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Date Sent: 2011-06-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 28, 2011 AM edition |
Jury convicts ex-Ill. Gov. Blagojevich at retrial -- US Supremes Strike CA Videogame Ban
First The Airports -- My Faith: Why I don't sing the 'Star Spangled Banner' -- US gets ready to turn Syria into another Middle Eastern vassal -- Case dismissed against woman arrested while videotaping police -- Gawker’s Jeff Neumann Libels Stewart Rhodes -- The Drug War's Einsatzgruppen - by Will Grigg -- Sean Gabb and the Libertarian Alliance -- The Common Sense Show Investigates the Growing Ex-Pat Phenomenon -- As Obama Hails DARPA, Senate Panel Knifes Its Budget -- Concepts & Prototypes: Two Next-Gen Nukes -- Defeating Skype Encryption Without a Key -- Frankenpot – Marijuana gone GMO! -- Beau Arrested While Wearing a Hat in Keene District Court -- Private Prisons and the American Police State
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
Saturday with Alan Korwin on "The Global Collapse"
PA: Outreach Table - DECLARE
PEACE FAIR this Saturday in Philadelphia
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Jury convicts ex-Ill. Gov. Blagojevich at retrial
06-27-2011
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AP
A jury convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday of nearly all the corruption charges against him, including that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat.
Blagojevich had faced 20 charges, including the Se
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
US Supreme Court Wise to Strike California Videogame Ban
06-27-2011
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Paul Levinson
Today's US Supreme Court decision to strike down California's ban on sale of video games to minors is especially good news for First Amendment advocates, because the 7-2 decision shows a coalition between conservatives and progressives on the Court
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Police State
First The Airports
06-27-2011
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Simple Justice
We have to protect ourselves from these terrorists, because everything changed after 9/11. This rationale is right up there with do it for the children. It resonates. It plays in Peoria. It may not be sufficient for the handful of people on the i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
My Faith: Why I don't sing the 'Star Spangled Banner'
06-27-2011
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by Mark Schloneger (for CNN)
I choose to belong to a strange tribe. Goshen College, my alma mater, made national news this month when its board of directors decided that the “Star Spangled Banner” would not be played before athletic events. As could be expected, the decision was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US gets ready to turn Syria into another Middle Eastern vassal
06-27-2011
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After more than a year of strained relations, Turkey has decided to restore military and intelligence collaboration in the eastern Mediterranean with Israel as Ankara heads for a military showdown with Syria,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Case dismissed against woman arrested while videotaping police
06-27-2011
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NBC News
The case against a Rochester woman arrested while videotaping police has been dismissed.
Early Monday afternoon, demonstrators rallied outside the Hall of Justice in support of Emily Good, the city woman who was arrested while videotaping police o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Gawker’s Jeff Neumann Libels Stewart Rhodes
06-27-2011
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The Agitator
In this post, Gawker’s Jeff Neumann calls Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes a “racist”, without any supporting evidence whatsoever. The poorly-reported Mother Jones article he links to makes a number of questionable allegations and implications aga
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The Drug War's Einsatzgruppen - by Will Grigg
06-27-2011
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Pro Liberate
The invaders who murdered Hampton, Virginia resident William Cooper swiped about $900 in cash. They seized his gun collection. They took the Lexus from his driveway. By some oversight they neglected to extract the gold fillings from his teeth.
Whi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Sean Gabb and the Libertarian Alliance
06-27-2011
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Wendy McElroy
I am pleased to repost a missive from Sean Gabb in which he not only spells out recent accomplishments of the Libertarian Alliance but also a brief listing of what the Libertarian Alliance has done or made available in the past few weeks:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
As Obama Hails Darpa, Senate Panel Knifes Its Budget
06-27-2011
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
The $150 million proposed cut " more than five percent of Darpa’s $2.98 billion budget " not only pits a powerful Congressional panel against a White House which has made science and technology a priority.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Solar Sinter Project Turns the Desert's Free Abundance of Sand and Sun into 3-D-Printed Glass
06-27-2011
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Julie Beck via PopSci.com
Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter project takes the desert’s two most abundant resources, sunlight and sand and puts them to work manufacturing glass objects. Kayser loads the sand into a solar-powered 3-D printer where it serves as material for glass
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News Link • Energy
Concepts & Prototypes: Two Next-Gen Nukes
06-27-2011
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Kalee Thompson via PopSci.com
Regulators from Italy to Switzerland to Texas moved to stop pending nuclear-power projects, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) began to reevaluate the safety of all domestic plants.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Diabetes Researchers Report New Steps Towards the First Artificial Pancreas
06-27-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Such a system would mimic the functions of a healthy pancreas, delivering insulin and monitoring blood sugar according to a computer’s careful calculations.
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News Link • Surveillance
Defeating Skype Encryption Without a Key
06-27-2011
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SecurityWeek
Skype allows customers to communicate over Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platforms. And because it is encrypted, Skype, which was recently purchased by Microsoft for $8.5 Billion, is used by many businesses today for their international phone c
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Military
Acoustic Invisibility Cloak Makes Objects Unhearable
06-27-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
It could be used to shield ships from sonar, or build better soundproof walls for concert halls and other spaces. We’ve seen this idea before, but now Duke University researchers have actually built it.
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News Link • Police State
Beau Arrested While Wearing a Hat in Keene District Court
06-27-2011
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youtube.com
The judge had just taken a recess and ordered the hat removed or he would find Beau in contempt. The video starts during that recess.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Private Prisons and the American Police State
06-27-2011
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Steven Forrest
The population of our National Prisons has nearly tripled. This is an orchestrated event! 1 in 18 American men are now incarcerated or being monitored. America leads the world in per capita imprisonment and the privatization of the our corrections
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Humor
Making Pancakes for Brunch
06-27-2011
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youtube (h/t Tyger)
We're fancy, huh? [language and bad, irresponsible and even dangerous behavior warning]
Official Site: http://hartoandco.com
Twittah: http://twitter.com/harto
Facebook: http://facebook.com/my.drunk.kitchen
SWAG: http://mydrunkkitchen.spreadsh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Steve Jobs Tells City Sopranos No!
06-28-2011
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Charles Goyette on LewRockwell.com
Apple, the consumer electronics company, has outgrown its headquarters in Cupertino, California. It wants to build a bigger, better campus. That’s when the shakedown started....
It’s like dealing with the Tony Soprano: "That’s a real nice expansion
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Charles Goyette
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