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Date Sent: 2014-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, April 18, 2014 |
SNOWDEN: Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama
US Government Is Paying To Undermine Internet Security, Not To Fix It -- 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Might Not Make It To Xbox One -- Hawaii lawmakers close police sex loophole -- Gunmen kill 20 in attack on South Sudan UN base -- Carolinas Lead National Fall in Unemployment Rate -- Pro-Russian militants continue occupation of government buildings in eastern Ukraine -- Mexico rattled by 7.2-magnitude earthquake -- Malaysia Flight MH370: Conspiracy Scenario -- Alan Korwin: “Prohibited person” is now “Prohibited household” -- The market isn’t free if the elites hijack
it -- The Strangelove Effect: How We are Hoodwinked into
Accepting a New World War -- Peru orders 4,000 evacuated as Ubinas volcano spews ash
clouds up 2 miles high -- World’s First
Case Of Female Penis And Male Vagina Found! -- New Fossil Takes A
Bite Out Of Theory That Sharks Barely Evolved -- NASA discovers most
Earth-like planet in 'Habitable Zone' -- Putin Speaks -- Ukrainian
Offensive Falters -- 4409: Woman gets 16 years SUPERVISED SLAVE
Probation -- Another Tack: We are the accusers
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine April 2014 Edition
RELEASED
AZ: Tempe General Plan 2040: Smart Growth in Your Town
with Patrick Wood, Thursday, April 24, 6PM, Tempe (Agenda
21)
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News Link • Surveillance
SNOWDEN: Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama
04-18-2014
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The Guardian
I regret that my question could be misinterpreted, and that it enabled many to ignore the substance of the question " and Putin's evasive response " in order to speculate, wildly and incorrectly, about my motives for asking it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
China's Round Two on Electric Cars: Will It Work?
04-18-2014
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http://www.forbes.com, Elizabeth Economy
Everyone loves China’s five-year plans. They tell you everything you need to know about the future direction of the Chinese economy: intentions and priorities, along with timetables and targets. The only thing missing are the results.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Artificial eyes, plastic skulls: 3-D printing the human body
04-18-2014
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http://edition.cnn.com, By Meera Senthilingam
The 21st century has seen the growth of 3-D printing, with well-known applications in architecture, manufacturing, engineering, and now increasingly in medicine.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Might Not Make It To Xbox One
04-18-2014
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http://www.forbes.com, Erik Kain
Activision has pulled the Xbox One box art from the website for its upcoming licensed game The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Call Amnesty International!
04-18-2014
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Elder of Ziyon Weblog
Murderer couldn't easily collect stamps in Israeli prison.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • United Nations
Gunmen kill 20 in attack on South Sudan UN base
04-18-2014
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By AFP
At least 20 people were killed and another 70 injured by gunmen posing as peaceful protestors who
stormed a UN base in South Sudan, the US ambassador to the world body said.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Carolinas Lead National Fall in Unemployment Rate
04-18-2014
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http://blogs.wsj.com, By Jeffrey Sparshott
The unemployment rate has fallen fast in the Carolinas. But the decline may not be the good omen it seems as the underlying reasons mirror broader trends that are causing some economists concern.
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News Link • World News
Pro-Russian militants continue occupation of government buildings in eastern Ukraine
04-18-2014
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By William Booth and Anthony Faiola
Pro-Russian activists continued their defiant occupation of government buildings across eastern Ukraine on Friday, though some of their leaders said they would surrender weapons and pull back if the Ukrainian security forces also withdrew.
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News Link • Geology
Mexico rattled by 7.2-magnitude earthquake
04-18-2014
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http://www.abc.net,
A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake has struck Mexico's capital and Pacific coast, shaking buildings, shattering windows and sending residents fleeing into the streets.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mind Image Reading Breakthrough
04-18-2014
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arclein
While the reconstructions based on 30 brain readings are blurry, they approximate the true images. They got the skin color right in all of them, and 24 out of 30 reconstructions correctly detected the presence or absence of a smile.
