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Date Sent: 2012-07-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, July 8, 2012 |
Army Manual Outlines Plan To Kill Rioters, Demonstrators In America
Soros Promotes UN Control Over Gun Ownership -- Syriagate: Western firm's advice for Syria proves ineffective in media war -- The ‘New Gestapo’? Maine Gov. Blasts Massive Expansion of IRS Agents -- Libyan democracy: Regional division, bloodshed mar first post-Gaddafi poll -- Afghan pay day: Tokyo conference pledges $16 bln in aid --
Post-apocalyptic Krymsk: Russia’s southern city destroyed by flood
(PHOTOS, VIDEO) -- Global report: Decriminalization does not increase
rates of drug use -- California high-speed rail gets green light -- Why
The Law Forbids The Medicinal Use of Natural Substances -- DOT Construction Signs Hacked To Read 'Impeach Obama' -- Bullying, Bluster and Imperial Arrogance 101 - by Stephen Lendman --
Israel: Land of Inequality and Injustice -- Islamists Have the Keys to
the Arab World? -- South Sudan Cuts Off Oil -- West Bank Annexation? -- Genes
for Breast Size Found -- Who Deserves a Higgs Boson Nobel? One
Scientist, or Many -- Global Warming Shrinking Plant Leaves --
How Fire Could Change the Face of the West -- Party
Away the Demons With Workout, Brooklyn’s Irony-Free Rockers -- An Underwater Explosion Continues To Send
Dead Sea Life To The Surface -- JIM O'NEILL: The US Is No Longer The
Best Economy In The Developed World -- Disneyland for Generals:
Welcome to SOFEX -- Libor Scandal Reflects a Cesspool of Financial
Fraud -- Dismal Jobs Report Reflects Economic Decline - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Party at Hancock's - Come meet Glenn
Jacobs, aka Citizen X, aka Kane (WWF) - Friday,
July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine
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News Link • Activism
Army Manual Outlines Plan To Kill Rioters, Demonstrators In America
07-08-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
“Warning shots will not be fired”
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Party at Hancock's - Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka Citizen X - Friday, July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
07-02-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Glenn Jacobs is a well-versed libertarian, knows what's going on in the world, and is looking to survive this thing that is coming. Hope you can come and relax while meeing with others of like-mind.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Soros Promotes UN Control Over Gun Ownership
07-08-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Joe Wolverton, II
George Soros is financing the fight to give the United Nations control of your guns.
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News Link • Syria
Syriagate: Western firm's advice for Syria proves ineffective in media war
07-08-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Syria received specific guidance from a private communications company on how to fight back in a massive media battle launched by the West, a fresh leak of Syria-linked files has revealed. But that war was lost the day it began.
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News Link • Israel
The ‘New Gestapo’? Maine Gov. Blasts Massive Expansion of IRS Agents
07-08-2012
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The Blaze
Governor Paul LePage of Maine is making news for allegedly referring to the IRS as the “new Gestapo” Saturday, after blasting the president’s overhaul of our health care system.
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News Link • Libya
Libyan democracy: Regional division, bloodshed mar first post-Gaddafi poll
07-08-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Libyans have voted in the country’s first elections since ousting Muammar Gaddafi.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan pay day: Tokyo conference pledges $16 bln in aid
07-08-2012
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http://www.rt.com
International donors have pledged to provide $16 billion dollars in funding to Afghanistan over the next four years.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Post-apocalyptic Krymsk: Russia’s southern city destroyed by flood (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
07-08-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Almost everyone in Krymsk was caught by surprise when devastating flood waters hit the town. Cars and buildings were swept away by the deluge as the nearby Adagum River turned into a roaring nightmare.
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News Link • Drug War
Global report: Decriminalization does not increase rates of drug use
07-08-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By David Ferguson
A new report by the U.K.’s “national centre of expertise on drugs and drug laws” says that drug decriminalization does not lead to an increase of drug use.
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News Link • Art
Master forger comes clean about tricks that fooled art world for four decades
07-08-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Dalya Alberge
Ken Perenyi’s memoir reveals how natural cracks and discoloured varnish would deceive even seasoned experts.
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News Link • Transportation
California high-speed rail gets green light
07-08-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
The US state of California has approved the first phase of construction of a much anticipated yet controversial high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco, officials said.
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News Link • Transportation
U.S. electric car market full of spark
07-08-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
The US market for all-electric cars is charging up, with plug-in vehicles rolling off US dealer lots despite much higher costs, battery fire scares and falling gasoline prices.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Eight Health Warnings Your Fingernails May Be Sending
07-08-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By losethebackpain.com
Are your fingernails healthy, or sending you a health warning?
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News Link • Food
Why The Law Forbids The Medicinal Use of Natural Substances
07-08-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Sayer Ji
According to the FDA’s legal definition, a drug is anything that “diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease.”
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
DOT Construction Signs Hacked To Read 'Impeach Obama'
07-08-2012
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KTUU.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska " Several electronic road construction signs around Anchorage were hacked late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, according to the state Department of Transportation.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Islamists Have the Keys to the Arab World?
