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Date Sent: 2011-03-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 11, 2011 |
NATO troops kill Karzai's cousin in botched raid -- Major tsunami damage in Japan after 8.9 quake
WikiLeaks: As AIG crumbled, China stepped in as broker -- Protesters flood Utah statehouse as governor signs law restricting access to public records -- Roseville Police Using Mobile Fingerprinting Tech -- Think $100 U.S. oil is bad? It's really much worse -- The Burden of Pensions on States -- Give Peaceful Resistance a Chance -- Army reprimands 9 officers in Fort Hood shooting -- Jobs returning — but good ones not so much -- Charles Nenner Joins Marc Faber and Gerald Celente in Predicting Major War
-- Why skin doesn't dissolve in the bath -- Bruce Krasting: CBO Warns
Everyone To Get Ready To Bend Over! -- Union Thugs Send Death Threats
to WI GOP Senators and Families -- How E-Bombs Work -- Report: NKorea's 'America killer' EMP bomb almost completed -- Scientist plans on resurrecting Tyrannosaurus Rex --
Our Government Has Already Been Caught Lying About Iraq -- Learn
Without Concern: A Public Forum on Concealed Weapons on Campus --
Foreclosure-Gate: Fed Issues “See No Evil” Report to Defend Servicers -- Alleged California 'Dirty DUI' Arrests Detailed -- Clinton to meet anti-Gadhafi opposition as world weighs Libya options -- If the Saudis revolt, the world’s in trouble -- Saudi Police Open Fire At Protest Rally -- Japan Announces Plans to Fly Its Own Domestically Developed Stealth Fighter
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO troops kill Karzai's cousin in botched raid, Afghans say
03-10-2011
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NY Times
The accidental killing of a cousin of President Hamid Karzai by a U.S. Special Forces team became the latest in a string of high-profile civilian casualties that have further soured the relationship between the president and his American benefactors.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Major tsunami damage in N Japan after 8.9 quake
03-11-2011
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AP
Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicenter. There were reports of injuries in Tokyo.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
WikiLeaks: As AIG crumbled, China stepped in as broker
03-11-2011
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Reuters
U.S. officials believe China's insurance regulator passed on proprietary information about AIG to its Chinese rivals during the American firm's collapse in 2008, according to unpublished diplomatic cables.
The U.S. government bailout of American I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Protesters flood Utah statehouse as governor signs law restricting access to public records
03-11-2011
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Rawstory
Citing in recent days a need to protect lawmakers' and constituent privacy, the Utah legislature pounced on a bill that would restrict the public's access to government records, passing it in record time and catching detractors off-guard.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Roseville Police Using Mobile Fingerprinting Tech
03-10-2011
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CBS News
A new tool can reveal a person’s identity to police in seconds, giving authorities a chance to see the personal history of a subject
The Roseville Police Department began carrying mobile fingerprint devices a few months ago. Officers can scan a s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How Men Lost Their Penis Spines
03-10-2011
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LiveScience
Time to give thanks for your genome: A new study finds that at some point in our evolutionary history, humans lost a stretch of DNA that would have otherwise promoted the growth of spines on the penis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Analysis: Think $100 U.S. oil is bad? It's really much worse
03-10-2011
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Reuters
Americans worried about the pain of $100 U.S. oil should worry a lot more.
