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Date Sent: 2012-01-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 21, 2012 |
New US Commando Team Operating Near Iran -- Top CIA lawyer never approved NYPD collaboration
Obama’s Keystone Denial Prompts Canada to Sell Their Oil to China --
11-time surfing champ Slater says Chicago regulates waves ‘like a police
state’ -- Google Is Already Using SOPA-Like Censorship -- Courts, FCPA, and Runaway Federal Prosecutors -- Santorum: State Murder as a "Moral Enterprise" - by William Grigg -- Bend Over, Ben & Jerry! - by L. Neil Smith -- First they came for the smokers . . . . -- Rescuing the right to earn a living in Missouri -- More questions
raised over M.E.'s testimony -- Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly
Strain of Bird Flu -- Megaupload shutdown raises new Internet-sharing
fears -- Anonymous Tricks Bystanders Into Attacking Justice Department -- Fracking Quakes Shake the Shale Gas Industry -- Google Abandons Anonymous Accounts With New Signup Form -- Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits -- Father of the web backs SOPA protests -- Money Insider: US Will See Violent Civil Unrest In 2012 -- SAS on ground during Libya crisis -- Russia Warns Against US Attack on Iran -- Kirk Sorensen: Thorium, an
alternative nuclear fuel -- The World War on Democracy -- Camcorder device allows for live, computer-free video streaming -- CNN Debate: Gingrich “Appalled” at Question on Marital Infidelity
AZ: Obama to visit Phoenix area on Jan. 25; Jan. 28, "God on Trial" Book
Signing; Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6
pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY TICKETS NOW!)
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Top CIA lawyer never approved NYPD collaboration
01-20-2012
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AP
The CIA's top lawyer never approved sending a veteran agency officer to New York, where he helped set up police spying programs. Such approval would have been required under the presidential order that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said authorize
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News Link • Energy
Obama’s Keystone Denial Prompts Canada to Sell Their Oil to China
01-20-2012
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Bloomberg
President Barack Obama’s decision yesterday to reject a permit for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline may prompt Canada to turn to China for oil exports.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a telephone call yesterday, told Obama “Canada wi
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News Link • Government
11-time surfing champ Slater says Chicago regulates waves ‘like a police state’
01-20-2012
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Chicago Sun Times
Flodstrom, a 40-year-old artist, poet and online tea company employee, was charged with disorderly conduct and being at a closed beach when police spotted him surfing 4-foot swells at Oak Street Beach. He was handcuffed in his cold-weather wet suit a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google Is Already Using SOPA-Like Censorship
01-20-2012
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InfoWars
Despite Google’s support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following government orders to remove material from its search result
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Courts, FCPA, and Runaway Federal Prosecutors
01-20-2012
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CATO Institute
the Government team allowed a key FBI agent to testify untruthfully before the grand jury, inserted material falsehoods into affidavits submitted to magistrate judges in support of applications for search warrants and seizure warrants, improperly rev
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Santorum: State Murder as a "Moral Enterprise"
01-20-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“God did not just give us rights,” pontificated His High Holiness Rick Santorum. “He gave us a moral code by which to exercise them.” And morality, Santorum believes, is best instilled through State coercion, including officially sanctioned murder.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Bend Over, Ben & Jerry! - by L. Neil Smith
01-20-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Sandy's notion"and the same idea occurred simultaneously to our good friend Claire Wolfe, Queen of the Hooligan Libertarians"is to broaden the concept into software that warns you if you're about to do business with corporations that don't want you t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
First they came for the smokers . . . .
