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Date Sent: 2012-05-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 11, 2012 PM edition |
JetBlue: 'Computer glitch' led to baby's removal from flight
Sumatra earthquake mysteries examined -- France's Hollande: Sarkozy underplayed budget woes --
Bad for America, Bad for Israel, Bad for the World -- Norman Finkelstein - Political
scientist - BBC HARDtalk, May 2012 -- 05-11-12-- Jim Fulner - Sibel Edmonds - Brian
Doherty (MP3 Loaded) -- U.S. Military Conducts ‘Realistic
Urban Training’ Exercise in Miami -- Romney Takes Swipe at Ron Paul’s Budget Blueprint -- U.S. Army Re-Education Manual: Yet More Chilling Revelations -- Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins --
Cops Should Act Like Firemen in a Free Society -- The Next Yellowstone Supereruption Is
Closer Than You Think -- Craft brewing biz pours $446
million into Colorado Economy -- Get Your Drink On With Drunk On Liberty! -- Move over
MLB, 6-year-old Little Leaguer turns unassisted triple play -- Arizona Election Officials Call Cops On
Man Recording Them -- JPMorgan Hit by ‘Egregious’ Trading
Loss of $2 Billion -- Wimpy
high school baseball team quits over having to face team with a girl
in title game -- NATO Heads for
Chicago - by Stephen Lendman -- 5 Signs You Are Dealing with Real ID in 2012
AZ: The Bill
of Rights Comedy Concert Next Sunday at Phoenix Symphony Hall
Worldwide: Be an Extra in Atlas Shrugged, Part 2
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
JetBlue: 'Computer glitch' led to baby's removal from flight
05-11-2012
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CNN (video)
JetBlue Airways said "a computer glitch" as the reason behind the removal of an 18-month-old girl from a flight leaving Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday night. The toddler and her parents were asked to get off the plane after they had just boarded the flig
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News Link • Communications
Several antennas in one: A major innovation for mobile communications
05-11-2012
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http://phys.org, By Laure-Anne Pessina
Scientists at EPFL have developed a single antenna that is capable of transmitting the same data as a two-antenna system. This achievement will be more than useful for future communication systems.
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News Link • Geology
Sumatra earthquake mysteries examined
05-11-2012
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http://phys.org, by Lin Edwards
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia on 11th April was unusually powerful, at magnitude 8.6, for a “strike-slip” type of quake, and a new analysis of the earthquake and its 8.2 magnitude after-shock has proposed that
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News Link • Voting and Elections
France's Hollande: Sarkozy underplayed budget woes
05-11-2012
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http://news.yahoo.com, Associated Press
French President-elect Francois Hollande suggested Friday that the government of outgoing leader Nicolas Sarkozy underestimated the country's budget problems and wants a new audit of France's books.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Bad for America, Bad for Israel, Bad for the World
05-11-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Rep. Ron Paul
Mr. Speaker: I rise in opposition to H.R. 4133, the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, which unfortunately is another piece of one-sided and counterproductive foreign policy legislation.
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News Link • Israel
Norman Finkelstein - Political scientist - BBC HARDtalk, May 2012
05-11-2012
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http://www.gilad.co, Gilad Atzmon
According to Norman Finkelstein, American Jews fall out of love with Israel? In this BBC Hardtalk exchange he argues that they are now so unhappy with what Israel is doing that they want to distance them from the country.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Military Conducts ‘Realistic Urban Training’ Exercise in Miami
05-11-2012
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http://theintelhub.com, By Madison Ruppert
Miami residents were startled to hear the sound of low-flying military helicopters and explosions emanating from the abandoned Grand Bay Hotel in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney Takes Swipe at Ron Paul’s Budget Blueprint
05-11-2012
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http://www.thenewamerican.com, by Michael Tennant
For a man who seems to have the Republican presidential nomination sewn up, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s decision to attack the policies of his only rival who has not dropped out of the race, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is curious indeed.
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News Link • Police State
Seventh Circuit Bars Use of Illinois Law To Prosecute Citizens For Videotaping Police
05-11-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org, Chicago Tribune
Seventh Circuit Bars Use of Illinois Law To Prosecute Citizens For Videotaping Police And Slams Cook County State’s Attorney Alvarez For “Extreme” Views
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News Link • Transportation
World record 1,626 miles on one tank of diesel
05-11-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren Quick
the husband and wife team of John and Helen Taylor " also known as “the world’s most fuel efficient couple” " have been back on the road to claim the world record for the longest distance traveled on a single tank of fuel.
