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Date Sent: 2013-05-11
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, May 11, 2013 |
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
California Deputies Seize Phones from Witnesses After Beating Man to Death -- Olegs Kozancenko, Beaten For What? -- Former Guatemala dictator Rios Montt convicted of genocide -- Obama Did It for the Money -- Download your own banned 3D gun blueprint now! While You Can! -- Burning Liquid Hydrogen For Fuel, Navy Drone Flies For 48 Hours Straight -- Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
AZ: Freedom's Phoenix Workshop... Doing Some WORK! Today and tomorrow.
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
05-10-2013
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Wired.com
The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
California Deputies Seize Phones from Witnesses After Beating Man to Death
05-10-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Law enforcement authorities in California beat a man to death with their batons before seizing at least two cell phones from witnesses who captured the incident on video.
One of the phones was seized without a warrant. The second phone was seized
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Olegs Kozancenko, Beaten For What?
05-10-2013
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Simple Justice
Kozancenko said he first wanted to read the ticket before signing.
So Murrill was constrained to use force.
The 220-pound Murrill goes on to write in his report that the 6’ 165 pound Kozacenko was “actively resisting ” and “exhibited extrao
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Former Guatemala dictator Rios Montt convicted of genocide
05-10-2013
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Reuters
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country's 36-year civil war and was sentenced to 80 years in prison.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Did It for the Money
05-10-2013
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TruthDig
The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that has led to her being nominated as Commerce secretary would not be so unseemly if they both just confessed that they did it for the money. Her money, not his,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Download your own 3D gun blueprint now! While You Can!
05-10-2013
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Wendy McElroy
Defense Distributed was forced to take down the blueprint for its 3D gun from the internet. The State Dept. cannot 'recall' the 100,000+ copies already downloaded. If you wish to add to that number, then the 3D gun blueprint is still available at....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Don’t Code Drunk: Buzzworthy App for Programmers
05-10-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Programming is no easy task. When a single misplaced comma can break your whole program, it's enough to drive just about anyone to drink. Now, to prevent drunken coding " or encourage it " there's GitDown.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Environment
Time-Lapse GIFs Show Earth Transforming Over 25 Years
05-10-2013
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popsci.com
Satellite images from every year since 1984 show the march of human progress"and the retreat of nature.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
05-10-2013
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ted.com
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, .......
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Surveillance
Judge Allows Evidence Gathered From FBI’s Spoofed Cell Tower
05-08-2013
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wired.com
An Arizona judge has denied a motion to suppress evidence collected through a spoofed cell tower that the FBI used to track the location of an accused identity thief.
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Max Schofield
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. Kicks Drug-War Habit, Makes Peace With Afghan Poppies
05-09-2013
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Wired.com
Because of the poppies, the raw material for most of the world’s heroin, the list of things 1st Lt. Christopher Gackstatter and his 2nd Platoon can’t do in Sartok is far longer than the list of things they can.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
The Fourth Strike of the Match - by Bill Buppert
05-08-2013
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ZeroGov
“Dad, how did America die?”
“The actual murder of the idea of freedom and liberty in America was dealt its greatest blow on 19 April 2013 in Boston. It lasted 238 years but the cracks and fissures that would destroy the country started to become
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Tsarnaev brothers not yet linked to foreign terror groups, officials say
05-08-2013
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Washington Post
Dozens of federal agents and local and state police officers are tracing the steps of the Tsarnaev brothers in the weeks and months before the Boston Marathon bombing, but they have so far not been able to connect them to a foreign terrorist organiza
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Psychic Who Said Amanda Berry Was Dead Silent After Berry Is Found Alive
05-08-2013
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ABC News (video)
Psychic Sylvia Browne, who has made a career of televised psychic readings, told Louwanna Miller on a 2004 episode of the show that her daughter was dead, causing Miller to break down in tears on the show's set.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Writes A Dissent To A Stay Of Execution
05-08-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
It's bad enough when that kind of posturing comes from a district attorney trying to cover his own mistakes. But it's appalling to hear it come from a state supreme court justice -- and not in a speech or an offhand remark, but in an actual opinion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Legislator’s Talks on Tape With Officials Started With a Ruse
05-08-2013
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New York Times
Her guests, according to court papers, included some of the most prominent elected officials in Queens and Brooklyn, and she recorded their conversations.
Ms. Huntley had an agenda: She was under investigation for corruption and hoped that cooper
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Vernon Hershberger Real Food Trial
05-08-2013
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Farm Wars
Wisconsin farmer, Vernon Hershberger is facing criminal charges for feeding his community. Vernon supplies wholesome food to a private food club of 200 members. The outcome of his trial will set precedent for all food clubs around the country!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Whistleblower Ellsberg to SF Pride: Manning Should be Lauded as "Hero That He Is"
05-08-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Lauren McCauley
Over 100 Manning supporters shut out of public meeting on Gay Pride controversy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals
05-08-2013
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Ben Child
Document shows agency requested removal of interrogation scene with dog, and shots of operatives partying with AK47
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
California, New York and DC look to ban 3D-printed guns
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history of the infant technology. If some lawmakers have their way, it will also be the last.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
OpGTMO: Anonymous vows global hack attack to shut down Guantanamo
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
The hacktivist group Anonymous has announced it will mark the 100th day of the Guantanamo hunger strike with three days of massive protests, calling on supporters to join their global action both on the ground and online.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US heads 41-nation war games in Gulf, Iran fears conflict in volatile region
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
Massive US-led military drills began in the Persian Gulf in a second such show of maritime might in under a year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
This 3D printed prosthetic ‘Robohand’ will restore your faith in humanity
05-08-2013
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http://venturebeat.com, Ricardo Bilton
While a lot of the focus on 3D printing these days is on how it can be used to take lives, the technology can be used to improve them as well.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Opposing Theocracy
05-08-2013
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arclein
Theocracy is inherently oppressive and contrary to America's core values. It regards God as the sovereign and source of law. It therefore places the coercive power of the state--including interpretation and enforcement of law--in the hands of believ
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robert klein
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News Link • Activism
There's a New Armed March on D.C.
05-08-2013
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Meghan Kellison
In response to Adam Kokesh's July 4th armed march on Washington D.C., other activists have organized another march the day before, but the terms are slightly different.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Internet blackout enters second day
05-08-2013
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AFP
Syria’s Internet blackout entered into its second consecutive day, which the state news agency blamed on a fault in optical fiber cables. Landline phone services between Syrian provinces have also been down since Tuesday, SANA said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
05-08-2013
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New York Times
Obama, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet
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