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Date Sent: 2012-06-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 20, 2012 AM edition |
U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say
Fed Will Ease Monetary Policy This Week: Goldman’s Hatzius -- Chinese Construction Company to Build World's New Tallest Building In a Three-Month Timeframe -- Iowa Cops Refused to Release Video Showing Them Tasering Handcuffed Woman Repeatedly -- Mubarak Said to Be in Critical Condition in Egypt Hospital -- FBI gets a broader role in coordinating domestic intelligence activities -- Walgreens expands globally as contraception concerns linger -- Jewish extremists suspected in arson attack on West Bank mosque --
Indian father shows no remorse after beheading daughter over ‘affairs’
-- WikiLeaks' Assange seeks asylum at Ecuador embassy -- Iraq PM warns of 'wars' over Exxon deal with Kurds -- Feds say design flaw led to Calif. nuke plant woes -- Ron Paul CNN Interview 06/19/12, Lawsuit On RNC, Mitt Endorsement? RNC CONvention -- Supreme Court of Pakistan kicked out the Prime Minister -- Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC talks about the Foreclosure Fraud with Bo Biden -- Mass Murderer and War Criminal Found... -- 10-Year-Long Video Game Creates 'Hellish Nightmare' World -- Baby soaps and shampoos trigger positive marijuana tests -- 06-19-12 -- Larken Rose - Lauren Canario - Penny Langford -Freeman - MP3 Loaded
William H. Peterson, RIP
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News Link • Israel
U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say
06-19-2012
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New York Times
The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials wi
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Will Ease Monetary Policy This Week: Goldman’s Hatzius
06-19-2012
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CNBC
The U.S. central bank will most likely ease monetary policy when it meets this week as recent data point to a worsening labor market and the crisis in Europe intensifies, Goldman Sachs said.
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News Link • World News
Chinese Construction Company to Build World's New Tallest Building In a Three-Month Timeframe
06-19-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
The world’s tallest building took five years to reach its 828-meter height, but a Chinese company wants to leave it in the dust. Broad Sustainable Building, which already built a hotel in two weeks, aims to erect the Sky City within three months
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Iowa Cops Refused to Release Video Showing Them Tasering Handcuffed Woman Repeatedly
06-19-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
An Iowa police officer who was trying to determine whether a woman was a domestic abuse victim ended up tasing her repeatedly, even after she was handcuffed and hogtied.
Two weeks later, Chariton police officer Tyler Ruble was investigated himself
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Mubarak Said to Be in Critical Condition in Egypt Hospital
06-19-2012
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New York Times
Former President Hosni Mubarak’s health deteriorated rapidly and he was rushed to a military hospital on Tuesday, adding to the uncertainty gripping the nation as the ousted strongman’s longtime opponents, the Muslim Brotherhood, battled his onetime
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Oxygen-Monitoring Glasses Could Let You Read People's Moods Right Through Their Skin
06-19-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The ability to read other people is largely perceived to be intuitive--some people just have a talent for “seeing” what other people are thinking or feeling.
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News Link • Environment
Stressed-Out Grasshoppers Can Damage the Entire Ecosystem
06-19-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
In the same way humans might be tempted to binge on some junk food when they're under stress, grasshoppers head for the carbohydrate-rich foods when they get scared.
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News Link • Death
William H. Peterson, RIP
06-19-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Economist and libertarian Bill Peterson died today at 91. Bill had a distinguished academic and corporate career"including serving as a colleague at NYU to Ludwig von Mises"but he was never happier or more effective than teaching the truths of the fr
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Liquid-Filled Robot Finger More Sensitive to Touch Than a Human's
06-19-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Add to the list of things robots now do better than humans: feel. Researchers at the U. of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering have designed a robot finger that can outperform humans in the basic yet complex sensory task of touching.
