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Date Sent: 2013-05-02
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, May 2, 2013 |
Australia doubles tax on retirement savings -- DHS Report Depicts Gun Owners as Terrorists
California OKs bill to take guns from ‘dangerous’ owners -- US Army Warns of May 2nd Terror Threat -- Airborne Terror More Likely To Come Via TSA -- Baby Returned to Parents After Mix-Up Over ‘Neglect’ -- Legitimate Problem: The City Of Oslo Is Running Out Of Garbage -- Satellite Images Expose Humans Rights Abuse In Nigeria -- Google Fiber Sparks Yet Another Gigabit Internet Service -- U.S. Looks to Re-Up Its Mexican Surveillance System --
Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case --
Hacker Breached U.S. Army Database Containing Sensitive Information on
Dams -- The New Libya Is Free, if You Don’t Count the Jailed Journalists -- Rogue Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine -- The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes -- Rogue Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine --
Will The New Housing Bubble That Bernanke Is Creating End As Badly As
The Last One Did? -- Former Fed Governor Warsh Admits "There Is No Plan B" -- Karzai Confirms Accepting CIA Cash Monthly for 10 Years -- UNPRECEDENTED Shortages Of Ammo, Physical Gold And Physical Silver -- Marc Victor on Jodi Arias Trial KNXV News -- BILL GROSS: Here Are The 4 Big Ways That The Government Will Steal Money From Bondholders -- Jon Stewart Blasts Republicans On Syria: 'More Complicated Than The
Good Ol' Days' In Iraq -- 13 Money Secrets From The Amish -- A Famous
iPhone Hacker Just Jailbroke Google Glass And Found Potential Security
Problems -- Mysterious Human Skeleton Is Just Six Inches Long --
Horrifying Video Of 747 Crash In Afghanistan -- STEPHEN COLBERT: Deep
Budget Cuts Mean We Must Spend More Money On Tanks That Nobody Wants --
The World Just Got A Big Bucketful Of Crappy Economics News -- World's
Tiniest Movie Uses Atoms As Actors -- Crowdfund A Shield That Protects
Against Snooping Drones -- Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames
per second -- FBI hints at OK to question terror suspects who ask for lawyer -- Tiny New Compound Camera Is Built Like a Bug’s Eye -- Memory Implants -- Mock DHS News Report Depicts Gun Owners as Terrorists -- More Navy medics arrive at Guantanamo to help out on forced feedings -- U.S. Mint Sales of Gold Coins Jump to Highest in Three Years -- Here Comes the New Fed Boss -- Make Your Own Inexpensive Frangible Slugs
AZ: Tomorrow, Language of Liberty Phoenix Seminar May 3-4,
2013; Arizona Breakfast Club--Marc Victor--this
Saturday, May 4th, 2013
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News Link • Economy - International
The next domino: Australia doubles tax on retirement savings
05-01-2013
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http://www.sovereignman.com, by Simon Black
Though Australia’s national balance sheet is comparatively quite strong, the government has been running at a net deficit for years… and they’re under intense pressure to balance the budget.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mock DHS News Report Depicts Gun Owners as Terrorists
05-01-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
A mock news report produced by the Department of Homeland Security depicts American gun owners as terrorists in another example of how the federal agency is trying to demonize the Second Amendment while itself stockpiling ammunition.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Language of Liberty Phoenix Seminar May 3-4, 2013
04-22-2013
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Language of Liberty
The Language of Liberty Institute cordially invites you to help us launch our first Liberty Seminar in Arizona, to be held May 3-4 at the Goldwater Institute!
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News Link • Events: Arizona
We're Visiting Hacker Lab This Saturday May 4th After AzBreakfastClub (Noon - 1pm)
05-01-2013
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www.heatsynclabs.org
We are... a place to make things--We call it a hackerspace, made up entirely of volunteers--no staff! Located at: 140 West Main St. Downtown Mesa open FREE - Hacking Arizona Since 2009
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News Link • Energy
New Biofuel Possibility in Horse Gut Fungus
05-01-2013
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Jacqueline Conciatore via LiveScience.com
At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists announced a potential new biofuels source " anaerobic gut fungus (yeast) found in horses' waste and digestive tracts.
