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Date Sent: 2013-03-14
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
Why Pope Francis is something of a surprise
Florida lieutenant governor resigns, 57 others charged in scandal -- Military sexual assault victims detail humiliation -- China's Drone Swarms Rise to Challenge US Power -- EU lawmakers reject $1.3tn budget proposal -- France's Fabius says Europe must drop Syria arms ban -- Senators Add Gun Protections to U.S. Financing Bill -- "If Quoting the Constitution Makes Me a Terrorist, We Are in Hitler's America" -- How Our Rulers Deal With Blown Tires When Drunk -- Drone Filibuster (cartoon) -- 4409: Half Court Shot for 75k goes to Government -- GLPVC's TheRawFeedLive: Marijuana Debate w/Sherri Kane, Dr Horowitz
& Elvy Musikka -- Ten years after invasion, Iraq remains dangerously
divided -- Tax Prof: ObamaCare Tax Increases Are Double Original Estimate --
Hacker Who Defaced Colin Powell's Facebook Page Also Broke Into
Ex-General's AOL Account -- The story of a New Jersey Political Activist
- Why Me? (audio book) -- My son's non profit ACP trained and armed 10
women over the weekend! Pic. -- 03-14-13 -- Daryl Brooks - Jayel Aheram - Christina Tobin - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- The Race is On: 11
Companies Working to Bring LENR (Cold Fusion) to Market -- NASA: A
Nuclear Reactor To Replace Your Water Heater -- How Rockefeller Parlayed Pipelines into Billions -- National Post (Canada) editorial board: More proof of Israel’s restraint
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Why Pope Francis is something of a surprise
03-13-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
Jorge Bergoglio, a Jesuit from Argentina, was named as the new pope this evening, becoming the first pope from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He took the name Francis I.
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News Link • Corruption
Florida lieutenant governor resigns, 57 others charged in scandal
03-13-2013
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Washington Post
Florida’s lieutenant governor resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a scandal involving a purported veterans charity that authorities said Wednesday was a front for a $300 million gambling operation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Military sexual assault victims detail humiliation
03-13-2013
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AP
Victims of sexual assault and violence in the military told Congress Wednesday they're afflicted with a slow and uncaring system of justice that too often fails to hold perpetrators accountable and is fraught with institutional bias.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China's Drone Swarms Rise to Challenge US Power
03-13-2013
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China is building one of the world's largest drone fleets aimed at expanding its military reach in the Pacific and swarming U.S. Navy carriers in the unlikely event of a war, according to a new report.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
EU lawmakers reject $1.3tn budget proposal
03-13-2013
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AP
The European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected a proposal for the European Union's €960 billion ($1.3 trillion) budget Wednesday, in the latest example of the lawmakers newfound resolve to stand up to the union's national leaders.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
France's Fabius says Europe must drop Syria arms ban
03-13-2013
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Reuters
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius kept up his push on Wednesday for Europe to ditch a ban on supplying arms to Syria, saying stepping up help to the opposition was the only way to end the bloody two-year-old crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senators Add Gun Protections to U.S. Financing Bill
03-13-2013
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New York Times
With gun safety measures headed to the Senate floor, members of the House and Senate appropriations committees have quietly made permanent four formerly temporary gun-rights provisions largely favored by Republicans.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
"If Quoting the Constitution Makes Me a Terrorist, We Are in Hitler's America"
03-13-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Cops in New Jersey arrested a homeschooling mother -- the daughter of Jewish folks who survived the Nazis -- because she quoted the Constitution at a tax-protest. They agreed to release her if she turned over her guns.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
How Our Rulers Deal With Blown Tires When Drunk
03-13-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
A drunk cop near Las Vegas drove several miles on a blown tire in "a $50,000 unmarked SWAT vehicle," rim sparking the while. Another motorist tried to alert Officer Sot; naturally, the cop ignored him. So the motorist called 911, reporting a drunk dr
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Cartoons and Web Graphics
Drone Filibuster (cartoon)
Tristan Shoubt
Via the SuppleMentally blog at WordPress.com, here's the latest cartoon from Tristan Shoubt with a typically odd slant on Senator Rand's filibuster on drones. To share, link to the blog page or write for permission to tristan.shoubt@comcast.net.