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News Link • Food
Collapsing Japanese Whale Meat Market
04-18-2014
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arclein
The research program began a year after an international ban on commercial hunting took effect. Japan is one of a few countries, including Norway and Iceland, which continue to hunt whales despite the moratorium. Activists from the group Sea Shepherd
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News Link • Conspiracies
Malaysia Flight MH370: Conspiracy Scenario
04-18-2014
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arclein
I have also been informed by the same aeronautical expert that the possible flight track(s) for these 7 hours are over areas which would allow the plane to possibly land and refuel...then take off again. Given the extra fuel burn due to flying at low
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News Link • Gun Rights
Alan Korwin: “Prohibited person” is now “Prohibited household”
04-18-2014
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The Daily Caller
This creates “Prohibited Households” " entire private homes where you cannot have a readily available gun [or ammo] for emergencies. Everyone in the house is (technically) disarmed by the presence of one person on the NICS Index.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
The market isn’t free if the elites hijack it
04-18-2014
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http://www.bostonglobe.com, By Farah Stockman
Despite controversy, Ecuador’s president has been successful targeting inequality
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
The Strangelove Effect: How We are Hoodwinked into Accepting a New World War
04-18-2014
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By John Pilger
I watched Dr. Strangelove the other day. I have seen it perhaps a dozen times; it makes sense of senseless news.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biofuel
Biogas plant turns hog waste into energy
04-18-2014
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http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com, Bryan Orchard
Read how the US$17 million, 3.2Mw Blue Mountain biogas power generation plant in Beaver County, Utah, began generating electricity from methane gas via the anaerobic digestion of swine manure.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Health and Nutrition Secrets From Around The World
04-18-2014
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http://wakeup-world.com, By April McCarthy
There are many places around the world where people live longer and know how to be happier than the rest of us.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Nutrition
12 Cool Ways to Get the Most Nutrition from Your Veggies
04-18-2014
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Deane Alban
Since man first figured out how to domesticate plants, we’ve been trying to make them more palatable.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Opportunity selfie: Martian winds have given the spunky ol' rover a spring cleaning
04-18-2014
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http://www.theregister.co.uk, By Iain Thomson
Power levels up 70 per cent as the rover keeps on truckin'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Peru orders 4,000 evacuated as Ubinas volcano spews ash clouds up 2 miles high
04-18-2014
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http://www.foxnews.com,
Peruvian authorities have ordered the preventative evacuation of 4,000 people living near the Ubinas volcano, which has been spouting ash clouds up to 2 miles (nearly 4 kilometers) high.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Plead For Alternate Identification Methods For Threatened Species...
04-18-2014
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http://www.isciencetimes.com, By Ben Wolford
For a biologist, few things are more exhilarating than discovering an animal in the wild that was thought to be extinct.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
World’s First Case Of Female Penis And Male Vagina Found!
04-18-2014
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http://www.greenpacks.org
It is kind of desperate when a girl has to forcibly hold down a guy with spikes to get some action! But it goes to a whole new level when ‘she’ is the one bringing the ‘penis to the bed’!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Fossil Takes A Bite Out Of Theory That Sharks Barely Evolved
04-18-2014
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http://www.ktoo.org, Geoffrey Brumfiel
Sharks have looked more or less the same for hundreds of millions of years. But a newly discovered fossil suggests that under the hood, a modern shark is very different from its ancient ancestors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
This giant 3D printer can build 10 prefab homes in under 24 hours
04-18-2014
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http://www.digitaltrends.com, By Drew Prindle
3D printers are building some pretty amazing stuff lately: working speakers, wooden furniture, prosthetic limbs, and even foods like pizza and pasta " but WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co. of Shanghai, China is thinking much, much bigger.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
At Least Nine Nepali Guides Killed in Everest Avalanche
04-18-2014
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http://www.voanews.com, Reuters
An avalanche swept down a slope of Mount Everest on Friday, killing nine Nepali mountaineering guides at the beginning of the main climbing season, a Tourism Ministry official said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA discovers most Earth-like planet in 'Habitable Zone'
04-18-2014
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http://rt.com
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has found an Earth-sized planet within the habitable zone of the star it orbits, the space agency announced Thursday.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Another Tack: We are the accusers
04-17-2014
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Sarah Honig
What has become known as Kerry’s “poof” speech is precisely what Israel was afraid of " being blamed for the predictable flop of Kerry’s delusional project.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Seymour Hersh’s Blockbuster: Obama On The Red Line And On The Rat Line
