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Date Sent: 2012-10-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 8, 2012 AM edition |
Can We Call Syrian Rebels Terrorists Now?--Syrian Rebels Provoke War Or Turkey Willing Accomplice?
FBI - by Jim Davidson -- Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks with 'James Bond Dry Erase Marker' -- WMD American Style - by L. Neil Smith -- Ron Paul Suggests He'll Vote For Gary Johnson -- Death toll in rare fungal meningitis outbreak linked to FDA approved steroid injections rises -- Cold-hearted cops charge mom of dead run over son for dent in NYPD car -- City Attorney Drops Joint in Court, Gets Arrested, Angers Wife -- Salt Lake police raid wrong home, point gun at elderly woman -- Clashes erupt as Madrid cops squelch austerity protest (PHOTOS, VIDEO) -- A Milestone in America's Indefinite Occupation of Afghanistan -- Health Care Workers To Feel A Slight Prick -- Puerto Rico is in the Appalachians, or why the USA is broke from pork -- Presidential Debate 2012 Will Not Cover the Most Important Issue to Millennials: Entitlements -- A Clock That Will Last Forever: Proposal to Build First Space-Time Crystal -- Survival Healthcare: Five Things You Can Do Today to Promote Medical Self-Care -- Eight Ingredients You Never Want to See on Your Nutrition Label
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News Link • Syria
Can We Call Syrian Rebels Terrorists Now?
10-07-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Finally even the UN Security Council has recognized what many (mainstream media under the spell of the bogus Syrian Observatory excluded) have been pointing to all along: the "rebels" seeking to overthrow the Syrian government are terrorists.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Syrian Rebels Provoking Turk War? Or Is Turkey a Willing Accomplice?
10-07-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The situation on the Syria/Turkey border is spiraling out of control, as for 5 days Turkey has shelled Syria in retaliation for apparent Syrian army shells landing in Turkey. The threat of a wider regional war has never been greater and with Israel c
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News Link • Police State
FBI - by Jim Davidson
10-07-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
My friend John Wayne Smith phoned that he had been interviewed by a man purporting to be an FBI agent and a man from his local sheriff's office about me. They wanted to know if I'm a dangerous person, and how long John had known me.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks with 'James Bond Dry Erase Marker'
10-07-2012
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Daily Mail
This new hacker invention may look like a harmless dry erase marker, but in truth it's the ultimate electronic lock pick. Jakubowski demonstrates anyone can build this device to open the lock on an estimated 4 million hotel rooms.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Lab-Made Eggs Raise New Fertility Options
10-07-2012
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Wall Street Journal
Alternatively, a mature cell from an adult mouse can be reprogrammed; this step causes the mature cell to revert to an embryonic-like state that can then be coaxed into becoming a sperm or egg.
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News Link • Government
WMD American Style
10-07-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
I suggested the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities during World War II might belong on a genocide list. Among all the other things I said, the one and only item that readers commented on was that one brief parenthetical statement.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Ron Paul Suggests He'll Vote For Gary Johnson
10-07-2012
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BuzzFeed
"I obviously haven't announced in support for Romney, so that means that's very unlikely," Paul said. "And I don't think anybody think's I'm going to vote for Obama. So it's back to that frustration level in not seeing a dramatic choice in how the sy
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News Link • Healthcare
Death toll in rare fungal meningitis outbreak linked to FDA approved steroid injections rises
10-07-2012
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AP
Minnesota and Ohio are the latest states to report confirmed cases linked to a steroid produced by a specialty pharmacy. The steroid has been recalled, and officials have been scrambling to notify anyone who may have been injected with it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cold-hearted cops charge mom of dead run over son for dent in NYPD car
10-07-2012
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New York Daily News
The 27-year-old coffee barista died after being struck by an NYPD squad car that began chasing him as he swiped paver stones. Now his mom’s being chased anew, hounded by a collection agency hired by the city with a cruel final demand,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
City Attorney Drops Joint in Court, Gets Arrested, Angers Candidate Wife
10-07-2012
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Of all the places to unintentionally drop an illegal drug, inside of a courtroom right in front of a police officer has to be among the worst.
Which is exactly what happened to New Orleans assistant city attorney Jason Cantrell.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Salt Lake police raid wrong home, point gun at elderly woman
10-07-2012
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Salt Lake Tribune
Narcotics detectives used a battering ram to knock down a door on the wrong house, frightening a 76-year-old resident. ..... a police officer pointed a gun at her, asked if she had a gun and then if she had drugs. She answered no to both.
