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Date Sent: 2013-10-15
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, October 14, 2013 |
SOCOM Admiral pushes for Iron Man-style combat suit
Ron Paul: New Fed Boss Same as the Old Boss -- 72 Hour Warning:
Grocery Stores Across the Country Turn Away Hungry Shoppers as EBT --
Concept: drone-launching drones aim to aid in disaster relief -- DARPA wants to create cheap, mass-produced mind-reading device -- Please help NOW! Letters Desperately Needed For Jeremy Hammond's
Sentencing by 10/15 -- Empire Under Obama, Part 2: Barack Obama’s Global
Terror Campaign -- Gold, The Debt Ceiling, And The Fed -- Two
Tension Points To Watch In T-Bills -- Is The Equity Market's Day Of
Reckoning Beckoning? -- Group Claims Elevated Radioactivity Levels At
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues -- America Fumes After Xerox "Routine Backup Test" Leave 17 States Without Foodstamps -- Chart Of The Day: China Imports Over 2,000 Tons Of Gold In Last Two Years -- They’re Coming For Your Savings --
The Towns Around Fukushima Power Plant Look Like A Post-Apocalyptic
Nightmare [PHOTOS] -- WORLD BANK: The US Is 'Days Away From A Very
Dangerous Moment' On The Debt Ceiling -- MORGAN STANLEY: We May Get A
New Wave Of Global Central Bank Easing In The Coming Weeks -- 3
Companies Using GMOs in Baby Formula -- Al-Qaida surges back in Iraq, reviving old fears -- University creates "world's first walkable solar panel pathway" --
The Day the New America Began -- Edward Snowden Says NSA Surveillance
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News Link • Military
SOCOM Admiral pushes for Iron Man-style combat suit
10-14-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Brian Dodson
The US Navy's top SEAL, four-star Admiral William McRaven, is pushing hard for a modern suit of armor called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS).
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: New Fed Boss Same as the Old Boss
10-14-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
The news that Janet Yellen was nominated to become the next Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was greeted with joy by financial markets and the financial press. Wall Street saw Yellen's nomination as a harbinger of
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Please help NOW! Letters Desperately Needed For Jeremy Hammond's Sentencing by 10/15
The time
10-14-2013
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http://jayleiderman.blogspot.com/2013/10/letters-d
"You don't have to know Jeremy to help, you just have to care"
~ Jeremy's friend Grace said that at the #FreeHammond/#FreeBB fundraiser in NY in August. It is doubtless true. Jeremy Hammond is a prisoner pending sentencing for computer hacki
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Empire Under Obama, Part 2: Barack Obama’s Global Terror Campaign
10-14-2013
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http://andrewgavinmarshall.com/2013/10/14/empire-u
So the question for Americans then, should be this: do you want to live in a nation " and world " which is defined by the decision to wage a global campaign of terror upon multiple nations and regions, and tens of thousands of people around the world
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
72 Hour Warning: Grocery Stores Across the Country Turn Away Hungry Shoppers as EBT
10-14-2013
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http://www.theorganicprepper.ca, by: Daisy Luther
Abandoned carts full of food were a frequent sight in grocery stores Saturday morning, as the EBT food assistance debit system stopped working without warning.
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News Link • Drones
Concept: drone-launching drones aim to aid in disaster relief
10-14-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
In the event of some unforeseen future disaster, the likelihood of drones taking part in an emergency response team is growing.
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News Link • Transportation
Steampunk-esque Seven Stars train is for serious ballers only
10-14-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Terry Chao
Japan's famous bullet trains are definitely fast, but they lack essential creature comforts like panoramic windows, full-length beds and a covered table dining cars. Luckily, the just-debuted super-luxurious Seven Stars train has all that " so long a
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News Link • Energy
Could we ever harness energy from lightning?
10-14-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Rebecca Boyle
If you’ve ever forgotten a phone charger, you know what it’s like to wander through an airport, staring forlornly at all the available electrical sockets you just can’t use. All that electricity, available for the taking " if only you had the right e
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gold, The Debt Ceiling, And The Fed
10-14-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Alasdair Macleod
We are now into a second week of a partial Federal Government shut-down, which is causing considerable concern, centred on the Government’s ability to finance its debt and pay interest without a budget agreed for the new fiscal year.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Group Claims Elevated Radioactivity Levels At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues
10-14-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Measurements taken at 39 sporting venues earmarked to stage the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have elevated levels of radioactivity according to a citizen's group.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America Fumes After Xerox "Routine Backup Test" Leave 17 States Without Foodstamps
10-14-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
...after a power outage at Xerox Corp, made EBT usage in 17 states for most of Saturday impossible, and left tens of millions of poverty-level Americans unable to engage in one of their favorite pastimes: shop with other people's money.