Although $100 oil is the headline in U.S. newspapers, most refineries that supply fuel to service stations are paying the equivalent of a much higher price -- and those cos
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
The Burden of Pensions on States
03-10-2011
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NY Times
Other states will probably find Wisconsin’s idea of simply dividing pension contributions between labor and management is an illusory solution to their long-term financial woes. Promises to workers are far more costly than routinely calculated by sta
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Indefensible Detention
03-10-2011
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NY Times
Should a former attorney general be held personally liable for brazenly misusing the material witness statute when he was in office to hold an American man in brutal conditions on the pretext that he was a witness in a case in which he was never call
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Give Peaceful Resistance a Chance
03-10-2011
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NY Times
THE rebellion in Libya stands out among the recent unrest in the Middle East for its widespread violence: unlike the protesters in Tunisia or Egypt, those in Libya quickly gave up pursuing nonviolent change and became an armed rebellion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Army reprimands 9 officers in Fort Hood shooting
03-10-2011
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AP
Nine Army officers are being reprimanded for leadership failures in connection with the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, and their failure to detect and report problems with the accused shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as he moved along in his m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Tears, shouts as terror hearing becomes political
03-10-2011
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AP
Republican Rep. Peter King declared U.S. Muslims are doing too little to help fight terror in America. Democrats warned of inflaming anti-Muslim sentiment and energizing al-Qaida.
Framed by photos of the burning World Trade Center and Pentagon, th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Jobs returning " but good ones not so much
03-10-2011
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The Lookout
When it comes to jobs, it's not just quantity that matters--it's also quality. It's great news that the economy is finally producing jobs again--even if it'll take another few years of this kind of growth to get us back to where we were before the Gr
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Future Predictions
Charles Nenner Joins Marc Faber and Gerald Celente in Predicting Major War
03-10-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Therefore, says Nenner: I told my clients and pension funds and big firms and hedge funds to almost go out of the market, almost totally out of the market.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Study: Why skin doesn't dissolve in the bath
03-10-2011
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Terrence Aym
Australian scientists have uncovered the reason why human skin wrinkles up but doesn't just melt away in hot bath water. The scientists' findings were recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Researchers have long been mys
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • TERRORISM
BREAKING NEWS: Union Thugs Send Death Threats to WI GOP Senators and Families
03-10-2011
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http://drscoundrels.com
The irony is stunning and grinding, the hypocrisy incomparable. The left jawbones incessantly about the many “dangers” posed by the Tea Party movement. But when government-employee unions start threatening the lives of politicians, oh, that’s okay.
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Reported by:
James Hyde
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News Link • Propaganda
How E-Bombs Work
03-10-2011
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science.howstuffworks.com
But that's only one piece of the e-bomb story. Using inexpensive supplies and rudimentary engineering knowledge, a terrorist organization could easily construct a dangerous e-bomb device. (Now we all know how to make these... now what?)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Report: NKorea's 'America killer' EMP bomb almost completed
03-10-2011
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Terrence Aym
As reported last May 27, 2010 NKorea has a secret plan to destroy both America and SKorea: an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon. Experts now claim that NKorea is near completion of the first such weapon.
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Science
Scientist plans on resurrecting Tyrannosaurus Rex
03-10-2011
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Terrence Aym
Some scientists dream of finding a cure for cancer, others work to find the ultimate energy resource. Jack Horner wants to bring back the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Horner is a certified genius. Like Bill Gates he never graduated from college. He didn't nee
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Government
How YOU can avoid being duped by . . .
03-10-2011
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thechristmasconspiracy.com
The Biggest Government Lie in All of Human History. Hundreds of Millions have lost their lives, their property, or their freedom because of The Big Lie. You probably believe it too.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Our Government Has Already Been Caught Lying About Iraq
03-10-2011
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www.representativepress.org
It turned out that the "Iraqi troops satellite photos" were fake
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Housing
CoreLogic: House Prices declined 2.5% in January, Prices at New Post-bubble low
03-10-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
This is the sixth straight month of year-over-year declines, and the seventh straight month of month-to-month declines. The index is now 1.6% below the previous post-bubble low set in March 2009...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Fed Issues “See No Evil” Report to Defend Servicers
03-10-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The more this sort of whitewashing of abuses goes on, the closer the US gets to its Egypt moment.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Alleged California 'Dirty DUI' Arrests Detailed
03-10-2011
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Officer.com
A Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy told two colleagues he was making "dirty DUI" arrests on behalf of a private investigator who was setting up men to damage their reputations in legal fights, an investigator said in court documents.
