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Date Sent: 2012-10-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 5, 2012 |
Tensions persist between Turkey, Syria after cross-border military exchange
Police Fatally Shoot an Unarmed Driver on the Grand Central Parkway --
NSA director: U.S. needs offensive weapons in cyberwar -- Los Angeles
City Council repeals ban on pot shops -- Done deal: Feds to buy Thomson
prison from state for $165 million -- "Sexy Single" Cop with "Magnetic Personality" to be Fired for Punching Woman on Video --
32 Percent Of Americans Would Have No Problem Walking Away From
Underwater Homes -- Sorry we missed you! WAKE UP AMERICA!!! -- Fourth
branch of government not debated or taught -- The Pentagon Has Sent A
Ton Of Ships And Personnel To The China Sea -- Cop Caught Sexting Underage Girl He Ticketed, Keeps Job --
A Capitalist Revolt In Socialist France -- This New Fusion Engine Will
Cut The Travel Time To Mars Down To Six Weeks -- The Next Gigantic
Housing Bubble That Everyone Expects To Burst -- Non-Aggression, Civil War, Revolution or Tyranny; Be Free Peacefully - by Jesse Mathewson -- Oil Prices Are Surging -- How Will Ron Paul and His Supporters Vote in the Presidential Election? -- Porcfest Chronicles C15 The Nuts and Bolts of Self-Publishing -- Are the Central Bank Vaults Empty? -- Guest Post: One Very Strange Use For Silver Coins -- Ron Paul Gives His Pre-Debate Analysis - CNBC 10/03/2012 -- Analysis: China's currency foray augurs geopolitical strains -- Ron Paul: My Supporters are angry at the Republicans for the way they were treated at the convention -- In North Dakota, hard to tell an oil millionaire from regular Joe
-- Warnings That A Massive Stock Market Crash Is Imminent -- TSA Worker
Steals $500 From Traveler As Punishment For Complaining -- The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing --
George Zimmerman Sues NBC Over Edited 911 Tape -- National 'virtual ID
card' scheme set for launch (What could possibly go wrong?) -- Gov. Gary Johnson’s Reponse to the Presidential Debate -- Abe Gonzalez creates free font for dyslexic readers; gets copyright cease-and-desist threat
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow, October 6th, 2012 "Bitcoins have grown up"
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine RELEASES FRIDAY, October 5th, 2012 BY MIDNIGHT
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News Link • Syria
Tensions persist between Turkey, Syria after cross-border military exchange
10-04-2012
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Washington Post
Turkey’s parliament authorized the Turkish government to take military action against Syria, as the international community scrambled to defuse tensions heightened by a Syrian artillery strike a day earlier in which 5 Turkish civilians died.
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News Link • World News
Turkey Attempts to Trigger War Vs. Syria
10-04-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Tony Cartalucci
After over a year of harboring foreign terrorists and supporting their operations near and across the Turkish-Syrian border, NATO-member Turkey has claimed it has retaliated with military force against “targets” inside Syria for an alleged attack on
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Fatally Shoot an Unarmed Driver on the Grand Central Parkway
10-04-2012
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New York Times
A New York police detective shot and killed an unarmed man, whose hands, a witness said, were on the steering wheel of his Honda, after he had been pulled over early Thursday for cutting off two police vehicles on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Researchers find tiny dinosaur that had quills, a beak and fangs
10-04-2012
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Rawstory
Researchers have identified a species of puny dinosaur so odd looking " quills like a porcupine, a parrot-like beak and fangs like a vampire " it probably deserved a small part in “Jurassic Park.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
NSA director: U.S. needs offensive weapons in cyberwar
10-04-2012
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AFP
“At times, the government has to look at what you have to do to stop an attack " stop it before it happens. Part of our defense has to consider offensive measures.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Los Angeles City Council repeals ban on pot shops
10-04-2012
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Los Angeles Times
But council opponents of dispensaries said they would try to find other ways to shut down marijuana shops by using laws that are already on the books. Councilman Englander called on the city to prosecute medical marijuana businesses for violating
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News Link • Corruption
Done deal: Feds to buy Thomson prison from state for $165 million
10-04-2012
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Chicago Sun Times
That conversion will give the state’s battered treasury an unexpected windfall and pump 1,000 prison jobs and several hundred construction jobs into northwestern Illinois.
“This prison they spent a lot of money on and hoped to use as an economic e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Sexy Single" Cop with "Magnetic Personality" to be Fired for Punching Woman on
10-04-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The fact that a police officer was caught on video sucker punching a woman for no apparent reason wasn’t very surprising. We’ve seen that scene one too many times. But that it only took 3 days for officials to announce they would fire the cop
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
The Next Gigantic Housing Bubble That Everyone Expects To Burst
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Canada avoided many of the mistakes that the U.S. made in its housing market.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
This New Fusion Engine Will Cut The Travel Time To Mars Down To Six Weeks
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
Researchers at University of Huntsville in Alabama say they are using "Dilithium Crystals" in a new fusion impulse engine that could cut the travel time to Mars down to as little as six weeks, not the six months it takes now.
