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Date Sent: 2013-08-13
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, August 12, 2013 |
US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Running Mass Propaganda Accounts
IRS Refuses to Answer Congressman on AR-15s for ‘Standoff Capability’ (w/Video) -- More trouble in store for UK banks A list of all the potential legal problems and investigations -- No More Spills? New Technology Could Transform the Pipeline Sector -- In London Big Brother is Now in the Trash Cans (w/Video) -- What the Federal Reserve Could Do with Ellen Brown -- 18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer -- Study:
Cigarette taxes deter heavy drinking -- Shameful Missouri State Fair
stunt smears Obama, media goes nuts -- Holder proposes changes in criminal justice system -- The US Drive for World Rule -- The Missiles That Brought
Down TWA Flight 800 -- 383. Crypto-Anarchy -- EWatch A Homemade Coilgun Destroy A
Laptop -- The Politics of AIPAC’s Anti-Iran-Diplomacy Letters -- The
power of Edward Snowden -- FIREARMS RECORDS BUREAU vs. JAY E. SIMKIN
& others(1) -- Larry Summers: Wall Street's Man -- EU a Key NSA
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News Link • Propaganda
US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Running Mass Propaganda Accounts
08-12-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
It has been common knowledge to anyone paying attention within the alternative news community for years, but once again the media is now admitting that the US military and intelligence agencies are indeed running massive propaganda campaigns that ...
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News Link • Police State
IRS Refuses to Answer Congressman on AR-15s for ‘Standoff Capability’ (w/Video)
08-12-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The IRS has refused to answer Congressman Jeff Duncan’s question on why IRS agents are training with semi-automatic AR-15′s designed for “standoff capability”.
Back in May, Congressman Duncan (R-SC) visited the Federal Law Enforcement Traini
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Chris Menke
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
More trouble in store for UK banks
A list of all the potential legal problems and investigations fa
08-12-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/11/tr
HSBC has already been fined £1.2bn for breaching money-laundering rules and Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays hit with major penalties for rigging Libor, but over the past two weeks Britain's major banks have warned shareholders of the wide range
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Surveillance
In London Big Brother is Now in the Trash Cans (w/Video)
08-12-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
You may want to think twice before switching your phone setting to WiFi the next time you are in Great Britain. London-based marketing firm Renew’s ORB technology allows trash cans (or seemingly anything for that matter) to spy on people’s habits thr
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Agriculture
Easy Vermiculture
08-12-2013
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arclein
What do worms like to eat? Worms are vegetarians. They like green stuff mostly and absolutely no meat and no dairy. That means no bones, no grease and no anything with grease.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What the Federal Reserve Could Do with Ellen Brown
08-12-2013
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arclein
W]e have $3 trillion or so [in] bank reserves. Bank reserves can only be used by banks, so they don’t do much good for the rest of us. While the reserves may not do much for the economy, the Treasuries they remove from it are in high
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News Link • Gun Rights
18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer
08-12-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control. Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer. In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less cri
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Archaeology
James Churchward and MU
08-12-2013
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arclein
Although he amassed an instantaneous cult-following among his leadership, he also managed to tick off members of the conservative scientific community, religious leaders, and literary critics with his emphatic claims.
Seventy-five years later, it
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Pat's Product Review: Removable Operator Pack
08-12-2013
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Survivalblog.com
I have to confess, at one time, I had a huge CFP-90 pack, that was my own personal BOB, and I had so much stuff in it that I could hardly get it on, much less hike any distance - it probably weighed in at 50-pounds or more.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study: Cigarette taxes deter heavy drinking
08-12-2013
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sciencerecorder.com
This unique study looked at cigarette taxation and discovered that tax hikes on the product were associated with mild to moderate reductions in alcohol consumption among “vulnerable groups.”
