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Date Sent: 2012-07-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 2, 2012 AM edition |
Massive Japanese Debt Monetization Is Coming, Yen to be Devalued
US gone, Iraq starts to improve economically -- ‘Is that a crime?’: Witness says man shot by police was rushing cousin to hospital -- Japan readies nuclear reactor as protests mount -- Roger Young's "I Hereby Secede" video -- Man convicted of violating copyright for linking to video content -- Electricity slowly returns as U.S. heatwave drags on -- Are Mexicans about to vote for the return of the ‘perfect dictatorship’? -- As crops rot, millions go hungry in India -- NYPD Publishes Poster of "Professional Agitators," aka Citizens who Record Cops -- Introducing TapIn, an iPhone App Essential for Citizen Journalists -- Chris Hayes to AZ immigration law architect: convince me this isn’t about racism -- Iron Chains vs. Steel Chains -- China dispatches patrol ships as tensions with Vietnam mount -- "Showtime Syndrome" in Evansville: Online Trash Talk about Cops Triggers SWAT Raid -- "Elektable" (Ron Paul Short Film) -- Anti-War's Angela Keaton on Women, War and the Ethics of Empire -- PorcFest 2012 - Agorist Extravaganza! via ShireSilver.com --
Porcfest Chronicles C05 Video Alternative Currencies and Agorism -- Turkey scrambles F-16 jets on Syria border --
Alternative Fuel Rocket Roars to Life in Test -- Apple wins block of
Samsung smartphone sales in US -- Outline on Collapse End Game
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Arizona; "SICK and SICKER" Screening Monday; Help Bring Jordan Page to the Jackalope
Freedom Festival!; Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
Libertopia Early Bird Special Ends Soon
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News Link • Economy - International
Massive Japanese Debt Monetization Is Coming, Yen to be Devalued
07-01-2012
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FinancialSense.com
You can only stretch a rubber band so far before it snaps back or is torn, so too is the case with government indebtedness. There eventually comes a point when the road ends and the can hits a brick wall. It appears that Japan is rapidly approaching
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News Link • Iraq
US gone, Iraq starts to improve economically
07-01-2012
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New York Times
One has a designated prayer room. Another frisks patrons at the entrance, requiring them to check their pistols, like coats in a fancy restaurant. They are good places to escape the desert heat, and in a conservative Islamic culture, they are one of
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
‘Is that a crime?’: Witness says man shot by police was rushing cousin to hospital
07-01-2012
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A Johnstown man who survived a deadly shooting early Monday by three Johnstown police officers said that he and his cousin, Elip Cheatham, were trying to get another wounded cousin to a hospital and were not attempting to run down police.
“If it w
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan readies nuclear reactor as protests mount
07-01-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Engineers were Sunday readying to refire a nuclear reactor, despite growing public protests in the aftermath of meltdowns at Fukushima, ending nearly two months in which Japan was nuclear-free.
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Roger Young's "I Hereby Secede" video
07-01-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Make your claim to individual sovereignty clear by declaring and affirming your personal secession.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Man convicted of violating copyright for linking to video content
07-01-2012
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Rawstory
Newcastle crown court heard Anton Vickerman’s site had up to 400,000 users a day and made about £35,000 a month in revenue. While UK prosecutors did not pursue a case on copyright offences, Vickerman was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and face
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Electricity slowly returns as U.S. heatwave drags on
07-01-2012
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The Raw Story.com
Utility crews made slow progress Sunday in restoring electricity to millions of households amid a record-setting heatwave in the eastern United States that showed no sign of abating soon.
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News Link • World News
Are Mexicans about to vote for the return of the ‘perfect dictatorship’?
07-01-2012
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Rory Carroll, The Guardian
For weeks the sky over Mexico City has kept its inhabitants guessing " one moment it has been azure and sunny; the next an ominous grey vault of clouds belly full with rain.
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News Link • Government
As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
07-01-2012
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Reuters
Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country.
It is an extraordinary paradox created by a rig
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Insane: Real-life Hot Wheels cars go through double dare loop
07-01-2012
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Muriel Kane via The Raw Story.com
This years X Games, which are being held in Los Angeles this weekend, added to their usual extreme events by constructing a real-life, 66 foot tall version of the Hot Wheels Double Dare Snare
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News Link • Activism
NYPD Publishes Poster of "Professional Agitators," aka Citizens who Record Cops
07-01-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The New York City Police Department issued a notice to officers to be aware of a pair of “professional agitators” who like to video record police performing their duties. It was the agitators themselves who discovered the flyer when they walked insid
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Internet
Introducing TapIn, an iPhone App Essential for Citizen Journalists
07-01-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The Silicon Valley developers who are allowing us to test their new citizen journalism iPhone app for Saturday’s photo walk/protest are still putting the final touches on their website and the app itself, but they just gave me the green light to make
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Chris Hayes to AZ immigration law architect: convince me this isn’t about racism
07-01-2012
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Jonathan Terbush
On “Up With Chris Hayes” Sunday, the show’s titular host challenged one of the architects of Arizona’s tough immigration law to convince him and his viewers that the law is not, as critics contend, steeped in racism.
