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Date Sent: 2012-10-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, October 11, 2012 PM edition |
Turkey: Syrian plane was carrying ammunition -- US Drone Strike Kills 16 in Pakistan
Reality Check: Is SCOTUS Putting An End To "Personal" Property? -- Drugging
Kids into Submission -- Kucinich: US 'Immeasurably' Closer to
War in Syria -- Thug who wore T-shirt with vile 'one less pig'
after murders of 2 police jailed 8 months -- Citing privacy
concerns, U.S. panel urges end to secret DNA testing -- Rating
cut piles pressure on Spain to seek aid -- Apple Has Quietly
Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, And It's Tricky To Opt Out -- Video:
Unions Fine Members Who Don't Show Support for Elizabeth Warren --
Big Pharma Incentives Are Out of Whack: Why We Need an X-Prize for
Drugs -- 4G on the Baby-Monitor Frequency -- Atlas
Shrugged -- Scientists Find Harshest Sound in World: Listen
-- Silver Circle Releases at New York Comic Con 2012 -- Supreme
Court to Rule on Patents for Self-Replicating Products -- S&P
downgrades Spain’s credit rating 2 notches to lowest
investment-grade level -- Former SEALs Market iPhone App That
The Government Hates -- The Market Sell-Off Is Getting Ugly -- American Energy Companies Have Been Almost Completely Shut Out Of
Iraq's Oil Fields -- Vote Gary Johnson: Only 1 in 10 Million
Chance That Your Vote For Obama or Romney Would Even Matter --
Congress Tries to Force U.S. Army to Accept New Tanks on Behalf of
Defense Contractors -- Potential spoiler in Jeff Flake-Richard
Carmona race -- The Money Illusion with Scott Sumner -- Self-declared
prince of sovereign principality of Sealand dies aged 91 --
Potential spoiler in Jeff Flake-Richard Carmona race -- Silver
Circle Releases at New York Comic Con 2012 -- Flake and Carmona face
off in debate -- 10-11-12 -- Drew Phillips - Angel Clark -
LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- War or No War on Iran?
-- Cooked or Accurate US Employment Numbers? -- Navy Lasers’
First Target: Enemy Drones -- Meet Polaris, The First Ice-Drilling
Lunar Prospector-Bot
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Candidates Forum
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News Link • Syria
Turkey: Syrian plane was carrying ammunition
10-11-2012
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AP
A plane intercepted by Turkish fighter jets on its way from Moscow to Damascus was carrying equipment and ammunition destined for the Syrian Defense Ministry, Turkey’s prime minister said. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments follow a fierce denial by Syr
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Drone Strike Kills 16 in Pakistan’s Orakzai Agency
10-11-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Several Afghans Reportedly Among the Slain
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Reality Check: Is SCOTUS Putting An End To "Personal" Property?
10-11-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, BenSwannRealityCheck
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at a case before the Supreme Court that would mean the end "first rule principle" for selling personal property that origniates overseas.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Drugging Kids into Submission
10-11-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The state-enforced public school prison with its social conditioning is colossally bad for the student, and when poor result shows we blame the student with a psych-based diagnosis and give him a chemical straight-jacket to "help" him.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Kucinich: US 'Immeasurably' Closer to War in Syria
10-11-2012
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http://www.usnews.com, By Steven Nelson
Democratic congressman: Obama deployed troops 'without notifying Congress'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
We Are Very Excited About Three World-Changing Startups We Discovered This Morning
10-11-2012
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Nicholas Carlson
There are too many new startups coming out each day to keep track of, but today we stumbled upon three which are actually pretty cool " world changing even.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Thug who wore T-shirt with vile 'one less pig' after murders of 2 police jailed 8 months
10-11-2012
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Daily Mail
A man who wore a T-shirt with offensive comments about the murders of Pc Fiona Bone and Pc Nicola Hughes on it just hours after they died has been sentenced to eight months in prison.
