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Date Sent: 2015-01-18
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, January 18, 2015 |
The Road To War With Russia. We're not only on it; we've already arrived.
Obama's Phony Middle Class Tax Relief Plan -- The Mystery of Peter Theil, Ron Paul's Biggest Backer -- Prominent Rabbi Wants Jews Given Special Permission to Carry Guns -- Ex-Googler: 'Tons Of Engineers' Want To Leave Google -- Swiss National Bank Drops Franc Euro Peg. -- JIM ROGERS: I Warned You The Swiss Central Bank's Currency Policy Would End... -- AI Has Arrived, and That Really Worries the World's Brightest Minds -- From Neighborhood Cops to Robo-Cops -- Paul Craig Roberts: Ruin Is Our Future -- Pentagon, DHS, Interior, Working Group on Police Militarization -- Now We Know The Plan: More Surveillance and a Patriot Act For Europe -- Putin Strikes Back: Russia Cuts Off European Gas Supplies, Starts Selling Dollars -- The Swiss Franc Move Blew A Big Hole In Citigroup Too -- President Obama & Prime Minister Cameron Explain How They Are 'Fixing' Freedom -- Greek Debt Will Not Be Included In Bond-Buying Plan; ECB's Knot Warns QE "Distorts Markets" -- 5 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened -- Peter Schiff on his father's imprisonment, the college bubble, Bitcoin and more -- FOREX Brokers Going Under On Swiss Bank News -- Ben Swann Interviews Chris Hedges - Prison State America -- Rand Paul says his father will not be campaigning with him -- Oil Projects Worth Billions Put on Hold -- Contagion Catch 22; Finland Opposes Greece Bailout Deal; No Scope for Solutions -- Grand Experiment Failure; Bankers Prefer Bubbles; Europe is not USA; Final Epitaph -- France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments -- After Free Speech Rally, France Cracks Down on Free Speech -- In Praise Of Price Discovery -- Kiev Planning Full-Scale War on Donbas -- Laser Weapon System Is Ready For War, Less Than $1/Shot -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News for 01-17-2015
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News Link • NeoCons
The Neocon's War To Break Russia Into Small Vassal States
01-17-2015
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Informationclearinghouse.info
Chris Martenson explains how Neocon Queen Victoria Nuland handed out cookies during the coup last spring, while Radio Free Europe handed out maps showing a new attenuated Russia divided into small vassal states.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The Mystery of Peter Theil, Ron Paul's Biggest Backer
01-17-2015
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economicpolicyjournal.com
It has often been hinted that Thiel is a libertarian. This book raises serious questions about that notion. If Thiel does consider himself a libertarian, the book reveals he is not a very well read libertarian, especially in the area...
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Ex-Googler: 'Tons Of Engineers' Want To Leave Google
01-17-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com-Nicholas Carlson
Ex-Googler and Beeswax CEO Ari Paparo tweeted on Thursday night that "tons of engineers" were "looking to leave the goog after bonuses."
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News Link • Economy - International
JIM ROGERS: I Warned You The Swiss Central Bank's Currency Policy Would End...
01-17-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com-Business Insider
JIM ROGERS: I Warned You The Swiss Central Bank's Currency Policy Would End Disastrously.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
AI Has Arrived, and That Really Worries the World's Brightest Minds
01-17-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
On the first Sunday afternoon of 2015, Elon Musk took to the stage at a closed-door conference at a Puerto Rican resort to discuss an intelligence explosion.
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News Link • Police State
From Neighborhood Cops to Robo-Cops
01-17-2015
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Informationclearinghouse.info
What's coming down the pike, with law enforcement and military agencies boasting technologies so advanced as to render everything up until now mere child's play.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Paul Craig Roberts: Ruin Is Our Future
01-17-2015
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Informationclearinghouse.info
The Swiss have backed out of this system. Will others follow, or will the rest of the world follow the Russians and Chinese governments into new monetary arrangements and simply turn their backs on the corrupt and irredeemable West?
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon, DHS, Interior, Working Group on Police Militarization
01-17-2015
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Antiwar.com
The group will aim to standardize the Pentagon's 1033 program, through which it gives surplus military gear to police departments, nominally for the "war on drugs."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
White House Continuity of Government Plan
01-16-2015
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The Whitehouse
Activate classified CONPLAN 3502 deploying the military to enforce law and order within the Civilian Control Districts. Seize all private communication facilities and assume control over all civilian voice and data communications.
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News Link • Surveillance
Now We Know The Plan: More Surveillance and a Patriot Act For Europe
01-16-2015
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http://www.shtfplan.com-Mac Slavo
Then, President Bush responded by stating, with bravado, that they attacked us because they hate our freedoms.
