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Date Sent: 2015-03-31
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, April 1, 2015 |
The strange history of April Fool's Day
The strange history of April Fool's Day -- Arizona Breakfast Club, Saturday - April 4th, 2015 - Coco's PV Mall - 8-10 a.m. AZ TIME -- When War Comes We Know Who To Blame -- Andreas Antonopoulos Announces New Bitcoin Security Firm -- Sidekik: A Blockchain Backed App that Intends To End Police Brutality -- Americans Must Work Jan. 1 Through April 24 Just to Pay Taxes -- Many Bitcoin Companies Compete In Semifinals of the SWIFT Innotribe Startup Challenge -- Turkey Denies Passage of LNG Tankers to Ukraine -- Putin pledges support for Palestinian state with capital in East Jerusalem -- Defeat of Arizona Common Core Repeal Bill Shows Grassroots' Worst Enemy Is Establishment GOP -- American Foreign Policy Makers Endanger Us -- AI interns: Software already taking jobs from humans -- Mideast powers trade blame as Yemen teeters -- Federal Agents Face Arrest for Alleged Silk Road Bitcoin Theft -- Only 2.3% of Americans in Survey Trust Bitcoin Transfers Overseas -- BitGo Names New CEO in Leadership Shake-Up -- DEC_TECH Toronto with Keynote Speaker Andreas Antonopoulos: This Week on Decentral.tv -- Three Methods for Simple Bitcoin Business Accounting -- Vogogo - moving money forward -- CoinDesk's Assumptions About the Bitcoin Community -- Barclays CEO: Banking Sector Has Not Yet Felt the Full Disruptive Force of Technology, but It Will -- Jesus Died in a Police State -- Imperial Collapse And A License To Kill -- How Vaccine Adjuvants Affect Your Brain -- The Real Axis of Evil -- EXCLUSIVE: TSA'S SECRET BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST TO SPOT TERRORISTS -- Iran Nuke Talks Head for Overtime -- OFFICER BRELO WILL NOT FACE JURY TRIAL.... -- THE FBI'S EVER INCREASING ROLE IN DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE -- Airbnb Raffles Off a Stay in a…Scandinavian Ski Jump? --
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News Link • Just For Fun!
The strange history of April Fool's Day
03-31-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Have you ever stopped to think WHY you're Saran Wrapping a toilet seat on April Fools' Day?
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News Link • Bitcoin
Andreas Antonopoulos Announces New Bitcoin Security Firm
03-31-2015
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Brave New Coin
One of the biggest complaints by people in and out of the bitcoin industry, is how insecure exchanges and third party holders of bitcoins can be. Bitcoin's young life has been riddled with numerous large thefts of the digital currency - the most no
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News Link • Police State
Sidekik: A Blockchain Backed App that Intends To End Police Brutality
03-31-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
The Sidekik app, which is accepting bitcoin in its crowdfunding campaign, is intended to bring real-time accountability to law enforcement by streaming video and audio of encounters with police to Maidsafe.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Americans Must Work Jan. 1 Through April 24 Just to Pay Taxes
03-31-2015
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CNS News
"Tax Freedom Day gives us a vivid representation of how much we pay for the goods and services provided by governments at all levels," said Tax Foundation Economist Kyle Pomerleau.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Many Bitcoin Companies Compete In Semifinals of the SWIFT Innotribe Startup Challenge
03-31-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin companies who are part of this year's Innotribe Startup challenge, a contest run by the international payment network SWIFT, have the opportunity to partner with and be mentored by some of the world's most prestigious financial institutio
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News Link • World News
Turkey Denies Passage of LNG Tankers to Ukraine
03-31-2015
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http://russia-insider.com
Turkish Ambassador in Ukraine cites potential danger to Istanbul's population as the reason - says Ankara would not allow passage to any Black Sea nation
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Putin pledges support for Palestinian state with capital in East Jerusalem
03-31-2015
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http://www.haaretz.com, By JTA
Russian president pledged his support Saturday during a meeting of the Arab League in Sharm el-Sheik.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Defeat of Arizona Common Core Repeal Bill Shows Grassroots' Worst Enemy Is Establishment GOP
03-31-2015
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Breitbart
The Arizona Senate rejected a bill Monday that would have abolished the controversial Common Core standards in that state. Some Republicans joined with Democrats to defeat the bill, 16-13, a fact that underscores that while Democrats could be expecte
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News Link • WAR: About that War
American Foreign Policy Makers Endanger Us
03-31-2015
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Sheldon Richman
American politicians frequently declare that the government's first duty is to protect us from foreign threats. If that's so, why have they embroiled us in the Middle East?
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News Link • World News
Mideast powers trade blame as Yemen teeters
03-31-2015
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Yahoo News
Regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran traded accusations Tuesday over the escalating conflict in Yemen, which the UN rights chief warned was on the brink of "total collapse".
