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Date Sent: 2011-07-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, July 6, 2011 AM edition |
Federal Wiretaps Double Under Obama -- U.S. indicts Somali on terrorism charges
Savings, Not Spending Causes Economic Growth - by Howard Blitz --
Weapons prove Iranian role in Iraq, U.S. says -- Palestinians get to
watch their homes blown up -- Federal Fish Fascism -- Massachusetts Woman Arrested For Taking Pictures From Her Front Yard
-- Sulfur Breakthrough Significantly Boosts Lithium Battery Capacity --
A Futures Market for Computer Security -- Terrafugia's 'Roadable
Aircraft' Receives Regulatory Clearance -- $2.7 Billion Later, the
Army’s Intelligence-Sharing Computer System Still Doesn't Work -- Ron Paul Interview with the Conway Daily Sun (VIDEO) -- Casey Anthony found not guilty of murder -- Entire police force laid off in small Texas town -- I Was a Teenage Radio Pirate -- How your community is implementing AGENDA 21 -- Jared Loughner: No forced medication, appeals court rules -- TSA Abuses and Failures - by Ron Paul -- GMO Rice is On It’s Way to a Store Near You -- Dangerous Babies - by L. Neil Smith -- Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor comes to Annapolis -- Ron Paul Float in Flagstaff Parade Huge Success (video) -- Army program works to make soldiers fit in mind -- Mom: Boy begged Lifeguards to aid drowning woman -- Woman Escorted Off US Airways Flight For Snapping Photo
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News Link • Surveillance
Federal Wiretaps Double Under Obama
07-05-2011
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Forbes
2010, it seems, was a landmark year for federal snooping. According to the U.S. courts systems’ annual report on law enforcement wiretaps, federal law enforcement requested 1,207 intercepts placed on phones and electronic communications last year, ne
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. indicts Somali on terrorism charges
07-05-2011
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Washington Post
Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame had military and intelligence officials interrogating him secretly for two months before bringing in law enforcement officials to question him for purposes of an indictment. He is the first foreign terrorism suspect captured
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Weapons prove Iranian role in Iraq, U.S. says
07-05-2011
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Washington Post
Iranian-backed militias in Iraq are using more sophisticated weapons than in the past to target U.S. troops and military installations in Iraq, according to senior U.S. officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Palestinians get to watch their homes blown up
07-05-2011
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Washington Post
The Israeli troops and bulldozers arrived in the early morning and quickly got to work, tearing down shelters made of plastic netting and poles that had served as homes for about 100 people in this impoverished Bedouin community in the parched Jordan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Federal Fish Fascism
07-05-2011
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New Federal regulations are crippling small fishing businesses in New England. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association has set hard catch limits on groundfish such as cod and haddock, the backbone of the New England fishing industry
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Massachusetts Woman Arrested For Taking Pictures From Her Front Yard
07-05-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Massachusetts state police arrested a 65-year-old woman who was standing on her property photographing the damage after a car had come crashing through her yard and into her driveway. Judith Davis-Scott spent the night in jail on charges of interferi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Solar Thermal Plants Losing out to Photovoltaics
07-05-2011
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
In the last several years costs for solar power have dropped significantly, driven by advances in manufacturing technology, improvements in efficiency, and government support, among other things.
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News Link • Energy
Sulphur Breakthrough Significantly Boosts Lithium Battery Capacity
07-05-2011
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KFC via TechnologyReview.com
Trapping sulphur particles in graphene cages produces a cathode material that could finally make lithium batteries capable of powering electric cars
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News Link • Technology: Software
A Futures Market for Computer Security
07-05-2011
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Brian Krebs via TechnologyReview.com
Information security researchers from academia, industry, and the U.S. intelligence community are collaborating to build a pilot "prediction market" capable of anticipating major information security events before they occur.
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News Link • Food
Virtual Grocery Lets Koreans Browse Grocery Aisles While Waiting for the Subway
07-05-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
A new virtual store developed by Tesco for its line of South Korean Home Plus supermarkets lets customers browse store shelves for the products they want just as if they were in a physical store. But they’re not. They’re on a subway platform.
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News Link • Transportation
Terrafugia's 'Roadable Aircraft' Receives Regulatory Clearance Again, This Time for the
07-05-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Its Transition aircraft just received a few special exemptions from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that further clear the way for first deliveries of the vehicle, which are now slated for late next year.
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News Link • Military
$2.7 Billion Later, the Army’s Intelligence-Sharing Computer System Still Doesn’t Work
07-05-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
The idea is simple enough: Create a cloud-based software tool that can comb through the entire universe of military intelligence reports and come back with actionable intel that battlefield commanders can use on the ground, and do it in realtime.
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News Link • Climate Change
Asian Air Pollution Could Be Behind the Halt in Rising Global Temperatures
07-05-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Coal-derived emissions pouring from smokestacks across Asia are--perhaps counterintuitively--responsible for a pause in global warming in the decade following 1998, but that’s no real reason to celebrate.
