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Date Sent: 2012-01-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 14, 2012 |
Standard & Poor’s cuts credit ratings for France and eight other European nations
Iran and the Terrorism game - by Glenn Greenwald -- USDOJ Urges Judge To See Constitutionality Of Recording Cops In Pending Case -- U.S. judge backs ATF multiple rifle sales reporting -- US to restore full diplomatic ties with Myanmar -- Israel used “false flag” operation to recruit anti-Iran militants -- Obama seeks more power to merge agencies, streamline government -- Audit AZ takes transparent election fight to court -- German Hackers Are Building a DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space -- The US Government Is Bankrupt -- Next-Generation
Surveillance Robots Can Analyze Their Environment -- The
Newest Revolutions in Metamaterials Bring Invisibility Within Reach
-- MF Global May Not Be Able to Pay Clients Back: Trustee -- Nationwide Poll: Ron Paul Surges Into Second -- Ron Paul Closes
In On Top Three In South Carolina -- Newspaper Calls for Killing
Israelis in Retaliation for Nuke Scientist Assassination -- The West Blinks – Iran Embargo Likely
To Be Delayed By Six Months -- Which presidential
candidates have earned the defense industry’s support? -- Occupy protester spends 3 weeks in
jail for chalking on sidewalk -- New bill would block
public access to publicly-funded studies -- Colbert gives super PAC
to Stewart, may seek presidency -- Maddow
explains how CNN bent over backwards to let Perry debate --
U.S. attorney threatens to seize 23 Colorado marijuana dispensaries
-- Iran: the Neocons Are At It Again -- Police Nondisclosure Sinks to a New Low -- Lew
Rockwell: This is the Libertarian Revolution
National: GOP Presidential forum on FOX today will be
prerecorded(????!!!!)
AZ: GOP Debate watching party at Hancock's - Monday, Jan 16th, 2012
- 6 p.m. til?? from South Carolina; Ron Paul Volunteer Activists
Supplies Available; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center
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News Link • Economy - International
Standard & Poor’s cuts credit ratings for France and eight other European nations
01-13-2012
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Washington Post
Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of France and eight other European nations Friday, further weakening the region’s finances and potentially raising costs for governments at time when they already face a debt crisis.
The downgrade ro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran and the Terrorism game
01-13-2012
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Accusing Israel and/or the U.S. of Terrorism remains one of the greatest political taboos (even when the acts in question involve not only assassinations but also explosions which kill numerous victims whose identities could not have been known in ad
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The NY Time's Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography
01-13-2012
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
"Here’s how it works. The President makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put ‘em through a spell check and go home.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
USDOJ Urges Judge To See Constitutionality Of Recording Cops In Pending Case
01-13-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
For the first time since the War on Cameras began in earnest, the U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on a federal lawsuit regarding the right to record police in public, leaving no doubt that it is protected by the First Amendment.
The suit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.S. judge backs ATF multiple rifle sales reporting
01-13-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. judge in a victory for the Obama administration, upheld new federal rules requiring gun dealers in four states bordering Mexico to report the sales of multiple semi-automatic rifles, despite a challenge by the gun industry. The administration
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
IBM creates amazing atomic-level hard drive
01-13-2012
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If you think a 1TB flash drive is impressive, IBM is about to do you one better. The computing giant announced yesterday that it was able to store one bit of data on the world's smallest storage drive " one 6 atoms long by 2 atoms wide.
Current ha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US to restore full diplomatic ties with Myanmar
01-13-2012
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AP
The United States is restoring full diplomatic relations with Myanmar, a landmark in the Obama administration's drive to reward democratic reforms by a government the U.S. previously treated as a pariah.
The decision announced Friday to exchange a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Israel used “false flag” operation to recruit anti-Iran militants
01-13-2012
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Foreign Policy
A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
Homeless Teen Could Win $100,000 Science Prize and New Future for Family
01-13-2012
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ABC News (video)
Samantha Garvey is one teenage girl who would rather read something called The Journal of Shellfish Research than Glamour magazine.
“What I’m doing is the American dream,” she says.
The 17-year-old high school senior maintains a 3.9 grade point
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama seeks more power to merge agencies, streamline government
01-13-2012
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Washington Post
After a year of interminable feuds with congressional Republicans who made smaller, cheaper federal government a political crusade, President Obama signaled his intention to do some sail-trimming of his own. Obama asked Congress for the authority to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Audit AZ takes transparent election fight to court
01-13-2012
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http://www.fox11az.com
TUCSON, Ariz. -- A non-partisan organization in Tucson is on a mission to make sure future
Pima County elections are done fairly.
Audit AZ says its long battle with the county, stemming from voting irregularities in a 2006 election for the Region
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Drew
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New SF sheriff charged with domestic violence
01-13-2012
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AP
His wife spoke briefly, and much more emotionally. "This is unbelievable," she said. "I don't have any complaint against my husband. This is unbelievable." A neighbor reported that Mirkarimi grabbed and bruised Eliana Lopez's arm during a heated argu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
The Navy's Gremlin Uses Sonic Waves to Find Underground Bombs
01-13-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The tools for safely disposing of explosive threats like improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have come a long way over the last decade, but one rule of explosives ordnance disposal (EOD) holds fast regardless of how much technology you throw at it:
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
German Hackers Are Building a DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space
1-13-12
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http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/g
Syncom 1, the First Geosynchronous Satellite What NASA could do in the 1960s, we can do now. At least, that's the line of thought underpinning the Hackerspace Global Grid, a project that aims to build a space-based network of communications satellit
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
Is Ron Paul using GOP bully pulpit to launch an independent run?
