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Date Sent: 2012-09-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, September 28, 2012 |
Inside N.Z. Police Megaupload Files: U.S. Investigation Began in 2010
Wrongly convicted inmates freed but get little help -- Homicide ruling in police custody case riles community -- Intel: Windows 8 will be half baked at launch [updated] -- Hitler's Hotel -- Flagstar Bank to face trial over mortgage servicing: judge -- Will Waterboarding Make a Comeback? -- British Authorities to Announce Changes in Libor Oversight -- California man behind anti-Muslim film arrested on probation violation -- Alex Daley: The Greatest Growth Sector in the World -- FT: Euro
Crisis May Fuel the Breakup of Spain -- The Constitution or Liberty
-- Down with Politics -- Government Dependency and Corporatist
America -- MONEY FOR NOTHING -- The Militarization of Mayberry --
Private city in Honduras will have minimal taxes, government -- The
Regulatory State — Behind the Myth -- A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful
Orders. -- Julian ... stop
“persecuting” WikiLeaks and alleged leaker Bradley Manning --
Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really? -- Sarah-Jayne
Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain --
Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers -- Clay Shirky:
How the Internet will (one day) transform government --
Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust -- Amateur
Astronomer Maps Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede in Impressive Detail -- Authors
Forum: Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State | Gerard Casey -- An International Bank? July 19, 1944 -- HOME SCIENCE TOOLS --
09-27-12 -- Cody Wilson (3-D Gun Printing) - (MP3 &
Video Loaded) -- Today on Strike The Root -- LRAD Sonic Weapons To
Be Deployed “Throughout” America For Crises
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Inside N.Z. Police Megaupload Files: U.S. Investigation Began in 2010
09-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Juha Saarinen
U.S. and New Zealand law enforcement action against filesharing kingpin Kim Dotcom and associates was set in motion over a year ahead of the raid on the Megaupload founder’s mansion in January...
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Wrongly convicted inmates freed but get little help
09-27-2012
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USA Today
Former inmates abruptly freed after spending up to six years in federal prison even though they were "legally innocent" are coming home with less help than the government typically provides the guilty after they are released.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Homicide ruling in police custody case riles community
09-27-2012
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The Milwaukee County medical examiner's office has revised its ruling on the death of Derek Williams, who died in Milwaukee police custody in July 2011, from natural to homicide, after the Journal Sentinel alerted an assistant medical examiner to new
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News Link • Technology: Software
Intel: Windows 8 will be half baked at launch [updated]
09-27-2012
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Intel’s chief executive officer Paul Otellini has some harsh words for one of the company’s closest partners. Otellini told employees that Microsoft is planning to release its Windows 8 operating system before it is fully ready.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Hitler's Hotel
09-27-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
It offers serfs a deal: If “its most loyal guests” will enroll in the “Customs and Border Protection's Global Entry and the Transportation Security Administration's PreCheck” " furnishing the Feds with biographical and biometric information
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Flagstar Bank to face trial over mortgage servicing: judge
09-27-2012
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Reuters
Flagstar Bank, the ninth-largest mortgage lender in the United States, must face trial over allegations that it breached contracts for financial guaranty insurance on nearly $1 billion in securities backed by home equity loans.
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News Link • Torture
Will Waterboarding Make a Comeback?
09-27-2012
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New York Times
Last September, Mitt Romney’s advisers were so determined to attack President Obama from every direction and to revive long-discredited neo-con theories about interrogation that they actually encouraged the candidate to come out strongly pro-torture
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News Link • Economy - International
British Authorities to Announce Changes in Libor Oversight
09-27-2012
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New York Times
British authorities are set to announce significant changes to the interest rate at the heart of a recent manipulation scandal as they aim to improve the accuracy and reliability of the benchmark.
On Friday, Martin Wheatley, the managing director
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
California man behind anti-Muslim film arrested on probation violation
09-27-2012
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Washington Post
The California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video posted to YouTube that has inflamed parts of the Middle East was arrested for violating terms of his probation, authorities said Thursday.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was convicted
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News Link • Art
Researchers: Buddhist statue found by Nazis made from meteorite
09-27-2012
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Washington Post
An ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II was carved from a meteorite that crashed on Earth thousands of years ago.
What sounds like an Indiana Jones movie plot appears to have actually t
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Curiosity rover’s finds ancient river bed on Mars, NASA says
09-27-2012
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Washington Post
The landing site of the Mars rover Curiosity was once covered with fast-moving and possibly waist-high water that could have possibly supported life, NASA scientists announced Thursday.
Although planetary scientists have often speculated that the
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News Link • European Union
FT: Euro Crisis May Fuel the Breakup of Spain
09-27-2012
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http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com,
Some real good may come out of the eurozone crisis. It's spawning a separatist movement in Spain
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News Link • Political Theory
Down with Politics
09-27-2012
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http://www.cato.org, by Gene Healy
I have a confession to make: Even though it's my job to write about politics, I didn't watch a single second of the Republican or Democratic conventions " not even a YouTube clip of Clint Eastwood talking to the chair.