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News Link • Obama Administration
Shameful Missouri State Fair stunt smears Obama, media goes nuts
08-12-2013
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A clown wearing a mask of President Barack Obama came out during the bull riding event at the fair. The crowd was asked if it wanted to see Obama “run down by a bull.” The U.S. Secret Service takes threats against the president seriously.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Holder proposes changes in criminal justice system
08-12-2013
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AP
Attorney General Holder is calling for major changes to the nation’s criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh prison sentences for certain drug-related crimes, divert people convicted of low-level offenses to drug treatment
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Rules of rock: Ecuador law guarantees local bands airtime
08-12-2013
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miamiherald.com
When you spin the radio dial in this high-altitude city you could almost be anywhere.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Not 'Elysium,' But Better 'Ringworld' Space Settlements Could Be Our Future
08-12-2013
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space.com
In Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey," the ancestor of humanity throws a bone into the air, which cinematically becomes a spacecraft (an orbiting weapon) sharing the sky with a rotating space station.
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News Link • NATO
The US Drive for World Rule
08-12-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
It was five years ago that the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvilli, who was installed in power by the Washington supported “Rose Revolution,” launched a military invasion of South Ossetia, a break-away province under its own government.
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Missiles That Brought Down TWA Flight 800
08-12-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
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If the U.S. public began to raise a fuss about U.S. missile strikes that blow up large numbers of civilians at wedding parties abroad, it’s not beyond the realm of the imaginable that the U.S. government would
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News Link • How To
That’s Not How You Use That: Coiling a Cable
08-12-2013
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Wired.com
Keeping your cables neat and tidy is a matter of nerd pride, with a side of OCD thrown in there just for fun.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
The WIRED Mech Meets an Adoring Public, Doesn’t Attack Anyone
08-12-2013
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Wired.com
A side effect of bringing a giant robot to a well-attended conference is that people notice. After the WIRED Mech debuted, it went wide.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
For $300, You Can Buy a Stunning 3-D Printed Version of Yourself
08-12-2013
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Wired.com
It might seem a bit gimmicky if the results weren’t so stunning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
The Politics of AIPAC’s Anti-Iran-Diplomacy Letters
08-12-2013
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lobelog.com
Mitch McConnell did it, Harry Reid didn’t. Elizabeth Warren did it, Bernie Sanders didn’t. Al Franken did it, Tom Coburn didn’t.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
FIREARMS RECORDS BUREAU vs. JAY E. SIMKIN & others(1)
08-12-2013
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socialaw.com
Firearms. Practice, Civil, Action in the nature of certiorari, Judicial review of license to carry firearms. License. Statute, Construction. Administrative Law, Regulations. Words, "Suitable Person".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Deputies Climb Through Window Into Couple's Home Without A Warrant....
08-10-2013
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Daily Paul.com
A Warrington, Florida couple was asleep in their bed when a group of Escambia County sheriff's deputies climbed into their home without a warrant,....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
How 9/11 was Done!
08-10-2013
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how911wasdone.com
Prologue
Read the following two screens of text to learn what happened at 9/11.
9/11 was a master plot, concocted by a handful of Israelis and dual passport Americans and carried out by the resources of the Mossad.
Larry Silverstein
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Surveillance
The Government's Coming For Your Encrypted Data Next
08-09-2013
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In the midst of the revelations about the NSA's sweeping surveillance program, many people held out hope that the news reports simply weren't true"they are"while others clung to the idea that they could somehow protect themselves.
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News Link • Government
Mind Control
08-09-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
This was a conversation that left me very shaken and distrustful of the covert aspects of our sociopolitical culture. Towards the end of the documentary the subject of nonlethal weapons is broached.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
We Need A Whistleblower Prize
08-09-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
What has happened to several notable government whistleblowers is sobering. High-level whistleblowers know when they come forward that they're sacrificing their national security clearance, likely their jobs, and quite possibly their freedom.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Judge backs the right of creepy Tribeca artist to photograph people through their windows
08-09-2013
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New York Post
Keep your shades down, New York. A Manhattan judge ruled this week that artistic freedom trumps the rights of parents who don’t want their kids secretly photographed through the windows of their homes.
