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Date Sent: 2013-05-03
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, May 3, 2013 |
First US Troops Arrive for Mali War -- US attorney general: Kansas gun law unconstitutional
Man Charged With Obstruction Of Police Officer During Operation Thunder Stop -- Is China Mining a Rare Earth Monopoly?: Op-Ed -- Armed Telescope -- Stefan Molyneux on his cancer diagnosis -- Judge OKs release Illinois man charged with terror --
Should Christians Give Up Their Guns? -- Residents of bankrupt
California city launch council recall -- One World Trade Center gets its
topper -- Postal temps to gain health insurance under ObamaCare --
Solar-powered plane set for cross-country flight -- Guantanamo hunger strike renews debates over indefinite detention -- They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percentage Of Self-Employed
Americans Is At A Record Low -- Obama Considers Arming Syrian Rebels --
Iraq Violence Rose Sharply in April -- UN: Force Feeding Gitmo Hunger Strikers Violates International Law -- New Category! Guantanamo Bay -- U.S. Drone Strikes In Yemen Spur Growing Anti-American
Sentiment -- Floridians Encouraged to Report Neighbors Who “Hate
Government” -- US drone strikes being used as alternative to
Guantánamo, lawyer says -- High School Student Faces 20 Years
For Obama Facebook Threat -- MSNBC Guest Who Attacked Infowars
Exposed -- Man Drinking Iced Tea In Parking Lot Gets Arrested -- China Goes Gold Crazy -- Stabbing the 4th Amendment --
Libertarian Gun Control? -- For the First Time, Brits Launch Drone
Strike From Home -- Secretive Spy Court Approved Nearly 2,000
Surveillance Requests in 2012 -- 3-D Printed Ear Made From
Calf Cells and Nanoparticles ‘Hears’ Radio Frequencies -- SUCCESS! Oath
Keepers/Jeffrey Earnhardt Project Raises Over $47,000.00 -- Scientists Create Hybrid, Air-Transmissible Bird Flu Strains -- The Eight Unfolding Stages of the Great American Genocide (Part
1) -- Why Your Grocery Store Is Installing Military Cameras -- Fast
digital forensics sniff out accomplices
AZ: Tomorrow, Language of Liberty Phoenix
Seminar May 3-4, 2013; Arizona Breakfast Club--Marc
Victor--this Saturday, May 4th, 2013; We're Visiting Hacker
Lab This Saturday May 4th After AzBreakfastClub (Noon - 1pm)
TX: The Center for Natural Living Launch Party and Benefit Sat
May 4th, 5-8 p.m. CDT - Austin, TX
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.S. attorney general says Kansas gun law is unconstitutional
05-02-2013
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Reuters
A recently enacted law in Kansas intended to block enforcement of federal gun regulations is unconstitutional, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a letter released on Thursday.
The law, which seeks to keep guns or ammunition from being sub
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News Link • Events: Arizona
We're Visiting Hacker Lab This Saturday May 4th After AzBreakfastClub (Noon - 1pm)
05-01-2013
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www.heatsynclabs.org
We are... a place to make things--We call it a hackerspace, made up entirely of volunteers--no staff! Located at: 140 West Main St. Downtown Mesa open FREE - Hacking Arizona Since 2009
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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 • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man Charged With Obstruction Of Police Officer During Operation Thunder Stop
05-02-2013
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Eades says that he and a friend were driving down Alexander Drive early Friday morning when they came to an Operation Thunder Checkpoint on River Watch Parkway. What happened during that stop lead to Eades getting arrested... and he says it's all bec
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News Link • Precious Metals
Is China Mining a Rare Earth Monopoly?: Op-Ed
05-02-2013
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Jeff Nesbit via LiveScience
What if there were rare minerals so valuable to many of the United States' most advanced weapons systems that their disappearance from the marketplace could threaten America's national security interests?
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News Link • TERRORISM
Judge OKs release Illinois man charged with terror
05-02-2013
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AP
In a rare move for terror cases, a federal judge agreed Thursday to release on home confinement an Illinois teenager charged with seeking to travel abroad and join an al-Qaida-linked militant group in war-torn Syria.
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Opinion • Gun Rights
Should Christians Give Up Their Guns?
