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Date Sent: 2012-08-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 28, 2012 AM edition |
Britain and US plan a Syrian revolution from an innocuous office block in Istanbul
After Attacks, Israeli Schools Confront Hate -- Is eye scan technology the future of airport security? -- Asian cities to become top finance centers by 2022 - survey -- Two More U.S. Troops Killed by Rogue Afghan Soldier -- Adam Kokesh Has Had Enough of "Ron Paul Inc." -- 08-28-12 -- Cody Wilson - Tarrin Lupo - Ed Vallejo - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon EST -- In the matter of the United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton -- Assembly Paid $103,000 in Harassment Case -- Three Israeli youths arrested in firebombing of Palestinian taxi -- Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Superior Court Judge Kyle Bryson Affirms His Own Ruling -- Ron Paul Presence at the RNC: We Can Do Better! -- NYPD chief Ray Kelly defends officers over Empire State Building shooting -- Taliban beheads 17 Afghan partygoers for dancing; 2 NATO troops killed -- In climate landmark, Arctic ice melts to record low -- Israeli airstrike targets Hamas camps in Gaza -- U.S. approves new once-a-day pill to treat HIV -- Oil prices fall as Isaac hits refinery demand -- American Taliban fights prison prayer rule -- Army soldiers allegedly bought $87K worth of weapons to kill Obama -- U.S. troops tried to burn 500 copies of Koran, investigation says -- 4409: Open Video to the Ron Paul "Delegates" -- A First Look at the Sneakiest Tank Outside of the NSA -- How Pacific Island Missile Tests Helped Launch the Internet -- U.S. Spies Summon Star Wars for 3-D Hologram Displays -- Russian Troops Welcomed Into NORAD, America’s Cold War HQ -- Teens Beware: Using Marijuana Could Make You Dumber -- Wireless Sensor Tags Help You Keep Track of Your Stuff -- Twitter Fights Back to Protect ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protestor -- 3D Printing Is A Game Changer -- Defense Distributed (Home of the Wiki Weapon) -- Why Everybody's Going To War in the Middle East -- British Tourist Is Stunned By How Bad Things Are In Italy -- Doug Casey on the 'Worsening Storm,' QE3 and the Hard Assets Alliance -- Romney: Reappoint Bernanke After All ... -- Prisoner Training: Austin Kids To Be Tracked With GPS Device -- Are People Being Thrown Into Psychiatric Wards for Their Political Views? --
...Major Development in Precious Metals: 'The Time to Buy Cheap Will
Soon Be Gone' -- NASA's Next Nanosatellites Will Carry HTC Smartphones
-- World's smallest neutron generator – it's not just for nukes anymore
-- German minister rejects more time for Greece -- Doug Casey Predicts Day of Economic Reckoning Is Near -- GARY JOHNSON - Ron Paul REVOLUTIONARY
AZ: Our Libertarian Write-In Candidates Need Your Support
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News Link • Syria
Britain and US plan a Syrian revolution from an innocuous office block in Istanbul
08-27-2012
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Daily Telegraph
An underground network of Syrian opposition activists is receiving training and supplies of vital equipment from a combined American and British effort to forge an effective alternative to the Damascus regime.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
After Attacks, Israeli Schools Confront Hate
08-27-2012
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New York Times
The classroom conversation, as some two million Israeli children started school on Monday, was part of national hand-wringing over the Aug. 16 beating in Zion Square, which was described as an attempted lynching that left 17-year-old Jamal Julani nea
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Is eye scan technology the future of airport security?
08-27-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Will the airport of the future be able to verify the identity of passengers with a quick eye scan? Aoptix Technologies developed iris scan technology that can be used by the TSA to verify passenger identification in a matter of seconds.
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News Link • China
Asian cities to become top finance centers by 2022 - survey
08-27-2012
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Reuters
Top UK traders and dealmakers bruised by intense banker bashing believe an Asian city will take over as the world's dominant financial centre within 10 years, according to a survey. They also relegated London to third place from second
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News Link • Afghanistan
Two More U.S. Troops Killed by Rogue Afghan Soldier
08-27-2012
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Reuters
A rogue Afghan soldier shot dead two U.S. troops in east Afghanistan, the NATO-led coalition said, the latest in a series of insider killings that have strained trust between the allies ahead of a 2014 pullout by foreign combat troops.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Adam Kokesh Has Had Enough of "Ron Paul Inc."
08-27-2012
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www.reason.com
Kokesh referred to the Paul political organization as "Ron Paul Inc." and said he was attempting to transition over to "Rand Paul Inc.," something he is not thrilled about.
