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Date Sent: 2013-11-20
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
Former Blackwater CEO: The NSA Is Turning America Into North Korea
11-20-13 -- Freedom's Phoenix Headline News - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM,
M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- What the World Would Be Like Without Capitalism -- Sledgehammers, Shopping Carts, Flight Tickets, and Nutter -- The CIA Hemorrhages Spies To Top Wall Street Firms --
Two Charts That Show Why ESPN Should Be Very Scared -- Elon Musk Writes A
Blog Post On The Stories About Teslas Catching Fire -- Yet
another Subway Shop accepts Bitcoin - this time in Slovakia -- Terminal
Cornucopia :: FRAGGuccino :: Frag Grenade -- Lindsey Graham challenger - Lee Bright -
beautifully takes down MSNBC host on Common Core! -- Brittany
Murphy 'was poisoned by government spooks in revenge for star's
support of whistleblower -- Mom Gives Kids Homemade Lunch,
School Forces Them to Eat Ritz Crackers -- EPIC Waste &
Corruption at the Pentagon: Doctored Ledgers Leave $8.5 Trillion
Unaccounted For -- Massive Pentagon Waste, Fraud and
Grand Theft -- Israeli Unaccountability -- Holding Border Patrol
Accountable: Terry Bressi on Recording his 300+ Checkpoint
Interactions -- Advocating Voluntaryism: An Email
AZ: Satoshi Square - Tempe Farmers Market Offline eXchange
(TFMOX), Nov. 23; Christmas Party @ the Hancock's - Sat Dec
14th, 2013 - 5 p.m. til ??
Free Tempe - End the Food Tax - Sign the Petition
NV: Passport to Freedom - Las Vegas, NV - January 23-25,
2014
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News Link • Surveillance
Former Blackwater CEO: The NSA Is Turning America Into North Korea
11-20-2013
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businessinsider.com
Erik Prince, founder of the private defense company Blackwater (then Xi, now Academi), says that the NSA is turning America into North Korea.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Christmas Party @ the Hancock's - Sat Dec 14th, 2013 - 5 p.m. til ??
11-18-2013
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and it's time to set aside the time for the annual Christmas Party - Please 'SAVE THE DATE': Saturday December 14th, 2013 from 5 p.m. til?? @ the Hancock's
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday November 20th 2013
11-20-2013
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LewRockwell.com
There Is a War on Achievement / The Gravest Threat to Freedom / JFK Lies Have Passed Their Sell-By Date / The Road to Self-Sufficiency / Nixon vs. Kennedy - The GOP view from Pat Buchanan.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sledgehammers, Shopping Carts, Flight Tickets, and Nutter
11/20/2013
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Stateless Statements
In a series of shocking displays that can be described as nothing short of bizarre, Democratic State Representative Tom Brower has recently undertaken an aggressive personal crusade against the epidemic of homelessness that has come to ravage his hom
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Nicholas Shankin
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA Hemorrhages Spies To Top Wall Street Firms
11-20-2013
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businessinsider.com
The Central Intelligence Agency is suffering major attrition among officers working closely with the nation's elite financial institutions, reports Jeff Stein for Newsweek.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Two Charts That Show Why ESPN Should Be Very Scared
11-20-2013
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businessinsider.com
John Ourand of Sports Business Daily takes a look at the viewership numbers which show that ESPN is still dominating the competition.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Vimeo Just Revealed Its Revenue For The First Time
11-20-2013
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businessinsider.com
As one of the media properties tucked away within IAC/Interactive Corp's vast group of online holdings, executives are putting the spotlight on Vimeo, breaking out the number of users and revenue for the first time.
