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Date Sent: 2014-01-09
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
Christie fires aide, apologizes for revenge traffic jams
Ernest Hancock at CES 2014 (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, NV -- The Man Who Remembered the Future - Phillip K. Dick -- Gold Update -- Valley Teen Mac
Howell Fighting DUI Charge After Clean Blood Test -- The Human
Brain Is A Tangled Clump Of Wires But A New Theory Suggests That's
Why We Are So Smart -- Here Are 7 Cooking Tips Every Beginner Needs
To Know -- This Tiny Car Gets 84 Miles Per Gallon And Costs Just
$6,800 -- E*Trade Customers Are Having Trouble Getting Into
Their Accounts -- Martin Scorsese Writes Open Letter To His
Daughter On The Future Of 'Affordable' Filmmaking -- 95% Of Total
Consumer Credit Lent In Past 12 Months Is For Student And Car Loans
-- They Give Awards For That?! -- The US Consumer Is So Strong,
Macy's Just Fired 2500 And Announced The Closure Of Five Stores -- Proof Gold's Latest Slam Was Not A "Fat Goldfinger" -- Article:
One More Reason The Banking System is a Criminal Scam -- The Third
Battle of Fallujah -- Israel's War on Asylum Seekers
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 • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Christie fires aide, apologizes for revenge traffic jams
01-09-2014
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AP
Gov. Chris Christie apologized saying he was "embarrassed and humiliated" by his staff but had no idea his aides may have closed highway lanes to exact political retribution. Christie also said he was firing Deputy Chief of Staff
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Future Predictions
The Man Who Remembered the Future - Phillip K. Dick
01-09-2014
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arclein
What was it that made Philip K. Dick interested in precognition? It had not been a particular theme within classical science fiction nor had it been part of the books that the young Philip read during his childhood years and early teens. The answer m
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News Link • Economy - International
Gods of Money with Richard Moore
01-09-2014
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arclein
The most profitable of all central bank activities has been the financing of major wars, particularly the two World Wars. When nations are engaged in warfare, with their very survival at stake, the governments stretch their resources to the limit in
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robert klein
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Update
01-09-2014
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arclein
The price is going down for some technical reasons, probably manipulation as well. But the physical demand is through the roof… The floating supply is disappearing. This gold is coming out of (the ETF) GLD. They’ve disgorged 500 tons. It is going
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robert klein
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News Link • Marc Victor
Valley Teen Mac Howell Fighting DUI Charge After Clean Blood Test
01-09-2014
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www.AttorneyForFreedom.net
He was arrested, charged with a drug DUI. But his blood test came back with absolutely nothing illegal in his system. Mac’s attorney Charity Clark from the Law Firm of Marc J. Victor P.C. has been fighting the charge ever since.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Transportation
This Tiny Car Gets 84 Miles Per Gallon And Costs Just $6,800
01-09-2014
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Business Insider
We've seen quite a few flashy, teched-up cars at the Las Vegas CES showcase, but this teeny-tiny three-wheeler was one of the most interesting.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Martin Scorsese Writes Open Letter To His Daughter On The Future Of 'Affordable' Filmmaking
01-09-2014
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Business Insider
"Wolf of Wall Street" director Martin Scorsese is being blasted by some for glamorizing the corrupt true story of former stockbroker, Jordan Belfort.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The US Consumer Is So Strong, Macy's Just Fired 2500 And Announced The Closure Of Five Stores
01-09-2014
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zerohedge.com
Just out from Macy's, which first said the following: "The 2013 holiday season was successful for Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s as we offered fresh and distinctive merchandise, delivered great value to the customer and provided a robust omnichannel shopp
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Proof Gold's Latest Slam Was Not A "Fat Goldfinger"
01-09-2014
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zerohedge.com
With December's "fat finger" in US Treasury Futures proved as nothing but an HFT algo gone wild, Nanex has turned its deep-thought to the recent halt in gold futures markets.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Article: One More Reason The Banking System is a Criminal Scam
01-09-2014
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Daily Paul.com
It seems almost impossible to believe that the exact strategy being employed by the US Federal Reserve to ostensibly help the economy was also employed by Nazi Germany to dismantle the British economy. But it is absolutely true.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Drones
Navy’s 757-Sized Drone Will Provide Big-Time Surveillance
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Allen McDuffee
A new drone with the mammoth wingspan of a Boeing 757 is set to give the U.S. Navy some serious surveillance power.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Steven Levy
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell"and why the Internet will never be the same.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Garmin Dash Cam HD driving camera doubles as black box
01-07-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. Weiss
