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Date Sent: 2013-07-09
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, July 9, 2013

US mulls complete pullout from Afghanistan -- Female sterilized in prisons without approval

Michael Hastings Crash Investigation Heats Up, Police and Fire Told Not to Comment -- The IRS Mistakenly Exposed Thousands of Social Security Numbers -- Book by former CIA analyst sheds light on Cuba, Kennedy, Oswald -- Chinese police open fire on Tibetan monks -- Turkish police fire water cannon to prevent park protest -- U.S. soldier in WikiLeaks case had free access to secret files -- Officer cleared of threatening Michelle Obama -- Web monitoring devices made by U.S. firm Blue Coat detected in Iran, Sudan -- Spaniards Fight to Get Savings Back -- SpaceX's 'Grasshopper' Reusable Rocket Prototype Makes Highest Flight Yet -- Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players

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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. mulls speeding up troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
07-08-2013 • Reuters
The US is considering leaving no American troops behind in Afghanistan after the planned 2014 withdrawal date, US officials said, amid ongoing tensions between the President Obama's administration and Afghan President Karzai's government. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval
07-08-2013 • .
Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Conspiracies
Michael Hastings Crash Investigation Heats Up, Police and Fire Told Not to Comment
07-08-2013 • youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
San Diego 6 -- Kimberly Dvorak's Investigative Report On Michael Hastings "Crash" Crash scene defies laws of physics as engine block found behind the car. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TAXES: Federal
The IRS Mistakenly Exposed Thousands of Social Security Numbers
07-08-2013 • National Journal
Another day, another slipup by the Internal Revenue Service. The incident involves the unwitting exposure of "tens of thousands" of Social Security numbers, posted to the Internet for less than 24 hours after being discovered, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • History
Book by former CIA analyst sheds light on Cuba, Kennedy, Oswald
07-08-2013 • Reuters
Lee Harvey Oswald had closer ties to Cuba's intelligence agency in the months before his fatal shooting of John F. Kennedy than previously known, according to a new book by a former CIA analyst. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • China
Chinese police open fire on Tibetan monks: group
07-08-2013 • Reuters
Police in a restive Tibetan part of southwestern China opened fire on a group of monks and others who had gathered to mark the birthday of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, seriously injuring at least two of them, a rights group said. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Activism
Turkish police fire water cannon to prevent park protest
07-08-2013 • Reuters
Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon on Monday at protesters who tried to defy a closure order and enter an Istanbul park at the center of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. soldier in WikiLeaks case had free access to secret files
07-08-2013 • Reuters
Private First Class Bradley Manning, accused of releasing more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks, had nothing to stop him from installing software for the high-speed download of secret State Department cables, the witnesses said. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer cleared of threatening Michelle Obama
07-08-2013 • Washington Post
A District police officer accused of threatening Michelle Obama was cleared of charges related to the first lady but was found guilty of posting a derogatory job description on social media and depicting the president as a communist, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Iran
Web monitoring devices made by U.S. firm Blue Coat detected in Iran, Sudan
07-08-2013 • Washington Post
American-made devices used for Internet monitoring were detected on government and commercial computer networks in Iran and Sudan, in violation of US sanctions that ban the sale of goods, services or technology to autocratic states Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - International
Spaniards Fight to Get Savings Back
07-08-2013 • New York Times
Mr. López is one of about 300,000 Spaniards who, in the midst of a brutal recession, have seen their life savings virtually wiped out in what critics call a deceptive and possibly fraudulent sales campaign by banks that were Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Incredible Technology: How to See a Black Hole
07-08-2013 • space.com
Black holes are essentially invisible, but astronomers are developing technology to image the immediate surroundings of these enigmas like never before. Read Full Story
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Bacteria In Space Grows in Strange Ways
07-08-2013 • space.com
Bacteria grown in a dish of fake urine in space behaves in ways never-before-seen in Earth microorganisms, scientists say. Read Full Story
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News Link • Technology: Software
Space Station Tech Dominates NASA Space Apps Challenge
07-08-2013 • space.com
Tech tools related to the International Space Station ruled NASA's Space Apps Challenge this year. Read Full Story
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX's 'Grasshopper' Reusable Rocket Prototype Makes Highest Flight Yet
07-08-2013 • space.com
A private company's prototype reusable rocket made its highest leap to date last month, soaring 100 stories into the air before landing softly back at its launch pad as planned. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Kickstarter ion thruster would speed space exploration using nanosatellites
07-08-2013 • extremetech.com
