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Date Sent: 2013-03-04
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, March 4, 2013 PM edition |
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
CHART OF THE DAY: There's Nothing Strange About The Huge Run-Up In Gas Prices -- UK Police Claim To Stop Terror Attack Just As It Was About To Happen -- Female Kicker Gets Injured At The NFL Combine After Her Kickoff Goes Just 13 Yards -- California: Remember the Taxes You Didn’t Owe? Surprise! - by Wendy McElroy -- No, America's Military Is Not Getting Passed By Russia And China -- Bradley Manning: the face of heroism - by Glenn Greenwald -- Not Trial By Video -- More Redflex Executives Fall Over Bribery Scandal -- Greening the Desert -- Google Maps Owns the World -- Kill Shot Remote Viewing Prediction -- New Space Drive Works -- What
would you do if you got this letter? -- A Syrian girl posted this on
Facebook: Diane Sawyer in Syria -- Martin Luther King Jr. High School
coach shoots attackers -- 7-Year-Old Suspended, Teacher Says He Shaped Pastry into Gun -- Italy paralyzed as Grillo plots exit route from euro -- Conservatives, liberals, media advocates rally behind man jailed for criticizing Indiana judge -- The Sequester ‘Crisis’ And What Should Be Done - by Ron Paul -- Imperial America's in Good Hands with Philip Gordon -- Whitewashing Israeli Murder by Torture
AZ: FIRST EVER PRIVATE GUN SHOW - Sat, March 9th, 2013 in
Lakeside, AZ; Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction with
Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine March 1st, 2013 Edition READY
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News Link • Police State
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
03-04-2013
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The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CHART OF THE DAY: There's Nothing Strange About The Huge Run-Up In Gas Prices
03-04-2013
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Business Insider
The recent rally in U.S. gas prices has some economists worried that the consumer is taking a beating right now, especially considering the recent payroll tax hike.
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News Link • TERRORISM
UK Police Claim To Stop Terror Attack Just As It Was About To Happen
03-04-2013
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Business Insider
A terrorist attack against a police station in Northern Ireland was thwarted only minutes before it was set to go off, according to a report from the UK Independent.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Female Kicker Gets Injured At The NFL Combine After Her Kickoff Goes Just 13 Yards
03-04-2013
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Business Insider
Kicker Lauren Silbermann had a rough day at the NFL Regional Combine yesterday in New Jersey. kicking just two kickoffs before pulling out with a leg injury.
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News Link • TAXES: State
California: Remember the Taxes You Didn’t Owe? Surprise!
03-04-2013
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by Wendy McElroy (Future of Freedom Foundation)
Shortly before the Christmas holidays and oh so quietly, the California Franchise Tax Board retroactively rescinded with interest a tax break that dated back to 1993 that was intended to lure startup companies of under $50 million into the state.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
No, America's Military Is Not Getting Passed By Russia And China
03-04-2013
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Business Insider
China's leaders will announce this year's defense expenditure Tuesday, and if it's anything like last year (a rise of 11 percent), it'll be more growth; and Russia plans on spending an extra $755 billion over the next ten years.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning: the face of heroism
03-04-2013
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by Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
"He came to view much of what the Army told him " and the public " to be false, such as the suggestion the military had destroyed a graphic video of an aerial assault in Iraq that killed civilians, or that WikiLeaks was a nefarious entity. . . .
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Not Trial By Video
03-04-2013
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Simple Justice
In a curious twist of rhetoric, Judge Patrick Dugan acquitted Philadelphia police Lt. Jonathan Josey of assaulting Aida Guzman at a Puerto Rican Day Parade, announcing "This is not a social media contest, this is not trial by video."
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News Link • Camera Fraud
More Redflex Executives Fall Over Bribery Scandal
03-04-2013
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The Newspaper
O'Malley was paid $2 million between 2003 and 2012 for his work in [Chicago] landing the nation's most lucrative photo ticketing contract. Redflex sent Bills on 17 different trips between 2003 and 2010, paying for everything including hotels, flights
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News Link • Agriculture
Greening the Desert
03-04-2013
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arclein
Taking this individual example and applying it thousands of times gives us a desert eating enterprise that easily self renews as exhaled moisture returns at night as rain.
