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Date Sent: 2013-11-22
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
Thousands protest against tough new official secrets law in Japan
JFK Assassination Witness Speaks For 1st Time -- How Germany's taxman used stolen data to squeeze Switzerland -- Did Hollywood bigwigs help Israel buy arms in the 1970s and '80s? -- 11-21-13 -- Angela Keaton - Jeff Berwick - Michael Boldin (MP3 +Bonus and VIDEO LOADED) -- Reid, Democrats trigger ‘nuclear’ option; eliminate most filibusters on nominees -- Gold rush in space? Asteroid miners prepare, but eye water first -- Woman With Quadriplegia Feeds Herself Chocolate Using Mind-Controlled Robot Arm -- Have Bitcoin To Burn? Next Stop Could Be The Farm -- The Biggest Banking Disconnect Since Lehman Hits A New Record -- Fukushima Alarmism -- Bitcoin Goes to Mordor -- The Biggest Mistakes and Best Ways to Use Bitcoin -- Maricopa
County Attorney William Montgomery Defends His Prosecutors'
Misconduct -- Remembering Jack Kennedy -- Modern Day Slavery in
Qatar -- 4409: There are NO LAWS....only THREATS! -- World of
Resistance [WoR] Report, Part 1: The Global Awakening By: Andrew
Gavin Marshall -- GMOs and the Indiscriminate Use of Force --
America Has Entered a New Level of Tyranny -- One Lawmaker Is
Literally Smashing The Belongings Of The Homeless With A
Sledgehammer
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(TFMOX), Nov. 23; Christmas Party @ the Hancock's - Sat Dec
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NV: Passport to Freedom - Las Vegas, NV - January 23-25,
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News Link • Police State
Thousands protest against tough new official secrets law in Japan
11-21-2013
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Reuters
The law, proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, would significantly broaden the definition of official secrets, which Abe says is vital for strengthening security cooperation with main ally the United States and other countries.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
JFK Assassination Witness Speaks For 1st Time
11-21-2013
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CBS News
On November 22, 1963, Nelson was working out of the southwest substation in Dallas. He said police were spread all over the city guarding multiple areas.
“Only 2 people were working the south district,” Nelson said, “my partner J.D. Tippit and me.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
How Germany's taxman used stolen data to squeeze Switzerland
11-21-2013
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Reuters
The data he stole gave details of as many as 2,500 clients with combined assets up to 2 billion Swiss francs. He sold it to a middleman, who then sold it to German tax inspectors that led to police raids on Credit Suisse's main offices in Germany.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Did Hollywood bigwigs help Israel buy arms in the 1970s and '80s?
11-21-2013
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Haaretz
A producer working in Tinseltown since the late 1970s led a double life as an arms dealer and Israeli intelligence operative. Arnon Milchan, the Israeli producer of such smash hits as "Fight Club," "Pretty Woman," and hundreds of other films, is open
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Reid, Democrats trigger ‘nuclear’ option; eliminate most filibusters on nominees
11-21-2013
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Washington Post
The partisan battles that have paralyzed Washington in recent years took a historic turn, as Senate Democrats eliminated filibusters for most presidential nominations, severely curtailing the political leverage of the Republican minority
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Gold rush in space? Asteroid miners prepare, but eye water first
11-21-2013
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Reuters
Mining in space is moving to commercial reality but metals magnates need not fear a mountain of extraterrestrial supply---the aim is to fuel human voyages deeper into the galaxy. Within 3 years, 2 firms plan prospecting missions to asteroids.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Woman With Quadriplegia Feeds Herself Chocolate Using Mind-Controlled Robot Arm
11-21-2013
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arclein
In a study published in the online version of The Lancet, the researchers described the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology and training programs that allowed Ms. Scheuermann, 53, of Whitehall Borough in Pittsburgh, Pa. to intentionally move
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Have Bitcoin To Burn? Next Stop Could Be The Farm
11-21-2013
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NPR
For food producers who sell directly to consumers, credit cards are both a blessing and a curse. They're a way to do business with cashless customers, but 3% of every credit card sale is usually charged to the farmer as a transaction fee.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Vladimir the Great
11-21-2013
President Vladimir Putin is audaciously attempting to remove the brush covering from atop the common sense rabbit hole, which is not only a truly rare and subversive act in the eyes of the Con, but a potentially great gift to humanity " if only human
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Biggest Banking Disconnect Since Lehman Hits A New Record
11-21-2013
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arclein
Which, of course, also happens to be the amount of reserves the Fed has injected into the system (i.e., how much the Fed's balance sheet has expanded) since the great experiment to bailout the US financial system started in September 2008, in which
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Fukushima Alarmism
11-21-2013
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arclein
The map above comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United Stat
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robert klein
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News Link • History
How Scientists Preserve Lincoln's Original Gettysburg Address Manuscripts
11-21-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Mac Irvine
Researchers still have more to learn from the 150-year-old documents.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
World of Resistance [WoR] Report, Part 1: The Global Awakening
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall
11-20-2013
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http://andrewgavinmarshall.com/2013/11/20/world-of
The world today is in the midst of the most monumental social, political and economic upheavals in human history " a state of continual protests, uprisings and what may be considered inevitable revolution on a global scale. Power that had been centra
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
GMOs and the Indiscriminate Use of Force
11-20-2013
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Farm Wars
Stuck in a cycle of destruction played out in the cornfields and haystacks, in the labs and factories, and most importantly, in our homes and bodies, we find ourselves trapped in a culture of death.
