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Date Sent: 2012-05-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 2, 2012 PM edition |
KY Supremes Rule Highway Checkpoints Illegal -- DHS To Release Bacteria In Boston Subway
05-02-12 -- Dime card mailing; the upcoming libertarian convention in Las Vegas (Video Loaded) -- Whitewashing Mass Murder -- Red Dawn and the Chicago Spring -- BUT, WHAT ABOUT JUSTICE FOR ZIMMERMAN? -- Obama Information Czar Confronted Over “Ban Conspiracy Theories” Paper -- Turn your iPhone into a networked night vision scope -- The Velocity of Money Is Coming, Along With Big Price Inflation? -- A beating at Church and Brambleton -- To Joliet jail for NATO
offenders? -- Bolivian Soldiers Walked Into This Spanish Power Company,
Hung A Flag And Seized Control -- Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene --
On April 24 and May 1, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the global
financial crisis. -- Physicists Crack Fusion Mystery -- Vaccine Could Stop Nicotine from Reaching the Brain -- The Lean Startup: Applying the Scientific Method to the Art of
Entrepreneurship -- SPAIN AND ITALY ARE GETTING DESTROYED -- Illinois
Borrowing Costs Rise By 22.5% And It's Just Going To Get Worse -- China
Convicts Spy Blogger, Lets Others Keep Leaking -- Alex Jones calls for Occupy Bilderberg -- UK aid helps to fund forced sterilization of India’s poor -- Student
abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive -- Sec.
Clinton tosses Chinese dissident to the wolves before talks
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News Link • Bioterrorism
DHS To Release Bacteria In Boston Subway System
05-02-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
U.S. government has a history of dangerous biological testing on the American public
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
BUT, WHAT ABOUT JUSTICE FOR ZIMMERMAN?
05-02-2012
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http://www.newswithviews.com, By Lloyd Marcus
I keep thinking of an episode of the 1973 TV show, “Kojak: The Marcus-Nelson Murders.” Homicide detective Kojak suspects that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Velocity of Money Is Coming, Along With Big Price Inflation?
05-02-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
"We are humble because we are aware of the great monetary forces at work and will do all we can to triumph over them. Thank you. I am Ben Bernanke."
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News Link • Seriously?
A beating at Church and Brambleton
05-02-2012
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http://hamptonroads.com, Michelle Washington
Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
To Joliet jail for NATO offenders?
05-02-2012
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http://www.suntimes.com, BY FRAN SPIELMAN
Mothballed for a decade, the Joliet Correctional Center could be temporarily reopened to serve as a detention facility for those arrested for serious offenses during the May 20-21 NATO summit.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Facebook Now Lets You Advertise Your Organs on Your Profile
05-02-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
There are currently 114,000 people waiting for organ transplants in the U.S., and roughly 7,000 of them die every year while awaiting a donor organ to become available.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
New method quickly IDs nanomaterials that can cause oxidative damage to cells
05-02-2012
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http://phys.org, By Jennifer Marcus
Engineered nanomaterials, prized for their unique semiconducting properties, are already prevalent in everyday consumer products " from sunscreens, cosmetics and paints to textiles and solar batteries
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Escape response of small fish tested using a supercomputer
05-02-2012
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http://phys.org, By Simone Ulmer
Small fish bend themselves into a 'C' shape before they flee from predators. Observations have suggested that this shape helps them to abruptly put the greatest distance possible between themselves and their predators.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Eye size determined by maximum running speed in mammals
05-02-2012
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http://phys.org, University of Texas at Austin
Maximum running speed is the most important variable influencing mammalian eye size other than body size, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Desperate fishwives
05-02-2012
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http://phys.org, Norwegian University of Science a
Breeding is on their minds as the mating season draws to an end. Guys drop dead by the hour, making goby girls go all out in their hunt for a mate to father their offspring
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Barrow researchers unravel illusion
05-02-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Lynne Reaves
Phoenix, AZ, April 30, 2012) Barrow Neurological Institute researchers Jorge Otero-Millan, Stephen Macknik, and Susana Martinez-Conde share the recent cover of the Journal of Neuroscience in a compelling study into why illusions trick our brains.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Everyday fish oil capsule may provide kidney-related benefits
05-02-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Sonya Gilpin
Over the past decade, there has been a steady stream of information promoting the health benefits of fish oil capsules.
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News Link • Energy
America's clean energy policies need a reality check, say Stanford researchers
05-02-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Mark Golden
America's approach to clean energy needs to be reformed if it is to meaningfully affect energy security or the environment, according to two new articles by Stanford writers.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Anti-HIV drug use during pregnancy does not affect infant size, birth weight
05-02-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org
Infants born to women who used the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as part of an anti-HIV drug regimen during pregnancy do not weigh less at birth and are not of shorter length than infants born to women who used anti-HIV drug regimens that do not include te
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Why the Urge to Pee Ruins Sleep for Some
05-02-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Joseph Castro
For most people, sleep is undisturbed by the need to pee, because our bladders seem to hold more urine over night. But just how this happens, and why some people are unable to do this, has remained a mystery until now.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Dolphins Help Fishermen Catch Fish
05-02-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Jennifer Welsh
A visitor might stumble upon a strange sight in Laguna, Brazil, if they went down to the shore. Here, the local fishermen rely on dolphins to help them with their yearly fish catch.
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News Link • Anthropology
'Iceman' Mummy Holds World's Oldest Blood Cells
05-02-2012
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livescience.com,Stephanie Pappas
The oldest red blood cells ever identified have been found in the body of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps in 1991.
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News Link • World News
Bolivian Soldiers Walked Into This Spanish Power Company, Hung A Flag And Seized Control
05-02-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) " President Evo Morales announced Tuesday that his government is completing the nationalization of Bolivia's electricity sector by seizing control of its main power grid from a Spanish-owned company.
