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Date Sent: 2013-03-31
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, March 31, 2013 |
Fusion center director: We don’t spy on Americans, just anti-government Americans
Claim: Germany Spends $110 Billion to Delay Global Warming by 37 Hours (John Stossel) -- NATO airstrike kills two Afghan children -- Kansas CIA Couple: Indoor Gardening Prompted Pot SWAT Raid -- Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled -- Companies cut hours of full-time employees to avoid providing health care under new rules -- Big depositors in Cyprus to lose far more than feared -- UPS agrees to pay $40 million for shipping "illegal" prescription drugs -- Should we aim to live like cavemen? -- Greg Palast & Alex Jones:
Koch Brothers Exposed! -- Depositor Haircuts Spreading -- Somali’s case a template for U.S. as it seeks to prosecute terrorism suspects in federal court -- Mixed Emotions Over Wounded Knee Massacre Site Being For Sale -- EU, IMF resisting Greek bank NBG's takeover of Eurobank -- Business, labor get deal on worker program -- More Tales from Amerika: Obey the Law, Go to Prison -- Facebook's Phone Could Mean You'll Never Have To Buy Cell Phone
Minutes Again -- Warren Buffett Has Two Basic Rules That Investors
Always Fail To Follow -- North Korean State Websites Down After
Reports Of Cyber Attacks -- Charles Goyette on Bitcoin -- Not Even Gold Will Save Us -- War Scare in Korea – A Manufactured Crisis -- The Trial
of Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged 2 Court Scene) -- Poverty in the
U.S.A: Nearly 50 Million Americans on Food Stamps -- The Chess Game
of Capital Controls -- BitCoins Give Birth to a New Age -- False Flag Attacks in Syria Pin
Atrocities on Assad and Justify "Red Line" Engagement -- 03-30-13 -- Ernest Hancock on Next News Network
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News Link • Surveillance
Fusion center director: We don’t spy on Americans, just anti-government Americans
03-31-2013
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http://rt.com
Law enforcement intelligence-processing fusion centers have long come under attack for spying on Americans.
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News Link • Environment
Claim: Germany Spends $110 Billion to Delay Global Warming by 37 Hours
03-31-2013
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The Weekly Standard
[John Stossel:] "The Germans are spending about $110 billion on subsidies for these solar panels," said Lomborg. "The net effect of all those investments will be to postpone global warming by 37 hours by the end of the century."
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO airstrike kills two Afghan children
03-31-2013
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AFP
A NATO helicopter strike killed two children in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, in the latest civilian casualties to beset the coalition’s war against Taliban militants.
The operation close to Ghazni city was conducted after loca
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News Link • Drug War
Kansas Couple: Indoor Gardening Prompted Pot Raid
03-31-2013
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AP
Former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.
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News Link • Environment
Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled
03-31-2013
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DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the skeptical fringe to the mainstream.
In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating a
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News Link • Healthcare
Companies cut hours of full-time employees to avoid providing health care under new rules
03-31-2013
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The Guardian
In January, a janitor received chilling news from one of her superiors, who had met with upper management. The company was considering cutting full-time employee hours down below 30 per week in order to avoid paying for Obamacare.
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News Link • Economy - International
Big depositors in Cyprus to lose far more than feared
03-31-2013
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Reuters
Under conditions expected to be announced on Saturday, depositors in Bank of Cyprus will get shares in the bank worth 37.5 percent of their deposits over 100,000 euros, the source told Reuters, while the rest of their deposits may never be paid back.
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News Link • Healthcare
UPS agrees to pay $40 million for shipping "illegal" prescription drugs
03-31-2013
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AFP
UPS Friday agreed to forfeit $40 million and implement a compliance program after a Department of Justice probe found the company delivered drugs on behalf of illegal online pharmacies.
The agreement followed an investigation that showed that UPS
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News Link • Books
Should we aim to live like cavemen?
03-31-2013
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newscientist.com
“Palaeo” lifestyle trends are popular at the moment " but they are rooted in evolutionary myths, says biologist Marlene Zuk
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News Link • Corruption
Greg Palast & Alex Jones: Koch Brothers Exposed!
03-31-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex talks with investigative journalist and author Greg Palast about the death of Venezuela’ s Hugo Chavez and the political work of the Koch brothers and their influential foundation.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Somali’s case a template for U.S. as it seeks to prosecute terrorism suspects in federal court
03-30-2013
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Washington Post
“There was a fair amount of debate because some of the intel guys didn’t want to stop the interrogation,” said a former administration official. “Others were getting antsy because they thought the longer you hold the guy and don’t Mirandize him,
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News Link • History
Mixed Emotions Over Wounded Knee Massacre Site Being For Sale
03-30-2013
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"That historical value means something to us," a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation tribal council said. "We see that greed around here all the time with non-Indians. To me, you can’t put a price on the lives that were taken there."
