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Date Sent: 2013-04-03
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, April 3, 2013 |
Obama Is Reportedly Pushing Banks To Make More Home Loans To People With Weaker Credit
Dr. David Bruce Allen seeks $551 million in lawsuit against Jackson County, Sheriff Mike Byrd -- Tariq Aziz: Victim of US Imperialism -- 04-03-13 -- Brock Lorber In
Studio (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- James Hansen to Retire from NASA --
State Banking Gathering Steam -- Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing --
The great farm robbery -- France says 75 per cent tax will apply to
footballers -- *VIDEO* COPS SHOOT UNARMED MAN IN BED 16 TIMES, DEPT OF
CORRECTIONS SAYS: “OK” -- The Guys from Knight Rifles "Americas
Muzzleloader" Shoot the .950 JDJ -- 15 Year Old Girl Leaves Anti-Gun
Politicians Speechless -- DHS Explains 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo Purchase --
Guantanamo Hunger Strike Spreads -- In Attempt To Break Gridlock, Los
Angeles Becomes First City To Synchronize Every Streetlight -- California police use rubber bullets and cherry-picker to remove tree sitters
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
TICKETS NOW ON SALE - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day
Dinner and Auction with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack,
Apr. 13
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Is Reportedly Pushing Banks To Make More Home Loans To People With Weaker Credit
04-03-2013
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Business Insider
The Obama administration is readying a push to get banks to make more home loans available to individuals with weaker credit, The Washington Post's Zach Goldfarb reports.
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News Link • Police State
Dr. David Bruce Allen seeks $551 million in lawsuit against Jackson County, Sheriff Mike Byrd
03-28-2013
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April M. Havens, Gulf Live
Former heart surgeon Dr. David Allen -- who in 2009 was accused of growing marijuana at his home, spent 14 months in jail and later had his charges dismissed -- has filed a lawsuit alleging federal civil, constitutional and human rights violations.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Climate Change
James Hansen to Retire from NASA
04-03-2013
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Fox News
NASA’s James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a controversial and highly vocal voice of catastrophic, human-induced climate change anounced plans to retire and then immediately sue his former employer.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Banking Gathering Steam
04-03-2013
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arclein
But North Dakota is also red in another sense: it fully supports its state-owned Bank of North Dakota (BND), a socialist relic that exists nowhere else in America. Why is financial socialism still alive in North Dakota? Why haven't the North Dakotan
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robert klein
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News Link • Government Waste
Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing
04/3/2013
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Yahoo News
Where did all the money go?
“Your guess is as good as mine,” David Montoya, the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says of $700 million in missing taxpayer money that Louisiana homeowners were given in the wake of
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Science
Cyclic Heating Doubles Thermoelectric Efficiency
04-03-2013
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arclein
Alphabet Energy is commercializing thermoelectric waste-heat harvesting technology developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and just raised $16 million in Round B funding, led by corporate strategic investor Encana, a developer of natural
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Ocean Carbon Absorption Doubled
04-03-2013
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arclein
What matters more than depth, they concluded, is latitude. In particular, the researchers detected far higher levels of carbon in warm, nutrient-starved areas (195:28:1) near the equator than in cold, nutrient-rich polar zones (78:13:1).
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Sony Ericsson T68i: An Object Lesson in Gadget Lust
04-03-2013
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Wired.com
Forty years ago today, Martin Cooper demonstrated his new invention, a Motorola cellphone, to the press by placing a phone call to his rival at Bell Labs.
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News Link • Internet
Don’t Stop the Presses: Newspaper Club Revives Printing With Personal Gazettes
04-03-2013
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Wired.com
As the print industry continues to burn, Newspaper Club is what happens when the internet gets hold of a printing press.
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News Link • Internet
Your Internet Shopping Sprees Are Driving an Astonishing Building Boom
04-03-2013
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Wired.com
Online shopping might feel just a short step removed from a Star Trek replicator " click a button and the thing you want (eventually) appears.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google Is Updating Its 7-Inch iPad Killer This Summer
04-03-2013
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Business Insider
Google Inc will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet powered by Qualcomm Inc's Snapdragon processor around July, two sources told Reuters, as the software giant pushes deeper into the cut-price mobile hardware market.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Apple Is Preparing Such Big Changes To The iPhone Software .....
