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Date Sent: 2014-05-07
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, May 7, 2014 |
Sir Richard Branson to develop hypersonic commercial planes
'Saudi Liberals' website founder sentenced to 10 years jail, thousand lashes -- FCC’s grab for new regulatory power could go beyond broadband providers -- 05-07-14 -- Tone Vays - James Lowry - Andrew Henderson (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED + BONUS interview) -- UPS Just Delivered a $400,000 Drone to Some Dude by Mistake -- Every Country Will Have Armed Drones Within Ten Years -- New Hampshire court allows 'COPSLIE' license plate -- Driverless Cars Are Coming, Whether We Want Them or Not -- FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation... -- North Korean Nightmare -- China denies making preparations for collapse of North Korea regime -- Reflections on State and War -- Harvard researchers find protein that could reverse the aging process -- Gangster State America -- GOP wants more control over picking 2016 nominee -- Fungus that Causes Fever Found in Washington State -- Gold And Silver – Elites Want War. Front Man Obama Pushing Hard -- ’600 page litany of doom’: Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman slams Federal climate report: -- Magnetic Brain Stimulation May Trump Drugs For Severe Depression -- A 2016 Bush-Clinton Match-Up? Gag Me. -- 7 Modernist Sand Castles, From a Master’s Hand -- Rand Paul Plays the Israel Card -- Can You Catch Your Own Football Pass -- Israel Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S. -- Watch Jennifer Lawrence Kick Ass in New X-Men Scene -- The U.S. Military Was No Match for Afghanistan’s Corruption -- Dozens of FBI, CIA Agents in Kiev 'Assisting Ukraine Security' -- Commander: NATO Must Consider ‘Permanent’ Troops in Eastern Europe -- Man’s Las Vegas Casino Winnings Confiscated by Police Without any Criminal Charges -- Antiwar Rep. Walter Jones Beats Neocon-Backed GOP Rival --
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Sir Richard Branson to develop hypersonic commercial planes
05-07-2014
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dailymail.co.uk
Sir Richard Branson to develop hypersonic commercial planes that could travel up to 19,000mph, flying from New York to Tokyo in ONE HOUR
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
'Saudi Liberals' website founder sentenced to 10 years jail, thousand lashes
05-07-2014
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news.yahoo.com/
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced the editor of an Internet forum he founded to discuss the role of religion in the conservative Islamic kingdom to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes, Saudi media reported on Wednesday.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
FCC’s grab for new regulatory power could go beyond broadband providers
05-07-2014
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By FCC Commissioner Michael O Rielly
Internet application and content companies, what some refer to as “edge providers,” are increasingly concerned by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) newfound ability to regulate the Internet, and rightfully so.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
UPS Just Delivered a $400,000 Drone to Some Dude by Mistake
05-07-2014
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gizmodo
Apparently, the rather expensive piece of federal property had been in storage "for a while" before landing at its new (probably extremely temporary at this point) home. And the really weird thing is, even after being informed of the error, UPS was m
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drones
Every Country Will Have Armed Drones Within Ten Years
05-07-2014
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defenseone.com
Virtually every country on Earth will be able to build or acquire drones capable of firing missiles within the next ten years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
New Hampshire court allows 'COPSLIE' license plate
05-07-2014
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news.yahoo.com
A New Hampshire man has the right to drive around the New England state with a license plate reading "COPSLIE," the state's top court ruled on Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Driverless Cars Are Coming, Whether We Want Them or Not
05-07-2014
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time.com
There may be an autobot in your driveway sooner than you think
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
FEC chair warns that conservative media like Drudge Report and Sean Hannity face regulation...
05-07-2014
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http://washingtonexaminer.com, By Paul Bedard
Government officials, reacting to the growing voice of conservative news outlets, especially on the internet, are angling to curtail the media's exemption from federal election laws governing political organizations, a potentially chilling interventi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
North Korean Nightmare
05-07-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Justin Raimondo
Is war between North Korea and China possible?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China denies making preparations for collapse of North Korea regime
05-07-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, Justin McCurry
Experts say leaked contingency plans, which include the detention of leaders and establishment of refugee camps, may be valid but do not suggest that the alliance is weakening
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secession
Reflections on State and War
05-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Making the World Safe from Democracy or: How to Defend Oneself Against the United States
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Harvard researchers find protein that could reverse the aging process
05-07-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Anthony Wood
Researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have shown that injections of a protein dubbed GDF11, when administered to older mice, appear to cause a reversal of many signs of aging.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP wants more control over picking 2016 nominee
05-07-2014
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http://hosted.ap.org, By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Republican National Committee wants to take more control over how the party picks a White House nominee.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Fungus that Causes Fever Found in Washington State
05-07-2014
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NBC Right Now
Officials for Washington State University say the fungus can cause an illness called valley fever. The fungus is normally found in semiarid parts of the Southwest.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Gold And Silver " Elites Want War. Front Man Obama Pushing Hard
05-07-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Michael Noonan
The modus operandi of the elites is to create chaos, preferably in the form of [profitable for them] war. Their purpose is to create major headaches for governments and people. The next step is to “offer solutions” to end the chaos. Without fail, the
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Climate Change
’600 page litany of doom’: Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman slams Federal climate report:
05-07-2014
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climatedepot.com
A ‘total distortion of the data and agenda driven, destructive episode of bad science gone berserk’
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
A 2016 Bush-Clinton Match-Up? Gag Me.
