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Date Sent: 2014-12-13
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, December 12, 2014 |
Chilling Details About The Doctors Who Enabled The CIA Torture Program
End of America, a movie you must see to believe -- The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you -- What veterinarians know that physicians don't -- Red Light Jihad: Islamic insurgency in Thailand's strangest party town -- Read the full text of the bill the US Congress just passed to punish Venezuela -- A Clergy Response Team Insider Reveals the Duties of a Pastor Inside of a FEMA Camp -- Army building an airport just for drones -- This Animated Map Shows How European Languages Evolved -- The 'Thin Blue Line' Serves No Purpose -- Why Russia's Unfazed By Falling Oil Prices -- Tribes Can Legalize Pot, Justice Department Decides -- What Do They Know? CME Implements Gold, Precious Metals Circuit Breakers Up To... -- McDonalds Implodes, Reports Worst US Sales In Over A Decade -- I, Cop -- The United States is trying to prevent citizens from leaving the country -- New alloy claimed to have higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other metal -- Rosetta sheds light on origin of Earth's oceans -- CIA 'Torture' Practices Started Long Before 9/11 Attacks -- A History of the C.I.A.'s Secret Interrogation Program -- Justice Dept Spurns Calls to Prosecute CIA Torturers -- Mastering the Art of Financial Backtalk -- 12-12-14 -- Keith McAnarchist (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- 'Malnourished minds': Why it matters that 4.4 billion people don't have internet -- On The Doorstep of The Worst Financial Panic In History -- What Will Outernet Broadcast? -- We Are On The Hook For $303 Trillion Dollars in Derivatives -- Israel Replicates American Ruthlessness -- "The Beat Goes On" -- Posts from Mad Science Innovation for 12/12/2014 -- Congress Authorizes Unlimited Spying on US Citizens
AZ: Tomorrow, Christmas Party 2014 @ the home of Ernest and Donna Hancock, Sat Dec 13th, 6 p.m. til?; Monday, Dec. 15: This Year's Bill of Rights Day Celebration In Phoenix; Magpoc Homestead Tour/Christmas Party, Dec 20; AZ Legislative Forecast Luncheon featuring Governor-elect Doug Ducey 01-09-15
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Chilling Details About The Doctors Who Enabled The CIA Torture Program
12-12-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com-
After a doctor X-rayed one prisoner's feet and determined they were badly broken, another physician recommended that he could be made to stand for 52 hours.
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News Link • Media: Internet
End of America A movie you must see to believe
12-12-2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRyUQzokYs
Naomi Wolf presents you with the truth. Remember this was done BO before Obama was president.There is an up date to this done at the 2014 Liberty forum she is just as critical of POTUS today.
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News Link • Police State
The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you
12-12-2014
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http://www.ted.com-Catherine Crump
A very unsexy-sounding piece of technology could mean that the police know where you go, with whom, and when: the automatic license plate reader.
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News Link • World News
Red Light Jihad: Islamic insurgency in Thailand's strangest party town
12-12-2014
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http://www.globalpost.com-Patrick Winn
A holy war in the city where Muslims indulge in sleaze forbidden back home.
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
A Clergy Response Team Insider Reveals the Duties of a Pastor Inside of a FEMA Camp
12-12-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com-Dave Hodges
Many people in the independent media have reported that an estimated 28,000 pastors were recruited by FEMA/DHS, as part of the Clergy Response Team, and that their initial and primary training was to tell their flock to obey the DHS version of Romans
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News Link • Drones
Army building an airport just for drones
12-12-2014
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http://defensesystems.com-Kevin McCaney
The Army's ever-growing use of unmanned aerial systems has gotten to the point where two of the most commonly used UAS are getting their own airport.
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News Link • Anthropology
This Animated Map Shows How European Languages Evolved
12-12-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com-Alex Kuzoian
The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The 'Thin Blue Line' Serves No Purpose
12-12-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
Like many people, I grew up watching numerous television shows and mainstream movies depicting a world in which the common police officer stood as a sentinel of civilized society against a seething underbelly of violence and chaos just beneath the su
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News Link • Drug War
Tribes Can Legalize Pot, Justice Department Decides
12-12-2014
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http://www.usnews.com-Steven Nelson
Marijuana may displace casinos as reservation cash cows.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
What Do They Know? CME Implements Gold, Precious Metals Circuit Breakers Up To...
