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Date Sent: 2011-07-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Weekend, July 2-3, 2011 |
US Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia -- US State Dept. asks for $6.2 billion budget for Iraq
Israeli Freedom Flotilla II Terrorism -- Growing Fiber Internet in Rural America: A Stimulus Success Story -- Germany to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia -- Cell phones ‘don’t cause cancer’: study -- ‘Billions worth’ of treasure looted by government in Indian temple
-- Oil spills into Yellowstone River after Exxon Mobil pipeline
ruptures -- The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust (Part Two) -- Outreach Table
- DECLARE PEACE FAIR (video) -- Google (Microsoft too) in talks to buy Hulu -- Complaint alleges police tasered, beat mentally handicapped Ohio teen -- Federal ‘clarification’ on medical marijuana not a change in policy -- TSA dismissed concerns about increased cancer diagnoses from body scanners -- Pack Journalism Anti-Gaddafi Propaganda -- 4409: Freaked out for using Silver dime -- WikiLeaks prepares to sue Visa and MasterCard -- U.S. automakers regain majority of domestic sales in wake of Japan quake -- CIA idles drone flights from
base in Pakistan -- Ex-Ariz. Lawmaker's Plane Intercepted Near Border
-- OnLive Creator Claims Can Bring Ultrafast Wireless to Everyone,
Seemingly Violating Laws of Physics -- The 4th of July Has No Meaning
Anymore -- Judge blocks Kansas anti-abortion law
AZ: Freedom Sunday at Faithful Word Baptist Church
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia
07-01-2011
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NY Times
The clandestine American military campaign to combat Al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen is expanding to fight the Islamist militancy in Somalia, as new evidence indicates that insurgents in the 2 countries are forging closer ties and possibly plotting att
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News Link • Energy
U.S. State Department asks for $6.2 billion budget for Iraq
07-02-2011
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RawStory.com
The US ambassador in Baghdad said on Saturday that the State Department has asked for a $6.2 billion budget for Iraq in 2012, underscoring that its oil and gas reserves were critical for the world's future energy needs.
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News Link • Government
Online networks whose radical self-organizing structures threaten change
07-03-2011
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Vodo.com
Available through legal torrent -- Can we all govern? Us Now looks at how 'user' participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organizing structures threaten to cha
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Internet
Growing Fiber Internet in Rural America: A Stimulus Success Story
07-02-2011
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Ryan Singel via WIRED.com
If you think the Obama administration’s stimulus package is about digging ditches, you’d be right â€" at least when it comes to funding broadband efforts in rural areas.
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News Link • Military
Germany to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia
07-02-2011
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RawSrory.com
Germany has allowed the sale of 200 Leopard tanks to Saudi Arabia after decades of blocking heavy weapons sales to the kingdom, the Der Spiegel said Saturday.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Millions of Fishes: The Ultimate Marine Library
07-02-2011
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Dave Mosher via WIRED.com
Immersed in thousands of gallons of isopropyl alcohol in a warehouse-like room, 2 million fish sleep forever. Marine biologist Phil Hastings is their keeper.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
British journalist’s Iraq kidnapper jailed for 15 years
07-02-2011
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Rawstory.com
An Iraqi court handed down a 15-year jail term on Saturday to a man it convicted of taking part in the abduction of a British journalist in 2008, a judiciary spokesman said.
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News Link • Police State
LulzSec hackers hit Arizona law enforcement a third time
07-02-2011
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Kase Wickman via RawStory.com
Hacker group LulzSec, or Lulz Security, barreled past Arizona law enforcement's cyber-security for a third time this week, posting more information in its latest "Chinga La Migra" info-dump.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
‘Billions worth’ of treasure found in Indian temple
07-02-2011
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RawStory.com
A treasure trove of gold and silver jewelry, coins and precious stones said to be worth billions of dollars has been found in a Hindu temple in southern India, officials said on Saturday.
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News Link • Environment
Oil spills into Yellowstone River after Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptures
07-02-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
An Exxon Mobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Friday night and leaked for about a half-hour.
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News Link • World News
China hit by two mining accidents
07-02-2011
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RawStory.com
China suffered two mining accidents on Saturday that left three workers dead and 40 trapped underground, state media said, the latest incidents to hit the nation's dangerous collieries.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Outreach Table - DECLARE PEACE FAIR (video)
07-02-2011
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Focus On Peace
The DECLARE PEACE FAIR was held at Independence Visitors Center lawn area 6th & Market Streets, Phila., PA on Saturday, July 2 from 1 p.m.â€"3:30 p.m.
