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Date Sent: 2011-01-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 17, 2011 |
Swiss finds illegal US surveillance -- Israeli Test Worm Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
Is Gun Liability Insurance the Next Big Thing? -- DNA Molecules Can 'Teleport,' Nobel Winner Says -- Library shelves cleared in Wikileaks protest at closure threat -- Reggie Doucet Jr, College Football Star, Shot To Death By LAPD -- WikiLeaks: Banking secrets of rich leaked -- Sony PS3 Hacker To Argue That He 'Re-Enabled' Feature -- British Company Using E-Ink to Make Tanks Invisible -- 'Baby Doc' Duvalier back in Haiti after long exile -- Congress urged to raise debt limit -- China: "Current International Currency System Is The Product Of The Past" -- Remembering a Dream -- Former FBI Chief Says Chemtrail Death Dumps Must be Stopped -- “Trusted” Activist Groups Try to Regulate Silver as a Pesticide -- Feds charge FIJA.org icon with "jury tampering" (video) -- Court Rules Government Can Keep Naked Body Scanner Images Secret --
Jacob G. Hornberger: The Banality of Killing -- The reaction to Amy
Bishop’s rampage v. the reaction to Jared Loughner’s rampage -- Lockheed Martin: Giant weapons maker becomes Big Brother -- How Many Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer? -- Biometric Police State: "Secure communities" comes to Wisconsin -- Big Brother Squared: Multi-biometrics combined in one system -- Woolly mammoth may walk the Earth again in four years
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Swiss find signs of illegal US surveillance
01-16-2011
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AFP
Bern has found signs that the US embassy in Geneva has been conducting illegal surveillance on Swiss territory, the justice ministry confirming local press reports. The Swiss government had in 2007 rejected requests made by the US missions in Bern an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
01-16-2011
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NY Times
Behind Dimona’s barbed wire Israel has spun nuclear centrifuges virtually identical to Iran’s at Natanz, where Iranian scientists are struggling to enrich uranium. Dimona tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a destructive program th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Is Gun Liability Insurance the Next Big Thing?
01-16-2011
Earlier this year, a lawmaker from Illinois caused a ruckus when he proposed legislation that would force gun owners to buy $1,000,000 in liability insurance. State Rep. Dunkin proposed amending the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act to require
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
DNA Molecules Can 'Teleport,' Nobel Winner Says
01-16-2011
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PC World
A Nobel Prize winning biologist ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to 'teleport' or imprint itself between test tubes: 1 contained a tiny piece of DNA, the other pure water, surrounded by
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Library clears its shelves in protest at closure threat
01-16-2011
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The Guardian
The library at Stony Stratford, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like the aftermath of a crime, its shell-shocked staff presiding over an expanse of emptied shelves. Only a few days ago they held 16,000 volumes.
Now, after a campaign on Fa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Reggie Doucet Jr, College Football Star, Shot To Death By LAPD
01-16-2011
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LA Times
Reginald Doucet, Jr, a 25-year-old Playa Vista resident, posted this video to his Twitter account on his way out in Hollywood last night -- just hours before he was shot and killed by an LAPD officer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks: Banking secrets of rich leaked
01-16-2011
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The Observer
British and American individuals and companies are among those whose details are on CDs to be presented to WikiLeaks in London. They include about 40 politicians, Elmer says.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
Sony PS3 Hacker To Argue That He 'Re-Enabled' Feature
01-16-2011
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PC Magazine
In a statement, the lawyers indicated that they will try to argue that a user has the right to use the PlayStation 3 has he or she sees fit, rather than be subject to the ongoing control of the manufacturer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
British Company Using E-Ink to Make Tanks Invisible
01-16-2011
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Daily Telegraph
Armoured vehicles will use a new technology known as "e-camouflage" which deploys a form "electronic ink" to render a vehicle "invisible".