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News Link • China
Chart Of The Day: China Imports Over 2,000 Tons Of Gold In Last Two Years
10-14-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
China has just one thing to say ...
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Original ‘Star Wars’ Trailer From 1977 Was Re-Released And It's Still Awesome
10-14-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tim Molloy
Remember seeing “Star Wars” for the first time? You can recapture those feelings once again, because the Star Wars YouTube channel has just re-released the film’s original 1977 teaser trailer.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
The Towns Around Fukushima Power Plant Look Like A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare [PHOTOS]
10-14-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Harrison Jacobs
In March 2011, one of the most devastating earthquakes on record hit Japan, setting off a chain reaction that included a tsunami and a disastrous nuclear power plant meltdown.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WORLD BANK: The US Is 'Days Away From A Very Dangerous Moment' On The Debt Ceiling
10-14-2013
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Anna Yukhananov and Lidia Kelly
The president of the World Bank on Saturday warned the United States was just "days away" from causing a global economic disaster unless politicians come up with a plan to raise the nation's debt limit and avoid default.
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News Link • Economy - International
MORGAN STANLEY: We May Get A New Wave Of Global Central Bank Easing In The Coming Weeks
10-14-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com,Matthew Boesler
In his weekly "Sunday Start" note to clients, Morgan Stanley chief economist Joachim Fels says "the mood among the officials and investors mingling at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. [this week] mirrored the grim weather."
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News Link • Food
3 Companies Using GMOs in Baby Formula
10-14-2013
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naturalsociety.com
It seems with the many reports of birth defects, organ failure, cancer, and other unsavory health conditions associated with GMO consumption, we should limit the use of GMO in baby products.
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News Link • Activism
Your call to action!
10-14-2013
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farmmatch.com
FarmMatch is currently seeding our map with farmers that sell, and with consumers that want to buy, farm food. Sign up and be the first on the map in this area!
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News Link • Iraq
Al-Qaida surges back in Iraq, reviving old fears
10-14-2013
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news.yahoo.com
First came the fireball, then the screams of the victims. The suicide bombing just outside a Baghdad graveyard knocked Nasser Waleed Ali over and peppered his back with shrapnel.
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News Link • World News
A kiss goodbye: Sir Richard Branson is off to the Caribbean " but not for tax reasons
10-14-2013
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http://www.independent.co.uk, Alex Delmar Morgan
Entrepreneur insists he can raise money for charity just as well from his private island
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Watch: Team Keeps Setting Records With Massive Human-Powered Helicopter
10-14-2013
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Wired.com
Winning the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize wasn’t enough for the team at Aerovelo, who claimed the elusive prize after keeping their human-powered helicopter aloft for more than 60 seconds and climbing to nearly 10 feet.
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News Link • Energy
University creates "world's first walkable solar panel pathway"
10-14-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
We typically see photovoltaic panels up on roofs, as they're broad, open surfaces that receive a lot of sunlight.
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News Link • Government
The Day the New America Began
10-14-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
All serious Americans who know much about top level politics in D.C. know that we are living in a time of political rage and madness at the top, but the mad men and women do not know they are in the grip of madness.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Tour Lamborghini's Museum in Italy from your computer
10-14-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. Weiss
Those interested in doing an intimate tour of the Museo Lamborghini car museum would have traditionally had to trot to Lamborghini's headquarters in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Edward Snowden Says NSA Surveillance Programmes 'Hurt our Country'
10-14-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Video clips posted to WikiLeaks website show former NSA analyst speaking for the first time since July asylum plea
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News Link • Transportation
Dutch Nuon Team Takes Gold At World Solar Challenge Race In Adelaide
10-14-2013
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http://cleantechnica.com,
The Dutch solar racing team Nuon has won gold once again, for the fifth time in seven tries, at the World Solar Challenge race in Australia.
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News Link • World News
GLPVC's TheRawFeedLive Team - Roundtable Discussion 10-14-2013 11pm edt
10/14/2013
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http://therawfeedlive.com
Topics: Veterans March in DC, Denver planning to make SMELL of marijuana illegal even though it's perfectly legal to buy it in Colorado, RADIOACTIVE ADVISORY FOR THE UNITED STATES. Fukushima Radiation Challenge Potentially To Worsen +more
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News Link • Police State
America the Lawless - by Judge Andrew Napolitano
10-11-2013
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Reason Magazine
The US kidnapped a Libyan off a public street in Tripoli. They did not have a warrant for his arrest, did not have the permission of the Libyan government to carry out this kidnapping, and were unlawfully present bearing arms in public in Libya.
