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Date Sent: 2014-02-16
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, February 16, 2014 |
NSA's Australian allies spied on Indonesia-contracted US law firm
U.S. Army Builds ‘Fake City’ in Virginia to Practice Military Occupation -- Feds want to track your DNA like a license plate -- The ANESA tests blood - without a needle -- Possible radiation leak at New Mexico military nuclear waste site --
Brazil rations water in 140 cities amid worst drought in decades --
China revives plans to build world’s longest underwater tunnel in
earthquake-prone area -- Upper brackets will feel weight of federal tax changes -- US Political Prisoner Near Death -- Disgraceful NYT Op-Eds -- Is Monsanto Giving Up on GMOs? -- PRIVACY VS. SECURITY: A FALSE DICHOTOMY -- Obama Making Good On Promise to Eliminate Free Speech
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014, last day, Feb. 14-16; Memorial for Jack
McLamb, Saturday February 22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA's Australian allies spied on Indonesia-contracted US law firm
02-16-2014
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An American law firm advising Indonesian government on trade disputes with the United States has been reportedly caught up in yet another tangle of the National Security Agency espionage dragnet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Army Builds ‘Fake City’ in Virginia to Practice Military Occupation
02-16-2014
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Infowars
The U.S. Army has built a 300 acre ‘fake city’ complete with a sports stadium, bank, school, and an underground subway in order to train for unspecified future combat scenarios. Although the site includes a mosque, the town looks American in every ot
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Feds want to track your DNA like a license plate
02-16-2014
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WND
The government is planning an even more invasive spy program using “physiological signatures” to track down individuals. The goal is to detect and categorize " unique traits to “identify, locate and track specific individuals or groups of people.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Possible radiation leak at New Mexico military nuclear waste site
02-16-2014
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Reuters
Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened in 1999.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The ANESA tests blood - without a needle
02-16-2014
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Reuters
A non-invasive blood test that uses microchips instead of needles is being tested in Spain, with a view to incorporating it in the Spanish public healthcare system. Originally designed to test the blood of astronauts, the test is a pain and anxiety-f
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Possible radiation leak at New Mexico military nuclear waste site
02-16-2014
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Reuters
Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened in 1999.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Brazil rations water in 140 cities amid worst drought in decades
02-16-2014
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RT.com
Over 140 Brazilian cities have been pushed to ration water during the worst drought on record, according to a survey conducted by the country's leading newspaper.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
China revives plans to build world’s longest underwater tunnel in earthquake-prone area
02-16-2014
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rt.com
In its latest display of engineering ambition, China may build a 123 km underwater high-speed rail tunnel that is more than twice as long as any in existence today, though the project is loaded with financial and seismic risks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Upper brackets will feel weight of federal tax changes
02-16-2014
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bostonglobe.com
How will the major tax changes approved by Congress affect your returns?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Stock Investors Looking Forward For Wall Street Week Ahead
02-16-2014
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sproutwired.com
The Fed has predicted that the United States stock investors will go to zero next week. Technical analysts confirmed the zero stock index while the S&P 500 is about to go its record high.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
The One Reason Tesla Motors, Inc. and Electric Vehicles Will Dethrone Gas-Powered Vehicles
02-16-2014
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dailyfinance.com
If you're following the race among alternative-fuel vehicles to dethrone today's king of the road, the internal combustion engine vehicle, you know there are pluses and minuses associated with each type of vehicle.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Snow in Japan Causes Deaths, Disrupts Traffic
02-16-2014
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abcnews.go.com
The second heavy snowfall in a week to hit Japan killed up to a dozen people and injured hundreds over the weekend, while paralyzing traffic and causing power outages.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Dutch Sea Weed Burger
02-15-2014
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arclein
Kreischer claims that the invitro burger is not a real solution to the problem of a growing middle class demanding increasing amounts of meat, as "people will just keep on wanting to eat meat, without changing their way of thinking.” In the eyes of
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News Link • Agriculture
Is Monsanto Giving Up on GMOs?
02-15-2014
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arclein
GM technology doesn't seem to be very good at generating complex traits like better flavor or more nutrients, the very attributes Monsanto was hoping to engineer into veggies. Here'sWired:
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Thousands of Fish ID'd From Glass of Water
02-15-2014
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arclein
The technique turned out to be so finely tuned that it also picked up DNA from long-dead menhaden from the Atlantic Ocean, fish that had been processed, transported and added to the tank as food.
