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Date Sent: 2014-11-17
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, November 17, 2014 |
Your "Children Will Be Fined" If You Fail To Sign Up For Obamacare
UK to stop its citizens seeing extremist material online -- An Innocent Man, Tortured by the U.S., Asks the U.N.: Where's the Accountability? -- Banks Ignore the Bankruptcy Laws -- War is the health of the State -- Media Blackout as U.S. Sponsors Genocide in Southeastern Ukraine -- Death Panels: Another Obamacare Architect Thinks We Should Die at Age 75 -- 3 things White House doesn't want you to know about ObamaCare, plus .... -- So Far Down the Bunny Hole We Have Our Heads up our Bums - by J. Neil Schulman -- 2nd Grader's Homework Teaches 'The Government GIVES Us Our Rights' -- Pentagon Says "Stop Defense Cut Madness"; Mish Investigates Alleged "Cuts" -- Prosecutors troubled by extent of military fraud -- Female mammal promiscuity an evolutionary adaptive trait -- A 'shocking' discovery: tiny magnetic fields in meteorites reveal clues on origin -- US Internet speeds vary wildly state-by-state, US Census Bureau says -- Some developers are giving up on Google Glass, says report -- AT&T mothballs creepy customer web stalking system -- Anything you share on Facebook can be accessed by Facebook, exec warns
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News Link • Obamacare
Your "Children Will Be Fined" If You Fail To Sign Up For Obamacare
11-16-2014
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Your children, who apparently no longer belong to you anyway based on a recent court ruling, will be fined for your failure to get them on the insurance rolls.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
UK to stop its citizens seeing extremist material online
11-16-2014
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The UK's big internet service providers, including BT, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and Sky, have agreed to filter out terrorist and extremist material at the government's behest, in order to stop people seeing things that may make them sympathetic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
An Innocent Man, Tortured by the U.S., Asks the U.N.: Where's the Accountability?
11-16-2014
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US officials are in for a serious grilling as they get hauled before the UN Committee against Torture and questioned about a multitude of ways in which the US appears to be failing to comply with the anti-torture treaty it ratified 20 years ago.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Banks Ignore the Bankruptcy Laws
11-16-2014
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Jonathan Turley
The Big Banks continued unlawful actions that only result in "slap on the wrist fines" that in many cases are passed on to the shareholders and/or used as a tax deduction. Wall Street and the Banksters have not learned a thing. Or have they?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
War is the health of the State
11-16-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
The famous 7 words appeared in an unfinished manuscript written by the progressive essayist Randolph Silliman Bourne (1886-1918) during World War I. In a collection of Bourne's essays entitled War and the Intellectuals (1964),
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Media Blackout as U.S. Sponsors Genocide in Southeastern Ukraine
11-16-2014
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This is a photo of a Ukrainian soldier guiding a truck-full of prisoners toward a ditch, to which the prisoners are then dragged one-by-one, and thrown in, and shot â€" then covered over with dirt after all the corpses are piled in it.
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News Link • Obamacare
Death Panels: Another Obamacare Architect Thinks We Should Die at Age 75
11-16-2014
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Rahm Emanuel's brother Ezekiel, wrote a whole op-ed about why he hopes he dies at 75 because… well, that's the optimal age to die. Society would be better off "if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly" and we all die at age 75.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obamacare
3 things White House doesn't want you to know about ObamaCare, plus ....
11-16-2014
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FOX News
Here are three crucial changes regarding Obamacare that the president clearly didn't want you to know about and three new things coming up in 2015 that you aren't going to like.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
So Far Down the Bunny Hole We Have Our Heads up our Bums - by J. Neil Schulman
11-16-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Work permits? Are you kidding me? Libertarians just might be the last sane people on this planet. Anyone in modern discussion who accepts as reasonable such notions as needing papers to be "allowed" to work, or
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
2nd Grader's Homework Teaches 'The Government GIVES Us Our Rights'
11-16-2014
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Apparently this homework sheet given out to 2nd graders about "Being a Good Citizen" is teaching them that the government GIVES us our rights. And not just rights, but the government gives us "special privileges called rights."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon Says "Stop Defense Cut Madness"; Mish Investigates Alleged "Cuts"
11-13-2014
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"Mish" Shedloc
As the chart shows, defense spending has almost doubled in the past decade in current dollar terms and will continue to grow in spite of automatic cuts set by the BCA. Clarifying these figures reveals that sequester cuts do not warrant the fears of p
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Prosecutors troubled by extent of military fraud
11-16-2014
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ERIC TUCKER, AP
When the nation has spent freely to support wars on multiple fronts, prosecutors have found plentiful targets: defendants who bill for services they do not provide, those who steer lucrative contracts to select business partners and those who use bri
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Archaeology
Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old human footprints
11-16-2014
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http://www.dailytimes.com,
Archaeologists have discovered human footprints and some Stone Age fishing gear in a dried up fjord in Denmark which date back to 5,000 years ago.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Male Chimpanzees treat Females aggressively to Father More Babies
11-16-2014
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http://uncovercalifornia.com, by Andrea Cordell
According to a new study, aggressive male chimpanzees treat females aggressively to force them mate regularly in order to father more babies.
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News Link • Internet
US Internet speeds vary wildly state-by-state, US Census Bureau says
11-16-2014
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http://www.betawired.com,
New data from the US Census Bureau has determined that high-speed Internet access can vary widely from state to state.
