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Date Sent: 2013-04-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
Shocking Footage: Americans Ordered Out Of Homes At Gunpoint By SWAT teams
Boston Marathon Attacks, Chechnya and Oil: The Hidden U.S. Connection -- Analysis of Obama’s budget finds a higher tax burden for most
Americans -- FBI: No ricin found in home of Mississippi suspect -- Feds Delay Policy to Allow Small Knives on Planes -- Hamas' Drug Lords -- W.Va. Teen Arrested After 'Almost Inciting
Riot' Wearing NRA Shirt to School -- The Arpaio Recall Isn't Over ...
Yet -- The World of Synthetic Manufactured Terrorism -- For God's
Sake, Stay Inside During A Gun Fight -- Free Market Physician Makes
Health Care Affordable – Dr. Keith Smith -- Smoking Pot And Popping THC
Pills Combat Pain, Study Finds -- Vast majority of global
cyber-espionage emanates from China, report finds -- Senate planning vote on Internet sales tax bill -- Everything you need to know about the Senate’s online sales-tax bill -- FBI: Suspects had several bombs left -- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with using ‘weapon of mass destruction’ -- China Hasn't "Seen This Gold Rush In 20 Years" -- The United States Government is again attempting to control and censor the internet -- Was the Boston Bombing a 'Dry-Run Disaster' Gone Live? -- Buying Guns With Bitcoin -- If a Cop Tells You to Stop Recording Them, OBEY! -- WSJ Editors: "Boston bombings should Moderate Rand Paul"
AZ: INAUGURAL PREPPER FEST AZ EXPO COMING APRIL 26-28, 2013
; Language of Liberty Phoenix Seminar May 3-4, 2013
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News Link • Police State
Shocking Footage: Americans Ordered Out Of Homes At Gunpoint By SWAT teams
04-22-2013
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Steve Watson via PrisonPlanet
Shocking footage has emerged from Friday’s lockdown in Boston, where police, federal agents, national guard troops and SWAT teams enforced door to door searches of everyone’s home within twenty blocks
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News Link • Events: Arizona
INAUGURAL PREPPER FEST AZ EXPO COMING APRIL 26-28, 2013
04-22-2013
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PrepperFestAZ.Com
Three-day Event in North Scottsdale to Feature More Than 85 Booths, Live Demonstrations and Classes
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Language of Liberty Phoenix Seminar May 3-4, 2013
04-22-2013
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Language of Liberty
The Language of Liberty Institute cordially invites you to help us launch our first Liberty Seminar in Arizona, to be held May 3-4 at the Goldwater Institute!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Marathon Attacks, Chechnya and Oil " the Hidden U.S. Connection
04-22-2013
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http://oilprice.com
As Boston and U.S. security agencies congratulate themselves over the apparent neutralization of a pair of Chechens that bombed the Boston Marathon, troubling questions are beginning to arise.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Analysis of Obama’s budget finds a higher tax burden for most Americans
04-22-2013
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Washington Post
President Obama’s budget would raise taxes mainly on people earning more than $200,000 a year, although earners at nearly every income level would face a somewhat higher tax burden, according to a new nonpartisan analysis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI: No ricin found in home of Mississippi suspect
04-22-2013
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AP
Defense lawyers for Curtis say investigators' failure to find any ricin means the government should release their client. That lack of physical evidence could loom large as a detention and preliminary hearing continues Tuesday morning.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Feds Delay Policy to Allow Small Knives on Planes
04-22-2013
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AP
Airline passengers will have to leave their knives at home after all. And their bats and golf clubs. A policy change scheduled to go into effect this week that would have allowed passengers to carry small knives, bats, and other sports equipment
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Hamas' Drug Lords
04-22-2013
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The Jewish Press
Hamas has brought misery, pain and destruction to Gaza, so the group's alleged involvement in narcotics trafficking should not come as a shock to anyone.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
W.Va. Teen Arrested After 'Almost Inciting Riot' Wearing NRA Shirt to School
04-22-2013
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ABC News
A West Virginia teen arrested and accused of nearly inciting a riot after a confrontation with a teacher over his National Rifle Association t-shirt has inspired dozens of students across his county to wear similar apparel in solidarity.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
The World of Synthetic Manufactured Terrorism
04-22-2013
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PrisonPlanet.com
Alex breaks down the revelation that the two suspect brothers in the Boston Marathon bombing were known by the FBI. He also examines the FBI’s attempt to cover up that knowledge by releasing photos Thursday asking for the public’s help
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Free Market Physician Makes Health Care Affordable " Dr. Keith Smith
04-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Why are health care costs so high? What can be done to make them more reasonable? Is there anywhere people can go to receive high-quality, personal medical care at reasonable cost?
