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Date Sent: 2014-03-26
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
Bankers' Deaths Shine Light on Stress in Industry, Tunnel Vision
Judge in racial profiling case scolds sheriff aide -- Cyber fugitive Dotcom mocks authorities: 'From 0 into a $210m company' -- BASE Jumpers Leap Off 1 World Trade Center -- Dan Coats, Senseless on Russia -- Contrasts Between Rialto and Albuquerque Police in Body-Mounted Cameras -- The West’s Greatest Gift -- Ukraine’s Night of the Long Knives -- Koch-Funded Student Group Attacks Ron Paul -- US ‘Democracy Promotion’ Destroys Democracy Overseas -- Venice’s Secession from Italy, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Nation-States -- 15 Years on: Looking Back at NATO's ‘Humanitarian’ Bombing of Yugoslavia -- Is Europe Cracking Up? -- Jim Rogers Wants To Put All His Money Into This Country. Is It The Next China? -- Edward Snowden’s Moral Courage -- Radio Tecnico: How The Zetas Cartel Took Over Mexico With Walkie-Talkies -- Ukraine Troops Withdraw From Crimea -- 15 Years Later: NATO’s Kosovo War Still a Regional Sore Spot -- Who Gets Sued When Your Robot Car Crashes? -- Drone-assisted hunting to be illegal in Alaska after game board decision -- 03-25-14 -- Sheriff Richard Mack - Derrick Slopey (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- The Three Stooges Debunk myRA -- Memory Manipulation -- Independency!—and a Thumb in the King's Eye --
This balloon-mounted turbine churns out both electricity and Wi-Fi --
Can an AI give a great TED Talk? -- Vertical trains may be future of
public transportation -- Some Facts About How NSA Stories Are Reported -- You Can’t Eat Gold And Silver -- TV’s Judge Joe Brown Arrested In Tennessee -- ND records nation's highest personal income growth
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bankers' Deaths Shine Light on Stress in Industry, Tunnel Vision
03-25-2014
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Bloomberg
Coroners in London are preparing to investigate two apparent suicides as unexpected deaths by finance workers around the world have raised concerns about mental health and stress levels in the industry.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge in racial profiling case scolds sheriff aide
03-25-2014
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AP
A federal judge presiding over a racial profiling case against an Arizona sheriff's office chided the sheriff and his top aide on Monday for mischaracterizing his findings, telling them he's unimpressed by what he called their apparent "double dealin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Cyber fugitive Dotcom mocks authorities: 'From 0 into a $210m company'
03-25-2014
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Reuters
Kim Dotcom, one of the world's most wanted cyber fugitives, on Tuesday gloated over a deal that will see a cloud storage firm he founded while on bail listing on the New Zealand stock exchange and valued on paper at NZ$210 million ($179 million).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
BASE Jumpers Leap Off 1 World Trade Center
03-25-2014
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ABC News
Three daredevils accused of parachuting off the top of 1 World Trade Center along with an alleged accomplice turned themselves in to authorities Monday " and then released video of the Batman-like stunt.
Daredevils James Brady, 32; Andrew Rossig,
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News Link • World News
Dan Coats, Senseless on Russia
03-25-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Putin’s clear aim was to secure the Black Sea ports when it appeared that Ukraine might join NATO. Putin’s aim was not imperial extension but the maintenance of a neighboring region in its orbit against western advances.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Contrasts Between Rialto and Albuquerque Police in Body-Mounted Cameras
03-25-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
They killed so many citizens since introducing the cameras that the US Dept of Justice launched an investigation in late 2012, citing an unusually high number of incidents resulting in “excessive force, including use of unreasonable deadly force, in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
The West’s Greatest Gift
03-25-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche is one of the most respected, living Tibetan Buddhist teachers. Right at the beginning of this video, he says that Anarchism is the greatest gift the West offers the rest of the world.
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News Link • World News
Ukraine’s Night of the Long Knives
03-25-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Fascist Right Sector leader found assassinated
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Koch-Funded Student Group Attacks Ron Paul
03-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Alexander McCobin co-founder and president of the Koch-funded Students For Liberty is out with a piece attacking Ron Paul’s call for the U.S. stop meddling in the Ukraine.
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News Link • World News
US ‘Democracy Promotion’ Destroys Democracy Overseas
03-25-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Rep. Ron Paul
It was almost ten years ago when, before the House International Relations Committee, I objected to the US Government funding NGOs to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secession
Venice’s Secession from Italy, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Nation-States
03-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
With an 89 percent majority, the voters of Venice have elected to leave Italy.
