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Date Sent: 2012-08-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 6, 2012 AM edition |
Seven dead in Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, 1 police officer shot
Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of backing Taliban enemy -- Judge in Colorado shooting must decide fair trial versus transparency -- Justice for Chavis Carter -- Rejecting the Government's Poison is Bad For Your Health -- Iran TV airs confessions in murder of scientists -- After defeat of Senate cybersecurity bill, Obama weighs executive-order option -- Reality Check: Do We Really Need To Audit The Federal Reserve? -- The Internet in 1969 -- (Trailer) Make $$$ Selling Drugs Documentary Staring 50 Cent & Eminem -- Living Without Lies Might Make You Healthier -- Out of Europe --
British Explorer Closes In On Legendary 'Treasure Of Lima' -- Why
A Mitt Romney Stock Market Rally Is Never Going To Happen --
Usain Bolt Wins Gold In 100-Meter Dash, Breaks Own Olympic Record --Economic Death Spiral -- Microchip-Laden Drugs Given
FDA Approval
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD - August
2012 Edition
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Seven dead in Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, 1 police officer shot
08-05-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A Public Information Officer (PIO) speaking on behalf of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin police said preliminary reports in the Sikh Temple shooting the count stands at seven, including one gunman.
In a brief press conference, a spokesperson for the Oak
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of backing Taliban enemy
08-05-2012
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Reuters
Pakistan's interior minister has said elements of the Afghan government are likely supporting a senior Pakistani Taliban leader who is fighting to topple the Islamabad government, accusations which could further raise tensions over cross-border raids
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge in Colorado shooting must decide fair trial versus transparency
08-05-2012
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Reuters
In most court cases, documents are available to the public, but Judge William Sylvester sealed the Holmes case on July 20 at the request of prosecutors. Major media organizations have asked the judge to unseal the documents, citing the public's right
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Justice for Chavis Carter
08-05-2012
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The Agitator
A breaking story this week from Jonesboro, Arkansas, concerns the death of 21 year old Chavis Carter, a black man who was shot to death while handcuffed in the back seat of a Jonesboro Police Department squad car.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Rejecting the Government's Poison is Bad For Your Health
08-05-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
While most bottled water manufacturers declare that their products are 100 percent "pure," "clean" or "natural," few brands contain one ingredient that most Americans take for granted: fluoride.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran TV airs confessions in murder of scientists
08-05-2012
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AP
Iranian state television broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.
The broadcast showed some of the suspects re-enacting the assassinations in different distr
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News Link • Internet
After defeat of Senate cybersecurity bill, Obama weighs executive-order option
08-05-2012
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The Hill
Senate Republicans blocked cybersecurity legislation, but the issue might not be dead. The White House hasn't ruled out issuing an executive order to strengthen the nation's defenses against cyber attacks if Congress refuses to act.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Reality Check: Do We Really Need To Audit The Federal Reserve?
08-05-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at history and present activities of the Federal Reserve Bank and whether the Fed needs to be audited.
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News Link • Drug War
(Trailer) Make $$$ Selling Drugs Documentary Staring 50 Cent & Eminem
08-05-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Eminem and 50 Cent are among the people featured in an upcoming documentary entitled "How To Make Money Selling Drugs," which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 6th. Freeway Rick Ross is also featured in the clip.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Out of Europe
08-05-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Aileen Sheehy
Researchers have found that a bacterium that emerged centuries ago in Europe has now been spreading globally into countries undergoing rapid development and industrialization.
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News Link • History
British Explorer Closes In On Legendary 'Treasure Of Lima'
08-05-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jasper Copping
It eluded Franklin Roosevelt, Sir Malcolm Campbell and Errol Flynn, but now an explorer from Melton Mowbray could be on the trail of a multi-million-pound hoard of gold, silver and jewellery stolen by pirates and buried on a treasure island.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Why A Mitt Romney Stock Market Rally Is Never Going To Happen
08-05-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Morgan Stanley strategist Adam Parker (who is pretty bearish these days) recently said that one thing that might cause a stock market rally is the expectation that Mitt Romney will win the election.
