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Date Sent: 2011-01-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 14, 2011 |
The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?
A Clamor for Gun Limits, but Few Expect Real Changes -- Accused Soldier in Brig as WikiLeaks Link Is Sought -- Patriot Act To Be Renewed By Stealth in New Congress -- Forgotten Treasure: Unconventional Oil in the Middle East -- New
Discovery: Scientist Say Thunderstorms Create Antimatter -- Tucson
Declared: NO-SPRAY Zone for Obama Visit! -- Shawn Dow - In Studio -
Washington D.C. Inauguration and Fountain Hills -- UNM POLICE WANT
GUEST (Adam Kokesh) DISARMED, DESPITE THREATS -- Tucson Memorial Service Honors Shooting Victims -- Janet Napolitano
Speaks At Tucson Shooting Victims Memorial Service -- Gov Jan
Brewer At Arizona Shooting Victims Memorial Services -- President
Obama: Memorial in Arizona -- Strange Phenomenon: Sun
rises two days early in Greenland, sparks fear -- Foreclosure-Gate: Blame the Victims and Enrich
the Perpetrators -- Facebook Wants to Issue Your Internet Driver's
License -- Consumer Spending Collapsed In The First Week of
January 2011 -- Meredith Whitney Defends Muni Call, Sees
'Indiscriminate Selling' -- For "Flat Earth" Inflation Deniers:
Commodity Inflation Bites Back
WalletVoting.com - Get All Aboard "The LOVE Train"
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News Link • Technology: Software
The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?
01-13-2011
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Ben Austen via PopSci.com
Even as we imagine the day when robots finally turn against us, scientists are at work on how best to control them
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News Link • Gun Rights
A Clamor for Gun Limits, but Few Expect Real Changes
01-13-2011
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NY Times
The National Rifle Association has gone uncommonly dark since the weekend shootings here. A posting on its Web site expresses sympathies for the victims of the violence, and N.R.A. officials said they would have nothing to say until the funerals and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Accused Soldier in Brig as WikiLeaks Link Is Sought
01-13-2011
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NY Times
[Here is the NY Times spin on the torture of Bradley Manning.] Meanwhile, the young soldier accused of leaking the secret documents that brought WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange to fame and notoriety is locked in a tiny cell at the Quantico Marine Corps Bas
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Patriot Act To Be Renewed By Stealth in New Congress
01-13-2011
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RawStory.com
Since the bill introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) on Jan. 5 was virtually identical to the extension passed last year, its passage was seen as likely.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Wallet Voting
WalletVoting.com - Get All Aboard "The LOVE Train"
01-13-2011
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WalletVoting.com
(We're a week away from the primary launch) Artwork is being made available in layered files for Photoshop etc. - It Begins!
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Discovery: Scientist Say Thunderstorms Create Antimatter
01/13/2011
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therealnewsnow
It’s official, thunderstorms create antimatter! NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently found evidence that thunderstorms on Earth actually shoot antimatter particles into space.
“These signals are the first direct evidence that thundersto
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The Real News
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News Link • Chemtrails
Tucson Declared: NO-SPRAY Zone for Obama Visit!
01-14-2011
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Real News Tucson
The city of Tucson was bombarded on and off this week with Geo-Engineering but all spraying came to a halt as President Obama visited on January 12th 2011 ...but no worries mate...Spraying resumed on January 13th 2011! The entire week Tucson had almo
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Activism
UNM POLICE WANT GUEST (Adam Kokesh) DISARMED, DESPITE THREATS
01-13-2011
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Facebook/Adam vs. the Man
(UPDATE) - “I have received death threats in the past as a result of political speech and prefer to rely on myself for my personal protection rather than the government. (Adam Kokesh univited to speak at University)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Colleen Thomas on phosgene matters, what to do for your health and well being
01-13-2011
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youtube.com
Toxic acid maker phosgene and polyacetyloxelate from herbicides used to destroy crops in our farm lands are killing wild life and people all over the globe it appears but in the USA for certain. Acid test your water before drinking it, you can go to
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
The Best Cars From Detroit 2011: An Energetic, Right-Sized Auto Show
01-13-2011
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Seth Fletcher via PopSci.com
The crowds were back and the sense of impending doom was gone. But the proliferation of safe designs and shortage of insane concepts shows an industry playing it safe.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Tucson Memorial Service Honors Shooting Victims
01-13-2011
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youtube.com
Full Length Video: President Obama, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Attorney General Eric Holder and others spoke at a public memorial service in Tucson Wednesday that paid tribute the victims of a shooting atta
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Janet Napolitano Speaks At Tucson Shooting Victims Memorial Service
01-13-2011
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youtube.com
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Reads From The Book of Isaiah At Tucson Shooting Victims Memorial Service - 01/12/11
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
President Obama: Memorial in Arizona
01-13-2011
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youtube.com
The President speaks at a memorial event for the victims of the tragic shooting in Arizona, "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Strange Phenomenon: Sun rises two days early in Greenland, sparks fear
01/13/2011
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therealnewsnow
The sun has arrived two days early in Greenland according to KNR Radio. It usually rises on January 13th but for some reason rose on 1/11/11 this year.
