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Date Sent: 2014-04-21
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, April 21, 2014

Antisemitic flyer 'by Donetsk People's Republic' in Ukraine a hoax

Creepy autonomous AI CCTV surveillance network watches all of Boston -- Arkansas ex-cop killed while trying to set anti-corruption blogger’s hot dog cart on fire -- The Next Shoe Just Dropped: Court Denies Attorney-Client Privilege -- Louisville officers fired/demoted for exposing a wrongful conviction -- Nevada rancher whose land was taken by BLM over water rights tells it all -- White House highlights Obama’s (horrible) immigration plan -- Canada Targets Russia -- The Case Against the European Union (Part II) -- Badass Ant Skydives, Uses Own Head as a Shield -- Shootout shatters Easter truce in Ukraine -- Russia Bashing Continues -- Koch Brothers-Style Free Society

AZ: Tempe General Plan 2040: Smart Growth in Your Town with Patrick Wood, Thursday, April 24, 6PM, Tempe (Agenda 21)

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Cherry Trees That Flew To Space Bloom Six Years Early
04-20-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, By
And the flowers are not like Earth flowers Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • False Flag Operations
Antisemitic flyer 'by Donetsk People's Republic' in Ukraine a hoax
04-20-2014 • The Guardian
"I think it's someone trying to use the Jewish community in Donetsk as an instrument in this conflict. That's why we're upset," the chief rabbi, Pinchas Vishedski, told journalists on Friday. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Surveillance
Creepy autonomous AI CCTV surveillance network watches all of Boston
04-20-2014 • The Daily Caller
Following the Boston Marathon bombings Boston Police started looking toward high-tech means of securing the city. They found an artificially intelligent, self-learning surveillance network that watches the entire city, and all of its inhabitants. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Is Three A Start, A Finish, or Just Three?
04-20-2014 • Simple Justice
A continuing issue with the police is that they take care of their own, meaning that the rules they apply to the rest of us, often with far more force than can possibly be justified, don’t apply to them. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Arkansas ex-cop killed while trying to set anti-corruption blogger’s hot dog cart on fire
04-20-2014 A former police officer died while trying to set ablaze a food cart belonging to a blogger who exposed crooked cops and other corrupt city officials. ArkansasMatters.com reported former Little Rock Police Officer Todd Payne died when blogger Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Next Shoe Just Dropped: Court Denies Attorney-Client Privilege
04-20-2014 • .
Furthermore, the ruling states that if the individuals do not submit attorney-client documentation as required, then the court would prohibit them from introducing any evidence to demonstrate their innocence. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Louisville officers fired/demoted for exposing a wrongful conviction
04-20-2014 • .
When an esteemed police detective discovered that an innocent woman had spent years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit, he notified his supervisors and tried to make the tragic error known. Instead of seeing that the new evidence came to light Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Property Rights
Nevada rancher whose land was taken by BLM over water rights tells it all
04-20-2014 • Farm Wars
Sheds light on who is buying up the water rights in the western states, and how the BLM and Forest service use dirty tactics to take water rights and the land from lawful owners. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Barbara Peterson

News Link • Immigration
White House highlights Obama’s (horrible) immigration plan
04-20-2014 • Free Press Publications
There have been several somewhat strange petitions on the White House petition website, some have even received enough digital signatures to warrant an official response, even if that response is “we can’t comment.” One of the most recent petitions t Read Full Story
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Reported by: Darryl W. Perry

Feature Article  • Imperialism
Canada Targets Russia
Stephen Lendman
   Russia
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News Link • European Union
The Case Against the European Union (Part II)
04-20-2014 • therawreport.org
For all the talk about cooperation in the context of this grand European experiment, the system as it has been set up clearly was not designed to serve as a means for collaboration. It is, however, a perfect instrument for top-down decision making. A Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mart Leer