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News Link • Housing
32 Percent Of Americans Would Have No Problem Walking Away From Underwater Homes
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mandi Woodruff
All underwater homeowners eventually come to a crossroads: Either continue funneling money into a home that costs more than it's worth or strategically default "" ending their payments and waiting for the lender to foreclose.
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News Link • Activism
Sorry we missed you! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
10-04-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix/events
It's time to familiarize yourself with this activist tool again... It's about to get a SAFE upgrade www.SAFEgunowners.org
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
The Pentagon Has Sent A Ton Of Ships And Personnel To The China Sea
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
The USS George Washington and the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs), a flotilla of five ships and more than 10,000 Navy personnel are now operating in the conflict ridden South China Sea area.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Raspberry Pi Minicomputer
10-04-2012
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http://thetechjournal.com
A British nonprofit has a novel idea for getting kids interested in computer programming, a computer that fits in a pocket and costs less than the latest video game, it's called Raspberry Pi which is looks like a leftover scrap from electronics recy
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Presenting The Most Unemployed Cities In Every State
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
U.S. national unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent in August " down in nearly 90 percent of the country's metro areas.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Here's The Part Of The Presidential Debate That Shocked The Most Wall Streeters
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
During a debate over regulation, Mitt Romney took a hard tack to the middle, extolling the values of good regulation, and saying that Dodd-Frank was a major "kiss" to New York banks.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Well, There Were Two Clear Lessons In The First Debate...
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
At least among the chattering classes, there is near-universal agreement that Mitt Romney clobbered President Obama in the first presidential debate.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Cop Caught Sexting Underage Girl He Ticketed, Keeps Job
10-04-2012
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http://www.informationliberation.com,
When a tax slave sexts an underage girl, he may end up getting arrested, coerced into taking a plea deal, and featured on the (now defunct) show, "To Catch a Predator."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
A Capitalist Revolt In Socialist France
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Wolf Richter
The French government is trying to reign in its deficit by jacking up taxes, including the capital gains tax, which it wants to bring to the same level as the tax on income earned by the sweat of your brow"an old philosophical pillar of the French le
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Drugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
10-04-2012
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http://mises.org, by Mark Thornton
The senseless Batman killings in Aurora, Colorado, as well as those that occurred years earlier in Columbine a few miles away, have something in common with the number one cause of overdose deaths in the United States and an important potential cause
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space Debris Could Trap Us On Earth
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jennifer Welsh
We think of space as a big empty expanse, but closer to Earth, the space just beyond the outer reaches of our atmosphere are teeming with satellites and broken bits of space debris.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
People Who Work From Home Are Way Different Than The Rest Of Us
10-04-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
The population working exclusively from home increased from 4.8 percent of all workers to 6.6 percent from 1997 to 2010, according to a new report from the Census.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Non-Aggression, Civil War, Revolution or Tyranny; Be Free Peacefully by Jesse Mathewson
10-04-2012
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http://zerogov.com, by Jesse Mathewson
In 1776 what is now known as the American Revolution, or War of Independence, was officially declared.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
How Will Ron Paul and His Supporters Vote in the Presidential Election?
10-04-2012
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http://foxnewsinsider.com,
Former presidential candidate and Texas congressman, Ron Paul (R) has a message for Mitt Romney ahead of tonight’s presidential debate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
Porcfest Chronicles C15 The Nuts and Bolts of Self-Publishing
10-04-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by ThinkTwiceNews
Bob Murphy introduces Tarrin Lupo and Ruby Nicole Hilliard for this informative session on how to make a living off self-published books and ebooks.
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News Link • Government
Guest Post: One Very Strange Use For Silver Coins
10-04-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The nature of what is ‘legal’ has become a truly bizarre concept these days.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Gives His Pre-Debate Analysis - CNBC 10/03/2012
10-04-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Eduardo89rp
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses who he and his supporters will be voting for and what Romney could do to sway his vote.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Analysis: China's currency foray augurs geopolitical strains
10-04-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Alan Wheatley
"It's our currency and your problem," U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally famously said of the dollar in 1971.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: My Supporters are angry at the Republicans for the way they were treated at the convention
10-04-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com,
Dr Ron Paul said, "Some will be angry at the Republicans for the way they retreated at the convention and they might not show up.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
In North Dakota, hard to tell an oil millionaire from regular Joe
10-04-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By David Bailey
The retired men shooting the breeze at Joyce's Cafe in Stanley don't look like oil barons but appearances can be deceptive, especially in North Dakota.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Rand Paul Interview on Jon Stewart's Daily Show (10/3/12)
10-04-2012
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http://www.thedailyshow.com
In this exclusive, unedited interview, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul demonstrates his psychic powers and argues against unchecked government regulation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Government Can Be Prevented! Repelling States: Evidence from Upland Southeast Asia
10-04-2012
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http://bastiat.mises.org, By Mises.org Quotes
“The peoples of the vast Southeast Asian region of Zomia were successful in providing incentives against statecraft"that is, they successfully prevented their own appropriation by external states and successfully prevented local state formation"for m
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
As Obama, Romney Hold First Debate, Behind the Secret GOP-Dem Effort to Shut Out Third Parties
10-04-2012
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http://www.democracynow.org,
As President Obama and Mitt Romney prepare to square off in Denver, Colorado tonight, we look at how the Democrats and Republicans manage to shut out all third parties from the presidential debates.
