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Date Sent: 2013-12-21
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, December 21, 2013 |
Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
Senate Passes NDAA 2014 via Fast Tracking, President To Sign -- Critics:
NSA agent co-chairing key crypto standards body should be removed -- Google: Surge in pressure from govts to DELETE CHUNKS of the web --
Texas County Commissioners Vote For Illegal Speed Cameras -- State
Police Acknowledge Use Of Cell Phone Tracking Device -- US Death Squad
Diplomacy in Syria -- Elie Wiesel's Anti-Iranian Agenda -- N.S.A. Spied
on Allies, Aid Groups and Businesses -- 9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They
Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia -- Florida Couple Forced to Dig Up 17-Year
Old Organic Garden -- These Programs Were Never About Terrorism: They’re
About Economic Spying -- Chrisman case: Ex-police officer sentenced to 7 years in
prison -- Democratic Socialism, Guns, and the Failure of the
Constitution -- Jesus’ Government -- The Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring
Hippopotamus Ranching to America -- Deceased Researcher’s Message In A
Bottle Discovered In The Arctic -- New Iran Bill Sets Stage for
Obama-Senate Battle -- Meet Wall Street: Your New Landlord
NV: Passport to Freedom - Las Vegas, NV - January
23-25, 2014
CATO Hiring
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News Link • Surveillance
Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
12-20-2013
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Reuters
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, the most influential firm in computer security
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News Link • Police State
Senate Passes NDAA 2014 via Fast Tracking, President To Sign
12-21-2013
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Late Thursday night, the Senate passed the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2014. The bill, is infamous for its language on indefinite detention, and "disappearing" of American citizens. Once again, the bill was past via Fast-Tracking while most of the country w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Critics: NSA agent co-chairing key crypto standards body should be removed
12-21-2013
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ars technica
Security experts are calling for the removal of a National Security Agency employee who co-chairs an influential cryptography panel, which advises a host of groups that forge widely used standards for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google: Surge in pressure from govts to DELETE CHUNKS of the web
12-21-2013
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The Register
"Judges have asked us to remove information that’s critical of them, police departments want us to take down videos or blogs that shine a light on their conduct, and local institutions like town councils don’t want people to be able to find informati
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Texas County Commissioners Vote For Illegal Speed Cameras
12-21-2013
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The Newspaper
Texas lawmakers acted and Governor Rick Perry (R) signed a law banning photo radar in the state. On Tuesday, Denton County Commissioners voted 3 to 1 to move forward on a speed camera program regardless of the law.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
State Police Acknowledge Use Of Cell Phone Tracking Device
12-21-2013
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Installed in a surveillance vehicle, Stingray tricks all cellphones in a set distance " sometimes exceeding a mile " into connecting to it, capturing location data and numbers dialed for calls and text messages from thousands of people at a time.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
N.S.A. Spied on Allies, Aid Groups and Businesses
12-20-2013
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New York Times
Secret documents reveal more than 1,000 targets of American and British surveillance in recent years, including the office of an Israeli prime minister, heads of international aid organizations, foreign energy companies and a EU official
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia
12-20-2013
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ABC News
Families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks celebrated a federal court's ruling that allows relatives of people who died in the 9/11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia. Most of the hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Florida Couple Forced to Dig Up 17-Year Old Organic Garden
12-20-2013
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Hermine Ricketts and Tom Carroll have gardened in their front yard for 17 years. Their back yard doesn’t receive enough sunlight. Recently, their community in Miami Shores decided to make such front yard gardens off-limits. That new rule was enacted
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
These Programs Were Never About Terrorism: They’re About Economic Spying
12-20-2013
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Washingtons Blog
The NSA was already spying on American Senators and prominent Americans who spoke out against the Vietnam War more than 40 years ago.
