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Date Sent: 2012-09-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 3, 2012 |
Police admit to infiltrating Occupy Austin, may have acted as provocateurs
ICE chief of staff resigns amid allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace -- Pirate Bay co-founder Svartholm arrested in Cambodia -- Two killed in Brazil slum drug sweep -- Public Burnings of Voter Registration Cards -- In Italy, world’s oldest bank faces uncertain future -- The era of cheap food may be over -- Iran plans major air defense exercise -- U.S. Halting Program to Train Afghan Recruits -- Why are we building private prisons when crime is down? -- "Troubling ineptitude" in security at nuclear bomb plant -- Japan Manufacturing PMI Hits 16 Month Low, New Orders Plunge -- John Butler on Free-market Economics and the Upcoming 'Great Crisis' -- Guest Post: It Is Time For The Ron Paul Revolution To Move Beyond Politics -- The Rulers And The Ruled -- Spain: For Whom The Bell Now Tolls -- Eco-commune flourishes as Greek economy withers -- It Is Not Just Your Imagination - American Families ARE Getting Poorer -- Is There Going To Be A Stock Market Crash In The Fall? -- Ron Paul: “I don’t like politics at all… What I’m talking about is an ideological revolution” -- Forget Bernanke: A Paper At Jackson Hole May Have Changed The Future Of Economics -- The Truth About Who's Responsible For The Explosion In Government Spending -- Global War Economy: The Empire of the US Military Industrial Complex
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News Link • Activism
Police admit to infiltrating Occupy Austin, may have acted as provocateurs
09-02-2012
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Rawstory
They may also have gone further, acting as provocateurs to encourage the use of lockboxes or “sleeping dragons” " lengths of PVC pipe into which protestors insert their arms to make it harder for police to remove them during a demonstration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
ICE chief of staff resigns amid allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace
09-02-2012
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Washington Post
A senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior lodged by at least 3 Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Pirate Bay co-founder Svartholm arrested in Cambodia
09-02-2012
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BBC News
The site was founded in 2003, and claims to have more than 30m users worldwide.
No copyright content is hosted on the site's web servers. Instead, it hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Two killed in Brazil slum drug sweep
09-02-2012
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AFP
2 people were killed during a counter-narcotics operation by an elite police in a Brazilian slum, angering residents who blocked a main road into the city. The mayor’s central operations office in Rio de Janeiro reported that Brasil Avenue, which run
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Public Burnings of Voter Registration Cards
08-31-2012
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The Vote for Nobody Campaign
A different election boycott group has called for public burnings of voter registration cards at local polling places everywhere on this coming election day " Tuesday, November 6th, 2012. This is not only a great idea, but it’s a great opportunity fo
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Economy - International
In Italy, world’s oldest bank faces uncertain future
09-02-2012
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Washington Post
Tucked away in this Tuscan city, the oldest bank in the world has survived the Borgias, pestilence and too many wars to count. Now, a mundane foe has proved far more dangerous: Italian government debt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
The era of cheap food may be over
09-02-2012
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The Guardian
The last decade saw the end of cheap oil, the magic growth ingredient for the global economy after the second world war. This summer's increase in maize, wheat and soya bean prices " the third spike in the past five years " suggests the era of cheap
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Hurricane Isaac storm surge reversed flow of Mississippi River
09-02-2012
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The Christian Science Monitor
As hurricane Isaac reached southeastern Louisiana as a Category 1 storm earlier this week, it did something unusual to the Mississippi River: It threw the river into reverse.
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News Link • Military
Iran plans major air defense exercise
09-02-2012
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The RawStory.com
Iran plans to start a major military exercise later this month to test its air defence systems, a top Revolutionary Guards commander said in comments published on Sunday.
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. Halting Program to Train Afghan Recruits
09-02-2012
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New York Times
Training of Afghan Local Police and special operations forces has been put on hold while their American trainers conduct stricter vetting to try to root out any infiltrators or new recruits who could pose risks to the coalition troops working with th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Rescuers save penguins caught in oil from leaking Turkish tanker
09-02-2012
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RawStory.com
Fuel leaking from a Turkish freighter wreck that has been smashed up by a storm has contaminated at least five penguins on South Africa’s Robben Island, emergency services said Sunday.
