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Date Sent: 2014-11-04
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, November 4, 2014 |
Rand Paul Supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Deal
Killer on the Loose: Did Cops "Botch" a Case to Punish an Independent DA? -- Presidential "pixie dust": How a quiet new rule can wipe away your basic rights --Why I Don't Vote -- 51 countries declare banking secrecy 'obsolete', sign pact in Berlin -- College Rescinds Suspension of Professor For Picture Of Daughter Wearing Game of Thrones Teeshirt -- Megyn, Judge Nap Go Head-to-Head Over Legality of Ebola Quarantines -- These charts reveal the catastrophe of Ukraine's refugee crisis -- How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed -- Non-voting -- LAPD Hollywood Police Arrest Photographer (This is what a police state looks like) -- The Silk Road's Forgotten Three Languish Without Trial -- Presidential Crimes: Then And Now -- Bank of Japan Buying Over 100% of Japanese Bond Issuance; Steen Jakobsen... -- Ukraine has options left . . . all bad -- Cameron's Lies Reach "Point of No Return" Warning From Merkel; Chameleon Politics -- Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. -- What's Next For Virgin Galactic? -- Pentagon's plans for a spy service to rival the CIA have been pared back -- China develops anti-drone laser -- Forget the 2014 Election: Why Ron Holland Voted With His Feet -- Samsung 'Smart TV' Records "Personal" Conversations & Sends Them to Third Party -- Hard Truths v. Obama Big Lies
AZ: Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – Starts This Saturday, November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Free Trade
Rand Paul Supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Deal
11-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
I have not looked into the TTP, but the person doing the analysis seems well informed. I became well versed in one of the other trade agreements, and the problems he describes were in the one I did read.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Killer on the Loose: Did Cops "Botch" a Case to Punish an Independent DA?
11-03-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
After 72-year-old Robert Warren was shot in the face at the front door of his home in West Valley City, Utah, the police quickly identified and arrested the likely shooter and 3 accomplices.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Presidential "pixie dust": How a quiet new rule can wipe away your basic rights
11-03-2014
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Salon
In short, if the President does something (or orders something done) that is prohibited by his own Executive Order, no biggie. He can do that if he wants. Without even changing the language in the order!
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Why I Don't Vote
11-03-2014
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I have not voted in a national election since 1996 and will never vote again. It's not I don't care or I'm lazy. It's just I've come to the conclusion voting doesn't matter. More importantly, voting is antithetical to the values I hold de
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News Link • Federal Reserve
51 countries declare banking secrecy 'obsolete', sign pact in Berlin
11-03-2014
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Russia Today
Finance ministers from over 51 countries signed an agreement in a step closer to ending the dark financial underworld of tax-evasion and money-laundering. Another 30 countries pledged to join by 2018.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
College Rescinds Suspension of Professor For Picture Of Daughter Wearing Game of Thrones Teeshirt
11-03-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Professor Francis Schmidt has faced a bizarre suspension after he posted a photo of his daughter wearing a tee-shirt with a quote from the HBO "Game of Thrones" series that read "I will take what is mine with fire and blood."
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News Link • Police State
Megyn, Judge Nap Go Head-to-Head Over Legality of Ebola Quarantines
11-03-2014
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FOX News
The nurse at the center of the national debate over mandatory Ebola quarantines, Kaci Hickox, threatened to sue the state of New Jersey over her forced confinement before officials decided to release her.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
The beautiful nano details of our world
11-03-2014
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https://www.ted.com
When photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and the stamens in a flower become like fantastical spires at an amusement park. Gary Greenberg reveals the thrilling details of the micro world.
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News Link • World News
These charts reveal the catastrophe of Ukraine's refugee crisis
11-03-2014
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http://www.globalpost.com
What do last week's elections mean for 430,000 internally displaced Ukrainians?