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News Link • NATO
15 Years on: Looking Back at NATO's ‘Humanitarian’ Bombing of Yugoslavia
03-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Exactly 15 years ago, on March 24, NATO began its 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia.
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News Link • Economy - International
Is Europe Cracking Up?
03-25-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week ago, in the St. George’s Hall in the Kremlin, Russia’s elite cheered and wept as Vladimir Putin announced the re-annexation of Crimea. Seven in 10 Russians approve of Putin’s rule.
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News Link • General Opinion
Jim Rogers Wants To Put All His Money Into This Country. Is It The Next China?
03-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Forget diversification. Jim Rogers has identified the world’s next great investment opportunity, and in a recent interview the famed guru said he is willing to put all his considerable fortune there.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Finger-prick technique opens door for DIY stem cell donors
03-25-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Grant Banks
Harvesting samples for producing stem cells can be rather painful. Techniques can involve collecting large amounts of blood, bone marrow or skin scrapes.
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News Link • Heroes
Edward Snowden’s Moral Courage
03-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Last Thursday Chris Hedges opened a team debate at the Oxford Union at Oxford University with this speech arguing in favor of the proposition “This house would call Edward Snowden a hero.”
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News Link • Drones
Lehmann Aviation updates its GoPro-toting LA100 drone
03-25-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
A couple of years ago, France’s Lehmann Aviation introduced its LA100, a fully autonomous fixed-wing UAV designed to carry a user-supplied GoPro Hero camera. Now, the company has announced the LA100 Version2, which features Wi-Fi connectivity and a n
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News Link • Energy
Renewables Aren’t Enough. Clean Coal Is the Future
03-25-2014
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Wired.com
Proof that good things don’t always come in nice packages can be found by taking the fast train from Beijing to Tianjin and then driving to the coast.
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News Link • Architecture
A Plan to Build Skyscrapers That Barely Touch the Ground
03-25-2014
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Wired.com
There are more people, buildings, and landmarks per square inch on Manhattan than any other chunk of geography in America.
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News Link • Technology: Software
6 Apps That Make It Simple to Split Expenses With Friends
03-25-2014
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Wired.com
When a big expense needs to be divvied up among friends or roommates, toss the checkbook and calculator and use these apps to handle the math and payments.
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News Link • Drones
Drone-assisted hunting to be illegal in Alaska after game board decision
03-25-2014
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http://www.adn.com, By CASEY GROVE
Hunting big game in Alaska with the help of remote-controlled, camera-equipped aircraft will be illegal later this year when new regulations take effect.
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
The Three Stooges Debunk myRA
Dennis Miller
The mention of a government-backed IRA in Obama’s state of the union address earlier this year may look like a good deal. After all, who wouldn’t want a retirement account with the full backing of the US government? But, despite its fanfare, myRA may
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News Link • New World Order
Memory Manipulation
03-25-2014
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Farm Wars
Without memory we are as useless lumps, waiting to be molded into obedient slaves. Yes, control the memory and you control the person.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Government
Independency!"and a Thumb in the King's Eye
03-25-2014
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http://www.ncc-1776.org, by L. Neil Smith
I have just been invited to attend a famous science fiction convention next year as its Guest of Honor, and I have happily accepted.
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News Link • Energy
This balloon-mounted turbine churns out both electricity and Wi-Fi
03-25-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
Looking like a wayward jet engine, this floating turbine and its brethren could someday travel to every remote corner of the globe
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Can an AI give a great TED Talk?
