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Date Sent: 2013-11-29
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, November 29, 2013 |
China Sends Fighter Jets to New Air-Defense Zone -- Canada let NSA spy on G20 summit
New tax law driving expats to renounce U.S. citizenship -- NATO probes Afghan airstrike that 'killed child' -- The incredible mile-long floating CITY -- Server says she was fired for calling police about woman who was drinking while breastfeeding -- Suit claims cops stood by and laughed as officer shocked mentally ill suspect with stun gun -- Black College Student Spends 4 Days In Jail After Being Mistakenly Arrested --
Ex-Marine charged in California homeless killings dies in hospital --
Yale professor found dead in his jail cell hours after fighting with
police -- 11-29-13 -- Freedom's Phoenix Headline News - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Hunger in America -- Israeli Police State Lawlessness -- Microsoft, HURTING after NSA backdooring, vows to harden its own
pipe -- Got a screwy Xbox One disc drive?
Try punching it! -- Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked
Into the Internet Itself -- Call-Log App Aims to Reverse-Engineer NSA Surveillance
-- Company Makes CO2 Into Liquid Fuel, with Help from a Volcano --
Electromagnetic Resonance of the Tesla Gravity Motor -- Rural
Mortgages in China -- Coup d'Etat Rule in Egypt -- Ukraine Dodged a
Bullet
AZ: Property Six is performing a live acoustic
set on November 28th, Thanksgiving Day!; 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 • China
China sends warplanes into air defense zone
11-29-2013
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AP
China will continue piling the pressure on Tokyo until it reverses the decision to nationalize the islands, concedes they are in dispute, and opens up negotiations with Beijing. "China has no choice but to take counter measures. If Japan continues
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News Link • Surveillance
Canada let NSA spy on G20 summit
11-29-2013
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The Guardian
Canada allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct widespread surveillance during the 2010 Group of 20 summit in Toronto, according to a media report that cited documents from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
New tax law driving expats to renounce U.S. citizenship
11-29-2013
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McClatchy News
“My decision was either to protect my Canadian spouse and child from this overreach or I could relinquish my U.S. citizenship,” she said. “It was with great sorrow I felt I had to relinquish, but there was no other choice for me and many like me.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO probes Afghan airstrike that 'killed child'
11-29-2013
US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan on Friday vowed to investigate an airstrike that President Hamid Karzai said killed a two-year-old boy, as acrimony deepens over a deal to allow US troops to stay in the country after 2014.
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News Link • Government
The incredible mile-long floating CITY
11-29-2013
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Daily Mail
Floating around the globe, drifting from country to country, never staying in one place long enough to get bored … If you like traveling, life on the Freedom Ship, the world’s first floating city, sounds perfect.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Server says she was fired for calling police about woman who was drinking while breastfeeding
11-29-2013
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Rawstory
A server at a restaurant was fired after calling police to report a woman drinking alcohol while breastfeeding her child at the same time. 28-year-old Tasha Adams, was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Suit claims cops stood by and laughed as officer shocked mentally ill suspect with stun gun
11-29-2013
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Rawstory
Video of the incident surfaced in January showing a shirtless Smith sitting on the floor at the police station while he bangs his head on the edge of an office cubicle or desk before an officer shoots him with the stun gun.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Black College Student Spends 4 Days In Jail After Being Mistakenly Arrested
11-29-2013
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CBS News
“I told them the picture wasn’t me. They continued and insisted on, in fact, it was me,” said Johnson. Jawon, with an “o”, was accused of being Jawan Johnson involved in a burglary case in D.C. The man wanted by the federal government spells his name
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ex-Marine charged in California homeless killings dies in hospital
11-29-2013
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Reuters
An Iraq war veteran charged in California with six murders, including the serial "thrill" killings of four homeless men, has died in a hospital where he was being treated for an illness, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Yale professor found dead in his jail cell hours after fighting with police
11-29-2013
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Rawstory
“He yelled that it was his house and that he shouldn’t be arrested,” said a police spokesman. “See fought with officers when they tried handcuffing him, (and) as See was led to a police car, he yelled to one of the arresting officers, ‘I will kill yo
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News Link • Surveillance
Microsoft, HURTING after NSA backdooring, vows to harden its own pipe
11-28-2013
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http://www.theregister.co, By Iain Thomson
Snooping on private messages 'breach of the 4th Amendment'
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News Link • 3D Printing
Tailored 3D printed skin will fit right in with your own flesh
11-28-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
The ability to create a 3D printed organ and transplant it into a patient who needs it is something straight out of sci-fi. Someday, patients will be able to lie down on a massive 3D printer and have their new organs and tissues printed right into th
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Got a screwy Xbox One disc drive? Try punching it!
