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Date Sent: 2013-01-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 26, 2013 |
H.R. 193 would force farmers to pay a fee on saved seeds and register them
The Taxman Looks to Speed Up Payments -- Glass That Bends the
Rules of Manufacturing -- “Hybrid Wing” Uses Half the Fuel of a Standard
Airplane -- Audi to Make Fuel Using Solar Power -- Colonizing Mars:
Q&A with Mars One Chief Bas Lansdorp -- Illinois Citizens Still
Being Arrested For Filming Cops -- TSA Conducts Random Checks At Austin Train Station -- Airport Terror Announcements Now Being Played in Hotels -- Indian women given kitchen knives, chili to fend off rapists -- Star Trek style 'tractor beam' created by scientists -- Fed’s
Holdings of U.S. Gov't Debt Hit Record $1,696,691,000,000; Up 257% Under
Obama -- Chicago's Mayor To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers -- Wall Street's in Good Hands with Mary Jo White - by Stephen Lendman -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 27, 2013 Edition -- Hackers (and Gov’t) Can Spy on You Through Your Webcam -- Holder begins gun-control push -- Attorney For Freedom Show: Letter From Birmingham Jail -- ‘Anonymous’ hackers jailed over attacks on PayPal in defense of WikiLeaks -- ‘US should realize that world has changed’ – Venezuelan VP (RT Exclusive) -- 01-25-13 -- Dr. Phranq Tamburri and Glenn Jacobs in studio - (Video Loaded) -- British man claims he was tortured and forced to sign confessions by CIA --
Moscow regrets US pullout from bilateral commission on human rights --
Rahm Emanuel presses banks to deny services to gun companies -- Scam complete: the US government takes a page from Diocletian’s book --
Giant Tobacco Plants That Stay Young Forever -- RESOLUTION REGARDING
WOMEN SERVING IN THE MILITARY -- Study Confirms no Smoking after Forty
Almost as Good as Total Abstinence
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News Link • TAXES: State
The Taxman Looks to Speed Up Payments
01-26-2013
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Technologyreview.com
A disruptive electronic payment service wants to eliminate cash. Now Iowa’s government could give it a boost.
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News Link • Energy
“Hybrid Wing” Uses Half the Fuel of a Standard Airplane
01-26-2013
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Technologyreview.com
NASA has demonstrated a manufacturing breakthrough that will allow hybrid wing aircraft to be scaled up.
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News Link • Energy
Audi to Make Fuel Using Solar Power
01-26-2013
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Technologyreview.com
The automaker is using technology from SolarFuel to make renewable methane for natural-gas vehicles
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News Link • Police State
Illinois Citizens Still Being Arrested For Filming Cops
01-26-2013
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Prison Planet
Naperville woman arrested on eavesdropping charges for recording forced installation of ‘smart meter’
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Airport Terror Announcements Now Being Played in Hotels
01-26-2013
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Prison Planet
Employees and guests urged to report “suspicious behavior” under DHS program
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Indian women given kitchen knives, chili to fend off rapists
01-26-2013
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news.yahoo.com
India's radical Hindu nationalist party governing Mumbai has handed out kitchen knives and chili powder to women following a gang rape in the capital New Delhi that ignited a national debate on the best way to tackle sex crimes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way
01-26-2013
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newscientist.com
Ever look up at the stars and wonder if some bug-eyed creature is doing the same? It turns out at least one does: the dung beetle uses the glow of the Milky Way to navigate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Fed’s Holdings of U.S. Gov't Debt Hit Record $1,696,691,000,000; Up 257% Under Obama
01-26-2013
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cnsnews.com
In data released Thursday afternoon, the Federal Reserve revealed that its holdings of U.S. government debt had increased to an all-time record of $1,696,691,000,000 as of the close of business on Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
France's richest man moves to Belgium and takes multi-billion pound fortune with him
01-26-2013
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dailymail.co.uk
Bernard Arnault, head of luxury goods group LVMH, insists that he moved the cash and assets for ‘family inheritance reasons’
It is thought he wants to avoid a 75 per cent top rate on income being introduced by President Francois Hollande
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
01-26-2013
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chicago.cbslocal.com