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News Link • Economy - International
How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed
11-03-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Two years ago, in hushed tones at first, then ever louder, the financial world began discussing that which shall never be discussed in polite company - the end of the system that according to many has framed and facilitated the US Dollar's reserve cu
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Non-voting
11-03-2014
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Strike-the-Root
Governments, like all other hierarchical institutions, depend upon the cooperation and the tacit consent of those over whom they exercise power. In the long run such coercion is either too expensive or too futile to accomplish its goals
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News Link • Police State
LAPD Hollywood Police Arrest Photographer (This is what a police state looks like)
11-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
LAPD Hollywood Police Arrest Photographer (This is what a police state looks like),
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News Link • Internet
The Silk Road's Forgotten Three Languish Without Trial
11-03-2014
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While the spotlight shines ever stronger on the upcoming trial of alleged Silk Road 'kingpin' Ross Ulbricht, much less attention is paid to 3 men who have also been accused of being staff members on the deep web marketplace.
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News Link • History
Presidential Crimes: Then And Now
11-03-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
Writing for Americans is not always an enjoyable experience. Many readers want to have their prejudices confirmed, not challenged.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank of Japan Buying Over 100% of Japanese Bond Issuance; Steen Jakobsen...
11-03-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Bank of Japan Buying Over 100% of Japanese Bond Issuance; Steen Jakobsen Expects "FantasyLand Will Give Way to RealityLand".
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News Link • World News
Ukraine has options left -- all bad
11-03-2014
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AFP
Sunday's leadership elections -- approved by Moscow despite intense Western pressure -- were only the latest addition to a growing sense that rebel areas have slipped near permanently from Kiev's control.
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News Link • World News
Cameron's Lies Reach "Point of No Return" Warning From Merkel; Chameleon Politics
11-03-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is in increasingly hot water on a number of fronts as his lies become more and more transparent.
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News Link • Climate Change
Warmth is Good; Cold is the Killer
11-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Letter to the Editor Watts Up With That? For decades green extremists have been spreading doomsday forecasts of global warming.
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News Link • How To
5 Ways to Detox Fluoride
11-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
It should be outrageous to think that the very water we drink is poisonedâ€"but the water actually is.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You.
11-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email. It was encrypted, and sent from the sort of anonymous email service that smart people use when they want to hide their identity.
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News Link • Surveillance
Pentagon's plans for a spy service to rival the CIA have been pared back
11-03-2014
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http://www.washingtonpost.com
The Pentagon has scaled back its plan to assemble an overseas spy service that could have rivaled the CIA in size, backing away from a project that faced opposition from lawmakers who questioned its purpose and cost, current and former U.S. officials
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News Link • China
China develops anti-drone laser
11-03-2014
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http://news.xinhuanet.com
BEIJING, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- China has successfully tested a homemade laser defense system specially targeting small-scale drones flying at low attitude.
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News Link • China
A Push to Back Traditional Chinese Medicine With More Data
11-03-2014
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http://online.wsj.com
Researchers Marry Modern Analytical Techniques to Centuries-Old Theories on What Makes People Sick.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Rare early season storm brings record-setting snowfall to Maine
11-03-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com
A rare early season snowstorm brought 50-miles-per-hour (80-kph) winds and record-breaking snowfall to parts of Maine overnight, leaving more than 140,000 homes and businesses without power on Monday.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Forget the 2014 Election: Why Ron Holland Voted With His Feet
11-03-2014
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The Daily Bell
Another election day is upon us, always a great boost to the establishment media giants. Total political advertising spending should reach $2.5 billion dollars in this cycle. Most of the payoff money goes to only 6 companies.
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News Link • Surveillance
Samsung 'Smart TV' Records "Personal" Conversations & Sends Them to Third ...
11-03-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Samsung 'Smart TV' Records "Personal" Conversations & Sends Them to Third Parties
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News Link • Inventions
CSEM's white solar panels are made to blend into buildings
11-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Solar panels are seen as a way of making buildings greener and more sustainable, as well as making them less dependent on the grid for power.
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News Link • Agriculture
WHY HAVEN'T STATES KICKED MONSANTO OUT?