11-28-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Raymond Wong
I can't remember the last time I gave my electronics a brusin'. Today's kids probably don't know anything about smacking their electronics around. Back in the day, when electronics malfunctioned, the quickest fix usually involved smacking it around.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Give Thanks for Cassini, One of the Greatest Space Missions Ever
11-28-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Nadia Drake
A mosaic of 36 Cassini images, captured on Oct. 10, 2013, and assembled into this incredible portrait by Gordan Ugarkovic. Among other details, you can see the hexagon at Saturn's north pole and the remnants of a giant storm that wrapped itself aroun
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News Link • History
Look at These Amazing Old Pics of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
11-28-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Kyle VanHemert
The gigantic inflatable cartoon characters of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade are perfectly at home in today’s sanitized, candy-colored Times Square.
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News Link • Internet
Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself
11-28-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By David Talbot
Following NSA surveillance revelations, talks advance on making the privacy-protecting tool Tor an Internet standard.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
New Genome-Editing Method Could Make Gene Therapy More Precise and Effective
11-28-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Susan Young
A Boston startup wants to create precise genome-editing treatments that can address more types of disease than previous gene therapy methods.
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News Link • How To
Gray Matter: The Fire Bird
11-28-2013
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http://www.popsci.com,
Deep-frying a turkey can be a delicious Thanksgiving treat"or a deadly conflagration, as our rather dramatic video shows
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Call-Log App Aims to Reverse-Engineer NSA Surveillance
11-28-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite
Sharing your call data with researchers could help show what the NSA can deduce from the data it harvests.
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News Link • Energy
Company Makes CO2 Into Liquid Fuel, with Help from a Volcano
11-28-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis
An Icelandic company figures out how to make methanol from waste CO2, but the economics may not work without a nearby volcano.
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News Link • Science
Electromagnetic Resonance of the Tesla Gravity Motor
11-28-2013
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arclein
e man who helped most was Thomas B. Brown, an inventor who was troubled with a tendency to deafness. By following the advice of the readings he was able to improve his hearing, and thereafter bought much of Edgar’s time for readings on the problems h
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News Link • China
Rural Mortgages in China
11-28-2013
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arclein
Among a number of changes outlined in a document released last Friday, China's leaders pledged to boost income for rural residents by giving them more property rights, allowing them to mortgage their property and envisioning experiments in allowing
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News Link • Science
ISON Coming in Hot
11-28-2013
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arclein
The comet will venture no closer to us than about 40 million miles, less than half the distance between Earth and the sun. That closest approach to Earth will occur Dec. 26. Then it will head away in the opposite direction forever, given its anticipa
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News Link • Government
Scotland unveils blueprint for independence and its own defense force
11-26-2013
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AFP
An independent Scotland would keep Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch but create its own defence force, nationalist leader Alex Salmond said Tuesday as he unveiled detailed proposals ahead of next year’s historic referendum.
Launching his regional
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Boxer Manny Pacquiao’s bank accounts frozen by Philippine authorities for unpaid U.S. taxes
11-26-2013
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AFP
Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao said authorities had frozen all his domestic bank accounts over allegations of unpaid taxes from lucrative fights in the US, leaving him financially paralyzed. “This is harassment,” the world champion said
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News Link • Housing
‘Sovereign citizen’ defies authorities and seizes ‘abandoned’ Ohio homes
11-26-2013
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Rawstory
An Ohio family says a man took their home from them by going inside while they were out of town, changing the locks and laying claim to the property in court.