The rapid return of fungi is impressive. The mulch cover also shelters the
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Google Maps Owns the World
03-04-2013
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arclein
Those simple features, available for some time to consumers, will be a great leap forward in the industrial sector, Friehauf says, and he imagines how Google could help push it even further for this new set of users. “What about 3-D visualizations, s
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News Link • Science
Kill Shot Remote Viewing Prediction
03-04-2013
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arclein
Normally, one might not take such a warning seriously, but what sets this prediction apart from others is that Remote Viewers have a track record of being amazingly accurate regarding globally recognized disasters and events. In fact, there are many
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Space Drive Works
03-04-2013
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arclein
The latest research comes from a team headed by Yang Juan, Professor of Propulsion Theory and Engineering of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xi'an. Titled "Net thrust measurement of propellantless microwav
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News Link • Syria
A Syrian girl posted this on Facebook: Diane Sawyer in Syria
03-04-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Just look at how much the reality has been warped since then! As everybody can tell, the portrayal of the countries in the Western media change along with the US' foreign policy... Depending on the latest policy or the stages of that policy,......
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News Link • Self-Defense
Martin Luther King Jr. High School coach shoots attackers
03-04-2013
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Prison Planet
Police sources tell 7 Action News that a women’s basketball coach from Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School shot two men who attacked him as he was walking two basketball players to their cars in the school parking lot.
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News Link • Gun Rights
7-Year-Old Suspended, Teacher Says He Shaped Pastry into Gun
03-04-2013
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Prison Planet
Children at Park Elementary School went home with a letter today explaining there was a disruption in school.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Record Low Viewers For ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’
03-04-2013
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Prison Planet
The February 28th episode of Piers Morgan Tonight, which featured an exclusive interview with Gus Searcy, the mentor of Jodi Arias suffered a yearly low in the key 25-54 demographic with only 87,000 viewers.
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News Link • Political Parties
Italy paralysed as Grillo plots exit route from euro
03-04-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
Italy plunged deeper into political chaos this weekend after Beppe Grillo, the quixotic former comedian who holds the balance of power in parliament, suggested that the country may have to abandon the euro and return to the lire.
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News Link • Energy
The battery breakthrough that could charge your iPhone in five SECONDS
03-04-2013
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dailymail
Graphene-based supercapacitors can charge and discharge thousand times faster than conventional batteries
Prototypes cane be produced using a standard DVD burner
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Conservatives, liberals, media advocates rally behind man jailed for criticizing Indiana judge
03-04-2013
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FOX News
However, the group recently filed an amicus brief with the state Supreme Court arguing an appeals court decision in January upholding the felony intimidation charge threatens constitutionally protected speech about public officials.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Sequester ‘Crisis’ And What Should Be Done - by Ron Paul
03-04-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known as “sequestration” went into effect. The financial markets hardly blinked, as they have come to
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News Link • Gun Rights
Defending Gun Rights With Civil Disobedience
03-01-2013
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The International Libertarian
The gun owners of New Jersey have had enough! They’ve tried asking for their rights, they’ve tried protesting in the streets. It’s not working. The tyrants in Trenton are going to take their gun rights away regardless. Seeing that “There *IS* no redr
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News Link • Economy - International
Britain heads for new recession
03-01-2013
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Reuters
The risk that Britain is entering its third recession in four years grew on Friday with figures showing that manufacturing shrank unexpectedly last month and mortgage approvals for home buyers dropped in January
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News Link • Energy
American teenager designs compact nuclear reactor
03-01-2013
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AFP
Eighteen-year-old Taylor Wilson has designed a compact nuclear reactor that could one day burn waste from old atomic weapons to power anything from homes and factories to space colonies.
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News Link • Activism
Police spies slept with, abandoned female targets on taxpayer dime
03-01-2013
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Rawstory
An investigation by the Guardian has established that his real name is Mark Jenner. He was an undercover police officer in the Metropolitan police’s special demonstration squad, one of two units that specialized in infiltrating protest groups.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Writing New Book on Education
03-01-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Former presidential candidate Ron Paul, a longtime foe of the Federal Reserve and champion of a smaller foreign policy footprint, is turning to education in a new book slated for release this fall.
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News Link • Corruption
Fresh Jury Adjourns in Calif. Corruption Case
03-01-2013
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AP
A jury deliberating in the public corruption trial of six former officials in the Southern California city of Bell is done for the day.