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News Link • Politics
Fox News Cyberattack, Body Scanner Cancer, Minnesota Shutdown
07-06-11
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Reality Report
Top Stories Of The Day.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Politics
Airline Security Risk, Debris to Hit U.S., Ron Paul in 2012
07-06-11
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Reality Report
Top Stories Of The Day.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul Interview with the Conway Daily Sun (VIDEO)
07-05-2011
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www.dailypaul.com
A nice, sanely paced sitdown interview with the Conway Daily Sun from Dr. Paul's holiday weekend visit to New Hampshire. VIDEO
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • United Nations
Codex Commission â€" Voluntary GMO Labeling Okay with WTO?
07-05-2011
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Farm Wars
Codex has capitulated on the GM labeling issue after a battle spanning approximately 20 years, stating that it will allow countries to label GMOs and the WTO will not legally challenge them for it.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Energy
Inside the World's Largest Fusion Reactor
07-05-2011
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Brooke Borel via PopSci.com
The well-publicized failures of cold fusion may have tainted the field’s reputation, but physicists have been successfully joining nuclei with hot fusion since 1932. Today, research in hot fusion could lead to a clean energy source
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News Link • Precious Metals
Massive Undersea Discovery of Rare Earth Elements May Break Chinese Monopoly
07-05-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Rare earth elements have been the focus of a good deal of ink, a lot of anxiety, and a couple of tense international spats over the past year, but a Japanese discovery may make the valuable minerals a lot less rare.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Casey Anthony found not guilty of murder
07-05-2011
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RawStory.com
A Florida jury on Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of murder in the June 16, 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
The defense had argued that Caylee died in an accidental drowning.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence - July 5th 2011
George Donnely may be coming to Phoenix for some Sheriff Arpaio activism - Larken Rose's July eZine Article - Les Rayburn for the 2nd hour.... Conservative vs libertarian.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Verizon prepares fees for mobile users who download too much information
07-05-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via RawStory.com
Verizon Wireless became the latest U.S. mobile data carrier to announce that it would implement usage-based pricing for Internet access, claiming the new fees would mean light users no longer "subsidize" those on current unlimited data plans.
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News Link • Environment
World needs $1.9 trillion a year for green technology
07-05-2011
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RawStory.com
The world needs $1.9 trillion in green technology investments a year, with over half of that sum necessary for developing countries," the UN said Tuesday.
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News Link • Police State
Entire police force laid off in small Texas town
07-05-2011
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
department has been padlocked and the officers sent home.
The city of Alto laid off its entire police force about two weeks ago because the city council completely cut the department's budget.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Santorum accuses Obama of creating ‘only 240 million jobs’
07-05-2011
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
CNN host Ali Velshi gave Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum some math advice Tuesday after the former Pennsylvania senator claimed President Barack Obama’s stimulus had resulted in 30 million fewer jobs.
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News Link • Communications
I Was a Teenage Radio Pirate
07-05-2011
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Wendy McElroy
The New York legislature just banned any unlicensed operation in the AM and FM bands. You must obtain an FCC license in violation of federal law -- there's no exemption for "micropower" transmitters...transmission without a license is prohibited.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Jared Loughner: No forced medication, appeals court rules
07-05-2011
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AP
An appeals court has ordered federal prison officials to temporarily stop forcing anti-psychotic drugs on the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns ruled that he didn't want to second-guess prison doctors
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Dangerous Babies - by L. Neil Smith
07-05-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
To hell with the wars in Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, or Iraq. How about ending the war that this outlaw government wages here, against the American people and their Bill of Rights?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
World's most expensive razor
07-05-2011
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The $100,000 Zafirro Iridium features solid white sapphire blades which the company claims will "last forever".
They are sharpened using high-energy, ionized particles to create an edge less than 100 atoms in width, 5,000 times smaller than the wi
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor comes to Annapolis
07-05-2011
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's motorcade of 5 hulking black vehicles pulled into prime spots on Market Space yesterday. The availability of the spaces wasn't a fluke. Each meter had had a paper sign taped to it stating it was reserved for th
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Army program works to make soldiers fit in mind
07-05-2011
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Washington Post
The Army, burdened by almost a decade of war and beset by increases in suicides, substance abuse and combat stress, embarked on a project to instill psychological strength in soldiers the same way it teaches physical fitness.
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News Link • Government
Mom: Boy begged Mass. guards to aid sinking woman
07-05-2011
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AP
A 9-year-old boy told two lifeguards that a woman had not resurfaced after entering the waters of a public swimming pool and appearing to struggle, his mother said. The body of 36-year-old woman was found in the Veterans Memorial Pool 2 days later.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust Pt 2
07-05-2011
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Farm Wars
There are untold numbers of Gulf workers who have been underpaid or not paid at all if they were not lucky enough to have won the BP propaganda lottery.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Woman Escorted Off US Airways Flight For Snapping Photo
07-02-2011
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Carlos Miller
Deemed a "security risk" for photographing nametag of rude employee. Sandy DeWitt said the employee, whose name was Tonialla G., was being rude to several passengers in the boarding area of the flight to Miami.
So DeWitt snapped a photo of her n
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Free Speech
Stricter offensive bumper sticker law takes effect
07-05-2011
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Starting Friday, Tennessee drivers caught with obscene or patently offensive bumper stickers, window signs or other markings on their vehicle visible to other drivers face an automatic $50 fine. The law also includes movies other drivers can see play
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