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Date Sent: 2012-07-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 6, 2012 PM edition |
Pentagon Contractor (Pratt & Whitney) Caught Illegally Selling Military Technology to China
Extreme winter weather in Peru: Government sending blankets to freezing people -- Oxygen Microcapsule Injections -- Glaxo Smith Kline Admits Criminal Fraud -- Barack Obama’s falsified Social Security number -- Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles -- Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World -- Unverified Video Shows US Helicopter Pilot Singing 'American Pie' While Shooting Afghan Civilians -- Cisco Angers A Lot Of People By Outlawing Porn On Home Routers -- JUNE JOBS REPORT MISSES EXPECTATIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT 8.2% -- Analysis: European banking superpower is no quick fix -- Anti-Mining Protests Escalate in Peru; Four Killed in Police Violence -- Wikileaks Publishes the 'Syrian Files' -- New Dust Bowl? -- What's Happening With the Mexican Elections, Explained -- Poll: Employers insuring fewer employees -- FIJA: William Lynch Found Not Guilty in Beating of Priest He Said Sexually Abused Him -- Israel Likely Killed Arafat -- Unresolved Iran Nuclear Talks
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow; Party at Hancock's -
Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X, aka Kane (WWF) - Friday, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine
release date to be Friday, July 13th, 2012
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon Contractor (Pratt & Whitney) Caught Illegally Selling Military Technology to China
07-06-2012
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The Atlantic
A six-year U.S. probe found that Pratt & Whitney, a key military hardware supplier to the U.S., sold China the software and engines needed to make its first-ever modern attack helicopter.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Climate Change
Extreme winter weather in Peru: Government sending blankets to freezing people
07-04-2012
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New Nostradamus of the North
It may be warm in parts of the US, but in Peru the government is trying to keep freezing people warm:
Peru’s government on Monday sent 18 trucks carrying 97,000 blankets to villages in the Andean highlands, where the populations endure freezing temp
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Oxygen Microcapsule Injections
07-06-2012
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of using injectable oxygen on patients whose lungs were incapacitated or whose airways were blocked. He was prompted to do so after a young girl that he was caring for passed away " she succumbed to a brain injury, which resulted when severe pneumoni
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News Link • Science
Mushrooms Ended Carboniferous 300 Million Years Ago
07-06-2012
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arclein
"Comparative analyses of 31 fungal genomes (12 generated for this study) suggest that lignin-degrading peroxidases expanded in the lineage leading to the ancestor of the Agaricomycetes, which is reconstructed as a white rot species, and then contrac
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News Link • Environment
Cooking Fuel Transition in China
07-06-2012
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arclein
Mainali, who has been working in the field of rural energy for the past 15 years, along with senior researcher Shonali Pachauri and researcher Yu Nagai " both from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria " modeled
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Glaxo Smith Kline Admits Criminal Fraud
07-06-2012
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arclein
US attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz said: "The GSK sales force bribed physicians to prescribe GSK products using every imaginable form of high priced entertainment, from Hawaiian vacations to paying doctors millions of dollars to go on speak
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robert klein
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles
07-06-2012
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wired.com, By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
On the evening of June 19, a group of researchers from the University of Texas successfully hijacked a civilian drone at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico during a test organized by the Department of Homeland Security.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World
07-06-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Tate
As money floods into their market, and the stakes get ever higher, app makers are getting paranoid. Paranoid that competitors are buying traffic spikes, using porn to attract users, and spamming everyone and their mom on the way to the top of the lea
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News Link • Death
Unverified Video Shows US Helicopter Pilot Singing 'American Pie' While Shooting Afghan Civi
07-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
It made headlines in British tabloids this morning so it will likely get exposure in the States, but this alarming LiveLeak video should be examined more closely before drawing conclusions.
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News Link • Internet
Cisco Angers A Lot Of People By Outlawing Porn On Home Routers
07-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julie Bort
Cisco Systems told users of its new high-end home routers -- in a roundabout way -- they couldn't use their routers for porn or to send certain types of e-mail and a whole list of other things.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
JUNE JOBS REPORT MISSES EXPECTATIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT 8.2%
07-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eric Platt
U.S. payrolls expanded by 80,000 net jobs in June keeping the unemployment rate flat at 8.2 percent, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows.
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News Link • European Union
Analysis: European banking superpower is no quick fix
07-06-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Marc Jones
The euro zone's plan to let the European Central Bank supervise its biggest banks requires governments to give it unambiguous powers, sets a highly ambitious timetable and poses potentially dangerous conflicts of interest.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung's Galaxy powers record $5.9 billion profit; euro a worry
07-06-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Miyoung Kim
Soaring sales of the Galaxy smartphone drove record quarterly profit of $5.9 billion at Samsung Electronics, though the South Korean tech giant is sweating over how Europe's debt crisis is denting demand in its biggest market for televisions and home
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News Link • Activism
Anti-Mining Protests Escalate in Peru; Four Killed in Police Violence
07-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, staff
Protests continue despite 'state of emergency', ban on freedom of assembly
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News Link • Syria
Wikileaks Publishes the 'Syrian Files'
07-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, staff
Email trove to shed light on the ongoing conflict in Syria including critical look at Assad regime, opposition forces, and western influence
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FIJA: William Lynch Found Not Guilty in Beating of Priest He Said Sexually Abused Him
07-06-2012
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ABC News
William Lynch, the 44-year-old California man who admitted he pummeled a Jesuit priest who he said abused him as a boy, has been found not guilty of felony assault and elder abuse charges.
