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Date Sent: 2012-09-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, September 2, 2012 |
We Don’t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena
The
Government Is Selling A Bunch Of Classic WW2 Rifles -- There Was A
Secret Ruling Against The NSA For Spying On Americans -- Russia Wants
Its Own Hypersonic Bomber By The End Of The Decade -- The Incredible
Story Of China's Sexual Revolution -- Chinese Manufacturing Drops To A
Nine Month Low -- ART CASHIN: The Most Disastrous Moment In US Economic
History Occured In August 1971 -- Israel Uses
Palestinians for Target Practice -- Word's Eye View: Greg J. Dixon -- Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
- Nikola Tesla -- Graphene: Strongest Material on Earth
-- How to
make Nickel Acetate solution for use in electroplating -- 10 Useful
Amateur Chemist Lab Tips -- An ultrafast nickel–iron battery -- Ideal Solar Storage Batteries invented in
1902 by Edison are Rediscovered (Part 1) : Ian Soutar -- JAY LENO
COMPARES NEW AND 100-YEAR OLD ELECTRIC CARS -- The Pathology of U.S.
Democracy -- The State of Freedom -- Gun Control — on the
Government's Guns -- China Now Using a Cruise Ship to Haul Troops
and Tanks -- Most Dangerous
Object in the Office: Battle Hawk Tactical Tomahawk -- Goodbye Fax,
Hello Personal Cloud -- Head of ARPA-E Sketches Course for Energy
Research -- Corn Exports Shrivel as U.S. Ethanol Demand Grows -- Romney/Ryanism in Tampa --
Netanyahu in New York -- 4409: RNC vs Ron Paulers vs Rand Paul vs
Political Parties -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News September 2,
2012 Edition
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News Link • Police State
We Don’t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena
09-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
When Golden Valley Electric Association of rural Alaska got an administrative subpoena from the Drug Enforcement Administration in December 2010 seeking electricity bill information on three customers, the company did what it usually does with subpoe
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News Link • Government
The Government Is Selling A Bunch Of Classic WW2 Rifles
09-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
Guess what? You can buy WW2 rifles from the government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
There Was A Secret Ruling Against The NSA For Spying On Americans
09-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing the Justice Department for details of last month's ruling by a secretive U.S. court that National Security Agency's domestic spying program violated the U.S. Constitution, Jon Brodkin of arstechnica r
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Russia Wants Its Own Hypersonic Bomber By The End Of The Decade
09-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Military.com
Russian leaders have taken notice of the U.S. Air Force’s plans to build a next generation bomber, announcing they have set their sites on building a hypersonic bomber.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
The Incredible Story Of China's Sexual Revolution
09-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
China's sexual revolution is underway, but it's a complicated, and sometimes contradictory affair.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese Manufacturing Drops To A Nine Month Low
09-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eric Platt
The official reading of manufacturing output in China unexpectedly contracted for the first time in nine months, new data from the National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing shows.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
ART CASHIN: The Most Disastrous Moment In US Economic History Occured In August 1971
09-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam Ro
Art Cashin believes it was a mistake for the U.S. dollar to come off of the gold standard.
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Nike's Fantastic 'Find Your Greatness' Ad Campaign Was The Most Pirated Ad This Month
09-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, William Wei
Nike absolutely dominated the month of August with its "Find Your Greatness" ad campaign.
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News Link • Internet
Facebook: The Real Presidential Swing State
09-02-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, David Talbot
The outcome of the 2012 campaign could have less to do with grand vision than with online data analytics and peer-to-peer voter targeting.
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News Link • Inventions
Up in the air with a human-powered helicopter
09-02-2012
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http://news.yahoo.com, By Claudine Zap
Students at University of Maryland are using pedal power to break a human-powered helicopter record (but hopefully to break nothing else).
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News Link • Battery Project
Electroplating of metal nanotubes and nanowires in a high aspect-ratio nanotemplate
09-02-2012
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http://www.sciencedirect.com, Jie Fu
Ordered metal (Co, Pt, and CoPt alloy) nanotube and nanowire structures were fabricated by a simple electroplating method in high aspect-ratio anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane.
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News Link • Racism
White man beaten to a pulp in public square for dating African-American woman in Georgia
09-01-2012
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U.K. Daily Mail
A Savannah, Georgia man was left bloodied and bruised after he was brutally attacked for dating an African-American girl.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - September 1st 2012
09-01-2012
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LewRockwell.com
D'Souza's Anti-Obama Documentary, 2016, Too bad it's a pack of lies. Article by Gary North / What I Saw at the GOP Convention, Devils dancing on the head of a pin. Article by Karen Kwiatkowski / How To Debate the Flag Wavers
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Robbers make off with an estimated 11 tons of elderberries in Austria
09-01-2012
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The RawStory.com
A group of thieves worked hard for its haul this week in eastern Austria, picking a plantation’s entire crop of elderberries without the owner noticing.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iPhone Already Crushing Samsung Models Apple Wants Banned
09-01-2012
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Marcus Wohlsen via WIRED.com
The eight Samsung smartphones Apple wants a U.S. judge to ban after winning its patent case might symbolize all that Steve Jobs hated about the Android competition.