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Jefferson Paine
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News Link • Activism
GLPVC's TheRawFeedLive: Marijuana Debate w/Sherri Kane, Dr Horowitz & Elvy Musikka
03/13/2013
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http://therawfeedlive.com
Round-table discussion on marijuana - debate......w/Sherri Kane & Dr Len Horowitz will be joining us & we had a special guest ELVY MUSIKKA, she is one of only four federally supplied medical marijuana smokers left on the govt. Ind program. She receiv
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
In The 1960s, The CIA Turned Cats Into Bionic Spies
03-13-2013
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Business Insider
Members of the CIA in the 1960 must not have been cat owners. If they had been, they would have known you can't get a cat to do anything if it doesn't want to.
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News Link • Architecture
See How Turkey's Ancient Cave Dwellings Were Transformed Into A 5-Star Hotel
03-13-2013
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Business Insider
The Museum Hotel, in Cappadocia a historic region in Turkey, was created out of thousand-year-old cave dwellings.
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News Link • Israel
Ten years after invasion, Iraq remains dangerously divided
03-13-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
In the new Iraq, old sectarian fears remain. Around Baghdad's Green Zone, the fortified seat of government, concrete walls pulled down a year ago are going back up.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Tax Prof: ObamaCare Tax Increases Are Double Original Estimate
03-13-2013
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economicpolicyjournal.com
The Joint Committee on Taxation recently released a 96 page report on the tax provisions associated with Affordable Care Act.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hacker Who Defaced Colin Powell's Facebook Page Also Broke Into Ex-General's AOL Account
03-13-2013
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thesmokinggun.com
The hacker who this week defaced Colin Powell’s Facebook page also broke into his AOL e-mail account and rummaged through years of the former Secretary of State’s correspondence.
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News Link • China
Hogwash Update - Latest Number Of Floating Chinese Pigs: 5,916 And Rising Fast
03-13-2013
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zerohedge.com
First it was 900, then 1200, then 3000, and now the latest tally of dead pigs floating in the Shanghai water supply has hit nearly 6000. AP has the latest number: "
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
Take Ride with Me? Setting Up an Aquaponics System - fishy's AP Protege ;)
03-13-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I am finally setting up my AP system inspired by fishy and posting progress on the meet up and it dawned on me maybe some of our friends on the DP might want to come along for the ride?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The story of a New Jersey Political Activist - Why Me? (audio book)
03-13-2013
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DMBrooksGroup.Blogspot.Com
Brooks was convicted in 1998 on counts of child endangerment, lewdness, and sexual assault. From day one, he insists he did nothing wrong and that he was railroaded for his unapologetic, no hold's barred, political speech exposing corruption in high
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Self-Defense
My son's non profit ACP trained and armed 10 women over the weekend! Pic.
03-13-2013
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Daily Paul.com
At no cost to the women!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
The Brillouin Boiler (LENR) - Non-Technical Overview
03-13-2013
Brillouin Energy's technology converts hydrogen in ordinary water to helium gas, a process that releases large amounts of useful heat. Some have called this process 'cold fusion,' or 'low energy nuclear reactions (LENR)' ...
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Energy
The Race is On: 11 Companies Working to Bring LENR (Cold Fusion) to Market
03-13-2013
A LONG JOURNEY STARTS FROM A DREAM AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY FOR EVERYONE CONSEQUENCES WOULD AFFECT THE DAILY LIFE OF PEOPLE IN ALL COUNTRIES We are pleased to introduce to you companies that explore the baffling world of LENR.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Energy
NASA: A Nuclear Reactor To Replace Your Water Heater
03-13-2013
A low-energy nuclear reactor (LENR) uses common, stable elements like nickel, carbon, and hydrogen to produce stable products like copper or nitrogen, along with heat and electricity.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
National Post (Canada) editorial board: More proof of Israel’s restraint
03-13-2013
Israel is not perfect, and some its policies can serve to give even its closest allies pause. But the UNHRC report can, and should, be read as further proof that Israel makes every reasonable effort to wage war against a determined, indiscriminate en
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News Link • Gun Rights
The NRA Was Created to Help Protect Freed Slaves from the KKK (Video)
03-13-2013
Black conservative leaders discuss the origins of the NRA that was created to protect freed slaves from the klu klux klan
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Tom Westbrook
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Opinion • Iraq
Ray McGovern: My Take
An Unheeded Warning on Iraq
03-13-2013
Ray McGovern
Ten years ago, as the clock was ticking down to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, a campaign of U.S. government lies and exaggerations had convinced many Americans that they were the ones under threat.