05-02-2013
Chuck Baldwin
Not since 1775 has a central government in America attempted to disarm its citizens in the way that President Barack Obama and Senator Dianne Feinstein did recently. King George III attempted to disarm the colonists on April 19, 1775, and that attemp
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Residents of bankrupt California city launch council recall
05-02-2013
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Reuters
Up in arms against the leadership it blames for San Bernardino's bankruptcy, a group of business people and residents on Thursday launched a campaign to recall the California city's council, mayor and city attorney.
The group, looking for a "clean
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Postal temps to gain health insurance under ObamaCare
05-02-2013
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Josh Hicks via Washington Post
The Postal Service next year will offer healthcare coverage to its temporary employees to comply with the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Solar-powered plane set for cross-country flight
05-02-2013
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Michael Fletcher via Washington Post
The first plane that can fly day and night powered only by the sun is set to begin a transcontinental journey that will reach Washington by mid-June.
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo hunger strike renews debates over indefinite detention
05-02-2013
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Peter Finn and Julie Tate via Washington Post
Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a group of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percentage Of Self-Employed Americans Is At A Record Low
05-02-2013
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Michael via The Economic Collapse
Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats that dominate our society have created a system that absolutely eviscerates them.
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
UN: Force Feeding Gitmo Hunger Strikers Violates International Law
05-02-2013
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John Glaser via AntiWar.com
President Obama this week defended the US’s policy of force feeding detainees in Guantanamo Bay who are protesting their due process-free indefinite detention by going on a hunger strike.
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News Link • Drones
U.S. Drone Strikes In Yemen Spur Growing Anti-American Sentiment
05-02-2013
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AHMED AL-HAJ and AYA BATRAWY
The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their hard-line ideology.
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News Link • Government
Floridians Encouraged to Report Neighbors Who “Hate Government”
05-02-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
$1 million dollar hotline characterizes dissent as extremist threat
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News Link • Military
US drone strikes being used as alternative to Guantánamo, lawyer says
05-02-2013
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Dan Roberts via PrisonPlanet.com
The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay.
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News Link • Precious Metals
China Goes Gold Crazy
05-02-2013
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Gordon G. Chang
Spurred by a sudden drop in prices, Asians in the last two weeks have gone on a gold-buying binge. The Indians, the world’s largest net importers of the yellow metal, have been snapping it up of course, and so have the Japanese
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News Link • Government
Stabbing the 4th Amendment
05-02-2013
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Andrew P. Napolitano via LewRockwell.com
Here they go again. The Obama administration has asked its allies in Congress to introduce legislation that would permit the feds to continue their march through the Fourth Amendment when it comes to obtaining private information about all of us.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Libertarian Gun Control?
05-02-2013
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Brian Wilson via LewRockwell.com
For someone who single-handedly brought about the landmark Heller decision, it is nearly incomprehensible Robert Levy penned the atrocity that appeared under his name in the New York Times.
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News Link • Military
For the First Time, Brits Launch Drone Strike From Home
05-02-2013
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Rober Beckhusen via WIRED.com
There was a time when all the world’s military drone strikes were directed from a small base in Nevada. No more. In a first, the United Kingdom has carried out a strike in Afghanistan by pilots controlling the drone from within Britain.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Secretive Spy Court Approved Nearly 2,000 Surveillance Requests in 2012
05-02-2013
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week.
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News Link • 3D Printing
3-D Printed Ear Made From Calf Cells and Nanoparticles ‘Hears’ Radio Frequencies
05-02-2013
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Liat Clark via WIRED.com
Nanotechnology engineers from Princeton have 3-D printed an ear from calf cells and silver nanoparticles that picks up radio signals at frequencies beyond human capacity.
