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Date Sent: 2015-06-12
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, June 12, 2015 |
Russia's Central Bank Meets With Finance Reps for Bitcoin Talks
European Parliament Surrenders to Washington on Russia Policy -- Washington Post Editors Urge Aiding Ukrainian Fascist Tyranny -- Veggie List 6/13/15 ~ New Market Times - Tonopah Rob's -- Prepping Like It's 1920, by G.S. -- DHS whistleblower 'almost loses child' for probing immigration & corruption -- ShapeShift.IO takes "moral and ethical stand" against BitLicense and suspends service in N -- OpenBazaar Receives $1 Million in Funding from Top Investors to Launch Decentralized Marketplace -- Janet Yellen's Crocodile Tears -- Germany drops inquiry into claims NSA tapped Angela Merkel's phone -- Leaked TPP Trade Bill Healthcare Annex -- Fact Checking Paul Krugman's Claim To Be 'Right About Everything' -- Internet by Satellite Is a Space Race With No Winners -- 06-12-15 -- Commander Dale Brown - Butler Shaffer (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Twitter's Dick Costolo to step down as CEO in yet another shake-up -- U.S. fracking rules to face early legal test -- U.S. consumer sentiment climbs in June -- Permanent Ban On Internet Access Taxation Approved By Congress -- Dark Web Spam Is Stealing People's Bitcoins -- The Paralysed Man Who Can Control a Robotic Arm With His Thoughts -- What Happens When We Upload Our Minds? -- It's time to declare a truce in the chemical war on weeds -- Virginia Teen Accused Of Showing ISIS Members How To Use Bitcoin -- Rand Paul: 'I May Be the Most Unpopular Person in Washington Right Now' -- Toronto's Epic Condo Bubble Suddenly Turns into Condo Glut -- 3D-printed materials that change texture on demand -- Samsung targets retailers with Mirror and Transparent OLED panels -- Practical Anarchism Saves Old Woman From A Needless Arrest -- Your Brain: Where Ideas Consummate Sex -- Are "Natural" Sugars Any Better Than Refined White Sugar? --
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News Link • Bitcoin
Russia's Central Bank Meets With Finance Reps for Bitcoin Talks
06-12-2015
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http://www.coindesk.com
Russia's central bank will meet with representatives from the country's financial markets to discuss bitcoin regulation next week, a local news source claims.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Veggie List 6/13/15 ~ New Market Times - Tonopah Rob's
06-12-2015
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Tonopah Rob
It's tomato season, come to the farm stand and get veggie with it. There is a great selection of different heirlooms to choose from so come and get them...This week is the beginning of the new summer hours. Starting this weekend the farm stand in
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Prepping
Prepping Like It's 1920, by G.S.
06-12-2015
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http://survivalblog.com
My grandparents were born at the turn of the century, right around 1900. They were married around 1920, and my grandmother died in 1923, a year after my dad was born.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Whistleblowers
DHS whistleblower 'almost loses child' for probing immigration & corruption
06-12-2015
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Prison Planet
After voicing concerns about an obscure US immigration program for foreign investors, a Department of Homeland Security agent says she was barred from owning a personal firearm and almost lost custody of her one-year-old adopted daughter.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
ShapeShift.IO takes "moral and ethical stand" against BitLicense and suspends service in N
06-12-2015
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http://99bitcoins.com
ShapeShift.IO, the Bitcoin startup founded by CEO Erik Voorhees, has decided to suspend its services in the state of New York, saying the company is "not comfortable" with the new state law regulating cryptocurrency.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
OpenBazaar Receives $1 Million in Funding from Top Investors to Launch Decentralized Marketplace
06-12-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
OpenBazaar announced that it received $1 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor William Mougayar to develop the OpenBazaar protocol and client.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Janet Yellen's Crocodile Tears
06-12-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
A review of the Federal Reserve's response to recent leaks about its bond-buying plans raises new questions about the central bank's efforts to police interactions with investors who can profit handsomely from inside information.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Surveillance
Germany drops inquiry into claims NSA tapped Angela Merkel's phone
06-12-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Prosecutors say they can find no actionable evidence to support claims German chancellor's mobile phone was tapped by US National Security Agency
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Future Predictions
Fact Checking Paul Krugman's Claim To Be 'Right About Everything'
06-12-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
But can the debate really be as one-sided as I portray it? Well, look at the results: again and again, people on the opposite side prove to have used bad logic, bad data, the wrong historical analogies, or all of the above. I'm Krugtron the Invinci
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Internet by Satellite Is a Space Race With No Winners
06-12-2015
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http://www.wired.com
On one side: Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX (and Tesla Motors), backed by Google. On the other: Musk's friend Greg Wyler, founder of OneWeb, backed by Virgin Galactic parent company The Virgin Group and its eccentric billionaire founder Richard Brans
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Twitter's Dick Costolo to step down as CEO in yet another shake-up
06-12-2015
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/12/us-twitt
Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo abruptly announced he was stepping down on Thursday amid increasing scrutiny of the company's slow user growth and inability to attract advertisers at the same rate as its competitors
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Environment
U.S. fracking rules to face early legal test
06-12-2015
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http://www.reuters.com
Energy industry groups and states that oppose new U.S. rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands are headed to court this month to try to block the regulations a day before they are to take effect.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. consumer sentiment climbs in June
06-12-2015
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http://www.reuters.com
U.S. consumer sentiment rose more than expected in June, a survey released on Friday showed.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Permanent Ban On Internet Access Taxation Approved By Congress
06-12-2015
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http://truthinmedia.com
While Congress has voted to ban internet access taxes permanently, discussion of expanding sales taxes online has renewed.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Dark Web Spam Is Stealing People's Bitcoins
06-12-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
Where there are bitcoins, there are scammers. Some users on the dark web drugs and weapons marketplace Agora are being directed to a site which deploys malicious code designed to empty their accounts of the digital currency.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Inventions
The Paralysed Man Who Can Control a Robotic Arm With His Thoughts
06-12-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
When Erik Sorto was 21, a gunshot wound left him paralysed from the neck down. Over ten years later, he was preparing smoothies for a room full of kids with brain injuries. For the past two years, Sorto's been trialling a neural implant that lets h
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What Happens When We Upload Our Minds?
