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Date Sent: 2015-09-20
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, September 20, 2015 |
Top Intel Lawyer Says Terror Attack Would Help Push for Anti-Encryption Legislation
The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government) -- Insider Trading on 9/11: Speculative Trade in "Put Options". -- I Have No Fear Of Economic Collapse -- Showdown in Spain: Spanish Banks Warn Against Catalonia Independence -- Your Radiation This Week No 22 -- Are Neocons an Existential Threat? -- US Air Force general: laser warfare in the sky is coming sooner than you think -- Footage Marco Rubio aide punched Rand Paul aide in the face at Michigan bar -- Flip Flop? Donald Trump Reverses Stance on 'Assault Weapons' Ban -- Cerberus Turns Military Dogs Into Cyborgs -- British Scientists Want Permission To Genetically Edit Viable Human Embryos -- The Tricky Encryption That Could Stump Quantum Computers -- Russia is not the enemy -- Hostile BBC Interview of a Saudi Loyalist Shows Prime Journalistic Duty: Scrutiny of One's Own S -- Building a rope bridge with flying machines -- SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: September 20, 2015 Edition -- Stockton police under fire for tackling teen accused of jaywalking -- Obama to nominate first openly gay service secretary to lead the Army -- Democrat MUTINY!! DNC Chair Debbie Schultz HECKLED by HUGE crowd!!.
-- The Big Lie About Russian Forces in Syria -- Mumia Denied Life-Saving Treatment -- US Zionist Organizations Blast Muted UN Criticism of Israeli Violence -- US Presidential Candidates Demean Muslims and Hugo Chavez -- Cocaine Production Plummets After DEA Kicked Out of Bolivia -- Irish Colonists on the South Atlantic Coast -- Brain damage During Stroke May Point to Source of Addiction -- The Green Man -- 2.3 million answer Indian state's post for 368 menial jobs -- Tesla is moving to secure the critical resource it needs for its future --
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Top Intel Lawyer Says Terror Attack Would Help Push for Anti-Encryption Legislation
09-19-2015
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theintercept.com
The intelligence community's top lawyer, Robert S. Litt, told colleagues in an August email obtained by the Washington Post that Congressional support for anti-encryption legislation "could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal even
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News Link • Government
The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government)
09-19-2015
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zerogov.com
Publisher's Note: I thought to conduct my annual savaging of the Constitution on this day. My colleague Paul Bonneau thinks thrashing the slave creed is the wrong idea. We have a gentleman's disagreement.
Happy Constitution Day, fellow Helots.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
I Have No Fear Of Economic Collapse
09-19-2015
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
..., even though I am fully convinced that the hardest times that any of us have ever experienced are ahead. I spend countless numbers of hours in front of my computer immersed in deeply disturbing information, and yet I sleep more soundly at night
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Secession
Showdown in Spain: Spanish Banks Warn Against Catalonia Independence
09-19-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
It now seems near-certain that Catalan political parties favoring independence will increase their outright majority of seats, putting the region on a collision path with the central government in Madrid
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Your Radiation This Week No 22
09-19-2015
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veteranstoday.com
Good Day, this is "Your Radiation This Week." These are the recorded Radiation Highs that affected people this week around the United States and in your neighborhood. Let's get right to it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NeoCons
Are Neocons an Existential Threat?
