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Date Sent: 2012-01-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 4, 2012 AM edition |
Romney/Santorum deadlocked in Iowa; Paul 3rd Place -- Grand Theft Iowa? -- 2012 Iowa Caucus Results
Iran threatens U.S. ships, alarms oil markets -- Massachusetts lieutenant governor hit
108 mph before car crash -- Montana Supreme Court upholds ban on corporate political spending -- Ron Paul: Post Iowa
Caucus Speech (Video) -- Paleontologist wants to create a living
'Velociraptor-sized dinosaur' -- New York firebombing raises alarm over
spread of Islamophobia -- North Korea holds mass rally in support of new
leader -- U.S. charges Swiss bankers for hiding $1.2 billion -- Farrar Motion to Dismiss by Obama DENIED -- And so it begins......First NDAA arrest --
Virginia Attorney General Backs Off Call to Change Ballot Rules Before
Primary -- Paul Campaign Targets ‘Liberal’ Santorum As Iowa Battle
Begins -- Why Obama Was So Wrong to Sign the NDAA into Law -- Republican Insider: GOP Establishment Planning To Subvert Iowa to Prevent Ron Paul Win -- Tonight’s Iowa Vote Count To Take Place At Secret Location -- Massachusetts Police Nab Five-Year-Old Fugitive Bibliophile
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney and Santorum are deadlocked in Iowa caucuses; Paul finishes third
01-04-2012
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Washington Post
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former senator Rick Santorum (Pa.) were deadlocked for the lead in the Iowa caucuses late Tuesday night, ahead in a splintered and increasingly fractious field as the GOP presidential primary race moves t
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Iran threatens U.S. ships, alarms oil markets
01-03-2012
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Washington Post
Iran escalated its war of words with the United States on Tuesday with a warning to Navy ships to stay out of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, remarks that rattled commodities markets and helped send oil prices soaring.
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News Link • Food
Pepsi Says Mountain Dew Can Dissolve Mouse Carcasses
01-03-2012
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The Atlantic Wire
Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have found it.
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News Link • Transportation
Massachusetts lieutenant governor hit 108 mph before car crash
01-03-2012
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The RawStory.com
Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray was slapped with a $555 fine on Tuesday after he apparently fell asleep and drove 108 miles per hour before careening off the road and crashing last November.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
World-first hybrid shark found off Australia
01-03-2012
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AFP
Australian scientists hailed what they described as a world-first discovery of two shark species interbreeding Tuesday, a never-before-seen phenomenon which could help them cope with warmer oceans.
Lead researcher Jess Morgan said the mating of th
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Montana Supreme Court upholds ban on corporate political spending
01-03-2012
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Rawstory
The Montana Supreme Court on Friday upheld a ban on corporate political expenditures in state elections, which came under fire after the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling.
The court held the 2010 decision in Citizens United
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Startup Promises a Revolutionary Grid Battery
01-03-2012
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The RawStory.com
Eos Energy Storage says its zinc-air battery can store energy to meet peak power needs for less.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul: Post Iowa Caucus Speech (Video)
01-03-2012
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StopTheLie.com
Ron Paul's speech after placing a strong 3rd in Iowa.
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Joe Plummer
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Rings in the New Year As Twin Grail Probes Arrive at the Moon
01-03-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
The twin Grail probes arrived at the moon on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, and are preparing to study our only natural satellite's past.
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News Link • Science
Paleontologist wants to create a living 'Velociraptor-sized dinosaur'
01-04-2012
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Terrence Aym
Someday families might stroll past the giraffes and lions at the zoo and then halt, gaping up at a warning sign dominating a huge enclosure that reads: "Please, do not feed the Velociraptor." At least those families will if paleontologist Dr. Jack
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sky Light Sky Bright -- In the Office
01-03-2012
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ScienceDaily.com
Working under the open sky -- it sounds enticing, but it's seldom practical option. Now, a dynamic luminous ceiling brings the sky into office spaces by creating the effect of passing clouds. This lighting generates a pleasant working environment.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Rethought Calendar Makes Each Year Identical to the One Before
01-03-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
As the calendar turns over to a new year, a couple of researchers over at Johns Hopkins University are rethinking the way we tick off the days during our annual trip around the sun.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Swiss Jumpglider Bot Leaps Into Flight, Inspired by Insects and Bats
01-03-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
For animals and animal-inspired machines, launching into flight takes lots of energy. Some animals have evolved to achieve air not by accelerating and lifting off, but by jumping and then using their wings or flaps of skin to glide
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Microphone Turns Any Surface into Touch Interface
01-03-2012
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Christopher Mims via TechnologyReview.com
Bruno Zamborlin collaborated with Norbert Schnell to use a contact microphone connected to a system that processes sound in real time to turn any rigid surface into a touch interface. There's no way to explain it adequately in words, so just watch th
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News Link • Energy
BASF Funds Sugar-from-Wood Startup
01-03-2012
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Renmatix receives $30 million from the chemical giant to demonstrate its technology at an industrial scale.
