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Date Sent: 2012-05-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 16, 2012 PM edition |
FAA Allow Cops To Fly Unmanned Drones -- FAA Allow Israeli Company to Fly Drones in US Airspace!
20% 'Fat Tax' Needed to Fight Obesity -- Greeks Rush the Banks; Lines Form at ATMs; Nearly $1 Billion Withdrawn in Past Week -- Bilderberg Hacking U.S. Elections -- Judge Napolitano: First Patriot To Shoot Down A Government Spy Drone Will Be A Hero -- Zebrafish study isolates gene related to autism, schizophrenia and obesity -- Paralyzed individuals control robotic arms to reach and grasp using brain computer interface -- Financial Sustainability or Irrational Exuberance in Liberty Projects? -- 05-16-12 -- Tom Cryer - Kelly Connor - (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Ben Swann perplexed by Benton email -- Ron Paul Campaign May 15, 2012 Conference Call -- Reason: The Republican Party's Ron Paul Problem -- All This Fuss About a Fiat Dollar -- Some Historical Perspective for Ron Paul Activists -- Pro-pot attorney general candidate wins Oregon primary -- Should We Obey All Laws? -- IT'S OFFICIAL: Gold Is In A Bear Market
-- Strategic Land in Israel -- Atlantean Language Remnants -- 'Official'
AZ Delegate List -- Greece on brink of collapse -- Italy's banks shaken as economic slump deepens -- NATO in Chicago - Fencing Goes Up Near McCormick Place -- U.S. has 55 daily encounters with "suspected terrorists" -- AZ State Convention - Sen. Karen Johnson Speech -- Free Lakota Bank --Why is there so little accountability in foreign policy making? -- DNA Goes Digital With New Biometric Tracking App -- What You Don’t Know About Organic Milk
AZ: Save America Seminar - Phoenix 2012 - May 19th, 2012
Sunday: Solar Eclipse Visible from
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News Link • Police State
FAA To Ease Rules For Police Agencies To Fly Unmanned Drones
05-16-2012
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www.losangeles.cbslocal.com
Surveillance aircraft used by the U.S. military overseas could soon be coming to the skies above Los Angeles County.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Israeli Company Has FAA Permission to Fly Drones in U.S. Airspace!
05-16-2012
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www.veteranstoday.com
The Israeli company Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is not so much from Mississippi as it is from Israel. Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries! And the Federal Aviation Administration has given them permission
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News Link • Conferences
Save America Seminar - Phoenix 2012 - May 19th, 2012
05-15-2012
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www.truthattack.org
Seminar Teaches 1) the kind of federal government intended by the Founding Fathers and created by the Constitution; 2) how the government slipped its chains, escaped the castle and now runs amok through the village, trampling rights and liberty and r
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News Link • Food
20% 'Fat Tax' Needed to Fight Obesity
05-16-2012
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http://www.livescience.com,Christopher Wanjek
It's a proposition some might find hard to swallow: a 20-percent tax on unhealthy food to improve the health of the nation.
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News Link • General Opinion
The Benefits of Being Bilingual
05-16-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jonah Lehrer
Samuel Beckett, born in a suburb of Dublin in 1906, was a native English speaker. However, in 1946 Beckett decided that he would begin writing exclusively in French. After composing the first draft in his second language, he would then translate thes
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram
05-16-2012
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http://www.wired.com,By Geek's Guide to the Ga
Characters on Star Trek suffer frequent misadventures on the holodeck, a room that creates advanced holograms indistinguishable from reality. But now theoretical physicists such as Brian Greene, host of the recent PBS special The Fabric of the Cosmos
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Banned PlayStation Hacker Sees Hope of Return in Jailbreaking Deliberations
05-16-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
George Hotz, an infamous hardware hacker better known online as Geohot, has a PlayStation that he’s not allowed to play with " at least not the way he likes to, which involves figuring out how to bypass manufacturers’ artificial limits on what users
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News Link • Internet
Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut?
05-16-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Steven Johnson
Sometime in early 2004, as Mark Zuckerberg was furiously coding the first iterations of The Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, the Internet passed what then seemed to be an impressive milestone: 750 million people worldwide had become connected.