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News Link • Transportation
Elon Musk Writes A Blog Post On The Stories About Teslas Catching Fire
11-20-2013
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businessinsider.com
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a new blog post addressing the news of his cars catching on fire.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Yet another Subway Shop accepts Bitcoin - this time in Slovakia
11-20-2013
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Bitcoin Source
A third Subway sandwich shop, following the lead of shops in Moscow and Allentown, Pennslyvania, is now accepting payments from customers bearing bitcoin.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Battery Project
Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes
11-20-2013
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fi.tartu.ee
Electrophoretic deposition (EPD) has been gaining increasing interest as an economical and versatile processing technique for the production of novel coatings or films of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on conductive substrates.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Lawmakers And Regulators Take A Closer Look At Bitcoin
11-20-2013
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Diane Rehm Show
The focus is on Bitcoin, a virtual currency that operates completely outside of U.S. financial regulations and protections. Critics argue the current lack of oversight offers anonymity to those hoping to skirt U.S. laws, but others say it’s a frontie
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Brittany Murphy 'was poisoned by government spooks in revenge for star's support of whistleb
11-20-2013
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Daily Paul
Brittany Murphy's father has sensationally claimed that the tragic ‘Clueless’ actress was poisoned to death by after offering her celebrity backing to a whistleblower fighting the government.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
EPIC Waste & Corruption at the Pentagon: Doctored Ledgers Leave $8.5 Trillion Unaccounted For
11-20-2013
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Daily Paul
Excerpt from Reuters:
Because of its persistent inability to tally its accounts, the Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law that requires annual audits of all government departments.
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News Link • Surveillance
Bahaha. Boston Cops to Have GPS Installed in Patrol Cars; ...
11-20-2013
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Daily Paul
I'll leave it to you to insert your sardonic observations about police hypocrisy and related matters in the comments below.
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News Link • How To
GLPVCs TheRawFeedLive - Trifecta Wed 11/20/2013 7-10pm est 3 shows
11/20/2013
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http://therawfeedlive.com/
isis unveiling *7-8pm guest nick redfern
arts tower of power *8-9pm economics/technology
the man cave *9-10pm calling all T-units this shows for you
listen live on YT
listen live on house streams
listen live on BTR
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Advocating Voluntaryism: An Email
11-19-2013
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The Local Voluntary
A workplace discussion with some colleagues at the office goes from Bitcoin to the point of taxation and regulation. The point of contention eventually became whether or not the tax code was voluntary, and what that meant. This led to an email exch
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Michael Baysek
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News Link • Corruption
Cheating students more likely to want government jobs, study finds
11-18-2013
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L.A. Times
College students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want government jobs, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania found in a study of hundreds of students
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Impeachable Offenses of Barack Hussein Obama Part 5
11-18-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
My mundane life has intervened with updating (and consolidating) this series as I had originally hoped to, but not only has that situation changed a bit of late, but the situation on the national and world stage is such as to demand commentary.
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News Link • TERRORISM
The First Post-9/11 Terror Case That Never Was
11-18-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
In the video below, Retro Report looks back at the "Detroit sleeper cell" case, the first post-9/11 terror convictions. In a case that would bode ill for similar investigations to come, federal prosecutors quickly jumped to the wrong conclusions,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Girlfriend to deputies: George Zimmerman pointed a shotgun at me
11-18-2013
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George Zimmerman was arrested after he cocked and pointed a shotgun at his girlfriend, shattered a glass-top table, then pushed her out of the house and barricaded himself inside after she ordered him to move out, according to the Seminole County She
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Aides: US-Afghan deal offers concessions for each
11-18-2013
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AP
The US will maintain exclusive legal jurisdiction over American soldiers and contractors in Afghanistan after 2014 as part of a draft US-Afghan security pact, congressional aides said, providing details of an agreement that entails key concessions fo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
JPMorgan, gov't settle all issues
11-18-2013
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AP
The Justice Department and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have reached agreement on all issues in a $13 billion settlement of a civil inquiry into the company’s sales of low-quality mortgage-backed securities that collapsed in value in the financial crisis,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Duncan apologizes for ‘white suburban moms’ Common Core controversy
11-18-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
Education Secretary Arne Duncan was forced to apologize for an impolitic comment he made over the Common Core, a sweeping effort to standardize national education that’s angered a diverse coalition of parents nationwide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
A New US Government Regulation Now Every 2 1/2 Hours
11-18-2013
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National Review
Last week, 66 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. There were 78 new final rules the previous week. That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every two hours and 33 minutes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Private firms selling mass surveillance systems around world
11-18-2013
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The Guardian
Private firms are selling spying tools and mass surveillance technologies to developing countries with promises that "off the shelf" equipment will allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to a cache of docu
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Homes raided, subpoenas issued targeting conservative groups and allies of Scott Walker
11-18-2013
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Subpoenas have been issued demanding correspondence and donor information of right-leaning organizations and individuals and raids have been conducted resulting in police taking computers and files in a secret investigation,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What THEY Can’t Take: “The Only Thing You Own Are the Skills In Your Hands and .....