Highly sophisticated electronic sensors attached to the tank's hull will project images of the surrounding e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Tunisia forces fight presidential guards near palace
01-16-2011
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Reuters
Tunisian special forces fought a heavy gun battle with members of the ousted president's security force on Sunday, a military source said, and the prime minister promised to announce a new coalition government. Fighting erupted near the presidential
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hu Highlights Need for U.S.-China Cooperation, Questions Dollar
01-16-2011
BEIJING"Chinese President Hu Jintao emphasized the need for cooperation with the U.S. in areas from new energy to space ahead of his visit to Washington this week, but he called the present U.S. dollar-dominated currency system a "product of the past
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
'Baby Doc' Duvalier back in Haiti after long exile
01-16-2011
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AP
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country struggles with a political crisis and the stalled effort to recover from last
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress urged to raise debt limit
01-16-2011
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Reuters
The Congress must allow the country to borrow more to avoid a debt default that would wreak havoc on financial markets and imperil the U.S. economy, Democratic and Republican lawmakers said on Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Irish premier won't quit over Ireland debt crisis
01-16-2011
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AP
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen announced Sunday he won't resign despite intense criticism of his management of the country's European-record deficit and its international bailout.
Cowen's declaration follows several days of talks with lawmakers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google's Working Towards a Universal Translator; No Klingon-to-English Mode...Yet
01-16-2011
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PC World
I have to wonder sometimes if there’s a limit to where Google will go. I can’t deny that I’m often cheering them on as they gobble up companies, scan every book ever published and apparently turn a smartphone into a universal translator, as reported
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
Deposit Flight In Ireland Forces Irish Central Bank To Print Money
01-16-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
It appears that Irish savers are sufficiently smart to realize that their money is no longer safe in a banking system whose existence is now only backstopped merely from referendum to referendum.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China: "Current International Currency System Is The Product Of The Past"
01-16-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Chinese President Hu Jintao has targeted the dollar's reserve currency status ahead of his big meeting with President Obama saying, "the current international currency system is the product of the past."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • History
Remembering a Dream
1/16/2011
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Free Patriot Press
I have posted parts of this article in the past and it seems every time I mention Martin Luther King, someone always points out his “faults” (eg. his name wasn't really Martin, he plagiarized speeches, he supported big government, etc). People get s
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Accountability Report " Jan 15th 2011
01-16-2011
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CopBlock.org
This week on the Police Accountability Report:
Border patrol agent hiding immigrants in a secret room under his house
TX authorities giving away door prizes seized through asset forfeiture
Off the record” (not really) interview with John Blue, a f
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Drew
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News Link • United Nations
Former FBI Chief Says Chemtrail Death Dumps Must be Stopped
01/16/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Former FBI Chief, Ted L. Gunderson, makes a statement regarding the chemtrail “death dumps”, otherwise know as air crap, on January 12, 2011. Ted says the following: “The death dumps, otherwise known as chemical trails, are being dropped and sprayed
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Surveillance
Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation
01-16-2011
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Speak Truth 2 Power
The more a particular party fits the traits and is guilty of following the rules, the more likely they are a professional disinfo artist with a vested motive.
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Barbara Peterson
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
Inside Mount Carmel - Waco, TX 1993
Thomas Costanzo
Feb 28, 1993, Beginninng of standoff, Inside Mt. Carmel was after the first assault. On April 19, 1993, Waco, Texas was the Waco massacre.
On August, 1999, documents were uncovered which indicated that during the raid on the Branch Davidian compound
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News Link • Racism
The State v. Blacks
01-16-2011
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Becky Chandler
A few thoughts on the State v. Blacks on the eve of the Martin Luther King holiday..... "Forty years after the infamous party at Leonard Bernstein's Upper East Side apartment"and long after the original Black Panthers demonstrated what asshole put
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Becky Chandler
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
The United States: A Corporation
Thomas Costanzo
The United States is a corporation...If you really want to understand why this is true, then you will have to look at each of the following pieces of the puzzle... This will take a lot of your time and more importantly, the suspension of your idealis
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News Link • Corruption
“Trusted” Activist Groups Try to Regulate Silver as a Pesticide
01-16-2011
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Farm Wars
Not all groups supposedly fighting for our food freedom are who we think they are. If you really want an eye-opener, read the following article, and check out this link, which notes organizations on the Merck Pharmaceuticals dole...