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News Link • Declaration of Independence
In the matter of the United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton
08-27-2012
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The Agitator
Federal civil asset forfeiture complaint in the matter of United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton. This is an unusual case as the government’s case nakedly asserts, with no supporting evidence, that
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Assembly Paid $103,000 in Harassment Case
08-27-2012
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New York Times
Sheldon Silver, the New York State Assembly speaker, authorized a secret payment of $103,080 to settle sexual harassment claims against Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez this year, according to records released by the Assembly on Monday night.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Three Israeli youths arrested in firebombing of Palestinian taxi
08-27-2012
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Washington Post
Three Israeli adolescents from a West Bank settlement were arrested Sunday in connection with a recent firebombing of a Palestinian taxi, Israeli police said, adding fuel to a debate in Israel about ethnic prejudice among youths.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Superior Court Judge Kyle Bryson Affirms His Own Ruling and Push
08-27-2012
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The Intercept
"The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die"
- Martin Luther King
Well the status quo in Pima County wants this case - and the truth - to die. The case in question is “We the People” attempt at court-ordered reforms s
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Obama orders flags to half mast for Neil Armstrong
08-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
US President Barack Obama Monday ordered that all official US flags be lowered to half mast to mark the funeral of Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who planted the Stars and Stripes on the Moon.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Britain ‘appalled’ by Afghanistan beheadings
08-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
Britain on Monday condemned “in the strongest terms” reports that Taliban Islamist insurgents had beheaded 17 civilians at a party in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
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News Link • Activism
Ron Paul Presence at the RNC: We Can Do Better!
08-27-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com/
After the gavel closed a shortened session Monday afternoon, two dozen supporters of the Texas congressman congregated under a large sign on the convention floor reading "We can do better."
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News Link • Police State
NYPD chief Ray Kelly defends officers over Empire State Building shooting
08-27-2012
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
Raymond Kelly, the New York police commissioner, has defended two of his officers whose decision to fatally shoot an armed man outside the Empire State Building on Friday led to nine bystanders being injured.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban beheads 17 Afghan partygoers for dancing; 2 NATO troops killed
08-27-2012
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Washington Post
Taliban insurgents beheaded 17 Afghans in a rebel-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, and two NATO troops were killed by an Afghan soldier in the eastern part of the country.
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News Link • Climate Change
In climate landmark, Arctic ice melts to record low
08-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its smallest point ever in a milestone that may show that worst-case forecasts on climate change are coming true, US scientists said Monday.
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News Link • World News
Israeli airstrike targets Hamas camps in Gaza
08-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
Israeli aircraft attacked three Hamas training camps in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, causing no injuries, eyewitnesses in the enclave said.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
U.S. approves new once-a-day pill to treat HIV
08-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
A new pill to treat HIV infection " combining two previously approved drugs plus two new ones " has been approved for adults living with the virus that causes AIDS, US regulators said Monday.
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News Link • Energy
Oil prices fall as Isaac hits refinery demand
08-27-2012
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The RawStory.com
Oil prices fell Monday as Tropical Storm Isaac threatened oil and gas operations in the US Gulf of Mexico, forcing refinery shutdowns that lowered demand for crude.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
American Taliban fights prison prayer rule
08-27-2012
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AP
American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh says a federal prison rule barring him and other Muslims from praying together daily is "absurd". (Aug. 27)
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News Link • Military
Army soldiers allegedly bought $87K worth of weapons to kill Obama
08-27-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The RawStory.com
Prosecutors alleged Monday that four Army soldiers arrested for killing a former soldier and his girlfriend were plotting to assassinate the President and overthrow the government.
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. troops tried to burn 500 copies of Koran, investigation says
08-27-2012
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Washington Post
US troops tried to burn 500 copies of the Koran as part of a badly bungled security sweep at an Afghan prison in February, despite repeated warnings from Afghan soldiers that they were making a colossal mistake,
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News Link • Energy
One-time Solar Giant Q-Cells to be Sold Off Soon
08-27-2012
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
Consolidation in solar continues as Germany's Q-Cells reaches an agreement to be acquired by Hanwha Group.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Applying the tools of social science to make robots easier to live and work with
08-27-2012
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Willow Garage via TechnologyReview.com
People often find robots baffling and even frightening. Leila Takayama has found ways to smooth out their rough edges. Through numerous studies and experiments that look at how people react to every aspect of robots, from their height to their postur
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Interactive Panorama Lets You Stand on the Moon With Neil Armstrong
08-27-2012
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Adam Mann via WIRED.com
Though 12 men have walked on the moon, only one could be the first. When Neil Armstrong, who died Aug. 25, touched down in 1969 on the lunar surface, he and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin made history and photographed their landing site in detail.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
4409 -- Open Video to the Ron Paul "Delegates"
08-27-2012
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YouTube.com - 4409
Do NOT forget that these people (not you) stabbed you and Ron Paul in the back for the last 6 years and will do it again and again and again.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
A First Look at the Sneakiest Tank Outside of the NSA
08-27-2012
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Roberto Baldwin via WIRED.com
World news is thick with stories about flying drones spying on an unsuspecting public. These are largely reports of military or law enforcement drones flying over the Middle East, Africa and the Southwestern United States.
