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Date Sent: 2012-06-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, June 18, 2012 AM edition |
CIA Refuses to Confirm or Deny Drone Attacks Obama Brags About
Foreign holdings of US debt hit record high -- Activists urge civil disobedience against Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers -- Obama Boy - "I Have A Crush On Obama" -- Thousands March Silently to Protest Stop-and-Frisk Policies -- Supporters of Bailout Claim Victory in Greek Election -- Egypt’s military issues decree giving vast powers to armed forces, but few to president -- Charting the Cozy Connections between JP Morgan and the Senate Banking Committee -- Amended Stop-And-Frisk Procedures -- Google, Brazilian tribe launch culture map project -- How Microsoft and Yahoo Are Selling Politicians Access to You -- Police State Checkpoint Nullification in Upper Moreland, PA -- Navy May Need to Design Ships With Laser Guns in Mind -- Arizona Libertarian Party Opens Primary to Independent Voters After Suing to Keep Them Out! -- Rodney King, Found Dead at 47 -- Statistics show people more likely to die on their birthday --
Freud's theory of unconscious conflict linked to anxiety symptoms in new
brain research
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Refuses to Confirm or Deny Drone Attacks Obama Brags About
06-17-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The Central Intelligence Agency continues to refuse to confirm or deny covert military use of drones to kill suspected terrorists overseas, despite President Barack Obama’s and even a former CIA director’s admission of the agency’s targeted killing
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreign holdings of US debt hit record high
06-17-2012
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AP
Foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities rose to a record high in April. China, the largest buyer of Treasury debt, increased its holdings slightly after trimming them for two straight months.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Activists urge civil disobedience against Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers
06-17-2012
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AFP
“The key to ending the ban imposed on women driving in Saudi Arabia starts with women themselves,” said a statement from the Women2Drive initiative, received by AFP.
It urged “women who hold driving licences (from abroad) to drive on the anniversa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Thousands March Silently to Protest Stop-and-Frisk Policies
06-17-2012
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New York Times
In a slow, somber procession, several thousand demonstrators conducted a silent march down Fifth Avenue to protest the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policies, which the organizers say single out minority groups
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Supporters of Bailout Claim Victory in Greek Election
06-17-2012
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New York Times
Greek voters gave a narrow victory in parliamentary elections to a party that had supported a bailout for the country’s failed economy. The vote was widely seen as a last chance for Greece to remain in the euro zone,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Egypt’s military issues decree giving vast powers to armed forces, but few to president
06-17-2012
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Washington Post
Egypt’s military leaders issued a constitutional decree that gave the armed forces sweeping powers and degraded the presidency to a subservient role, as ballots in the presidential runoff showed the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate in the lead.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Charting the Cozy Connections between JP Morgan and the Senate Banking Committee
06-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, faced a Senate hearing over more than $2 billion in bank losses caused by risky hedges that blew up. Dimon said that the hedges"investments meant to protect the bank"had grown into “complex and hard-to manage
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Amended Stop-And-Frisk Procedures
06-17-2012
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NY Times
Political Cartoon "The Strip"
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Architecture
Google, Brazilian tribe launch culture map project
06-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Google on Saturday unveiled a cultural map of Brazil’ Surui indigenous people, a digital tool that will help the Amazonian tribe share their vast knowledge of the forest and fight illegal logging.
The map, the result of a five-year partnership bet
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Internet
How Microsoft and Yahoo Are Selling Politicians Access to You
06-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Microsoft and Yahoo are selling political campaigns the ability to target voters online with tailored ads using names, Zip codes and other registration information that users provide when they sign up for free email and other services.
The Web gia
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Police State Checkpoint Nullification in Upper Moreland, PA
06-15-2012
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The International Libertarian
The problem with these checkpoints is that they're warrantless, arbitrary searches. This goes against all standards of civilized behavior and is not tolerable in a free society. Not only are checkpoints violating our rights they're not effective.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Military
Navy May Need to Design Ships With Laser Guns in Mind
06-17-2012
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
The Navy’s dreams of laser weapons are about to come true. But like the dog who chases the car and doesn’t know what to do when he catches it, the Navy’s thoroughly unprepared for its coming arsenal of focused-light weapons.