12-12-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
What Do They Know? CME Implements Gold, Precious Metals Circuit Breakers Up To $400 Wide.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
McDonalds Implodes, Reports Worst US Sales In Over A Decade
12-12-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
If one ignores all traditional, staple indicators of a growing economy, such as stable (not plummeting) crude demand, stable (not plummeting) holiday spending and stable (not plummeting) McDonalds comp store sales, then indeed the US economy has "dec
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
I, Cop
12-12-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Frankenstein Go...
When I was 11, I witnessed a murder. Ten years later, in 1982 I became a cop. Honestly, I became a cop because I thought it would be interesting, I didn't have to sit in an office, and I actually thought I would be helping people. I believed that- I
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News Link • Inventions
New alloy claimed to have higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other metal
12-12-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
When it comes to metal that's being used in the automotive or aerospace industries, the higher its strength-to-weight ratio, the better.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA 'Torture' Practices Started Long Before 9/11 Attacks
12-12-2014
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http://www.newsweek.com, By Jeff Stein
"The CIA," according to the Senate Intelligence Committee, had "historical experience using coercive forms of interrogation."
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
A History of the C.I.A.'s Secret Interrogation Program
12-12-2014
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By WILSON ANDREWS and ALICIA PARLAPIANO
The Central Intelligence Agency used contentious interrogation techniques, including waterboarding and sleep deprivation, on dozens of the 119 men it detained in secret prisons between 2002 and 2008.
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News Link • Archaeology
Han Purple: A 2,800-year-old Artificial Pigment
12-12-2014
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arclein
"Prior to the nineteenth century, when modern production methods made synthetic pigments common, there were only hugely expensive purple dyes, a couple of uncommon purplish minerals, and mixtures of red and blue, but no true purple pigment ?" exc
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News Link • Spirituality
Howard Storm's Near-Death Experience
12-12-2014
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arclein
Before his near-death experience, Howard Storm at www.howardstorm.com was a Professor of Art at Northern Kentucky University, was not a very pleasant man by his own admission. He was an avowed atheist and was hostile to every form of religion and tho
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News Link • Economy - International
The History of a Dangerous Idea called Austerity
12-12-2014
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arclein
Mark Blyth: You have to go back quite a way to get to the roots of this. You almost have to go back to the origins of capitalism itself. Go back to the time of John Locke and the English Revolution back in the 17th century; what you have is a bunch o
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Time Cloak Used to Hide messages in Laser Light
12-12-2014
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arclein
"With this new device, we don't just limit ourselves to thinking about cloaks as a way of preventing somebody from getting information, but also as a way to enable communication," says Joseph Lukens, an electrical engineer at Purdue. "One guy see
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News Link • Internet
'Malnourished minds': Why it matters that 4.4 billion people don't have internet
12-12-2014
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CNN
Despite the advent of an affordable $35 smartphone, internet access continues to be unaffordable or unattainable for billions all over the world...Now really think about what that means: More than half of humanity lacks access to the news, informatio
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
On The Doorstep of The Worst Financial Panic
In History
12-12-2014
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Informationclearinghouse.info
Quite simply, we have lived through the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time where leverage of over 100 to (probably 1,000 to one when all is said and done) has been employed for control.
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News Link • Internet
What Will Outernet Broadcast?
12-12-2014
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Outernet
Next week we will release a comprehensive outline of how the Outernet broadcast will work and what it will contain. So far, we have used examples such as news, Wikipedia, Khan Academy, weather, and disaster information. No more examples.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
We Are On The Hook For 303 Trillion Dollars in Derivatives
12-12-2014
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Zerohedge.com
Financial institutions to trade certain financial derivatives from subsidiaries that are insured by the FDIC, explicitly putting taxpayers on the hook for losses caused by these contracts.
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Opinion • Political Parties
"The Beat Goes On"
12-12-2014
Chuck Baldwin
The hit song by Sonny and Cher is an apt description of what happens in Washington, D.C. I'm referring to their Top 10 hit song, "The Beat Goes On." No matter which party controls Congress, the beat goes on. No matter which party's candidate
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News Link • Agriculture
Spread a little holiday cheer for the farm / No Stock Shop market this week... 12~13~2014
12-12-2014
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Tonopah Rob
Can you believe it gets this cold in Arizona to freeze the water bowls? ...It has been a very rough fall planting season. My farm has been hit by many an obstacle this year. I began planting fall veggies August 1. I was so proud of myself with the on
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Letters to the Editor
Very Important Books - Richard Boddie
Written by: Donna Hancock
The inequality and oppression in America now resembles that of a third world oligarchy. The only purpose of an oligarchy is to perpetuate oligarchic rule. Hence, "change" is not a choice, lest the rulers might be held to account for their crimes.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US Army Major Replies to My Torture Post
12-10-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com-Mike S.