For the past few decades, space exploration has largely focused on building incredible (occasionally incredibly expensive) high-end machines. It’s not hard to see why �" machines like Curiosity and its rocket-powered hover crane are amazing accomplish Read Full Story
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News Link • Corruption
Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players
07-08-2013 • ted.com
When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Techno Gadgets
Lenovo A1000 hits shelves with Nexus 7 price-chopping
07-08-2013 • slashgear.com
It would appear that the folks at Lenovo have decided to launch several new tablets �" announced at Mobile World Congress though they were �" to the market without much warning. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Internet
AT&T Beats deal reportedly in the works for streaming music service launch
07-08-2013 • slashgear.com
We already know that Beats will be launching their own streaming music service called Daisy, but details about its launch are still being speculated. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA GROVER rover completes first tests in remote arctic expedition
07-08-2013 • slashgear.com
NASA‘s Curiosity Mars rover may be the agency’s latest space-faring rover, but their newest wheeled robot was recently deployed in the cold depths of Greenland. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Energy
Ordered intermetallic core-shell nanocatalysts are promising designs for fuel cells
07-08-2013 • nanowerk.com
The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are certainly promising as energy efficient devices to run vehicles in a less polluted way. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Field Gear: Identifying The All-American Makers
07-08-2013 • Survivalblog.com
My Mac's e-mail in-box is stuffed full every morning. I plow through dozens and dozens of e-mails. After a glance, most of them get a perfunctory "delete" click. In addition to the inevitable SEO Optimization. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
‘Holographic Duality’ Hints at Hidden Subatomic World
07-08-2013 • http://www.wired.com, By Natalie Wolchover
According to modern quantum theory, energy fields permeate the universe, and flurries of energy in these fields, called “particles” when they are pointlike and “waves” when they are diffuse, serve as the building blocks of matter and forces. But new Read Full Story
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News Link • Surveillance
THE INTERNET OF THINGS
07-08-2013 • http://www.wired.com,By Robert McMillan
When Dan Tentler wants to find something on the internet, he doesn’t use Google or Bing. Tentler, a freelance security consultant, is a road-less-traveled kind of guy. He likes to check out the internet’s alleyways and backroads. And for people like Read Full Story
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News Link • Inventions
Power Jacket MK3 leaps from comic book pages into reality
07-08-2013 • http://www.gizmag.com, By Jason Falconer
A school girl wearing Sagawa Electronics' Power Jacket MK3 stands above a grown man Read Full Story
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News Link • Inventions
UCL research flips the script on self-cleaning materials
07-08-2013 • http://www.gizmag.com, By James Holloway
In what they're calling a breakthrough discovery, UCL researchers studying the properties of titanium dioxide catalysts, which are widely used in self-cleaning products and materials, claim to have challenged the accepted view of how mixed-phase samp Read Full Story
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iPad 5 reportedly on track for September
07-08-2013 • http://www.gizmag.com, By Will Shanklin
Common sense tells us that a new iPad isn't far away. With last November's 4th-generation model being little more than a minor spec-bump, we're going on 16 months since the last significant update to the 9.7-inch iPad. Read Full Story
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Feature Article  • Freedom's Phoenix
Who Figured it out?
Ernest Hancock
   I'm going on vacation... while I'm away you may ponder this form of Non-Government. And then ask yourself if any one individual or group can take "credit" for this statement? Can you show me where this "originated"? Have fun. Peace.
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Feature Article  • Freedom Summit
Freedom Summit 2014 - Phoenix, Arizona. February 14th - 16th
Ernest Hancock
   This is a 3 day weekend that includes Valentine's Day... a very nice time and place for LOV3olutionaires :) Take a look at our speaker list and you'll see that every one of our speakers are headliners... as usual.
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt’s new president asserts authority; US puppet ElBaradei role on hold
07-06-2013 • AP
Egypt’s new president asserted his authority and regain control of the streets even as his Islamist opponents declared his powers illegitimate and issued blood oaths to reinstate Morsi, whose ouster by the military led to dueling protests Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
Quebec town rocked by explosions, fire after derailment
07-06-2013 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Witnesses reported between four and six explosions overnight in the town of about 6,000 people. The derailment happened at about 1 a.m. ET, about 250 kilometres east of Montreal. It is not yet known if there are any casualties, but several people Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Menke

News Link • World News
Boeing 777 crashes in landing at San Francisco airport (with video)
07-06-2013 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/
An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 passenger jet has crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. It has not yet been confirmed whether any of the passengers on board were injured. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Menke