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russian-American crew taking short cut to space station
03-30-2013
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Reuters
2 Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut took a short cut to the International Space Station, arriving at the orbital outpost less than 6 hours after their Soyuz capsule blasted off. The express route shaved about 45 hours off the usual ride,
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News Link • Economy - International
EU, IMF resisting Greek bank NBG's takeover of Eurobank
03-30-2013
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Reuters
Greece's international lenders have asked Athens to halt National Bank's takeover of rival Eurobank, worried that the resulting lender would be too big for the state to deal with, two bankers close to the talks told Reuters on Saturday.
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News Link • Immigration
Business, labor get deal on worker program
03-30-2013
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AP
Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal immigrants eventual U.S. citizenship, labor and Senate officials
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
More Tales from Amerika: Obey the Law, Go to Prison
03-30-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Federal criminal law permits prosecutors to charge people with "crimes" even though they have not broken the law. Prosecutors make up their own narratives and federal judges and juries always buy them no matter how outlandish.
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News Link • Internet
Finally, A Way To Only Date People Who Agree With You On Politics
03-30-2013
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Business Insider
Alex Fondrier doesn't think politics should be the proverbial "third rail" in a relationship.
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News Link • Racism
Why America Needs Social Justice, Not Another Dumb 'Conversation About Race'
03-30-2013
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Business Insider
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter joined the chorus condemning Philadelphia Magazine's "Being White in Philly" article for depicting blacks as "lazy, shiftless, irresponsible, and largely criminal".
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News Link • Internet
Facebook's Phone Could Mean You'll Never Have To Buy Cell Phone Minutes Again
03-30-2013
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Business Insider
On April 4, Facebook is expected to announce an Android operating system for an HTC phone that has deep Facebook integration.
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News Link • General Opinion
Warren Buffett Has Two Basic Rules That Investors Always Fail To Follow
03-30-2013
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Business Insider
Listen to Jim Cramer or his cohorts on CNBC and you’ll hear statements like, “Don’t settle for the mediocre returns of a market index!” and “It’s not that hard for investors to pick stocks that will beat the market!”
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
North Korean State Websites Down After Reports Of Cyber Attacks
03-30-2013
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Business Insider
A number of official North Korean websites appear to be down following a DDOS attack, just hours after the country issed an ominous warning against South Korea.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphene Desalination
03-30-2013
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arclein
Lockheed’s proposed desalination project filters through graphene, a material already touted as a modern marvel. A thousand times stronger than steel, it's also just one atom thick. Last July, Popular Science covered its potential use in water filtr
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Probiotics Improve Bone Density
03-30-2013
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arclein
A doctor of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) once told this author that "disease begins in the gut." Ayurvedic medicine also has a similar premise. Bad or sub-optimal digestion leads to all sorts of disease. That includes disease beyond the gast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Charles Goyette on Bitcoin
03-29-2013
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www.youtube.com
Published on Mar 28, 2013 - http://www.titanians.org Charles Goyette talking about Austrian Economics answers a question on BitCoins
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News Link • Archaeology
2500 Yr Old City in Central India
03-30-2013
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arclein
“As of now, we have four 15ft high mounds around which we have evidence of pottery, coins and some terracotta figures,” said J.R. Bhagat, deputy director in the department. “Once we begin, the entire digging could take at least 5-10 years.”