07-07-2012
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arclein
The Muslim Brotherhood isn’t seeking power; they want to change society and the individual in the name of a totalitarian ideology. They have waited 80 years to seize the power, while their worldview was forged in the Arabian desert 1,300 years ago.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
South Sudan Cuts Off Oil
07-07-2012
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arclein
The conflict between north and south actually began almost immediately after Sudan became independent in 1956. The first phase of the war lasted until 1972 when a truce was declared. War started up again in 1982 and continued until 2005 when the Ge
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Green Rust Tackles Heavy Metals
07-07-2012
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arclein
Only discovered in the last decade, green rust is a highly reactive iron mineral which experts hope could be used to clean up metal pollution and even radioactive waste.
Newcastle University's Professor Simon Poulton said this latest discovery
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News Link • Israel
West Bank Annexation?
07-07-2012
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arclein
conveniently ignore the singular role of Arab-Muslim rejectionism in perpetuating the state of war with Israel. The liberal media portrays the Palestinian Authority as moderate despite a charter that plainly calls for Israel’s destruction and regardl
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Who Deserves a Higgs Boson Nobel? One Scientist, or Many
07-07-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, by Francie Diep
There's the science, and then there's the glitter. As researchers celebrate the best-yet evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson, some are already thinking about who's going to get the Nobel Prize in physics for the seminal discovery.
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Shrinking Plant Leaves
07-07-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Staff
Warming temperatures are turning a native Australian shrub into a mini version of itself, revealing the effect climate change is already having on the globe.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists develop mouse model that could lead to new therapies for liver cancer
07-07-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, John Wallace
Researchers have created the first mouse model demonstrating the role of a cancer promoting gene, Astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1), in hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver cancer.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ovarian Transplants May Preserve Fertility in Young Cancer Survivors
07-07-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, HealthDay News
Ovarian grafts -- frozen ovarian tissue that is thawed and transplanted back into a woman's body -- can help cancer survivors preserve their fertility, according to a small, new study.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Convicted of Murder, Linux Guru Hans Reiser Returns to Court to Fight Civil Suit
07-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Four years after being convicted of killing his wife, Linux guru Hans Reiser returns Monday to court, this time to defend himself from a wrongful-death suit brought by his two children.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Review: Spelunky Is Frustrating, Random and Brilliant
07-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Rigney
Too many of today’s videogames are are roller-coaster rides, designed to create a sense of thrilling danger while in reality keeping you perfectly safe.
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News Link • Environment
How Fire Could Change the Face of the West
07-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Brandon Keim
The vast wildfires of this summer and last represent a new normal for the western United States. They may signal a radical landscape transformation, one that will make the 21st century West an ecological frontier.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Party Away the Demons With Workout, Brooklyn’s Irony-Free Rockers
07-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Keith Axline
When the guys from Workout start their set, it’s like Mike D kicking down the door in the video for the Beastie Boys’ “Fight for Your Right to Party” (minus the dickish punching and stealing).
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News Link • Internet
Yahoo, Facebook settle patent dispute, ad alliance
07-07-2012
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http://phys.org, by BARBARA ORTUTAY
Facebook and Yahoo have agreed to settle a patent dispute, averting a potentially lengthy battle over the technology running two of the Internet's most popular destinations.
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News Link • Environment
An Underwater Explosion Continues To Send Dead Sea Life To The Surface
07-07-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Stephanie Pappas
An underwater volcano that erupted near the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa is giving scientists a closer look at how ocean ecosystems could respond to climate change, from dying fish to adapting plankton.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Disneyland for Generals: Welcome to SOFEX
07-07-2012
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Vice.com
Where does one go to shop for the latest in military weapons and training? Amman, Jordan, at the Special Operations Forces Expo (SOFEX).
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine - READY FOR DOWNLOAD - August 2012 Edition
07-05-2012
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Freedom's Phoenix Magazine
The August 2012 Edition of the Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine will feature, 'What Do We Do Now'? How do we prepare for a future, beyond the darkness that is surely coming, that will provide light? ; how are you going to survive; how are you prep
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
July 8, 2012 Edition
07-06-2012
John Semmens
Administration Shrugs Off Negative Jobs Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the official unemployment rate remained above 8% for the 41st straight month. The picture for Black unemployment was even more discouraging bumping up in J
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FIJA: William Lynch Found Not Guilty in Beating of Priest He Said Sexually Abused Him
07-06-2012
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ABC News
William Lynch, the 44-year-old California man who admitted he pummeled a Jesuit priest who he said abused him as a boy, has been found not guilty of felony assault and elder abuse charges.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
U.S. Files Trade Complaint Against China on Vehicles
07-05-2012
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New York Times
The US filed a trade complaint against China for new duties it imposed on American-made cars and trucks. The move came as President Obama kicked off a campaign tour through the manufacturing heartland of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Ohio-built Jeep Wra
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News Link • Economy - International
Three Central Banks Collude to Stimulate More Borrowing
07-05-2012
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New York Times
Concerned about waning economic growth, central banks in Europe and China announced measures to increase borrowing and spending by businesses and consumers, a response that was all the more striking because it was uncoordinated.