In response to CIA Torture Reports: Frozen to Death; Dick Cheney War Criminal I received an interesting response from a U.S. Army Major.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
American Greatness is Increasingly a Myth
12-10-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-Kirkpatrick Sale
There seemed to be a rather desperate theme running through much of the commentary around this year's Thanksgiving celebration â€" a heartfelt giving of thanks for how great this country is.
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News Link • Internet
Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here's What We Know
12-10-2014
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http://www.wired.com-Kim Zetter
The popular file-sharing service Pirate Bay was taken down today following a raid in Sweden by police who seized servers and computers.
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Martin Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis
12-10-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-Jim Douglass
According to a Memphis jury's verdict on December 8, 1999, in the wrongful death lawsuit of the King family versus Loyd Jowers "and other unknown co-conspirators," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a conspiracy that included agenci
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News Link • Housing
Wisconsin BKR Judge Orders Wells Fargo to Disgorge Payments It Received
12-10-2014
CONCLUSION The Debtors' motion for reimbursement of the payments made on Wells Fargo's disallowed Claim is granted, subject to offset for real estate taxes paid by Wells Fargo. Within 30 days of the date of this Order, Wells Fargo must pay $73,0
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The United States of Torture
12-10-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com-Justin Raimondo
Dianne Feinstein was the canary in the coalmine. If even the senior Senator from California, as stalwart an ally of the CIA and the National Security State as one is likely to find, was upset enough to make such a fuss about the Senate torture report
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Reaction to the Senate Report: Torture is Good
12-10-2014
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http://www.chris-floyd.com-Chris Floyd
A truncated version of the Senate investigation into the CIA's Terror War torture regime has finally been released.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Shutdown Averted: Lawmakers Agree on $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill
12-10-2014
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http://www.nbcwashington.com-DAVID ESPO
Time running short, Republicans and Democrats agreed Tuesday on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and delay a politically-charged struggle over President Barack Obama's new immigration policy until the new year.
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News Link • Constitution
It's Now Illegal In Illinois To Film Cops
12-10-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com-
An amendment to a Senate bill in Illinois has been overwhelmingly passed to ensure that recording police officers and government officials is now a felony.
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News Link • China
Taiwan Says 'No' to Close China Ties
12-10-2014
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arclein
"This phrase is absolutely precise," Cao said in the interview. Hong Kong is nominally autonomous, but exists under a One Country, Two Systems model, where it is ultimately beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. It was the exercise of the Party
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News Link • Torture
Why the Founding Fathers thought banning Torture Foundational to the US Constitution
12-10-2014
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http://www.juancole.com, By Juan Cole
I have argued on many occasions that the language of patriotism and appeal to the Founding Fathers and the constitution must not be allowed to be appropriated by the political right wing in contemporary America...
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Here's The Internal Security Memo The Sony CEO Just Sent Worried Staffers
12-10-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Aly Weisman
Sony CEO Michael Lynton sent a company-wide memo to staff on Monday assuring the studio is doing everything it can to protect employees after a series of cyber attacks that revealed their personal information, including Social Security Numbers and ad
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA Paid 2 Men $80 Million To Come Up With Ways To Torture People
12-10-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Pierre Bienaimé
The CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" weren't all old intelligence-community techniques dusted off for the post-9/11 world.
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News Link • Economy - International
Guest Post: Central Banks Create Deflation, Not Inflation
12-10-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Charles Hugh-Smith
Financial and risk bubbles don't pop in a vacuum--all the phantom collateral constructed with mal-invested free money for financiers will also implode.
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama Praises "Patriotic" Torturers...
12-10-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
President Obama Praises "Patriotic" Torturers, Says USA "Greatest Force For Human Dignity The World Has Ever Seen"
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Interest Rates Have Nowhere To Go But Up... Right?
12-10-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Lance Roberts
Earlier this week Daniel Druger and Liz McCormick wrote an article for Bloomberg entitled: "One Hundred Years Of Bond History Means Bears Destined To Lose."
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