04-03-2013
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Business Insider
Apple is preparing a major overhaul of iOS, the software that runs the iPhone and iPad, says plugged-in Apple blogger John Gruber.
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News Link • World News
France says 75 per cent tax will apply to footballers
04-03-2013
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By AFP
France will lose its best footballers due to President François Hollande’s “crazy” 75 per cent tax on millionaire earners, the country’s football league warned on Tuesday, after a failed attempt by leading players to avoid the levy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Why Bitcoin Is Like No Other Bubble We've Seen Before
04-03-2013
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Business Insider
It's hard for any rational human to look at this chart, and not conclude that Bitcoin is on an utterly parabolic rise, fueled by greed, speculation, and fascination, while being completely divorced from any "fundamentals."
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Calls On Congress To Spend $100M Next Year To Map Brain
04-03-2013
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http://washington.cbslocal.com,
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain’s activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer’s, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
*VIDEO* COPS SHOOT UNARMED MAN IN BED 16 TIMES, DEPT OF CORRECTIONS SAYS: “OK”
04-03-2013
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http://thelibertarianrepublic.com, Austin Petersen
A King County man was shot while sleeping in his bed 16 times by local police who invaded the house.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Objectivism
The Whole Problem (and Solution) in Two Minutes
04-03-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, LarkenRose
For those who asked for a quick summary of the main point of "The Most Dangerous Superstition"--and most of what I talk about--here it is.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cartoons and Web Graphics
A real Warner Bros. cartoon made with today's technology " and with all of the old humor.
04-03-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, emalvini
A real Warner Bros. cartoon.... made with today's technology " and with all of the old humor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Guys from Knight Rifles "Americas Muzzleloader" Shoot the .950 JDJ
04-03-2013
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http://www.youtube.com,
The guys from Knight Rifles "Americas Muzzleloader" head out to the range with Dave Fricke of Millennium Manufacturing to shoot the largest center fire rifle ever made.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
15 Year Old Girl Leaves Anti-Gun Politicians Speechless
04-03-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, DJP333
15 Year Old Girl Leaves Anti-Gun Politicians Speechless
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Explains 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo Purchase
04-03-2013
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CNS News
While it has been previously reported that DHS has solicited the purchase of 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next four to five years, the government agency shows only 263,733,362 rounds in its current inventory.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Designer Carbon Provides Longer Battery Life
04-02-2013
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
Energ2’s nanostructured carbon anodes can boost lithium-ion battery capacity by 30 percent.
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News Link • Energy
Solar Downturn Casts a Shadow Over Innovation
04-02-2013
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
With no one buying new equipment, solar companies are looking to make the best of existing technology.
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News Link • Energy
Over Time, Nuclear Power Would Kill Fewer People Than Petroleum
04-02-2013
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Using nuclear power for energy instead of coal has prevented almost 2 million pollution-related deaths around the world, and could save millions more lives in the future, according to a new paper.
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News Link • Transportation
In Attempt To Break Gridlock, Los Angeles Becomes First City To Synchronize Every Streetlight
04-02-2013
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
It’s amazing how frustrating it can be to drive in L.A. Superhighways are jam-packed, cars crawl along in the worst rush hour of your life even though it’s only 2 p.m., and yet no one rides the scary subway.
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News Link • Environment
Shell to shut key Nigeria pipeline to repair oil theft damage
04-02-2013
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The RawStory.com
Shell plans to temporarily shut a key oil pipeline in southern Nigeria later this month to repair damage caused by oil thieves, leading to a cut of around 150,000 barrels per day, the company said Tuesday.
