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Date Sent: 2013-03-28
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
Little-known surveillance tool raises concerns by judges, privacy activists
Yeah, Right: Our Rulers Want Your Comments on the TSA -- U.S. backed Syrian Rebel Group supported by Al-Qaeda Affiliates -- Bitcoin - BBC Newsnight - 26/03/2013 -- Syrian conflict’s impact is felt across border in Iraq --
IMF: Governments need to end energy subsidies -- Egypt: Naval forces
capture 3 divers trying to cut undersea Internet cable -- Ignore Banks'
Bearish Statements on Gold -- James Grant: Everything Mispriced In The
Market By Fed's QE, Cyprus -- Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet -- Getting Started with Bitcoin, Part 1: What is a Wallet? -- Vigilante group releases police, civilians it took hostage in Mexican city -- Cyprus: Once Again, For Those Who Are Sleeping -- Things to
Understand When Interacting With Police -- What Happens After the
Housing Bubble Reflates? -- The ECB's Cash-Copter Arrives In Cyprus
-- The Real Doom of the Eurozone Is Italy -- Aiming Laser
Pointer at Airplane Gets Man 2.5 Years in Prison -- After One Of The
Greatest Stock Market Crashes Ever, Cyprus Is About To Crash All
Over Again -- Netflix Hires 'The Matrix' Creators To
Make A New Original Sci-Fi Series -- YOU MAY NOT CASH
CHECKS: Cyprus Announces Draconian Rules To Keep Money From Leaving
The Country -- Will Your Bank Account Be 'Cyprused' Next? -- This Is How A Country
Ends: Not With A Bang, But A Bailout -- Chastened but
defiant, Brooklyn prosecutor seeks seventh term -- FBI attempts to
explain UFO memo in vault -- Facebook ad trial risks new privacy
fears -- Native U.S. Tribes Seek Federal Bailouts to Offset Casino
Losses -- G4S Readies Guards as Cypriot Banks Prepare to Open
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News Link • Surveillance
Little-known surveillance tool raises concerns by judges, privacy activists
03-27-2013
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Washington Post
Federal investigators routinely used a sophisticated surveillance system to scoop up data from cellphones and other wireless devices to track criminal suspects " but failed to detail the practice to judges authorizing the probes.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Yeah, Right: Our Rulers Want Your Comments on the TSA
03-27-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
And so, almost two full years later, the TSA has "promptly" dragged its non-compliant butt into compliance. It is beginning the long, bureaucratic procedure of “soliciting” “comments.” You have to “formally” submit remarks according to
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News Link • Syria
U.S. backed Syrian Rebel Group supported by Al-Qaeda Affiliates
03-27-2013
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According to Reuters and A.P. field reports and the New York Times, the United States support of rebels in Syria is directly benefiting the Al Nusra Front, which is allied with Al-Qaeda. In fact, Al Nusra has become the de facto leaders of the entire
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin - BBC Newsnight - 26/03/2013
03-27-2013
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BBC News
Bitcoin on BBC Newsnight supports the government push for regulation
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News Link • Syria
Syrian conflict’s impact is felt across border in Iraq
03-27-2013
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Washington Post
Syria’s civil war is increasingly threatening to destabilize neighboring Iraq, widening a sectarian divide in a nation still reeling from the messy aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion a decade ago.
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
IMF: Governments need to end energy subsidies
03-27-2013
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Washington Post
Government subsidies of gasoline, electricity and other energy sources amount to about $1.9 trillion a year and should be ended or offset with taxes used to battle climate change and pay for social programs, the International Monetary Fund said
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News Link • Internet
Egypt: Naval forces capture 3 divers trying to cut undersea Internet cable
03-27-2013
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Washington Post
Egypt’s naval forces captured three scuba divers who were trying to cut an undersea Internet cable in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. Telecommunications executives meanwhile blamed a weeklong Internet slowdown on damage cau
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News Link • Chemtrails
Heavy spraying over Tucson Documented for lawsuit! 03/27/2013
03-27-2013
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Chris Haskell - Real News Tucson
Heavy spraying over Tucson Documented for lawsuit! 03/27/2013
Anyone that truly does not about this please watch the documentary films right here on You Tube with Millions of hits! : "Why in the world are they spraying?" Watch it and most of your
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Engineer Extreme Microorganisms To Make Fuel From Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
03-27-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
A University of Georgia team tinkered with the genes of Pyrococcus furiosus, and the new breed is hungry for the smoggy stuff.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet
03-27-2013
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nytimes.com, By JOHN MARKOFF and NICOLE PERLROTH
A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Getting Started with Bitcoin, Part 1: What is a Wallet?