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Army Re-Education Manual: Yet More Chilling Revelations
05-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Fort Leonard Wood Public Affairs director Tiffany Wood has provided the first official response to the shocking U.S. Army document that outlines the implementation of re-education camps, admitting that the manual was “not intended for public release”
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News Link • Books
Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins
05-11-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by David Swanson
Sibel Edmonds' new book, Classified Woman, is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence.
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News Link • Police State
Cops Should Act Like Firemen in a Free Society
05-11-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Mark R. Crovelli
Given that cops and firemen are both concerned to respond to events that cannot be predicted, it is extremely odd that they act so differently from one another.
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News Link • Science
Dream Science
05-11-2012
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arclein
Why do some people have nightmares while others really spend their nights in bliss? Like sleep, dreams are mysterious phenomena. But as scientists are able to probe deeper into our minds, they are finding some of those answers.
Here's some of wha
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News Link • Agriculture
Hascap Berry Cultivation
05-11-2012
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arclein
Lonicera caerulea is a circumpolar species native to the northern boreal forests and can be found in mountains as well as marshlands. Although harvested from the wild for centuries in Japan and Russia, breeding programs began the 1950’s in Russia and
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News Link • Geology
The Next Yellowstone Supereruption Is Closer Than You Think
05-11-2012
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arclein
"the Yellowstone super-volcano is a little less super than previously thought." The bad news: the Yellowstone super-volcano is "more active than previously thought." That means eruptions are more frequent. So the next one is likely closer than pr
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Craft brewing biz pours $446 million into Colorado Economy
04/24/2012
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www.bizjournals.com
Colorado’s craft brewing industry produces an annual economic impact of $446 million, according to a study released Tuesday that is the first that attempts to quantify what the growing industry sector means to the people within the state.
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News Link • Media: Radio
Get Your Drink On With Drunk On Liberty!
05/11/2012
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www.drunkonliberty.com
Drunk On Liberty is a podcast that enjoys several adult beverages while discussing the most prominent issues in today's culture from a liberty mindset. So pop open a cold one and enjoy our highly distinguished vowels and consonants that come out of
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Move over MLB, 6-year-old Little Leaguer turns unassisted triple play
05-11-2012
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www.sports.yahoo.com
Only 15 players in Major League Baseball history have ever turned an unassisted triple play (with one coming in the World Series, in 1920 by Cleveland Indians second baseman Bill Wambsganss), where they have unilaterally been responsible for recordin
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Election Officials Call Cops On Man Recording Them
05-11-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Jim March, a member of the election watchdog group Black Box Voting, entered the Coconino Co. Elections Dept. in Arizona to request some public records regarding a recent election in which questionable tactics were involved.
He was accompanied by
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
JPMorgan Hit by ‘Egregious’ Trading Loss of $2 Billion
05-11-2012
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CNBC
JPMorgan Chase, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said it suffered a trading loss of at least $2 billion from a failed hedging strategy, a shock disclosure that hit financial stocks and the reputation of the bank and its CEO, Jamie Dimon.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Wimpy high school baseball team quits over having to face team with a girl in title game
05-11-2012
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Arizona Republic
All second baseman Paige Sultzbach wanted to do was play in her school's state championship baseball game tonight. But because she is a girl, that won't happen. Sultzbach is a freshman at Mesa Preparatory Academy
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News Link • Domestic Policy
5 Signs You Are Dealing with Real ID in 2012
05-11-2012
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BeatTheChip.org
May 11th, 2012 will mark four years since DHS' original deadline challenge to States to comply with Real ID regulations.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Be an Extra in Atlas Shrugged Part 2
05-09-2012
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blog.atlasshruggedmovie.com
The more you tweet and share, the more chance you have to be cast so, tweet and share early and often - We’ll be selecting an extra this Friday afternoon and flying the selectee and a guest to LA this coming Monday, May 14th - all expenses paid. Or,
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Youngest Victim of Police Abuse
05-10-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Levii Dozier is only four months old, but he’s already been assaulted by the police. .... Levii literally had the sh*t kicked out of him by a bullying cop before he was born.