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News Link • Energy
Students Build a Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Powered Locomotive
08-27-2012
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Keith Barry via WIRED.com
Engineering students at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. have successfully built and demonstrated a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered locomotive.
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News Link • Internet
How Pacific Island Missile Tests Helped Launch the Internet
08-27-2012
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Noah Shachtman via Wired.com
There are a thousand stories about the origin of the internet, each with their own starting point and their own heroes. Charles Herzfeld’s tale began in 1961 on a series of tiny islands in the South Pacific.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
U.S. Spies Summon Star Wars for 3-D Hologram Displays
08-27-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
It’s one of the most memorable scenes in science fiction: a 3-D, holographic Princess Leia, begging for Obi-Wan’s help. America’s spy services have just plunked down $58 million to make it real.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study Suggests Less Is More for Exercise and Weight Loss
08-27-2012
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com
If you’re looking to shape up, researchers at the University of Copenhagen say 30 minutes of rigorous exercise can be as effective as an hour when it comes to shedding weight.
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News Link • Military
Russian Troops Welcomed Into NORAD, America’s Cold War HQ
08-27-2012
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Robert Beckhusen via WIRED.com
During the Cold War, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, watched out for a potential nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. But times have changed. Now NORAD is inviting members of the Russian military in.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Teens Beware: Using Marijuana Could Make You Dumber
08-27-2012
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Tanya Lewis via WIRED.com
Marijuana is the world’s most widely used illicit drug. But smoke too many joints too soon, and you might lose IQ points: A new study suggests extensive marijuana use starting as a teenager could lead to cognitive decline.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Wireless Sensor Tags Help You Keep Track of Your Stuff
08-27-2012
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Roberto Baldwin via WIRED.com
Stuff goes missing. Maybe you misplaced something, or maybe one of the uninvited guests at your last shindig is “borrowing” it. Regardless, now you need it, and you can’t find it.
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News Link • Activism
Twitter Fights Back to Protect ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protestor
08-27-2012
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
Twitter is standing firm against a court order to turn over user data related to an Occupy Wall Street protestor.
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News Link • Food
Artificial Intelligence Predicts and Combats Crop-Destroying Fruit Flies
08-27-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
Oriental fruit flies are one of the biggest scourges to farmers around the globe, often forcing officials to put crops into quarantine just to keep Bactrocera dorsalis shut out.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Defense Distributed (Home of the Wiki Weapon)...
08-27-2012
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www.defensedistributed.com
Wiki Weapon is a collaborative project to create freely available plans for 3D printable guns. Off-site crowd-funding campaign cancelled....hmmmmmm
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News Link • History
Pictures From Robert Scott's Doomed Expedition To The South Pole
08-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Shlomo Sprung
A little over 100 years ago, Robert Scott led a privately funded British expedition to travel the Arctic to become the first people to successfully reach the South Pole.
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News Link • Books
Mike Williamson's Book Review: The Book of Blacksmithing
08-27-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Mike Williamson
The Book of Blacksmithing (Setting Up Shop, Essential Skills, and Easy Projects to Get You Started), by Michael Cardiff.
ISBN-13: 978-1610045773
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney: Reappoint Bernanke After All ...
08-27-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
The Fed has abused the trust of US citizens and is not a dependable institution ... Wait! Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has been doing a great job and ought to be re-elected.
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News Link • Precious Metals
...Major Development in Precious Metals: 'The Time to Buy Cheap Will Soon Be Gone'
08-27-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com,by Mac Slavo
...the stars for precious metals seem to be in alignment. So says Peter Schiff, CEO of Europacific Precious Metals.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
World's smallest neutron generator " it's not just for nukes anymore
08-27-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Brian Dodson
Neutron generators provide materials analysis and non-destructive testing tools to many industries, including oilfield operations, heavy mechanical production, art conservancy, detective work, and medicine.
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News Link • Economy - International
German minister rejects more time for Greece
08-27-2012
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http://www.boston.com, By FRANK JORDANS
Germany’s economy minister has rejected calls for Greece to get more time to implement economic reforms, saying in an interview Sunday that Athens needs to respect the bailout deal reached with its international creditors.
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