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Date Sent: 2013-02-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 19, 2013 PM edition |
State considers law requiring police to inspect homes of gun owners
Afghanistan Gets Safer for Civilians as U.N. Warns Taliban of ‘War Crimes’ --
Inside the Hacker Mind: James Hamilton On Apple -- Gold Forming
Bacteria Discovered -- 02-19-13 -- Michael W Dean - Charlie Miller -
Tony Tangalos - LISTEN LIVE ON LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon -- Proposed Keystone
Pipeline Prompts Protest March, Debate -- Bank of America Secretly Bailed out by Federal Reserve Yet Again -- Russian Meteorite Conspiracy Theories, Debunked -- Are Gold and Silver Prices Being Suppressed? -- Police Targets Depicting Young Mother on Playground With Child etc...What the F*? -- Glenn Beck: I'm Done With the GOP Establishment, I Support Constitutionalists Like Rand Paul -- You Won’t Believe Who Is Getting Away With Paying Zero Taxes While The Middle Class Gets Hammered -- TSA Screeners Continue to Lie to Passengers About Legality of Recording at Checkpoints -- Maryland County Bans Gun Shows -- George Soros Is Going After The Two Most Hated Currencies In The World -- Goldman Sachs Has The Perfect Response To Anyone Who Talks About 'Currency Wars' -- RIP HOTMAIL -- Thieves Pull Off Epic Diamond Heist On Tarmac Of Brussels Airport -- China's Cyberwar Against Corporate America Begins With A Simple Email -- West Bank Village Struggles to Survive
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News Link • Gun Rights
State considers law requiring police to inspect homes of gun owners
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan Gets Safer for Civilians as U.N. Warns Taliban of ‘War Crimes’
02-19-2013
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Wired.com
Civilians are safer from harm in Afghanistan’s decade-long conflict than at any time since before the U.S. troop surge, according to new United Nations statistics.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Inside the Hacker Mind: James Hamilton On Apple
02-19-2013
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Wired.com
On a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, knocking out the facility’s main source
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News Link • Science
Gold Forming Bacteria Discovered
02-19-2013
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arclein
the finding opens up the possibility of using a bacterium or metabolite to seed waste-drop piles, leave them standing for years, and see if bigger gold particles form.
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
K-T Boundary Asteroid Event Sharply Tightened
02-19-2013
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arclein
However, further work suggested the Chicxulub impact occurred either 300,000 years before or 180,000 years after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. As such, researchers have explored other possibilities, including other impact sites, such as the con
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News Link • Science
Large Mammal Ancestry Completed
02-19-2013
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arclein
Placental mammals are the largest branch of the mammalian family tree, with more than 5,100 living species. Researchers from Carnegie Museum of Natural History are among the team of 23 that took part in this extensive interdisciplinary effort that ut
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Minimum Wage Considerations
02-19-2013
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arclein
n fact, if we use past experience as a guide, businesses should be able to adjust to a jump in the minimum wage as great as 70%. That would push the federal minimum wage up to $12.30. In states with average living costs, full-time earnings at $12.30
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News Link • Activism
Proposed Keystone Pipeline Prompts Protest March, Debate
02-19-2013
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The proposed Keystone Pipeline has spurred a large march protest in Washington and heated advocacy from supporters and opponents.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bank of America Secretly Bailed out by Federal Reserve Yet Again
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
"In July of 2012, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York granted a bailout to Bank of America;
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Are Gold and Silver Prices Being Suppressed?
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Money manager Eric Sprott contends, "Physical demand for gold is out of line with supply. How can all these new people come into this market when there has been no increase in supply . . . for the last 12 years?"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Police Targets Depicting Young Mother on Playground With Child etc...What the F*?
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Wow check this out WTF is going on here??