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News Link • Police State
Austin Steals Elderly Veteran’s House for Crime of Having Fallout Shelter
05-10-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Kurt Nimmo
The city of Austin, Texas, was looking for an excuse to steal Joe Del Rio’s modest home. It found one " it insisted he had a “bunker” beneath the house.
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News Link • Government
Government Asks: When Can We Shut Down Wireless Service?
05-10-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Matthew Laser
Nine months ago, a tremendous controversy began with a simple e-mail: ”Gentlemen, The BART Police require the M-Line wireless from the Trans Bay Tube Portal to the Balboa Park Station, to be shut down today between 4 pm & 8.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Top Secret Places Governments Don’t Want You To Know About
05-10-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, New Dawn
Best-selling author, lecturer, and journalist Nick Redfern is world-famous for ripping the lid off unsolved mysteries and conspiracy theories.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s jobs program: A laundry list of corporate handouts
05-10-2012
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www.globalresearch.ca, World Socialist Web Site
On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama made his first speech on economic policy since the official start of his reelection campaign, calling on Congress to enact a list of corporate handouts in the name of “creating jobs.”
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News Link • Political Parties
American Politics: “Freedom” to Choose Between Two “Acceptable” Choices
05-10-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Washington's
We Have Freedom to Choose … Between Two “Acceptable” Choices
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News Link • Military
Coast Guard's newest ship filled with holes
05-10-2012
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http://rt.com
What is 418-feet long, costs millions to build and can move a crew of 110 men across the ocean at a speed of 28 knots?
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
'It will lead to war' - Ron Paul fights to end military aid for Israel
05-10-2012
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http://rt.com
Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has condemned a plan being considered in the United States House of Representatives that would allow for the US to continue aiding in the defense of Israel by equipping the Jewish state’s military with added weaponry.
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News Link • Anonymous
Anonymous shuts down Kremlin’s websites
05-10-2012
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http://rt.com
A hacker group calling itself the Russian branch of Anonymous has claimed responsibility for shutting down the websites of the Kremlin and the Russian President.
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News Link • World News
Ecuador law would forgive debt on defaulted mortgages of first-time buyers
05-10-2012
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washingtonpost.com, By Associated Press
Ecuador’s legislature has passed a bill that would require banks to forgive any outstanding debt on mortgages for first-time home buyers of properties worth up to $146,000 if they default and forfeit the home.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
You, Sir, Are an Extremist
05-09-2012
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The Agitator
That Tea Party extremist nut Rand Paul is at it again. First, he was the only U.S. Senator to openly speak out against renewal of the PATRIOT Act. Then he promised should it become necessary, he’d wage a filibuster to block SOPA. He raised holy hell
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Two California policemen ordered to trial over videotaped beating death
05-09-2012
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Reuters
A judge ordered two Southern California policemen to stand trial on homicide charges in the death of a schizophrenic homeless man who was beaten and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun by a group of officers last July.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Viewing child pornography online not a crime: New York court ruling
05-09-2012
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The Sideshow
In a controversial decision already sparking debate around the country, the NY Court of Appeals ruled viewing child pornography online is not a crime. "The purposeful viewing of child pornography on the internet is now legal in New York," Senior Judg
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News Link • Afghanistan
Family pleads for U.S. prisoner at heart of Afghan peace push
05-09-2012
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Reuters
The family of Bowe Bergdahl, a US. soldier held prisoner by the Taliban since 2009, says it is frustrated more than a year of covert diplomacy has been unable to free their son and is urging President Obama to push harder for his release.
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News Link • China
US plans 10-month warship deployment to Singapore
05-09-2012
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Reuters
The first of a new class of U.S. coastal warships will be sent to Singapore next spring for a roughly 10-month deployment, the Navy said on Wednesday, spotlighting a move that may stir China's fears of U.S. involvement in South China Sea disputes.
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News Link • Currencies
Federal Reserve Approves Chinese Takeover Of American Bank
05/09/2012
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The Associated Press on CBS
The Federal Reserve has for the first time given approval for a large Chinese bank to purchase a U.S. bank. It also gave approval to two other large Chinese banks to expand their operations in the United States.
The Fed board announced Wednesday i
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News Link • Internet
Do You "Possess" What You View Online?
05-09-2012
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http://www.popsci.com,By Dan Nosowitz
The New York Court of Appeals just ruled that "viewing" child porn online is not the same as "possessing" it. But is the idea of "possessing" a digital file outdated?
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