04-16-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Read Seymour Hersh’s devastating account of Obama’s Red Lines and Rat Lines and weep for the Republic. It is no more.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Washington Drives The World To War
04-16-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The CIA director was sent to Kiev to launch a military suppression of the Russian separatists in the eastern and southern portions of Ukraine, former Russian territories for the most part that were foolishly attached to the Ukraine in the early years
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News Link • Obama Administration
The US’s Invasion of Africa That Nobody Knows About
04-16-2014
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http://antiwar.com, John Glaser
The U.S. is assembling the rudiments of imperial infrastructure throughout Africa, and hardly anybody knows about it. Hardly anybody knows about it because the government and military refuse to divulge much of U.S. foreign policy towards Africa. You
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News Link • Drones
Death From Above: How American Drone Strikes Are Devastating Yemen
04-16-2014
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http://www.rollingstone.com, By
On the ground in a country where unmanned missile attacks are a terrifyingly regular occurrence
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News Link • China
Appreciation of Chinese Military
04-16-2014
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arclein
Indeed, today the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) still conducts long-distance maneuver training at speeds measured by how fast the next available cargo train can transport its tanks and guns forward. And if mobilizing and moving
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Glow-In-The-Dark Roads
04-16-2014
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arclein
"I forced them to look at movies of jellyfish. How does a jellyfish give light? It has no solar panel, it has no energy bill," Roosegaarde told the BBC. "And then we went back to the drawing board and came up with these paints which charge up in t
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News Link • World News
Ukraine troops sent to fight anti-government activists switch sides & join pro-Russians
04-16-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, RIA Novosti
The personnel of six armored transport vehicles sent to the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk have switched sides and have joined the pro-federalist activists, witnesses told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Mike Hearn, Bitcoin Developer - Turing Festival 2013
04-16-2014
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Mike Hearn
Mike Hearn, a developer of Bitcoin, talks about the Future of Money (and everything else) at Edinburgh's Turing Festival on the 23rd August 2013.
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News Link • Police State
Is the U.S. Becoming a Police State?
04-16-2014
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http://www.securitydegreehub.com
Militarized police, sophisticated surveillance, and normal citizens with little say in what goes on. The US has all the trappings of an all-powerful police state.
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News Link • Government
Feds Desperate to Hide Harry Reid Link to Bundy Land Grab
04-16-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
BLM deletes Google cache of explosive document
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News Link • Obama Administration
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter Sy Hersh: Benghazi Is a HUGE Scandal …
04-16-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Washingtons Blog
Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh " who broke the stories of the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam and the Iraq prison torture scandals, which rightfully disgraced the Nixon and Bush administrations’ war-fighting tactics " reporte
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News Link • Activism
Ron Paul Addresses Bundy Ranch Nevada Land Dispute on Your World With Neil Cavuto
04-16-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, roblwsn420
Ron Paul Talks About Bundy Ranch Nevada Land Dispute on Your World With Neil Cavuto
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News Link • Government
Washington Is Humanity’s Worst Enemy
04-16-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
How does Washington get away with the claim that the country it rules is a democracy and has freedom?
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News Link • Government
US Land Claims in Bundy Case Based on Lie-Started, Treaty-Violating, Unlawful War on Mexico
04-16-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Washington's Blog
“The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.” - President Harry Truman
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News Link • Police State
Jesus Lived in a Police State
04-16-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead
Those living through this present age of SWAT team raids, police shootings of unarmed citizens, roadside strip searches, and invasive surveillance might feel as if these events are unprecedented.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Another Phony Budget Debate
04-16-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ron Paul
Anyone watching last week’s debate over the Republican budget resolution would have experienced déjà vu, as the debate bore a depressing similarity to those of previous years.
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News Link • Government
Exclusive: Sources Inside The BLM and Las Vegas Metro Say Feds Are Planning A Raid On Bundy Home
04-16-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Annabelle Bamforth
As reported yesterday, hundreds of federal agents are still at the Bundy Ranch and the area continues its status as a no-fly zone.
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News Link • Drones
How Hard Is It To Shoot Down A Small Drone? [Video]
04-16-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey Atherton
With just machine guns? Very.
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