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Date Sent: 2011-04-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 12, 2011 AM edition |
Fukushima Accident Assessment Officially Raised To Maximum, Level 7
Court upholds block on parts of Arizona immigration law -- China Goes Totalitarian about Time Travel -- Thermal Cameras Show Too Much? -- Pakistan Tells U.S. to Halt Drones -- Adam Vs The Man: Episode 1 -- Aftershock hits Japan as nuclear evacuation zone grows -- Jim Rogers: “The Only Thing I Worry About is Water” -- White House warns of debt ‘Armageddon’ -- More than 1,000 defy Egyptian army’s order to leave Tahrir Square -- Rep. Baldwin asks for federal investigation into Wisc. Supreme Court election -- House progressives offer budget plan: Tax rich, end wars, slash oil subsidies, invest in jobs -- Fracking nightmare destroys small farmers -- Cornel West: Obama is ‘another black mascot’ of ‘Wall Street oligarchs’ -- GOP threatens to force America into default if Dems refuse major spending cuts -- Lynne Tilton: I Believe There Will Be Violence In The Streets In America
AZ: "Atlas Shrugged," pt. 1 in 4 days!!!!
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima Accident Assessment Officially Raised To Maximum, Level 7
04-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Of course, due to the much greater concentration of people, and the far smaller land territory, should Japan continue to persist with "controlling" the crisis with the same success as it has over the past month, very soon a Level of 8 and/or higher .
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
Adam Vs The Man: Episode 1
04-11-2011
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RT.com
It's the world premiere of ADAM VS THE MAN! We expose the gun in the room with Stefan Molyneux, host of freedomainradio.com; and mourn free speech with former CIA analyst, Ray McGovern. Adam also called out mainstream media pundits and dedicates his
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Court upholds block on parts of Arizona immigration law
04-11-2011
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Washington Post
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the most contested provisions of an Arizona immigration law passed last year will remain blocked from taking effect, handing the Obama administration a victory in its efforts to overturn the legislation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Texas Fastest in the nation - 85 mile per hour speed limit
04-11-2011
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http://www.wtam.com/
(SAN ANTONIO) Rocker Sammy Hagar, who once sang "I Can't Drive 55," might want to move to Texas. The California-born singer may be able to drive 85 in the Lone Star State if a measure approved by the Texas House becomes law.
1200WOAI news reports
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • China
China Goes Totalitarian about Time Travel
04-11-2011
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Paul Levinson
time travel movies banned in China - another sad example of the difference between totalitarian and free societies
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Police State
Thermal Cameras Show Too Much?
04-11-2011
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boston.cbslocal.com
the project hit a snag when the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts raised concerns that the infrared cameras would reveal information about what’s going on inside the homes. Sagewell’s cameras can take up to 20,000 images of homes per da
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistan Tells U.S. to Halt Drones
04-11-2011
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online.wsj.com
Pakistan has privately demanded the Central Intelligence Agency suspend drone strikes against militants on its territory, one of the U.S.'s most effective weapons against al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, officials said.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Jim Rogers: “The Only Thing I Worry About is Water”
04-11-2011
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Blacklistednews.com/
China has one of the worst water problems in the world. Unless you solve your water problem, there's no China story. I've been around the world a couple of times, I've seen whole cities, societies and countries disappear because of water problems.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
White House warns of debt ‘Armageddon’
04-11-2011
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The Raw Story
The White House warned Republicans on Monday that failing to raise the $14.29 trillion US debt limit would spark "Armageddon-like" consequences for the slowly recovering US economy.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Will America Be Soros' Final Trophy?
04-11-2011
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http://drscoundrels.com
Bretton Woods II will boast some 200 academics, government representatives, businessmen, and policy experts from around the world.
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James Hyde
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News Link • World News
More than 1,000 defy Egyptian army’s order to leave Tahrir Square
04-11-2011
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The Raw Story
More than 1,000 protesters ignored an army order to leave Cairo's main square on Sunday, extending into a third day their calls for a quick move to civilian rule and a deeper purge of corrupt officials.
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News Link • Government
Rep. Baldwin asks for federal investigation into Wisc. Supreme Court election
04-11-2011
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David Edwards via The Raw Story
Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D) is asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to begin an investigation into the handling of votes cast in the state's Waukesha County.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Dangers of a new Russian moonbase...
