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Date Sent: 2013-03-05
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, March 5, 2013 PM edition |
Milwaukee Cops Buy Tank To Patrol Streets -- DHS Signs $4.5 Million Contract With Heckler & Koch
‘Talking Points’ for Hagel on Iran - by Ray McGovern -- Curiosity Is Awake Again And On The Path To Recovery -- 5 Things You Should Know About The Baby Cured Of HIV -- 5 Easy Tips for Picking Mutual Funds -- Russia Fears Its Troops Will Riot if Cigarette Rations End -- BOVARD: Let’s start by controlling police gun violence -- Man Dressed as Batman Hands Suspect to British Police, Vanishes Into Night -- Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads --
Why I Hate Facebook -- 'World's Sexiest Computer Hacker' To Be
Sentenced This Spring -- The Sequester ‘Crisis’ and What Should Be Done
-- The Myth of Fed Independence -- The U.S. government should debrief Dennis Rodman -- Is this any way to run U.S. foreign policy? -- 'Time for a Reckoning': UN Investigator says US/UK Must Account for Torture, Human Rights Violations (under Bush) --
Can the New EPA Chief Stop Obama Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline? --
Democratic Lawmaker Stripped Of Leadership Title After Lewd Comment To
Girl In Hearing -- Redflex Admits Bribery Scheme in Two More US Cities -- AIPAC Conference Promotes War -- Italians Reject Austerity
AZ: FIRST EVER PRIVATE GUN SHOW - Sat, March 9th, 2013 in
Lakeside, AZ; Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction with
Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
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News Link • Police State
Milwaukee Police Purchase Massive Tank To Patrol Streets
03-05-2013
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govtslaves.info
With the recent news of the DHS Purchasing 2,700 light-armored tanks and the countless ammunition buys made by many different factions of the Government, it should come as no surprise that feds and local municipalities are preparing for something
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Signs $4.5 Million Dollar Contract With Heckler & Koch
03-05-2013
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Prison Planet
Amidst concerns that the agency is engaged in a domestic arms race against the American people, the Department of Homeland Security has signed a new $4.5 million dollar contract with weapons manufacturer Heckler & Koch.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
03-05-2013
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Farm Wars
We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die, and the rules always change.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
‘Talking Points’ for Hagel on Iran
03-05-2013
Ray McGovern
Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern suggests, "You may wish to draw on some of the following talking points for today’s meeting, cast in the first-person, as though you were speaking."
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Curiosity Is Awake Again And On The Path To Recovery
03-05-2013
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popsci.com
Curiosity on Mars This artist's concept depicts the Curiosity rover using its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the composition of a rock surface.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
Russia Fears Its Troops Will Riot if Cigarette Rations End
03-05-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Russia’s new defense minister wants to extinguish one of the Russian military’s most endemic health problems and martial perks: giving free cigarettes to troops.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Archaeology
European Farming Immigrated
03-05-2013
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arclein
One of the big questions in European archaeology has been whether farming was brought or borrowed from the Near East," says T. Douglas Price, a University of Wisconsin-Madison archaeologist who, with Cardiff University's Dusan Boric, measured stron
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robert klein
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News Link • Communities
Changing Labor and Community
03-05-2013
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arclein
The city is the home of one most powerful unions in the Americas, an organization built and led largely by Latina, African-American and Asian-American women who work as maids, housekeepers and food service workers on the Las Vegas Strip and beyon
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robert klein
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News Link • Anthropology
Enterprise Without Bosses
03-05-2013
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arclein
The thing is, you can’t really expect people to truly embrace “Total Responsibility” unless they have the freedom to act"which means that everyone has the same authority in the enterprise with regards to acquiring resources (spending money), acquirin
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Self Driving Car System to Hit $100
03-05-2013
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arclein
There are three computers onboard. The iPad, the LLC (Low Level Controller) and the MVC (Main Vehicle Computer). The iPad runs the user interface and demands constant attention from the LLC. If any of these computers disagree the driver will not be a
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robert klein
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News Link • Heroes
Our $3 million prizes will turn scientists into heroes
03-05-2013
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newscientist.com
Billionaire internet investor Yuri Milner says he launched his $3 million science prizes to create heroes for the next generation
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
BOVARD: Let’s start by controlling police gun violence
03-05-2013
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http://www.washingtontimes.com
A 2001 Justice Department report entitled “Policing and Homicide, 1976-1998” labeled everyone in the nation who perished as a result of a police shooting as “felons justifiably killed by police.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Man Dressed as Batman Hands Suspect to British Police, Vanishes Into Night
03-05-2013
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Wired.com
Apparently unshaken by the latest death of his sidekick in the eternal fight against evil, a man dressed as Batman showed up in the British city of Bradford last week doing what he does best: continuing his war on crime
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday March 5th 2013
03-05-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Carry More Than a Gun / NYPD Lies Under Oath and Is Caught
Brutalized, persecuted defendant set free / 2,700 Tanks and 1.6 Billion Rounds of Ammo / I Took My Boys Out of Cub Scouts / Hysterical Liars in DC
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads
03-05-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Researchers calculate the potential of using graphene for ultrafast wireless communications.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
'World's Sexiest Computer Hacker' To Be Sentenced This Spring
03-05-2013
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Business Insider
Kristina Svechinskaya, dubbed the "world's sexiest computer hacker" after a daring internet heist in New York, has had her sentencing postponed until April, reports Russian Legal Information Agency.
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News Link • Environment
30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Will Change The Lives Of Every Person On The Planet
03-05-2013
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Prison Planet
The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are being depleted at a very frightening pace, and many of the most important underground aquifers that we depend on to irrigate our crops ........
