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Date Sent: 2012-09-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, September 9, 2012 |
FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America
NYC cleans up from 2 twisters after Eastern storms -- Canada: Selling Its Soul to America -- Legitimizing Illegal Spying - by Stephen Lendman -- Ron Paul Supporters Warm to Gary Johnson, Not Mitt Romney, at RNC Convention -- 4409: CBS worst news FAIL [[ EVER ]] -- Cocaine-hub Peru emerges as massive U.S. dollar counterfeiting capital -- Anonymous: behind the masks of the cyber insurgents -- The New Smartphone Incrementalism -- Drought Puts Modified Corn Seed to the Test -- Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It’s All About the Benjamins -- The Probabilities of Large Terrorist Events -- NASA’s Newest Autonomous Lander Passes
Flight Test -- Pirate Bay Founder Arrested for Alleged Hack -- Uber Kill: How the NYC TLC keeps you from getting a cab PDQ --
America's Dismal August Jobs Report -- Obama To Soldiers Overseas:
No Voting For You! -- ROUBINI: The ECB
Will Not Allow Spain And Italy To Game The Bailout -- Jeff Bezos'
Explanation Of Why Amazon Charges So Little For The Kindle Fire Is
Awesome -- CNBC: Investors In Bernie Madoff Have Done Better
Than Investors In Big Banks -- Nevada Will Be The Epicenter
Of The Next American Gold Rush -- Why Expat Businessmen Are
Leaving China -- Has Your State Gone After You Yet, For
Unbinding For Ron Paul? Nevada's Starting Their Witch Hun -- Reality Check: DNC Runs Over Delegates With Scripted Platform
Vote -- Dennis Kucinich at the DNC - On war, drones, and
assassination list -- Catherine Austin Fitts: "They're Going
to Depopulate or Bankrupt the Rest of Us" -- A call for
unity between Paul supporters and Johnson supporters --
Babyboomers and Strategic Defaults: A Demographic Study -- Bogus
Iranian Nuclear Threats -- Democrats: Let's Ban Profits! --
Gary Johnson continues to beat Republican challenges to the ballot
-- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News September 9, 2012
Edition - by John Semmens -- Dems
Reinstate Secular/Religious ‘god’ - by Greg J. Dixon -- Government destroys Roll-Your-Own cigarette businesses -- ACLU
Sues Police for Seizing Man’s Phone After Recording Alleged
Misconduct -- U.S. Attack on Iran Would Take Hundreds of
Planes, Ships, and Missiles
AZ: Is there any local interest in a theatrical showing of
"Operation Terror: 911 Story You're Not Supposed to Know"????
Freedom's Phoenix Digital
Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD now - Sept 7th, 2012
Edition; Facebook Users, I Have a Favor to Ask...Chase is giving away $5
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America
09-08-2012
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RT.com
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of their Next Generation Identification (NGI) program and is now implementing the intelligence database in unidentified locales across the country, New Scientist reports i
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD - Sept 7th, 2012 Edition
09-07-2012
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Freedom's Phoenix Magazine
POWER to the People: The Philosophy of Individual Empowerment (when we no longer need to be on the grid and can supply our own electricity, what would the world look like?)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
NYC cleans up from 2 twisters after Eastern storms
09-09-2012
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AP
Damaging storms spawned tornadoes in New York City, darkened tens of thousands of homes in the Washington, D.C., area and flooded New England streets turned a normal day of rest into a day of cleaning up for many East Coast residents
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Gary Johnson, Libertarian for president
09-09-2012
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Sam Wood
This is the first in a series of interviews with third-party candidates for president.
Gary Johnson, who was the Republican governor of New Mexico from 1995 until 2003, is running for president this year as a Libertarian (GaryJohnson2012.com)
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Gary Johnson Could Hand Presidential Election to Obama
09-08-2012
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Keith Koffler
A new Zogby poll suggests that Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson could throw the presidential election to President Obama, with the anti-government candidate taking enough votes from Gov. Mitt Romney to give Obama a narrow edge.
In a survey o
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Ron Paul Supporters Warm to Gary Johnson, Not Mitt Romney, at RNC Convention
09-08-2012
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John Ashman
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson's pilgrimage to Tampa to seek more small government, big liberty adherents and additional publicity is paying off, at least with a subset of November voters.