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is putting more pressure on gun makers to get behind his push for an assault weapons ban and criminal background checks for gun purchasers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Biden: Va. Tech showed background checks needed
01-26-2013
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Associated Press
The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting illustrated the importance of strengthening background checks to ensure guns are not sold to people who cannot legally buy them, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
AK47 Rifle Report
Chip Saunders
So you have decided that you need an assault rifle to survive the apocalypse, and have settled on getting the famous AK47. Here’s the essential stuff you need to know. (Believe it or not, this is the SHORT version. Entire books have been written
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 27, 2013 Edition
01-25-2013
John Semmens
Joint Chiefs Looking to Lower Combat Standards
Now that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has decreed that women may not be excluded from front line combat positions, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey ordered a review of
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News Link • Surveillance
Hackers (and Gov’t) Can Spy on You Through Your Webcam
01-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The video below shows how easy it is for a hacker to turn on the webcam on your computer and watch your every move. It’s reasonable to deduce that if a low-grade hacker can do this, then it is likely to be child’s play for government spy agencies to
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
BIDS v. NICS
01-25-2013
If we must have gun-buyer background checks to stop criminals, at least do it without compiling massive records on the innocent. "My libertarian friends often enjoy attacking me because I have a pragmatic bone or two in my body,..."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Holder begins gun-control push
01-25-2013
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The Hill
The proposed regulations would give local law-enforcement agencies access to the gun-sale database that is maintained by the FBI. The rules would also preserve records of denied weapons sales indefinitely.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show: Letter From Birmingham Jail
01-25-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
The Attorney for Freedom Show, with Marc J Victor and Special Guests for 1/24/2013
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Anonymous
‘Anonymous’ hackers jailed over attacks on PayPal in defense of WikiLeaks
01-25-2013
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RT.com
Two British hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous, have been given prison terms for cyber-attacks, which reportedly cost PayPal $5.6 million.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
‘US should realize that world has changed’ " Venezuelan VP (RT Exclusive)
01-25-2013
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RT.com
The US has lots of troubles dealing with other nations as they haven’t come to grips with the new global reality, Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro told RT in an exclusive interview.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
British man claims he was tortured and forced to sign confessions by CIA
01-25-2013
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RT.com
A British man who was handed over to the CIA under the suspicion of being an Islamist terrorist says he was severely tortured by collaborators of the intelligence agency and forced to sign a confession.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Moscow regrets US pullout from bilateral commission on human rights
01-25-2013
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RT.com
The United States has delivered the latest setback to Russia-US relations by announcing it will no longer participate in the Russian-American Bilateral Presidential Commission on Civil Society.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Rahm Emanuel presses banks to deny services to gun companies
01-25-2013
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CNN Politico
Emanuel is sending letters to two major financial institutions, TD Bank and Bank of America, which offer lines of credit to gun makers suggesting that they stop lending money to the manufacturers if they don’t come out for new gun restrictions.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Scam complete: the US government takes a page from Diocletian’s book…
1/25/2013
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sovereign man
Egan-Jones, a smaller rating agency, has been even more aggressive, downgrading the US credit rating three times in 18 months. And while the federal government may not have imposed Diocletian’s death penalty, they are just as willing to squash dissen
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
HIV Vaccine Brakes Disease for Year
01-25-2013
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arclein
"What we did was give instructions to the immune system so it could learn to destroy the virus, which it does not do naturally," said Felipe Garcia, one of the scientists in the team at Barcelona University's Hospital Clinic.