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News Link • Transportation
California one step closer to self-driving cars
09-02-2012
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Rawstory
“The vast majority of vehicle accidents are due to human error,” Padilla said when he introduced the bill in March. “Through the use of computers, sensors and other systems, an autonomous vehicle is capable of analyzing the driving environment more q
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News Link • Food
White House reveals ‘Ale to the Chief’ beer recipes
09-02-2012
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Rawstory
Barack Obama promised and Saturday the White House delivered, revealing recipes for the president’s official microbrewed honey beers, following an Internet campaign.
“With public excitement about the White House beer fermenting such a buzz, we dec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why are we building private prisons when crime is down?
09-02-2012
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Arizona Republic
On Friday, the state of Arizona plans to award one lucky " or perhaps just well connected -- company the contract to build and operate 1,000 private prison beds for medium security inmates. This, despite the fact that we have
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
"Troubling ineptitude" in security at nuclear bomb plant
09-02-2012
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Reuters
Guards at a government plant for storing weapons-grade uranium failed to spot activists, including an 82-year-old nun, who cut through its fences until they walked up to an officer's car and surrendered, an official report said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan Manufacturing PMI Hits 16 Month Low, New Orders Plunge
09-02-2012
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thedailybell.com
Output and new orders down at accelerated rates
Near-stagnation of employment
Purchasing costs fall to greatest extent since November 2009
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Butler on Free-market Economics and the Upcoming 'Great Crisis'
09-02-2012
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Anthony Wile The Daily Bell
John Butler is a Marin County native who studied economics, history, philosophy and international politics at university before embarking on a career in the financial industry.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Property Rights
The Rulers And The Ruled
09-02-2012
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zerohedge.com
The truth that without property rights, no other rights are possible has been known for millennia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • American History
Civil War ship washed ashore by Hurricane Isaac
09-02-2012
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reuters.com
Local residents find the wooden remains of a ship believed to be from the Civil War era, revealed by Hurricane Isaac after it pummelled the Alabama shore. Sarah Charlton reports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Eco-commune flourishes as Greek economy withers
09-02-2012
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Reuters
Web designer Apostolos Sianos and three friends startled Greek villagers when they quit well-paid jobs in Athens to set up a self-sufficient commune that lives in yurts and grows its own vegetables.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It Is Not Just Your Imagination - American Families ARE Getting Poorer
09-02-2012
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Did you know that median household income in the United States is lower today than it was when the last recession supposedly ended?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What Is The Best Place To Live In America? Pros And Cons For All 50 States
09-02-2012
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
If you could live in any state in America, where would you go? During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Boycotts
It Is Time To Boycott Apple
09-02-2012
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market-ticker.org
Apple likes to claim it is an "innovator" and thus files patents on various design elements by the boatload.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
How To Find A Post-TEOTWAWKI Job
09-02-2012
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survivalblog.com/
The Schumer has hit the fan. Hyperinflation has crushed the economy, an EMP has disabled the United States, or some other disaster has brought TEOTWAWKI.
And you’re not ready.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Forget Bernanke: A Paper At Jackson Hole May Have Changed The Future Of Economics
Business Insider
If you just knew two things about the current state of the US economy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
The Truth About Who's Responsible For The Explosion In Government Spending
09-02-2012
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businessinsider Henry Blodget
The economy is the biggest issue in this year's election.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
USDA Announces Grants For Beginning Farmers
09-02-2012
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Compiled by staff farmfutures.com
Expanded grant program will provide resources for farmers in 24 states
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Global War Economy: The Empire of the US Military Industrial Complex
08-30-2012
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Gilbert Mercier
"9/11" gave American politicians the unique opportunity to start the perfect war on behalf of their friends and patrons of the military industrial complex. The endless war: the “war on terror” without any geographic boundaries, time frame or even the
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
Boy’s science project alarms New Hampshire resident
09-02-2012
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The Sideshow
A middle schooler's science project was so alarming to a Manchester, N.H., man that he called police after the contraption landed on his driveway.
Eighth-grader Jack Miron of nearby Walton, N.H., had a grand idea for a science project. The Pine Hi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
This Space-Aged Edible Packaging Eliminates The Need For Plastic
09-02-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina Spector
If you look at the structure of an orange or a coconut, you generally have a skin that maintains moisture and an outer coat that protects that skin.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
What Would Ron Do?’