03-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, JixMainstream
So you're curious about getting into Bitcoins!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
Vigilante group releases police, civilians it took hostage in Mexican city
03-27-2013
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http://www.globalpost.com, Agencia EFE
Tierra Colorada, Mexico, Mar 27 (EFE).- A vigilante group has released the 12 police officers and six civilians it took hostage in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero after cutting a deal with prosecutors, spokesmen for the grassroots organization
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus: Once Again, For Those Who Are Sleeping
03-27-2013
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http://market-ticker.org,
I know it's considered impolite to repeat yourself but you need to at times like this because the commentary on the Cyprus situation continues to miss the mark to the point that it appears to be intentional.
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News Link • Currencies
Petrodollar Collapse - World War 3 planned. Ben Swann and others explain
03-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, SuccessCouncil
Here is the Petrodollar situation explained in a few short minutes.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Things to Understand When Interacting With Police
03-27-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by G.S.
As a former prosecutor and now criminal defense attorney practicing in Florida, I offer some insights gained by experience for the patriotic reader.
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News Link • Housing
What Happens After the Housing Bubble Reflates?
03-27-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Staff Report
This Forbes analysis is actually a fairly sophisticated analysis on how realtors decide whether houses are a good buy or not. The article concludes that houses may be cheap to buy given current conditions. And this, apparently, may begin to drive a h
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News Link • Economy - International
The ECB's Cash-Copter Arrives In Cyprus
03-27-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Is Bernanke, thanks to tens of thousands of flight time hours, piloting? And is Greenspan his co-pilot? Inquiring minds want to know.
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus Banks Set To Reopen, To Serve As Glorified ATMs With A €300 Cash Withdrawal Limit
03-27-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Tomorrow Cyprus banks will reopen sometime around noon (they are supposed to close at 6 pm but likely will close far earlier). What does that mean?
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Strange Biology Inspires the Best New Materials
03-27-2013
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Wired.com
From the shiny, strong nacre that gives abalone shells an unbreakable, opaline sheen, to the goopy mix of proteins fired by a velvet worm that solidify and trap prey upon impact, nature is packed with inspiration for scientists designing new material
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The Real Doom of the Eurozone Is Italy
03-27-2013
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http://www.slate.com, By Matthew Yglesias
After a fun week of Cypriot depositors, Russian tax dodges, and inept Dutch finance ministers attention is back on the real problem with the eurozone.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Aiming Laser Pointer at Airplane Gets Man 2.5 Years in Prison
03-27-2013
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Wired.com
A 19-year-old North Hollywood man has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for aiming a laser pointer at a commercial aircraft " a steep punishment going well beyond the year federal prosecutors were seeking.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Peak Oil Is Dead
03-27-2013
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Business Insider
Yesterday, Citi commodities analysts Seth Kleinman and Ed Morse declared that "the end was nigh" for oil demand.
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News Link • Agriculture
We've Run Out Of Farming Land, So Here's How One Company Is Growing Vegetables Without Dirt
03-27-2013
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Business Insider
FarmedHere's CEO Jolanta Hardej runs the nation's largest indoor vertical farm, which had its grand opening in Chicago this week.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Netflix Hires 'The Matrix' Creators To Make A New Original Sci-Fi Series
03-27-2013
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Business Insider
Netflix secured three huge names in sci-fi entertainment this week to produce a new original series called "Sense8" that will start streaming in late 2014.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Keiser Report:Episode 422
03-27-2013
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RT.com
Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. Keiser Report: Constitution Fine Print (E422)
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News Link • Economy - International
YOU MAY NOT CASH CHECKS: Cyprus Announces Draconian Rules To Keep Money From Leaving The Country
03-27-2013
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Business Insider
Dow Jones has details of the new capital controls that Cyprus will impose on its banks when they re-open in order to prevent a full-fledged bank run.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Wolverine: International Trailer
03-27-2013
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Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Stimulus Trap
03-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
For years we have been warned by Keynesian economists to fear the so-called "liquidity trap," an economic cul-de-sac that can suck down an economy like a tar pit swallowing a mastodon.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Are You a Good Candidate for Expatriation?