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News Link • Inventions
Nikola Tesla - The Untold Story
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, UFOTVstudios
This program reveals the discoveries of a forgotten genius, many of which went virtually unnoticed for nearly a century.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Nikola Tesla
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, HowStuffWorks
When impoverished inventor Nikola Tesla died in New York City, the U.S. government confiscated his notes.
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News Link • Inventions
Nikola Tesla Inventions In Three-Dimensions
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, AkaUfoAkaUfo
Nikola Tesla Inventions In Three-Dimensions.
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News Link • Energy
Real Tesla Secrets Revealed
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, sendstephen
Dr. Puharich reveals rare details about the life and work of his fellow Serbo-Croatian-American scientist, Nikola Tesla!
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What is Graphene?
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, VegaScienceTrust
In October 2010 the Nobel Prize for Physics was won by Andre Geim and Constantin Novoselov at Manchester University for their work on graphene
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Battery Project
How to make Nickel Acetate solution for use in electroplating
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com,
This video shows the steps needed to make a nickel acetate solution (containing nickel 2+ ions) for use in home electroplating baths.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Battery Project
10 Useful Amateur Chemist Lab Tips
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, myst32YT
In this video I give you ten Useful Amateur Chemist Tips.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Battery Project
An ultrafast nickel"iron battery
09-01-2012
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http://www.nature.com
Ultrafast rechargeable batteries made from low-cost and abundant electrode materials operating in safe aqueous electrolytes could be attractive for electrochemical energy storage.
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News Link • Battery Project
From Edison to Milk Floats
09-01-2012
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http://www.en-genius.net, by Paul McGoldrick
There is a great tendency to regard electric vehicles as a relatively new idea, and we are reminded by the 2006 Sony documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? (with Martin Sheen, Tom Hanks, and Mel Gibson) that when electric vehicles appeared in Calif
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News Link • Battery Project
Ideal Solar Storage Batteries invented in 1902 by Edison are Rediscovered (Part 1) : Ian Soutar
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, ideawavevideos
Ideal Solar Storage Batteries invented in 1902
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News Link • Battery Project
JAY LENO COMPARES NEW AND 100-YEAR OLD ELECTRIC CARS
09-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, INCWORD2
Leno road test his Baker Electric and the electric Ford Focus used on the Green Car Challenge
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Interview with Gary Chartier on his Club-released book
09-01-2012
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http://lfb.org, Jeffrey Tucker
Professor Chartier’s book, The Conscience of an Anarchist, is released into the Laissez Faire Club on Friday. Join to download.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Theory
The Pathology of U.S. Democracy
09-01-2012
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http://blog.independent.org, By Anthony Gregory
Electoral politics is a moral and intellectual wasteland. There is no room for anyone of principle, whatever that principle might be.
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News Link • Currencies
The State of Freedom
09-01-2012
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http://www.strike-the-root.com, by tzo
Unknown to most Americans, there is a 51st state tucked away amid the Rocky Mountains.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control " on the Government's Guns
09-01-2012
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http://mises.org, by George Reisman
The recent mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and then in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, have led to renewed demands for "gun control" aimed ultimately at depriving the individual citizen of his constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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News Link • China
China Now Using a Cruise Ship to Haul Troops and Tanks
09-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
The media freaked out about China’s crappy aircraft carrier and hyperventilated over the J-20 stealth fighter.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Battle Hawk Tactical Tomahawk
09-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jon Phillips
For soldiers on the battlefield, a tomahawk is useful for breaking down barricaded doors.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Goodbye Fax, Hello Personal Cloud
09-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, Jon Udell
Back in February my son lost control of his car and landed in the hospital. Fortunately he has recovered from his injuries.
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News Link • Energy
Head of ARPA-E Sketches Course for Energy Research
09-01-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Martin LaMonica
Eric Toone, the principal deputy director of ARPA-E, discusses where the research agency is seeking technical breakthroughs in energy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biofuel
Corn Exports Shrivel as U.S. Ethanol Demand Grows
09-01-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Mike Orcutt
As the world’s biggest exporter of corn diverts more and more of its crop to make fuel, it’s sending less to the global marketplace.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Warrantless Wiretap Victims Ask Court to Reconsider Letting Feds Spy Illegally
08-30-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its earlier ruling that the government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Denies Stonewalling Nude Body-Scanner Court Order
08-30-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The Transportation Security Administration denied it was stonewalling a federal appeals court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
South African Scientists Claim Breakthrough Drug Cures All Strains of Malaria
08-30-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Malaria is the scourge of tropical nations, crippling its victims with symptoms like debilitating fever, convulsions and nausea, and killing half a million people annually.