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News Link • Police State
FBI gets a broader role in coordinating domestic intelligence activities
06-19-2012
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Washington Post
The FBI has been given an expanded role in coordinating the domestic intelligence-gathering activities of the CIA and other agencies under a plan enacted this year by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Walgreens expands globally as contraception concerns linger
06-19-2012
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
Walgreens, already the largest drug retailing chain in the US, is to expand into the global marketplace with the takeover of Alliance Boots in the UK.
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News Link • Israel
Jewish extremists suspected in arson attack on West Bank mosque
06-19-2012
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Washington Post
Vandals set fire to a mosque in a Palestinian village in the West Bank early Tuesday, leaving behind Hebrew graffiti warning against the planned evacuation and removal of homes built illegally in a Jewish settlement, Israeli police said.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Indian father shows no remorse after beheading daughter over ‘affairs’
06-19-2012
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The Raw Story
An Indian father cut off his daughter’s head and paraded it around his village after becoming enraged over her relationships with men, police in the western state of Rajasthan said Tuesday.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks' Assange seeks asylum at Ecuador embassy
06-19-2012
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Reuters
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London and asked for asylum, officials said on Tuesday, in a last-ditch bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crime accusations.
Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo P
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq PM warns of 'wars' over Exxon deal with Kurds
06-19-2012
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AFP
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki believes a contract between US oil giant ExxonMobil and Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region is dangerous and could lead to "wars," his spokesman told AFP. ExxonMobil signed an oil exploration deal with the Kurdistan regi
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News Link • Energy
Feds say design flaw led to Calif. nuke plant woes
06-19-2012
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AP
A botched computer analysis resulted in design flaws that are largely to blame for unprecedented wear in steam tubes at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, but it isn't clear how the problems can be fixed, federal regulators said.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul CNN Interview 06/19/12, Lawsuit On RNC, Mitt Endorsement? RNC CONvention
06-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Video, Ron Paul CNN Interview June.19, 2012 Lawsuit On RNC, Mitt Endorsement? RNC CONvention
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News Link • Politics
Supreme Court of Pakistan kicked out the Prime Minister
06-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled Speaker National Assembly Fehmida Mirza’s ruling as void and declared that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stood disqualified since April 26.
“Yousuf Raza Gilani is disqualified from membership of parliament from
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC talks about the Foreclosure Fraud with Bo Biden
06-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC is a rare breed on MSM. He has always exposed the truth about what is really going on and has called it like it is. He has ranted about how all the elected officials are owned by the banks and corporations previously. He has ou
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Chris Menke
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News Link • How To
Inexpensive Non-Stinky Kitty Litter Tip
06-19-2012
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SMCC
I have found an inexpensive method of keeping your cat litter box fresh and clean smelling. Yes, you heard me correctly. This is a foolproof method that eliminates the smell.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Day of Reckoning
10-Year-Long Video Game Creates 'Hellish Nightmare' World
06-19-2012
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cnn via rense.com
Can you imagine playing a single video game for 10 years? One man did. And it helped him imagine something else: a bleak, war-ravaged future version of Earth.
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News Link • Drug War
Baby soaps and shampoos trigger positive marijuana tests
06-19-2012
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TIME
Positive results can precipitate an investigation by child welfare authorities. "We really did this to help protect families from being falsely accused," study co-author Dr. Carl Seashore, a pediatrician in the U.N.C. Chapel Hill newborn nursery, t
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News Link • Surveillance
Ottawa Airport Installs Hidden Microphones To Monitor and Record Conversations Of Passengers
06-19-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org, Source: Ottawa Citizen
Canadians appear to be striving to make up for lost time in realizing the dream of George Orwell’s “1984.” The most oppressive aspect of the life of Winston Smith in Oceania, Airship One was the televisions that allowed Big Brother to watch you 24/7.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Woman Arrested For Groping TSA Supervisor
06-19-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Federal agency characterizes incident as act of “violence”
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News Link • Healthcare
What It Will Mean If the Supreme Court Strikes Down Obamacare
06-19-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Kevin Drum
Two years ago, when President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, the idea that its individual mandate provision was unconstitutional was laughable.
