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Date Sent: 2012-08-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 10, 2012 |
Pentagon proposes more robust role for its cyber-specialists -- Army Tests Spy Blimp Over NJ
San Bernardino Bankruptcy May Start Trend for California Cities: Moody's -- Justice Dept. says it won’t prosecute Goldman Sachs or its employees in financial fraud -- Small plane crash caught on video from inside cockpit -- Russian security firm found new CIA written computer virus circulating in Middle East -- Divers Discover Near-Intact, 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck -- Arizona
Election Fraud: Is Stealing Two Billion in Taxes a Crime too Big to
Prosecute? -- TSA harassment sends rape victim to emergency room -- Social Media Creates Modern Day Nastazi Spies for the Global Elite -- Microsoft and Bloomberg Collaborate on Sophisticated Pre-Crime Technology -- Behind the Scenes in the Libor Interest Rate Scandal -- The State of Oregon v. Rain Man -- My Day In Court
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News Link • Internet
Pentagon proposes more robust role for its cyber-specialists
08-09-2012
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Washington Post
The Pentagon has proposed that military cyber-specialists be given permission to take action outside its computer networks to defend critical U.S. computer systems " a move that officials say would set a significant precedent.
The proposal is part
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Army Tests Spy Blimp Over NJ
08-09-2012
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NBC News (video)
The Army is testing its $517 million spy blimp in the skies over the New Jersey military base where the German airship Hindenburg crashed in 1937.
The Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle spent more than 90 minutes around Joint Base McGuire-
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
San Bernardino Bankruptcy May Start Trend for California Cities: Moody's
08-09-2012
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Reuters
The recent bankruptcy filing by San Bernardino, California, underscores the financial stress faced by cities in the state and the potential that more might seek Chapter 9 protection from their creditors, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Justice Dept. says it won’t prosecute Goldman Sachs or its employees in financial fraud
08-09-2012
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Washington Post
The Justice Department said Thursday it won’t prosecute Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs or its employees in a financial fraud probe.
In a written statement, the department said it conducted an exhaustive investigation of allegations brought to ligh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Small plane crash caught on video from inside cockpit
08-09-2012
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The Sideshow
A single-engine plane crash in the Idaho wilderness in late June was captured on video from inside the cockpit, and the harrowing footage has made its way to YouTube.
The plane"a 1947 Stinson 108 four-seater"took off from Bruce Meadows Airport in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Russian security firm found new computer virus circulating in Middle East
08-09-2012
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AP
A new computer virus tied to some of the most sophisticated cyberweapons thus-far discovered has been found circulating in the Middle East, expanding the electronic arsenal deployed by the U.S. and Israel against their rivals in the region.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Divers Discover Near-Intact, 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck
08-09-2012
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ABC News (video)
An ancient Roman merchant vessel has been discovered off the Italian coastline, reportedly in such good condition that much of the food it was carrying might still be intact in its storage jars.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Is Stealing Two Billion in Taxes a Crime too Big to Prosecute?
08-09*2012
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The Intercept
After Arizona's appellate courts ruled in favor of the Libertarian argument for prospective relief for rigged elections, serious efforts were initiated to ensure that justice remained an unobtainable dream. The goal of the lawsuit, of course, is to
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J.t. Waldron
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA harassment sends rape victim to emergency room
08-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
What would have likely been a routine flight out of a Florida airport this weekend ended with a woman being sent to the emergency room after TSA agents insisted on groping a traumatized rape victim in a security pat-down that put her in the hospital.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Social Media Creates Modern Day Nastazi Spies for the Global Elite
08-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Facebook and its infiltration into our modern society is now the barometer of whether or not a person is “suspicious” or not. Some psychologists are even suggesting that not having a Facebook profile means that you are a psychopath.
The link betwe
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Microsoft and Bloomberg Collaborate on Sophisticated Pre-Crime Technology
08-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor for New York and Raymond Kelly, police commissioner, are collaborating with Microsoft to create pre-crime and counterterrorism technology to aid federal intelligence and local law enforcement agencies domestic and internatio
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Chris Menke
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News Link • World News
Behind the Scenes in the Libor Interest Rate Scandal
08-09-2012
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Spiegel Online
What are the details of the Libor scandal? Is it possible that it is one of the largest cases of fraudulent manipulation by bankers in history? Should we question what else could be being manipulated in light of this corruption?