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News Link • Police State
California police use rubber bullets and cherry-picker to remove tree sitters
04-02-2013
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
Police officers used rubber bullets and a cherry-picker to remove protesters from tall pine trees in northern California on Tuesday.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Hillary Clinton supporters launch website to urge 2016 White House bid
04-02-2013
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The RawStory.com
Supporters of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton are laying the groundwork for a possible 2016 White House bid, officially launching a website Tuesday that features photos of the would-be candidate and plenty of praise.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
FBI busts state senator and 5 others in plot to rig New York City mayoral race
04-02-2013
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Rawstory
The FBI arrested NY state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D) and 5 others including Republican NYC Councilman Daniel Halloran in an elaborate plot to secure Smith the Republican mayoral nomination for New York City.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Italy bans minors from buying electronic cigarettes
04-02-2013
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The RawStory.com
Italy on Tuesday announced plans to raise the legal limit for buying electronic cigarettes to 18 years from a previous 16, citing the high dose of nicotine inhaled when using the smokeless product.
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News Link • Internet
Russia Internet Censorship Begins
04-02-2013
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fastcompany.com
Content deemed bad for kids will be filtered, but the law raises worries about wider censorship.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Texas Looks to Reclaim its Gold
04-02-2013
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campaignforliberty.org
While Cyprus and other EU countries plunder their citizens’ bank accounts, the state of Texas seems to be making an unprecedented move towards insuring the wealth of its people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Charles Koch Has No Power to Coerce Anybody; That’s Why He Needs Government
04-02-2013
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c4ss.org
Were there an awards show for unintentional howlers, Charles Koch’s statement in a Forbes interview last December (“Inside the Koch Empire: How the Brothers Plan to Reshape America,” December 5, 2012) would surely be a nominee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Monsanto Protection Act Highlights Special Interests Behind Legislative Process
03-31-2013
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Robert Taylor, PolicyMic
For all of the laments over gridlock and a supposed lack of bipartisanship and compromise, there is little that moves faster through Congress and on to the president than a bill that restrains liberty, expands state power, or protects corporate inter
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Police State
71st Anniversary: Roosevelt's Concentration Camps - by Gary North
04-01-2013
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Lew Rockwell
The hard-core version is this: the U.S. government had several governments in South America round up Japanese residents, who were then shipped to the U.S. The government put them in concentration camps. These camps received no publicity.
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Feature Article • Agriculture
Harvesting Without Trying to Sow
Jim Bovard
In their March 27 response to my "Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout," Philip Fraas and David Frantz, the lead counsel for the Pigford case, disparage the notion that many black claimants merely "attempted to farm."
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News Link • Drug War
An Idaho "Gun Violence" Story for the Huffington Post
04-01-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Why were Bear and Marcella singled out for such abusive treatment? According to recorded radio traffic among the deputies, the paramilitary raid was carried out because Bear had been politically profiled as a “Constitutionalist” " which meant that in
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News Link • United Nations
The UN Declares War on Katanga -- Again
04-01-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
The UN Security Council responded by passing a Chapter Seven resolution " the world body’s equivalent of a declaration of war " authorizing the deployment of a multinational military brigade to disarm and “neutralize” rebel groups in Congo.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Peter Schiff: We're Headed To A Currency Crisis One Way Or Another - CNBC ...
04-01-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, Eduardo89rp
CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Peter Schiff's latest gold call.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bill of Rights
New England Town Declares Food Soveignty
03-25-2013
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From
"It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance." - The key word is recognized.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stockton, California eligible for municipal bankruptcy protection: judge
04-01-2013
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Reuters
Stockton, California, was ruled eligible for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, a US judge said, turning aside creditors' arguments the city was not truly insolvent when it sought protection and had improperly
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News Link • Military
US Navy Moving Warship Closer To North Korea In Response To Threats
04-01-2013
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Business Insider
Officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Navy is shifting the USS Fitzgerald " a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific Ocean " amid ongoing North Korean threats.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
03-30-2013
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DAVID A. STOCKMAN, New York Times
The Main Street economy is failing while Washington is piling a soaring debt burden on our descendants, unable to rein in either the warfare state or the welfare state or raise the taxes needed to pay the nation’s bills. By default, the Fed has resor
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