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News Link • Communications
Apple rejects Drones+, app to track U.S. drone strikes
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
Apple confirmed Thursday that it has rejected Drones+ from its App Store. The app is designed to alert users whenever someone has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.
Wired’s Danger Room reported that the app, developed by New York-based developer
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice For Brad Cooper
08-30-2012
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Justice For Brad Cooper
Man convicted of murdering his wife. Police frame up? Police neglected to record any of the interviews with Brad, although they did record many of the interviews with other witnesses. It is probably obvious where this is going.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US "Justice" Dept decides not to bring charges in CIA interrogations of terrorist suspects
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
The Justice Department said Thursday that it would not file charges in connection with the deaths of two prisoners held in CIA custody a decade ago, closing the last active criminal investigation into the agency’s treatment of prisoners after the Sep
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News Link • Military
This Former Marine Unlawfully Detained And Committed By Police Is Suing The Government
08-30-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
The former Marine who was unlawfully detained and placed in a psychiatric institution by authorities is filing a civil lawsuit against government officials involved.
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News Link • Housing
JONATHAN MILLER: Don't Buy The Hype About A Housing Recovery
08-30-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jill Krasny
Much of the housing recovery you've been hearing about is still just hype, says Jonathan Miller of Manhattan-based real estate appraisal company Miller-Samuel.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Public Schools Order Deaf Child To Change His Name
08-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here in Nebraska, in Grand Island, a deaf child is being told to change the sign he uses for his name--because it looks too much like he's pointing a gun.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Video: The Teleprompter Had the Results of the Vote Before the Vote was Taken!
08-30-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Ed Thinking
Here is what you did not see on the "mainstream" news media. The teleprompter had the results of the vote before the vote was taken.
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News Link • Seriously?
Video Shows Cop Kicking Defenseless Man in the Throat
08-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
A new police brutality video shows a St. Paul police officer kicking a defenseless man in the throat while he lay on the ground.
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News Link • Military
The U.S. Air Force is Officially Seeking Cyber Weapons
08-30-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Look, we all know the Pentagon is seeking cyber weapons. For defensive purposes only, of course, not for playing dirty cyber tricks on enemies of the state (Stuxnet, anyone?). But it's a bit strange when the military does it so openly.
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News Link • Israel
Former Israeli commandos dominate politics
08-30-2012
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http://news.yahoo.com, By ARON HELLER
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to fill a sensitive Cabinet post recently, he turned to an old army buddy from his days in an elite commando unit.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Priorities: Arizona election chief in Florida on our primary election day
08-30-2012
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Arizona Republic
Arizona's Secretary of State Ken Bennett was hobnobbing with other politicians and delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa instead of overseeing AZ's primary election, in which Arizona voters will pick partisan contenders
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
LAPD commander removed in probe of rough arrest
08-30-2012
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Yahoo News
A Los Angeles Police Department commanding officer has been removed amid an internal investigation into a videotaped beating in which officers tackled a handcuffed registered nurse to the ground, police Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday.
Beck sai
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Open source is not limited to software
08-30-2012
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Ravindra Maurya
"The birth of open source software began with a simple thought process: I had an idea and created something from it. Now, I want to share it (in its entirety) with others who might like to use it. I want them to be able to modify it, enhance it, and
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School: Teacher Helps Students Cheat Because She Says They’re ‘Dumb As Hell’
08-30-2012
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http://atlanta.cbslocal.com
A former fifth-grade teacher implicated in a cheating scandal reportedly gave students the illegal assistance because she thought they were “dumb as hell.”
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News Link • Death
France opens enquiry into claims of Arafat poisoning
08-30-2012
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com, By Pauline Talagrand
French prosecutors have opened a murder enquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's 2004 death near Paris following claims he may have died of polonium poisoning, sources told AFP Tuesday.
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News Link • China
Chinese banks step up lending in the US
08-30-2012
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http://www.ft.com, By Kandy Wong
China’s top banks are stepping up their lending activities in the US as large US companies diversify their funding sources and seek to penetrate more deeply into the world’s second-largest economy.
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News Link • NATO
NATO Mulls Another Afghan Surge for ‘Drawdown’
08-30-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Needs More Troops Just to Deal with Shipping Containers
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News Link • Egypt
Reports: Egypt wouldn't fire on Iran ship
08-30-2012
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http://www.upi.com
Egypt's Navy refused a U.S. request to fire on an Iranian weapons ship heading for violence-torn Syria through the Suez Canal, al-Arabiya reported.
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