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Glenn Beck: I'm Done With the GOP Establishment, I Support Constitutionalists Like Rand Paul
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Glenn Beck joined The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the Tea Party versus the Republican establishment. The radio talk show host told Bill O'Reilly that "the Republicans have betrayed their own values for so long."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
You Won’t Believe Who Is Getting Away With Paying Zero Taxes While The Middle Class Gets Hammered
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
The federal income tax is a bad joke and it needs to be abolished
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Screeners Continue to Lie to Passengers About Legality of Recording at Checkpoints
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
In the above video recorded earlier this month at an airport that I didn’t see mentioned, a mother begins recording as TSA screeners attempt to frisk her daughter who is in a wheelchair.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Maryland County Bans Gun Shows
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
A decision by a Maryland county is roiling the already contentious debate over potential gun control laws.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
George Soros Is Going After The Two Most Hated Currencies In The World
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
The two most hated currencies in the world right now are: The Japanese Yen and The British Pound.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CAVIAR, CORPSES, KATE UPTON: Here Are The 40 Most Unusual Economic Indicators
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
Every day, public and private data-gathering agencies publish economic reports that are widely reported on by the business media
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News Link • Transportation
There's A Simple Solution To The Biggest Problem Plaguing Electric Cars
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
The biggest problem with electric cars these days is that the batteries just aren't good enough for going on long trips.
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News Link • Internet
Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less
02-19-2013
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blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/02/an
No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it’s estimated that there are more than 14 billion.
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News Link • Internet
RIP HOTMAIL
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
Microsoft said Tuesday it had begun switching Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com as it officially launches its revamped email service.
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News Link • World News
Thieves Pull Off Epic Diamond Heist On Tarmac Of Brussels Airport
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
Heavily armed robbers made off with $50 million worth of diamonds in a massive heist at Brussels airport, the global dealers syndicate in Antwerp told AFP on Tuesday.
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News Link • China
China's Cyberwar Against Corporate America Begins With A Simple Email
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
The Chinese army appears to be conducting cyberhacking and espionage against large US corporations, according to an extensive report from computer security firm Mandiant.
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Opinion • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Falling Uphill: 25,742 miles, 1461 days, 50 countries, 6 continents, 4 moments of enlightenment
02-18-2013
Frosty Wooldridge
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, therefore, make any progress. J.K Rowling, author of Harry Potter, said, “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
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News Link • Books
Most Terrorist Plots In The US Aren’t Invented By Al Qaeda " They’re Manufactured By The FBI
02-18-2013
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govtslaves.info
In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Advances Plan For “Public Safety” Drones
02-18-2013
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govtslaves.info
The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its plan to use surveillance drones for “public safety” applications, announcing last week that it had received a deluge of “excellent” responses from potential vendors and was set to carry out more t
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
Federally Funded Chevy Volt Battery Plant Paid Workers to Play, Not Make Batteries
02-18-2013
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Wired.com
It was supposed to be the center of a resurgent domestic lithium ion battery industry. A shiny new factory in Holland, Michigan, that by the end of 2013 would produce enough energy cells to power 60,000 electric or hybrid electric cars "
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Well Done, Washington! Your Stupid New Rules Have Made Banks Refuse To Serve Poor People
02-18-2013
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Business Insider
ONLY one thing is worse than the financial industry dangling inappropriate products in front of poor customers, and that is not providing them with financial services at all.
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News Link • Currencies
The G20 Basically Gave The Green-Light For Massive Yen Devaluation
02-18-2013
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Business Insider
The following are the word from the G20 final communiqué that could weigh on the FX markets in coming days:
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Muslim Preacher Tells Followers Getting Welfare Cash For Holy Wars Is Easy And Right [VIDEO]
02-18-2013
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Business Insider
A Muslim preacher has been secretly recorded explaining to followers how to receive government assistance they can use to fund a Muslim holy war.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bensalem Gun Buyback (video)
02-1602013
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Darren Wolfe's YouTube Channel
Despite police harassment the champions of liberty saved many guns from destruction at the Bensalem, PA gun buyback. This happened on February 16, 2013 in Bucks County near Philadelphia.