09-19-2015
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consortiumnews.com
Exclusive: Despite a record of unprecedented error, American neocons remain the dominant foreign policy force in Official Washington, demanding more "regime change" in the Middle East and a new Cold War that could heat up and end all life on the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US Air Force general: laser warfare in the sky is coming sooner than you think
09-19-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Speaking at a presentation about what Carlisle calls "Fifth-Generation Warfare," he told Ars Technica that the Air Force is looking for something like a laser cannon that can be mounted on fighter aircraft and other manned planes within the next
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Flip Flop? Donald Trump Reverses Stance on 'Assault Weapons' Ban
09-19-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
"Gun and magazine bans are a total failure. That's been proven every time it's been tried," Trump's official statement reads. "Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like 'assault weapons', 'military-styl
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Cerberus Turns Military Dogs Into Cyborgs
09-19-2015
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http://www.popsci.com
Named for the mythical guardian of the underworld, the Cerberus camera system from Visual Engineering puts a second head on a military or police dog.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
British Scientists Want Permission To Genetically Edit Viable Human Embryos
09-19-2015
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http://www.popsci.com
If granted, this would allow them to directly study humans' earliest stage of development and would mark the first approval by a national regulatory body to employ the CRISPR/Cas9 system on viable human embryos.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
The Tricky Encryption That Could Stump Quantum Computers
09-19-2015
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http://www.wired.com
The National Security Agency updated an obscure page on its website with an announcement that it plans to shift the encryption of government and military data away from current cryptographic schemes to new ones, yet to be determined, that can resist
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia is not the enemy
09-19-2015
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https://www.bostonglobe.com
Real enemies are a threat to any country, but imagined enemies can be even more dangerous. They sap resources, provoke needless conflicts, and divert attention from true challenges. The United States has constructed such a fantasy by turning Russia i
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Hostile BBC Interview of a Saudi Loyalist Shows Prime Journalistic Duty: Scrutiny of One's Own S
09-19-2015
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https://theintercept.com
One of those many Saudi regime loyalists, conservative British MP Daniel Kawczynski, appeared on BBC's Newsnight program on Friday night and was mercilessly grilled by host James O'Brien about support for the Saudi war in Yemen by both the Britis
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drones
Building a rope bridge with flying machines
09-19-2015
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https://www.youtube.com
The video shows quadrocopters autonomously assembling a rope bridge. This is part of a body of research in aerial construction, a field that addresses the construction of structures with the aid of flying machines.
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: September 20, 2015 Edition
09-19-2015
John Semmens
Scientists Urge President to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics
A gaggle of university climatologists have written to President Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging them to prosecute people who continue to contradict the "scientific co
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Stockton police under fire for tackling teen accused of jaywalking
09-19-2015
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http://www.latimes.com
"This is appalling abuse of authority and assault. This officer needs to be fired for what he did to this defenseless child for jaywalking which is a minor violation which is never enforced," Phyllis Tabron commented
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Obama to nominate first openly gay service secretary to lead the Army
09-19-2015
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http://www.washingtonpost.com
President Obama, in a historic first for the Pentagon, has chosen to nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the military services.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Democrat MUTINY!! DNC Chair Debbie Schultz HECKLED by HUGE crowd!!.
09-19-2015
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http://therightscoop.com
While the press has been completely obsessed by el Trumpo so that they can damage and dismantle the Republican party, they have tried their best to ignore the growing mutiny in the Democrat party.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Cocaine Production Plummets After DEA Kicked Out of Bolivia
09-19-2015
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arclein
The drug war is one of the most misunderstood subjects in mainstream political discourse, even among people who are sympathetic to the plight of responsible drug users. It is rare for someone to come out and say that all drugs should be legal, but in
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Irish Colonists on the South Atlantic Coast
09-19-2015
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arclein
archaeologist, James Ford, that in 1935 he had excavated numerous bronze and iron, swords, axes, hammers, chisels and daggers from the south bank of the Altamaha River in Georgia during a survey of Santo Domingo State Park. Ford attributed these ar
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robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
Brain damage During Stroke May Point to Source of Addiction
09-19-2015
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arclein
While smoking rates have remained flat for the last decade, smoking is still responsible for nearly one of every five deaths in the U.S. and smoking places individuals at a significantly higher risk for heart disease, cancer, and stroke.
The fron
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robert klein
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News Link • Spirituality
The Green Man
09-19-2015
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arclein
The "Folklore" article was Lady Raglan's sole foray into folklore study, and it is clearly much influenced by Sir James Frazier's seminal 1922 book on mythology, religion and folklore, "The Golden Bough". The article concluded: "This fi
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robert klein
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
2.3 million answer Indian state's post for 368 menial jobs
09-18-2015
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Associated Press
When a northern Indian state announced a few hundred job openings for low-level office workers who run errands and make tea, the response was staggering.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla is moving to secure the critical resource it needs for its future
09-18-2015
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Business Insider
Tesla builds electric cars, but it also builds batteries -- and with the development of its Gigafactory in Nevada, in association with Panasonic, it plans to build a lot more batteries.
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