01-13-2012
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The Examiner
Ron Paul has stated repeatedly he know he can't win the GOP nomination. Why does he continue, then? Because he may be playing the GOP by using the debates to build his base and then split off on an independent run after the convention. If he does, O
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James Hyde
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Desert Deception: Ron Paul Kept Off Maricopa GOP Online Poll in Arizona
01-13-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
"Ron Paul was on the poll but when he has five times the votes of all other candidates combined that indicates cheating is occurring." Kevin Myers
MaricopaGOP.org Webmaster (BONUS PHONE AUDIO)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Debate watching party at Hancock's - Monday, Jan 16th, 2012 - 6 p.m. til?? from S Carolina..
01-13-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Fox News will host a debate with the Republican Party of South Carolina at Myrtle Beach Convention Center on January 16th from 9:00-11:00 PM/ET.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Presidential forum on Fox this Saturday will be prerecorded (Ron Paul went to Nevada instead)
01-13-2012
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www.examiner.com
This Saturday, January 14, 2012, Fox “news” will air a prerecorded forum/debate moderated by former Governor Mike Huckabee who has his own show on Fox “News” called “Huckabee”. Congressman Tim Scott (R-SC) will join Huckabee and will also offer quest
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
What's the Most Efficient Design For a Solar Collector? Shape It Like a Sunflower
01-13-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopScil.com
Concentrated solar power plants could get an efficiency boost inspired by flowers, according to MIT researchers.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Newest Revolutions in Metamaterials Bring Invisibility Within Reach
01-13-2012
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Becky Ferreira via PopSci.com
The science of stealth has long been a matter of fading into already obscure environments. But engineers are now developing materials that could hide anything in plain sight. Instead of bending light inward, like water and glass do.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
What If Elections Don't Matter?
01-13-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Andrew P. Napolitano
What if elections were actually useful tools of social control? What if they just provided the populace with meaningless participation in a process that validates an establishment that never meaningfully changes?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
MF Global May Not Be Able to Pay Clients Back: Trustee
01-13-2012
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www.cnbc.com
Former customers of MF Global Holdings' collapsed brokerage were disappointed to hear on Thursday that the trustee hunting for funds missing from their accounts has no immediate plans to transfer more money to them.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Ben Stein Sues: Ad Agency Replaced Me Over My Global-Warming Position
01-13-2012
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www.reuters.com
Ben Stein claims he's a victim of political discrimination.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Obama asks Congress for debt limit hike
01-13-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
President Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday of his intent to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion, two weeks after he had postponed the request to give lawmakers more time to consider the action.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Newspaper Calls for Killing Israelis in Retaliation for Nuke Scientist Assassination
01-13-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
An influential Iranian newspaper has called for killing Israelis following the assassination of a chemistry expert and the director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
The West Blinks " Iran Embargo Likely To Be Delayed By Six Months
01-13-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
And so the escalation ends, if only for the time being, as Iran chalks a (Pyrrhic?) victory.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Which presidential candidates have earned the defense industry’s support?
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Though Americans far and away identify economic problems as the biggest issue facing the nation, according to Gallup, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has been gaining support by talking about the need to restrict the military industrial complex and end what he
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News Link • Activism
Occupy protester spends 3 weeks in jail for writing on sidewalk
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Officer Phil Scaglione and Sgt. Ernest Payne arrested Osmar on Dec. 15 after telling him that is “unlawful for any person to write, print, mark, paint, stamp or paste any sign, notice of advertisement upon the surface of any sidewalk or paved street
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News Link • Government Waste
New bill would block public access to publicly-funded studies
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Taxpayers would have to shell out $15 to $35 to get behind a publisher's paid site to read the full research results. A Scientific American blog said it amounts to paying twice.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics
Colbert gives super PAC to Stewart, may seek presidency
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
On last night’s very special edition of The Colbert Report, Stephen welcomed two special guests ahead of a major announcement regarding his surge in a recent South Carolina presidential poll.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Maddow explains how CNN bent over backwards to let Perry debate
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
According to CNN’s criteria, only candidates that place in the top four in Iowa or New Hampshire, or have 7 percent support in at least three national polls in January can participant in the debate.
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. attorney threatens to seize 23 Colorado marijuana dispensaries
01-13-2012
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www.rawstory.com
U.S. Attorney John Walsh sent letters to 23 medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado on Thursday, warning them that they faced legal repercussions if they did not close down within 45 days.
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News Link • Iran
Iran: the Neocons Are At It Again
01-13-2012
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www.counterpunch.org/Ralph Nader
The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, “lie their way into invading Iraq” in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these days to attack Iran
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News Link • Government
Police Nondisclosure Rises to a New Low
01-13-2012
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www.fff.org
KOMO News reports (Jan. 4) that the City of Seattle is taking an attorney to court because he requested public records.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Lew Rockwell: This is the Libertarian Revolution
01-13-2012
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www.runronpaul.com
Austrian Economics Guru and Chairman of the Mises Institute Lew Rockwell talk about why the establishment fears Ron Paul and how his economic ideas are being embraced by mainstream voters.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • General Opinion
What a Vote for Ron Paul Means
01-13-2012
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I can't believe this was on Yahoo!
"Therein lies the lasting value of a vote for Paul... his politics are capturing the hopes of frustrated lifelong Republicans and young people new to political engagement."
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News Link • Homeland Security
Lieberman's Bill to Kick Off Internment Camps
01-13-2012
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www.sott.net
For those readers who are part of the 40% of human beings who think Ignorance is Bliss, stop reading now. This article is about a truth so hard that it was actually depressing to write it.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
SOPA: Reddit Confirms Jan. 18 Blackout; Wikipedia, Others May Follow
01-13-2012
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www.techland.time.com
It’s on " at least partially: Reddit has announced that it will go dark for 12 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that he hopes to coordinate with the site so that Wikipedia does the same.
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