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Date Sent: 2015-02-25
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, February 25, 2015 |
FedEx won't ship the box that makes homemade metal semi-automatic rifles
CIA looks to expand its cyber espionage capabilities -- J.P. Morgan to start charging big clients fees on some deposits -- These men spent 100 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit -- 'Truly barbaric': Florida deputy drags mentally ill woman through courthouse by shackled fee -- Libertarians: Please Do Not End Up Like Ross Ulbricht -- How research on the 'love hormone' oxytocin could lead to a 'sobriety pill' -- States predict inmates' future crimes with secretive surveys -- Blood Draws, Biometric Scans, and Roadside Cavity Searches -- In some cases, police seize cars, homes with no charges filed -- 'Ex-Israeli agents' threatened cyber attack on S Africa -- Israeli Citizen Rahm Emanuel Runs Black Site Terror Center -- Normandy Four in Paris -- Donbass Ceasefire: Relative Calm Before the Storm? -- Al Jazeera Spy Cables Reveal Netanyahu Lies about Iran's Nuclear Program
AZ: Arizona Sci Tech Gila County Festival - February 26-28, 2015
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News Link • Gun Rights
FedEx won't ship the box that makes homemade metal semi-automatic rifles
02-24-2015
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ars technica
Defense Distributed, the group that pioneered 3D printed firearms informed its customers that FedEx has refused to ship the company's latest product, a computer-numerically-controlled mill--dubbed the "Ghost Gunner."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA looks to expand its cyber espionage capabilities
02-24-2015
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Washington Post
The CIA's approach to conventional espionage is increasingly outmoded amid the exploding use of smartphones, social media and other technologies. Plans call for increased use of cyber capabilities in almost every category
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
J.P. Morgan to start charging big clients fees on some deposits
02-24-2015
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MarketWatch
The largest U.S. bank by assets is aiming to reduce the affected deposits by billions of dollars, with a focus on bringing the number down this year, The latest steps large global banks to discourage certain deposits due to new regulations and low
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
These men spent 100 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit
02-24-2015
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Fusion
Altogether, they spent more than 100 years in prison--including stints on death row--for a crime they didn't commit. Now, 40 years later, the murder remains unsolved. They talked about the false confession by a 12-year-old boy
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'Truly barbaric': Florida deputy drags mentally ill woman through courthouse by shackled fee
02-24-2015
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Rawstory
An investigation into a Florida deputy was launched this week after video surfaced showing him dragging a handcuffed mentally ill woman through the Broward County Courthouse by her shackled feet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Libertarians: Please Do Not End Up Like Ross Ulbricht
02-24-2015
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Targetliberty.com
There are claims that there are new bitcoin mixing technologies that make bitcoins completely anonymous in use. But how can we know that it is not the government that has set up these mixing exchanges, or infiltrated them after they have been set up?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
How research on the 'love hormone' oxytocin could lead to a 'sobriety pill'
02-24-2015
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The Conversation
Imagine if problem drinkers could be given a pill that makes them less likely to drink, less intoxicated if they do drink and more capable of enduring the life-threatening alcohol withdrawal syndrome that emerges after going "cold-turkey".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
States predict inmates' future crimes with secretive surveys
02-24-2015
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Associated Press
States are trying to reduce prison populations with secretive, new psychological assessments to predict which inmates will commit future crimes and who might be safe to release, despite serious problems and high-profile failures,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Blood Draws, Biometric Scans, and Roadside Cavity Searches
02-24-2015
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Targetliberty.com
During a routine traffic stop, Leila Tarantino was subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view of passing traffic, during which a female officer "forcibly removed" a tampon from Tarantino. Nothing illegal was found.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
In some cases, police seize cars, homes -- with no charges filed
02-24-2015
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Indianapolis Star
"No one should lose their property without being convicted of a crime," said Louis Rulli, a law professor from the University of Pennsylvania. "It really puts our whole justice system on its head."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
'Ex-Israeli agents' threatened cyber attack on S Africa
02-24-2015
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al-Jazerra
A group claiming to be former agents of Israel's Mossad threatened to unleash a devastating cyber attack on South Africa unless its government cracked down on the growing campaign to boycott Israel.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Chicago police operating CIA-style 'black site' for domestic interrogations: report
02-24-2015
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The Guardian
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or lawyers while locked inside what attorneys say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
The facility, a nond
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Israeli Citizen Rahm Emanuel Runs Black Site Terror Center
02-24-2015
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http://www.globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel runs a black site terror center where Chicago police brutalize US citizens like the Israeli military treats Palestinians, and butchers what is left of the Bill of Rights while denying them access to lawyers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Libya
Embattled Libyan government loses grip as general expands power
02-24-2015
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Reuters
Growing frustration over the reality of life in eastern Libya, which contrasts with the promises of politicians, is feeding support for a former army general, Khalifa Haftar, who has set himself up as a warrior against Islamist militancy and who some
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Technocracy & The New World Order
02-22-2015
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thomhartmann.com
Patrick M. Wood, Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse Of Global Transformation / The August Forecast & Review comes on The Big Picture. When most people think about the possibility of a dystopian future - they think of a world run by communism or fas
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
How the Government Outsourced Intelligence to Silicon Valley
02-22-2015
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truthdig.com
Excerpt from "They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy" (Nation Books, February 2015).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
Our embarrassing, servile media:
02-22-2015
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salon.com
Does the New York Times just print everything the government tells it?