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Not Even Gold Will Save Us
03-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Dr. Marc Faber, author of the Gloom Boom and Doom newsletter is usually a bear on stocks and a bull on gold. In an interview of 3/27 he discusses gold and the enormity of the crisis ahead. He said:
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News Link • Propaganda
War Scare in Korea " A Manufactured Crisis
03-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The United States and the two feuding Koreas could blunder into a real war unless both Pyongyang and Washington cease provoking one another.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Trial of Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged 2 Court Scene)
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Here is the court scene in Atlas Shrugged Part 2 where Hank Rearden is tried in court for selling steel secretly behind the Fair Shares Law.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Poverty in the U.S.A: Nearly 50 Million Americans on Food Stamps
03-29-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Kate Randall
US food stamp use swells to a record 47.8 million
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News Link • Science
DMT, Ayahuasca, The Pineal Gland " A Professor Talks Neurotheology
03-30-2013
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arclein
Barker’s more acute attention is focused on the study of hallucinogenic substances, particularly dimethyltryptamine " commonly referred to as DMT. This substance has slowly crept to popularity over the past few years, partially due to the 2010 docume
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Feature Article • Bitcoin
BitCoins Give Birth to a New Age
Bob Podolsky
Make no mistake. Thanks to BitCoins, the status quo is doomed " and a new age of freedom is at hand. The tiny elite group of people who run the world today don’t know it yet, but their power is finally at an end. They are like zombies " the walking d
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News Link • False Flag Operations
False Flag Attacks in Syria Pin Atrocities on Assad and Justify "Red Line" Engagement
03-30-2013
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http://www.activistpost.com, Brandon Turbeville
Only days after the chemical weapons attack inside Syria, the Israeli, US, and NATO governments are doing everything in their power to not only push the idea that the “red line” of the Obama administration has been crossed, but also to maintain the f
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News Link • Books
Nothing New Under the Sun, Especially With Leviathan A Review of Morgan Wade’s The Last Stoic
03-30-2013
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LewRockwell.com
The Last Stoic is his novelistic answer. It presents two boys, one named Marcus who’s a subject of the Roman Empire and the other, Mark, living in the American one. Eighteen hundred years may separate these doppelgangers, but their lives and experie
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News Link • Depression
This Is What It Feels Like To Have Your Life Savings Confiscated By The Global Elite
03-29-2013
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www.activistpost.com
As you will see below, there are small businesses and aging retirees who have been absolutely devastated by the wealth confiscation that has taken place in Cyprus.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 31, 2013 Edition
03-29-2013
John Semmens
Party Donors Warn of “Dire Consequences” for Those Who Let Obama Down
A handful of Democratic members of Congress were warned by the Party's big donors to get in line behind President Obama's push for gun-control legislation lest they face “dire c
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'Run for the Hills' Now, I'm Doing It: Jim Rogers
03-28-2013
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CNBC
"I for one, am making sure I don't have too much money in any one specific bank account anywhere in the world, because now there is a precedent," he said. "The IMF has said 'sure, loot the bank accounts' the EU has said 'loot the bank accounts'
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News Link • Gun Rights
Checkmate on your “Military Type” Firearms Ban
03-28-2013
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The Price of Liberty
Progressives at the state and federal level are rushing to enact legislation that would ban firearms they claim are “military type” weapons. If they want to classify these weapons as “military type” firearms, then they have a problem,
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News Link • Energy
Obama administration moves ahead with sweeping rules requiring cleaner gasoline
03-28-2013
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Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency will move ahead with rules requiring cleaner gasoline and cars nationwide, despite fierce protests from the oil industry and some conservative Democrats,
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student loan interest rates to double July 1
03-28-2013
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AP
"What is definitely clear, [now that we've been re-elected,] there doesn't seem to be as much outcry. We're advising our members to tell students that the interest rates are going to double on new student loans, to 6.8 percent."
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News Link • Syria
US Army vet charged with fighting with al-Qaida
03-28-2013
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AP
[Should have been working for the CIA.] A U.S. Army veteran, who boasted on Facebook of his military adventures with Syrian rebels, was charged with firing rocket propelled grenades as part of an attack led by an al-Qaida group against
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul Endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate Race, Won't Back Tea Party Challenge
03-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The Daily Caller has learned that Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is endorsing Sen. Mitch McConnell for re-election in 2014, ending speculation that Paul would back a tea party challenge to the Senate minority leader.
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News Link • Economy - International
When Will Deposit Haircuts Take Place In Other European Countries?
03-28-2013
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zerohedge.com
When all is said and done, what happened in Cyprus over the past two weeks, is nothing but the culmination of re-marking the "assets" in the country's financial system ....
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Marc Faber: "I Am Sure Governments Will One Day Take Away 20-30% Of My Wealth"
03-28-2013
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zerohedge.com
We cautioned readers in 2011 that in a broke world in which the ridiculously named "muddle-through" has miserably failed, a global wealth tax seeking to expropriate some 30% of all financial assets is coming.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Why the Awlakis Were Killed
03-28-2013
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fff.org
While President Obama, the Pentagon, and the CIA have steadfastly refused to say why they assassinated American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, one thing remains beyond dispute:
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News Link • Internet
Jim Carrey Backlash on eBay for His Anti-Gun Video Mysteriously Disappears
03-28-2013
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com, by Paul Bond
UPDATED: An eBay user who was selling an autographed photo of the actor and promising to buy a gun with the money sparked a mini-trend, though the auction site appears to have put an end to the movement.
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