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Date Sent: 2012-05-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 23, 2012 AM edition |
Senate panel votes to extend government’s broader surveillance authority
France has done ‘its duty’ in Afghanistan: Hollande -- Secret Central Bank Aid Props Up Greek Banks -- Bush and Blair’s pre-Iraq conversation must be disclosed, U.K. tribunal rules -- Sen. Wyden: CISPA creates ‘a Cyber Industrial Complex’ to feed on private data -- Chicago: America's Police Repression Capital - by Stephen Lendman -- Killing with Impunity -- Facebook I.P.O. Raises Regulatory Concerns -- Never Forget: The Police Always Make Things Worse -- The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the National Security State -- 05-23-12 -- Michael Dean - Neema Vadadi - Ed Foster - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Black Magic Revealed in
Two Ancient Curses -- Oldest Fossilized Ink Found in Ancient Squid
Cousin -- Tesla Model S Coming June 22 -- Can Japan Thrive without Nuclear Power?
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News Link • Surveillance
Senate panel votes to extend government’s broader surveillance authority
05-22-2012
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Washington Post
The vote is the first step toward what the Obama administration hopes will be a speedy renewal of an expanded authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor the U.S. e-mails and phone calls of overseas targets in an effort to pr
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News Link • Afghanistan
France has done ‘its duty’ in Afghanistan: Hollande
05-23-2012
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AFP
French President Francois Hollande said his country had done “more than its duty” in Afghanistan. He denied France would have to make a payback for pulling out its troops by the end of 2012 " a year earlier than planned.
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News Link • Economy - International
Secret Central Bank Aid Props Up Greek Banks
05-23-2012
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MSNBC
There has been no official announcement. No terms or conditions have been disclosed. But Greece’s banking system is being propped up by an estimated €100 billion or so of emergency liquidity provided by the country’s central bank
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush and Blair’s pre-Iraq conversation must be disclosed, U.K. tribunal rules
05-23-2012
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The Guardian
The Foreign Office lost an appeal against an order by the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, to disclose records of the conversation between the two leaders on 12 March 2003. Graham’s order was made in response to a freedom of information
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Sen. Wyden: CISPA creates ‘a Cyber Industrial Complex’ to feed on private data
05-23-2012
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Rawstory
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) highlighted the “understandable fear” driving legislation like CISPA, but cautioned the “gross negligence” of network operators is no reason to create “a Cyber Industrial Complex” that profits on Americans’ private data.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Devil's bargain
05-23-2012
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toledoblade.com
Attempts to reduce the federal deficit are supposedly Congress' priority. But the military budget the House passed last week gives the lie to that notion. Even though they agreed to do so last year, Republicans -- and some Democrats -- can't bring th
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Today in Innocence
05-22-2012
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The Agitator
There was no dispute in court Friday in Jefferson City that favorable evidence was improperly withheld from George Allen’s defense in a St. Louis murder trial almost three decades ago.
What stands between Allen, 56, and freedom is the question of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Today in Innocence, Part II
05-22-2012
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The Agitator
U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard is keeping a man in prison even though prosecutors have dropped the charges against him, even though the FBI says he should be released, and even though the only evidence against him was from a police officer
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News Link • Corruption
Facebook I.P.O. Raises Regulatory Concerns
05-22-2012
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, Morgan Stanley was busy setting the price and the size of the stock offering. While some big institutions scaled back on their plans, others placed large orders. And retail investors clamored for shares.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Never Forget: The Police Always Make Things Worse
05-22-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The SUV came to a stop on a steep embankment, and Roder’s impatient 5-year-old son jumped out and started sprinting toward a ledge that was about 35 feet above the river.
Roder immediately leaped out of the SUV and chased down his son just a few f
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News Link • Economy - International
Erin Go Bragh
05-22-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Half of Irish homeowners are refusing to pay a new property tax introduced to bailout the banks"that is, for "austerity," as this policy is usually called. The looters threaten violence, but no government can enforce such an evil against half the pop
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News Link • Government
The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the National Security State
05-22-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Watch this extremely perceptive documentary on the nature of power projection, propaganda, and hegemony of the American empire.It takes a very unorthodox critical stance toward power elites in the WWII and Cold War period, resembling John Spritzler's
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News Link • Anthropology
Black Magic Revealed in Two Ancient Curses
05-22-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Owen Jarus
At a time when black magic was relatively common, two curses involving snakes were cast, one targeting a senator and the other an animal doctor, says a Spanish researcher who has just deciphered the 1,600-year-old curses.
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News Link • Communications
Sidecar App Re-Imagines Mobile Phone Calls With a Flurry of Clever Features
05-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Steven Levy
What do you do when your startup gets off to an OK start but not a great one? Hunker down and figure out ways to lure users? Or sweep all the junk off the desktop and start over?
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
U.S. Sees Drop in Deaths Linked to Diabetes
05-22-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org
Healthier lifestyles and better disease management led to a sharp drop in death rates for Americans with diabetes between 1997 and 2006, especially deaths caused by heart disease and stroke, a new federal government report shows.