Johnson recently spoke at P.A.U.L. (now signifying
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama honors first responders on 9/11 anniversary
09-08-2012
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The RawStory.com
US President Barack Obama urged Americans to honor first responders and men and women in uniform who keep the country safe as he marked the eleventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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News Link • Food
Overfishing pushes tuna stocks to the brink: experts
09-08-2012
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The RawStory.com
Global tuna stocks are fast reaching the limits of fishing sustainability, decimated by an absence of comprehensive, science-based catch limits, conservation experts warned Saturday.
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News Link • Drug War
Cocaine-hub Peru emerges as massive U.S. dollar counterfeiting capital
09-08-2012
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RawStory.com
Peru, one of Latin America’s fast-growing economies and a hub of the global cocaine trade, has emerged as a producer of counterfeit US dollars being used both abroad and at home.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Anonymous: behind the masks of the cyber insurgents
09-08-2012
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Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer
It takes me about two seconds to scan the platform and spot who I’m looking for: Jake Davis, aka Topiary, the computer hacker who at one point last year was the subject of one of the biggest manhunts on the planet.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The New Smartphone Incrementalism
09-08-2012
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David Talbot via TechnologyReview.com
Tiny advances are loudly proclaimed as the industry battles over fractions of an ever-vaster global mobile market.
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News Link • Energy
Energy Innovation Under Romney and Obama
09-08-2012
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Both candidates say they support renewable energy. Romney, though, would do little to create markets for it.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It’s All About the Benjamins
09-08-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
Just as the U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates Radio Frequency Identification Device chips to monitor livestock, a Texas school district just begun implanting the devices on student identification cards to monitor pupils’ movements
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News Link • TERRORISM
The Probabilities of Large Terrorist Events
09-08-2012
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Samuel Arbesman via WIRED.com
Estimating the likelihood of catastrophic events, and particularly terrorist attacks, is extremely important. But in general, these catastrophes are outliers in whatever situation we are looking at.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Facebook Users, I Have a Favor to Ask...Chase is giving away $5 million to charity.
09-08-2012
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Anyone with a Facebook account can vote for their favorite charity. This supersedes information I gave earlier regarding a need to have a Chase account to vote.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Pirate Bay Founder Arrested for Alleged Hack
09-08-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
It turns out that last week’s arrest of The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm seems to be unrelated to his pending one-year prison sentence for running Sweden’s and the world’s most notorious and illicit file-sharing service.
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News Link • Transportation
Uber Kill: How the NYC TLC keeps you from getting a cab PDQ
09-08-2012
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blog.paulstaxi.com
Uber, a brand new app for smart phones allows you to hail a cab from anywhere in 17 different cities. Unfortunately, New York city is NOT one of them. Thanks, Taxi and Limo Commission!
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News Link • Food
Basil
09-08-2012
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arclein
1. Adding basil to your diet can help to protect you from bacteria, yeast and mold. Basil has strong anti-bacterial properties. This powerful plant contains several essential oils that have been found to exhibit antimicrobial activity against a wide
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News Link • Science
Star Death?
09-08-2012
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arclein
The dastardly deed is theoretically possible, however, and even on time scales not stretching into millions of years. "There's one scheme to me that seems not quite plausible, but it's close," said Mike Zarnstorff, an experimental plasma physicis
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News Link • Food
Egg Nonsense
09-08-2012
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arclein
Dr. J. David Spence, a professor of neurology at Western University in Canada, wrote that he and his team found a relationship between the consumption of egg yolks and the development of atherosclerosis, a condition in which arteries become clogged,
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Lunar Elevator
09-08-2012
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arclein
The idea even predates liquid-fueled rockets. It was first proposed by Russian space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower, he had the idea of building what came to be known as the “Tsiolkovsky Tower.” He saw the advant
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robert klein
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Obama To Soldiers Overseas: No Voting For You!
09-07-2012
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IBD, Investors.com
The estimated cost of establishing functioning IVAOs at all overseas military bases not in combat zones is estimated at between $15 million and $20 million a year. We wasted $530 million on Solyndra but can't afford a relative pittance to ensure our
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Is There Any Hope of Change?