03-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Over the last few years, I’ve helped dozens of U.S. citizens and permanent residents (“green card” holders) give up their U.S. nationality or residence status. This is called Expatriation.
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News Link • Energy
Nanowires Suck Up Light from Around Them
03-27-2013
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Technologyreview.com
The optical properties of nanowires suggest a new way to make more efficient solar panels.
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News Link • Economy - International
This Is How A Country Ends: Not With A Bang, But A Bailout
03-27-2013
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zerohedge.com
Curious how in the New Normal a nation is brought to its untimely end without a single shot being fired?
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Chastened but defiant, Brooklyn prosecutor seeks seventh term
03-27-2013
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Reuters
The Ranta case may weigh on Hynes, 77, as he prepares to seek a seventh term in office. Hynes suddenly appears vulnerable to younger challengers after a series of wrongful convictions by his office were overturned.
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
FBI attempts to explain UFO memo in vault
03-27-2013
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The Sideshow
"An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico," Hottel writes. "They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was
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News Link • Communications
Facebook ad trial risks new privacy fears
03-27-2013
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CNN
Facebook is testing adverts in its members' newsfeeds that are tied to their behaviour on other websites, bringing one of the web's most effective forms of advertising into the heart of its social network.
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News Link • Bailouts
Native U.S. Tribes Seek Federal Bailouts to Offset Casino Losses
03-27-2013
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www.breitbart.com
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which owns the Foxwoods Resort Casino in southeastern Connecticut, is among federally recognized tribes that, although considered “sovereign nations,” are seeking increased revenues through grants from the U.S.
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News Link • Economy - International
G4S Readies Guards as Cypriot Banks Prepare to Open
03-27-2013
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www.cnbc.com
A British security firm that transports cash for Cypriot banks is working round the clock, sending teams out with police protection to stock bank machines and readying guards for when banks reopen on Thursday.
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
Thoughts on Dogs at Survival Retreats
03-27-2013
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www.survivalblog.com
Should you shelter-in-place or move to a retreat? Lots of pros and cons about this, and most of it depends upon strength in numbers. Obviously, the more remote and inaccessible your castle is, the harder it will be for intruders to discover or inva
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Orchestrated Syrian Opposition Crumbles
03-26-2013
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Prison Planet
The CIA has sent forth its potted plant to rule over Syria " but only if it can manage to defeat the Syrian army and remove Bashar al-Assad, either by Russian aircraft or in the same way Moammar Gaddafi was removed.
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News Link • Gun Rights
UN Prepares To Finalize Global Arms Trade Treaty: Gun Owners To Take It on the Chin?
03-26-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
On Monday, in New York City, the United Nations kicked off its final round of negotiations on its comprehensive global arms trade treaty agreement.
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News Link • Activism
Resistance Is Dangerous " But Submission Is Often Fatal
03-26-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Resisting arrest is not a crime. It is a common-law right, the exercise of which is treated as if it were a crime.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
The view from the TOP of the Great Pyramid
03-26-2013
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Illicit photos taken by tourists who secretly climbed wonder of the world at night
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News Link • Iran
NATO Researchers: Stuxnet Attack on Iran Was Illegal ‘Act of Force’
03-26-2013
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Wired.com
A cyberattack that sabotaged Iran’s uranium enrichment program was an “act of force” and was likely illegal, according to research commissioned by NATO’s cyberwarfare center.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul's Staff Complicit in Stopping Ron Paul's RNC Nomination?
03-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
It would appear that Rand's staff was working with the GOP to stop our efforts to nominate Ron Paul:
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News Link • Police State
NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Government has right to ‘infringe on your freedom’
03-26-2013
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washingtontimes.com
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday: Sometimes government does know best. And in those cases, Americans should just cede their rights.
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom,” Mr. Bloomberg said,
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