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Date Sent: 2011-08-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 19, 2011 |
US, allies demand Assad exit in Syria -- Iraq’s Sadr warns of ‘war’ if US presence extended
Army says improperly tested $2.5 billion body armor is safe -- Big Sis’
Latest Terrorists: More White Americans -- Dennis Kucinich:
Constitutional scholar Obama ignoring the Constitution -- Asian Stocks Slump Again on U.S. Fears, Europe Woes -- Ex-Colombia President Denies Domestic Spying Role-- The “Non-GMO”
Labeling Scam -- New patent granted to Bayer breaks the law -- Bachmann
"evangelical organizer" was arrested for terrorism in Uganda in 2006 --
Page officer Shawn Wilson cleared in deadly force charges
AZ: Jordan Page to perform in
Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th,
bring your cameras.
Nationwide civil
disobedience: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How our wars start: US, allies demand Assad exit in Syria
08-18-2011
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AP
President Barack Obama, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany and the European Union joined Thursday to demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad resign, saying his brutal suppression of his people had made him unfit to lead.
The coordinated
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq’s Sadr warns of ‘war’ if U.S. presence extended
08-18-2011
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AFP
A anti-US Shiite cleric warned of "war" if US forces stayed in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal. Asked whether he would negotiate with US over a mission to last beyond this year, he replied: "No, there will be war."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Army says improperly tested $2.5 billion body armor is safe
08-18-2011
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Reuters
Body armor worth $2.5 billion that the Department of Defense's Inspector General found had been improperly tested poses no hazard to troops, according to the Army.
The Army cut corners and skipped tests altogether on seven body armor contracts, a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Big Sis’ Latest Terrorists: More White Americans
08-18-2011
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InfoWars (video)
Despite causing controversy last month with a video that portrayed white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security has released yet another PSA that depicts an attempt to bomb a subway station not by Al
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Dennis Kucinich: Constitutional scholar Obama ignoring the Constitution
08-18-2011
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Rawstory (video)
“The Constitution makes it manifestly clear that only Congress has the power to send our young men and women into war,” Kucinich said. “Unfortunately this administration, even though it is headed by a constitutional scholar, now is ignoring the Const
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Slump Again on U.S. Fears, Europe Woes
08-18-2011
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Reuters
Asian stocks tumbled as much as 4 percent on Friday on growing fears that the U.S. economy was sliding into recession and as some European lenders faced short-term funding strains, raising fears of a systemic banking crisis on the continent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Ex-Colombia President Denies Domestic Spying Role
08-18-2011
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AP
Former President Alvaro Uribe has denied before a Colombian congressional committee that he ordered the country's domestic intelligence agency to spy on judges, journalists and political foes.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
The “Non-GMO” Labeling Scam
08-18-2011
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Farm Wars
A company wants to market a product chock full of GMOs and every other thing under the sun, make it appear to be healthy, and use Non-GMO certification to sell it. So how do you do it?
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Surveillance
Smart Grid " The Birth of Global Technocracy
08-18-2011
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Farm Wars
“Technocracy seeks a radically different economic and political system leading to Scientific Dictatorship.”
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Property Rights
New patent granted to Bayer breaks the law
08-18-2011
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Farm Wars
The comprehensive patent will give Bayer monopoly control over important food crops including both genetic engineering in plants and the process for conventional breeding and plants derived thereof.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Third Rail's Powered iPhone Case Is Shockingly Clever
08-18-2011
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Michael S. Lasky via WIRED.com
The high-voltage third rail that runs next to a set of train tracks is, of course, something to be avoided. The Third Rail System for the iPhone 4, however, is to be welcomed.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Sandia's Gemini-Scout: A Rescue Robot Optimized for Mining Disasters
08-18-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
At AUVSI’s (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) massive robot conference in D.C. this week there is no shortage of robots designed to seek out--and in some cases destroy--human targets.
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News Link • Transportation
Putting the Ferrari FF Through Its Paces, High in the Italian Alps
08-18-2011
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Lawrence Ulrich via PopSci.com
A snowy K-Mart parking lot would have worked fine. But this being Ferrari, and the star its tradition-shredding FF " a $300,000 all-wheel-drive station wagon -- a little high-altitude showboating seemed in order.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Light-Up Bike Wheels Help Cyclists See the Road, and Help Motorists See the Bikes
08-18-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
bike lanes and automatic traffic light sensors are great, but motorists are really the ones who have to pay attention for bike riders to be safe. An intrepid mechanical engineer has one solution: Make bike lights as obvious as car lights.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Police State
Page officer Shawn Wilson cleared in deadly force charges
08-18-2011
PAGE " Page Police Officer Shawn Wilson was justified in using deadly force when he shot and killed Page business owner William Foust on June 19 outside Foust’s B&T Marine, according to results of an investigation ended Friday.
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Reported by:
Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Police State
Woman’s yard sale to pay medical bills gets shut down
08-18-2011
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salem.katu.com
A woman fighting a terminal form of bone cancer is trying to raise money to help pay bills with a few weekend garage sales, but the city of Salem says she’s breaking the law and is shutting her down.
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Sierra Hancock
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