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News Link • Precious Metals
U.S. Mint Sales of Gold Coins Jump to Highest in Three Years
05-01-2013
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Debarati Roy via PrisonPlanet.com
Sales of gold coins by the U.S. Mint rose to the highest since December 2009 after the price of the metal in April fell the most in 16 months.
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News Link • Gun Rights
California OKs bill to take guns from ‘dangerous’ owners
05-01-2013
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Patrick McGreevy via PrisonPlanet.com
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at taking handguns and assault rifles away from 20,000 Californians who acquired them legally
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News Link • Military
US Army Warns of May 2nd Terror Threat
05-01-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
The Department of Defense and the US Army are warning of a possible terror threat to coincide with the second anniversary of the death of Osama Bin Laden, according to a memo sent to Infowars by a source based at Fort Hood.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Airborne Terror More Likely To Come Via TSA
05-01-2013
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Steve Watson via PrisonPlanet
A report released as part of an investigation into security breaches at the Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport concludes that for the most part, lapses occurred because TSA employees
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News Link • Police State
Baby Returned to Parents After Mix-Up Over ‘Neglect’
05-01-2013
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LewRockwell.com
A Sacramento court has ruled for the return of a baby who had been forcefully taken from his parents by police and child protective services without a warrant on April 24
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News Link • Gun Rights
Equality in Gun Control Finally Achieved
05-01-2013
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Ryan McMaken via LewRockwell.com
According to the Associated Press, new billboards in northern Colorado are controversial for using the fate of the Native Americans as an illustration of the dangers of gun control.
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News Link • Energy
Legitimate Problem: The City Of Oslo Is Running Out Of Garbage
05-01-2013
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Oslo burns garbage for energy--but, against all odds, they're running out of it. What will they do?
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News Link • World News
Satellite Images Expose Humans Rights Abuse In Nigeria
05-01-2013
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Francie Diep via PopSci.com
The images undermine the Nigerian Army's claim that it destroyed only 30 homes; in fact, it burned 2,300.
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News Link • History
Whoa: Early American Settlers Ate Each Other
05-01-2013
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Martha Harbison via PopSci.com
New archeological and forensic anthropological evidence shows that early English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, dined on the other-other white meat for survival.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
U.S. Looks to Re-Up Its Mexican Surveillance System
05-01-2013
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Rober Beckhusen via WIRED.com
When President Obama visits Mexico on Thursday, he’ll be talking to a new Mexican leader about what to do with the drug war.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case
05-01-2013
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Kevin Poulsen via WIRED.com
On Monday, July 6, 2009, two engineers from Nevada’s Gaming Control Board showed up at the Silverton Casino Lodge.
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News Link • Military
Hacker Breached U.S. Army Database Containing Sensitive Information on Dams
05-01-2013
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Kim Ketter via WIRED.com
A hacker compromised a U.S. Army database that holds sensitive information about vulnerabilities in U.S. dams, according to a news report.
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News Link • Libya
The New Libya Is Free, if You Don’t Count the Jailed Journalists
05-01-2013
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Rober Beckhusen via WIRED.com
Being a journalist under the autocratic rule of Libyan dictator Moammar Qadhafi was an exercise in choice: between promoting state propaganda and spending time in jail.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Rogue Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine
05-01-2013
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Robert McMillan via Wired.com
If you’ve been playing Counter-Strike on the ESEA gaming network, you’ve been doing a lot more than tossing virtual hand grenades and firing virtual machine guns.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes
05-01-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money.
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News Link • Economy - International
20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depression Has Already Started In Europe
05-01-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
The next Great Depression is already happening - it just hasn't reached the United States yet.
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News Link • Housing
Will The New Housing Bubble That Bernanke Is Creating End As Badly As The Last One Did?