Friday was the first full day of deliberations jury with a new member of the jury.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Governor to emergency manager to take over troubled Detroit's finances
03-01-2013
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AP
Michigan’s governor said unless Detroit’s fortunes suddenly and miraculously improve, he will appoint an emergency manager to take control of the city that was once one of the nation’s most prosperous manufacturing centers.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Kim Dotcom’s defense will not be allowed to view U.S. government’s evidence against him
03-01-2013
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BGR
Zealand’s Court of Appeal on Friday overturned an earlier decision that required U.S. authorities to hand over evidence it planned to use in the high-profile extradition trial set to take place in August,
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News Link • Corruption
Judge who slammed Apple during patent trial hired by Samsung [updated]
03-01-2013
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BGR
A former judge in the United Kingdom known most recently for forcing Apple (AAPL) to issue a public apology after calling Samsung’s (005930) Galaxy Tab an iPad copy, has reportedly been hired by Samsung
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ukraine urged not to extradite Tajik ex-PM
03-01-2013
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Reuters
Ukraine said on Friday it was considering an appeal from the U.N. refugee agency against the extradition of a former Tajik prime minister, on the grounds that the United States has already granted him refugee status.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 3, 2013 Edition
03-01-2013
John Semmens
Sequester Hits, Disasters Loom
“Fiscal bloodbath” is how one federal official speaking off-the-record described the early impacts of the much dreaded budget sequester. “We're looking at the cancellation of many mission-critical government activiti
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News Link • Gun Rights
Feinstein: “Bad Things Happen” Because of 2nd Amendment and Gun Culture
03-01-2013
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Prison Planet
California Democrat senator and dedicated gun-grabber Dianne Feinstein went on the Piers Morgan Show earlier this week and blamed the “gun culture,” the NRA and Wayne LaPierre for mass shootings like Sandy Hook
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News Link • Homeland Security
Rights Group Sues Big Sis Over Internet Kill Switch
03-01-2013
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Prison Planet
DHS could execute communications shutdown for entire cities
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News Link • Gun Rights
Smoke A Joint, Get an WH ObamaPass. Sell A Gun to Someone Who Smokes A Joint, Get 20 Years
03-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Smoke A Joint, Get an WH ObamaPass. Sell A Gun to Someone Who Smokes A Joint, Get 20 Years In The Big House
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Collateral Murder Revisited: One day, the guys getting killed might be you.
03-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Bradley Manning is going to jail for 20 years not because he did this, but because he exposed this. If you haven't seen the video, please spare the time for Bradley. He's sentenced to 20 years in a cage because of it. Can you spare 17 minutes to find
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold and Silver Approved as Legal Tender by Arizona Senate
03-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Gold and Silver Approved as Legal Tender by Arizona Senate
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News Link • Marc Victor
KPNX News- Jodi Arias Trial with Marc J Victor
03-01-2013
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Youtube
Marc Victor discusses the Jodi Arias Trial on KPNX News
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
Practical Alternative to Government Seminar
Thomas Costanzo
Governments don’t solve societal problems " ever. They create them! Has there ever been one problem the government “solved” they didn’t first create?
Everything that exists in the world has been manifested as the result of someones creativity. E
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning pleads guilty to some charges in WikiLeaks case
03-01-2013
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LA Times
In pleading guilty to 10 charges of misusing classified material, the soldier tells the court he intended to spark a debate on U.S. foreign policy. He is expected to face 20 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning: "Americans had a right to know the true cost of war."
03-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of 'bloodlust' of US helicopter crew
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
The Law Of Necessity
03-01-2013
Chuck Baldwin
Most of us are taught from childhood to respect and obey the law. On the whole, Americans are law-abiding people. This is only fitting for a nation that was built on the principles of law. Remember, at our core, this is supposed to be a “nation of la
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News Link • History
This Day in History: Hydrogen bomb, Bravo, detonated on Bikini Atoll.
03-01-2013
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Andrew Petcher
On Mar. 1, 1954 the United States began serious nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean on the island of Bikini Atoll and they carried out the detonation of a massive bomb codenamed Castle Bravo.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
End the Fed by Ron Paul
03-01-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Military-Industrial Complex is Being Exported to Egypt
03-01-2013
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Malou Innocent, US News
It's almost impossible to escape the Washington establishment's hysteria over sequestration"the $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts, a less than 2.3 percent reduction of the $3.64 trillion federal budget. Despite all the overwrought rhetori
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News Link • Police State
Feinstein: All The Police Support My Gun Ban
03-01-2013
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govtslaves.info
Yesterday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) appeared on MSNBC pushing for an assault weapons ban and said that Americans need to make a decision “If personal pleasure is more important that general welfare.” She also said that “all the police” support he
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