News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden Is Offered Asylum by Venezuela
07-06-2013 • online.wsj.com
Venezuela is offering "humanitarian asylum" to U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, President Nicolás Maduro said Friday, suggesting his country could offer the leaker a way out ..... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Egypt
US Sec. of State Kerry Goes Yachting During Egyptian Coup and Lies About It
07-06-2013 • CBS News
As regime change was unfolding in Egypt, Secretary of State John Kerry spent time on his boat Wednesday afternoon in Nantucket Sound, the State Department acknowledged after repeatedly denying that Kerry was aboard any boat. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Activism
Adam Kokesh Has Done It! Iraq Vet Open Carried In DC
07-05-2013 • Prison Planet
Former Iraq veteran Adam Kokesh staged an open carry protest in Washington DC today by loading a 12 gauge shotgun near the White House �" committing at least four felonies in the process. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

Feature Article  • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine July 5th, 2013 Edition READY FOR DOWNLOAD!
Donna Hancock
   Breeding out the tyrants...If you are just starting a family or already have children (or grandchildren, nieces/nephews, etc...), how will you (help) raise them to think for themselves, to desire liberty in their life, and not to seek servitude as a
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Government to Judge: It Sucks To Be The Defense
07-05-2013 • Simple Justice
Prosecutors say defense ignored their requests to turn over the interviews in advance of an August hearing on the appeals.The government was not made aware of the defense motion nor was it given the opportunity to respond to the request. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bill of Rights
Man Challenges Classification Of Pet Ducks As Prohibited Poultry
07-05-2013 • Jonathan Turley
James Kistler is in the midst of an expensive row with the city of Delmont over his pets Larry, Moe, Curly and Fred. In May, the city sent Kistler a notice that he was in violation of the city ordinance on domestic pets and that he could not keep duc Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Questions For Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
07-05-2013 • by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
Now we have the 911 audio from one of Daly's friends who was in the car at the time. You can hear the panic and fear in the women's voices. And all in response to actions taken by the government thugs who are supposed to protect them. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
VIDEO Leaked Document: Military Internment Camps in US to be Used for Political Dissidents
07-05-2013 • .
The document outlines military procedures for internment and resettlement of civilians and it describes the layout and administration of interment camps. It clearly states it applies within U.S. territory and specifically addresses the detainment of Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Breaking News�"Today’s Job Report
07-05-2013 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Do you remember the promise of the New Economy that was going to replace the lost “dirty fingernail” manufacturing jobs with innovative highly paid New Economy jobs? Well, the promise was just another deception from the elites who have stolen America Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Menke

News Link • Police State
Extremely Powerful Video: Happy 4th of July from a Police State Checkpoint
07-05-2013 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The following is a very powerful video taped yesterday when a simple citizen had the nerve to assert his constitutional rights in front of a power hungry storm trooper in the state of Tennessee. Minute five is particularly telling when the officer s Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Menke

Opinion  • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 7, 2013 Edition
07-05-2013
John Semmens
   Obamacare Fiasco Blamed on GOP This past week the Obama Administration unilaterally decreed a postponement in the legislated deadline for implementation of the employer compliance component of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). While many have q
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News Link • Police State
Police Commandeer Homes, Get Sued
07/03/2013 • Courthouse News Service - By MEGAN GALLEGOS
LAS VEGAS (CN) - Henderson police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as lookouts for a domestic violence investigation of their neighbors, the family claims in court. Anthony Mitchell and his parents Michael and Linda Read Full Story
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Reported by: Elmer Whittaker

News Link • Events: America
Terrifying Video Shows Southern California Fireworks Going Completely Awry �" 28 Injured
07-05-2013 • http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
According to the LA Times, 28 people were injured in Simi Valley, when their fireworks show went horribly awry. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Collapse Continues
07-05-2013 • http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Drip, drip, drip... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Whistleblowers
James Clapper, EU Play-Acting, and Political Priorities
07-05-2013 • http://lewrockwell.com, by Glenn Greenwald
Fixations on denouncing Edward Snowden distract, by design, from the serious transgressions of those who are far more powerful Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai Fears Taliban Peace Talks Will Sideline Him
07-05-2013 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Complaints About Flag Likely Just an Excuse to Stop Talks Read Full Story
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News Link • General Opinion
... 'The World is in Danger With Our Tyranny'
07-05-2013 • http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/07
Oliver Stone Tells European Audience on Fourth of July 'The World is in Danger With Our Tyranny' Read Full Story
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Conducts “Top Secret” July 4 Drill
07-05-2013 • http://www.infowars.com, Paul Joseph Watson
TSA, undercover agents to patrol transport hubs Read Full Story
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bolivia Threatens To Close US Embassy After Edward Snowden Plane Incident
07-05-2013 • Business Insider
President Evo Morales has warned that he could close the US Embassy in Bolivia as South America's leftist leaders rallied to support him after his presidential plane was re-routed amid suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

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