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News Link • Economics: Agorism
Print Me A Revolution - by Wendy McElroy
02-17-2013
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3D printers manufacture three-dimensional products by laying down a series of thin plastic or metal in one layer at a time. The 3D printing technology is stunning in its potential to empower individuals. Unfortunately the state knows its power as wel
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
The Great Dictator Speech (Charlie Chaplin) & Inception Soundtrack (Time)
02-17-2013
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First, I want to thank Charlie Chaplin for his magnificent performance, his mimic and gestures are simply overwhelming. I want to thank everyone who was involved in creating this timeless, brilliant and heartrending final speech (70 years ago!)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
KATU News in Oregon Proves to be Shill for Local Police Department
02-17-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Gresham police say officers don’t need a warrant to seize the phone when they feel the evidence on it is in jeopardy of being erased, but they would need a warrant to actually look at the phone’s contents without the owner’s consent.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Gives Foreign Cops New Police Powers in U.S.
02-17-2013
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A little-discussed executive order from President Obama giving foreign cops new police powers in the United States by exempting them from such drudgery as compliance with the Freedom of Information Act is raising alarm among commentators who say INTE
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News Link • Gun Rights
Stewart Rhodes Introduces ‘Molon Labe County Project’ To 3000 New York Gun Owners In Fiery Speech
02-17-2013
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Ammoland
Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes gave a fiery speech to approximately 3,000 New York gun owners, urging them to refuse to comply to the “SAFE Act,” to refuse to disarm, to nullify at every level.
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News Link • Immigration
Obama’s Plan Sees 8-Year Wait for Illegal Immigrants
02-17-2013
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New York Times
A plan by President Obama for an overhaul of the immigration system would put illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship that could begin after 8 years and would require them to go to the back of the line behind legal applicants,
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News Link • Energy
Obama Faces Risks in Pipeline Decision
02-17-2013
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New York Times
President Obama faces a knotty decision in whether to approve the much-delayed Keystone oil pipeline: a choice between alienating environmental advocates who overwhelmingly supported his candidacy or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with Canad
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News Link • Israel
Israel’s Netanyahu responds to ‘Prisoner X’ scandal
02-17-2013
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Washington Post
Prime Minister Netanyahu said “overexposure” of intelligence activities could seriously harm national security, and that Israel’s security agencies should be allowed to get on “quietly” with their jobs.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Congressional staffers often travel on tabs of foreign governments
02-17-2013
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Washington Post
Congressional staffers flew business class on a trip to China last summer and stayed at luxury hotels while touring the Great Wall and the Forbidden City and receiving a “briefing on ancient artifacts and dynasties” at the Shanghai Museum.
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News Link • General Opinion
The Fallibility of All Men
02-17-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
There is turmoil among some Catholics due to the announced resignation of Pope Benedict. It reminds me of the sadness, dismay, disappointment and sometimes shock I saw in many a Christian following the 2012 presidential election.
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News Link • New World Order
Monsanto, Sustainable Development and Agenda 21
02-17-2013
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Farm Wars
United Nations’ Agenda 21 mandate is exactly the opposite of what the very essence of sustainability is meant to be. So, is it surprising that Monsanto just joined The World Business Council for Sustainable Development?
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News Link • Bioterrorism
GMO Seed Freedom or Freedom from GMO Seeds " Which Will It Be?
02-17-2013
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Farm Wars
When is a fight for food freedom just the opposite? How about when that fight is about the right to plant second generation GMO seeds…
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Five Tools To Protect Your Privacy Online
02-17-2013
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Business Insider
We’ve discussed many times before"hardly a month goes by without some major action against Internet users… from Obama’s ‘kill switch’, to ACTA, SOPA and PIPA, to stasi tactics against people like Kim Dotcom.
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News Link • Israel
Iranian Commander Killed In Syria Was A Major Enemy Of Israel
02-17-2013
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Business Insider
Iran vowed revenge against Israel after a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was shot dead in southwestern Syria last week while traveling to Lebanon.
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