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Date Sent: 2013-04-28
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Sunday, April 28, 2013 |
Obama Unveils New 'Red Line' for Syria's Chemical Weapons -- Spain's Economy as Bad as Greece's
Military says 100 of 166 prisoners now on hunger strike at
Guantanamo Bay -- Russia cracks down on U.S.-linked NGOs -- American
charged, ex-general held in Venezuela -- NKorea charges US man in
plot to overthrow regime -- Miss. man charged in suspicious letters case -- India Flexes Its Nuclear Muscles – While We Fixate on North
Korea and Iran -- This Device Turns A Charcoal Stove Into A Cell Phone Charger
-- How Giant Concrete Balls Could Make Wind Power More
Efficient -- Battery Could Provide a Cheap
Way to Store Solar Power -- Hijacking E. Coli to Brew Synthetic Fuel -- How to
Stock Your Disaster Pantry -- Sharp Achieves
37.9% Solar Cell Conversion Efficiency -- Semiconductor Spray Paint
Promises Flexible Electronics -- Bitcoin Prices Remain Volatile,
Will it Become a Mainstream Currency? -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News,
April 28, 2013 Edition -- It’s Not a Lack of Technology That’s
Keeping Trains From Going Driverless -- Palestinian Prisoner Diaries -- US
military-industrial complex devours peace dividend -- Freedom's Phoenix at the
PrepperFestAZ
(Pictures) -- Creating a Pretext for War on
Syria -- Fukushima's Catastrophic Aftermath Continues
AZ: INAUGURAL PREPPER FEST AZ EXPO LAST DAY APRIL 26-28,
2013 ; April 30-May 1st, Future of Freedom Foundation's
Jacob Hornberger, Dick Cheatham (John Rolfe) and Sheldon Richman
in Yuma and Scottsdale, AZ – “Restoring Liberty to America”; Language
of Liberty Phoenix Seminar May 3-4, 2013
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Unveils New ‘Red Line’ for Syria’s Chemical Weapons
04-27-2013
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
Blink and you’ll miss it, but President Obama just revised and extended his “red line” for stopping Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons against Syrian civilians.
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain’s Economy Is Now as Bad as Greece’s
04-27-2013
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US & World Report
The unemployment rate in Spain recently hit an astounding 27.2 percent for the first quarter of 2013, which is the highest it's been in decades and higher than unemployment was in the United States during the Depression.
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Reference Link • Police State
Am I Free to Go?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
If only King George III had commanded SWAT teams, the Boston Tea Party would have been suppressed, and our kids would be singing “God Save the Queen” in our government schools!
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Military says 100 of 166 prisoners now on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay
04-27-2013
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Washington Post
A hunger strike among prisoners at Guantanamo Bay keeps growing.
Lt. Col. Samuel House said Saturday that 100 of 166 prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba have now joined the strike.
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News Link • World News
Russia cracks down on U.S.-linked NGOs
04-27-2013
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Washington Post
2 months ago, a civic-minded history professor in the picturesque city of Kostroma invited a U.S. diplomat to take part in a roundtable about Russian-American relations. The event was open, the conversation spirited " and the professor’s organization
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News Link • World News
American charged, ex-general held in Venezuela
04-27-2013
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AP
An American filmmaker was formally charged late Saturday by Venezuelan officials who accuse him of paying right-wing groups to foment postelection unrest on behalf of U.S. intelligence.
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News Link • World News
NKorea charges US man in plot to overthrow regime
04-27-2013
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AP
North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Miss. man charged in suspicious letters case
04-27-2013
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AP
An ex-martial arts instructor made ricin and put the poison in letters to President Barack Obama and others, the FBI charged Saturday, days after dropping similar charges against an Elvis impersonator who insisted he had been framed.
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News Link • Energy
Nicola Tesla
04-27-2013
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Immanuel Velikovsky via LewRockwell.com
In the beginning of this century a Croatian* engineer, emigrant to America, Nikola Tesla, measured the electrical charge of the planet Earth and found it of a very high potential. He made his observation during thunder storms.