09-08-2012
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Dr. Robert R. Owens
Either Barak Obama will continue as America's president or he will be unseated and Mitt Romney will replace him. There may be better qualified people running - someone who could inspire and lead us all into a second century of American ascendance; h
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • European Union
ROUBINI: The ECB Will Not Allow Spain And Italy To Game The Bailout
09-08-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
NYU economist Nouriel Roubini was on Bloomberg TV this morning giving his thoughts on the ECB's new bond-buying plan announced yesterday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Jeff Bezos' Explanation Of Why Amazon Charges So Little For The Kindle Fire Is Awesome
09-08-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
On stage yesterday Jeff Bezos delivered a terrific one-line explanation for why Amazon charges so relatively little for its tablets: "We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CNBC: Investors In Bernie Madoff Have Done Better Than Investors In Big Banks
09-08-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julia La Roche
CNBC's David Faber reports that if you had invested $100 four years ago in Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, AIG and convicted ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, this is what you would have as of yesterday’s close:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Nevada Will Be The Epicenter Of The Next American Gold Rush
09-08-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
Our friends at Visual Capitalist have put together another knockout infographic, this time on how Nevada will soon witness a 21st century gold mining rush.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Why Expat Businessmen Are Leaving China
09-08-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
Last month, Mark Kitto, a British businessman who built (and subsequently lost) an empire of English-language magazines in China, wrote a 4,000 word article for the UK's Prospect magazine explaining why, after 26 years, he was finally leaving China.
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News Link • Political Parties
Has Your State Gone After You Yet, For Unbinding For Ron Paul? Nevada's Starting Their Witch Hun
09-08-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, ausscyn
In 2008, Sue Lowdown (State Party Chair) turns off the lights, steals the ballot boxes at our State Convention, and later anoints national delegates & just gets a "That wasn't too nice." from the RNC, and NOTHING from the state party (though I did in
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Catherine Austin Fitts: "They're Going to Depopulate or Bankrupt the Rest of Us"
09-08-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, BarracudTrader
Catherine Austin Fitts calls what happened to the U.S since the market meltdown of 2008 a “fiscal coup d’état.”
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News Link • Political Parties
A call for unity between Paul supporters and Johnson supporters.
09-08-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Neverquit
We can not force our goodwill on anyone, we can only set good examples and hope people wish to emulate us. --Ron Paul
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News Link • Housing
Babyboomers and Strategic Defaults: A Demographic Study
09-08-2012
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www.thedailybell.com,by Mike "Mish" Shed
Why did people walk away? Did they struggle with morality? Would they recommend walking away to others?
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Democrats: Let's Ban Profits!
09-05-2012
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SchiffReport
Posing as an anti-business crusader, Peter Schiff found a number of DNC delegates and attendees who support explicitly outlawing profitability. We deliberately avoided speaking with the occupy protestors camping outside in tents to get a more "mains
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gary Johnson continues to beat Republican challenges to the ballot
09-07-2012
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Karl Dickey
The Virginia Board of Elections today rejected a challenge by the Republican Party of Virginia to petitions submitted to place former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson on the state's ballot as the Libertarian nominee for President. The Board of Electi
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News Link • Surveillance
Government destroys Roll-Your-Own cigarette businesses
09-07-2012
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BETH KARUSCHAK LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
A tiny amendment buried in the federal transportation bill to be signed today by President Barack Obama will put operators of roll-your-own cigarette operations in Las Vegas and nationwide out of business at midnight.
Robert Weissen, with his brot
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News Link • Police State
ACLU Sues Police for Seizing Man’s Phone After Recording Alleged Misconduct
09-07-2012
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
The ACLU has sued the District of Columbia and two police officers for allegedly seizing the cellphone of a man who photographed a police officer allegedly mistreating a citizen, and for then stealing his memory card.
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News Link • Internet
Google Fiber Splits Along Kansas City’s Digital Divide
09-07-2012
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Marcus Wohlsen via WIRED.com
Two days before the deadline to get neighborhoods signed up, Google’s effort to bring ultra-high-speed internet to a major American city could end up reinforcing the digital divide.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Attack on Iran Would Take Hundreds of Planes, Ships, and Missiles
09-07-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
Should the U.S. actually take Benjamin Netanyahu’s advice and attack Iran, don’t expect a few sorties flown by a couple of fighter jocks. Setting back Iran’s nuclear efforts will need to be an all-out effort, with squadrons of bombers and fighter jet
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Cyborg Cockroach Scurries Along a Precise, Curved Path
09-07-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
We’ve seen schemes for remotely-controlled cyborg insects before, including at least one DIY kit for building your own robotically-enhanced cockroach, but researchers at NC State are really moving this discipline forward (literally).
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News Link • Government
Why Is Bill Clinton So Good at Speaking to a Crowd?
09-07-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Communications expert Greta Stahl reveals the five keys to a great political speech
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Opinion • Criminal Justice System
Ray McGovern: My Take
Obama Ruling Shields Torturers
09-07-2012
Ray McGovern
Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision not to prosecute CIA torturers in two high-profile homicides bows to the political difficulty of going after field agents while sparing superiors, including ex-President George W. Bush. But the all-clear on tor
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