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News Link • Transportation
On the Road to Thunderdome
10-11-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by H F
Our culture relies heavily on vehicles and this will likely result in a rude awakening in a TEOTWAWKI situation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Citing privacy concerns, U.S. panel urges end to secret DNA testing
10-11-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Sharon Begley
They're called discreet DNA samples, and the Elk Grove, California, genetic-testing company easyDNA says it can handle many kinds, from toothpicks to tampons.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Rating cut piles pressure on Spain to seek aid
10-11-2012
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reuters.com, By Paul Day and Rodrigo De Miguel
Spain faced renewed pressure to take the politically humiliating step of seeking sovereign aid on Thursday after a credit agency cut its rating to near junk, triggering a spike in its borrowing costs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
UNSUSTAINABLE
10-11-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com,
When it comes to explaining the problems with our economy, one of the hardest things to do is to get people to understand that we are living in an economic fantasy world that is completely and totally unsustainable.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
What an Astronaut's Camera Sees at Night (from ISS)
10-11-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, SpaceRip
Featuring the haunting, ethereal music of Axial Ensemble, title track "Premonition."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
The Futility of Political Debates
10-11-2012
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informationliberation.com, by James E. Miller
As the American presidential election tightens in its final month, the series of debates between the contenders is now underway.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me
10-11-2012
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http://www.ted.com, TEDGlobal 2012
Melissa Marshall brings a message to all scientists (from non-scientists): We're fascinated by what you're doing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street’s Forgotten Victims Have Some Advice
10-11-2012
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bloomberg.com By Michael Lewis
I didn’t go looking for the kid. He found me. Of course, it stood to reason, with what’s been happening on Wall Street, that the children of Greenwich, Connecticut, must be taking a serious financial hit.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Dear Mystery Algorithm That Hogged Global Financial Trading Last Week: What Do You Want?
10-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
On Friday, a single mysterious program was responsible for 4 percent of all stock quote traffic and sucked up 10 percent of the NASDAQ's trading bandwidth. Then it disappeared.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple Has Quietly Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, And It's Tricky To Opt Out
10-11-2012
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businessinsider.com Jim Edwards
Apple's launch of the iPhone 5 in September came with a bunch of new commercials to promote the device.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Inside The Swarming Quadrotor Lab Of KMel Robotics
10-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
A Philadelphia robotics startup is blazing trails in the nascent unmanned systems industry by focusing on technology, and ignoring the killer app.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
FYI: Is It Legal To 3-D Print A Handgun?
10-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
The backers of the Wiki Weapons Project want to create a free, opensource digital file for printing a working handgun at home. But can they do so legally?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Video: Unions Fine Members Who Don't Show Support for Elizabeth Warren
10-11-2012
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Weekly Standard
A GOP source sends along this video, shot by a Republican tracker, of a union member supporting Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren outside of a debate Wednesday night in Springfield, Massachusetts. The cameraman asks the union member if he
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Watch a Tire Explode in Super-Slow-Mo
10-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
A burnout in slow motion? That’s so last century.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Big Pharma Incentives Are Out of Whack: Why We Need an X-Prize for Drugs
10-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Steven Johnson
The entire U.S. patent system needs serious repair, but the most broken thing about it is the way we patent prescription drugs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
4G on the Baby-Monitor Frequency
10-11-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, David Talbot
Showing the promise of "cognitive radio," a rural telecommunications provider is finding a novel way to deliver broadband Internet to consumers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
Scientists Find Harshest Sound in World: Listen
10-11-2012
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ABC News
Scientists studying the brain‘s reaction to sound have determined the piercing screech of a knife against a glass bottle to be the human ear’s worst nightmare.
A research team at the University of Newcastle examined brain activity in a group of vo
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Silver Circle Releases at New York Comic Con 2012
10-11-2012
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www.silvercirclemovie.com
From Thursday, October 11 to Sunday, October 14, LinePlot Productions will have a booth at the New York Comic Con (NYCC) promoting the imminent release their upcoming film, Silver Circle
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Supreme Court to Rule on Patents for Self-Replicating Products
10-10-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
Imagine a licensing agreement for buying seeds that allows them to be used only once a season. They cannot be resold for planting, and cannot be used for research, crop breeding or seed production.