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News Link • Surveillance
New York Just Subpoenaed Airbnb to Hand Over Its User Data
10-11-2013
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The city is fighting the startup for breaking local laws against operating an illegal hotel out of your home. New York Attorney General Schneiderman just subpoenaed the data of all New Yorkers who've listed their apartment on the site,
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News Link • Government
Irish Say No to No Senate in Blow to Prime Minister
10-11-2013
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New York Times
Irish voters have rejected a proposal to abolish the upper house of Parliament, delivering a blow to Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who had championed the measure, which had been widely expected to pass.
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News Link • World News
Russia to Grab Pension Money, Temporarily
10-11-2013
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Wall Street Journal
Prime Minister Medvedev told ministers the government needs to check the money Russians channel to private pension funds is safe. To do this, it will seize $7.6 billion from non-state pension funds and put them into the state pension fund.
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News Link • Police State
Federal Court Allows Park Rangers To Make Arrests Outside Parks
10-11-2013
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The Newspaper
On the last day before the shutdown took effect, the US Court of Appeals clarified that rangers can also arrest motorists outside of any national park or monument, even though they lack statutory authorization to do so.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video: Feds Hire Armed Private Goons to Guard Independence Hall
10-11-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Government pays fake cops to keep Americans out of national park during “shutdown”
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Loudspeakers Threaten Travelers With Arrest For Joking About Security
10-11-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Prisoner training: Don’t complain about your grope down.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
What Happens If The Shutdown Causes The Treasury To Run Out Of Money
10-11-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Paul Craig Roberts
In a speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 23, 2010, Peter Dale Scott gave a history of the various directives concerned with government continuity during a state of emergency.
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News Link • Police State
"Pedro Offers You His Protection": The Preston PD Gets a Combat Vehicle
10-11-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, William Norman Grigg
Preston, Idaho is a town of roughly 5,000 people that earned brief notoriety a decade ago as the setting for the whimsical film “Napoleon Dynamite.”
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News Link • Secession
Is Red State America Seceding?
10-11-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR.
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News Link • Surveillance
Amid NSA Outrage, Big Tech Companies Plan to Track You Even More Aggressively
10-11-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Tate
Thanks to former NSA man Edward Snowden, we now know a fair amount about the NSA’s ability to collect data about what people do online, and it’s all rather disturbing.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
10-11-2013
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antiwar.com
Though former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been indicted for leaking secrets about the U.S. government’s intrusive surveillance tactics, he was honored by a group of former US intelligence officials as a courageous whistleblower during a Moscow
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News Link • Drones
How Low Is The Sky? And More Questions A Drone Legal Case Might Resolve
10-11-2013
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popsci.com
An upcoming trial could change the way the FAA deals with unmanned aircraft.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Sean’s Outpost Announces Satoshi Forest, Nine-Acre Sanctuary for the Homeless
10-11-2013
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http://bitcoinmagazine.com, by Vitalik Buterin
Over the past five months, Sean’s Outpost has come to be perhaps the most well-known charity in the Bitcoin community.
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News Link • States' Rights
Utah Reopens National Parks, Government Shutdown Be Damned
10-11-2013
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popsci.com
We don't need a government! We just need all the things the government normally pays for!
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
ATLAS SHRUGGED Movie "Who is John Galt?"
10-11-2013
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http://www.kickstarter.com, by Scott DeSapio
Atlas Shrugged tells the compelling story of a country whose economic system is on the brink of collapse. Who is John Galt?
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Suns of Liberty Mint Opens Door to Investors
10-11-2013
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http://sunsoflibertymint.com
Suns of Liberty Mint Founder and CEO " “Silver Dave,” aka Dave Breger " has decided to open the doors here at SoLM and is offering to sell as much as 40% of the company.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Judicial Watch Sues Mayor Bloomberg for Documents on his Anti-Gun Group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
10-11-2013
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http://www.judicialwatch.org,
Judicial Watch announced today that on October 4, 2013, it filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) lawsuit with the Supreme Court of the New York requesting that the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg be ordered to produce all records
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News Link • Drug War
I-Team: E-Cigarettes, Used to Smoke Marijuana, Spark New Concerns
10-11-2013
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NBC News
More and more, people are smoking marijuana out of e-cigarettes and vapor pens -- right out in the open with little or no fear of getting caught, users and experts say. "I was on the train from New York to Baltimore and I enjoyed the pen the whole wa
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