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News Link • Science
Cheap and Easy Gene Snip
01-25-2013
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arclein
A simple, precise and inexpensive method for cutting DNA to insert genes into human cells could transform genetic medicine, making routine what now are expensive, complicated and rare procedures for replacing defective genes in order to fix genetic d
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News Link • Science
Eliminating Pesticides From Human Bloodstream
01-25-2013
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arclein
Organophosphorus agents (OP) are used as pesticides in developing countries and acute poisoning is common because of insufficient control, poor storage, ready availability, and inadequate education amongst farmers.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday January 25th 2013
01-25-2013
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LewRockwell.com
It's a Clash of Civilizations / Want To Be Rich?, Think long and hard about your attitude towards money, says Doug Casey / 9 Members of the Ugly Pistol Club / The Little Ruger 10/22 Rifle / Limit Your Dependency on a Collapsing System
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Genetic recovery with George Church
01-25-2013
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arclein
at we already have organisms that can produce fuel compatible with current car engines. These organisms convert carbon dioxide and light into fuels by basically using photosynthesis. Synthetic fuel can currently be produced in the tens of thousand of
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News Link • Science
The Third Eye
01-25-2013
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arclein
its functions closely resemble that of an actual eye. In these other species, the pineal gland has components of an actual eye, with a cornea, rod and cone. It is considered to be the vestige of a functional sense organ of early primitive vertebrate
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News Link • Science
Giant Tobacco Plants That Stay Young Forever
01-25-2013
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arclein
"Although we regularly cut it, it's six-and-a-half meters tall. If our greenhouse were a bit higher, it would probably be even bigger. Its stem is already ten centimeters in diameter."
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study Confirms no Smoking after Forty Almost as Good as Total Abstinance
01-25-2013
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arclein
as responsible for the early deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century, is expected to claim one billion lives in the 21st century, mainly in the developing world. Jha says that without a push to increase taxes on cigarettes as has been succes
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News Link • Food
Big Ag group trying to ban raw milk sales in South Carolina
01-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
It has come to our attention that the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), a national non-governmental organization that claims to represent the interests of American farmers, is right now attempting to covertly eliminate the freedom of South Caro
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News Link • Marc Victor
The Attorney For Freedom Show
01-24-2013
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Examiner.com
Attorney Marc J. Victor hosts a weekly Internet radio show the Attorney For Freedom Show every Thursday at 1:00 pm MST on KQCK Live Radio. Tune in and listen to Marc give his perspective on things from a Libertarian point of view.
Archived shows are
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News Link • Martial Law
Obama to Top Brass: Will you fire on American Citizens?
01-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Obama administration is openly escalating its campaign against private gun ownership, and shaking up the top ranks of the military command structure " but is it also preparing to make war on the American population? According to a person identifi
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
San Francisco streetlights will spy on passersby
01-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
San Francisco, California is the second-most densely populated urban area in the US, but those nearly one million residents of the City by the Bay are about to lose what little amount of privacy they have.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commis
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO to activate Turkey missile defenses this week
01-24-2013
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AP
NATO's Patriot anti-missile defense batteries along Turkey's border with Syria will become operational this week, a senior official said. Patriot batteries sent by the United States, Germany and the Netherlands have reached Turkey
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News Link • Gun Rights
Feinstein Proposes Assault Weapons Ban
01-24-2013
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ABC News
With an AR-15 and nine other guns on her left, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced a bill today that would ban assault weapons and high capacity ammunition clips.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
UK judge rejects Barclays' LIBOR anonymity bid
01-24-2013
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AP
A British court has rejected an attempt by Barclays to shield the names of more than 100 present and former employees of the bank allegedly involved in manipulating a key interest rate index or who for other reasons came to the attention of investiga
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News Link • Military
Kerry: 'Do what we must' to stop Iran on nukes
01-24-2013
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AP
Sen. John Kerry, President Obama’s nominee for secretary of state, collected pledges of support Thursday and testified at his confirmation hearing that U.S. foreign policy should be defined by a helping hand as well as military strength.
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News Link • Iraq
UN fund pays out $1.3 billion compensation for Iraq's Kuwait invasion, total tops $40 billion
01-24-2013
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AP
The U.N. panel that settles claims for damages from victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait has paid out another $1.3 billion " bringing the total so far to $40.1 billion.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
On Posner's Defense of the Swartz Prosecution
01-24-2013
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Wendy McElroy
Laws that proscribe innocent behavior are tolerated so that they can be used against people who are clearly guilty of something when that guilt is hard to prove in court. ... This kind of system serves the public interest only if prosecutors actually
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Bill proposed in Oregon would make cigarettes prescription-only drugs
01-24-2013
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Fox Oregon
If you're a regular smoker, you may want to keep an eye on a new bill in the Oregon Legislature.
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