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Date Sent: 2013-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, April 18, 2013 |
Reality Check: Did the FBI know about Boston bombing beforehand? - Ben Swann
Court: Police Can't Force Blood Tests -- Justices Bar Nigerian Human Rights Case From U.S. Courts -- Arrest made in ricin case; mailings are an eerie echo of 2001 anthrax attacks -- Farage Unleashed: "You Are Common Criminals" -- Gun background check compromise, assault weapon ban fail in Senate -- US Senate: Will back Israeli attack on Iran -- 22 hours left to Stop CISPA -- Why I'm Delighted To See Gold Smacked Down -- Planting the Seed of Propaganda -- The Boston Bombing Produces Familiar and Revealing Reactions -- FBI Warned in March That ‘Exploding Targets’ Could Fuel Homemade Bombs --
This Is the Next Best Thing to a Tesla, and I’m Buying One -- How Pixar
Used Moore’s Law to Predict the Future -- Meet the First Digital
Generation. Now Get Ready to Play by Their Rules -- DARPA Unveils Teeny Infrared Camera With 5-Micron Pixels -- The Chemistry of Nitrous-Powered, Pot-Infused Liquor -- Everything You Need To Know About Ricin, The Poison Mailed To President Obama -- Blowback at Boston? -- The 1965 Congressional lie on immigration; the 2013 lie even bigger -- Anti-Zionism Not Anti-Semitism
AZ: Join Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan/Tour de Peace Cyclists Sat,
April 20, 11 a.m. at McCain/Flake's PHX; Spring Party and meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @
4pm til ???
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News Link • Conspiracies
Reality Check: Did the FBI know about Boston bombing beforehand? - Ben Swann
04-17-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, MikeHansonArchives
Did the FBI know about Boston bombing beforehand?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
22 hours left to Stop CISPA
04-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Rafael 111
Call Now: Tell Congress to Reject CISPA
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Join Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan/Tour de Peace Cyclists Sat, April 20, 11 a.m. at McCain/Flake's PHX
04-15-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Stop Killer Drones! Join Cindy and other Tour de Peace riders outside Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake's office at 2201 E Camelback Rd/ Phoenix on Saturday, April 11th, 2013 at 11 a.m.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Court: Police Can't Force Blood Tests
04-17-2013
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Washington Post
The Supreme Court ruled police can't force a drunken driving suspect to submit to a blood draw unless they have a warrant or can show an urgent need to act without one. The 8-1 opinion rejected a position backed by the Obama administration
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Justices Bar Nigerian Human Rights Case From U.S. Courts
04-17-2013
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New York Times
The Supreme Court ruled Nigerian plaintiffs who said foreign oil companies had been complicit in violating their human rights may not sue in American courts limiting a 1789 law that had been used to address human rights abuses abroad.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Arrest made in ricin case; mailings are an eerie echo of 2001 anthrax attacks
04-17-2013
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Washington Post
Authorities had arrested Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, Miss., as a suspect in the ricin mailings, the FBI said in a statement. Curtis also sent a third letter to a Mississippi justice official, the FBI said. He is well known to law enforcement as a f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • General Opinion
Commentary on Violence & A Review/Recommendation of the film “Funny Games U.S.”
04-13-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
To be in denial of reality is always a weakness, and it is there I place many others when it comes to the subject of violence. Violence " it can be aggressive…and it can be non-aggressive (truly defensive).
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?
04-17-2013
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LiveScience
The results suggest life first appeared about 10 billion years ago, far older than the Earth's projected age of 4.5 billion years. So even if it's mathematically possible for life to have existed before Earth did, is it physically possible?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Scientists decode DNA of 'living fossil' fish
04-17-2013
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AP
Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
Farage Unleashed: "You Are Common Criminals"
04-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
"Years ago, Mrs Thatcher recognized the truth behind the European Project," UKIP's Nigel Farage reminds his European Parliament 'colleagues', "she saw that it was about taking away democracy from nation states and handing that power to largely unacco
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun background check compromise, assault weapon ban fail in Senate
04-17-2013
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Washington Post
The vote on the so-called Manchin-Toomey amendment was 54 in favor, 46 against " failing to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to move ahead. Four Republicans supported it, and four Democrats voted no.
A controversial Democratic plan to ban dozens
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Senate: Will back Israeli attack on Iran
04-17-2013
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http://www.ynetnews.com, Yitzhak Benhorin
Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate votes in favor of resolution stipulating that US will support Israel in case it was forced to take military action against Iran
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
STOP The Common Core
04-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, ProudAmericanFirst
This affects many states and is already implemented. There is effort to reverse this course, please contact your representatives to OPPOSE Common Core.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
Is this the second Boston bomb just moments before it exploded?
