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Date Sent: 2015-05-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, May 23, 2015 |
FBI admits no major cases cracked with Patriot Act snooping powers
Pentagon: Challenging China Over South Sea Islands 'The Next Step' -- Microsoft's HoloLens Will Put Realistic 3-D People in Your Living Room -- Edward Snowden: NSA reform in the US is only the beginning -- GOOGLE TONE SHARES LINKS TO COMPUTERS WITHIN EARSHOT... -- What the Fall of Ramadi Means -- The Next Ukraine -- 11-Year-Old Graduating With 3 Degrees From American River College -- Another Central Bank Hits the Panic Button -- Semiliquid battery competitive with both Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors -- US Lawmakers Scramble to Avoid Lapse in Domestic Surveillance -- Starwars one step closer: DARPA's 'death ray' to begin field tests -- [Study] The Human Attention Span Is 8 Seconds ?" Less Than A Goldfish! -- WATCH A RECORD-SETTING HOVERBOARD FLIGHT -- The US government told me Bin Laden read my book. But what is it not telling us? -- 70-year-old woman shoots robot, is arrested after 22-hour standoff -- Public outcry forces FEC Democrats to junk bid to regulate Internet, Drudge -- Chinese Military Using Jamming Against U.S. Drones -- Today on LewRockwell.com Friday May 22nd 2015 -- DO NOT POST YET Declared Candidates for POTUS 2016 -- Democrats on the Attack: No Bank Is "Too Big to Jail" -- How to Clone a Mammoth: Science of De-Extinction -- Democrats' Vanishing Future -- False Flags, Biker Gangs, and the PATCON Legacy -- Solar Powered Floating Farm Could Provide 9855 Tons Of Food Per Year -- MasterCard Introduces Fast Bitcoin-like Global Payments to Consumers -- Rand and Abortion -- All six Baltimore police officers in Freddie Gray case indicted by grand jury -- CIA torture report won't be released to public, judge rules -- Love virus alert: Sexual data of 4mn adult website users reportedly exposed by hackers --
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News Link • Government
FBI admits no major cases cracked with Patriot Act snooping powers
05-22-2015
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Maggie Ybarra
FBI agents can't point to any major terrorism cases they've cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of th
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News Link • China
Pentagon: Challenging China Over South Sea Islands 'The Next Step'
05-22-2015
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz,
Administration Accuses China of 'Stoking Instability'
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Microsoft's HoloLens Will Put Realistic 3-D People in Your Living Room
05-22-2015
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite
The HoloLens augmented-reality headset projects believable images of people into real settings.
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News Link • Government
Edward Snowden: NSA reform in the US is only the beginning
05-22-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com,
In an exclusive interview from Moscow, Snowden cautions that more needs to be done to curb NSA surveillance two years after his disclosures
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News Link • Iraq
What the Fall of Ramadi Means
05-22-2015
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchana
The fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, largest province in Iraq, after a rout of the Iraqi army by a few hundred ISIS fighters using bomb-laden trucks, represents a stunning setback for U.S. policy.
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News Link • Economy - International
Another Central Bank Hits the Panic Button
05-22-2015
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http://www.caseyresearch.com
At first glance, the European Central Bank's QE program appears to be working. Asset prices are up across the Continent. Old bubbles, like property in Spain, are reflating.
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News Link • Energy
Semiliquid battery competitive with both Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors
05-22-2015
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http://phys.org, by Lisa Zyga
A new semiliquid battery developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has exhibited encouraging early results, encompassing many of the features desired in a state-of-the-art energy-storage device.
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News Link • Surveillance
US Lawmakers Scramble to Avoid Lapse in Domestic Surveillance
05-22-2015
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http://www.voanews.com, Michael Bowman
U.S. lawmakers of both parties and in both houses say they are unsure how Congress will deal with the federal government's expiring authorization for domestic surveillance in the fight against terrorism.
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News Link • Inventions
Starwars one step closer: DARPA's 'death ray' to begin field tests
05-22-2015
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http://rt.com
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has received government permission to field test its HELLADS laser weapon system.