03-25-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Robin Burks
We're currently living in an age of technology where artificial intelligence is being born. As AI becomes more mainstream, we’ll have it doing everything for us, from recognizing objects in our environment, to making video games, to running our homes
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News Link • Future Predictions
Vertical trains may be future of public transportation
03-25-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Robin Burks
Thanks to massive population growth, our cities are expanding at an exponential rate, and the only way to continue growth is by building up instead of out. That includes looking at future public transportation options: British designers Christopher C
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News Link • Government
Some Facts About How NSA Stories Are Reported
03-25-2014
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https://firstlook.org, By Glenn Greenwald
Several members of the august “US Journalists Against Transparency” club are outraged by revelations in yesterday’s New York Times (jointly published by der Spiegel) that the NSA has been hacking the products of the Chinese tech company Huawei as wel
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Prepping
You Can’t Eat Gold And Silver
03-25-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In the event that a major crisis or emergency strikes the United States, you are not going to be able to eat your gold and silver. If we get into a situation where supermarkets get cleaned out and food supplies get very tight, you are going to wish
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
WATCH LIVE @ 10:30 pm ET: US-Russian Crew Docking with Space Station @ 11:04 pm
03-25-2014
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By Space.com Staff
NASA's Steve Swanson and cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev launched toward the International Space Station earlier today (March 25), and they are scheduled to dock with the orbiting outpost at 11:05 p.m. EDT (0305 March 26 GMT). You c
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
TV’s Judge Joe Brown Arrested In Tennessee
03-25-2014
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http://dfw.cbslocal.com, CBSDFW.COM/AP
The star of the television show “Judge Joe Brown” has been arrested and charged with five counts of contempt of court in Tennessee, court officials in Memphis said Monday.
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News Link • Activism
Escambia Board of County Commissioners discuss replacing magistrate who sided with Sean's Outpos
03-25-2014
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YouTube/Com/MKLords
In this meeting, a local resident voiced his concerns about not being heard at an emergency meeting to discuss Satoshi Forest, a nine acre private property that is being developed into a campground to serve the homeless.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
Roundup, Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance
03-25-2014
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arclein
"All of the known biological effects of glyphosate -- cytochrome P450 inhibition, disruption of synthesis of aromatic amino acids, chelation of transition metals, and antibacterial action -- contribute to the pathology of celiac disease," the paper
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto Is Going Organic in a Quest for the Perfect Veggie
03-25-2014
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arclein
The men poke, prod, and chew the next course with even more vigor: salmon with a relish of red, yellow, and orange bell pepper and a side of broccoli. “The lettuce is my favorite,” Stark says afterward. Fraley concludes that the pepper
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News Link • Kids
What A Father Did After A 9-Year-Old Allegedly Bullied His Son Is Unprecedented, Authorities Say
03-25-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Oliver Darcy
A California father tired of his child being bullied at school filed a restraining order against the 9-year-old boy accused of physically assaulting his son " a move authorities say is unprecedented.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Here's How British Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down The Missing Malaysia Plane
03-25-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, SOPHIE CURTIS,
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced today that, based on satellite data analysis from UK company Inmarsat, Malayia Airlines flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean, and no one on board survived.
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News Link • Syria
The War Party At Work In Syria: Another Nation Destroyed, More Blood On America’s Hands
03-24-2014
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by David Stockman
Just in the nick of time last fall, the American people finally put their collective foot down, and took away Obama’s keys to the Tomahawk Missile batteries.
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News Link • Iraq
Clashes Spread to Eastern Iraq; 98 Killed, 34 Wounded
03-24-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
At least 98 people were killed and 34 more were wounded across Iraq. In Diyala province, security forces are trying to prevent militants from taking over Buhriz.
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt sentences 529 Morsi supporters to death
03-24-2014
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Muslim Brotherhood men convicted of murdering 2 policemen and attacking others; majority of those condemned are on the run
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Dashcam Video Shows Officer Safety Beating, Pistol Whipping Suspect
03-24-2014
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CBS News
Dallas Police released dash cam video showing an officer punching and pistol whipping a suspect during a traffic stop late last year. Officer Rene Villanueva has been fired and is also facing criminal charges of Official Oppression and Assault.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Eight confirmed dead after Oso, Washington landslide; 15 missing
03-24-2014
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AP
8 people are confirmed dead after a massive landslide slammed into homes near Oso. Fire Chief Hots said, "We didn't see or hear any signs of life out there today so of course that's very disappointing to all of our emergency responders on the scene,"
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Drudge Did Pay Obamacare Opt-Out Penalty; White House and Corporate Media Lied
03-24-2014
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Breitbart
A White House aide set off a stampede of liberal media criticism for Internet news pioneer Matt Drudge over Obamacare " but his critics don't seem to understand how small businesses pay taxes. The brouhaha started when Drudge tweeted,
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: Debt And Taxes
03-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Peter Schiff
The red flags contained in the national and global headlines that have come out thus far in 2014 should have spooked investors and economic forecasters.
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News Link • Precious Metals
How (& Why) JPMorgan & COMEXShould Be Sued For Precious Metals Manipulation
03-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Ted Butler
I’ve had some recent conversations with attorneys who were considering class-action lawsuits regarding a gold price manipulation stemming from reports about the London Gold Fix.
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