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Usain Bolt Wins Gold In 100-Meter Dash, Breaks Own Olympic Record
08-05-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tony Manfred
Usain Bolt just won his second-straight 100-meter gold medal in an Olympic record 9.63 seconds. A lot of people thought fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake would beat him, but in the end it wasn't even all that close. Blake got the silver, and USA's Justin G
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
...Just Spotted This Guy Wearing Google's Secret Internet Glasses On The Train Like It's No
08-05-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Owen Thomas
We just hopped off Caltrain, the Bay Area's commuter-rail system, at Palo Alto to share this with you.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economic Death Spiral
8-5-2012
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Free Press Publications
If I said an economist said that the American economy was heading into a “death spiral,” most people would likely think I was referring to Peter Schiff, Bob Murphy or someone from the Mises Institute. They would be wrong. Reuters reports Richard Dunc
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News Link • Healthcare
Microchip-Laden Drugs Given FDA Approval
08-05-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Rumors regarding the development of a ‘digital pill’ with a microchip inside have been circulating for some time, but today, the FDA actually green lighted the product.
The company, Proteus Digital Health, gained FDA approval for its 1 square mill
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers hit Reuters, post fake blog on Syria
08-04-2012
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The RawStory.com
Hackers took over the blogging platform of the Reuters news agency and posted “fabricated” stories said to include an interview with a Syrian rebel leader, the company said Friday.
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News Link • Military
Fort Hood shooter fined for refusing to shave
08-04-2012
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The RawStory.com
The US Army psychiatrist accused of a massacre on a Texas military base was again fined $1,000 for refusing to shave before a military hearing.
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News Link • Police State
NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisks suffers marked drop
08-04-2012
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Paul Harris, The Guardian
New York’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy of fighting crime, which many critics say involves racial profiling of black and Hispanic citizens, has been reduced markedly in recent months, it has been claimed.
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News Link • Military
30 dead in separate suicide attack, drone strike in Yemen
08-04-2012
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Jonathan Terbush via The RawStory.com
A suicide attack at a town in south Yemen recently recaptured by the army from Al-Qaeda forces killed 20 people Saturday and wounded another 20, the governor of the province said.
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News Link • Internet
Physicists Demonstrate Working Quantum Router, a Step Toward a Quantum Internet
08-04-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
As much as we love our silicon semiconductors, quantum computers are very much a technology of the future. Instead of the usual string of 1s and 0s, they'll be able to send both types of information at the same time, dwarfing their traditional counte
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News Link • Government
Lifeguard gets bill after ocean rescue
08-04-2012
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17-year-old John Clark, a senior at Hudson's Bay, didn't think twice about running into the ocean to save a drowning 12-year-old. But what he hasn't stopped thinking about, is the bill he received as a result of his effort.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Punk band Pussy Riot’s courtroom drama grips Russia
08-04-2012
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Reuters
Journalists, bloggers, relatives and supporters crowded into the courtroom for a hearing that included a “witness” who turned out to have viewed the incident online and another who declared the word “feminist” obscene if uttered in a church.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man gets DUI floating down river on a raft
08-04-2012
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A Juneau man faces a rare DUI charge for allegedly having a 0.313 breath-alcohol content as he floated through Fairbanks on an inflatable raft Sunday night.
Alaska’s driving under the influence law applies to people operating motor vehicles, water
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News Link • Activism
Toronto police sued for $1.4M over G20 arrest any woman with ‘hairy legs’
08-04-2012
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They followed a profile was created by senior Toronto Police Service officers. That profile included people who have backpacks, lawyers’ numbers on their arms, people with Quebec license plates, speaking French, or wearing black clothing.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Attention, Mundanes: Don't 'Disrespect' Your Armed Overseers
08-04-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
"He said I need to get him here now or else,” Jaipersaud recalled. “I asked him if he was threatening me…he said, `No, I’m arresting you.’” The officer later explained he arrested her for being “disrespectful.” She spent 10 hours in jail
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Candu and China Work on Thorium Fuel Cycle
08-04-2012
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arclein
At present, private miners were allowed to extract rare earths from beach sand but not process radioactive monazite, which, under the Atomic Energy Act, was categorised as a ‘prescribed substance’ and the sole domain of the government.