05-01-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has done it.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai Confirms Accepting CIA Cash Monthly for 10 Years
05-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, By JUHANA ROSSI
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday acknowledged that his office has been receiving money from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency over the past 10 years, dismissing the monthly cash payments as a "small amount."
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
SPLC Finally Notices Oath Keepers/Jeffrey Earnhardt NASCAR Project
05-01-2013
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Oathkeepers
As Yoda said, there is no try. Do or do not. We are doing it. Consider it done, especially as our supporters read this today and reflect on the fact that nothing will annoy the constitutionalist-hating radical leftists at SPLC more than seeing an Oat
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
UNPRECEDENTED Shortages Of Ammo, Physical Gold And Physical Silver
05-01-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
All over the United States we are witnessing unprecedented shortages of ammunition, physical gold and physical silver.
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News Link • Marc Victor
Marc Victor on Jodi Arias Trial KNXV News
05-01-2013
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KNXV News
Attorney Marc J. Victor and Attorney Vladimir Gagic disagree on the outcome of the Jodi Arias Trial.
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News Link • Anthropology
Mysterious Human Skeleton Is Just Six Inches Long
05-01-2013
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Business Insider
A teensy skeleton with a squashed alienlike head may have earthly origins, but the remains, found in the Atacama Desert a decade ago, do make for quite a medical mystery.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Horrifying Video Of 747 Crash In Afghanistan
05-01-2013
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Business Insider
Shocking new footage has surfaced that appears to show a 747-400 cargo plane crashing at Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield. The crash reportedly left all seven Americans aboard the plane dead.
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
STEPHEN COLBERT: Deep Budget Cuts Mean We Must Spend More Money On Tanks That Nobody Wants
05-01-2013
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Business Insider
Faux conservative comedian Stephen Colbert on Tuesday highlighted the story of the Abrams tank " the tank that lawmakers have devoted nearly $500 million to over the past two years, but one that the U.S. Army does not want or need.
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News Link • Drones
Crowdfund A Shield That Protects Against Snooping Drones
05-01-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
In September 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration will open standard US airspace to drones.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
05-01-2013
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ted.com
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
FBI hints at OK to question terror suspects who ask for lawyer
05-01-2013
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http://www.politico.com, By JOSH GERSTEIN
An article published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation suggests that FBI agents are on solid legal ground if they continue to question a terrorism suspect who has asked for an attorney"as they reportedly did with Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Truthdigger of the Week: Jeremy Scahill
05-01-2013
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Alexander Reed Kelly
The task of exposing the stark truth has always belonged to the independent journalist. With his new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” Jeremy Scahill renews this tradition by bringing the last decade of clandestine war making by the Amer
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Prenatal DNA Sequencing
05-01-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Reading the DNA of fetuses is the next frontier of the genome revolution. Do you really want to know the genetic destiny of your unborn child?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Mock DHS News Report Depicts Gun Owners as Terrorists
05-01-2013
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Prison Planet
A mock news report produced by the Department of Homeland Security depicts American gun owners as terrorists in another example of how the federal agency is trying to demonize the Second Amendment while itself stockpiling ammunition.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
More Navy medics arrive at Guantanamo to help out on forced feedings
05-01-2013
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com, By CAROL ROSENBERG
About 40 additional U.S. Navy medical forces have arrived at the prison camps at Guantanamo to assist in the growing hunger strike by 100 captives, more than a fifth of them being force-fed, a spokesman said Monday.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
U.S. Mint Sales of Gold Coins Jump to Highest in Three Years
05-01-2013
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Prison Planet
Sales of gold coins by the U.S. Mint rose to the highest since December 2009 after the price of the metal in April fell the most in 16 months.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Here Comes the New Fed Boss
05-01-2013
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The Daily Bell
Possible Fed Successor Has Admirers and Foe ... Ms. Yellen is now widely viewed as a logical candidate to succeed the current Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, when his term ends in January 2014.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Make Your Own Inexpensive Frangible Slugs
05-01-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Sailor Frank
With the current ammo shortages that have been plaguing the country and seem to have no end in sight, having a way to stock up on a key caliber for your preps is vital.
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