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News Link • Economy - International
S&P downgrades Spain’s credit rating 2 notches to lowest investment-grade level
10-10-2012
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AP
Standard & Poor’s downgraded its rating on Spain’s debt by 2 notches, leaving it on the cusp of junk status. A grinding recession, high unemployment and social unrest are limiting the government’s options for stemming the country’s financial crisis,
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News Link • Technology: Software
Former SEALs Market iPhone App That The Government Hates
10-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
The first line to a recent story on Buzzfeed is enough to make anyone break out a tinfoil hat ... or at the very least buy a new App designed by Navy SEALs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
American Energy Companies Have Been Almost Completely Shut Out Of Iraq's Oil Fields
10-10-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, U.S. oil firms can count just one Iraqi oil field to their name.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Vote Gary Johnson: Only 1 in 10 Million Chance That Your Vote For Obama or Romney Would Even Matter
10-11-2012
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Bernie King, policymic.com
The chances that your vote or any one person’s vote will matter in the upcoming presidential election are astronomically small. Not only must your vote be the deciding vote in your state, your state’s electoral college votes must be necessary for eit
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Congress Tries to Force U.S. Army to Accept New Tanks on Behalf of Defense Contractors
10-11-2012
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Opposing Views
More than 2,000 M-1 Abrams tanks are sitting in a parking lot in Herlong, California because of a disagreement between the U.S. Army, Congress and the military industrial complex.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday Oct 11th 2012
10-11-2012
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LewRockwell.com
Sickly Sweet, horrors of aspartame / Looking Toward A Post-Crash World / I Want a Democratic Landslide, Fellow Paulians, you should, too / 39 Emergency Uses for Paracord / Your Ability to Sell Your Stuff Is it in peril? Article by Claire Wolfe
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Potential spoiler in Jeff Flake-Richard Carmona race
10-11-2012
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www.politico.com
Libertarian Marc Victor elbowed his way into the conversation Wednesday night, repeatedly needling Republican Rep. Jeff Flake over his hallmark accomplishment during his dozen years in Congress: killing the practice of earmarks.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Money Illusion with Scott Sumner
10-11-2012
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arclein
The Fed should stop paying interest on excess reserves, and if necessary should put a small interest penalty on excess reserves. This would encourage banks to stop sitting on all the money that has been injected into the system.
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News Link • Science
Measuring a Black Hole
10-11-2012
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arclein
adio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a telescope array called the "Event Horizon Telescope" (EHT) that can see details 2,000 times finer than what's visible to the Hubble Space Telescope. These radio dishes were trained on M87,
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Magnets Kill Cancer Cells
10-11-2012
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arclein
creating tiny iron nanoparticles attached to antibodies which bind to "receptor" molecules on tumour cells. When the magnetic field is applied, the molecules cluster together, automatically triggering the "death signal" that sets off apoptosis.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Atomic Bond Types Discernible in Single-Molecule Images
10-11-2012
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arclein
The new work opens up the prospect of studying imperfections in the "wonder material" graphene or plotting where electrons go during chemical reactions.
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News Link • Activism
Self-declared prince of sovereign principality of Sealand dies aged 91
10-11-2012
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The Guardian
Paddy Roy Bates, who occupied an abandoned fort in the North Sea and declared it the sovereign Principality of Sealand with himself as its prince, has died aged 91, his son said on Wednesday.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Flake and Carmona face off in debate
10-11-2012
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www.azcentral.com
The two rivals also traded barbs over earmarks -- Flake's signature issue -- and bringing home federal dollars to Arizona, as well as other topics. (and that damn Libertarian Marc Victor was there too talk'n about real issues and stuff)
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News Link • Energy
Calxeda Bulks Up for Super Energy-Efficient Servers
10-10-2012
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Martin LaMonica via technologyreview.com
Startup lands $55 million for "microserver" design that uses low-power ARM processors normally used in cell phones.
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