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Date Sent: 2012-04-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 12, 2012 PM edition |
This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
Spain accused of 'draconian' plans to clamp down on protests -- ROBERT SHILLER: Even I Don't Trust The Shiller P/E Ratio -- Tidequistadors In Search of Sound Money -- Connecticut becomes 17th state to repeal death penalty -- Marc J. Victor - TV12 Interview - Standing your ground (3m48s) -- U.S. media want access to USS Cole testimony -- California lawmaker pushes to end warrantless cell phone tracking -- 200 Years Later, These Two Banks Still Top The Fortune 500 -- Inside The Terrifying World Of North Korea's Secret Gulag -- Don't
Bank On Digital Currency 'Bitcoin' Replacing The Dollar -- Ron Paul finally defeats the Fed . . . in new video game -- Retiring German State Worker, He Hadn't Done Any Work For The Last
14 Years -- Alabama initiative uses RFID to track statewide hygiene
compliance -- Prosecutors face hurdles in Trayvon Martin case -- Guns
silent in hours after Syria truce deadline -- Video-TSA Admits $1B Naked
Body Scanner Fleet Worthless -- Video-Obama Calls Ronald Reagan A Wild-Eyed, Socialist, Tax Hiking Class Warrior -- Surviving 'Immobility' And End Times -- Does The Case Against John Edwards Go Too Far? -- 'One-State' Idea Gains Support Of Some Palestinians -- In the
teeming city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, millions of people have no
reliable water supply. -- Scientists Link Rise In Quakes To Waste-Water Wells -- Kosovo's "Mafia State" and Camp Bondsteel -- Singing Occupella: 99% vocalize their demands in San Francisco -- NYT Revolt Wages On: Reporter attacks publisher in corporate email -- Cop caught masturbating in patrol car while on the job -- EPA approves 'Agent Orange' pesticide -- Idaho's only black lawmaker gets a KKK invite -- Monsanto sued for poisoning farmers -- Media Scoundrels Promote War -- Israel Declares War on Gunter Grass -- Volcanic Tunnels on Mars
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News Link • Privacy Rights
This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
04-12-2012
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CNET News
Step aside, AT&T and Verizon. A new privacy-protecting Internet service and telephone provider still in the planning stages could become the ACLU's dream and the FBI's worst nightmare.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Police State
Spain accused of 'draconian' plans to clamp down on protests
04-12-2012
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Daily Telegraph
Under the laws, a minimum jail term of two years could be imposed on those found guilty of instigating and carrying out violent acts of protest under a new package of measures unveiled. But it has raised fears that the new measures could be used to s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ROBERT SHILLER: Even I Don't Trust The Shiller P/E Ratio
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
In new interview with Money Magazine's Penelope Wang, Shiller offers some bad news for stock market investors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tidequistadors In Search of Sound Money
04-12-2012
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Reason magazine
It turns out that the detergent is not just good for making your clothes brighter than the imitation brand. It’s also street currency for buying pot and cocaine. Briefcases full of cash are being cast aside in favor of blaze-orange containers of laun
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pretty Soon, We Need To Start Talking A LOT About This Budget Chart
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
We just had the pleasure of attending a briefing by Nomura US economist Lewis Alexander on the outlook for the rest of the year, and the implications of the coming election.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death Penalty
Connecticut becomes 17th state to repeal death penalty
04-12-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Connecticut has become the 17th state to repeal the death penalty, with lawmakers voting 86-62 on the measure after a marathon debate that stretched into the night and revived memories of some of the state's most heinous crimes.
Gov. Dannel Malloy
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank Downgrade Forward Calendar
04-12-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
A major potential negative catalyst for financials globally is rapidly approaching as 114 banks are on review-for-downgrade by Moody's across 16 countries.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. media want access to USS Cole testimony
04-12-2012
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AFP
But the judge in the case issued a ruling that shelves potential testimony from Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri about his treatment at the US naval base in southern Cuba, amid allegations he was tortured by the CIA.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
California lawmaker pushes to end warrantless cell phone tracking
04-12-2012
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Rawstory
California state Sen. Mark Leno (D) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement agencies in the state from using a person’s cell phone to track their movement, unless they first got a warrant.