The NSA has also been conducting industrial espionage for many decades.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Chrisman case: Ex-police officer sentenced to 7 years in prison
12-20-2013
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FOX News
Sentencing for a former Phoenix cop who plead guilty to manslaughter charges after shooting and killing an unarmed man....Chrisman asked the judge for leniency and that's what he got -- the minimum sentence of 7 years in prison for shooting
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Democratic Socialism, Guns, and the Failure of the Constitution
12-20-2013
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The International Libertarian
This one was just too good to pass up. An acquaintance on the left sent me the Democratic Socialists of America article "There Is No Second Amendment Right To A Gun". It reinforces everything the anti-federalists said about the Constitution back wh
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Government
Jesus’ Government
12-20-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Joseph Sobran
Not again! Another politician “denies any wrongdoing,” but resigns his post.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
The Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring Hippopotamus Ranching to America
12-20-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Greg Miller
In the early years of the last century, the U.S. Congress considered a bold and ingenious plan that would simultaneously solve two pressing problems " a national meat shortage and a growing ecological crisis. The plan was this: hippopotamus ranching.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Geology
Deceased Researcher’s Message In A Bottle Discovered In The Arctic
12-20-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
In the northernmost reaches of the Canadian Arctic, 500 miles (800 kilometers) away from the nearest human settlement, researchers discovered a literal message in a bottle, Halifax’s Herald News reports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
New Iran Bill Sets Stage for Obama-Senate Battle
12-20-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Bill Endorses Any Future Israeli Attack on Iran
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Meet Wall Street: Your New Landlord
12-20-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Blackstone Group appears to be trying to oligopolize the business of renting single-family homes in the U.S..
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Gundersen: All of Japan IS Contaminated, Gov’t Covering Up
12-19-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, goldenequity
In this, the third installment in our short film series, Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen discusses sources of radiation the Japanese government is not taking into consideration when assessing the risk to it's people and the rest of the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge: In Texas, Search Warrants Can Now Be Based on a "Prediction of a Future Crime"
12-19-2013
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http://blogs.dallasobserver.com, By Eric Nicholson
Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg's home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were "fixing to" cook meth.
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • How to Help
CATO Hiring
Donna Hancock
The Cato Institute is seeking to hire a scholar to study and critique federal spending policies. The expert would examine particular spending programs and overall spending levels through studies, op-eds, blogs, media appearances, and contributions to
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News Link • Climate Change
Reddit bans comments from global warming skeptics
12-19-2013
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http://dailycaller.com, Giuseppe Macri
A content editor on Reddit’s science forum wrote Monday that the site has banned climate-change skeptics, and asks why more news outlets haven’t done the same.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Confirms Near-Collision Of US, Chinese Warships, Accuses US Of "Deliberate Provocation'
12-19-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Last Friday we reported of a freak near-incident in the South China Sea, when a US warship nearly collided with a Chinese navy vessel, operating in close proximity to China's only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, although details were scarce.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese Moon Display Contains Image of Europe Being Nuked
12-19-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Startling detail a sign of Beijing’s plan to militarize space?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
China Has A Good Reason To Crack Down On Bitcoin
12-19-2013
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Business Insider
The price of Bitcoin has been getting clobbered over the last day as China continues to crack down on its use.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moody's lowers N.J. debt outlook to negative, citing slow recovery
12-19-2013
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Wall Street analysts at Moody’s Investors Service lowered their outlook on New Jersey’s debt from stable to negative, saying the state remains hamstrung by rising costs and “a sluggish economic recovery” despite Gov. Chris Christie’s efforts.
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News Link • Media: Television
Cable #1 Rated, 'Duck Dynasty's Patriarch Phil Robertson Fired Following Anti-Gay Remark
12-19-2013
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The news comes after the reality star compared being gay to bestiality, drawing ire from LGBT groups including GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Lawsuit: Woman Faced Illegal Body Cavity Search, Observed Bowel Movement
12-19-2013
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CBS News
A federal lawsuit says U.S. border and customs officials strip-searched a New Mexico woman at the El Paso border crossing, then took her to a hospital for illegal body cavity probes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Target says data from 40 million credit cards stolen
12-19-2013
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Reuters
Target Corp said data from about 40 million credit and debit cards might have been stolen from shoppers at its stores during the first three weeks of the holiday season, in the second-largest card breach at a U.S. retailer. The data theft,
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News Link • Gun Rights
List of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Saying ‘NO’ to Obama Gun Control
12/19/2013
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http://godlikeproductions.com
The remarkable thing about what these brave men and women are doing is that nobody told them to do it. Neither the CSPOA nor any other organization that we are aware of contacted sheriffs across the nation and asked them to make statements; this is
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
What your insurance policy going to cost under ObamaSCAM. You don't need to sign up or in to see
12/19/2013
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http://godlikeproductions.com
You can look at all the costs of Obamas "affordable" insurance policies in the U.S. All the states and Cities. You will see cost is even determined in the city you live in. My computer skills are limited so I'll provide direction. If someone could
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