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Date Sent: 2010-08-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, August 5, 2010 PM edition |
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images -- CIA doctors 'gave green light to torture'
Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It -- Deputy Chair of the New York Federal Reserve Bank: Pay MainStream Media --
Sikorsky X2 Breaks Helicopter Speed Record -- Landlord spray paints
‘deadbeat tenants’ on home -- Ahmadinejad claims Israel trying to
assassinate him -- Afghanistan: 39 women and children died in disputed NATO attack -- Congresswoman wants her ethics charges made public -- UFO files: Winston Churchill 'feared panic' over Second World War RAF incident -- Luca Zanna Hassled Again in Mohave County -- Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May -- Initial Jobless Claims Surge To 479K -- The US isn't leaving Iraq, it's rebranding the occupation -- Targeted Assassinations: Challenging US Policy - by Stephen Lendman -- Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy - by Glenn Greenwald
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday on SB1710. Immigration, LEO indemnifying, politics and National ID.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
08-05-2010
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cNet
For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot b
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News Link • Torture
CIA doctors ‘gave green light to torture’
08-05-2010
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Rawstory
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
High Fructose Corn Syrup for Everyone: Cancer cells slurp up fructose
08-05-2010
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Reuters.com
Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Deputy Chair of the New York Federal Reserve Bank: Pay MainStream Media
08-04-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
I almost choked when I read Lee Bollinger's op-ed piece in the WSJ.com advocating public financial support of the mainstream media. This is the Lee Bollinger who was recently named Deputy Chair of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Transnational corporations control, censor, and manipulate TV/News/Media.
08-04-2010
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The Real News
Is the media controlled by a group of transnational corporations? Do a few powerful media tycoons oversee the entire global commercial media system? This is an idea some of us may have heard before. In fact, the issue of censorship is a subject whic
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News Link • Internet
Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It
08-05-2010
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Josh Silver via The Huffington Post
For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports "could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly
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News Link • Inventions
Holographic Displays, Robot Eyes Hint at Your Interactive Future
08-05-2010
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Priya Ganapati via WIRED
The eyes may be the window to the soul. But what do you see when you look into robotic eyes so real that it’s almost impossible to tell they are just empty, mechanical vessels?
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Sikorsky X2 Breaks Helicopter Speed Record
08-05-2010
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Jason Paur via WIRED
Two hundred and fifty-nine miles per hour. That’s how fast the Sikorsky X2 flew during a recent test flight in Florida. The flight broke a record that had stood since 1986 when a Westland Lynx managed 249 mph.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan: 39 women and children died in disputed NATO attack
08-05-2010
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REUTERS
Afghanistan's government says a new investigation shows 39 civilians, all women or children, were killed in a NATO rocket attack last month, fewer than first reported but dozens more than foreign forces have conceded.
