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Date Sent: 2013-05-04
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, May 4, 2013 |
Israel Bombs Syria -- I kid thee not, a New American Holiday: Loyalty Day, 2013
Justice Dept. admits flaws in forensic testimony in Mississippi death-row case -- This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos) (Download the SAFEmag Now) -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 5, 2013 Edition -- My Official Withdrawal from the BitcoinATM Project -- Aviation President Allegedly Attacks Muslim Cabbie (and Iraqi War
Veteran) At Country Club -- Tiny Device Will Detect Domestic Drones
-- Las Vegas Police Claim Camera-Wielding Citizens Compromising
Officer Safety -- Rational or Hysterical? -- San Antonio
Park Police Beat Woman, Delete Video, Which is Later Recovered -- Bitcoin’s real-world problem: Virtual currency facing bank
backlash in Canada --Boston And Militarism: The Modern Drug
War -- Of Kings and Capitalism - by L. Neil Smith --
First completely 3D-printed gun shown
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine May 3rd, 2013 Edition Available for Download Now
AZ: Today, Language of Liberty Phoenix
Seminar May 3-4, 2013; Arizona Breakfast Club--Marc
Victor--Today, May 4th, 2013; We're
Visiting Hacker Lab Today, May 4th After AzBreakfastClub
(Noon - 1pm); ROOT Phoenix 'Growing Bazaar' Today May
4th 8a-1p
TX: The Center for Natural Living Launch Party and Benefit Today, May 4th, 5-8 p.m. CDT - Austin, TX
WI: UW-Stevens Point to host International Aquaponics Conference,
June 19-21
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News Link • Israel
Israel Bombs Syria
05-03-2013
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New York Times
Israel aircraft bombed a target in Syria overnight Thursday, an Obama administration official said Friday night, as United States officials said they were considering military options, including carrying out their own airstrikes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
A new American Holiday: Presidential Proclamation -- Loyalty Day, 2013
05-03-2013
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White House
.... with every step forward, we have reaffirmed our faith in the ideals that inspired our founding. We have held fast to the principles at our country's core: service and citizenship; courage and the common good; liberty, equality, ....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Dept. admits flaws in forensic testimony in Mississippi death-row case
05-03-2013
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Washington Post
The Justice Department has acknowledged flaws in forensic testimony by the FBI that helped convict a man in the 1992 slayings of two Mississippi State University students, and federal officials have now offered to retest the DNA in the case.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos) (Download the SAFEmag Now)
05-03-2013
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www.forbes.com
Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun. Now he has. Early next week Defense Distributed, plans to release the 3D-printable CAD files for a gun he calls “the Liberator,”
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Ernest 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 • 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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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 5, 2013 Edition
05-03-2013
John Semmens
Abortionist Kermit Gosnell Not an Anomaly
Details on how Dr. Kermit Gosnell dispatched babies who survived late term abortions by “snipping their spinal cords” are as grisly as any contemporary “slasher film.” Unfortunately, the practice of dispos
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News Link • Racism
Aviation President Allegedly Attacks Muslim Cabbie (and Iraqi War Veteran) At Country Club
05-03-2013
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http://jonathanturley.org
Mohamed A. Salim, 39, served this country in Iraq in intelligence and as a linguist. Yet, he allegedly still suffered a beating and a broken jaw in his own country because of his Somali ethnicity and religion.
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News Link • Drones
Tiny Device Will Detect Domestic Drones
05-03-2013
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http://www.usnews.com, By Jason Koebler
Worried about an unmanned plane looking into your window? This small detector could alert you when robot planes buzz past
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Las Vegas Police Claim Camera-Wielding Citizens Compromising Officer Safety
05-03-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Las Vegas police are accusing so-called sovereign citizens of posing a threat to their safety because they tend to video record them during traffic stops. But if all they are wielding are cameras, then police should have no fear for their safety,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
San Antonio Park Police Beat Woman, Delete Video, Which is Later Recovered
05-03-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
San Antonio Park police violently beat a woman who had walked into the wrong room at a gas station, then arrested her brother for trying to video record the altercation.