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News Link • Media: Radio
2012-06-15 Liberty Underground Radio Show
06-17-2012
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Liberty Underground
Alex and Adrian call out the Tampa Bay Times for their bias and lack of journalistic integrity, we endorse Scott Swope for Pinellas County sheriff, we talk to Karen Schoen about Agenda 21, and we break the story of how the Pinellas County Sheriff’s O
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Matt Schnackenberg
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News Link • Death
Rodney King, Found Dead at 47
06-17-2012
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AP
The 1992 riots set off by the acquittals of the 4 officers who beat King, lasted 3 days and left 55 people dead, more than 2,000 injured and swaths of Los Angeles on fire. At the height of the violence, King pleaded on television:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Seriously?
Americans' Creationist Views on Human Origins
06-17-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, by Ross Toro
Despite new discoveries in biological and social science, there has been virtually no change in Americans' views of the origin of the human species.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Communications
More People Stay 'Connected' on Vacation Via Web: Study
06-17-2012
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Michigan State University
Easy online access and the popularity of personal electronic devices mean that an increasing number of people are staying connected while on vacation, researchers report.
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News Link • Environment
A sea of broken promises
06-17-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Smita Chandra
World leaders have made pitiful progress on their guarantee to protect global oceans from overfishing and other threats.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Control gene for 'conveyor belt' cells could help improve oral vaccines, treat intestinal di
06-17-2012
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http://medicalxpress.com, byEmory University
Scientists have found a master regulator gene needed for the development of M cells, a mysterious type of intestinal cell involved in initiating immune responses.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Lariats: How RNA splicing decisions are made
06-17-2012
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http://phys.org, byBrown University
Lariats are discarded byproducts of RNA splicing, the process by which genetic instructions for making proteins are assembled. A new study has found hundreds more lariats than ever before, yielding new information about how splicing occurs and how it
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News Link • Death
Statistics show people more likely to die on their birthday
06-17-2012
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http://medicalxpress.com, by Bob Yirka
Researchers studying mortality rates on over two million people over a forty year time span have found that statistically speaking, people are more likely to die on their birthday, than any other day of the year.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Freud's theory of unconscious conflict linked to anxiety symptoms in new brain research
06-17-2012
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byUniversity of Michigan Health System
An experiment that Sigmund Freud could never have imagined 100 years ago may help lend scientific support for one of his key theories, and help connect it with current neuroscience.
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Opinion • Books
A Perfect Gift For Independence Day
06-16-2012
Chuck Baldwin
A few years ago, I sadly discovered that it was next to impossible to find our nation’s great historic documents together in one volume, so we decided to fix that problem. It took us a full year to research and compile over 50 of our country’s greate
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
June 17, 2012
06-15-2012
John Semmens
President Initiates Plan to Boost Status of Illegal Aliens
A year ago, President Barack Obama told his Hispanic supporters that he lacked the authority to grant amnesty to people in the country illegally. “There are laws on the books that prohibit
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Former White House Photographer Sues Police
06-15-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The photojournalist who had his White House credentials revoked after he was unlawfully arrested for video recording a police encounter in Maryland last year filed a lawsuit this week.
Mannie Garcia is seeking at least $500,000 from the incident i
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Just Because You're Innocent Doesn't Mean You Aren't Guilty
06-15-2012
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USA Today
But he is serving a federal prison sentence for it. And the fact that everyone " including the U.S.Justice Department" agrees that he is legally innocent might not be enough to set him free. That he is innocent might not be enough to set him free.
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News Link • Internet
Comcast Protests “Shake Down” of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
06-15-2012
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Comcast has run out of patience with the avalanche of BitTorrent lawsuits. The ISP is refusing to comply with court-ordered subpoenas, arguing they are intended to “shake down” subscribers by coercing them to pay settlements.
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News Link • Drug War
Tiny Victories
06-15-2012
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The Agitator
The lawsuit comes from a mistaken drug raid (someone wrote down the wrong license plate) in which DEA agents pointed a gun at the head of an 11-year-old girl while she lay handcuffed on the floor. The judge ruled DEA agents did not act unreasonably i
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