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Stop sign camera spotted in the DC
08-09-2013
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A stop sign camera has been spotted in the District. The camera functions similarly to a red light camera " snapping photos of vehicles that fail to stop properly at the stop sign.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ailing lawyer in terrorism case loses bid for early prison release
08-09-2013
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Reuters
A former New York lawyer convicted of helping a jailed Egyptian militant cleric smuggle messages out of prison lost her bid on Friday to be released from prison because she is suffering from terminal cancer. Lynne Stewart, 73, is 3 years
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Photo of snoozing officer in most violent U.S. city sparks probe
08-09-2013
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Reuters
A photo of a police officer in Camden, New Jersey, apparently asleep in his cruiser has prompted an investigation in the U.S. city with the nation's highest violent crime rate in 2012.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Obama administration asserts broad surveillance powers
08-09-2013
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Washington Post
The Obama administration on Friday asserted a bold and broad power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans in order to search for a nugget of information that might thwart a terrorist attack.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Britain: Police Apologize for Vendor’s Death at Protest
08-09-2013
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AP
London police apologized to the family of a British newspaper vendor who died after an officer hit him with a baton during demonstrations against a Group of 20 meeting in 2009. The force said it had reached an out-of-court settlement with the family.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, August 11, 2013 Edition
08-09-2013
John Semmens
US Backed Syrian Rebels Reportedly Massacre Women and Children
Anti-Assad rebels from the Jabhat al-Nusra Front are reported to have carried out a raid on the Syrian town of Tal Abyad near the Turkish border this past week. Rebel troops are said t
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News Link • Marc Victor
Sheriff Richard Mack on The Attorney For Freedom Show
08-09-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
The Attorney For Freedom Show with host Attorney Marc J. Victor and co-host Mike Wasdin. Today on The Attorney For Freedom Show special guest Sheriff Richard Mack.
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News Link • Activism
Farmers Rip Up Experimental Golden Rice Plants In The Philippines
08-09-2013
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popsci.com
As scientists prepare to submit the genetically engineered rice for regulatory approval, some locals protest.
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News Link • Internet
Another e-mail service shuts down over government spying concerns
08-09-2013
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Timothy B. Lee, Washington Post
Silent Circle, a prominent supplier of secure communications services has decided to shutter its e-mail service to avoid having to turn over confidential customer information to the government. The move comes hours after another e-mail service provid
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Jim Hightower: The border-industrial complex
08-09-2013
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Jim Hightower
These corporate predators are deploying an army of lobbyists to Congress to target what they see as a booming market. "Border security!" is their battle cry. These profiteers have already stuffed the Senate's immigration bill with $46 billion for mor
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
New Bank Investigations: Real Action, or More of the Same? - By Matt Taibbi
0-8-09-2013
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblo
But to me, these investigations will be meaningless unless one of two things happens, once they reach the inevitable stage of concluding painstakingly-crafted settlements with the inevitable teams of high-priced lawyers for the offending firms:
1)
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Courage of Bradley Manning Will Inspire Others To Seize Their Moment of Truth
08-09-2013
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www.antiwar.com
The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28 February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his life to leak tens of thousands of official files.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Exclusive: IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence
08-09-2013
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Reuters
Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years.
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News Link • Surveillance
What It Means to Be an NSA 'Target'
08-09-2013
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Gizmodo
An important New York Times investigation reporting the NSA "is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans’ e-mail and texting" coupled with leaked documents published by the Guardian, demonstrates government is lying under oath to us.
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News Link • Media: Internet
The fall of the daily paper: Mainstream media loses readers, ad revenues as internet takes over
08-09-2013
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naturalnews.com
The decline and fall of traditional mainstream daily newspapers and monthly magazines is continuing unabated, as demonstrated by a spate of bad news that has recently beset some of the biggest names in the industry.
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