05-07-2014
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http://time.com, Nick Gillespie
Americans will be paying off the debts of these two dynasties for a long time, and it's far from clear that the next generation under either Jeb or Hillary would do better.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Art
7 Modernist Sand Castles, From a Master’s Hand
05-07-2014
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Wired.com
Growing up in Colorado, Calvin Seibert spent a lot of time at construction sites. Back then, the artist was thousands of miles away from an ocean, but that didn’t stop him from building castles out of the massive mounds of sand.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Can You Catch Your Own Football Pass
05-07-2014
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Wired.com
Is this real or fake? I don’t know (yet). Of course I could catch my own pass if I threw the ball straight up, but what about this case? If you could do it like this, it would be pretty tough. Let’s see how possible this would be.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S.
05-07-2014
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newsweek.com
Whatever happened to honor among thieves?
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Watch Jennifer Lawrence Kick Ass in New X-Men Scene
05-07-2014
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Wired.com
If you haven’t seen The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but still want your X-Men: Days of Future Past fix, the post-credits sequence for the upcoming mutant flick is online now for your viewing pleasure.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
The U.S. Military Was No Match for Afghanistan’s Corruption
05-07-2014
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http://www.slate.com, By R. Jeffrey Smith
The Pentagon wasn’t just defeated by the country’s graft"the Pentagon made it worse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Dozens of FBI, CIA Agents in Kiev 'Assisting Ukraine Security'
05-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Numerous US agents are helping the coup-appointed government in Ukraine to “fight organized crime” in the south east of the country, the German newspaper Bild revealed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
Commander: NATO Must Consider ‘Permanent’ Troops in Eastern Europe
05-07-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
The US has been sending some small deployments to Eastern Europe in recent days, but NATO Supreme Allied Commander and US Gen. Philip Breedlove is now talking up the idea of making alliance troop deployments in those regions larger, and permanent.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Man’s Las Vegas Casino Winnings Confiscated by Police Without any Criminal Charges
05-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
"Everyday I do this. It's all I do for a living. It's drug interdiction and I get money."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Antiwar Rep. Walter Jones Beats Neocon-Backed GOP Rival
05-07-2014
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http://antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Strongly antiwar incumbent Rep. Walter Jones (R " NC) has won a hotly contested primary tonight, defeating a challenge from hawkish challenger and former Treasury Dept. official Taylor Griffin 51% to 45%.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Every Country Will Have Armed Drones Within Ten Years
05-07-2014
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Defense One
Virtually every country on Earth will be able to build or acquire drones capable of firing missiles within the next ten years. Armed aerial drones will be used for targeted killings, terrorism and the government suppression of civil unrest. What’s wo
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Nobel Economists Back Call to End Failed 'War on Drugs'
05-07-2014
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commondreams.org
New report says militarized approach to fighting drug trade 'has failed on its own terms' and that new paradigms must be tried
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Can Frances Fox Piven’s Theory of Disruptive Power Create the Next Occupy?
05-07-2014
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commondreams.org
Social movements can be fast, and they can be slow.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Cop Block Co-Founder, Ademo Freeman, Preps for Wiretapping Retrial Despite Having Served Sentence
05-07-2014
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Photography is not a crime
“Wow, I can’t believe this is happening again.”...That was Adam “Ademo Freeman” Mueller’s first thought when he learned last month that he was being retried on wiretapping charges stemming from an attempt to hold New Hampshire public officials accoun
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Political Parties
Politics Makes Life Ugly
05-07-2014
Paul Rosenberg
We all know people, probably a lot of them, who are decent and well-meaning in most aspects of their lives but whose brains switch into an ugly mode of operation once politics comes up. They are fine neighbors or coworkers until you say something tha
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