For answers we turn to Dr. Keith Smith, co-founder and managing pa
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Smoking Pot And Popping THC Pills Combat Pain, Study Finds
04-22-2013
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Francie Diep via PopSci.com
This is the first study to compare smoking marijuana and pills that contain the psychoactive chemical in the plant.
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Vast majority of global cyber-espionage emanates from China, report finds
04-22-2013
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Craig Timberg via The Washington Post
Analyses of hundreds of documented data breaches found that hackers affiliated with the Chinese government were by far the most energetic and successful cyberspies in the world last year
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Everything you need to know about the Senate’s online sales-tax bill
04-22-2013
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Brad Plumer via The Washington Post
This week, the Senate is considering a bill that would give states the ability to require large Internet retailers like Amazon to collect sales taxes on all purchases and send the revenue to the appropriate locality.
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
In battle against online sales tax bill, eBay reaches out to users
04-22-2013
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Hayley Tsukayama via The Washington Post
E-commerce giant eBay is pulling its customers into its fight against legislation that would allow states to collect sales tax on online transactions, warning that the measure will lead to higher prices.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Police, citizens and technology factor into Boston bombing probe
04-22-2013
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David Montgomery, Sari Horwitz and Marc Fisher
Within hours of the Boston Marathon bombing, investigators were already overwhelmed. Bloody clothing, bags, shoes and other evidence from victims and witnesses were piling up. Videos and still images, thousands of them, were beginning to accumulate.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
FBI: Suspects had several bombs left
04-22-2013
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Greg Miller via Washington Post
The two bombs that ripped through the crowded final stretch of the Boston Marathon were part of an arsenal of homemade explosives, according to criminal charges made public Monday
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News Link • China
China Hasn't "Seen This Gold Rush In 20 Years"
04-22-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
As we noted last week, all around the world the demand for physical precious metals has soared in the days following paper gold's price collapse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Precious Metals
Cheap Gold! Cheap Silver!
04-22-2013
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Richard Daughty via LewRockwell.com
I was innocently watching TV with the family, suffering only a tolerable minimum of constant, simmering anger and paranoia about the horrific economic cataclysm that is descending upon us
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News Link • Climate Change
New Discovery: NASA Study Proves Carbon Dioxide Cools Atmosphere
04-22-2013
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principia-scientific.org
A recent NASA report throws the space agency into conflict with its climatologists after new NASA measurements prove that carbon dioxide acts as a coolant in Earth's atmosphere.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
The United States Government is again attempting to control and censor the internet.
04-22-2013
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The Libertarian Enterprise
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has just recently passed the house.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Suspected US drone strike kills two militants in Yemen
04-22-2013
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DW
Government security officials in Yemen have claimed that a US drone strike killed two al Qaeda militants. If confirmed, it would be the third American drone strike to hit Yemen in less than a week.
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News Link • World News
Obama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weapons plan emerges
04-22-2013
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Julian Borger via TheGuardian
Plan to spend $10bn on updating nuclear bombs goes against 2010 pledge not to deploy new weapons, say critics
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Marathon bomb suspect charged with using weapon of mass destruction
04-22-2013
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Pete Williams, Michael Iskoff, Tom Winter, Tracy
The hospitalized Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was charged Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction " and the White House said he will be tried in a civilian court.