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News Link • Bitcoin
Federal Agents Face Arrest for Alleged Silk Road Bitcoin Theft
03-31-2015
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CoinDesk.Com
Two federal agents who took part in the US government's efforts to take down illicit online black market Silk Road have been charged with fraud for allegedly misusing funds denominated in bitcoin while on assignment.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Only 2.3% of Americans in Survey Trust Bitcoin Transfers Overseas
03-31-2015
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CoinDesk.Com
By contrast, 30.3% of the 750 "regular Americans" sampled would trust their banks to make international transfers.
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News Link • Bitcoin
BitGo Names New CEO in Leadership Shake-Up
03-31-2015
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CoinDesk.Com
BitGo announced today that co-founder Mike Belshe will replace Will O'Brien as acting CEO of the bitcoin security provider.
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News Link • Bitcoin
DEC_TECH Toronto with Keynote Speaker Andreas Antonopoulos: This Week on Decentral.tv
03-31-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
All this week, decentral.tv will be airing segments from the first Decentralized Technology (DEC_TECH) event held at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, presented by Decentral. Held on March 17, 2015, the event drew a crowd of over 300 digital curren
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News Link • Bitcoin
Three Methods for Simple Bitcoin Business Accounting
03-31-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
Recently, I gave a webcast presentation to AICPA members to help accounting professionals understand Bitcoin and how to treat it on the general ledger. If you are an AICPA member, the webcast is available for your viewing.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Vogogo - moving money forward
03-31-2015
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Vogogo
Payment services with integrated risk management and compliance. You don't need to deal with the complexities of online payment. All you need is Vogogo.
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News Link • Bitcoin
CoinDesk's Assumptions About the Bitcoin Community
03-31-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
"Making assumptions simply means believing things are a certain way with little or no evidence that shows you are correct, and you can see at once how this can lead to terrible trouble." ?" Lemony Snicket
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News Link • Bitcoin
Barclays CEO: Banking Sector Has Not Yet Felt the Full Disruptive Force of Technology, but It Will
03-31-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
The Wall Street Journal reports that Wall Street is exploring innovative applications of digital currencies to mainstream banking and financial issues.
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News Link • Police State
Jesus Died in a Police State
03-31-2015
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Targetliberty.com
If, however, you're one of those who prefers to model yourself after Jesus Christ himself--a radical nonconformist who challenged authority at every turn--rather than subscribe to the watered-down, corporatized, simplified, gentrified...
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Imperial Collapse And A License To Kill
03-31-2015
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Zerohedge.com
As empires collapse, they turn inward, and subject their own populations to the same ill treatment to which they subjected others. Here, America is unexceptional: the number of Americans being murdered by their own police...
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
How Vaccine Adjuvants Affect Your Brain
03-31-2015
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http://articles.mercola.com, By Dr. Mercola
Dr. Tomljenovic is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she works in neurosciences and the Department of Medicine.
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News Link • TERRORISM
EXCLUSIVE: TSA'S SECRET BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST TO SPOT TERRORISTS
03-31-2015
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BY JANA WINTER AND CORA CURRIER
Fidgeting, whistling, sweaty palms. Add one point each. Arrogance, a cold penetrating stare, and rigid posture, two points.
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News Link • Surveillance
THE FBI'S EVER INCREASING ROLE IN DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE
03-31-2015
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http://www.copblock.org, By Asa Jay
Even with recent revelations from the likes of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, the American public hasn't quite yet grasped the reality of the grand Stasi surveillance state we find ourselves in.
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News Link • Housing
Airbnb Raffles Off a Stay in a…Scandinavian Ski Jump?
03-31-2015
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http://www.wired.com,MARGARET RHODES
SOMETHING FUNNY HAPPENED last fall at a Waterstone's bookstore in London. On an October night just before 9, Texan David Wills breezed into the Trafalgar Square shop.
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News Link • Technology: Software
The Virtual Reality Sim That Helps Teach Cops When to Shoot
03-31-2015
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http://www.wired.com, ISSIE LAPOWSKY
"I GOTTA GET the guns," Scott Digiralomo tells me over his shoulder as he leads me down the cinder block hallways of the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy in Morristown, New Jersey.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
3D flash technology moves forward with 10 TB SSDs and the first 48-layer memory cells
03-31-2015
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gizmag.com
Flash storage technology will soon see a three-fold improvement in data density thanks to a joint development at Intel and Micron that will allow the production of 3.5 TB flash sticks and 10 TB standard-sized SSDs.
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News Link • Bitcoin
ShapeShift Raises $525k, Reveals Erik Voorhees as Creator
03-31-2015
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CoinDesk.Com
The Swiss-based platform, which lets users swap between 25 digital currencies and tokens, differs from traditional exchanges in that it operates without user accounts and requires no form of registration.
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