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News Link • Communications
Biophoton Communication: Can Cells Talk Using Light?
05-22-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, kfc
A growing body of evidence suggests that the molecular machinery of life emits and absorb photons. Now one biologist has evidence that this light is a new form of cellular communication.
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News Link • Energy
Can Japan Thrive without Nuclear Power?
05-22-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Mike Orcutt
After shutting down its last reactor, Japan is now even more heavily dependent on imported oil, gas, and coal.
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News Link • Environment
Seagrasses can store as much carbon as forests
05-22-2012
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http://phys.org, By Cheryl Dybas
Seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate and tropical forests.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists unravel role of fusion gene in prostate cancer
05-22-2012
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medicalxpress.com, byNew York- Presbyterian Hosp.
Up to half of all prostate cancer cells have a chromosomal rearrangement that results in a new "fusion" gene and formation of its unique protein -- but no one has known how that alteration promotes cancer growth.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
For monogamous sparrows, it doesn't pay to stray (but they do it anyway)
05-22-2012
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http://phys.org, byUniversity of Chicago
It's quite common for a female song sparrow to stray from her breeding partner and mate with the male next door, but a new study shows that sleeping around can be costly.
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News Link • Environment
Illinois illegally seizes bees resistant to Roundup; kills remaining queens
05-22-2012
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brianbrown.net
A man who was researching the effects of Monsanto's Roundup on bees has had his bees confiscated by the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the remaining queens killed when officials illegally entered his property. Terrence Ingram, known for his s
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Raw Video: Private Rocket Blasts Off
05-22-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
A commercial rocket has blasted off with a load of supplies for the International Space Station. The SpaceX company's Falcon 9 rocket took flight at 3:44 a.m. Tuesday. (May 22)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Shell Oil in Nigeria: A Social and Environmental Disaster
05-22-2012
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by Friends of the Earth International
SEVENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE ASK OIL GIANT SHELL TO CLEAN UP ITS MESS IN NIGERIA
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New World Order
Legitimizing Global Tyranny: Moving Towards World Government
05-22-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Jurriaan Maessen
Gideon Rachman’s 2008 article titled ‘And now for a world government’ and, more recently, Scientific American- editor Gary Stix’s piece Effective World Government Will be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe, illustrate a widespread and dangerous
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
US War Veterans Tossing Medals Back at Nato Was a Heroic Act
05-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Bernard Harcourt
Nato summit leaders should have been forced to watch the moving protest of the former troops chucking their medals away
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death Penalty
How America's Death Penalty Murders Innocents
05-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by David A. Love
The evidence is in: the US criminal justice system produces wrongful convictions on an industrial scale " with fatal results
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
‘Anonymous’ hackers allegedly leak internal U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics data
05-22-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
Hackers operating under the title of “Anonymous” claim to have leaked internal emails and other electronic documents from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics website.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Donations to Scott Walker Flagged as Potential Fraud
05-22-2012
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http://www.propublica.org, by Kim Barker
When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on April 14, her credit card was declined. Later, she said, she found out why:
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Obama Vs Romney - The Battle Of The Metrosexuals
05-21-2012
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www.rense.com/Gerald Celente
Mr. In Between Neither outwardly effeminate nor aggressively macho, these two contestants in America’s first “Battle of the Metrosexuals” manifest their metrosexuality as straight arrow, sensitive urban guys with a well-developed feminine side.
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News Link • New World Order
Chris Hedges on C-SPAN (Jan 2012) - 3 hour interview...
05-21-2012
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www.youtube.com
"Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"
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News Link • Surveillance
NFL Spends On Washington Lobbyists For Drone Planes
05-21-2012
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Furthermore, the NFL concentrated on the Federal Aviation Administration to reauthorize the use of drones in U.S. airspace. Unmanned aircraft did fly over Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis as the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl (for securi
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi military to buy unmanned US drones to monitor oil fields
05-21-2012
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The Hill
American military drones are returning to the skies above Iraq more than five months after U.S. troops withdrew from the country.
But this time, the drones will be operated by members of the Iraqi navy and will provide overwatch for the country's
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News Link • Drug War
WATCH: Penn Jillette Goes On Epic Obama Weed Tirade
05-21-2012
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FOX News (video)
"Now, he has not left this to states' rights," Jillette posited. "As you know, medical marijuana... you can get in California, and the feds are coming in to try to stop this. States' rights don't mean jack sh*t to the Obama administration on anything
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Under Asset Forfeiture Law, Wisconsin Cops Steal Families' Bail Money
05-21-2012
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Huffington Post
When the Brown County, Wis., Drug Task Force arrested her son Joel last February, Beverly Greer started piecing together his bail.
She used part of her disability payment and her tax return. Joel Greer's wife also chipped in, as did his brother an
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News Link • Government
Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
05-21-2012
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BuzzFeed
An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.
The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda m
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