News Link • Transportation
This Is Speed Lab
04-20-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, By Matthew de Paula
Welcome to the Speed Lab, where Popular Science explores the most important disruptive technology in the world of cars and transportation. Read Full Story
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taxes and War Profiteers
04-18-2014 • The International Libertarian
It comes as no surprise to libertarians that when governments use aggression at home to finance their operations they use much of that loot to aggress abroad. To really advocate peace pacifists need to apply their principles consistently. The use of Read Full Story
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Reported by: Darren Wolfe

News Link • Future Predictions
Survey Reveals What Today's America Thinks The Future Looks Like
04-20-2014 • http://www.popsci.com, By
We still want flying cars, but we'll settle for driverless ones. Read Full Story
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
...Badass Ant Skydives, Uses Own Head as a Shield
04-20-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Matt Simon
“Where were you born, in a barn?” my dad used to ask when I left doors wide open. Forget about that being a silly question, on account of him being there when I was born in a hospital. Really, we could have avoided all that heartache in the first pla Read Full Story
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News Link • 3D Printing
Cool Idea: Using Tiny 3-D Printed Parts to Hack Other Products
04-20-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
Thanks to advances in technology and drops in price, it’s become possible to imagine a 3-D printer in every home. What’s less clear is what we’ll do with these wondrous machines. Read Full Story
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
High Tech
04-20-2014 • http://www.wired.com, By Mat Honan
How Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are rushing to cash in on cannabis. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • World News
Shootout shatters Easter truce in Ukraine
04-20-2014 • http://www.usatoday.com, Jacob Resneck
An Easter truce was shattered early Sunday after a shootout at a militia checkpoint in eastern Ukraine left at least one dead. Read Full Story
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Social Security, Treasury target Americans for their parents' old debts
04-11-2014 • RT.com
the federal government is seizing nearly $2 billion from hundreds of thousands of taxpayers this year in order to settle debts, some incurred by their parents, some dating back to more than a decade. This process has been ongoing since 2011, when Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ronald Bogner

News Link • Inventions
A Solution For Graphene Production
04-20-2014 • http://cen.acs.org, By Neil Savage
Materials: Electrochemical exfoliation produces high-quality graphene in a short time Read Full Story
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Feature Article  • Imperialism
Russia Bashing Continues
Stephen Lendman
   Ukraine
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Feature Article  • Philosophy: Fascism
Koch Brothers-Style Free Society
Stephen Lendman
   class war
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Feature Article  • Videos by 4409
4409 -- Easter Bunny revisited
Forty Four O Nine
   Easter Bunny revisited
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Reference Link • Treason and Sedition
The Coming Chinese Attack Upon America
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The Chinese control of American solar energy is more than disturbing. This is an act of war which is being facilitated by Senator Reid's act of treason. The Chinese now have every motive to launch an EMP attack upon our power grid.
Entered by: Dave Hodges
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Feature Article  • Police State
Fake Donetsk Letter Circulating
Stephen Lendman
   Ukraine
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Feature Article  • Police State
Kiev Violates Four-Party Agreement
Stephen Lendman
   Ukraine
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Opinion  • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 20, 2014 Edition
04-18-2014
John Semmens
   Dems Advised to Avoid Talking about the Economy Top Democratic strategist, James Carville, advised Democrats seeking reelection to avoid discussing the economy. “The whole notion of an economic recovery is pure poison to any Democrat hoping to
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News Link • United Nations
Gunmen kill 20 in attack on South Sudan UN base
04-18-2014 • 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. Read Full Story
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News Link • World News
Pro-Russian militants continue occupation of government buildings in eastern Ukraine
04-18-2014 • 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. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Conspiracies
Malaysia Flight MH370: Conspiracy Scenario
04-18-2014 • 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 Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Gun Rights
Alan Korwin: “Prohibited person” is now “Prohibited household”
04-18-2014 • 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. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Gun Rights
Bloomberg's Latest High-Dollar Gun-Grab Group
04-17-2014 • Bradlee Dean
“It isn’t gun control.” �" Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City Recently, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg promoted his new $50 million gun control campaign on NBC’s “Today” show, in an aggressive financial push to combat th Read Full Story
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Reported by: Kevin Banet