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Barbara Peterson
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Reference Link • Police State
America Has Entered a New Level of Tyranny
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Did you know there has never been a police state which has not victimized their own people? This makes you wonder what our government will do when they are done collecting our private data? Read more here...
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Politics
One Lawmaker Is Literally Smashing The Belongings Of The Homeless With A Sledgehammer
11-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
There is a war on compassion in America today. You are about to read about a Hawaii lawmaker that has used a sledgehammer to smash up at least 30 shopping carts that homeless people were using. Yes, you read that correctly. He is actually carrying
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Chris Menke
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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 • 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 • Afghanistan
US-Afghan agreement keeps troops in place and funds flowing, indefinitely
11-19-2013
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NBC News
While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft shows the US is prepared to maintain military outposts in Afghanistan for many years to come, and pay to support hundreds of thousands of Afghan security
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
NHTSA May Mandate That New Cars Broadcast Location, Direction and Speed
11-19-2013
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CNS News
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will decide whether or not newly manufactured cars include communications technology that constantly broadcasts the car’s location, direction, speed and the number of passengers it is carrying.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Jeremy Hammond Given Maximum Sentence In Hacking Case
11-19-2013
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Jonathan Turley
This case has the added disturbing element of an allegation of a conflict of interest by Preska who refused to recuse herself from the case despite the fact that her husband was an alleged victim of the hacking.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Why They Really Hate Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
11-19-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Mayor Ford even gives out his cell phone number to voters, to call him any time about problems with city services or taxes. He eschews a chauffeur and other city perks, all in the name of keeping spending down for the average taxpayer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
US congressman Trey Radel (R-FL) charged with cocaine possession
11-19-2013
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AP
Florida Rep. Henry "Trey" Radel has been charged with cocaine possession after what a federal law enforcement official described Tuesday as a "buy and bust" operation.
In a statement expressing regret, the 37-year-old Republican freshman lawmaker
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Boston Police Object To Plan To Equip Cruisers With GPS Devices
11-19-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Not that long ago, police departments joined together to call upon the United States Supreme Court (with the support of the Obama Administration) to allow citizens to be tracked with GPS devices placed on their vehicles without a warrant
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Lawmakers And Regulators Take A Closer Look At Bitcoin
11-19-2013
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http://thedianerehmshow.org,
Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on the potential risks, threats and promises of virtual currencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
As China Looms, the U.S. Ponders Ways Not to Destroy Bitcoin
11-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
The U.S. government believes that some scary people are using bitcoin.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Q: 'Siri, What Are Your Political Views?' A: Ron Paul
11-19-2013
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Regardless of your own political persuasion, apparently your iPhone is a libertarian.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Trades Over $1000 On BTC China Exchange And Crashes 30% ... Then Rebounds
11-19-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Update: following the 30% drop to under $600 in seconds, BTC promptly rebounded to $800 in a few more seconds, as the entire BTC market is now just an algo arena.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
This 13-Year-Old Teaches MIT Graduates About Technology
11-19-2013
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Business Insider
Quin Etnyre, a 13-year-old tech expert, teaches graduate students at MIT all about Arduino, an open source platform for controlling electronics.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Accidental Discovery Dramatically Improves Electrical Conductivity
11-19-2013
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http://www.itechpost.com
Quite by accident, Washington State University researchers have achieved a 400-fold increase in the electrical conductivity of a crystal simply by exposing it to light.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Drones, Tanks, and Grenade Launchers: Coming Soon to a Police Department Near You
11-19-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead
Why does a police department which hasn’t had an officer killed in the line of duty in over 125 years in a town of less than 20,000 people need tactical military vests like those used by soldiers in Afghanistan?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock Asked for Saliva, Blood
11-19-2013
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NBC News
Some drivers along a busy Fort Worth street on Friday were stopped at a police roadblock and directed into a parking lot, where they were asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva and even blood.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Do Americans Prefer Deception?
11-19-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Walter E. Williams
There’s more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home » News Treasury Forced to Issue $1T in New Debt in First 6 Weeks of FY14
11-19-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Terence P. Jeffrey
Between Oct. 1, 2013, the first day of fiscal 2014, and Nov. 14"which was less than a month after Congress agreed to temporarily suspend the legal limit on the federal debt"the Treasury was forced to issue more than $1 trillion in new debt.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Review: “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” Is an “Empire Strikes Back” for 2013
11-19-2013
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http://www.showbiz411.com, by Roger Friedman
Here comes “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” It clocks in at two and a half hours, covers everything you could imagine, and is so well liked it has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Ben Swann announces "Just Us" jury nullification to acquit victimless crime
11-19-2013
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Ben Swann
Ben Swann, Luke Rudowski, Tatiana Moroz, Jeff Berwick, Josh Tolley, Angela Keaton, Jordan Page, Bob Murphy and Joby Weeks talk about a new public awareness campaign they have begun to encourage jury nullification. it is called "Just Us".
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Donna Hancock
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