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Date Sent: 2014-01-08
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
Video shows New Hampshire police brutally beating man after drunken driving arrest
What Colorado's cannabis experiment will teach us -- Peace Officer Jack McLamb is in intensive care --
Decline of the Green Revolution and the Future of Farming with Doug
Bell -- Mexican Oil Boom -- Ghosts of Falun Gong -- 01-08-14 -- Erik Voorhees - Dianna
Henry - Greg Schoen - John Perkins - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM -- Roger
Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research -- Changes in diet
radically reform gut bacteria in just one day -- Thyroid cancer
rates on the rise in Japanese children, experts warn residents to
evacuate -- A Century of War -- Rogue State Accuses Victims of
Incitement
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
CA: 5th Annual Southern Calif Libertarian Regional
Conference Jan 18, 2014 Noon-5 p.m. Ontario, CA
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
23-25, 2014
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video shows New Hampshire police brutally beating man after drunken driving arrest
01-08-2014
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Rawstory
Mike “MJB” Bergeron, of Seabrook, posted surveillance video Monday on YouTube that he said shows police slamming him face-first into a concrete brick wall and dousing him with pepper spray while he was on the floor.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
What Colorado's cannabis experiment will teach us
01-08-2014
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newscientist.com
Skin up for the Centennial State. Colorado's cannabis experiment began on 1 January when the state became the first place in the world to legalise the sale of marijuana for recreational purposes.
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News Link • Books
Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life
01-08-2014
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newscientist.com
Three new books bring us up to speed on extraterrestrial life, its prospects and possible forms " but it remains "queerer than we can suppose"
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sandra Aamodt: Why dieting doesn't usually work
01-08-2014
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ted.com
In the US, 80% of girls have been on a diet by the time they're 10 years old. In this honest, raw talk, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt uses her personal story to frame an important lesson about how our brains manage our bodies, as she .....
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News Link • Agriculture
Decline of the Green Revolution and the Future of Farming with Doug Bell
01-08-2014
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arclein
Uruguay is a good environment for those seeking risk-averse investments. From my perspective, the political climate is stable, distanced from economic and political risk. Along with Chile, it has the lowest crime and corruption rates of Latin America
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Mexican Oil Boom
01-08-2014
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arclein
There are massive amounts of unexplored regions as well, and they're packed with probable oil.
Fracking, the same technology that is quickly turning the United States into the world's biggest producer of oil and natural gas, will soon transform Me
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News Link • Science
New Approach to Myostatin-Related Muscle Growth
01-08-2014
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arclein
Researchers here have moved on past myostatin and further down the chain of signals and molecular mechanisms to find a novel place to intervene in order to boost muscle growth in mice and humans. So far results are promising: if this treatment turns
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robert klein
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News Link • China
Ghosts of Falun Gong
01-08-2014
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arclein
The Leadership Team and 610 Office are extrajudicial organizations and are operated secretly, according to a report on Li Dongsheng by the New York-based World Organization for Investigation of the Persecution of Falun Gong
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robert klein
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News Link • Conferences
5th Annual Southern Calif Libertarian Regional Conference Jan 18, 2014 Noon-5 p.m. Ontario, CA
01-08-2014
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EventBee
Coming from Phoenix, AZ is Ernest Hancock, founder of news website Freedom's Phoenix and host of the Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Radio Show. Ernest is a longtime Libertarian and ran for LNC Chair in 2010. Ernest is known for many t
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research
01-08-2014
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ted.com
Believe it or not, about 20 years' worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can't get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high. Roger Stein is a finance guy, and he thinks de
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Changes in diet radically reform gut bacteria in just one day
01-08-2014
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naturalnews.com
A shift in diet can dramatically change the composition of your gut bacteria in just a single day, according to a study published in the journal Nature. This may explain the strong connection between diet and certain diseases.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Thyroid cancer rates on the rise in Japanese children, experts warn residents to evacuate
01-08-2014
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naturalnews.com
When Japanese Professor Toshihide Tsuda of Okayama University sat down with leaders from the Japanese Ministry of the Environment, talk about citywide evacuation near the Fukushima nuclear breakdown site began.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Carpeted Ice Fishing Hut: Luxury Voluntarism
01-08-2014
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The Local Voluntary
Voluntaryists can live comfortably on a budget.
The rejection of the financial system and the state comes at a price. Monetary success must be relegated to honesty to one self and one’s friends, loved ones and communities.
Take this north Penn
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Michael Baysek
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Parents Must Tell School They Own A Gun Under Missouri Bill
01-06-2014
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A proposed state law in Missouri would make it a crime for parents or guardians not to tell school officials if they have guns in their home. Parents could be prosecuted for gun crimes committed by their children under the same law even if the crimes
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Missouri State Senator Proposes Anti-ObamaCare Bill
01-06-2014
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The state Senate of Missouri will soon say to the Obama administration, “Show me where the Constitution authorizes the federal government to demand that Americans pay for health insurance."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Parting Company - by Walter Williams
01-06-2014
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If one group of people prefers strong government control and management of people's lives while another group prefers liberty and desires to be left alone, should they be required to enter into conflict with one another and risk loss of life in order
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News Link • Humor
A Glorious Event!