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News Link • Economy - International
Putin Strikes Back: Russia Cuts Off European Gas Supplies, Starts Selling Dollars: "The...
01-16-2015
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http://www.shtfplan.com-Mac Slavo
Putin Strikes Back: Russia Cuts Off European Gas Supplies, Starts Selling Dollars: "The Decision Has Been Made".
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
3 Rhinos Make A Daring Escape As Zoo Guard Sleeps
01-17-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com-Kevin Loria
Anyone in the parking lot of Ramat Gan Safari Park outside of Tel Aviv, Israel, would have been in for quite the surprise last week when a trio of rhinos took advantage of a napping guard and decided to make a break for it.
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News Link • Economy - International
The Swiss Franc Move Blew A Big Hole In Citigroup Too
01-17-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com-Linette Lopez
Citigroup lost most than $150 million when the Swiss government decoupled its currency from the euro this week, Bloomberg reports.
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama & Prime Minister Cameron Explain How They Are 'Fixing' Freedom Of...
01-17-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
President Obama & Prime Minister Cameron Explain How They Are 'Fixing' Freedom Of Speech - Live Feed.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff on his father's imprisonment, the college bubble, Bitcoin and more on the...
01-17-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com-Marc Clair
Peter Schiff on his father's imprisonment, the college bubble, Bitcoin and more on the latest Lions of Liberty Podcast!
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News Link • Communications
Google's Project ARA to get trial run in Puerto Rico
01-17-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Nield
We first caught a glimpse of Google's Project Ara modular smartphone early last year, but the company has just shown off a working prototype, and says an initial pilot program will begin in Puerto Rico in the second half of 2015.
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News Link • Economy - International
Rabbit Hole Intervention Fails: Wild Moves in Swiss Franc as Switzerland Abandons...
01-17-2015
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Mike Shedlock
Rabbit Hole Intervention Fails: Wild Moves in Swiss Franc as Switzerland Abandons Euro Peg; Morals of the Story
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News Link • Economy - International
Contagion Catch 22; Finland Opposes Greece Bailout Deal; No Scope for Solutions
01-17-2015
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Mike Shedlock
Alexis Tsipras, head of the Greek radical-left party Syriza, currently in the lead in national elections, wants a new bailout deal for Greece, including huge debt writeoffs.
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News Link • Free Speech
France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments...
01-17-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Glenn Greenwald
France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West's "Free Speech" Celebration
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News Link • Free Speech
After Free Speech Rally, France Cracks Down on Free Speech
01-17-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Daniel McAdams
Well that didn't take long. Just three days after the French government hosted dozens of foreign leaders in a "unity rally" to defend free speech in the wake of last week's shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, France has begun arresting it
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
This Guy Hacked an NES Power Glove Into a Sweet Animation Tool
01-17-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Kyle VanHemert
Most of us fantasize about being the badass kid with the Power Glove from The Wizard. Dillon Markey went and made that dream his day job.
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News Link • How to Help
Help support John Bush's efforts to cover the Ross Ulbricht Trial
01-16-2015
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The Liberty Beat Support
John Bush is willing to cover the Ross Ulbricht trial in it's entirety, which may last several weeks or more. To help John with expenses, you can donate (including Bitcoin) to help with travel, lodging, and for his family to be taken care of while he
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Laser Weapon System Is Ready For War, Less Than $1/Shot
01-17-2015
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arclein
The US Navy has a new $40 million dollar Laser Weapon System and it has performed flawlessly during operational testing in the Persian Gulf the last 4 months aboard the USS Ponce.
A recently-released video embedded below demonstrates the capabil
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient mining in Swaziland
01-17-2015
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arclein
The little man squeezed out from a crack in the rock and stood blinking in the bright African sun. As he snuffed out his makeshift wick light, another red stained miner popped out to join him. Together they turned and carefully blocked and then conce
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News Link • Science
Is a Death Star Coming at Us?
01-17-2015
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arclein
A new study analyzing the motions of more than 50,000 stars has focused attention on one orange dwarf star known as HIP 85605 that has a chance of disrupting our solar system and sending a hail of killer comets our way.
Such threats, known as N
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Protons Fuel Graphene Prospects
01-17-2015
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arclein
One-atom thick material graphene, first isolated and explored in 2004 by a team at The University of Manchester, is renowned for its barrier properties, which has a number of uses in applications such as corrosion-proof coatings and impermeable packa
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, January 18, 2015 Edition
01-17-2015
John Semmens
Obama Says Armed Response to Muslim Terrorism Wrong Approach
While attempting not appear to condone the murder of the Hebdo staff and the Jewish hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris last week, President Obama blamed France's failure to integr
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Economists Still Upbeat: Retail Sales Drop Seen as "Blip"
01-16-2015
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Mike Shedlock
By the time economists see the next recession it may be half-over. Heck, it might even be over (it's happened before).