08-31-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Folks, if you really want to emulate this great gentleman, leave the RNC snake pit, as he did on Tuesday. Go quietly and without fuss. Go back to your lives. Just skedaddle. Go. Get out of there. Believe me, it will be good for your spirits.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Feds shut down criminal investigation of Arpaio; no charges to be filed
08-31-2012
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Arizona Republic
The U.S. Attorney's Office has closed its long-running abuse-of-power investigation into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- without any charges to be filed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Convention Surrealism, Soviet Realism
08-31-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A restaurant owner in front of his empty restaurant 2 blocks from the Tampa Convention Center, just after 1 pm, spoke angrily to no one in particular "Where are my customers?" I stopped, and told him "This is what a police state looks like."
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu exonerated
08-31-2012
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Arizona Republic
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu was cleared and will not face any charges related to allegations that he abused his authority, the Arizona Attorney General's Office announced Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Privileges of Having a Gun
08-31-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Can someone explain to me why this Nazi"er,"peace" officer"kicked this person (at 1:15) while the person is having a COUGHING FIT??!!
Because he can. Because he has a GUN.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Triumph of the Reich-Publican Party
08-31-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by William Norman Grigg
"There’s nothing American about what just happened," protested Nevada Republican delegate Wiselot Rouzard after the convention refused to seat the delegation from Maine. "This is the death of the Republican Party."
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News Link • Activism
Stop the Revolution and Start the Evolution
08-31-2012
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http://dont-tread-on.me
When you are involved in a long term abusive relationship, at some point the the focus goes from the abuser, to the victims for staying in the relationship so long.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
Video: Maryland Student Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter...
08-31-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Records are made to be broken, and a bunch of students at the University of Maryland are smashing the ones they just set earlier this summer.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The great and powerful Oz has spoken...
08-31-2012
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www.federalreserve.gov
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium - Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Five LAPD officers under investigation in stomping death of woman
08-31-2012
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Los Angeles Times
At least 5 Los Angeles police officers are under investigation in the death of a woman who stopped breathing during a struggle that included an officer stomping on her genital area and the use of additional force by others to take her into custody
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA
08-31-2012
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The Guardian
Newly released emails between the New York Times's national security and intelligence reporter, and a CIA spokeswoman: The CIA had evidently heard that Maureen Dowd was planning to write a column on the CIA's role in pumping
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Warrantless Wiretap Victims Ask Court to Reconsider Letting Feds Spy Illegally
08-30-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its earlier ruling that the government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Denies Stonewalling Nude Body-Scanner Court Order
08-30-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The Transportation Security Administration denied it was stonewalling a federal appeals court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
South African Scientists Claim Breakthrough Drug Cures All Strains of Malaria
08-30-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Malaria is the scourge of tropical nations, crippling its victims with symptoms like debilitating fever, convulsions and nausea, and killing half a million people annually.
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News Link • World News
South African miners charged with slaying 34 colleagues who were killed by police
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
About 270 miners were charged with the murders of 34 striking colleagues who were shot by South African police officers, authorities said, a development that could further infuriate South Africans already shocked and angered by the police action.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Five Australian troops killed in Afghanistan as insider attacks continue
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
Five Australian troops were killed in 2 separate incidents in Afghanistan making it the bloodiest 24-hour period for Canberra in the war and adding to growing concern about attacks on foreign troops by rogue Afghan soldiers.
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News Link • Communications
Apple rejects Drones+, app to track U.S. drone strikes
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
Apple confirmed Thursday that it has rejected Drones+ from its App Store. The app is designed to alert users whenever someone has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.
Wired’s Danger Room reported that the app, developed by New York-based developer
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice For Brad Cooper
08-30-2012
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Justice For Brad Cooper
Man convicted of murdering his wife. Police frame up? Police neglected to record any of the interviews with Brad, although they did record many of the interviews with other witnesses. It is probably obvious where this is going.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US "Justice" Dept decides not to bring charges in CIA interrogations of terrorist suspects
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
The Justice Department said Thursday that it would not file charges in connection with the deaths of two prisoners held in CIA custody a decade ago, closing the last active criminal investigation into the agency’s treatment of prisoners after the Sep
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