11-03-2014
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http://www.newswithviews.com, By: Devvy
The elections tomorrow affect all branches of government, local, state and federal. Please get out and vote.
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News Link • Government
Update: Why did Netanyahu respond to chickenshit with 'grassy knoll' remark?
11-03-2014
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http://mondoweiss.net,
Wading through all the chickensh*t over the last few days Netanyahu's "grassy knoll" comeback somehow missed out on all the action, but what the hoot guys?
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News Link • Economy - International
Here's The Real, Forgotten Meaning Of 'The Wizard Of Oz'
11-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Turns out the book and movie may be an economic fairy tale about America in the late 1800s â€" and gold.
Produced by Sara Silverstein.
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News Link • Activism
Meanwhile, The French Are Revolting...
11-01-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com,
Amid record unemployment, even recorder youth unemployment, and politicians willingly breaking EU treaties (with apparently no consequences), it appears - just as in the US - police brutality in France was the straw that broke 'Le Camel's back.
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News Link • Transportation
Here's A Detailed Look At How The Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Works
11-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, which was developed to bring space travel to the masses, has crashed in the Mojave desert.
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News Link • Government
Area 51 scientist's deathbed video: UFOs are real, aliens have federal jobs
11-01-2014
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http://www.examiner.com, Norman Byrd
In one of the most extraordinary and strange deathbed confessions ever, an Area 51 scientist and career government worker recently left behind a video revealing supposed federal secrets that are nothing short of a conspiracy theorist's dream come tru
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Everything We Know About the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crash
11-01-2014
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http://www.wired.com
During a test flight over the Mojave Desert today, Virgin Galactic's spaceship suffered a "serious anomaly" and apparently broke up at altitude with two pilots on-board.
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan: QE As Morphine For A Terminal Patient
11-01-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
You can jot down Halloween 2014 in your calendar, and it's unfortunately too tragic to make proper use of the irony involved, as the day Japan committed suicide.
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News Link • Economy - International
Chris Martenson and Mish Audio on Bank of Japan's Surprise Move on Friday
11-01-2014
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Mike Shedlock
Every other Wednesday or so, Chris Martenson and I get together for a podcast. Sometimes one of us or the other is out of town, and sometimes Chris has other guest speakers.
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News Link • TAXES: State
Bust You For It Now, Tax You For It Tomorrow
11-01-2014
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By William Norman Grigg
"I'm going to be burning weeds today â€" the right kind, that is," Bill Esbensen wryly informed me as we met at his abandoned rental property. He was careful to obtain the required permit before igniting the assembled yard debris.
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother's Liberal Friends
11-01-2014
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http://nationalinterest.org
Sean Wilentz, George Packer and Michael Kinsley are a dismal advertisement for the current state of mainstream liberal thought in America. They have systematically misrepresented and misunderstood Edward Snowden and the NSA.
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News Link • Israel
The Day Israel Attacked America
11-01-2014
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Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.
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News Link • Economy - International
In Air and Cyberspace, on Land and Sea, Russia Shows Muscle
11-01-2014
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http://www.nytimes.com
The casual reader of The New York Times may be forgiven for thinking he or she had dozed off and awakened in a John le Carré novel.
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News Link • World News
Putin debates Luhansk, Donetsk polls, gas talks with Security Council
11-01-2014
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http://en.itar-tass.com
The launch of a modernised Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket and the test-launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile were also discussed at the meeting.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
What the Swiss Gold Referendum Means for Central Banks
11-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by VR
"It will send shock waves through the gold market and will be a game changer for central banks around the world, according to Egon von Greyerz, Founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management, Switzerland, and one of the powers behind the
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News Link • Martial Law
American Concentration Camps: "Will Be Used To Enforce Medical Martial Law..."
11-01-2014
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Dave Hodges
American Concentration Camps: "Will Be Used To Enforce Medical Martial Law For The Sick… And To House Political Dissidents"
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