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News Link • Corruption
The US government told me Bin Laden read my book. But what is it not telling us?
05-22-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com, Greg Palast
Finding out that The Best Democracy Money Can Buy was on the Bin Laden bookshelf confirms my fears about America's war on whistleblowers
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
70-year-old woman shoots robot, is arrested after 22-hour standoff
05-22-2015
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http://www.reviewjournal.com, By KRISTEN DESILVA
A 70-year-old woman shot a robot used by police and was arrested after a 22-hour standoff following a call to the authorities with a what she said was a medical emergency.
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News Link • Internet
Public outcry forces FEC Democrats to junk bid to regulate Internet, Drudge
05-22-2015
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com, BY PAUL BEDARD
The Federal Election Commission, facing punishing criticism for suggesting that political activity on the Internet should be regulated, rejected talk of new rules Thursday, a victory for GOP commissioners who feared Democrats were targeting conservat
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News Link • China
Chinese Military Using Jamming Against U.S. Drones
05-22-2015
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http://freebeacon.com, BY: Bill Gertz
Global Hawk targeted over disputed South China Sea islands
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Today on LewRockwell.com
Friday May 22nd 2015
05-22-2015
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LewRockwell.com
Murder of JFK, And other deep state events / False Flags and Biker Gangs by William Norman Grigg / The First Anarcho-Capitalist - Murray N. Rothbard on the amazing Gustave de Molinari / The War on Men, The Pentagon is fighting masculinity
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Democrats on the Attack: No Bank Is "Too Big to Jail"
05-22-2015
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http://www.caseyresearch.com,
Perhaps big banks aren't too big to jail after all. Loretta Lynch, the first African American female Attorney General, was only sworn in on April 27, but she's not wasting any time going after the banks.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
How to Clone a Mammoth: Science of De-Extinction
05-22-2015
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http://www.voanews.com, Rosanne Skirble
An international team of scientists recently sequenced the complete genome of the woolly mammoth. Led by the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, the work opens the door to recreate the huge herbivore, which last roamed the Earth 4,000 yea
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News Link • False Flag Operations
False Flags, Biker Gangs, and the PATCON Legacy
05-22-2015
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Lew Rockwell - William Norman Grigg
The bloody incident at Waco's Twin Peaks restaurant was not a "biker shootout." At present there is no evidence that any of the nine victims were killed by fellow bikers, rather than being "taken out" by the scores of police -- including s
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News Link • Agriculture
Solar Powered Floating Farm Could Provide 9855 Tons Of Food Per Year
05-22-2015
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True Activist
As solar energy is quickly rising in efficiency and lowering in price, more creative solutions are being devised to fully bring this technology into widespread mainstream use.
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News Link • Bitcoin
MasterCard Introduces Fast Bitcoin-like Global Payments to Consumers
05-22-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
MasterCard has launched MasterCard Send, a personal payments service that enables funds to be sent quickly and securely to consumers domestically and internationally.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand and Abortion
05-22-2015
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Lew Rockwell - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Rand Paul is pro-life, but not in a way that satisfies much of the official pro-life movement. That is OK, since most of these groups are just shills for the GOP. That party, which wants nothing changed, rolls out the issue every four years, and that
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
All six Baltimore police officers in Freddie Gray case indicted by grand jury
05-22-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby announces indictments on multiple charges, including one of second-degree murder, in the death of Freddie Gray
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News Link • Government
CIA torture report won't be released to public, judge rules
05-22-2015
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http://rt.com
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Senate's nearly 7,000-page report on the CIA's torture practices during interrogations in the wake of 9/11 will not be made public, marking a setback for civil liberties advocates.
So far, Senate leaders
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Love virus alert: Sexual data of 4mn adult website users reportedly exposed by hackers
05-22-2015
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http://rt.com
Hackers have reportedly leaked onto the web highly sensitive sexual information of nearly 4 million users registered on leading dating site Adult FriendFinder, which claims to cater for up to 63 million people worldwide.
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