Focus on Peace had a table at the event. As usual the participants were overwhelmingly on the left
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Internet
Google in talks to buy Hulu
07-02-2011
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RawStory.com
Online video site Hulu has begun preliminary sales talks with about a dozen potential buyers, including Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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News Link • Police State
Complaint alleges police tasered, beat mentally handicapped Ohio teen
07-02-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via RawStory.com
Jesse Kersey, a 17-year-old mentally handicapped boy, was riding his bicycle near his home in Dayton, Ohio last Saturday when officer Willie Hooper pulled him over to talk.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Federal ‘clarification’ on medical marijuana not a change in policy
07-02-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via RawStory.com
A memo meant to clarify the Department of Justice (DoJ) position on how federal authorities should treat medical marijuana does not reflect any substantive change in policy from prior administrations, despite some reports to the contrary.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA dismissed concerns about increased cancer diagnoses from body scanners
07-02-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the Transportation Security Administration dismissed concerns from its employees about the radiation emitted by body imaging machines at airport security checkpoints.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
My Jesus is Bigger than Your Jesus: Giant statue of Jesus opens in Peru to fireworks and debate
07-02-2011
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Metro, UK
Peruvian President Alan Garcia inaugurated the statue, which is similar to Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer, despite opposition from the mayor of Peru's capital.
The Christ of the Pacific is 72 feet (22 metres) high and stands atop a 49-f
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Internet
WikiLeaks prepares to sue Visa and MasterCard
07-01-2011
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Muriel Kane via RawStory.com
WikiLeaks announced on Friday evening that it and service provider Datacell intend to sue Visa and MasterCard in Europe "for engaging in an unlawful, U.S. influenced, financial blockade."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. automakers regain majority of domestic sales in wake of Japan quake
07-01-2011
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RawStory.com
The Detroit Three carmakers captured more than half the sales in the US market for the first time since September 2008 amid supply shortages caused by the Japanese quake, industry data showed Friday.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA idles drone flights from base in Pakistan
07-01-2011
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Washington Post
The CIA three months ago suspended its long-standing use of an air base in Pakistan as a launch site for armed drones targeting members of al-Qaeda and other militant groups, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials.
U.S. personnel and Predat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ex-Ariz. Lawmaker's Plane Intercepted Near Border
07-01-2011
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NY Times
A small plane owned by a former Arizona state lawmaker has been intercepted by U.S. military planes for flying without a flight plan near the Mexico border.
Peter Goudinoff says he was looking at wildfire damage near Sierra Vista
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
OnLive Creator Claims Can Bring Ultrafast Wireless to Everyone, Seemingly Violating Laws of Physics
07-01-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Steve Perlman, founder of the cloud-based gaming-on-demand service OnLive, claims to have discovered a new method of wireless communications that would not only drastically outpace what we have now.
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News Link • Transportation
China Opens the World's Longest Bridge Over Water, Toppling American Record-Holder
07-01-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Along with its massive high-speed rail network, China has officially surpassed the United States in yet another piece of transportation infrastructure: the world’s longest sea bridge.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Judge blocks Kansas anti-abortion law
07-01-2011
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RawStory.com
A federal judge on Friday blocked a Kansas law that forced two clinics in the state to stop providing abortions because they could not comply with 36 pages of new regulations.
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News Link • Energy
Your Set-Top Box Is Murdering Your Electric Bill. Here's What You Can Do
07-01-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
A recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) made headlines when it revealed that the biggest energy drain in your house likely isn't the fridge, air conditioner, or heater--it is, unbelievably, the TV set-top box.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Drink Up! Red Wine Can Counteract the Negative Aftereffects of Space Travel
07-01-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Good news for oenophiles: Wine can offset the negative effects of weightlessness. We’ve already seen the first beer brewed for drinking in space â€" any vintners want to take up the challenge of bottling the first zero-g grenache?
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Fireworks + Explodables + Ultra-High Speed Phantom HD Camera = The Best Fourth of July Video
07-01-2011
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Paul Adams via PopSci.com
So what better way to celebrate our nation's independence than aiming a Phantom v641 from New Jersey's Vision Research at all manner of explosives, resulting in high-definition footage of fireworks going off at a glorious 2,000 frames per second?
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News Link • Just For Fun!
How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Using Science
07-01-2011
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Angela Watercutter via WIRED.com
In the event of a zombie apocalypse it will probably help to have: a baseball bat, a gun, a chainsaw and a plethora of blunt objects. Also, it helps to possess a strong grasp of neuroscience.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Air Force Makes Frosty Antarctic Rescue
07-01-2011
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
This is a contender for Best Medical Evacuation Ever. When a contractor at the huge U.S. science center in Antarctica got sick, Air Force pilots strapped on night-vision goggles to fly a C-17 around volcanic ash clouds to get the guy out of the frigi
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NBA Strips League Website of All Player Photos
07-01-2011
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Gizmodo via WIRED.com
If you go to NBA.com or any official NBA team website, you won’t see any pictures of current basketball players. No Kobe, no Lebron, no Durant, nobody. Why? It’s because the NBA isn’t allowed to post pictures of any of their players.
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