01-20-2012
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The Agitator
Back when the smoking bans were spreading across the country, those of us opposed to them made the point that you could make many of the same arguments about perfume and cologne that ban proponents were making about second hand smoke.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
A Tiny Transistor Hooks Up To Individual Proteins In Human Tears
01-20-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Wiretapping an enzyme and listening as it unfolds could shed new light on the way proteins work. To do it, scientists tethered a nanoscale transistor to a molecule found in human tears.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Rescuing the right to earn a living in Missouri
01-20-2012
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a Missouri state law that essentially forbids anyone from going into the moving business without first getting permission from the existing moving companies. To be more precise, it’s illegal to run a moving company without getting a state license, bu
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News Link • Justice and Judges
More questions raised over M.E.'s testimony
01-20-2012
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A special prosecutor in Brockton, Mass., charged that Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Frank Evangelista changed his testimony during the trials that sent 2 men to prison for life. The men were convicted after they kicked the man to death, then robbed
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
There Oughtta Be a Law
01-20-2012
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The Agitator
Georgia State Rep. Pamela Dickerson has introduced a silly law that would prohibit Photoshopping someone’s face onto a naked body, then posting the result on the Interent. Naturally, someone on the Internet responded with this..... ;-D
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu
01-20-2012
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New York Times
The scientists say their work has important public health benefits, but they acknowledge that it has sparked intense public fears that the deadly virus could accidentally leak out of a laboratory, or be stolen by terrorists, and result in a devastati
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News Link • Internet
Megaupload shutdown raises new Internet-sharing fears
01-20-2012
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Washington Post
The Justice Department’s shutdown of the popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com reverberated across the Internet Friday, sparking fresh questions for major Web companies while rattling millions of users of sites like it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Tesla's Model S Sets a New Standard for Battery-Powered Cars
01-20-2012
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www.popsci.com
Until now, there hasn’t been an all-electric car fit for road-tripping. But Tesla’s Model S, due out late in 2012, is made for extended drives. Its battery goes up to 300 miles on a charge.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Anonymous Tricks Bystanders Into Attacking Justice Department
01-20-2012
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www.wired.com
After Wednesday’s unprecedented unified online yelp against SOPA and PIPA, Thursday saw a new milestone: the first direct and public activist malware from Anonymous.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Fracking Quakes Shake the Shale Gas Industry
01-20-2012
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www.technologyreview.com
Well shutdowns prompted by fracking-induced seismicity may inspire technology tweaks.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Google Abandons Anonymous Accounts With New Signup Form
01-20-2012
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www.webmonkey.com
Google is experimenting with a new signup form that eliminates the ability to create anonymous accounts. The new form is part of an effort to expand the Google+ social network by automatically adding every new Google account to Google+.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits
01-20-2012
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www.popsci.com
When quantum computers eventually reach larger scales, they’ll probably remain pretty precious resources, locked away in research institutions just like our classical supercomputers. So anyone who wants to perform quantum calculations will likely hav
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Father of the web backs SOPA protests
01-20-2012
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www.smh.com.au
Tim Berners-Lee says US government plan to censor the internet violates human rights.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Money Insider: US Will See Violent Civil Unrest In 2012
01-20-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Armed, irritated and vocal majority will react to worsening economic decline
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Award-winning teen-age science in action
01-20-2012
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www.ted.com
In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. At TEDxWomen Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah described their extraordinary projects-- and their route to a passion for science.
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News Link • Libya
SAS on ground during Libya crisis
01-20-2012
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www.bbc.co.uk
The British involvement in the campaign to overthrow Col Muammar Gaddafi was a very public one, particularly the part of it involving the use of RAF aircraft.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
New U.S. Commando Team Operating Near Iran
01-20-2012
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www.wired.com
The primary, day-to-day mission of the team, known as Joint Special Operations Task Force-Gulf Cooperation Council, is to mentor military units belonging to the U.S.’ oil-rich Arab allies, who collectively are known as the Gulf Cooperation Council. T
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News Link • Iran
Russia Warns Against US Attack on Iran
01-20-2012
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antiwar.com
Russia has strongly objected to Western belligerence towards its allies Syria and Iran, warning that a military assault on the Iranian regime could cause a “chain reaction” that would destabilize the entire world.
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News Link • Energy
Kirk Sorensen: Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel
01-20-2012
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www.ted.com
At TEDxYYC Kirk Sorensen shows us the liquid fuel thorium reactor -- a way to produce energy that is safer, cleaner and more efficient than current nuclear power.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Waste
Bankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts
01-20-2012
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CBS San Francisco
After filing for bankruptcy last year, Fremont solar company Solyndra still owes American taxpayers half a billion dollars. But CBS 5 caught them destroying millions of dollars worth of parts.
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News Link • New World Order
The World War on Democracy
01-20-2012
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antiwar.com
Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Camcorder device allows for live, computer-free video streaming
01-20-2012
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www.gizmag.com
The Live Shell is an add-on device that allows existing video cameras to stream live to the internet, without the need of a computer.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CNN Debate: Gingrich “Appalled” at Question on Marital Infidelity
01-20-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
“To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine,” Gingrichtold King in the January 19 South Carolina debate.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
OS:Utah Safe Haven Village Project
01-20-2012
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www.peswiki.com
Mission Statement: "Safe Haven Villages are intentional communities based on principles of sustainability, educational outreach, healthy living, natural healing, individual responsibility, cooperation, and renewable energy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Sterling D. Allan - Founder and CEO of PES Network, Inc. and the New Energy Congress
01-20-2012
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www.pureenergysystems.com
Pure Energy Systems (PES) Network, of which he is CEO, is the premier news, directory, and networking service whose mission is to find and facilitate the best exotic free energy technologies.
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