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News Link • Inventions
New Prynt Accessory Turns Your Smartphone Case into a Polaroid Camera
11-16-2014
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http://www.modernreaders.com, By Lorenzo Tanos
The Prynt was recently highlighted in a report from TechCrunch, as the case's makers gave the reputable tech site an exclusive preview of the new product
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News Link • Inventions
World's First Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Path Opens
11-16-2014
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http://www.chinatopix.com, Janelle Dela Cruz
The world's first glow-in-the-dark bike path opened in Eindhoven City, The Netherlands on November 13. The route is split into five different round trips that measure 335 kilometers (280 miles) long in total.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Stripped-Down Super Smash Bros. Now Available for TI Calculators
11-16-2014
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http://www.modernreaders.com, By Mark Kesler
Nintendo first-party title Super Smash Bros. has been a hit on several of the company's platforms, but an amateur programmer has made it possible to play the game on a platform one wouldn't normally expect â€" a graphing calculator.
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News Link • Communications
AT&T mothballs creepy customer web stalking system...
11-16-2014
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http://www.theregister.co, By Iain Thomson
AT&T mothballs creepy customer web stalking system (until everyone's forgotten about it)
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Incredible New Photos Taken From the Surface of a Comet
11-13-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Woo
For millennia, people have seen comets come and go from afar, watching the mysterious, bright objects suddenly appear in the sky with long, spectacular tails.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Bruce Springsteen's antiwar songs at Concert for Valor didn't go over too well
11-13-2014
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Justin Moyer
At the Concert for Valor Tuesday night on the Mall in Washington, D.C., Bruce Springsteen caught social media heat for a song choice: Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son," which he performed with Zac Brown and Dave Grohl during Brown?
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News Link • Foreign Policy
A Lesson in Interventionism in Iraq
11-13-2014
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises pointed out that one government intervention inevitably produces a crisis, which then causes government officials to enact a new intervention to address the crisis.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Neocon Plan for War and More War
11-13-2014
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http://consortiumnews.com, By Robert Parry
A major test for President Obama is whether he will â€" in the face of the Republican midterm victories â€" submit to neocon demands for more wars in the Middle East and a costly Cold War with Russia or finally earn the Nobel Peace Prize that he got
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
"War is a Racket" - by Major Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)(Glenn Jacobs' narration)
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LexRex
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC, double recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. "I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers." (Publisher Recommended)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Senate Hawks Vow to Kill Any 'Unacceptable' Iran Deal
11-13-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com,
Would Impose Sanctions to Deliberately Violate Terms of Pact
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
10 women die after botched surgery at government sterilization 'camp' in India
11-13-2014
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http://www.globalpost.com, Jatindra Dash
Deaths due to sterilization are not a new problem in India, where more than four million sterilizations were performed in 2013-14, according to the government.
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News Link • Government
Talk about the hypocrite from New York City
11-13-2014
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
It's sort of like one of those old "Twilight Zone" episodes. What if you had a billion dollars, but you couldn't use it to buy what you wanted?
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News Link • Military
The Most Isolated US Military Base Could Get A Lot More Important
11-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Over 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland sits one of the US's most isolated military installations
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News Link • History
Nearly 50 years ago, the FBI sent civil Martin Luther King, Jr. a letter threatening...
11-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Nearly 50 years ago, the FBI sent civil Martin Luther King, Jr. a letter threatening to make public sordid details of his sex life if the civil rights icon failed to do the "one thing left for you to do."
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Why It's Nearly Impossible To Get Your Stuff Back After The Cops Seize It
11-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
An educational video on a controversial police practice known as civil forfeiture inadvertently exposes just how hard it is to get your property or cash back after the cops seize it.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Harvard students take the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test that black voters had to pass...
11-13-2014
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By David Mccormack for MailOnline
Harvard students take the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test that black voters had to pass before being allowed to go to the polls - and every single person FAILED
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News Link • Government
Video: They Have Been Ordered To "Weaponize the Government..."
11-13-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Video: They Have Been Ordered To "Weaponize the Government Against Unregulated Speech"
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News Link • Internet
Internet Service Providers Caught Stripping Customers' Email Encryption
11-13-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that at least one internet service provider (ISP) has been caught altering the functionality of an essential security protection used for email encryption.
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News Link • United Nations
U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency
11-13-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Fredrik Dahl
Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said on Wednesday, adding he would discuss the issue in Washington next week.
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News Link • World News
Is Switzerland Arming in Preparation for A European Social Meltdown?
11-13-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Peter Koenig
"The Swiss Army is preparing contingency plans for violent unrest across Europe. A nation mostly famous for its banks, watches and chocolate fears it may face a massive influx of European refugees in the near future."
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News Link • World News
Catalan Leader to Step up Independence Push as 80% Vote to Split From Spain
11-13-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ashifa Kassam
Artur Mas says symbolic poll is a 'lesson in democracy' and calls for a binding referendum on independence
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Black Tuesdayâ€"â€"The War Party Won
11-13-2014
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http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com
The robots and day traders greeted last Tuesday's Republican election sweep with another kneejerk rally because the GOP's new Capitol Hill dominance will allegedly be good for investors.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare
11-13-2014
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http://www.rollingstone.com, By Matt Taibbi
She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn't take it anymore.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Eugenics Program Only Makes News Due to Many Deaths
11-13-2014
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http://politicaloutcast.com, by Mark Horne
First, the Associated Press reported eight fatalities in the eugnics program. Then Bloomberg reported that ten women have died. The Hindu claimed in a later report that eleven were dead.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
On 11-16-14 Your Bank Deposits Will No Longer Be Money
11-13-2014
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economicpolicyjournal.com
On Nov. 16, the G20 will implement a new policy that makes bank deposits on par with paper investments, subjecting account holders to declines that one might experience from holding a stock or other security when the next financial banking crisis...
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