06-12-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
Since the dawn of computer science, humans have dreamt of building machines that can carry our memories and preserve our minds after our fleshy bodies decay.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Agriculture
It's time to declare a truce in the chemical war on weeds
06-12-2015
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http://farmwars.info
As the war on weeds gears up for summer, the London-based Institute for Science in Society publishes a Manifesto on Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®. The Manifesto was published today, June 8, and already 155 scientists and medical prof
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Virginia Teen Accused Of Showing ISIS Members How To Use Bitcoin
06-12-2015
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https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com
The trend of Bitcoin and ISIS being related in the same story continues as Ali Shukri Amin, a high school student from Virginia, pleaded guilty Thursday for, among other things, teaching ISIS supporters how to use the popular crypto-currency Bitcoin.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics
Rand Paul: 'I May Be the Most Unpopular Person in Washington Right Now'
06-12-2015
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Prison Planet
On Thursday's "Kennedy" on the Fox Business Network, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, defended his positions on national security and foreign policy and pointed out that in his view it is payin
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Architecture
Toronto's Epic Condo Bubble Suddenly Turns into Condo Glut
06-12-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
The high-rise construction boom in Toronto has been evident for a while. It has been motivated by sky-high prices. In May, prices in Toronto rose another 5% from a year ago. For all types of homes, prices are now 42% higher than at the crazy peak of
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D-printed materials that change texture on demand
06-12-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com
When it comes to creating surfaces, it's a simple task to either make ones that are smooth or ones that are bumpy. But now researchers at MIT have created one that can be both.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung targets retailers with Mirror and Transparent OLED panels
06-12-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com
Transparent and reflective displays might look cool, but in terms of the home, their applications are limited. However, bricks and mortar shops looking for some technological wizardry to get shoppers through the door are a different proposition.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Practical Anarchism Saves Old Woman From A Needless Arrest
06-12-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
Gerry Suttle had never received so much as a parking ticket before being informed by police in Riesel, Texas that a warrant had been issued for her arrest. The 75-year-old woman had failed to appear in court to answer a citation issued against her be
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Opinion • Inspiration
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Your Brain: Where Ideas Consummate Sex
06-12-2015
Frosty Wooldridge
You may enjoy a positive temperament, negative disposition or neutral demeanor. Each allows you to become a Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock or Stephen King. Whatever your fate via your personality, harness your creative juices toward fruition by your
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Are "Natural" Sugars Any Better Than Refined White Sugar?
06-12-2015
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http://www.thealternativedaily.com
Although the harmful health effects of sugar are now indisputable, we are still eating an incredible amount of it. In fact, the average American consumes three pounds of the sweet white poison per week! And it's easy to understand why.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Images Show Our Favorite Little Lander on Its Comet…Maybe
06-12-2015
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http://www.wired.com
Today the European Space Agency released images that may point to the final resting place of its lovely lost lander, Philae.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police State
Towards a Militarized Police State in America?...
06-11-2015
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globalresearch.ca, By Joachim Hagopian
A growing segment of the American population is waking up to the implications of the Jade Helm 15 military operation to be conducted by Special Forces in conjunction with local law enforcement, the FBI, DHS, the DEA and Border Patrol across the entir
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Drudge Tweet: 'You've Been Warned'...
06-11-2015
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http://allnewspipeline.com, By Susan Duclos
Another cryptic tweet by Matt Drudge has people chattering across the Internet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
The Frightening Third Purpose of Jade Helm
06-11-2015
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thecommonsenseshow.com, by Dave Hodges
As long-time readers to this website will recall, I have been very consistent with regard to the sequencing of how this nation would be brought to its knees.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla Shuns Texas - No Electric Truck Factory For Lone Star State
06-11-2015
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http://insideevs.com, by Eric Loveday
Once again, Tesla Motors was shut out of doing business in the state of Texas. Here's Automotive News' explanation of the current situation:
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Robert Lee
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