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News Link • Immigration
New Immigration Bill Has One Terrible Flaw
04-22-2013
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Ramesh Ponnuru via Bloomberg.com
“Amnesty” is the swear word many conservatives apply to the new bipartisan immigration bill.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gold Rises With Oil; Commodity Shares Lead S&P 500 Higher
04-22-2013
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Debarati Roy & Susanne Walker
Gold climbed for a fifth day, the longest rally of the year, after the metal last week posted the biggest price slump in three decades. Oil rose and energy and raw-material producers led U.S. stocks higher.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Missouri House of Reps Passes Powerful Nullification of Federal Gun Grab
04-22-2013
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Joe Wolverton
The Missouri House of Representatives passed a nullification bill April 28 prohibiting the enforcement of federal gun grabs within the sovereign borders of the Show Me State.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Back to Back C-span callers: Boston Marathon Bombing a false flag to take away more rights
04-22-2013
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CSpan
People call into CSPAN concerned that a possible false flag attack was perpetrated at the Boston Marathon.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Mother Of Suspected Bombers Claims FBI Called Eldest Son AFTER Bombing, Before Fatal Shootout
04-22-2013
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Steve Watson via PrisonPlanet
British media reports claim that FBI spoke with Tamerlan Tsarnaev and said they knew he’d carried out bombing
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Was the Boston Bombing a 'Dry-Run Disaster' Gone Live?
04-22-2013
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Lucas Bowser via LewRockwell.com
Because the mainstream media outlets continue to treat questions concerning the possibility of false flag terrorism in the Boston bombing as absurd, the alternative media is left with the job of investigating this angle.
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News Link • Surveillance
Bush aide leverages Boston explosion to boost Big Brother
04-22-2013
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http://www.salon.com, By Andrew Leonard
A conservative warhorse exploits the Boston bombings to argue for more government surveillance. He's wrong
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News Link • Martial Law
security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you've ever heard
04-22-2013
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http://www.popehat.com, By Clark
First, just in case it's not utterly obvious, I'm glad that the two murderous cowards who attacked civilians in Boston recently are off the streets. One dead and one in custody is a great outcome.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens They Take Even More Freedom From Us
04-22-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
What in the world is happening to America? Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Is JPY About To Get The 'Gold' Treatment?
04-22-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Overnight a number of media types discussed the inevitability of the 100JPY Maginot Line being crossed (the same way they predicted the inevitable breach of USDJPY 100 two weeks ago).
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News Link • Activism
The Real Story About Marijuana Legalization According To A Top Insider In The Movement
04-22-2013
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Business Insider
We recently had the chance to chat with Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization that has been at the forefront of the country's marijuana legalization and decriminalization efforts.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hacking Trial Devoid of Hacking Awaits Jury Verdict
04-22-2013
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The same hacking statute internet sensation Aaron Swartz was being prosecuted under until his January suicide is quietly being tested in a San Francisco federal courtroom " to little fanfare in a case devoid of hacking in the traditional sense.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Here’s Why Tsarnaev Was Charged With Using a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
04-22-2013
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, was charged today with using a weapon of mass destruction. It’s yet another circumstance where the legal and colloquial definitions of “weapon of mass destruction” are at odds.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Letter Re: A Privacy Lesson From the Boston Bombing Investigation
04-22-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, O.H.
Jim.
I learned something from the recent Boston terrorist incident....though it passed very quickly in a reporter's interview - and even though the reporter was interrupted and didn't get to finish her thought.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Smoking Pot And Popping THC Pills Combat Pain, Study Finds
04-22-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
This is the first study to compare smoking marijuana and pills that contain the psychoactive chemical in the plant.
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News Link • How To
If a Cop Tells You to Stop Recording Them, OBEY!
04-22-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Doug Eberhardt
Of course the title got you here. That's what a good journalist does. But this article is not about giving in to an officer who is trying to bully you into submission, infringing on your rights to record freely. It is about fooling them into thinking
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
WSJ Editors: "Boston bombings should Moderate Rand Paul"
04-22-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by bobbyw24
The Boston bombing also ought to chasten Senators Rand Paul, Mike Lee and other libertarians who keep insisting that the U.S. homeland is not part of the terror battlefield.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Law Enforcers Launch Grenades and Hail of Bullets at Nearly Comatose 2nd Boston Bomber (VIDEO)
04-21-2013
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ABC News (video)
"That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't believe. And they told him it's all shot up," Pizzuto said. "He's going to be heartbroken."
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI Knew Suspects Before Marathon Bombings
04-21-2013
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PrisonPlanet.com
Officials told the Associated Press, Reuters and CNN that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a shootout with police outside Boston on Friday morning, was interviewed by federal officers.
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