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Date Sent: 2015-06-16
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, June 17, 2015 |
Prisons Without Walls: We're All Inmates in the American Police State
"Rent a Crowd" Company Admits Politicians Are Using Their Service -- Greece Played Germany Like a Violin; Horrified Syriza Demands 'Icelandic' Default -- Policing and Defending Then and Now -- Safe pot? Tell that to the 62 kids who died -- The Prepper's Water Storage Primer -- China's Powerful Bitcoin Miners Say Their Bandwidth Sucks -- Portugal's Approach to Drugs Is Saving Lives; Why Aren't We Copying It? -- America's Electoral Farce -- Vladimir Putin opens Russian 'military Disneyland' Patriot Park -- Amazon wants to turn your neighbor into your deliveryman -- This 19-Year-Old May Have Discovered The Cure For Colon Cancer… -- America hates its whistle-blowers: The tortured legacy of Edward Snowden -- Our Treasonous Foreign Policy -- US Arrests NYC College Student for 'ISIS-Inspired' Plot Because He Read About Bombs -- Michigan Police Seize Kids from Family For "Camping" -- This AI Used 'Neuroevolution' to Teach Itself How to Play 'Super Mario World' -- Microsoft's HoloLens Brings 'Minecraft' into Augmented Reality, and It's Amazing -- Real-Life Chris Pratt Attacked by (Prank) Dinosaurs -- Jeb Bush Makes His Presidential Candidacy Official -- There Will Never Be Enough Good Jobs Again -- Living Room of Satoshi Launches 'Pay Anyone' Bitcoin Pmt Svc to Any Australian Bank Account -- Banks & Fintechs Must Collaborate to 'Re-Engineer' the Global Financial Services Industry -- Chart Of The Day: Retail Sales (ex Autos) Turn Negative For First Time Since 2009 -- It's Official: SpaceX Is Building Elon Musk's Hyperloop -- US, China strike deal, set to hold joint military drills -- Dallas Shooter Said He Attacked Police Because he Was Angry... -- It's Not Only Greece This Morning. -- World's thinnest lightbulb: Graphene gets bright -- Legalizing medical marijuana does not increase use among adolescents --
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News Link • Police State
Prisons Without Walls: We're All Inmates in the American Police State
06-16-2015
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http://rutherford.org/publications
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free--to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state,...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
"Rent a Crowd" Company Admits Politicians Are Using Their Service
06-16-2015
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http://www.libertychat.com
Crowds on Demand is an American publicity firm. It claims to be the only "rent a crowd" service, providing its clients with the ability to hire actors to pose as fans. I decided to contact them, pretending to be an employee of a GOP candidate run
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece Played Germany Like a Violin; Horrified Syriza Demands 'Icelandic' Default
06-16-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
A time-based analysis of eurozone taxpayer liabilities shows the Greek game-masters played German creditors like a violin. France and Germany stand to forfeit €160 billion if Greece defaults
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Policing and Defending Then and Now
06-16-2015
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http://www.unz.com - Phillip Giraldi
The military and police have become two sides of the same coin
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Safe pot? Tell that to the 62 kids who died
06-16-2015
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Arizona Republic
More youth deaths are linked to marijuana than alcohol or methamphetamine. Marijuana is an addictive and hazardous drug. Some have proclaimed "marijuana is safer than alcohol," a message not only wrong but dangerous.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Prepping
The Prepper's Water Storage Primer
06-16-2015
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thesurvivalistblog.net, By M.D. Creekmore
Because I live in an area that receives a decent amount of rainfall throughout the year I keep my water storage plan simple â€"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
China's Powerful Bitcoin Miners Say Their Bandwidth Sucks
06-16-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen proposed the change in May: a code update that would increase the size of the "blocks" of transaction data uploaded to the Bitcoin blockchain by miners
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Portugal's Approach to Drugs Is Saving Lives; Why Aren't We Copying It?