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News Link • General Opinion
This Man Is A Shining Example Of What To Do If You Win The Lottery
05-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jill Krasny
In a recent Ask Me thread on Reddit, a site user named Ididwinit shares what he did with his $2 million Australian lottery jackpot.
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News Link • Communications
Verizon Is Going To Kill Your Unlimited Data Plan When You Get A 4G Phone
05-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
Verizon's CFO Fran Shammo said today that the carrier will eliminate unlimited data plans when customers make the switch to a 4G phone.
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News Link • History
If History Is A Guide, Obama Is Heading For A Loss In November
05-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
Gallup is out with a look today at some key indicators that look troublesome for Barack Obama's re-election prospects this fall.
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News Link • Economy - International
Greeks Rush the Banks; Lines Form at ATMs; Nearly $1 Billion Withdrawn in Past Week
05-16-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Without a government for the last eleven days, and amid mainstream discussion of a Euro Zone exit, the Greek people are realizing that the economic and political system as they know it is rapidly descending into chaos.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Geology
Chocolate and diamonds: Why volcanoes could be a girl's best friend
05-16-2012
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http://phys.org, by University of Southampton
Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered a previously unrecognised volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing, which gives important new insights into the dynamics of volcanic eruptions.
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News Link • Police State
Judge Napolitano: First Patriot To Shoot Down A Government Spy Drone Will Be A Hero
05-16-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Napolitano also said that “The first American patriot that shoots down one of these drones that comes too close to his children in his backyard will be an American hero.”
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Zebrafish study isolates gene related to autism, schizophrenia and obesity
05-16-2012
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by Duke University Medical Center
What can a fish tell us about human brain development? Researchers at Duke University Medical Center transplanted a set of human genes into a zebrafish and then used it to identify genes responsible for head size at birth.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Paralyzed individuals control robotic arms to reach and grasp using brain computer interface
05-16-2012
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http://medicalxpress.com, by Brown University
In an ongoing clinical trial, a paralyzed woman was able to reach for and sip from a drink on her own " for the first time in nearly 15 years " by using her thoughts to direct a robotic arm.
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Financial Sustainability or Irrational Exuberance in Liberty Projects?
05-16-2012
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http://dailyanarchist.com
I’ve been thinking about this since Ofer Nave spoke in the Agorist Panel at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum this year. He drew a distinction between sustainable and unsustainable counter economic activity
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ben Swann perplexed by Benton email
05-16-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
What is going on with the Ron Paul Campaign? The national media got the story wrong about Paul "dropping out" but then comes an email from Jesse Benton to supporters. I have been forwarded this email and asked to explain it. Frankly, I cannot.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Campaign May 15, 2012 Conference Call
05-16-2012
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YouTube.com
The complete May 15, 2012 Conference call between Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Manager Jesse Benton and Reporters on where the Paul 2012 Campaign is going from here. Sinclair News is committed to reporting the News factually, honestly and uncensored.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Reason: The Republican Party's Ron Paul Problem
05-16-2012
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Brian Doherty - www.dailypaul.com
His campaign advisors have had to try to play damage control--many, though by no means all, Paul fans around the Internet were dispirited, especially the ones still wanting to rack up big vote totals in states like Texas and California,...
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News Link • Currencies
All This Fuss About a Fiat Dollar
05-16-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Jeff Thomas
Throughout the First World, and, particularly in the US, there is an increasing consciousness that fiat currency, far from being the solution to economic problems, is, in fact, a cause of them.
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News Link • Activism
Some Historical Perspective for Ron Paul Activists
05-16-2012
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www.lewrockweel.com/Ryan McMakin
I've been somewhat surprised by the absolutely hysterical reaction among some RP activists to Ron Paul's announcement that he's shifting resources toward winning more delegates instead of blowing it on straw polls in new primaries. In some of the for
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News Link • Drug War
Pro-pot attorney general candidate wins Oregon primary
05-16-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Former state judge Ellen Rosenblum’s win basically ensures she will become the state’s first female attorney general in November, as Republicans have not fielded an official candidate.
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News Link • Government
Should We Obey All Laws?
05-16-2012
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lewrockwell.com/Walter Williams
Let's think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law " and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional " requiring American families to attend church services at least three times a month.