News Link • Surveillance
SNOWDEN: Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama
04-18-2014 • 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. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - International
The market isn’t free if the elites hijack it
04-18-2014 • http://www.bostonglobe.com, By Farah Stockman
Despite controversy, Ecuador’s president has been successful targeting inequality Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Opportunity selfie: Martian winds have given the spunky ol' rover a spring cleaning
04-18-2014 • http://www.theregister.co.uk, By Iain Thomson
Power levels up 70 per cent as the rover keeps on truckin' Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

Feature Article  • Videos by 4409
4409 -- Woman gets 16 years SUPERVISED SLAVE Probation
Forty Four O Nine
   (VIDEO) A Phoenix woman get 16 years Supervised probation for a stupid mistake.
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News Link • Drones
Death From Above: How American Drone Strikes Are Devastating Yemen
04-17-2014 • Rolling Stone
The people of Yemen can hear destruction before it arrives. In cities, towns and villages across this country, which hangs off the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, the air buzzes with the sound of American drones flying overhead. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TAXES: Federal
86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers
04-17-2014 • CNS News
86,429,000. That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work �" in the private sector �" and did it week after week after week. These are the people who built America, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
ACLU Demands Border Patrol Respect Citizens’ Right to Record Checkpoints
04-17-2014 • Photography Is Not a Crime
It started with what the Border Patrol called a “temporary checkpoint” in a small border town in southern Arizona. Then came the surveillance towers that began monitoring the activities of the residents of Arivaca, a town of less than 1,000 people Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Death
John Judge, RIP
04-17-2014 • Lew Rockwell blog
The great John Judge has died. John was one of the most dedicated and tenacious researchers of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and of the fascistic implications of the coup d’état by Lyndon Baines Johnson and the top tier of th Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Surveillance
Canadians' mental-health info routinely shared with FBI, U.S. customs
04-17-2014 • .
Ontario police services routinely uploaded attempted suicide calls to the Canadian Police Information Center, to which US border guards and the FBI have access. Cavoukian began investigating how US law enforcement had access to Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Merck’s Former Doctor Predicts that Gardasil will Become the Greatest Medical Scandal of All Time
04-17-2014 • .
Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal of all times because the evidence will add up to prove this vaccine, technical and scientific feat it may be, has absolutely no effect on cervical cancer and that all of the very many adverse effects Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Government
Homeless Lose a Longtime Last Resort: Living in a Car
04-17-2014 • Wall Street Journal
For months now, Mr. Smith has feared he might lose his current "home", which is parked on a street near a quiet Palo Alto park. An ordinance would punish people cited for living in a vehicle with as much as a $1,000 fine or six months in jail. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
FBI Visiting SC Gun Shops to Investigate “People Talking About Big Government”
04-17-2014 • .
The agent was quite forthcoming with the worker and told him he was tasked with visiting firearms outlets in the local area to check on “suspicious purchases” for “counter-terrorism purposes.” The agent then began discussing what is Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Truth About Taxes - by Stefan Molyneux
04-17-2014 • youtube
Something to help ease the pain on tax day... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judicial Incentives: Why Judges Won’t Condemn Cops (Update)
04-17-2014 • Simple Justice
But in a “Perry Mason” moment rarely seen inside an actual courtroom, the inquiry took a surprising turn when the suspect’s lawyer played a police video that contradicted the sworn testimony of the five officers a furious judge found. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Free Speech
Twitter parody account holder sought in police raid
04-17-2014 • ars technica
Don't mock the Mayor Jim Ardis of Peoria as you just might be jailed and fined. Illinois police seized computers and mobile phones while raiding a house whose owner was suspected of parodying the town mayor on Twitter. In all, 5 people were seized Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
Bundy Ranch: Stewart Rhodes and the Statesman Vigil
04/17/14 • Next News Network
In this story from the Bundy Ranch Standoff Stewart Rhodes is joined by Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore discussing the Statesman Round the Clock Vigil. Read Full Story
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