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News Link • World News
India Flexes Its Nuclear Muscles " While We Fixate on North Korea and Iran
04-27-2013
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Eric Margolis via LewRockwell.com
While the United States beats the war drums over North Korea and Iran’s long-ranged nuclear armed missiles "which they don’t even possess " Washington remains curiously silent about the arrival of the world’s newest member of the big nuke club
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News Link • Energy
This Device Turns A Charcoal Stove Into A Cell Phone Charger
04-27-2013
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Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.com
Also it might provide electricity to the undeveloped world.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Largest Current Study Of AIDS Vaccine Shut Down Because It Doesn't Work
04-27-2013
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
In fact, patients injected with the vaccine actually developed HIV more often than those who were given a placebo. Eep.
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News Link • Energy
How Giant Concrete Balls Could Make Wind Power More Efficient
04-27-2013
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Martha Harbison via PopSci.com
Wind power is pretty great: One doesn't need to do much but build turbines and capture the energy from a passing breeze.
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News Link • Energy
Another Thin-Film Solar Casualty?
04-27-2013
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
Niche provider SoloPower, which received state aid, is seeking an investor to keep operating.
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News Link • Energy
Battery Could Provide a Cheap Way to Store Solar Power
04-27-2013
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Combining aspects of high-energy lithium-sulfur batteries with flow battery technology can lower costs.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Morephone: the most deformed phone you'll see today
04-27-2013
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dvice.com
The phones of the future have been rumored to be watches or a bracelets for quite a while. But what's been missing is the crumpled piece of paper form factor.
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News Link • Energy
Hijacking E. Coli to Brew Synthetic Fuel
04-27-2013
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popularmechanics.com
The University of Exeter produces molecules identical to the ones that give gas its power.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lethality of Roundup 'Weedkiller' Extends Beyond Plants To Humans, Study Suggests
04-27-2013
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greenmedinfo.com
A shocking new study finds that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, "...may be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment," capable of contributing to a wide range of fatal human diseases.
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News Link • Energy
Sharp Achieves 37.9% Solar Cell Conversion Efficiency
04-27-2013
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solarnovus.com
Corporation has achieved solar cell conversion efficiency*1 of 37.9%*2 using a triple-junction compound solar cell in which three photo-absorption layers are stacked together.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Semiconductor Spray Paint Promises Flexible Electronics
04-27-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Flexible electronics " like a handheld computer that rolls up like a magazine or a video display embedded in a shirtsleeve " are no longer limited to the realm of sci-fi, but they are still generally too expensive for the consumer market.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Prices Remain Volatile, Will it Become a Mainstream Currency?
04-27-2013
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thedroidguy.com
Two weeks after Bitcoin prices hit the all time high of $230 on April 9th, the price of the virtual currency remain wildly volatile.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Saturn Is Closest to Earth on Sunday: See It Live Online
04-27-2013
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space.com
The best view of Saturn available to Earth dwellers in six years should be on Sunday (April 28), with the planet reaching its opposition point, when Earth lies directly between it and the sun.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Scientists Build Baseball-Playing Robot With 100,000-Neuron Fake Brain
04-27-2013
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Wired.com
If you’ve been to the RoboGames, you’ve seen everything from flame-throwing battlebots to androids that play soccer. But robo-athletes are more than just performers. They’re a path to the future.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 28, 2013 Edition
04-27-2013
John Semmens
Administration Brochure Touts Food Stamp Benefits for Foreigners
It was recently discovered that the Obama Administration has been working jointly with the Mexican government to inform that country's illegal migrants to the United States of their
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News Link • Transportation
It’s Not a Lack of Technology That’s Keeping Trains From Going Driverless
04-27-2013
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Wired.com
Airplanes have long been capable of flying on their own, Google’s self-driving car has racked up more than 300,000 miles on public roads and trains… well, trains still rely upon a guy in the cab to keep them going.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Happiness tracking software could gauge mood in photos
04-27-2013
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newscientist.com
SMILE " you're on camera! If you want a quick way to pick out the happiest snaps from a wedding or judge the changing mood of a crowd, now there's software that can do it for you.
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News Link • Internet
Amazon's Quest for Domain Name Rubs Brazil, Peru the Wrong Way
04-27-2013
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Samantha Murphy, Mashable
South American governments " specifically Brazil and Peru " are upset about the merchant Amazon's request to own the domain name .amazon and want it saved for the massive river and rain forest that runs throughout its countries.