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News Link • Imperialism
PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES in the OLYMPIC GAMES: SPORTS IMPERIALISM? SOME NATIONS have NEVER WON a OLYM
070512
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www.varight.com
Let's look at a nation like Botswana, that has never won an Olympic medal of any kind when we root for the pro athletes in the Olympic games. Is it fair? No, it smacks of sports imperialism. So try something different this Olympics: Root for US
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News Link • Economy - International
Three Central Banks Collude to Stimulate More Borrowing
07-05-2012
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New York Times
Concerned about waning economic growth, central banks in Europe and China announced measures to increase borrowing and spending by businesses and consumers, a response that was all the more striking because it was uncoordinated.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Social Security Number challenged
07-05-2012
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WND
Daniels, who has vetted thousands of Social Security Numbers for numerous other clients, has done her homework. In her filing, she thoroughly documents her contention “that Barack Obama has repeatedly, consistently, and with intent misrepresented him
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Countrywide won influence with discounts
07-05-2012
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AP
The former Countrywide, whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government officials and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Scientists finally measure cosmic ‘dark matter’
07-05-2012
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Rawstory
While the rest of the world was celebrating the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, researchers announced another major discovery that will likely lead to fundamental changes in humanity’s understanding of the universe.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Passengers could be asked to give drink samples to TSA
07-05-2012
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Passengers say their problem is not with the rules at the airport. They understand why drinks are not allowed through security, but when they buy one while they wait for their flight, they say the TSA shouldn't ask to test it.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Terrafugia flying car completes first phase of flight testing
07-05-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com
Six years after the initial announcement that Terrafugia, Inc. would develop a "roadable airplane," the Transition has completed the first phase of flight testing. The flight testing, carried out at Plattsburgh International Airport in northern New Y
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News Link • Gun Rights
Zimmerman's bail set at $1M in Trayvon Martin case
07-05-2012
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AP
The neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin can be released from jail on $1 million bond while he awaits trial on a second-degree murder charge, a judge ruled Thursday.
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester granted bond to George Zimmerman f
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News Link • Declaration of Independence
When Americans Understood the Declaration of Independence
07-05-2012
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lewrockwell by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
The Fourth of July was not always a national celebration of the militarization of American society and of the federal government’s never-ending quest for world domination (disguised as "defending our interests abroad").
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD - August 2012 Edition
07-05-2012
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Freedom's Phoenix Magazine
The August 2012 Edition of the Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine will feature, 'What Do We Do Now'? How do we prepare for a future, beyond the darkness that is surely coming, that will provide light? ; how are you going to survive; how are you prep
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
San Diego man stranded after told on no-fly list
07-04-2012
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AP
A US citizen of Somali descent has been stranded in Bahrain for 2 weeks after being told his name appears on the U.S. government's no-fly list does not understand why he has been tagged as a suspected terrorist and is talking to U.S. lawyers.
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News Link • Environment
Midwest ranchers, lawmakers protest EPA flyovers
07-04-2012
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AP
Midwest ranchers have never been enamored with environmental regulators, but they really began to complain after learning that federal inspectors were flying over their land to look for problems.
The Environmental Protection Agency flies over powe
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News Link • Internet
Twitter shares info on gov't demands for user data
07-04-2012
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AP
Twitter will provide biannual reports about U.S. and foreign government demands for information about its users, just as Google has been doing for the past two years. U.S. government agencies accounted for most of the inquiries
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli police officer caught kicking Palestinian boy on video
07-04-2012
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Rawstory
A video showing an Israeli police officer kicking a nine-year-old Palestinian boy has prompted an official investigation.
The footage, released by the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, shows the child, Abd a-Rahman Burqan, on the ground
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News Link • Healthcare
Roberts wrote both Obamacare opinions
07-04-2012
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Salon
My source insists that “most of the material in the first three quarters of the joint dissent was drafted in Chief Justice Roberts’ chambers in April and May.” Only the last portion of what eventually became the joint dissent was drafted without any
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News Link • Constitution
Death of the US Constitution: Can Americans Escape the Deception?
07-04-2012
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by Dr. Paul Craig Robert globalresearch
Hot Air Day is upon us.On July 4 hot air will spew forth all over the country as dignitaries deliver homilies to our “freedom and democracy”...
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News Link • Military
Declaration of Independence 2012
07-04-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
2012 revision of the Declaration of Independence as read by U.S. Service members in Afghanistan.
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News Link • Police State
Second Checkpoint Nullification Night Lower Moreland PA
07-02-2012
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Bensalem Patch
Valley Forge, PA " Building on the success of their first checkpoint nullification on June 15, 2012 (See video: http://youtu.be/Mwx6283n81A) the Valley Forge Revolutionaries will be establishing
warning stations several blocks on either side of the
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