06-16-2015
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Truthdig
In 2001, Portugal tackled drug use with what seemed like a radical plan: It decriminalized all drugs--yes, every last one. Now, drug use is down, deaths caused by overdoses are rare, and HIV hardly occurs among drug users anymore.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics
America's Electoral Farce
06-16-2015
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Truthdig
I intend to devote no more time to the upcoming presidential elections than walking to my local polling station on Election Day, voting for a third-party candidate, most likely the Green Party candidate, and going home.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Vladimir Putin opens Russian 'military Disneyland' Patriot Park
06-16-2015
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The Guardian
As well as being a "military Disneyland", Patriot Park is also a conference and exhibition venue, and Tuesday marked the start of Army 2015, a Russian military exhibition showcasing the latest equipment, attended by delegations from dozens of cou
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Amazon wants to turn your neighbor into your deliveryman
06-16-2015
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The Guardian
The e-tailing giant reportedly developing a mobile app On My Way that would pay participating members of the public to deliver goods
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
This 19-Year-Old May Have Discovered The Cure For Colon Cancer…
06-16-2015
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True Activist
This brilliant teen created tests with an experimental colon cancer vaccine that proved 100 percent effective in tests on young mice.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
America hates its whistle-blowers: The tortured legacy of Edward Snowden
06-16-2015
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http://www.salon.com
On the second anniversary of his historic act of civil disobedience, we review what has changed (and what has not)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Our Treasonous Foreign Policy
06-16-2015
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http://original.antiwar.com - Justin Raimondo
If you want to know why our "war on terrorism" has failed so miserably â€" if you want to understand how and why the harder we fight the more enemies we have to face â€" then read WSJ on the evolution of the Syrian civil war
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
US Arrests NYC College Student for 'ISIS-Inspired' Plot Because He Read About Bombs
06-16-2015
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http://news.antiwar.com
Saleh was arrested Saturday, after three months of intense surveillance, when he "took several steps" toward an unmarked police car that was spying on him, a move officials later termed as "lunging at law enforcement."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Michigan Police Seize Kids from Family For "Camping"
06-16-2015
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, Joshua Krause
Last month, a Michigan family decided it would be fun to go camping for the summer, on a 10 acre plot of land they had recently purchased.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
This AI Used 'Neuroevolution' to Teach Itself How to Play 'Super Mario World'
06-16-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, by Clinton Nguyen
A solid 25 years after its release, people are still messing around with classic Mario games.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Microsoft's HoloLens Brings 'Minecraft' into Augmented Reality, and It's Amazing
06-16-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, by Zack Kotzer
It was a moment you could trace back months in the making, but for those still inspired by the future to come, it's something that's been in the works for decades.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Real-Life Chris Pratt Attacked by (Prank) Dinosaurs
06-16-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, by John Ambrosio
Don't let his alpha-raptor status fool you--Chris Pratt is just as scared of dinosaurs as anyone else.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Living Room of Satoshi Launches 'Pay Anyone' Bitcoin Pmt Svc to Any Australian Bank Account
06-15-2015
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Bitcoin magazine
Australian Bitcoin payment company Living Room of Satoshi announced that its new "Pay Anyone" service allows Australians to pay bitcoin directly to any bank account.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Banks & Fintechs Must Collaborate to 'Re-Engineer' the Global Financial Services Industry
06-16-2015
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http://cointelegraph.com/news/114574/banks-fintech
In a new report, Santander InnoVentures, the megabank's venture capital fund, argues that banks and fintech startups need to collaborate in order to "reboot" the global financial services industry and trigger the 'Fintech 2.0' revolution.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Inventions
It's Official: SpaceX Is Building Elon Musk's Hyperloop
06-16-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, by JASON KOEBLER
SpaceX is building a hyperloop, Elon Musk's fantastical, futuristic transport tube capable of moving people and freight at speeds of 760 miles per hour.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
US, China strike deal, set to hold joint military drills
06-16-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, RT
The US and China have signed a rare agreement to strengthen ties and develop a more productive military relationship.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
World's thinnest lightbulb: Graphene gets bright
06-16-2015
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http://www.sciencedaily.com
Scientists have demonstrated -- for the first time -- an on-chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Legalizing medical marijuana does not increase use among adolescents
06-16-2015
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http://www.sciencedaily.com
A nationwide study analyzing 24 years of data (1991 to 2014) from over one million American adolescents in the 48 contiguous states has found no evidence that legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes leads to increased use among teenagers
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Gina Kynast
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