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Date Sent: 2013-03-17
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, March 17, 2013 |
Australian Government Set to Seize Money from Citizens Bank Accounts
First Man Arrested Under NY’s Unconstitutional SAFE Act -- Obama’s
Advisors: Disarm America Through Taxation -- “What in the world is a Bitcoin?” -- Scientists
predict thousands will die from earthquake expected anytime on US
West Coast -- America Destroyed Iraq, War Crimes Remain
Unacknowledged and Unpunished -- The Iraq Disaster Haunts America -- Ecuador Moves to Annul U.S.-Ecuador
BIT, Denounces Investor-State System -- An Inhalable Tornado Of Whiskey -- How Iran Censors The Internet [Infographic] -- High-Ranking Syrian General Defects From Army, Citing Low Morale -- Detroit Symbolizes America's Decline -- America's
Dirty War in Iraq - by Stephen Lendman -- 4409: Cop
gives ticket then runs STOP SIGN - Hypocrisy
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas -
April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction
with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
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News Link • Economy - International
Australian Government Set to Seize Money from Citizens Bank Accounts
03-16-2013
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wakeup-world.com
The ‘Australian Government’ is now set to ‘legally’ seize money from citizens bank accounts without their knowledge or approval.
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News Link • Gun Rights
First Man Arrested Under NY’s Unconstitutional SAFE Act
03-16-2013
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freedomoutpost.com
Thirty-two year old Benjamin Wassell of Silver Creek has become the first victim in New York’s unconstitutional SAFE Act. That’s right, I used the term “victim” because these are completely unlawful laws being enforced.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama’s Advisors: Disarm America Through Taxation
03-16-2013
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freedomoutpost.com
“The power to tax involves the power to destroy,” Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
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News Link • Military
Hagel: U.S. to Beef Up Missile Defense
03-16-2013
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youtube
The U.S. will add 14 interceptors to a West Coast-based missile defense system, reflecting concern about North Korea's focus on developing nuclear weapons and its advances in long-range missile technology.
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News Link • Bitcoin
“What in the world is a Bitcoin?”
03-16-2013
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Sovereignman.com
Earlier in the week, I wrote to you about an Argentine car rental agency that had started accepting Bitcoins as a means to bypass local capital controls.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Scientists predict thousands will die from earthquake expected anytime on US West Coast
03-16-2013
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Prison Planet
Researchers say a massive earthquake and tsunami could soon strike the Northwest US coast, killing more than 10,000 people, flooding entire towns, and causing economic damages totaling $32 billion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
America Destroyed Iraq, War Crimes Remain Unacknowledged and Unpunished
03-16-2013
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Global Research
The evil unleashed on the people of Iraq has been painstakingly obscured behind a tapestry of lies
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Cash for Doctors
03-16-2013
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weeklystandard.com
With Obama-care poised to kick in to high gear next year, Dr. Brian Forrest routinely hears skeptics ask if the new laws and regulations will stifle his innovative primary care practice outside Raleigh, N.C.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Ditch the Commercial Sports Drinks and Artificial Protein Bars
03-16-2013
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wakeup-world.com
In a rather sad and ironic state of affairs, individuals exercising to improve health and fitness often fall into the trap of neon colored sport drinks and sugary protein bars with questionable ingredients-
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
The Iraq Disaster Haunts America
03-16-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bank of International Settlements
Ecuador Moves to Annul U.S.-Ecuador BIT, Denounces Investor-State System
03-16-2013
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citizen.typepad.com
As global criticism of the investor-state dispute system mounts, Ecuador is taking concrete steps to secede from pacts that enshrine this system, which exposes the country to direct attacks on its public interest policies from foreign investors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Bakken 201 with Brian Hicks
03-16-2013
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arclein
Dick Findley is credited with cracking the code for the Bakken in 1996, ultimately leading to the development of the giant Elm Coulee Field (known as "Sleeping Giant" at the time) in the Bakken in Eastern Montana.
Findley's discovery was so epi
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News Link • Science
'Gigantic Jet' Lightning Spotted Over China
03-16-2013
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arclein
he gigantic jet peaked at about 55 miles (89 kilometers) above the ground, far above the cloudtops that were measured with Doppler radar at an altitude of 11 miles (17 km).