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
A 'Free Press' and Double Standards
01-16-2015
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https://consortiumnews.com, By John V. Walsh
The Western reaction to last week's terror attacks in Paris has been rife with double standards as U.S. and European politicians and pundits reinvent themselves as purists on freedom of the press and compound the hypocrisy by ignoring the longstand
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News Link • Police State
From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops: The Changing Face of American Police
01-15-2015
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Liberty Crier
The police can now shut down your cell phone, scan your body for "suspicious" items as you walk down the street, test the air in your car for alcohol vapors as you drive down the street, identify you at a glance and run a background check
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News Link • False Flag Operations
What Will You Do When Government Tyranny And Terrorism Work Hand In Hand?
01-15-2015
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zero hedge
The mere existence of ISIS, regardless of its origins, is being used as a rationale for the erasure of civil liberties and the establishment of martial law on both sides of the Atlantic and CANNOT be allowed to continue, regardless of
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Kiss of Death At Navarro College (Update)
01-15-2015
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Simple Justice
A Waxahachie man who has autism was kicked out of college classes because he mistakenly hugged a woman he did not know and kissed her on the top of her head, according to the man's mother.
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News Link • Conspiracies
National Security and Double Government
01-15-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
Glennon contrasts the "Madisonian" public state described in the first 3 Articles of the US Constitution with the covert "Trumanite" National Security State established in 1947 (and rarely known outside its inner clandestine corridors).
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Power-Hungry Judge Threatens Courtroom and Jury in Ross Ulbricht Trial Over Jury Outreach
01-15-2015
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Free Keene
Liberty activists are reluctantly backing down from their jury outreach projects outside the federal courthouse, but not because an insane robed person threatened the entire courtroom and jury over the activists' signs and pamphlets
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News Link • Child Protective Services
Free Range Versus Helicopter Parenting: Define Limits For Parents
01-15-2015
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Jonathan Turley
A one-mile walk home for the two Meitiv kids aged 10 and 6. However, the kids were stopped halfway by police who reported the parents to child welfare, which continues to investigate them for endangering their children.
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News Link • Surveillance
Boehner says Capitol bomb plot shows need for surveillance law
01-15-2015
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http://news.yahoo.com
Boehner at a press conference in Pennsylvania on Thursday where he and Republican colleagues are meeting to discuss items on this year's legislative agenda, including reauthorizing the surveillance law known as FISA.
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Opinion • r3VOLution Continues
Will Freedom Survive 2015?
01-15-2015
Chuck Baldwin
Something as precious and valuable as a nation's freedom is not lost in a day--or even in a year. There is no single event that turns citizens into slaves. Oppression and tyranny are always long in the planning--and even longer in the making.
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News Link • Internet
British government wants to outlaw secure communication
01-15-2015
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http://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
Well at least someone finally had the candor to just come out and say it.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Ben Swann (Feinstein, McCain, Obama) On Petraeus vs Edward Snowden
01-15-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com-USA 2012
Felony charge proposed for ex-CIA head Petraeus, but his Washington buddies disagree.
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News Link • Internet
Silk Road Defense Says Ulbricht Was Framed by the 'Real' Dread Pirate Roberts
01-15-2015
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http://www.wired.com- ANDY GREENBERG
For the past year, the FBI and federal prosecutors have told and retold the story of how Ross Ulbricht created, owned and operated the massive, anonymous online drug empire known as the Silk Road.
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News Link • Mexico
Where Cellular Networks Don't Exist, People Are Building Their Own
01-15-2015
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http://www.wired.com-LIZZIE WADE
Inside the cloud that is perpetually draped over the small town of San Juan Yaee, Oaxaca, Raúl Hernández Santiago crouches down on the roof of the town hall and starts drilling.
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News Link • Free Speech
Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression
01-15-2015
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Associated Press
Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of speech, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith.
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News Link • Cuba
US loosens embargo on Cuba, making trade and travel easier
01-15-2015
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Associated Press
The Obama administration is putting a large dent in the U.S. embargo against Cuba as of Friday, significantly loosening restrictions on American trade and investment.
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News Link • Free Speech
France arrests 54 for defending terror; announces crackdown
01-15-2015
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Associated Press
France ordered prosecutors around the country Wednesday to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism, announcing that 54 people had been arrested for those offenses since the Paris terror attacks.
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