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Opinion • Central Intelligence Agency
Ray McGovern: My Take
John Brennan’s Heavy Baggage
03-13-2013
Ray McGovern
After a messy confirmation â€" which asked new questions about drone assassinations and old questions about enhanced interrogations â€" John Brennan has taken over at CIA. But his past may not be so easily forgotten in a world looking for accountability
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News Link • Iran
State Dept Reiterates Sanctions Threat Against Pakistan Over Iran Pipeline
03-12-2013
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Antiwar.com
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland has reiterated US threats to impose economic sanctions on Pakistan if it dares to follow through on the oft-delayed plans to build a gas pipeline to neighboring Iran.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea declares 1953 armistice invalid
03-12-2013
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edition.cnn.com
The North Korean army has declared invalid the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953, the official newspaper of the country's ruling Workers' Party said Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Tiny Quantum Refrigerator Has Super Cooling Power
03-12-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Nadia Drake
It’s tiny, but this quantum refrigerator takes less than a day to cool an object much larger than it to within a fraction of a degree of absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature anything can ever reach.
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News Link • Economy - International
Banks saved, but Europe risks "losing a generation"
03-12-2013
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http://www.reuters.com, By Luke Baker
Europe has spent hundreds of billions of euros rescuing its banks but may have lost an entire generation of young people in the process, the president of the European Parliament said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Woman accused of exposing breasts at cameras
03-12-2013
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http://www.myfoxny.com,
Barnegat, N.J. police arrested a woman after they say she got out of her car, lifted her shirt and bra and exposed her breasts to surveillance cameras.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk at SXSW: 'I Would Like to Die on Mars, Just Not on Impact'
03-12-2013
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mashable.com
The most popular name on Twitter during day two of South by Southwest was Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
'Four trucks filled with bodies' after Reynosa firefight
03-12-2013
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http://www.themonitor.com, Ildefonso Ortiz
Fear and panic filled the streets of Reynosa on Sunday night as rival gunmen battled during a three-hour firefight that saw automatic weapons and grenades used. Surprisingly, Mexican authorities were absent for most of the melee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Frozen Android phones give up data secrets
03-12-2013
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http://www.bbc.co.uk
Freezing an Android phone can help reveal its confidential contents, German security researchers have found.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Feds stop calling dry land 'water'
03-12-2013
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http://www.wnd.com, byBob Unruh
A lawsuit by a New Mexico couple whose dry, sandy homestead had been classified as a wetland by federal government regulators is being dropped after Washington agreed to stop mislabeling the land.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Manning Statement Audio Leaked in Opposition to 'Extreme Secrecy in Our Courts'
03-12-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Jacob Chamberlain
First time the public has heard Manning's voice since his initial arrest in early 2010
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Shocker: 80% of NYC graduates unable to read
03-12-2013
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http://rt.com
New York City’s literacy rates are on the decline: nearly 80 percent of high school graduates lack basic skills like reading, writing and math and are required to relearn them before qualifying for community college.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US lost almost half a billion dollars due to Daylight Saving Time
03-12-2013
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http://rt.com
Americans lost more than just an hour of sleep when they set their clocks ahead over the weekend to switch to Daylight Savings Time: a new report says the transition took nearly half a billion from the US economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
California seizes guns from owners - and it might become a national model
03-12-2013
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http://rt.com
In California, the government is already coming for the guns.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bush Administration
How the US public was defrauded by the hidden cost of the Iraq war
03-12-2013
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Michael Boyle
George Bush sold the war as quick and cheap; it was long and costly. Even now, the US is paying billions to private contractors
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan War Falling Apart at the Seams
03-12-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Hagel, Karzai Meet in Private, as Anger Grows at Occupation Forces
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