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News Link • Government
Leadership: Missing in Action
05-16-2012
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lewrockwell.com/Gary North
Three decades ago, political leadership was in a bull market. Today, it is in a bear market.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
IT'S OFFICIAL: Gold Is In A Bear Market
05-16-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
It's official: gold has fallen as much as 21 percent from its intraday record in September, according to Bloomberg, qualifying it for the distinction of being in a bear market.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CHART OF THE DAY: Goldman Shows What Happens If We Fly Off The Fiscal Cliff
05-16-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
The worst case scenario: If everything expires, and we runs straight off the fiscal cliff, a hit of about 4% to GDP.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Acupuncture Effective for Addictions
05-16-2012
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arclein
The acupuncture treatments were so effective that dropping the substituted addiction of methadone for heroin was a no-brainer. Since then, drug addiction recovery and detoxification clinics using auricular acupuncture have been established in several
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News Link • Israel
Strategic Land in Israel
05-16-2012
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arclein
srael, without the administered territories, is a strategically crippled country. These areas, known historically as Judea and Samaria and labeled “the West Bank” following the Jordanian occupation of said territories in 1949, are the key to Israel’s
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News Link • Archaeology
Atlantean Language Remnants
05-16-2012
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arclein
If we take these and all the foregoing facts into account, we begin to get a picture of a worldwide complex of linguistic relationships that transcend time and space. We can see Basque, an oddity among modern European languages, as the last relic of
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News Link • Military
The F-22 Is Now More Useless Than At Any Time Since It Was Grounded
05-16-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has personally laid down some very heavy restrictions on the beleaguered F-22 Raptor.
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News Link • European Union
Greece on brink of collapse
05-16-2012
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Europe’s financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greece’s economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable end to its membership of the euro.
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News Link • European Union
Italy's banks shaken as economic slump deepens
05-16-2012
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www.telegraph.co.uk
As Greece erupts, Italy is moving into the eye of the storm. Its economy is contracting at speeds not seen since the depths of the slump in 2009 as draconian austerity bites, greatly increasing the risk of social revolt and a banking crisis.
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News Link • NATO
NATO in Chicago - Fencing Goes Up Near McCormick Place
05-16-2012
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www.nbc.chicago.com
Four days before the NATO Summit in Chicago, fencing was erected around the site of the weekend meetings.
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. has 55 daily encounters with "suspected terrorists"
05-16-2012
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www.ca.news.yahoo.com
Law enforcement and homeland security personnel face an average of 55 daily encounters with "known or suspected terrorists" named on government watchlists, officials told Reuters.
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Feature Article • Currencies
Free Lakota Bank
Donna Hancock
In 2008 the Lakota people launched the Free Lakota Bank, in accordance with the demands of the treaty council, in partnership with the American Open Currency Standard and with protection from the Strong Heart Warrior Society.
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News Link • Activism
Occupiers Take to the Farm
05-16-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Azeen Ghorayshi
Activists in Albany, California have staged an occupation of a different kind of public space"a farm.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Why is there so little accountability in foreign policymaking?
05-16-2012
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walt.foreignpolicy.com, Posted By Stephen M. Walt
I gave a lecture last night at the Cape Ann Forum, on the topic of America's changing position in the world and what it might (should) mean for U.S. grand strategy.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
DNA Goes Digital With New Biometric Tracking App
05-16-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Brandon Turbeville
If you needed one more example of how DNA will soon cease to exist as a private piece of information, you need look no further than the latest product launch byApplied DNA Sciences.
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News Link • Food
What You Don’t Know About Organic Milk
05-16-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, (John McKiernan
Most people fork over the extra money for organic foods with the idea that they are doing something good for their health.
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News Link • Economy - International
The Global Economic Crisis: Impoverishing Europe
05-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Thomas Sablowski
The crisis is not relinquishing its grip on Europe. From autumn 2008 to early 2009 the world market experienced the deepest slump in economic output since the Second World War.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama campaign and “vampire” capitalists
05-16-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Patrick Martin
With a display of cynicism that is hard to top, the Obama reelection campaign on Monday launched a public attack on Republican Mitt Romney’s role as a job-destroying asset stripper at Bain Capital, the same day that Obama raised more than $2 million
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News Link • Economy - International
Chávez's Economics Lesson for Europe
05-16-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Richard Gott
Hugo Chávez's rejection of the neoliberal policies dragging Europe down sets a hopeful example to Greece and beyond
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