Deputy
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Clinton to meet anti-Gadhafi opposition as world weighs Libya options
03-10-2011
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www.haaretz.com
Secretary of State to meet Libyan opposition leaders during an upcoming trip to Egypt and Tunisia, the first such visit since the U.S.-backed regimes were toppled amid popular unrest.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
If the Saudis revolt, the world’s in trouble
03-10-2011
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telegraph.co.uk
The fate of the global recovery rests on events in Riyadh , says Jeremy Warner.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Manufacturing Process Builds A Nylon Bike As Strong As Steel
03-10-2011
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popsci.com
Engineers in the UK have designed a new manufacturing process using powdered materials, using it to “grow” a weird ivory-colored bicycle made of nylon. They say it is as strong as steel.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Saudi Police Open Fire At Protest Rally
03-10-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
AP reports that the Saudi police open fire at protesters in Qatif after government warns demonstrators it will not tolerate protests. In other words, the shootings will continue until morale is restored. Look for crude to go antigravitational here.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Japan Announces Plans to Fly Its Own Domestically Developed Stealth Fighter in 2014
03-10-2011
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popsci.com
The stealth club just keeps on growing. China’s new mysterious jet prototype, thought to be a stealth fighter prototype to rival America’s F-22 Raptor, made its public debut just after the New Year in a series of “leaked” photos and video clips.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
DIY Human-Powered Exoskeleton Makes You Bigger, Stronger, Funnier
03-10-2011
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popsci.com
Skeletonics, a six-month-old Japanese student project, has resulted in an exoskeleton made of plastic and metal that's surprisingly dexterous and powered solely by the human embedded inside.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Veteran Space Shuttle Discovery Touches Down For The Last Time
03-10-2011
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popsci.com
With NASA’s space shuttle program in full wind-down, it seems like there are a lot of “lasts” in America’s storied, three-decade Space Transportation System.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Video: Drones Perform Closest-Ever Autonomous Refueling Maneuver
03-10-2011
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popsci.com
In a recent test of autonomous in-flight refueling, two unmanned aircraft flew within 40 feet of each other at an altitude of 45,000 feet, an aviation record.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Largest Undersea Cable Ever Could Export Iceland's Abundant Geothermal Power to the Rest of Euro
03-10-2011
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popsci.com
Hoping to take advantage of its violent volcanic heritage, Iceland is contemplating building the world’s biggest undersea electric cable, so it can sell geothermal power to other European nations. If it works, it could export enough electricity to po
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
DOE Exploring Superconducting Magnet Scheme for Grid Energy Storage
03-10-2011
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popsci.com
Throwing cost concerns and caution to the wind, the U.S. Department of Energy is getting behind a project that aims to prove that superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) can work at the grid level.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Video: Combo-Cracking Robot Makes Quick Work of Padlocks
03-10-2011
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popsci.com
Cracking combination locks has never been so easy. A group of engineering students at Olin College of Engineering have built a robot that will solve any MasterLock combination in a under two hours by running through all the possible combinations. Jus
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News Link • Religion: Believers
The Impotent Church And Romans 13
03-10-2011
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chuckbaldwinlive.com
There are over 300,000 evangelical Christian churches in America. That equates to tens of millions of professing Christians and hundreds of thousands of Christian ministers.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
15 Awesome Supercars the Feds Won’t Seize
03-10-2011
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wired.com
If your free time is spent at all like ours, you poke around European eBay sites checking out wonders of the automotive world that will never make it to our shores. Like fresh Guinness, strong coffee and heated towel racks, some creations just can't
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Marijuana IPOs Provide Investors with Gateway to Cannabis Boom
03-10-2011
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Bloomberg
In an industrial section of Oakland, California, former Morgan Stanley investment banker Derek Peterson hops into a trailer being outfitted with shower drains, lights and humidifers, all used for growing marijuana.
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Jean Carbonneau
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