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News Link • Spirituality
Missouri public library blocks websites about ‘occult’ spirituality
01-03-2012
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Eric W. Dolan via The RawStory.com
The Salem Public Library in Missouri along with its board of trustees face a lawsuit for blocking access to websites discussing indigenous American spirituality and the Wiccan faith
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Modern disease found in ancient bones
01-03-2012
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The RawStory.com
US scientists said Tuesday that their study of a set of medieval bones found in Albania has revealed traces of a modern infectious disease that afflicts people who eat unpasteurized dairy products.
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News Link • TERRORISM
New York firebombing raises alarm over spread of Islamophobia
01-03-2012
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The RawStory.com
New York police arrested a man Tuesday over the firebombing of a mosque, but some say the incident reflects much deeper tensions faced by Muslim New Yorkers " and that police are partly to blame.
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News Link • World News
North Korea holds mass rally in support of new leader
01-03-2012
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The RawStory.com
More than 100,000 North Koreans rallied in support of new leader Kim Jong-Un on Tuesday, state media reported, days after he was proclaimed the “great successor” to his father.
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News Link • Government
U.S. charges Swiss bankers for hiding $1.2 billion
01-03-2012
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The RawStory.com
Three Swiss bankers were indicted in the United States Tuesday, accused of hiding $1.2 billion in assets of US clients seeking to avoid declaring their full wealth to tax authorities.
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News Link • Corruption
NH says, "The burdon of proof is on you, Mr. Obama!"
01-03-2012
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adventuresinthefreestate.com
New Hampshire State Representatives disprove Mr Obamas eligibility and New Hampshire wants him to put up and prove to us he is qualified to be POTUS, or his name will not legally appear on the NH Ballot for the Primary... (It shouldn't anyways, but
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul gets rock star reception at Valley High School
01-03-2012
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caucuses.desmoinesregister.com
Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks during a campaign stop at Rock the Caucus Assembly at Valley High School Gym in West on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. (David Purdy/The Des Moines Register)
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News Link • Corruption
Farrar Motion to Dismiss by Obama DENIED
01-03-2012
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Orly Taitz esq dot com
"After 3 years of battle for the first time a judge ruled that Obama’s motion to dismiss is denied. I can now depose Obama and everybody else envolved without any impediment."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
New Years Eve dead birds were 'deliberately targeted by fireworks'
01-03-2012
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U.K. Daily Mail
Call off the apocalyptic predictions. The 200 blackbirds that fell from the sky in a small Arkansas town on New Years Day were targeted by someone with fireworks, experts say.
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News Link • TERRORISM
And so it begins......First NDAA arrest
01/03/2012
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godlikeproductions.com
A 16 year old boy was kidnapped from his home by FBI under the Patriot act. He get's no trial and his mother can't get any answers. video http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-726056?npt=NP1
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The trouble with my uncle, Rick Santorum
01-03-2012
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dailycaller.com
John Garver is a 19-year-old student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. John is a strong supporter of Ron Paul despite his love for family member Rick Santorum.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Virginia Attorney General Backs Off Call to Change Ballot Rules Before Primary
01-03-2012
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www.foxnews.com
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is backing off a push to change his state's election rules before the March 6 presidential primary, after only two Republican candidates qualified for the ballot.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Iowans, Don’t Let CNN Make Up Your Minds " Support the Guy They Fear
01-03-2012
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LewRockwell.com
The political and media establishments, who treat a genuine dissident like a man from Mars, are lecturing Iowans that if they choose the wrong person " e.g., someone those establishments haven’t approved for them " they will "discredit" the Iowa cauc
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News Link • Police State
Why Obama Was So Wrong to Sign the NDAA into Law
01-03-2012
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Paul Levinson
Think about what Richard Nixon might have done with his "enemies list" - of his political critics - had he had a law like the NDAA on the books and at his disposal.
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican Insider: GOP Establishment Planning To Subvert Iowa to Prevent Ron Paul Win
01-03-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Republican strategist Dee Dee Benkie revealed during a radio show appearance last night that the GOP establishment has resolved to prevent Ron Paul from winning Iowa's Caucus
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Tonight’s Iowa Vote Count To Take Place At Secret Location
01-03-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Tonight’s final vote tally for the Iowa caucuses will take place at a secret undisclosed location, an announcement that has stoked fears of vote fraud amongst Ron Paul supporters, insider’s claim that the GOP establishment will not allow Paul to win.
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News Link • Police State
Massachusetts Police Nab Five-Year-Old Fugitive Bibliophile
01-03-2012
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jonathanturley.org
Charlton (Mass.) police have finally tracked down Hailey Benoit after months of fugitive hiding. This week the five-year-old went to the door and found justice waiting
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Republican Insider: GOP Establishment Planning To Subvert Iowa to Prevent Ron Paul Win
01-03-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Republican strategist Dee Dee Benkie revealed during a radio show appearance last night that the GOP establishment has resolved to prevent Ron Paul from winning tonight’s Iowa primary
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Santorum Lashes Out At Ron Paul: Calls Iowa Front Runner “Disgusting”
01-03-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
An angry Rick Santorum has lashed out at GOP front runner rival Ron Paul in response to Paul’s last minute efforts to expose Santorum’s less than impressive voting record and his undesirable stance on several major issues.
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