty fines on the two to settle the charges.
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News Link • Immigration
Greek authorities conducting mass arrests of undocumented immigrants
08-07-2012
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The Guardian
Greek authorities have begun one of the country’s biggest crackdowns yet on suspected illegal immigrants, deploying 4,500 police around Athens and detaining more than 7,000 immigrants in less than 72 hours.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. stocks score 3-day rally on stimulus hopes
08-07-2012
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The Raw Story.com
US stocks rallied for a third straight day Tuesday, buoyed by hopes for more stimulus from the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank to boost weak economies.
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News Link • Government
The Neoconservative War Criminals In Our Midst
08-07-2012
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
What the State Department needs is an office that rounds up American war criminals.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Obama Asks Public Schools to Ignore Bad Behavior by Black Students
08-07-2012
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http://www.amren.com, Kyle Rogers
Barack Obama’s “African American Education Initiative” creates a new Federal bureaucracy. One of its goals will be to stop disciplinary action against black public school students who misbehave.
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Colorado Massacre Linked To Historic Bank Fraud - Killer Does Not Appear To Be James Holmes
08-07-2012
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http://anoncentral.tumblr.com
KILLER DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE JAMES HOLMES - JAMES HOLMES BEING USED IN BLACKMAIL OF ROBERT HOLMES FINANCIAL FRAUD DETECTION EXPERT FOR FICO IN LIBOR SCANDAL.
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News Link • Torture
Ten Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniversary of John Yoo’s “Torture Memos”
08-07-2012
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http://www.fff.org, by Andy Worthington
Exactly 10 years ago, on August 1, 2002, Jay S. Bybee, who at the time was the assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, signed two memos (see here and here) that will forever be known as the “torture memos.”
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News Link • Transportation
How Automakers Use the Brooklyn Bridge to Test Driver Assistance Systems
08-06-2012
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Doug Newcomb via WIRED.com
Engineers look at bridges differently than the rest of us. When Jim Nickolaou, an engineer at GM working on advanced safety systems, looks at the Brooklyn Bridge, he admires the structure for its beauty and as a feat of engineering.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Temple Attack Shows Jihadis Aren’t the Only Terrorists
08-06-2012
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
The FBI is treating Sunday’s attack on a Sikh temple as a “possible act of domestic terrorism” " raising the possibility that the face of domestic terrorism in the United States looks different than the homegrown jihadism many have forecasted.
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News Link • Energy
Assad Strikes Oil Deal to Keep War Machine Moving
08-06-2012
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Robert Beckhusen via WIRED.com
The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is falling apart. Its prime minister has fled the country, and its military equipment is reportedly breaking down.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
08-06-2012
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Mat Honan via WIRED.com
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Building Artificial Islands That Rise With the Sea
08-06-2012
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Katharine Gammon via PopSci.com
With an average elevation of just five feet above sea level, the Maldives"a nation comprising 1,192 islands in the Indian Ocean"is the lowest country in the world. Sea level
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
You Don't Want the New U.S. Customs Robot to Find You Suspicious
08-06-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
U.S Customs and Border Protection has a new hire on hand at its Nogales, Ariz., border crossing between the United States and Mexico. CBP has installed an avatar kiosk at the checkpoint to help quickly move persons
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wikipedia blackout caused by accidental cable slice in Florida
08-06-2012
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Josh Halliday, The Guardian
Wikipedia was inaccessible globally for a couple of hours on Monday after someone accidentally cut through fibre cables connecting its servers in Florida.
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News Link • Police State
New York Times complains NYPD assaulted a photographer
08-06-2012
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Josh Halliday, The Guardian
The New York Times has complained to the city’s police department after one of its photographers said he was assaulted by officers who arrested him on Saturday.
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News Link • Corruption
Federal court denies ex-Illinois governor's appeal
08-06-2012
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AP
A federal court in Chicago denied George Ryan’s latest appeal seeking his release from prison, dashing what was widely regarded as the former Illinois governor’s last credible hope to cut short his 6 1/2-year sentence for corruption.
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News Link • Internet
Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data
08-06-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Two Democratic congressmen are proposing sweeping changes to a U.S. privacy law that for the first time would require the government to obtain a probable-cause warrant to access data stored in the cloud.
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News Link • Food
MSU to lead new global food security effort
08-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org,
Michigan State University will use a $7.3 million federal grant to cultivate the next generation of agricultural scientists in Africa and Asia, in hopes of improving food security and nutrition there.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Forensic tools for catching poachers
08-06-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Susan Jongeneel
The trade in ivory was largely outlawed in 1989, but poaching continues and remains a serious threat to the African elephant.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police use Taser on deaf crime victim
08-06-2012
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kirotv
Responding to a call from a deaf woman about an attacker, police arrived on the scene and Tasered a the woman who had placed the call instead of the attacker. They then threw her in a cage without a translator and kept her there for 60 hours.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Chemical Warfare: Agent Orange in Vietnam
08-06-2012
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Globalresearch, by Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn
AUGUST 10, 2012, AT NOON: 51 YEARS AFTER THE CHEMICAL WAR BEGAN IN VIETNAM, WE SHOULD BE SILENT IN MEMORY, THEN TAKE ACTION TO REMEDY
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
UN General Assembly Vote On Syria: World Gone Unipolar " And Mad
08-06-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
On August 3 the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution written by Saudi Arabia condemning both the government of Syria for the preponderance if not all the violence in the country
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Where’s the gold? NY Fed undergoes first-ever audit
08-06-2012
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http://rt.com
A massive trove of gold kept under lock and key five stories below Manhattan at the New York Federal Reserve has been undergoing its first audit in history.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
South China Sea feud: Beijing rebukes Washington's 'biased' stance
08-06-2012
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http://www.rt.com
China’s Foreign Ministry has called on an American diplomat to protest State Department accusations that Beijing is hindering diplomatic efforts in the South China Sea.
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