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News Link • Government
Government Dependency and Corporatist America
09-27-2012
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http://fff.org, by Tim Kelly
Mitt Romney’s comment that 47 percent of Americans don’t pay taxes and therefore are not likely to respond positively to his stated opposition to tax increases has been called a “gaffe.”
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News Link • Federal Reserve
MONEY FOR NOTHING
09-27-2012
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http://www.moneyfornothingthemovie.org
MONEY FOR NOTHING is an independent, non-partisan documentary film that examines the Federal Reserve from the inside out - in a critical yet balanced way.
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News Link • World News
Private city in Honduras will have minimal taxes, government
09-27-2012
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Maxim Lott
Small government and free-market capitalism are about to get put to the test in Honduras, where the government has agreed to let an investment group build an experimental city with no taxes on income, capital gains or sales.
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News Link • Environment
The Regulatory State " Behind the Myth
09-27-2012
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http://c4ss.org, by Kevin Carson
A colleague at Center for a Stateless Society recently brought to my attention a story from late last year about unusually high concentrations of severe illness in the area surrounding a Crossett, Ark. paper mill.
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News Link • Military
A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders.
09-27-2012
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http://able2know.org
Looking at the ugly pictures coming out of Tibet, I ask myself a question. "How would I feel as a policeman or a soldier facing a protesting crowd of civilians? If I know in my heart that these crowds are innocent or even right, do I have to go and b
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News Link • Archaeology
Sept. 27, 1822: Deciphering the Rosetta Stone Unlocks Egyptian History
09-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason B. Jones
1822: Jean-François Champollion shows a draft translation of the mysterious Rosetta stone and demonstrates to the world how to read the voluminous hieroglyphics left behind by the scribes of ancient Egypt.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
...Julian ... stop “persecuting” WikiLeaks and alleged leaker Bradley Manning.
09-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
In a rambling speech to a United Nations panel on Tuesday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on the U.S. to stop “persecuting” WikiLeaks and alleged leaker Bradley Manning.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Maker of Smart-Grid Control Software Hacked
09-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
The maker of an industrial control system designed to be used with so-called smart grid networks disclosed to customers last week that hackers had breached its network and accessed project files related to a control system used in portions of the ele
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
The Best and Worst of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Sci-Fi Optimism
09-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Scott Thill
The bright futurism of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the award-winning sci-fi series that warps into its 25th anniversary Friday, was so unique that the show probably wouldn't get the command to engage today.
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News Link • Internet
Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really?
09-27-2012
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http://www.ted.com
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of.
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News Link • China
Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers
09-27-2012
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http://www.ted.com
In the ongoing debate about globalization, what's been missing is the voices of workers
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News Link • Future Predictions
Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government
09-27-2012
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http://www.ted.com
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments?
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News Link • Economy - International
Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust
09-27-2012
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http://www.ted.com
Rachel Botsman explores the currency that makes systems like Airbnb and Taskrabbit work: trust, influence, and what she calls "reputation capital."
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
09-27-2012
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http://www.ted.com,
When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world -- except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Amateur Astronomer Maps Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede in Impressive Detail
09-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
Using little more than a backyard telescope and his experience observing the night sky, amateur astronomer Emmanuel Kardasis has produced a detailed map of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede.
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News Link • Government
Authors Forum: Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State | Gerard Casey
09-27-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by misesmedia
Presented at the 2012 Austrian Scholars Conference. Recorded 8 March 2012 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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News Link • Economy - International
An International Bank? July 19, 1944
09-27-2012
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http://bastiat.mises.org, By Mises.org Quotes
“The drive for a $10,000,000,000 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development illustrates once more the fetish of machinery that possesses the minds of the governmental delegates at Bretton Woods.
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News Link • World News
Today on Strike The Root
09-27-2012
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Strike The Root
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - Henry David Thoreau
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News Link • Military
LRAD Sonic Weapons To Be Deployed “Throughout” America For Crises
09-27-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
The U.S. Air National Guard has purchased half a million dollars worth of portable LRAD acoustic systems, which are commonly used by police to quell protests and civil unrest, ensuring that the sonic weapons will be deployed “throughout” America duri
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Amazon Pretty Much Gives Away New Green Day, No Doubt Releases
09-27-2012
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ww.showbiz411.com
They bought ‘em, they can what they want with ‘em: Amazon.com is pretty much giving away downloads of the new albums by Green Day and No Doubt. You can pick ‘em up, or pick ‘em out for five bucks. That’s the equivalent of free, kids.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Sorry about that, NFL chief says of replacements
09-27-2012
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www.cnn.com
The touchdown catch that wasn't. The first touchdown interception. The inaccurate reception. Whatever you call it, don't call the controversial call by replacement refs in the Green Bay Packers-Seattle Seahwaks game a catalyst for the tentative labor
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Organs taken from patients that doctors were pressured to declare brain dead: suit
09-26-2012
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AFP
The New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could be harvested " and even hired “coaches” to train staffers how to be more persuasive, a bombshell lawsuit charged.
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News Link • Surveillance
Rent-to-own computers secretly recorded users having sex: FTC
09-26-2012
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Rawstory
Several rent-to-own computer companies illegal used software on their computers to secretly record their customers having sex. DesignerWare created the software to help companies track and recover rented computers.
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