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News Link • Government
Iron Chains vs. Steel Chains
07-01-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
What difference does it make if you have to wear leg irons or handcuffs made of iron, rather than steel? What difference does it make if you are forced to buy health insurance due to a monetary penalty, rather than due to its being regulated as an it
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News Link • World News
China dispatches patrol ships as tensions with Vietnam mount
07-01-2012
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The Raw Story.com
China has deployed four patrol ships to a disputed area of the South China Sea, state media said Sunday, amid a deepening row with Vietnam over competing territorial claims.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"Showtime Syndrome" in Evansville: Online Trash Talk about Cops Triggers SWAT Raid
07-01-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“The community absolutely has to have law and order. If that’s removed, all kinds of chaos and violence will result,” insisted Evansville, Indiana Police Captain Andy Chandler in an interview with Pro Libertate.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
"Elektable" (Ron Paul Short Film)
07-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com/
All scenes for the film were shot in Chicago over 4 days using the Red One MX and Epic Cameras. The sets shown in the film were custom built for this effort.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Volkswagen Doubleback rocks Europe years after being discontinued in United States
07-01-2012
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www.nydailynews.com
It’s the equivalent of having a whole bedroom in the back of your van, and the modification, surprisingly, adds a mere 286 pounds to the vehicle’s weight.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Thomas Edison's nickel-iron battery gets 21st-century makeover, could power electric cars
07-01-2012
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www.nydailynews.com
They have bonded the electrodes to carbon nanotubes and to graphene, a super-material made of carbon just one atom thick, gaining a dramatic boost in conductivity. "The result is an ultra-fast version of the nickel-iron battery that's capable of char
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Anti-War's Angela Keaton on Women, War and the Ethics of Empire
07-01-2012
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http://thedailybell.com
Introduction: Angela Keaton is the Director of Operations at Antiwar.com. She is currently chairman of the board for the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA) and national secretary for Outright Libertarians.
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News Link • Wallet Voting
PorcFest 2012 - Agorist Extravaganza! via ShireSilver.com
07-01-2012
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http://shiresilver.com
Thanks to the folks at Freedom's Phoenix, the Silver Calculator App, and Don't Tread On Meme we were able to utilize the amazing Moneylith. The Moneylith is a fairly typical vending machine, but this one was loaded with most of the alternative curren
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Drew
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News Link • Inventions
Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’
07-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Steven Levy
Google now regards its developers conference as a launch pad for a shotgun spread of announcements, almost like a CES springing from a single company.
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News Link • Drug War
FYI: Could Drugs Like "Bath Salts" Be Causing An Outbreak of Cannibalism?
07-01-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
Does the drug commonly known as "bath salts" make you particularly crave the taste of human flesh? There's no scientific evidence that it does. But it certainly could lead to a bit of cannibalism as a side effect.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Turkey scrambles F-16 jets on Syria border
07-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Turkey has scrambled six F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria after Syrian helicopters came close to the border, the country’s army says.
Six jets were sent to the area in response to three such incidents on Saturday, the statement said, a
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News Link • Inventions
Alternative Fuel Rocket Roars to Life in Test
07-01-2012
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http://www.space.com, Staff
A new hybrid rocket motor fired up Friday (June 29), demonstrating technology that its builders say could lead to efficient, alternative-fuel launch vehicles down the road.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Potential treatment target identified in an animal model of pancreatic cancer
07-01-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Sue McGreevey
Detailed analysis of genes expressed in circulating tumor cells (CTCs) -- cells that break off from solid tumors and travel through the bloodstream -- has identified a potential treatment target in metastatic pancreatic cancer.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Beyond base pairs: Regulatory sequences of mouse genome sequenced for first time
07-01-2012
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http://phys.org, byUniversity of California
Popularly dubbed "the book of life," the human genome is extraordinarily difficult to read. But without full knowledge of its grammar and syntax, the genome's 2.9 billion base-pairs of adenine and thymine, cytosine and guanine provide limited insight
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple wins block of Samsung smartphone sales in US
07-01-2012
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http://phys.org, AFP
A judge granted Apple's request for an injunction blocking US sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones made in collaboration with Google to challenge the iPhone.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
More clues soon in hunt for Higgs particle
07-01-2012
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http://phys.org, by Jean-Louis Santini
More clues are expected next week in the worldwide hunt for an elusive sub-atomic particle, the Higgs boson, that is the missing piece in the standard model of physics.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News--
July 1, 2012 Edition
06-29-2012
John Semmens
President Says Obamacare Decision a Victory for Freedom
President Barack Obama hailed the US Supreme Court's narrow 5-4 decision to uphold his signature Affordable Care Act as “a victory for freedom.”
“By affirming the legality of our health ca
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News Link • Internet
Megaupload warrants ruled illegal by New Zealand court
06-29-2012
A court in New Zealand has ruled that the search warrants used by New Zealand police when they raided the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom were invalid.
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
How Iran Might See the Threats
06-29-2012
Ray McGovern
With half of 2012 behind us and the U.S. presidential election looming in just four months, I will try to be candid and blunt about what I see as the dangers facing the Islamic Republic in the coming months.
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News Link • Libertopia
Libertopia Early Bird Special Ends Soon
06-29-2012
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Libertopia
Annual membership gives you access to all speeches, panels, concerts, exhibitors’ areas, parties, and networking activities, and also includes discounts on Libertopia merchandise. Early bird special of $225 ends on July 11,
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Celente Launches 2nd American Revolution: Puts His Money Where His Heart Is
06-28-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Gerald Celente
Gerald Celente’s forecast is clear " The 2nd American Revolution is on the horizon. And this American Patriot has done more than just sign up to join the fight, he’s established its headquarters.
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