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News Link • Activism
SUCCESS! Oath Keepers/Jeffrey Earnhardt Project Raises Over $47,000.00
05-02-2013
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Oathkeepers
The initial fundraising effort to put an Oath Keepers car on the NASCAR track raised a total of $47,000.00, far exceeding the goal of $30,000.00 needed by end of day, May 1, 2013 to run an Oath Keepers car, driven by Jeffrey Earnhardt, at the upcomin
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Space Shuttle's Robotic Arm Goes on Display at Canadian Museum
05-02-2013
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Elizabeth Howell via Space.com
After clocking nearly 100 million miles in orbit, one of the space shuttle program's huge robotic arms was unveiled to the public Thursday (May 2) at its last stop " a museum in the country's capital.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Lunar Real Estate Agent Has 'Sold' 7.5% of Moon
05-02-2013
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Clara Moskowitz via Space.com
The lack of a clear law on space property rights hasn't stopped one man from selling real estate on the moon " and the other solar system bodies as well.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tiny Public Cell Towers in Homes Could Boost Mobile Data Speeds
05-02-2013
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Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.com
Mobile network speeds in urban areas could dramatically increase if consumers connected small, public base stations to their home broadband.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Amazing Video of Garlic Preventing Chemically Induced Cancer
05-02-2013
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tv.greenmedinfo.com
Garlic and flavonoid phytonutrients found in fruits, vegetables, greens, and grains appear to protect against DNA damage induced by mutagenic chemicals found in cooked meat.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Fast digital forensics sniff out accomplices
05-02-2013
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newscientist.com
Software that rapidly analyses digital devices and builds a list of a suspect's known associates could be a powerful tool for solving crimes
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Opinion • Police State
"It Can't Happen Here!"
05-02-2013
Larken Rose
This is for all those Americans who seem to imagine that there is some magic spell which renders the U.S. immune from the tyranny that has plagued every other major empire in history.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
U.S. Looks to Re-Up Its Mexican Surveillance System
05-01-2013
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Rober Beckhusen via WIRED.com
When President Obama visits Mexico on Thursday, he’ll be talking to a new Mexican leader about what to do with the drug war.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case
05-01-2013
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Kevin Poulsen via WIRED.com
On Monday, July 6, 2009, two engineers from Nevada’s Gaming Control Board showed up at the Silverton Casino Lodge.
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News Link • Military
Hacker Breached U.S. Army Database Containing Sensitive Information on Dams
05-01-2013
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Kim Ketter via WIRED.com
A hacker compromised a U.S. Army database that holds sensitive information about vulnerabilities in U.S. dams, according to a news report.
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News Link • Libya
The New Libya Is Free, if You Don’t Count the Jailed Journalists
05-01-2013
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Rober Beckhusen via WIRED.com
Being a journalist under the autocratic rule of Libyan dictator Moammar Qadhafi was an exercise in choice: between promoting state propaganda and spending time in jail.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Rogue Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine
05-01-2013
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Robert McMillan via Wired.com
If you’ve been playing Counter-Strike on the ESEA gaming network, you’ve been doing a lot more than tossing virtual hand grenades and firing virtual machine guns.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes
05-01-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money.
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News Link • Economy - International
20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depression Has Already Started In Europe
05-01-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
The next Great Depression is already happening - it just hasn't reached the United States yet.
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News Link • Housing
Will The New Housing Bubble That Bernanke Is Creating End As Badly As The Last One Did?
05-01-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has done it.
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News Link • Economy - International
The next domino: Australia doubles tax on retirement savings
05-01-2013
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http://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
Though Australia’s national balance sheet is comparatively quite strong, the government has been running at a net deficit for years… and they’re under intense pressure to balance the budget.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
SPLC Finally Notices Oath Keepers/Jeffrey Earnhardt NASCAR Project
05-01-2013
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Oathkeepers
As Yoda said, there is no try. Do or do not. We are doing it. Consider it done, especially as our supporters read this today and reflect on the fact that nothing will annoy the constitutionalist-hating radical leftists at SPLC more than seeing an Oat
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
UNPRECEDENTED Shortages Of Ammo, Physical Gold And Physical Silver
05-01-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
All over the United States we are witnessing unprecedented shortages of ammunition, physical gold and physical silver.
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News Link • Anthropology
Mysterious Human Skeleton Is Just Six Inches Long
05-01-2013
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Business Insider
A teensy skeleton with a squashed alienlike head may have earthly origins, but the remains, found in the Atacama Desert a decade ago, do make for quite a medical mystery.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
FBI hints at OK to question terror suspects who ask for lawyer
05-01-2013
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http://www.politico.com, By JOSH GERSTEIN
An article published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation suggests that FBI agents are on solid legal ground if they continue to question a terrorism suspect who has asked for an attorney"as they reportedly did with Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar
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