Yang added that her team had possibly seen another gigantic jet in the sam
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt Opposes Women's Rights
03-16-2013
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arclein
The Islamist party of President Mohamed Mursi outlined 10 reasons why Muslim countries should "reject and condemn" the declaration, which the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women is racing to negotiate a consensus deal on by Friday.
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Whole Foods announces Mandatory GMO Labeling
03-16-2013
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arclein
It's a brilliant move for Whole Foods, given that by 2018, anyone who wants to be certain whether they are avoiding GMOs will gladly choose to do all their shopping at Whole Foods. After all, if Albertson's (for example) doesn't require GMO labeli
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News Link • Books
An Inhalable Tornado Of Whisky
03-16-2013
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popsci.com
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr are a breed unto themselves; young British purveyors of culinary spectacle whose most recent book, .
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News Link • Transportation
This Homemade ‘Flying Car’ Can’t Exactly Fly, But It Still Turns Heads
03-16-2013
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Wired.com
When Bruce Tomb realized that flying cars weren’t on the imminent horizon, he decided to make his own.
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News Link • Energy
Will Methane Hydrates Fuel Another Gas Boom?
03-16-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Energy-hungry Japan extracts natural gas from deep-sea methane hydrates, but it’s not clear whether the “flammable ice” makes economic and environmental sense.
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News Link • Humor
Sarah Palin's Brilliant CPAC Speech Shows She Can Still Work A Crowd
03-16-2013
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Business Insider
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin just delivered a barnstorming speech here at the Conservative Political Action Conference, proving once again that, despite being semi-retired and semi-irrelevant, the "Mama Grizzly" can work a crowd ....
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News Link • Syria
High-Ranking Syrian General Defects From Army, Citing Low Morale
03-16-2013
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Business Insider
A high-ranking general in the Syrian army defected on Saturday with the help of rebels and said morale is low among those still fighting for President Bashar Assad as the civil war enters its third year.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
I Guess It's Nice That My iPhone Is Made Of Metal " Not That I'm Really Aware Of That
03-16-2013
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Business Insider
It was amusing to watch die-hard Apple zealots react to Samsung's product launch the other night.
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News Link • Activism
Introducing: The American Hero Fund! Compensating Whistleblowers Who Have Had Their Lives Destroyed
3-16-2013
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Daily Paul
I'm SICK of even hoping that any politician is going to help us. I think it's time we raised the anti and became a little more pro-active about bringing corrupt public officials to justice.
We blow a ton of money on political candidate
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News Link • Energy
America's Energy Bonanza Is Reshaping The Country And Saving The Economy
03-16-2013
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Business Insider
The shale gas and oil bonanza is transforming America’s energy outlook and boosting its economy
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
How Republicans Can Solve The Party's Gay Marriage Problem, And Still Stay Conservative
03-16-2013
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Business Insider
Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman rocked his party on Friday with his announcement that he has changed his mind about same-sex marriage, a startling reversal that Portman said was sparked by the revelation that his own son is gay.
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News Link • Transportation
How America's Coolest Automaker Crashed So Hard, So Fast
03-16-2013
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Business Insider
In 2009, Fisker Automotive was an exciting company: With Detroit in shambles and a huge loan from the federal government, the startup automaker had plans to change the industry.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 10, 2013 Edition
03-15-2013
John Semmens
Egypt's Ruling Party Rejects UN Declaration of Human Rights
Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood vehemently denounced a United Nations' declaration on women's rights saying it could destroy society by allowing women to travel, work, and use contracep
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News Link • Agriculture
Farm Subsidies Must Die
03-15-2013
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reason.com
How agriculture subsidies waste money, distort the economy, and steal from the poor to give to the rich.