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News Link • Inventions
Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene
05-02-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Silicene could be the material of the future. Or at least the material of the near future, until graphene-based semiconductors become more efficient.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
The Lean Startup: Applying the Scientific Method to the Art of Entrepreneurship
05-02-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Beth Carter
Eric Reis says his first startup experience was just like that one in The Social Network. But only the first half.
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News Link • Economy - International
UPDATE: SPAIN AND ITALY ARE GETTING DESTROYED
05-02-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
UPDATE: The IBEX 35 extended losses right after today's dismal U.S. ADP jobs report, and is now off a full 3 percent. - UPDATE II: Italy is catching up to Spain on losses, as rumors about an imminent downgrade of its banks fuels a sell-off.
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News Link • Transportation
Ford’s Alan Mulally on the Future of Driving
05-02-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Michael V. Copeland
If you are trying to get a bead on what kind of car to buy next, you’d figure asking Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford, would be a safe bet. Should you go hybrid, plug-in-hybrid, clean diesel, high efficiency gas, or all-electric? Mulally doesn’t have an ans
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Illinois Borrowing Costs Rise By 22.5% And It's Just Going To Get Worse
05-02-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Illinois borrowing costs are poised to rise about 22.5%. The nominal increase is about .34 percentage points as reported by Bloomberg.
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News Link • China
China Convicts Spy Blogger, Lets Others Keep Leaking
05-02-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
Three years ago a physically disabled Chinese man unwittingly broke the law when he shot video of a military airbase in eastern China and uploaded the footage to his website.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Dark Matter Theories Challenged By Satellite Galaxy Discovery
05-02-2012
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http://www.space.com, Staff
A sprawling collection of galaxies and star clusters surrounding our own Milky Way is challenging long-standing theories on the existence of dark matter, the mysterious substance thought to pervade the universe.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Key Underwear Bomber Witness Runs for U.S. Congress
05-02-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Just wanted to post something for all of you following along that Kurt Haskell decided yesterday that he is going to run for Congress!
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alex Jones calls for Occupy Bilderberg
05-02-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
On May 31, the annual Bilderberg conference will take place in Chantilly, Virgina. Every year the world’s elites meet to make decisions that could potentially have an affect on millions around the world.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
UK aid helps to fund forced sterilisation of India’s poor
05-02-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Gethin Chamberlain
Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian women and men, theObserver has learned.
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News Link • Drug War
Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive
05-02-2012
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Rawstory
Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for 5 days without food or water. “They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” he sai
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News Link • China
Sec. Clinton tosses Chinese dissident to the wolves before talks
05-02-2012
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Reuters
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday "of his own volition" after six days, the Foreign Ministry said, and a senior U.S. official said he planned to stay put in China.
China's Foreign Ministry denounced th
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Is US in a perpetual state of war?
05-02-2012
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Philip Fernando , Asian Tribune
In the last 20 years, there have only been three or four in which the U.S. military wasn’t at war. Now it seemed easier to take the plunge as technology has made it cheaper and easier to project conventional military force, and therefore presidents d
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News Link • Internet
CISPA Passes The House With Tea Party Support
04-30-2012
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Forbes
CISPA is full of problematic intrusions into individual privacy and online liberty, and yet those members of the House who associate themselves with limited government were largely responsible for its passage.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Entire Silver Circle Comic is now Published!
05-01-2012
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Silver Circle Online Comic
We've been working for months to provide you with the Silver Circle story in the form of an exciting comic and today marks the publication of the final page. Spoilers are included, so those of you waiting to see the movie this Fall - BEWARE!
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News Link • Conspiracies
Five arrested in U.S. plot to blow up bridge
05-01-2012
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Reuters
U.S. authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge over a national park, but had no ties to foreign terrorism, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
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News Link • Internet
QArt Codes - QR codes with pictures embedded in the code. Generate your own
04-12-2012
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research.swtch.com
QArt Codes
QR codes are 2-dimensional bar codes that encode arbitrary text strings. A common use of QR codes is to encode URLs so that people can scan a QR code (for example, on an advertising poster, building roof, volleyball bikini, belt buckle,
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Empire Strikes Back: Attack of the Drones
05-01-2012
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Right Side News
Politicians stand to make money off the implementation of drones in America. 53 members of the House are part of the drone caucus which works to expand the use of drones domestically. 15 members of the caucus have received a total of $68,500 from Gen
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vows to Fix Following Public Pressure
05-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, Threat Level
After ignoring a serious security vulnerability in its product for at least a year, a Canadian company that makes equipment and software for critical industrial control systems announced quietly on Friday that it would eliminate a backdoor login acco
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Roșia Montană and the Price of Gold
04-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
What happens after the social dislocation caused by the (partial) system change in 1989 and the related appearance of Western firms who climb into bed with the "new" rulers who have more than a foot in the old world
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News Link • Afghanistan
US not reporting all Afghan attacks
04-30-2012
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AP
The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops.
The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an American or other foreign soldier is killed by an Afghan in u
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News Link • Torture
Ex-CIA counterterror chief says Pelosi ‘reinventing the truth’ about waterboarding
04-30-2012
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Washington Post
In an explosive memoir released today, former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez provides new evidence that Rep. Nancy Pelosi lied when she declared she had not been briefed about the use of waterboarding.
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News Link • Camera Fraud
California: Federal Court Takes on Photo Enforcement Hearsay Issue
04-30-2012
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The Newspaper
California courts are split on the issue of whether US Supreme Court precedent invalidates evidence typically provided by red light cameras. The Court of Appeal issued a pair of contradictory rulings within a few weeks.
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