04-17-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, UK Daily Mail
New crime scene photographs of the remnants of the first bomb which detonated during Monday’s Boston marathon appear to show that a pressure cooker was used in at least one of the deadly charges " as experts described the devices as military-style ‘a
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Why I'm Delighted To See Gold Smacked Down
04-17-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Bill Bonner
We are delighted to see gold getting smacked down. From the International Business Times:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Planting the Seed of Propaganda:
04-17-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Daisy Luther
Not unlike the horrible shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Boston Marathon bombing has become a ”blame-it-on-patriots” media event.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Racism
The Boston Bombing Produces Familiar and Revealing Reactions
04-17-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Glenn Greenwald
As usual, the limits of selective empathy, the rush to blame Muslims, and the exploitation of fear all instantly emerge
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
FBI Warned in March That ‘Exploding Targets’ Could Fuel Homemade Bombs
04-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman
A month before the Boston Marathon bombings, the FBI warned that commercial “exploding targets” used for recreational rifle shooting could power homemade bombs on American streets.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
This Is the Next Best Thing to a Tesla, and I’m Buying One
04-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
The Fiat 500e is the best electric vehicle that doesn’t cost $100,000. And it’s the first EV I’d consider owning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
How Pixar Used Moore’s Law to Predict the Future
04-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Alvy Ray Smith
Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore’s Law has been going strong.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Meet the First Digital Generation. Now Get Ready to Play by Their Rules
04-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Jerry Adler
ANNA DANISZEWSKI, a sophomore at Bard College, takes a dozen or more cell phone pictures daily, usually around dusk or after dark"moody shots of found objects, bare branches against a gray sky, or lighted windows in the distance, evoking the way sens
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Everything You Need To Know About Ricin, The Poison Mailed To President Obama
04-17-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Nosowitz
Ricin is one of the most poisonous substances on Earth, it's scarily easy to make, and somebody is mailing it to the President and at least one U.S. senator. What it is, how it works, and more, inside.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Blowback at Boston?
04-17-2013
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
In my article last February entitled “Coming to a City Near You? Assassination and Sanction Blowback,” I wrote:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
ROUBINI PILES ON: 'Eat Your Gold!'
04-16-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam Ro
Gold prices are tumbling deeper into bear market territory.
As the gold bugs suffer, Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini is only piling on.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Lessons Learned From Hurricane Sandy
04-16-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by The Angry Prepper
Hurricane Sandy tore through the northern eastern seaboard. The hurricane combined with two other weather systems to create a Super storm (Some say). The Hurricane or Super Storm created a destructive path that hasn’t been seen this far up north, e
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Maryland Governor Taxes Rain
04-16-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Matthew Boyle
Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
All US Reactors Flawed
04-16-2013
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arclein
I was just thinking about the issues more, and watching as the industry and the regulators and the whole nuclear safety community continues to try to figure out how to address these very, very difficult problems,” which were made more evident by the
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robert klein
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News Link • Gun Rights
Unintended Consequences - DOWNLOAD PDF, MOBI, OR AZW File of book (UPDATED 2019-09-18)
02-20-2013
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Accurate Press
The next printing is going to be softcover and will probably be priced at $28.95 and $6 shipping. Download PDF, MOBI or AZW of entire book - NOW While you still can. Also available on AccuratePress.Net and Amazon (links provided)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Eyewitness: Authorities Announced “Drill” Before Boston Explosions
04-16-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
UM coach “thought it was odd” bomb sniffing dogs were at start and finish lines
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Bitcoin Isn’t the Only Cryptocurrency in Town
04-16-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite
Currencies designed to fix perceived flaws in Bitcoin could lead to competition that makes the idea of digital “cryptocurrency” stick.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Get Ready to Buy Gold
04-16-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, Marc Faber
The sell-off will bring a new low, but the the bull market is far from over, says Marc Faber
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Great Gold vs. Bitcoin Debate: Casey vs. Matonis
04-16-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Andy Duncan
Following the Mt. Gox takedown, I acted as referee between Doug Casey, of Casey Research, and Jon Matonis, of Bitcoin Foundation, as they discussed the relative merits of two free market monies, gold and Bitcoin. It was a great contest.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai: US, Taliban Both to Blame for Airstrike That Killed 12 Children
04-16-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
US Won't Admit Civilians Killed in Last Week's Attack
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq’s Bloody Monday: 75 Killed, 356 Wounded
04-16-2013
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
At least 75 Iraqis were killed and 356 more were wounded in a series of attacks across the country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Legal pot draws tourists to Colo., Wash., for 4/20
04-16-2013
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http://hosted.ap.org, By KRISTEN WYATT
Thousands of people are expected to join an unofficial counterculture holiday celebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, including out-of staters and even packaged tours.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bloomberg: If You Sell a Gun to Your Son, 'There's Something Wrong in Your Family'
04-16-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Elizabeth Harrington
If you sell a gun to your son, “there’s something wrong with your family," says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun group ‘had hand in writing’ Manchin-Toomey background check amendment
04-16-2013
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http://www.examiner.com, By David Codrea
The head of a national gun rights group is supporting the Manchin-Toomey background check bill, an email sent today to a group of Second Amendment activists, scholars and journalists revealed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
BOVARD: The ‘you are the government’ canard
04-16-2013
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By James Bovard
Obama joins predecessors in blaming his overreach on us
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