They also deleted the footage from her brother’s camera while charging the wo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s real-world problem: Virtual currency facing bank backlash in Canada
05-03-2013
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For whatever reason, many in Canada’s small but fast growing Bitcoin community are suddenly dealing with the same problem: The banks have decided they don’t like the cryptocurrency and they’re shutting down some of the accounts of businesses that dea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Boston And Militarism: The Modern Drug War
05-03-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
The most persistent and significant contributor to police militarization and the erosion of civil liberties has of course been the modern drug war. (Perhaps rivaled over the last decade by the war on terrorism.) And in the 30 years since
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Of Kings and Capitalism
05-03-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
There are two Americas. People who live in other countries and don't know this, need to understand it. People who live in this country are even less likely to be aware of the difference, although, if there is to be a tolerable future"or any future at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 3D Printing
First completely 3D-printed gun shown
05-03-2013
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http://tech.fortune.cnn.com, By Matt Vella
Texas-based Defense Distributed released images it claims shows the world's first entirely 3D-printed firearm.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
ROOT Phoenix 'Growing Bazaar' May 4th 8a-1p
05-03-2013
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rootphoenix.com
I connected with Heather at PrepperFest (thanks for the seeds!) and look forward to visiting their facility this Saturday after the Breakfast Club.
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Ed Vallejo
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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 • China
Payments Using Chinese Yuan Continue to Surge as Currency Tops Russian Rouble in Popularity
05-02-2013
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CNS News
A press release from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication shows that the value of payments using Chinese Yuan currency grew by 171 percent between January 2012 and January 2013.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreign Holdings of US Securities Have Exploded
05-02-2013
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CNBC
Foreigners now hold more than $13 trillion in American securities, a record set as the U.S. seeks to assert itself as the safest port in troubled global waters. China and Japan combined owned more than $3.4 trillion, including $2.4 trillion in debt,
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS eyes U.S. accounts at Caribbean bank
05-02-2013
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Reuters
In a move resembling a recent IRS inquiry into Americans with Swiss bank accounts, the Justice Department said a court order would let the IRS serve a 'John Doe' summons seeking records of FCIB's U.S. correspondent account at Wells Fargo & Co.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nut-sized brain region can be manipulated to increase longevity: scientists
05-02-2013
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The Guardian
In a series of experiments, the researchers found they could extend the lives of mice by a fifth, without the animals suffering from muscle weakness, bone loss, or memory problems common in old age.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Bolivia, angered by Kerry, says it is ejecting U.S. aid agency
05-02-2013
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Los Angeles Times
Bolivian President Evo Morales was expelling the US Agency for International Development from the country, accusing the aid agency of conspiring against his government. “Surely to think that you can still manipulate us economically, politically
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News Link • Military
Even With U.S. Guns, Syria’s Rebels Still Might Lose
05-02-2013
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
As the Obama administration debates belatedly arming the Syrian opposition, military analysts are arriving at an uncomfortable conclusion: the U.S. can’t hand the rebels guns or rockets and expect them to topple dictator Bashar Assad.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cold Fusion: A Story of Suppressed Technology
05/01/2013
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Brass Check TV
Cold fusion products should be coming to market in the next 18 to 24 months, despite years of suppression, as lame stream media is no longer a reliable source. A least one company is now ready to allow testing of their Low Energy Nuclear Reactor (LEN
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Prowling Deposit Confiscation with Ellen Brown
05-02-2013
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arclein
The crossing of the Rubicon into the confiscation of depositor funds was not a one-off emergency measure limited to Cyprus. Similar “bail-in” policies are now appearing in multiple countries. (See my earlier articleshere.) What triggered the new r
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News Link • Activism
The Center for Natural Living Launch Party and Benefit Sat May 4th, 5-8 p.m. CDT - Austin, TX
05-02-2013
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Facebook.Com/Center for Natural Living
Join the Center for Natural Living, a new formed 501c3, for their launch party and fundraiser at Irie Bean Coffee House on S. Lamar. The event will include live music, local organic food, raffles and door prizes, silent and live auctions, speeches fr
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Marc Victor
KPNX 12 news Marc Victor " Jodi Arias Trial
05-02-2013
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Channel 12 News
Attorney’s Marc Victor and Jordan Rose give mock closing arguments in the Jodi Arias Trial.
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