Private m
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News Link • Government
Video-Government Claims It Owns All The Water
08-04-2012
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http://govtslaves.info
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
The Corruption Of America Is Complete
08-04-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Lord Howard Hurts
The corruption of America is complete. The Congress is corrupt. The Supreme Court is corrupt, and the President is both corrupt and a fraud.
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News Link • Israel
Israelis unite for major anti-govt demonstration
08-04-2012
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http://www.rt.com
“The time has come for an all out war,” say Israeli students, social activists and the country’s movement for equality in military service laws.
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD - August 2012 Edition
07-05-2012
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Freedom's Phoenix Magazine
The August 2012 Edition of the Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine will feature, 'What Do We Do Now'? How do we prepare for a future, beyond the darkness that is surely coming, that will provide light? ; how are you going to survive; how are you prep
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
August 5, 2012 Edition
08-03-2012
John Semmens
Dems Move to Block Military Vote
In recent elections less than 5% of the ballots cast by active duty military personnel serving overseas arrived in time to be counted. Nevertheless, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee
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News Link • Communications
Study Reveals a Confused View of Mobile Phone Privacy and Security
08-03-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Conor Myhrvold
Many users' perceptions are at odds with the realities, researchers show.
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News Link • Precious Metals
What's in your vault? Uncle Sam audits its stash of gold at the New York Fed
08-03-2012
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Los Angeles Times
The gold audit is a first for the institution and includes drilling into several hundred ingots. It could put the conspiracy theories to rest. For decades, the US government has stashed gold five stories beneath Manhattan in a vault under the Feder
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Pumps Run Dry For Police And Fire Departments
08-03-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Rowena Lugtu-Shaddox
Stockton police officers and firefighters couldn’t fill up because there was no gasoline in the pumps at their stations.
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News Link • Surveillance
Homeland Security Teams Up With YouTube To Take Down Controversial Videos
08-03-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Mike Masnick
We recently wrote about the fight over copyright/fair use in political videos.
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News Link • Military
Video: The Navy's Autonomous X-47B Warplane Makes its First East Coast Test Flight
08-03-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
PopSci’s favorite autonomous warplane is having a big week at Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router
08-03-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By David Hambling
In the 1930s, U.S. Navy researchers stumbled upon the concept of radar when they noticed that a plane flying past a radio tower reflected radio waves.
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News Link • OLYMPICS London Summer 2012
Doug Casey on the Olympics
08-03-2012
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lewrockwell.com, Interviewed by Louis James
So Doug, the queen of England parachuted into the arena with James Bond to kick-start the Olympics. I'm sure you must have some comments on the " literally " passing parade.
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News Link • Constitution
Presidential Appointees No Longer Need to be Confirmed by Senate
08-03-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, pmpowell001
The House passed the legislation Tuesday night by a vote of 261-116. The bill now goes to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
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News Link • China
U.S. model for a future war fans tensions with China and inside Pentagon
08-02-2012
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Washington Post
When President Obama called on the US military to shift its focus to Asia earlier this year, a 91-year-old futurist, had a vision of what to do. His small Pentagon office has spent the past 2 decades planning for a war against China.
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News Link • Surveillance
Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use in Arrest of American Citizen
08-02-2012
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US News & World Report
A North Dakota court has preliminarily upheld the first-ever use of an unmanned drone to assist in the arrest of an American citizen.
A judge denied a request to dismiss charges Wednesday against Rodney Brossart, a man arrested last year
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Mother gets 50 hours punishment over daughter’s chalk drawings
08-02-2012
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Rawstory
A Virginia mother agreed to 50 hours of community service after her 4-year-old daughter used chalk to draw on rocks on Belle Isle in Richmond. A judge determined there was enough evidence to convict her on charges of vandalism
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News Link • Government
Vermont farmer crushes 7 police cars with tractor over pot arrest
08-02-2012
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Rawstory
A Vermont farmer used his tractor to crush 7 Orleans Co. Sheriff’s Dept squad cars because he was angry about being arrested on marijuana charges last month. “It’s more than half our fleet,” Chief Deputy Sheriff Brooks explained
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Court Demands TSA Explain Why It Is Defying Nude Body Scanner Order
08-02-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Transportation Security Administration to explain why it hasn’t complied with the court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S
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