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Reported by:
Bob Ross
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The Problem of Political Ignorance
08-09-2012
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Ilya Somin
What is the most effective path to changing the status quo? In this informative lecture, Ilya Somin points out that political ignorance makes voting for politicians less effective and more harmful to the majority than voting with your feet.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Government
The State of Oregon v. Rain Man
08-09-2012
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Mark Freeman/Mail Tribune
"It's a story state police and water managers have heard for more than a decade and still consider irrelevant. Ditto for state courts that three times over an 11-year span have convicted Harrington of illegally storing water without a permit. On Wedn
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Reported by:
Bob Ross
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News Link • Police State
My Day In Court
08-09-2012
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Mike Wasdin
Okay, let's stop pretending... speeding tickets have little if anything to do with 'public safety' and everything to do with raising revenue for the police state. I am not talking about reckless endangerment or someone traveling at a rate of speed
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Corruption
Law Enforcement: Top Buyers of Illegal Sex
08-09-2012
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StopTheLie.com
Most people still believe that individuals who choose a career in government or in law enforcement are far more reputable, and less likely to violate the law, than other members of society. Well, Ohio's Attorney General recently released a "Domesti
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Monsanto Capitalizes on Drought and Enslaves Farmers
08-08-2012
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Farm Wars
Not only does this paraiah of a company manufacture and sell genetically engineered crops (GMOs) that actually increase drought conditions, but it is now poised to capitalize on the very same conditions that it helps to cause.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • TERRORISM
Houston Propaganda Video Depicts Photographers as Terrorists
08-08-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Once again, a government agency is encouraging citizens to report photographers as potential terrorists. This time it is the City of Houston, which has produced a high-budgeted video funded by the Department of Homeland Security.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Justice in Tenaha and the Current State of Texas Forfeiture Law
08-08-2012
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The Agitator
Cops routinely pulled over motorists in Tenaha without any legal justification, asked if they were carrying cash and, if they were, ordered them to sign over the cash to the city or face charges of money laundering or other serious crimes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Federal Lockups: Lost Hope, Guilty Pleas
08-08-2012
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The Agitator
One of the reasons that more than 94% of criminal charges in both state and federal cases end in plea bargains is that prosecutors can hang the prospect of stiff sentences over the heads of anyone who decided to go to trial and is found guilty
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
A Woman Was Held in Jail Because Authorities Thought She Was Illegal
08-08-2012
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Phoenix New Times
One of these grotesque laws enacted by referendum was Proposition 100, an amendment to the state constitution denying bail to those presumed to be in the country illegally, who have committed a "serious felony offense,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
In London, Censure of an Elite Bank Draws Harrumphs
08-08-2012
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New York Times
In this summer of revelations about bad behavior by British financial institutions, bashing the banks has been London’s other Olympic sport. But now that a state regulator in New York has accused Standard Chartered, one of London’s most reputable ban
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
How NFC Radios Will Help the Visually Impaired to See
08-08-2012
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Corinne Iozzio via PopSci.com
The day I entered public school, I was classified as visually impaired. I have a rare genetic syndrome known as achromatopsia. I’m color blind and light sensitive, my distance vision is flat-out awful. Even corrected, it’s closer to 20/100 than 20/20
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Anthropology
New fossil skull from Africa reveals tangled roots at base of the human family tree
08-08-2012
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Washington Post
A 2 million-year-old flat-faced skull pulled from the sandstones of East Africa has shored up claims that at 3 three species of early humans once coexisted in an “evolutionary experiment” that saw an explosive increase in brain size paired with radic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
‘Lone wolf’ domestic terrorism threats are hard to track
08-08-2012
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Washington Post
For years, government analysts and watchdog groups have been warning about a specific kind of terrorist threat: the “lone wolf” white supremacist.
But they have been hampered by the growing decentralization of a movement that increasingly organize
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News Link • Privacy Rights
India monitors BlackBerry emails without encryption codes
08-08-2012
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The Raw Story.com
India has found a way to monitor BlackBerry corporate emails without asking developer Research in Motion (RIM) to hand over encryption codes a report said Wednesday, which could help end a standoff with the Canadian company.
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News Link • Police State
New York police launch high-tech camera surveillance system
08-08-2012
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The Raw Story.com
New York police on Wednesday launched what officials say is a revolutionary camera surveillance system that will simultaneously scan the streets and call up data on suspects.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Google extends online search to email boxes
08-08-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Google on Wednesday began allowing users to extend online searches to include messages stored in accounts at Web-based email service Gmail.
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News Link • Martial Law
DHS and US Military Make Final Preparations Before Announcing Martial Law
08-08-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.” However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activity from the US ar
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
GRAY STATE Official Concept Trailer #1
08-08-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by GrayStateMovie
The world reels with the turmoil of war, geological disaster, and economic collapse, while Americans continue to submerge themselves in illusions of safety and immunity. While rights are sold for security, the federal government, swollen with power,
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Spies for Hire: Key Officers at Booz Allen Hamilton
06-30-2009
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http://artificialtelepathy.blogspot.com/
In 2002, Booz Allen had more than 1000 former intelligence officers on its staff, and its government contracts rose dramatically after 911,
"from $626,000 in 2000 to $1.6 billion in 2006. Most of the latter figure, $932 million, was with the Depart
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Max Schofield
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
U.S. Army Colonel teaching at military university: "Crushing a Tea Party insurgency"
08-08-2012
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www.examiner.com
According to the vision articulated by Benson, future warfare will be conducted on our own soil. The military will use its full force against our own citizens. The enemy will be average citizens whose values resonate with those articulated by the tea
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Chip Saunders
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