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan's Azumi: govt could run out of cash by Oct
07-05-2012
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Reuters
Japan's government could run out of money to fund this fiscal year's budget by the end of October, the finance minister said, as a standoff in parliament over a deficit financing bill threatens to wreak havoc with the country's finances.
The defic
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Social Security Number challenged
07-05-2012
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WND
Daniels, who has vetted thousands of Social Security Numbers for numerous other clients, has done her homework. In her filing, she thoroughly documents her contention “that Barack Obama has repeatedly, consistently, and with intent misrepresented him
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News Link • Government
Hallandale Beach Lifeguard Fired For Leaving His Zone To Rescue Drowning Man
07-05-2012
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NBC News (video)
A Hallandale Beach lifeguard was offered his job back on Thursday after being fired for leaving his post to rescue a man drowning outside the zone he was hired to patrol.
Lifeguard Tomas Lopez told NBC 6 that he won't be taking the job back.
Lo
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan's atomic disaster due to "collusion:" panel report
07-05-2012
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Reuters
Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years.
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News Link • Corruption
Countrywide won influence with discounts
07-05-2012
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AP
The former Countrywide, whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government officials and
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Scientists finally measure cosmic ‘dark matter’
07-05-2012
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Rawstory
While the rest of the world was celebrating the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, researchers announced another major discovery that will likely lead to fundamental changes in humanity’s understanding of the universe.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Passengers could be asked to give drink samples to TSA
07-05-2012
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Passengers say their problem is not with the rules at the airport. They understand why drinks are not allowed through security, but when they buy one while they wait for their flight, they say the TSA shouldn't ask to test it.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Virus could black out nearly 250,000 PCs
07-05-2012
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By Jim Finkle Reuters
About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Terrafugia flying car completes first phase of flight testing
07-05-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com
Six years after the initial announcement that Terrafugia, Inc. would develop a "roadable airplane," the Transition has completed the first phase of flight testing. The flight testing, carried out at Plattsburgh International Airport in northern New Y
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News Link • Police State
Long Beach Officers Shown Walking on Employee
07-05-2012
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jonathanturley.org
The video below is now the basis for an investigation into a raid by Long Beach California officers of the THC marijuana dispensary.
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News Link • Police State
New Jersey ACLU Releases New App To Record Police
07-05-2012
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jonathanturley.org
A colleague sent me the link to the new ACLU App designed to allow citizens to more easily record police on their cellphones and to make it more difficult for police to delete the recording.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Zimmerman's bail set at $1M in Trayvon Martin case
07-05-2012
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AP
The neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin can be released from jail on $1 million bond while he awaits trial on a second-degree murder charge, a judge ruled Thursday.
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester granted bond to George Zimmerman f
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News Link • Israel
Who Killed Yasser Arafat?
07-05-2012
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antiwar.com by Justin Raimondo
Yasser Arafat died on November 11, 2004, of a mysterious ailment. His enemies spread the rumor he had AIDS: David Frum, with typical classiness, claimed he had contracted AIDS as a consequence of having sex with his bodyguards.
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu Worked Inside Nuclear Smuggling Ring
07-05-2012
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On June 27, 2012, the FBI partially declassified and released seven additional pages [.pdf] from a 1985"2002 investigation into how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled nuclear triggers.
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News Link • Science
New Particle is Likely Higgs
07-05-2012
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arclein
To be absolutely sure they've made a true new discovery, rather than simply seen a fluke, physicists wait for enough data so that their statistics reach a level called 5 sigma, meaning that there is only a one in 3.5 million chance the signal isn't
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News Link • Surveillance
Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Review: Fly Higher, Farther, and More Intuitively
07-05-2012
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www.popsci.com
Parrot's second-gen recreational drone packs new hardware that makes for a smoother, more controlled piloting experience.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
San Diego man stranded after told on no-fly list
07-04-2012
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AP
A US citizen of Somali descent has been stranded in Bahrain for 2 weeks after being told his name appears on the U.S. government's no-fly list does not understand why he has been tagged as a suspected terrorist and is talking to U.S. lawyers.
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News Link • Environment
Midwest ranchers, lawmakers protest EPA flyovers
07-04-2012
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AP
Midwest ranchers have never been enamored with environmental regulators, but they really began to complain after learning that federal inspectors were flying over their land to look for problems.
The Environmental Protection Agency flies over powe
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News Link • Internet
Twitter shares info on gov't demands for user data
07-04-2012
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AP
Twitter will provide biannual reports about U.S. and foreign government demands for information about its users, just as Google has been doing for the past two years. U.S. government agencies accounted for most of the inquiries
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli police officer caught kicking Palestinian boy on video
07-04-2012
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Rawstory
A video showing an Israeli police officer kicking a nine-year-old Palestinian boy has prompted an official investigation.
The footage, released by the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, shows the child, Abd a-Rahman Burqan, on the ground
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