At CES this week, GPS giant Garmin has added a new HD camera to its growing line.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon looks to the next 25 years of robot warriors
01-07-2014
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gizmag.com
Last month, the US Pentagon pulled out its crystal ball and released a report that presents a blueprint of what it sees as the future of military robots over the next quarter of a century.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D Systems targets families with sub-$1,000 3D printer
01-07-2014
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gizmag.com
After first catching our attention with its out-of-the-box Cubify 3D printer back in 2012, 3D Systems is again looking to make inroads beyond the hobby market with its family-oriented Cube 3.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Walking in Broad Daylight is “Suspicious” Behavior
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
“What was going on with the police officer a few minutes ago?” I asked the young couple to whom I had offered a ride on sunny but severely cold Saturday morning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Employment Recovery? 1,600 Workers Apply For Just 36 Jobs At An Ice Cream Plant In Maryland
01-07-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The stock market may be soaring to unprecedented heights, but things just continue to get even tougher for the middle class. In this economic environment, there is intense competition for virtually all kinds of jobs. For example, more than 1,600 ap
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: ....
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
What is most striking about the American police state is not the mega-corporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the invasive surveillance regime....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Too Big to Pop
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Most economic observers are predicting that 2014 will be the year in which the United States finally shrugs off the persistent malaise of the Great Recession.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
You Say You Want a Revolution? Keep it Non-Violent
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
History is full of violent revolutions and civil wars. Overthrow the government; disband the state; our guys will be better than their guys.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
2014-Crisis in Dollar Will Trigger Inflation-John Williams
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Economist John Williams thinks 2014 will mark the beginning of hyperinflation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property
01-07-2014
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https://mises.org,
What is the status of intellectual property? Are patents and copyrights legitimate in a free society?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
After 42 years, burglars of FBI 'Cointelpro' docs reveal their roles
01-07-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
3 former political activists revealed their part in a brazen 1971 burglary of an FBI office outside Philadelphia, where they stole as many as 1,000 documents, enraging FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and exposing a domestic spying operation that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economic Warfare as an Instrument of Transnational Organized Crime, with Patrick Byrne
01-07-2014
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YouTube/The Institute of World Politics
On December 17, 2013, Patrick M. Byrne, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Overstock.com, discussed "Naked Shorts, Bust-Outs, and the Once and Future Cataclysm: Economic Warfare as an Instrument of Transnational Organized Crime."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Overstock CEO: Why we're accepting bitcoins
01-07-2014
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CNBC.Com
Overstock.com has become the first major online shopping retailer to accept the digital currency bitcoin as payment in exchange for any of our million products. We are doing this for both business and philosophical reasons.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Homeowner Forecloses on Bank of America
12-23-2013
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Daily Paul.com
A bank foreclosure story you've got to see to believe. A Collier County couple turns the tables on Bank of America, the bank that tried to foreclose on their home. Now, the family is foreclosing on the bank! Even bringing trucks and deputies ready to
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Could the Banksters Grab Your Bank Deposits?
01-07-2014
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www.infowars.com
The above article explains that most of us do not realize that when you deposit money in a bank, that it becomes the property of the bank and we become unsecured creditors of the bank!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Spirit Airlines Moves to Capitalize on Pot Tourism
01-07-2014
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justsaynow.firedoglake.com
Now that recreational marijuana is legally on sale in Colorado, Spirit Airlines is trying to capitalize on what is likely to be a fast growing marijuana tourism industry. On their website is this ad clearly making reference to the Colorado marijuana
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News Link • Bitcoin
Overstock to Embrace Bitcoin, Giving the Currency a Lift
01-07-2014
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New York Times
Patrick Byrne, the company’s chief executive, said Overstock planned to let online shoppers pay for goods with Bitcoin by June. The retailer is evaluating the services of several third-party firms that facilitate Bitcoin transactions, with the goal o
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
As Iraq spirals, the Kurds take advantage
01-07-2014
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globalpost.com
Violence in Iraq has reached new heights. And the semi-autonomous Kurdish north could be set to capitalize on all the instability.
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