01-06-2014
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Strike The Root
But today--today!--they arrived. I knew as soon as I saw the envelope with the return address: Missouri Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Department. My hands trembled as I ripped it open--and there they were: glorious yellow, highly reflective,
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Is Hiring: Lots Of Cops
01-06-2014
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zero hedge
Some may have forgotten, or not be aware, that the Federal Reserve system has its own police force. Well, it does: "The U.S. Federal Reserve Police is the law enforcement arm of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United Sta
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Senate confirms Yellen to chair Federal Reserve
01-06-2014
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AP
The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, elevating an advocate of fighting unemployment and a backer of the central bank's efforts to spur the economy with low interest rates and massive bond purchases.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Cannabis re-legalized in Colorado
1/5/2014
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Free Press Publications
On January 2, Ed Krayewski from Reason wrote, “[New Year's Day] marked the beginning of a legal market in recreational marijuana in Colorado, the first time government-licensed shops have ever sold marijuana anywhere in the world.”
There is, howe
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Transportation
States turn against electric cars as gas tax revenues fall
01-06-2014
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http://dailycaller.com, Michael Bastasch
States are quickly learning that promoting electric cars is coming with a high price tag.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Delivery Drones Already Exist " And They’re Way Bigger Than Amazon’s
01-06-2014
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Wired.com
If Jeff Bezos really wants to launch his own delivery drones, he might take a look at the flying bots that are already making deliveries for an even larger operation: the U.S. Marines.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why Did The FBI Drop Law Enforcement As Its Primary Mission?
01-06-2014
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thecable.foreignpolicy.com
Last week Catherine Austin Fitts stated the the banks had stolen $40 trillion dollars from the American public during the housing and banking crisis of 2007-2009, and they were happy the statute of limitations is near. I hear crickets, Tea Party!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Are we on the brink of war? Academic draws comparisons between 1914 and present
01-05-2014
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A CENTURY ago, a simple assassination was enough to topple a tenuous balance between the old and new worlds. The resulting war killed millions and spanned the globe. Is history about to repeat itself?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
It’s not just your phone calls " it’s YOU they are listening to
01-06-2014
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This is the 21st Century. A grand era of technology. Buck Rogers and H.G. Wells would be so proud of our technological advancements. But so would Stalin, Mao and Hitler. The NSA’s recently leaked shopping catalog is chilling and would
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
How Hawaii's Big Island Became GMO-Free
01-06-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
One council member's educated decision to vote against the ban makes an excellent primer on the science of genetically modified foods.
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Board of Directors Lockheed Martin & Gannett Media connection... if any.
01-06-2014
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lockheedmartin.com
What I am trying to document is that Lockheed Martin Corp. (F-35 Fighter production) owns Gannett Media (Arizona Republic - NBC Affiliate Ch 12 TV Phoenix and USA Today)... I'll explain why later :)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
...Government Labels People Like Snowden ‘Traitors,’ ...
01-06-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalvini
Glenn Greenwald To Fox's Eric Bolling: Government Labels People Like Snowden ‘Traitors,’ History Calls Them ‘Patriots’ (VIDEO)
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News Link • Self-Defense
Watch What Happens When Guns Are Banned! (Australia)
01-06-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Sheepherder911
I'm not sure how accurate the numbers given are (Armed Robberies UP 69%!!?) but deductive reasoning suggests trends in crime would increase when a populace is disarmed of "The Great Equalizer".
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Police break 13 year old's nose for refusing to confess to something he didn't do (Video)
01-06-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by richybear
A 13-year-old boy says he was brutalized by Waukegan police late last month, and now two unnamed detectives and the city are facing a federal lawsuit.
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News Link • Government
FBI Drops Law Enforcement as 'Primary' Mission
01-06-2014
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http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com, BY John Hudson
The FBI's creeping advance into the world of counterterrorism is nothing new. But quietly and without notice, the agency has finally decided to make it official in one of its organizational fact sheets.
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News Link • Iraq
Civilians Flee as Iraq Vows ‘Major Attack’ on Fallujah
01-06-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Maliki: Military Will End 'Disunity' in Anbar
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq: The ‘Liberation’ Neocons Would Rather Forget
01-06-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Rep. Ron Paul
Remember Fallujah? Shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US military fired on unarmed protestors, killing as many as 20 and wounding dozens. In retaliation, local Iraqis attacked a convoy of US military contractors, killing four. The US then l
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Admits to Spying On Congress
01-06-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
After Senator Bernie Sanders asked the NSA whether it spied on members of congress, the NSA responded:
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News Link • Drones
Parrot shows off new 'MiniDrone' and 'Jumping Sumo'
01-06-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Raymond Wong
Parrot, the maker of the AR.Drone (and Zik bluetooth headphones and Flower Power sensor) is back with two new 'bots: a tiny drone that rolls and a two-wheeled robot that can jump.
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News Link • Drug War
New York State Is Set to Loosen Marijuana Laws
01-06-2014
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nytimes.com, By SUSANNE CRAIG and JESSE McKINLEY
Joining a growing group of states that have loosened restrictions on marijuana, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York plans this week to announce an executive action that would allow limited use of the drug by those with serious illnesses, state officials
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Colorado’s Pot Shops Say They’ll Be Sold Out Any Day Now
01-06-2014
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http://business.time.com, By Brad Tuttle
A few days into the experiment, the new world of legal-recreational-marijuana sales in Colorado appears to be a big success " so much so that pot shops are finding it impossible to keep up with demand.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Animals and Pets
PETA’s okay with militarized police killing defenseless, innocent pets
01-06-2014
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http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com
Doing a search on Google, I can find no articles where PETA and HSUS lash out against the actions of the cops. Instead, I found the following:
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