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News Link • Corruption
Who Is Behind The Commission on Presidential Debates? Are The Debates Rigged?
10-04-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, DJP333
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at the Commission on Presidential Debates and why they are not allowing Gov. Gary Johnson or any other candidates take part in the 2012 Presidential debates.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Post-Debate Analysis: The Media Can Now Get the Electoral Horse Race It Wants
10-04-2012
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com, by Matt Stoller
A debate happened, and Obama didn’t do well. Prior to tonight, the conventional wisdom was that debates don’t determine elections.
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News Link • Food
Europe-wide ban on Monsanto GM corn imminent in wake of French study linking it to cancer
10-04-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Ethan A. Huff
Pending affirmation by its national health agency, France is expected to call for an official ban on Monsanto’s genetically-modified (GM) corn very soon “at a European level,” according to the French news source RFI.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Second Term Agenda: Cutting Social Security, Medicare, and/or Medicaid
10-04-2012
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com, By Matt Stoller
This is probably the least important Presidential election since the 1950s. As an experienced political hand told me, the two candidates are speaking not to the voters, but to the big money. They hold the same views, pursue the same policies, and are
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
NASA Funds 'Thor's Hammer' Idea for Tossing Satellites
10-04-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Jeremy Hsu
Humans can only dream of having the power of Thor, the Norse-inspired superhero who can whirl and throw his hammer at blinding speeds. A NASA-funded plan envisions rockets using a similar idea to hurl tiny satellites toward other planets.
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News Link • Corruption
Why Only 2 Candidates in The Presidential Debates?
10-04-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
It’s only natural that the Democratic incumbent, Barack Obama, and the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, should participate in tonight’s first presidential debate, but in fact there are two other candidates who qualified for the ballot in enough st
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Worker Steals $500 From Traveler As Punishment For Complaining
10-04-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Travelers who display lack of obedience targeted for retaliation
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Reinstates Approval To Film Policy After Backlash
10-04-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Admission that flyers can film checkpoints reappears on TSA website
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing
10-04-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Tom Simonite
With funding from the Amazon founder and the CIA's investment arm, the Canadian company D-Wave is gaining momentum for its revolutionary approach to computing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Energy Company Plans to Frack a Volcano
10-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Liat Clark
With reports only recently confirming that fracking is not, as long as its properly regulated, the earthquake-generating terror we thought it was, a U.S. geothermal company has decided it’s a great idea to extract clean energy from a dormant volcano
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News Link • Military
General: ‘My Career Was Done’ When I Criticized Flawed Warplane
10-04-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
Don Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35 years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force.
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News Link • Technology: Software
National 'virtual ID card' scheme set for launch (Is there anything that could possibly go w
10-04-2012
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http://www.independent.co.uk, Ian Burrell
Central online identity scheme 'will be a target for criminals'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
George Zimmerman Sues NBC Over Edited 911 Tape
10-04-2012
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http://newsbusters.org, By Noel Sheppard
In March, NewsBusters broke the story about NBC's Today show airing an edited audiotape of George Zimmerman's 911 call the day he shot Trayvon Martin in Florida.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Gary Johnson Responds to Questions of the Debate From Which He Was Excluded
10-04-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, johnperna2
Although he has been polling higher than Huntsman and about even with Santorum, CNN refused to invite former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson to their Presidential debate in New Hampshire.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Gov. Gary Johnson’s Reponse to the Presidential Debate
10-04-2012
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http://www.garyjohnson2012.com
Libertarian presidential nominee Gov. Gary Johnson released the following statement last night in response to the Presidential debate:
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Simpsons - Stonecutters Song
10-04-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, Renatus111to9
Stonecutters song from The Simpsons ( Homer the Great ) mixed with random pictures.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
The Simpsons US election episode trailer released
10-04-2012
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk,
In a trailer for the new series of The Simpsons, Homer is seen casting his ballot in the November US Presidential Election.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Abe Gonzalez creates free font for dyslexic readers; gets copyright cease-and-desist threat
10-04-2012
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Center For Stateless Society
After creating a free open source font to help benefit people with dyslexia, developer Abelardo Gonzalez was hit with a cease and desist letter from a fellow designer threatening a lawsuit. The letter was intended to end competition due to Gonzalez's
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