It was a surprise when an Atlantic species turned u
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
Kelud Wakes up
02-15-2014
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arclein
he Jakarta Post is reporting an ash plume from the eruption of ~10 km / 32,000 feet with ash falling upwards of 50 km from the volcano. Thousands of people are fleeing the area to evacuation centers, but over 200,000 people live within the 10 km evac
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robert klein
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Kids for Cash: Private Prisons and the Judges who fill them
02-13-2014
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NEXT NEWS
NATION | One of the biggest prison scandals to ever hit U.S. courts is now being made into a reality show after the release of the "Kids for Cash" documentary film. "Kids for Cash" opened in theaters February 7th. Mark Ciavarella was a judge kno
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Obama Administration
Michelle Obama's Orwellian School Lunch Program
02-13-2014
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NEXT NEWS
Susanne Posel, Chief Editor at THE US INDEPENDENT joins Gary Franchi to break down her investigations into child tracking through Michelle Obama's School lunch program.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Bailouts
Big Bank FAIL - Judge rules BOA foreclosures unconstitutional
02-13-2014
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NEXT NEWS
Susanne Posel, Chief Editor at THE US INDEPENDENT joins Gary Franchi to break down her investigation onto the recent ruling against Bank of America's Unconstitutional foreclosures... and what it means for you.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Gov. Jesse Ventura joins Next News Network Lineup
02-13-2014
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Next News
ORA TV partners with NEXT NEWS for distribution of OFF THE GRID segment.
CHICAGO, IL | After over a year of producing news for television and the internet the Next News Network is proud to welcome Jesse Ventura to their line up.
Striking a dea
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Agriculture
Farmers Abandoning GMO
02-13-2014
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arclein
Farmers can get paid more for conventional corn than GMO corn. Plus, Huegerich discovered, convention corn can produce more per acre. Modern Farmer reported that two years ago, Huegerich planted 320 acres of conventional corn and 1,700 with GMO corn.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank Of America Caught Frontrunning Clients
02-13-2014
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arclein
We now know that at least one of the two almost certainly happened after Reuters report from earlier today that it discovered on the FINRA BrokerCheck page of one of the bank's former Managing Directors, Eric Beckwith, the following curious ongoin
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robert klein
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News Link • Corruption
Pennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to prisons.
02-13-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to maximum sentences for bribes and kickbacks...
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Media: Print
Death of Saudi female student stirs uproar
02-13-2014
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Al Arabiya
Paramedics responding to an emergency at an all woman school in Saudi Arabia were prevented from entering because of rules banning the presence of men on campus.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. press freedom plunges to 46th, placing it behind former Soviet states
02-13-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The massive drop is attributable mostly to the Obama Administration’s effort to crack down on whistleblowers. Obama’s Justice Department has filed suit against more whistleblowers than any other presidential administration in history.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop shoots service dog during kid's birthday party - Filer Idaho
02-13-2014
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Daily Paul
An officer took a neighborhood dispute over unleashed dogs into his own hands. After arriving at the dog-owner's house, the cop immediately started kicking the dog and in a matter of 38 seconds had shot it to death. The community is outraged after vi
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News Link • Death
Another JPMorgan Banker Dies, 37 Year Old Executive Director Of Program Trading
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
Ordinarily we would ignore the news of another banker's death - after all these sad events happen all the time - if it wasn't for several contextual aspects of this most recent passage.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan frees detainees US calls 'dangerous'
02-13-2014
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Afghanistan released 65 accused militants from a former U.S. prison on Thursday despite protests from the American military, which says the men are Taliban fighters who will likely return to the battlefield to kill coalition and Afghan forces.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Applications Drop - Hover Near 19 Year Lows
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
Despite being told by Bullard, Yellen (and numerous other Federal Reserve thinkers) that quantitative easing was aimed at improving the housing market, the data suggests that - somewhat predictably - it did very little for mom-and-pop organic real ho
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Goldman On Gold - "This Is A Very Important Level To Watch"
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
Yesterday's apparent Yellen un-taper-driven strength in gold broke some key technical levels and Goldman Sachs sees upside.
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News Link • World News
Italian Government On Verge Of Collapse (Again)
02-13-2014
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Zero Hedge
The growing tensions between Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta (and his fragile coalition) and Matteo Renzi - the head of parliament's largest (center-left Democratic) party are intensifying this morning.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
U.S. Army could begin testing its Iron Man suits as early as June
02-13-2014
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dvice
It took Tony Stark decades and countless prototypes to get his Iron Man suit to its current level of awesomeness, and we're guessing the U.S. military's own effort to build super-suits for its soldiers will travel a similar path.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
No Janet Yellen, The Economy Is NOT “Getting Better”
02-13-2014
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
On Tuesday, new Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen went before Congress and confidently declared that "the economic recovery gained greater traction in the second half of last year" and that "substantial progress has been made in restoring the eco
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Senate Just Passed The Debt Ceiling Bill After A Dramatic, Hour-Long Vote
02-13-2014
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businessinsider.com
The Senate narrowly voted to advance " and, eventually, pass " the House of Representatives-passed debt-ceiling increase, after Democrats spent a long time on the floor trying to wrangle more Republican votes.
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