04-11-2011
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Terrence Aym
While the US has reduced its national space program to skeletal proportions"and is now picking at the bones"Russia has announced an aggressive plan to build a huge base on the Moon. During festivities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first hum
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Family
Glenn Beck claims only ‘hookers’ use Planned Parenthood
04-11-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via The Raw Story
The non-profit group that provides life-saving medical screenings to millions of women every year is only used by “hookers,” according to right-wing conspiracy host Glenn Beck.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Fracking nightmare destroys small farmers
04-11-2011
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Farm Wars
A huge fracking (hydrolic fracture mining) nightmare is threatening to destroy our farmland with poisoned water.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Cornel West: Obama is ‘another black mascot’ of ‘Wall Street oligarchs’
04-11-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via The Raw Story
He suggested that Obama sold out and become “a puppet” of powerful interests, merely promising change and not delivering. West warned that this would trust the U.S. into a “democratic awakening” the likes of which the nation had not seen in decades.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
GOP threatens to force America into default if Dems refuse major spending cuts
04-11-2011
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Sahil Kapur via The Raw Story
The grueling 2011 budget debate that brought the federal government to the brink of a shutdown might end up looking mild in the face of the next fiscal battle: the debt ceiling.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Radiation Up To 4 Times Higher Than Chernobyl Evac Zone Found In Soil
04-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Now a new study from Hiroshima and Kyoto Universities has found that the radioactive content of soil samples beyond the 30 km semi-evacuation zone is as much as 400 times the normal.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lynne Tilton: I Believe There Will Be Violence In The Streets In America
04-11-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Social unrest comes from people who can’t take care of themselves. If we become a populace of the permanently unemployed, and Wall Street keeps going up, and multinational corporations keep making money, but Americans are unable to...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
American Ghost Towns of the 21st Century: The 10 Counties That Top The List
04-11-2011
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finance.yahoo.com
There are several counties in America, each with more than 10,000 homes, which have vacancy rates above 55%. The rate is above 60% in several.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Three Inventors Who Tried to Bottle the Ocean’s Power
04-11-2011
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wired.com
This imaginative turn-of-the-century drawing predicted that wave-energy generators, like Duffy's Wave Motor, would be "a source of power for various purposes."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Silent Film App Can Make You a Techie Charlie Chaplin
04-11-2011
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wired.com
Nothing adds nostalgia to a just-taken iPhone video like retro visual effects and silent film-inspired title cards.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Michio Kaku: Hanging by Your Fingernails - The Fukushima Meltdown
04-11-2011
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bigthink.com
The situation at Fukushima is relatively stable now... in the same way that you are stable if you hang by your fingernails off a cliff, and your fingernails begin to break one by one.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
A New Rotary Engine Design
04-11-2011
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technologyreview.com
A start-up, Liquid Piston, aims to greatly improve the efficiency of internal combustion.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Video: New Dutch Superbus Carries Two Dozen Passengers At 155 MPH
04-11-2011
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popsci.com
High speed trains are so passé " for comfortable superfast travel, hop on the Superbus.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'Retina in a Dish' is the Most Complex Tissue Ever Engineered in the Lab
04-11-2011
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popsci.com
Researchers in Japan have grown a retina from mouse embryonic stem cells in a lab, but this isn’t just another incremental advance in tissue engineering. Scientists claim their “retina in a dish” is by no small degree the most complex biological tiss
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News Link • History
David Christian: Big history
04-11-2011
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Ted.com
Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes.
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News Link • Energy
Particle Discovery Has Physicists Abuzz
04-11-2011
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livescience.com
In a development physicists are calling "huge," "tantalizing" and "unexpected," researchers have measured a signal that could herald a new kind of particle or force of nature.
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News Link • Internet
Prosecutors Defend Probe of WikiLeaks-Related Twitter Accounts
04-11-2011
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wired.com
Prosecutors are urging a federal judge in Virginia to rule against three associates of WikiLeaks who are fighting to keep records of their Twitter use out of the hands of the government.
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News Link • Activism
Tensions high as Egypt protesters accuse Army of turning on them
04-11-2011
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www.csmonitor.com
More than 1,000 pro-democracy protesters continued to occupy Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday, one day after the Army " until now seen the guardian of the revolution " appeared to have fired live rounds into crowds, killing at least one protester.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russia Plans Space Program Expansion And Moon Base By 2030
04-11-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
Russia is planning a massive increase in its space launches and may even build a base on the moon as part of a manned mission to Mars in the next two decades, according to reports.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
France Burqa Ban Takes Effect; Two Women Detained
04-11-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
France's new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance Monday, as several women appeared veiled in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral and two were detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest.
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News Link • Inventions
Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
04-11-2011
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Ted.com
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Texas Straight Talk 4/11/11: The Nanny State Is Coming To An End
04-11-2011
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dailypaul.com
Support Ron Paul and get your promotional items today!
Plus 6% of your purchase will be donated to Ron Paul's campaign chest!
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News Link • Precious Metals
Four silver investments to avoid
04-11-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Gold was below $300 an ounce and nobody wanted it. The price wasn’t even quoted on the financial news any more, and people laughed at me when I said I was buying gold.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Real Toll of Worldwide Regime Change
04-11-2011
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dailybell.com
The unrest sweeping the world seems to be growing, and the Internet provides us with global updates cataloguing this powerful phenomenon. An article in All Africa.com
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News Link • Economy - International
Little Iceland Panics Big Banks
04-11-2011
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dailybell.com
The Icelanders are at it again, irresponsible and unwilling to take up their burden. The wrath of the modern world shall surely be visited upon them.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
IMF Plots Role as World's Central Bank?
04-11-2011
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dailybell.com
The world's economy is a disaster. The IMF is the logical choice to lead the way to a brighter banking future in a consolidated, centralized, world economy. It says so itself.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama vs. Trump: A Circus Sideshow on the Road to Feudalism
04-11-2011
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prisonplanet.com
David Plouffe, senior Obama wrangler, has dismissed the admittedly self-promotional presidential run by real estate magnate and corporate media personality Donald Trump.
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