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News Link • Government
Leviathan’s A Green-Eyed Monster
03-15-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
It seems the Old Glory crowd at city hall doesn't like rival flags being flown.” The nationalists in “Atlantic Beach, northeast Florida” have ordered the “owners of Culhane's Irish Pub” there to remove the Irish flag they’ve flown for 8 years “becaus
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Calls For 'Total' Liberty; Disparages Buy And Hold
03-15-2013
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The focus should be on total individual liberty that allows people to do what they want as long as they don't hurt others, Paul noted, adding that social and economic liberty are connected.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bankruptcy Lawyer Is Named to Manage an Ailing Detroit
03-15-2013
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New York Times
A veteran lawyer who once worked on Chrysler’s bankruptcy was handed the case of bringing Detroit back from the edge of financial collapse. Michigan officials appointed him as emergency manager to oversee operations in Detroit
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News Link • Gun Rights
Assault weapons ban passed at heated Senate hearing
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
In addition to the assault weapons ban, the committee approved a bill making the practice of illegally purchasing firearms for someone else a federal crime, and expanding the nation’s gun background check and funding school security plans.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Kyle Bass Warns "The 'AIG' Of The World Is Back"
03-15-2013
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occupysydney.sharedby.co
Kyle Bass, addressing Chicago Booth's Initiative on Global Markets last week, clarified his thesis on Japan in great detail, but it was the Q&A that has roused great concern.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Appeal for Maryland 7-year-old suspended for nibbling pastry into shape of a gun
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
The father of a 7-year-old suspended from his Anne Arundel County school for nibbling his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun filed a formal appeal asking that the second-grader’s school records be wiped clean of the offense.
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Opinion • Police State
The SPLC Is At It Again
03-15-2013
Chuck Baldwin
Well, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is at it again. In their typical obsessive hate-filled paranoia, the SPLC has issued another baseless assassination piece against anyone whom they consider to be “right-wing.” They call their hit piece, “T
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News Link • Federal Reserve
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is accused of hiding information about big losses
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
Washington dealt 2 blow sto JPMorgan Chase as a Senate report accused its chief executive of hiding information about a massive loss from regulators while the Federal Reserve said it had found a “weakness” in the bank’s capital plans.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Dispute over high-risk prisoners threatens to derail U.S.-Afghan talks
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
A dispute over the fate of about three dozen militants held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan has disrupted negotiations over a long-term security agreement to leave U.S. troops in the country after 2014.
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News Link • Syria
After Recent 'Successes' in Region, France Ready to Arm Syrian Rebels
03-15-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
France and Britain announced they are sick of the EU arms embargo on Syria's rebels and have announced that come hell or high water they are about to begin openly providing deadly weapons to those seeking to overthrow Syrian
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News Link • American History
Suffolk Resolves
03-15-2013
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Wikipedia
The Suffolk Resolves was a declaration made on September 9, 1774 by the leaders of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, of which Boston is the major city. The declaration rejected the Massachusetts Government Act and resolved on a boycott of imported goods
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
How To Buy Any Illegal Drug You Want On The Secret Internet For Criminals
03-15-2013
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Business Insider
A website called the Silk Road appears to enable you to buy drugs as easily as you would buy an item on eBay.
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News Link • Police State
John Stossel's Illegal Everything - You Are Probably a Felon and Don't Know It!
03-15-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I found this on youtube and thought it was worth sharing here on DP. John Stossel covers a lot of mind-boggling laws put out by the government that show just how far we have sunk into tyranny in the United States.
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News Link • Surveillance
EXCLUSIVE - U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances
03-15-2013
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Reuters
The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country...
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Bradley Manning Speaks
03-14-2013
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Free Press Publications
Bradley Manning explains why he leaked some government cables.
Transcript:
I believe that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information, this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and o
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix officer calls 5-day suspension too harsh
03-14-2013
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myfoxphoenix.com
A Phoenix Police officer has been suspended after tackling a 15-year-old girl. The video, posted on YouTube, made national headlines two years ago.
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News Link • Police State
LAPD Breaks Promise: No New Truck for Women Shot During Dorner Manhunt
03-14-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Officers opened fire on the newspaper delivery women, piercing their pickup truck with more than 100 bullet holes.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Argentines escaping currency controls with Bitcoins
03-14-2013
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Sovereignman.com
Several hundred miles east of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the mighty Kasai river forms the boundary between two little known tribes of central Africa" the Bushong and the Lele.
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News Link • Government
George Noory: People Don’t Trust Gov’t Anymore
03-14-2013
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Prison Planet
Alex welcomes back to the show Coast to Coast AM radio talk show host George Noory, who is the author of Worker In The Light:
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News Link • Energy
NASA Resumes Production Of Plutonium-238 Space Fuel After 25 Years
03-14-2013
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popsci.com
Our dangerously depleted supply of spacecraft fuel just got a little bump from the Department of Energy.
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News Link • Iraq
Remembering Those Responsible on the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War
03-14-2013
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Common Dreams
This March 19 marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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