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Feds charge FIJA.org icon with "jury tampering" (video)
01-15-2011
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Ridley Report
Julian Heicklen charged with jury tampering. He will fight the charges.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Court Rules Government Can Keep Naked Body Scanner Images Secret
01-14-2011
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Prison Planet.com
A fed. judge has ruled that the Department of Homeland Security can keep images produced by x-ray body scanners out of the public domain, in a blow to privacy group The Electronic Privacy Information Center’ s (EPIC) efforts to release more than 2k
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Jacob G. Hornberger: The Banality of Killing
01-16-2011
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fff.org/
How can all this massive, regular, permanent death and destruction not affect and infect a society? Sure, it all takes place thousands of miles away. Sure, it’s buried on page 14 of the newspaper. We don’t see the caskets or the burials.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Dateline, Jan. 5, 2012: California Declares Bankruptcy
01-16-2011
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LAtimes.com
Dateline Sacramento, Jan. 5, 2012: The state of California today filed for federal bankruptcy protection, citing a worsened economy that has blown out even the most pessimistic assumptions about its long-term financial picture.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Lockheed Martin: Giant weapons maker becomes Big Brother
01-16-2011
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atimes.com/
Since at least 2004, Lockheed Martin has been involved in the Pentagon's Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), which collected personal data on American citizens for storage in a database known as "Threat and Local Observation Notice" (TALON).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
How Many Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer?
01-16-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
When bipartisanship breaks out in Washington DC, check to make sure your wallet is still in your pocket. Every time you fill up your car this winter you are participating in the biggest taxpayer swindle in history.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Police State: "Secure communities" comes to Wisconsin
01-16-2011
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jsonline.com
All 72 counties in Wisconsin are now participating in the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) program called “secure communities,” a federal information sharing system that uses biometrics, or fingerprints, to identify both legal and illeg
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother Squared: Multi-biometrics combined in one system
01-16-2011
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upi.com/Business
Software that integrates fingerprint, iris, facial and palm-print biometrics into a single system has been launched by Lithuania's Neurotechnology.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
HOT AIR BALLOON CRASH LANDS IN TUCSON (Live) 011611
01-16-2011
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Real News Tucson
At 9:51 AM a Hot air balloon crash landed in a residential neighborhood in Tucson. Nobody was injured, except for maybe the pilots reputation!
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Swine flu survivors develop 'supercharged' immunity
01-15-2011
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Terrence Aym
Worried about getting the flu? Just get H1N1 swine flu and you'll probably never have to worry about getting sick from any influenza again. That's the conclusion that amazed medical researchers were forced to draw from the research they just comple
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Science
Woolly mammoth may walk the Earth again in four years
01-15-2011
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Terrence Aym
Researchers have been working for more than a decade towards bringing the long extinct woolly mammoth back to life. The Japanese have been at the forefront in the project to return woolly mammoths to the land of the living. It's been a dream borderi
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Environment
Did YOU Know M. L. King, Jr. was Behind Environmental Justice Movement??
01-15-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Naah, I didn’t either. Funny thing is, I would be willing to bet LOADS of dollars that our beloved Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t know it either! The things this administration comes up with is beyond ludicrous!
I thought it was weird when Janet N
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Who Would Martin Luther King Bomb?
01-15-2011
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AntiWar.com
But he’s been dead for quite awhile, and people may be a little vague on who exactly the fellow was and what he stood for. To that end, Pentagon officials are now making it clear, they’re pretty sure Dr. King was a hawk.
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