“Our modern day smart phones
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
200 Years Later, These Two Banks Still Top The Fortune 500
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eric Platt
Fortune Magazine's namesake rankings have been around since the 1950's. But why not take it back to America's founding days?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Inside The Terrifying World Of North Korea's Secret Gulag
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Officially, North Korea denies it operates a secret work camp system, where those suspected of "wrong thought" are half-starved and worked to near death, usually for their entire lives.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
An Embedded Marine Shows Us What Life Is Like 'Back In The S---'
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
In our effort to provide original content from wherever the U.S. military goes, we reached out to Geoffrey Ingersoll, a prior U.S. Marine and combat correspondent who got out of the Corps, picked up a Master's from NYU and now has returned to Afghani
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Don't Bank On Digital Currency 'Bitcoin' Replacing The Dollar
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ben DeMeter
Imagine a world where your credit card is a distant memory, where all of your accounts are stored in your phone instead of a bank, and where everyone pays for their purchases with a new global currency that was designed exclusively for the digital ag
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Ron Paul finally defeats the Fed . . . in new video game
04-12-2012
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Rawstory
For Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), 76, the 2012 Republican primaries are probably his last tango with presidential politics. But the aging libertarian will still achieve his life-long dream of crushing the nation’s Federal Reserve banking system… If a Houston
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Retiring German State Worker, He Hadn't Done Any Work For The Last 14 Years
04-12-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
An administrative employee in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has sent a mass email to colleagues on the day he retired, revealing how he had nothing to do for the past 14 years
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Robert Lee
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
Alabama initiative uses RFID to track statewide hygiene compliance
04-12-2012
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RFIDNews
Alabama hospitals and medical centers are taking the initiative to improve health quality compliance in a statewide deployment of Proventix’s RFID-enabled hand hygiene monitoring technology.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors face hurdles in Trayvon Martin case
04-12-2012
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The Associated Press
Zimmerman was charged after a public campaign to make an arrest in the shooting that galvanized the nation for weeks. The prosecution will have to refute arguments that a Florida law empowered him to use deadly force and plotted Martin's death.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Syria
Guns silent in hours after Syria truce deadline
04-12-2012
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news.yahoo.com, By Mariam Karouny and Dominic Evan
Syrian troops held their fire in the hours after a U.N.-backed ceasefire took effect at dawn on Thursday...
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News Link • Government Waste
Video-TSA Admits $1B Naked Body Scanner Fleet Worthless
04-12-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Jonathan Corbett
My last video demonstrated how easy it is to take a metal object through TSA nude body scanners undetected.In this video, I interviewed an actual TSA screener to hear more about how these machines are an epic fail.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Video-Obama Calls Ronald Reagan A Wild-Eyed, Socialist, Tax Hiking Class Warrior
04-12-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Nicholas Ballasy
President Barack Obama said the White House proposed “Buffet Rule” could be named the “Reagan Rule,” referring to former Republican President Ronald Reagan as a “wild-eyed, Socialist, tax hiking class warrior.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Surviving 'Immobility' And End Times
04-12-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Michael Schaub
Stories about the end of the world are as old as literature itself.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Does The Case Against John Edwards Go Too Far?
04-12-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Carrie Johnson
Prospective jurors head to court in North Carolina on Thursday to find out whether they'll be chosen to sit in judgment of former U.S. Sen. John Edwards.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
'One-State' Idea Gains Support Of Some Palestinians
04-12-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
Peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians are at a standstill and have been for almost two years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Scientists Link Rise In Quakes To Waste-Water Wells
04-12-2012
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http://www.npr.org
Scientists who watch for earthquakes have discovered a big increase in the number of small quakes in the middle of the country. It's an area that's usually pretty quiet geologically.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Kosovo's "Mafia State" and Camp Bondsteel
04-12-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca,by F. William Engdahl
In one of the more bizarre foreign policy announcements of a bizarre Obama Administration, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that Washington will “help” Kosovo to join NATO as well as the European Union.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Singing Occupella: 99% vocalize their demands in San Francisco
04-12-2012
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http://rt.com
Occupy activists have taken on a new peaceful method of promoting their cause: music.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Print
NYT Revolt Wages On: Reporter attacks publisher in corporate email
04-12-2012
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http://rt.com
The New York Times is often quick to break big news in the world of journalism, but a recent mishap involving one of their own writers is expected to be spared coverage by the legendary newspaper.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Cop caught masturbating in patrol car while on the job
04-12-2012
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http://rt.com
After scouring 10 hours of footage recorded from the dash camera of a cop cruiser, authorities in Santa Fe, NM found what they were looking for.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
EPA approves 'Agent Orange' pesticide
04-12-2012
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http://rt.com
The Environmental Protection Agency has refused a petition that aimed to ban the sale of a powerful pesticide linked with cancer
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Racism
Idaho's only black lawmaker gets a KKK invite
04-12-2012
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http://rt.com
If you received an invitation to join the Ku Klux Klan recently, you weren’t the only one.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Monsanto sued for poisoning farmers
04-12-2012
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http://rt.com
A lawsuit filed this week claims that the Monsanto corporation, "motivated by a desire for unwarranted economic gain,” knowingly poisoned farmers that were pressured to use the company’s chemicals.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
Coral Age Linked to Pleistocene Nonconformity
04-12-2012
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arclein
, can be dated to within plus or minus 30 years. Because Tahiti is an ocean island, far away from major ice sheets, sea-level evidence from its coral reefs gives us close to the '
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Future Titanium Navy
04-12-2012
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arclein
The researchers overcame that problem by using new titanium friction stir welding methods developed by Florida-based Keystone Synergistic Enterprises Inc. with funding from both ONR and the Air Force.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Volcanic Tunnels on Mars
04-12-2012
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arclein
The distinctive markings are thought to have formed when underground lava flows carved out tunnels which then collapsed
Topographic map showing the elevations of the markings on the surface
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Arctic Maxima Below Average Again
04-12-2012
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arclein
Over that 34-year period, the day of the maximum sea ice extent has varied by more than six weeks, occurring as early as mid-February and as late as the end of March.
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Reference Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Manning’s Chances Just Improved
Gene Kernan
In a stunning blow to Obama, Holder & Co., the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that violating an employer’s (read that: “Master’s”) computer policy cannot be prosecuted as hacking.
In the never-ending quest of the power-addicted to extend the l
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