The family told WLWT-TV that they found out after returning from a visit to a dying rela
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Shannon Connely Buckeye man freed (finally) from insane prison sentence
11-26-2013
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http://www.azcentral.com/insiders/laurieroberts/20
Connely, who had no criminal record, was charged with aggravated assault and disorderly conduct. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office offered him probation if he would plead guilty to a lesser crime but he refused, believing no jury would convict hi
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News Link • Justice and Judges
WATCH: ‘Living natural man’ berates Montana judge over not having a fishing license
11-26-2013
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Rawstory
A 52-year-old Montana man was found guilty of obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest, putting an end to a series of heated encounters between himself and a judge he accused of acting like a “privateer.”
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News Link • Cuba
Cuba suspends consular services in U.S., blames embargo
11-26-2013
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Reuters
Cuba is shutting down nearly all of its consular services in the United States until further notice after it said no bank would handle its business, the government announced, blaming the situation on the longstanding US economic embargo.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Oregon School Officials Delete Footage From Students’ Cameras After Staff/Student Altercation
11-26-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Oregon school officials accused a student of a crime after a confrontation with a staff member, calling police who arrested him on disorderly conduct and harassment charges, before they went around and deleted video evidence of the alleged
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Never Trust a Costumed Stranger
11-26-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Within the space of seventy-two hours last weekend, three women were detained and sexually assaulted by armed strangers in official-looking costumes. Two of those incidents occurred in Texas, the other happened in Minnesota.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Undetectable Firearms Act Renewal and Friends of Ross Ulbricht
11-26-2013
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Defense Distributed
Defense Distributed's advancements in rifle receiver and magazine printing have been plagued since December 2012 by a growing chorus of legislators demanding that the activities we popularized this year be made illegal from the municipal to the feder
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News Link • China
U.S. aircraft fly over East China Sea without informing China
11-26-2013
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Reuters
"We have conducted operations in the area of the Senkakus. We have continued to follow our normal procedures, which include not filing flight plans, not radioing ahead and not registering our frequencies," Colonel Steve Warren added,
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News Link • Economy - International
The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland
11-26-2013
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arclein
The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed"from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th centuries, to the mid-nineteenth century “potato famine” tha
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News Link • Privacy Rights
California City Bans Smoking at Home
11-26-2013
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The New American
Multiple media outlets are reporting that the city council of San Rafael, California has passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking inside residences with shared walls.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Beginning January 1st legal gun owners in Washington D.C. Required to Register with Police
11-26-2013
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The Liberty Beat
Anyone with a gun registered before 2011 will be forced to go to police headquarters to be fingerprinted, photographed, pay a fee and provide proof of address before the Firearms Registration Section creates a new ID card for each gun and gun owner.
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News Link • Surveillance
Oakland, California City Council votes to Approve Surveillance Center
11-26-2013
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The Liberty Beat
Concerned citizens chanted and protested inside city council expressing concern over the surveillance hub that will connect dozens of traffic and surveillance cameras to police and fire dispatch systems, Twitter feeds, crime maps, gunshot-detecting
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News Link • Gold and Silver
How Gold Price Is Manipulated During The "London Fix"
11-26-2013
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Zero Hedge
There was a time when the merest mention of gold manipulation in "reputable" media was enough to have one branded a perpetual conspiracy theorist with a tinfoil farm out back.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Spies Are Freaking Out About Edward Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache Of Secrets
11-26-2013
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businessinsider.com
British and U.S. intelligence officials say they are worried about a "doomsday" cache of highly classified, heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud.
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News Link • Government
The FDA Wants 23andMe To Stop Selling Its Genetic Testing Kits
11-26-2013
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businessinsider.com
The Food and Drug Administration is ordering 23andMe to stop selling its saliva collection kits for its personal genome service.
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News Link • Housing
Pending Home Sales Collapse At Fastest Pace Since April 2011, Drop To December 2012 Levels
11-26-2013
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Zero Hedge
Despite the downtick in rates for a month or two, the housing 'recovery' appears to have come to an end.
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News Link • China
NSA Fallout Spreads: Qualcomm Probed By Chinese Regulator In "Confidential" Investigation
11-26-2013
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Zero Hedge
The recent collapse in the forward guidance from Cisco and various other tech and telecom companies has been widely attributed to the world's - and mostly China's -
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