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News Link • New World Order
The Global Plan To RFID You,Your Family & Everything You Own
06-19-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, NTEB
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” Revelation 9:6
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Clinton Third-Grader Strip-Searched After Being Accused Of Stealing
06-19-2012
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http://govtslaves.info
The mother of a Clinton third-grader says a school administrator went too far when she strip-searched her child after accusations that he stole from another student.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Unjustified killing: UN wants US drone attacks explained
06-19-2012
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http://www.rt.com
A UN investigator has called on Washington to provide justification for the increasingly widespread use of military drones to carry out targeted killings.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Woman Sues City of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her Edible Garden
06-18-2012
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A Tulsa woman is suing the city's code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause.
Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards and all of them are edible and have a purpose
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News Link • Israel
Israel begins deportation of Sudanese refugees
06-18-2012
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AFP
Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who has vowed to rid Israel first of all the illegal immigrants from South Sudan and the Ivory Coast, then those from Eritrea and Sudan, was on hand at the airport to see them off, the correspondent said.
Israeli Prim
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Bloomberg remains firm on stop and frisk policy despite march
06-18-2012
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AFP
For his part, Bloomberg defended the street checks and insisted that neither he nor New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will permit abuses.
“I understand why some people want us to stop making stops. Innocent people who are stopped can be treat
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'Roid-Raging Cop Shoots Up Neighborhood: Get Ready for More 'Gun Control'
06-18-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Richard Klementovich, the 42-year-old Clifton, New Jersey police officer who barricaded himself in the home of his ex-wife in nearby Doylestown and turned a quiet neighborhood into a free-fire zone, was apparently attempting to commit “suicide by cop
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man on life support after Minneapolis cop punches him for ‘talking loud’
06-18-2012
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Rawstory
Sgt. David Clifford, a member of the Minneapolis SWAT team, turned himself in to authorities on Sunday after a father of four who he reportedly “sucker punched” for talking too loud spent Father’s Day in intensive care.
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News Link • Iraq
U.S. warns Iran dissidents they must close Iraq camp
06-18-2012
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Reuters
The United States warned an Iranian dissident group on Monday to follow through on plans to close a base in Iraq founded under Saddam Hussein, saying it was "gravely mistaken" to believe there was any other option.
The State Department urged the g
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News Link • Drug War
Reuters on the Painkiller Issue
06-18-2012
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The Agitator
The long article lays out the usual figures about painkiller addiction and overdose deaths, but then delves into the effects the resulting DEA crackdowns are having on doctors, patients, and pharmacists.
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News Link • Internet
Google reports ‘alarming’ rise in government censorship requests
06-18-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Western governments, including the United States, appear to be stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube videos, according to a “transparency report” released by Google.
“It’s alarming not only because free expression is at
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Baseball Great Roger Clemens jury verdict: Not guilty on all counts
06-18-2012
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Yahoo! News blog
After 8 weeks, 46 witnesses, 2 dozing jurors and an estimated $2 million-$3 million spent in taxpayer money, the Roger Clemens trial has finally come to a close. The verdict: Not guilty on 3 counts of making false statements, not guilty on two counts
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Reference Link • Voting - Election Integrity
The insanity of our electoral system
supplementally.wordpress.com
Let’s start with some basics: which voting system is best? We use almost exclusively the plurality voting system, which voting theorists have considered the worst voting system for satisfying voters. It is notorious for leading to a choice between “t
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Evidence of Algorithm Vote Flipping in GOP Primary Elections Layman's Executive Summary.pdf
06-18-2012
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dailypaul.com
This article links to a very interesting report that examines election returns in many 2012 Republican state primary races, and presents graphs illustrating "vote-flipping," almost always in favor of Romney, and usually to the detriment of Paul.
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