Inhabitants from the area appeared worried when witnessing the strange phenomenon. “The sun is
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The Real News
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Hands On With Verizon's iPhone 4: Same Phone, Different Network
01-13-2011
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John Mahoney via Pop
It's been the source of much clamor: the best smartphone on the States' best network. And today the clamor finally became official. Aside from an integrated tethering function, everything about the Verizon iPhone is the same as its AT&T brother.
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Blame the Victims and Enrich the Perpetrators
01-13-2011
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HuffingtonPost.com
The key drivers of our housing crisis were fraud perpetrated by mortgage lenders and securities fraud -- by some of our most revered financial institutions -- that provided money to fuel fraudulent mortgage lending.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Facebook Wants to Issue Your Internet Driver's License
01-13-2011
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networkworld.com
Facebook is becoming a "critical part of the Internet's identity infrastructure" and wants to supply your Internet driver's license. Facebook Login allows any website to use its identity infrastructure by adding a few lines of code so users...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Spending Collapsed In The First Week of January 2011
01-13-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
According to a new survey from Gallup, consumer spending collapsed in the first week of January. And we're not talking about compared to December (which is obvious) but compared to the same week last year.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Meredith Whitney Defends Muni Call, Sees 'Indiscriminate Selling'
01-13-2011
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CNBC.com
"We did this analysis in September," Whitney said. "I was scared to death to publish the analysis, understanding that this was a massive deal, probably the biggest call I ever made. We put thousands of man hours into this project.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
For "Flat Earth" Inflation Deniers: Commodity Inflation Bites Back
01-13-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
History is littered with the carcasses of men that in their exaggerated hubris attempted to stop the forces of nature and the markets only to fall flat on their faces.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Body Scanner tests in India show they fail to detect EVERYTHING
01-13-2011
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BodyScannerTruth
A high-level inspection of body scanners at the Delhi airport has thrown shocking results with the scanners failing to detect powerful explosives like RDX and PETN and other assault weapons.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Currencies
Opening a renminbi savings account in the US
01-13-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
In its latest step to make the renminbi a competing global reserve currency, China’s predominantly state-owned Bank of China will now let individuals open renminbi savings accounts… in the United States.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Having the Courage to Look Overseas
01-13-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
I generally shun hotels when possible" I prefer to stay in serviced apartments, small boutiques, or B&Bs…
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
On the weekend’s shooting"
01-13-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Violence is the answer for those who lack the intellectual merit to win a battle of ideas and can only resort to more animalistic behavior to impress their point.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • China
The China Dilemma
01-13-2011
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dailybell.com
Watch out West " China's a-coming. The Biggest Tiger is on the loose.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Pouring Billions Into Failed Afghan Projects
01-13-2011
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dailybell.com
Once we get the numbers right " and spend enough " successful projects will follow.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Activism
An Extremist and Proud of It
01-13-2011
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dailybell.com
I knew I was an extremist from the time Barry Goldwater announced that "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Food
Failing Elite Food Gambit?
01-13-2011
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dailybell.com
We shall make sure everyone has proper nutrition.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Road to Bankruptcy Runs Parallel to France
01-11-2011
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Bill Bonner, The Daily Reckoning
Paris, France " We met a friend for a drink last night. He’s an American who has lived in Paris for twenty years.
“I’m glad you’re back here,” he began. “There’s no better place for an American to live than here in Paris. It’s much better here tha
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Bill Bonner
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News Link • Economy - International
Hong Kong ranked world's freest economy: report
01-13-2011
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malaysia.news.yahoo.com
Hong Kong remained the world's freest place to do business for the 17th year in a row in an annual US league table published Wednesday.
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News Link • Energy
UPDATE 9-Brent oil hits 27-month high; $100 looms
01-13-2011
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af.reuters.com
Oil rose on Wednesday after production shutdowns, falling U.S. inventories and growing demand sent Brent crude toward $100 a barrel for the first time since 2008.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S&P, Moody's Warn On U.S. Credit Rating
01-13-2011
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online.wsj.com
Two leading rating firms have cautioned the U.S. on its credit rating, expressing concern over a deteriorating fiscal situation that they say needs correction.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Societal Influences on the Creation of Wealth
01-12-2011
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Bill Bonner, The Daily Reckoning
Paris, France " There are some activities that are positive sum activities. That is, they are productive. They increase the total of real wealth in a society.
There are other activities that are zero sum activities…or even negative sum activities.
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