11-18-2013
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shtfplan.com
We can say without a shadow of a doubt that 99.9% of the establishment media never saw it coming.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers on Price Inflation, Investing in Asia and Why China Will Continue to Boom
11-18-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Anthony Wile
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Jim Rogers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Rather Biased
11-18-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Charles Burris
Just as historical accounts in the old Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin would edit out any references to Leon Trotsky, so CBS News is editing out any references to its former news reporter and anchor Dan Rather in its “coverage” of the November 22, 1
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Obamacare: The Final Nail In The Coffin For The Middle Class
11-18-2013
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By Michael Snyder
If there were any shreds of hope left that the stunning decline of the middle class could be turned around, Obamacare has absolutely destroyed them.
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News Link • Bitcoin
The Great Rotation: From Bullion To Bitcoin
11-18-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Well you buy what's working, right? Don't fight the Fed? Oh wait...
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News Link • Obama Administration
OMG! Pelosi Is Really Nuts! Confronted by “Meet the Press” host David Gregory on Sunday
11-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
“I stand by what I said there: When people see what’s in the bill, they will like it, and they will,” Pelosi said, in utter defiance of reality. “It took a great deal for us to pass the bill. I said, ‘If we go up to the gate and the gate is locked, w
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Out in the Open: The German Plot to Give You Complete Control of Your Phone
11-18-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Klint Finley
When your last smartphone started to get a little long in the tooth, you probably just bought a new one.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Icahn Pours Cold Water On Stocks, Says "Market Could Easily Have A Big Drop"
11-18-2013
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zerohedge.com
Carl Icahn, who is currently speaking at the Reuters Global Investment Outlook Summit, just poured cold water over the Fed's 16,000 DJIA EOD price target.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
How the Feds Took Down the Silk Road Drug Wonderland
11-18-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
The dramatic takedown of the Silk Road drug market and the arrest of its alleged owner on drug trafficking and murder-for-hire charges last month began in part with an offhand tip to Department of Homeland Security investigators in Maryland in mid-20
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Two old foes unite against Tehran
11-18-2013
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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk, Uzi Mahnaimi
Convinced that Iran is tricking the world over nuclear weapons, Israel and Saudi Arabia may work together to curb its ambitions
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Rolls Out ‘Detention Pods’ at Airport Terminal Exits
11-18-2013
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http://www.infowars.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Making you feel like a prisoner who cannot leave
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News Link • Government
Marc Faber Exposes The Consequences Of A Dysfunctional Political System
11-18-2013
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zerohedge.com
As H.L. Mencken opined, 'The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he l
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News Link • Bitcoin
Didn't a guy in Oregon go to jail for writing a paper on this years ago?
11-18-2013
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zerohedge.com
dark-web-exposes-75000-bitcoin-based-bounty-bernankes-assassination
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Howard Pearlman
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Siri, What Are Your Political Views? Answer: Ron Paul! (video)
11/18/2013
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libertycrier.com
When asked what it’s political views are, the Siri Application displays the Ron Paul Wikipedia page.
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News Link • Bitcoin
DOJ, SEC: Bitcoins are Legitimate Financial Instruments
11-18-2013
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The Local Voluntary
The future is looking bright for Bitcoin, which is hovering around the $600 mark (global average) at the time of this writing. This morning, favorable news came out from the frauderal government. While the growing voluntaryist community doesn’t car
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