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News Link • Housing
Landlord spray paints ‘deadbeat tenants’ on home
08-05-2010
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The Associated Press
Fed-up North Carolina landlord spray paints 'deadbeat tenants' on home for unpaid rent.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank Lending in the Commercial Real Estate Market Collapsing
08-05-2010
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MyBudget360.com
Lending for commercial loans has collapsed. Even though banks would like you to believe that all is healthy and strong they have a front row seat to the carnage in the CRE market.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Ahmadinejad claims Israel trying to assassinate him
08-04-2010
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The Real News
On August 2nd while addressing a group of Iranians living abroad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that "Israel has hired people to assassinate him." In the speech Ahmadinejad stated, "The Zionists have sent people to assassinate me.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
The Psychology of Conspiracy Denial
08-05-2010
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Paul Joseph Watson via Prison Planet.comcc
Wired Magazine writer Jonah Lehrer claims his critics are engaging in “cognitive dissonance,” by expressing concern about experimental vaccines, which in fact is the perfect description for Lehrer’s own behavior
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
40.8 Million American's on Food Stamps: Depression Economics
08-05-2010
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Boston.com/news
Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Congresswoman wants ethics charges made public
08-05-2010
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Reuters
The 2nd Democrat in the House of Representatives to face an ethics trial in the fall wants the charges against her made public and her trial to begin before the November 2 congressional elections, an aggressive defense leading to intra-party squabbli
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Total Insanity: Obama's Crack Team Wants $1,000 Housing Down Payments
08-05-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The government has apparently decided, in its infinite wisdom, that what the American economy really needs is more homebuyers with no equity.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
UFO files: Winston Churchill 'feared panic' over Second World War RAF incident
08-05-2010
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Daily Telegraph
Winston Churchill ordered a cover-up of a Second World War encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber because he feared public "panic" and loss of faith in religion, newly released secret files disclose.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Luca Zanna Hassled Again in Mohave County
08-05-2010
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e-mail from Luca
Luca writes "I was waiting at the entry of the Board of Supervisor room in Kingman AZ before their meeting while out of the blue..."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina
08-05-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
Police confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens after Katrina and trample individual rights. Coming to a disaster near you.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Corruption
U.S. Presidents and the Royal Bloodline
08-05-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
It seems that all U.S. presidents except for one, share the same bloodline.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May
08-05-2010
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AP
The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Shields Up!
08-05-2010
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arclein
and churning. But it turns out that our solar system is littered with small but surprisingly powerful magnetic shields.
It seems our s
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Gamma Ray Burst for Ordovician?
08-05-2010
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arclein
With this in mind, a team of biologists and physicists at the Central University of Las Villas, in Santa Clara, Cuba have modelled what might happen should a nearby GRB " about 6000 light-years away " strike Earth today. "Our wish was to link astrop
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News Link • Climate Change
New Greenland Ice Core Refines Eemian Data
08-05-2010
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arclein
Led by Denmark and the United States, the team recovered ice from the Eemian interglacial period from about 115,000 to 130,000 years ago, a time when temperatures were 3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit above today's temperatures. During the Eemian - the
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News Link • Obama Administration
Slamming Obama Over Rumored Fannie And Freddie Mortgage Giveaway
08-05-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
In other words, it’s exactly the same kind of Obamanomics that we have seen for the last eighteen months " spend what we don’t have now, run up debt like crazy, and hope that a momentary spike will translate into political success.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First Picture of Plasmoid at Lawrenceville
08-05-2010
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arclein
The plasmoid, the bright spot, can be seen at the tip of the twisted and kinking pinch column. The image gives evidence of the kinking which we and others feel leads to the plasmoid formation. It also gives a maximum radius for the plasmoid of about
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Potato Batteries Could Provide Electricity to Millions Who Live Off Grid
08-05-2010
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Youtube.com
The humble potato may soon be providing electricity for millions of people during the upcoming depression. Hey pal, can you loan me a potato?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Initial Jobless Claims Surge To 479K, Trounce Expectations Of 455K
08-05-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The week ended July 31 saw 479K initial jobless claims, obliterating the expectation of a minor improvement of 455K from the prior week's 460K (revised from 457K). We are certain that this latest horrendous economic data point will be spun positively
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iraq
The US isn't leaving Iraq, it's rebranding the occupation: It won't give Iraqis back the
08-04-2010
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Seumas Milne
The US isn't withdrawing from Iraq at all " it's rebranding the occupation. Just as George Bush's war on terror was retitled "overseas contingency operations" when Obama became president, US "combat operations" will be rebadged from next month as "st
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Reflections on the Military/Industrial Complex
08-04-2010
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Mike Endres
The soldier above is our modern, equipped and armed ground pounder - with full pack and weapon, ready to hike out from a base camp to patrol or fight. He or she has to be in really good physical condition as that pack weighs in at half his weight.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Police State
Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy
08-02-2010
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Glenn Greenwald
Government and corporate authorities have destroyed most vestiges of privacy for you, while ensuring that they have more and more for themselves. The extent to which you're monitored grows in direct proportion to the secrecy with which they operate.
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Leon Felkins
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