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News Link • Free Speech
Voices Without A Vote
10-07-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The teenagers who speak in this video belong to http://www.im2moro.org. These young people realize that if they don’t stand up and speak out for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness today, they will be living in a very different America tomorro
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Activism
Clashes erupt as Madrid cops squelch austerity protest (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
10-07-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Sporadic clashes have broken out in central Madrid, with twelve people reportedly injured after riot police moved in to clear the Plaza de Neptune, threatening to arrest those who would not leave.
The demo turned violent when police encircled abo
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Politics
A 13 Minute Video Every Voter Should Watch
10-07-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A short un-narrated documentary that looks at Obama’s first term with regards to transparency, healthcare, taxes, fairness, energy and the national debt through his own words
WordsMatter2012 was launched this past March to offer non-partisan and o
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
A Milestone in America's Indefinite Occupation of Afghanistan
10-07-2012
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Free Press Publications
October 7 marked the 11th anniversary of the American invasion of Afghanistan. During the past 11 years, 2,000 American soldiers and untold thousands of Afghan's have been killed. The “surge” is over, and US officials insist that the mission was acc
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Healthcare
Health Care Workers To Feel A Slight Prick
10-07-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
… and that slight prick will come from the end of a virus filled hypodermic needle. Under the guise of the greater good for the greater numbers many hospitals are now requiring mandatory vaccinations of their employees. Below are two such recent s
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Media: Internet
Watch the Complete O’Reilly Vs. Stewart Debate Here
10-07-2012
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http://blogs.wsj.com, By Christopher John Farley
Were you one of the untold number of folks who couldn’t log into “The Rumble,” the recent online-only debate between Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Presidential Debate 2012 Will Not Cover the Most Important Issue to Millennials: Entitlements
10-03-2012
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Michael Hamilton, Politics
The 2012 presidential election is high in the running for least important election of your lifetime. Whether Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, or Vermin Supreme wins in November, you're screwed in January.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Clock That Will Last Forever: Proposal to Build First Space-Time Crystal
10-07-2012
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http://www.sciencedaily.com
Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Solar Cell Consisting of a Single Molecule: Individual Protein Complex Generates Electric Current
10-07-2012
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http://www.sciencedaily.com, ScienceDaily
An team of scientists, led by Joachim Reichert, Johannes Barth, and Alexander Holleitner (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Clusters of Excellence MAP and NIM), and Itai Carmeli (Tel Aviv University) developed a method to measure photocurrents of a s
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Survival Healthcare: Five Things You Can Do Today to Promote Medical Self-Care
10-07-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Gaye Levy
Something not frequently addressed within the survival and prepping world is the importance of good health and medical self-care.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Eight Ingredients You Never Want to See on Your Nutrition Label
10-07-2012
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wakeup-world, By David Zinczenko with Matt Gouldin
Eight Ingredients You Never Want to See on Your Nutrition Label
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Feature Article • Activism
Arizona TIP Hotline
Ernest Hancock
If you are visiting this site, you have received a "Thank you for cooperating ..." note from one of our investigators, or a "Sorry we missed you ..." notice. Thank you for your interest in Phase II of our Total Individual Compliance program.
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News Link • Police State
Houston Man Receives Visit from FBI after Photographing Weather
10-05-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A man who snapped photos of a brewing storm last month received a visit today from an FBI Agent, inquiring why he would want to take such photos. Michael Galindo explained he was simply volunteering for the National Weather Service.
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News Link • Immigration
Slain Border Agent Gunned Down by One of His Own
10-05-2012
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AP
Ivie's death marked the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 firefight with Mexican bandits that killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010 and spawned congressional probes of a botched government gun-smuggling
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man in jail beaten to death by cops
10-05-2012
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Baltimore Sun
The state medical examiner has determined that an East Baltimore man's death in police custody last month was a homicide caused by blunt force trauma, an account that conflicts with earlier assertions that he died from choking on drugs.
A copy of
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News Link • Housing
National Bank of Canada foreclosing Americans’ homes over credit card debt
10-05-2012
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Rawstory
The bank’s debt collection unit began filing foreclosure lawsuits recently that take advantage of a loophole in California’s laws that lets them go directly for a debtor’s home even if that property was not offered as collateral for a loan.
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News Link • Libya
Email Shows State Department Rejecting Request of Security Team at US Embassy in Libya
10-05-2012
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ABC News (video)
ABC News has obtained an internal State Department email from May 3, 2012, indicating that the State Department denied a request from the security team at the Embassy of Libya to retain a DC-3 airplane in the country to better conduct their duties.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
October 7, 2012
10-05-2012
John Semmens
Dems Scramble to Explain Obama Debate Defeat
Going into this week's first presidential debate Democrats were confident that the most brilliant man to ever hold the office would easily trounce his challenger. However, 67% of voters who saw the deba
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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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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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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 • 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 • 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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