The paper of record is carrying Washington's water in its Ukraine reporting -- all too believing, once again
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Spy Agencies could be Funding Geo-Engineering Research in Pursuit of Weaponising the Weather..
02-22-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
A leading climate scientist said calls purportedly from the CIA left him 'scared' about the consequences
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Woman Shoots Intruder With Gun Her Son Gave Her A Week Ago
02-22-2015
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Daily Paul.com
A concerned son's decision to buy his mother a gun just last week out of fear for her safety proved wise Thursday morning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden speech at Students for Liberty conference (video)
02-22-2015
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Daily Paul.com
Edward Snowden addresses over 1700 attendees at the 8th Annual International Students For Liberty Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. This was part of the opening night of the ISFLC15 on February 13th, 2015. He was awarded Stud
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Your DNA is everywhere. Can the police analyze it?
02-21-2015
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ars technica
The cops need someone's DNA, but they don't have a warrant, so they invite the suspect to the station house, knowing some of the perp's genetic material will likely be left behind. Bingo, crime solved. Next case.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama Asks Congress to Authorize War That's Already Started
02-21-2015
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The Intercept
Koh said that stretching the law like that is inconsistent with Obama's stated goal of bringing the U.S. off of "perpetual wartime footing." Acting without a new authorization from Congress "doesn't promote the end of the 'Forever War,'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
HSBC whistleblower spills Lynch evidence to Senate
02-21-2015
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WND
Lynch, acting as the US attorney for the Eastern District of NY engaged in a Dept of Justice cover-up. Obama's attorney general nominee allowed HSBC to enter into a "deferred prosecution" settlement in which the bank agreed to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Secession
Southern NY towns looking to secede to Pennsylvania
02-21-2015
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WBNG Binghamton
The local economy is pushing one organization in Upstate New York to pose a question: Is it possible to secede to Pennsylvania? The Upstate New York Towns Association is researching this very topic. The group says a few factors
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Accused British hacker, wanted for crimes in US, won't give up crypto keys
02-21-2015
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ars technica
"I cannot speak to the contents," he said. "Except that they are mine. This is the only salient detail as far as I'm concerned. I am not on trial, nor is my data, and I am under no obligation to speak for it. But my property is
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Are Submarines About to Become Obsolete?
02-21-2015
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The National Interest
The ability of submarines to hide through quieting alone will decrease as each successive decibel of noise reduction becomes more expensive and new detection methods mature that rely on phenomena other than sounds from a submarine.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS Encourages Poor Cryptography
02-21-2015
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Schneier on Security
The IRS has a standard called IDES: "The International Data Exchange Service is an electronic delivery point where Financial Institutions and Host Country Tax Authorities can transmit and exchange FATCA data with the United States."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Did Loretta Lynch Dig Herself Into The Swartz Hole?
02-21-2015
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Simple Justice
My hopes were dashed upon reading about Lynch's response to a question from former Saturday Night Live writer Al Franken. The subject of his question? Aaron Swartz and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem
02-21-2015
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Mother Jones
Yet for years, O'Reilly has recounted dramatic stories about his own war reporting that don't withstand scrutiny--even claiming he acted heroically in a war zone that he apparently never set foot in.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
'Anti-gun' attorney arrested for gun at airport
02-21-2015
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The Examiner
Why an anti-gun attorney would be caught with a gun in an airport security check perplexes those who look for consistency between principles and actions.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, February 22, 2015 Edition
02-21-2015
John Semmens
Government Panel Calls for Measures to Upgrade Our Health
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) issued a 571 page report outlining its recommendations for transforming Americans' health. Citing persistent high levels of overweight and o
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News Link • Currencies
Are You Ready For Total Currency War?
02-20-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Ron Holland
"Are you ready for total war?" "Sind Sie bereit für totalen Krieg?" â€" Joseph Goebbels
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Technology: Software
Software could determine where a video was shot, based on scenery and ambient sound
02-20-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com,By Ben Coxworth
Sometimes, a posted video is the only clue to the whereabouts of a missing person, or a terrorist group.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Whistleblowers
BREAKING: Whistleblower Reveals Deadly Nerve Agent Spill At Kentucky Army Base
02-20-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,Joe Biggs
Military hasn't publicly announced alleged spill as of this morning
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Top Foreign Holders of U.S. Debt
02-20-2015
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https://smaulgld.com,By: Louis Cammarosano
Foreigners and the Fed hold large percentages of US. Treasury Bonds. What happens when foreigners reduce their need for U.S. dollars and the Fed ends QE?
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