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Sequester ‘Crisis’ and What Should Be Done
03-05-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known as “sequestration” went into effect.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Myth of Fed Independence
03-05-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
By far the most secret and least accountable operation of the federal government is not, as one might expect, the CIA, DIA, or some other super-secret intelligence agency.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Scouts No More
03-05-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
As the parents of multiple home-schooled children we are always looking for ways to get our kids some social activity. With that in mind we had considered Cub Scouts for our two oldest.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Guest post: The U.S. government should debrief Dennis Rodman
03-05-2013
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blog.foreignpolicy.com
"Call me, Mr. Obama." That was North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's message to the White House, according to the most unlikely diplomatic emissary, former NBA star Dennis Rodman.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Is this any way to run U.S. foreign policy?
03-05-2013
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walt.foreignpolicy.com
Watching the musical chairs taking place in the first months of Obama's second term reminds me of how fundamentally unserious America's approach to foreign affairs really is.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
'Time for a Reckoning': UN Investigator says US/UK Must Account for Torture, Human Rights Vi
03-05-2013
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Common Dreams
'Words are not enough. Platitudinous repetition of statements affirming opposition to torture ring hollow,' says Ben Emmerson'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Can the New EPA Chief Stop Obama Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline?
03-05-2013
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Common Dreams
Gina McCarthy's promotion at the EPA will not allay fears that a recent State Department report means KXL is now a done deal
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Democratic Lawmaker Stripped Of Leadership Title After Lewd Comment To Girl In Hearing
03-05-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Rep. Ernest Hewett, a five-term Democrat from New London, is desperately trying to explain a comment made to a high school girl during a hearing on the funding of youth programs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Redflex Admits Bribery Scheme in Two More US Cities
03-05-2013
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The Newspaper
"It's a fair question to say if this was going on in Chicago, might it have been going on somewhere else," McConnell said. "We found two other geographies that raise concern, and those investigations are considerably smaller than [Chicago's]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
The People v. Oppression
03-02-2013
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Prison Planet
Guest host Mike Adams breaks down top news stories of the day and how you can fight back against the system.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
NH Gun Store Depicts Obama As ‘Firearms Salesman Of The Year’
03-02-2013
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Prison Planet
One of the posters in the front window of a New Hampshire gun shop depicts President Obama as “Firearms Salesman of the Year.” Below the president are two AK-47 rifles.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Print your own graphine Super capacitors
03-20-2012
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Hack a Day
Apparently by layering some oxidized graphite onto a DVD and tossing it into a lightscribe burner, it’s possible to print your own super capacitors; some pretty high capacity ones at that.
For those that are unaware, supercapcaitors are typically
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Internet
Viewers Are Flocking to Streaming Video Content " And So Are Advertisers
03-02-2013
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Wired.com
With its new array of online options for viewing media " not to mention the increasing amount of original content created for online audiences " the internet has become a disruptive influence on the traditional television business, plain and simple.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Listen to David Bowie’s First Album in 10 Years for Free Online (Legally)
03-02-2013
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Wired.com
You don’t have to wait until March 12 to find out whether David Bowie’s first album in a decade is more Tin Machine than Low; the long-awaited The Next Day is already available, streaming in full on iTunes for a limited period pre-release.
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News Link • China
Unmasked, but Unfazed"Chinese Hacking Group Is Still Active
03-02-2013
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Technologyreview.com
An exposé of its methods and technology may not have deterred a group targeting U.S. corporate secrets.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty to Leaks, Not Guilty to Aiding the Enemy
03-02-2013
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Antiwar.com
"I believed and still believe these are some of the most important documents of our time," Manning said in a statement
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News Link • TERRORISM
British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones
03-02-2013
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independent.co.uk
The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds " with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks.
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News Link • Internet
Everything You Need To Know About The Piracy-Battling Copyright Alert System
03-02-2013
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popsci.com
US copyright holders like the RIAA and MPAA have a new weapon to battle piracy. Read on to find out what it is, how it works, and whether you should be scared to snag a torrent of this week's episode of Justified.
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News Link • Conspiracies
‘Police allowed professionals to clean Philip Marshall’s crime scene’
03-02-2013
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presstv.ir
Former National Security Agency officer, Wayne Madsen, says police concluded that the death of Philip Marshal, a 9/11 investigator, was suicide before the investigation had been completed.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
One Law School Reveals The Scary Reality Of Paying Back Massive Debt
03-02-2013
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Business Insider
If you're applying for law school, it shouldn't come as a shock to you that you might end up poor after paying for your degree.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Would You Live in One of Mayor Bloomberg’s 300-Square-Foot Micro-Apartments?
03-02-2013
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observer.com
The Little House That Could
A schematic for a unit shows how nArchitects created an efficient layout with multiple functions for each space.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Living in a box: The desperate workers forced to live in tiny 'coffin' apartments of Tokyo
03-02-2013
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dailymail
Japanese capital is one of the most crowded cities in the world
'Geki-sema' or share houses are mainly used by young professionals
No windows and enough room for one person and a few possessions
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Defense Cuts May Mean No More Flyovers at Sporting Events. Oh, the Humanity!
03-02-2013
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Antiwar.com
You want an illustration of how devastatingly draconian the impending defense budget cuts are going to be? Try this on for size: no more military jets flying over sporting events.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
AIPAC Lobbyists to Congress: Despite Sequester, Don’t Touch Israel Aid
03-02-2013
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Antiwar.com
Douglas Bloomfield at The Jewish Week informs us that 13,000 lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will descend upon Capitol Hill this weekend for their annual conference to order members of Congress not to cut $3 billio
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