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
The Ugliness of Statism
04-27-2013
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arclein
They loathed Margaret Thatcher because she stood up to them, questioned their false compassion, and dared to expose statism as the senseless, dehumanizing cult that it is. She rhetorically ripped the velvet glove from the iron fist and spoke of welfa
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Sacred Geometry
04-27-2013
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arclein
Geometry as a contemplative practice is personified by an elegant and refined woman, for geometry functions as an intuitive, synthesizing, creative yet exact activity of mind associated with the feminine principle. But when these geometric laws come
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US military-industrial complex devours peace dividend
04-27-2013
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northsunm32, AllVoices
It's what in Washington we call an iron triangle, you have an alliance between the private sector (the defense contractors), the executive branch (the Pentagon) and the legislative branch. The result is a budget "that is packed to the gills with weap
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News Link • Science
Coelacanth Genome Mapped
04-27-2013
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arclein
And in line with that, analysis shows its genes have been remarkably slow to change, an international team of researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Maybe that's because the sea caves where the coelacanth lives provide such a stabl
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News Link • Archaeology
Did an Earthquake Destroy Ancient Greece?
04-27-2013
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arclein
The grand Mycenaens, the first Greeks, inspired the legends of the Trojan Wars, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." Their culture abruptly declined around 1200 B.C., marking the start of a Dark Ages in Greece.
The disappearance of theMycenaens is a
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Sibel Edmonds on the Boston Bombing: The US roots of “Chechen” terrorism
04-26-2013
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corbettreport.com
FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost.com editor Sibel Edmonds joins us to discuss the recent Boston bombing hysteria and the potential geopolitical implications of the American public’s “discovery” of Chechen terror.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA: What Really Happened in the quiet French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit
04-26-2013
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http://www.voltairenet.org, by Hank P. Albarelli J
A U.S. journalist, who was investigating the Cold War mind-control experiments conducted by the CIA, came across some documents relating to an obscure episode in France that was never elucidated.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston: Death Sentence for Looking Out Window?
04-26-2013
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http://antiwar.com, James Bovard
Police were continually screaming “don’t look out the window!” during their sweep in Watertown last week.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Middle School Girls Forced to Ask Classmates for ‘Lesbian Kiss’ During Anti-Bullying Presentation
04-26-2013
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standupforthetruth.com
Imagine 13 and 14-year-old girls being instructed to ask one another for a lesbian kiss in a class exercise. The girls had no choice. The parents were NOT informed.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
When Homeland Security Theater goes Off-Script
04-26-2013
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http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com
While police in Watertown, Massachusetts closed in on the boat in which 19-year-old terrorist suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had concealed himself, FBI investigators in Chicago were snapping handcuffs on 18-year-old Abdella Ahmed Tounisi as he attempted t
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
$2 Trillion Underground Economy May Be Recovery's Savior
04-25-2013
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CNBC
The growing underground economy may be helping to prevent the real economy from sinking further. Workers turn to anything that pays them under the table, with no income reported and no taxes paid " especially with an uneven job picture.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Family Research Council Shooter Used Southern Poverty Law 'Hate Map'
04-25-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
The Virginia man who pleaded guilty to an act of armed terrorism and assault with intent to kill in last year's shooting attack at the conservative Family Research Council got the idea from the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate map."
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News Link • Internet
Google reports that government censorship requests have surged
04-25-2013
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BGR
Depressing but true: Google’s decision to publish details on government takedown requests hasn’t slowed governments’ zeal for removing content from the Internet. As a matter of fact, it seems that just the opposite has happened
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News Link • Archaeology
Earliest Mayan monuments unearthed in Guatemala
04-25-2013
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newscientist.com
The dramatic collapse of the Mayan civilisation 1000 years ago is one of the world's enduring archaeological mysteries. But how the Maya got started in the first place is no less mysterious.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Congress Prepares $100 Million Bipartisan Flu Tax
04-25-2013
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The Weekly Standard
Congress is preparing to take action on a bipartisan proposal to raise taxes on flu vaccines. This is not a tax on the wealthy, but rather on a broad swath of Americans, or at least those who choose to be immunized against the flu.
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Internet sales tax embraced by no-tax Republicans
04-25-2013
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Associated Press
You don't see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes.
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