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Date Sent: 2013-04-04
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, April 4, 2013 |
North Korea: War could break out today or tomorrow -- Water Prank May Land Radio Show Hosts in Jail
Hunt for Joseph Kony, elusive African warlord, is halted -- Suspect ID'd in W.Va. sheriff's fatal shooting -- Australia's gun controls a political template for the U.S. -- Afghan Taliban kill 44 in suicide attack on courtroom -- Palestinian youth shot to death as West Bank seethes -- Regional leaders refuse to recognize Central African Republic coup leader -- Maryland set to become latest state to enact stiff gun-control measure -- Church watchdog group posts Delaware sex abuse papers -- Arkansas AG vows to Maddow: Exxon Mobil will face justice in pipeline spill -- Republican congressman freaks out over UN arms trade treaty conspiracy -- Defense secretary: North Korea threats pose ‘real and clear danger’ -- Network of satellite guardians in space keep an eye out for natural
disasters -- Obama heads West to keep guns push alive -- State Department offers $5 million for capture of Joseph Kony -- BRICS Challenges Unipolar World and US Dollar Hegemony -- Teenage
Boys are the Same Around the World -- Dr. David Bruce Allen seeks $551
million in lawsuit against Jackson County, Sheriff Mike Byrd
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 • Military
North Korea: War could break out ‘today or tomorrow’
04-03-2013
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The RawStory.com
North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Water Prank May Land Radio Show Hosts in Jail
04/03/2013
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worldordernews.com
Two popular radio show hosts may find themselves locked up for telling their listeners the truth, that Dihydrogen Monoxide (water) is flowing from their household taps! Dihydrogen Monoxide is just the chemical name for H2O, that’s right, water! But u
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Hunt for Joseph Kony, elusive African warlord, is halted
04-03-2013
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Washington Post
Ugandan and American troops have suspended their joint hunt for war crimes suspect Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army, delivering a major setback to efforts to capture a notorious warlord accused of abducting tens of thousands of children.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Suspect ID'd in W.Va. sheriff's fatal shooting
04-03-2013
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AP
A new sheriff who was cracking down on the drug trade in southern West Virginia's coalfields was shot to death in the spot where he usually parked his car for lunch, and State Police said the suspect was in a hospital with gunshot wounds inflicted by
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News Link • Gun Rights
Australia's gun controls a political template for the U.S.
04-03-2013
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Reuters
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard wore a bullet proof vest under his suit when he addressed an angry crowd of gun owners in 1996, telling them he was going to ban automatic and semi-automatic weapons for the safety of all Australians.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban kill 44 in suicide attack on courtroom
04-03-2013
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Reuters
Nine Taliban suicide bombers killed themselves and 44 others on Wednesday in an attack on a courtroom in western Afghanistan where 10 of their comrades were on trial, a local official said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Palestinian youth shot to death as West Bank seethes
04-03-2013
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Reuters
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian youth in the West Bank, a Palestinian medic said, as confrontations went into a third day after the death of a prisoner held by Israel provoked street clashes and rocket fire.
Medical staff said troops brough
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Regional leaders refuse to recognize Central African Republic coup leader
04-03-2013
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Reuters
African and Western leaders have already condemned the rebellion in the mineral-rich but chronically unstable nation. The African Union suspended Central African Republic and imposed sanctions on Djotodia while Washington said he was not a legitimate
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News Link • Gun Rights
Maryland set to become latest state to enact stiff gun-control measure
04-03-2013
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Reuters
Maryland was set to become the latest U.S. state to enact stiff gun control measures, with the approval by the state's House of Delegates of legislation that includes a ban on dozens of assault weapons and limits on magazine size.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Church watchdog group posts Delaware sex abuse papers
04-03-2013
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Reuters
A national watchdog group Wednesday began posting on line an estimated 30,000 pages of formerly undisclosed files from the Catholic Diocese here, which went bankrupt to pay damages to victims of sexual abuse.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Solar Flares
Europe readies for solar storm risks
04-03-2013
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The RawStory.com
Europe launched its first space weather coordination centre Wednesday to raise the alarm for possible satellite-sizzling solar storms that also threaten astronauts in orbit, plane passengers and electricity grids on Earth.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Scientists find antibody ‘roadmap’ to AIDS vaccine in African patient
04-03-2013
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The RawStory.com
Scientists on a quest for an antibody-based AIDS vaccine said Wednesday they found promising clues in the uncommonly “robust” natural immune response of a patient in Africa.
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News Link • Energy
Arkansas AG vows to Maddow: Exxon Mobil will face justice in pipeline spill
04-03-2013
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David Ferguson via The RawStory.com
Tuesday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow welcomed Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, who discussed Friday’s rupture of a tar sands pipeline in the city of Mayflower, Arkansas.
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News Link • United Nations
Republican congressman freaks out over UN arms trade treaty conspiracy
04-03-2013
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania on Wednesday called on Americans to do everything within their power to block the United Nation’s Arms Trade Treaty.
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News Link • Military
Defense secretary: North Korea threats pose ‘real and clear danger’
04-03-2013
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The RawStory.com
North Korea’s threats and recent actions represent a “real and clear danger” to the United States as well as its allies South Korea and Japan, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Network of satellite guardians in space keep an eye out for natural disasters
04-03-2013
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The RawStory.com
Almost unknown to the public, a constellation of satellite guardians is flying overhead, and all it takes is a phone call for them to intervene when a country is hit by a storm, earthquake, tsunami or flood.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama heads West to keep guns push alive
04-03-2013
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The RawStory.com
President Barack Obama Wednesday said many proud gun owners backed sensible measures to stop an epidemic of firearms deaths, as he fought to keep his reform drive alive.
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News Link • Government
State Department offers $5 million for capture of Joseph Kony
04-03-2013
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The RawStory.com
The United States offered $5 million Wednesday for the capture of Lord’s Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony, one of the world’s most wanted men, and posted rewards for three other rebel leaders evading trial for war crimes.
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News Link • Activism
Sacred Bonds: Doing What Is Right and What Is Just
04-03-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
In an audience Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square, the new Pope Francis cited the "special role" of women in the church, which may or may not shore up the cautious hope of some Catholics he will begin to bring the church into this century.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
BRICS Challenges Unipolar World and US Dollar Hegemony
04-03-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
BRICS Summit draws clear red lines on Syria, Iran
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Robert Lee
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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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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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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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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 • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Orang Pendak Sighting
04-03-2013
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arclein
Rangers patrolling the Way Kambas National Park (TNWK) in Lampung claim to have sighted dozens of pygmies in a number of areas across the park.
According to them, the pygmies sport dreadlocks, measure no more than 50 centimeters tall and do not
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News Link • Bitcoin
Digital 'bitcoin' currency surpasses 20 national currencies in value
04-02-2013
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foxnews.com
More than $1 billion dollars worth of a digital currency known as "bitcoins" now circulate on the web "
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News Link • Gun Rights
Democrats propose $10,000 fine for gun owners who don’t have insurance
04-02-2013
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The Daily Caller
“It shall be unlawful for a person who owns a firearm purchased on or after the effective date of this subsection not to be covered by a qualified liability insurance policy,” the bill reads.
The bill would also make it a federal crime to sell
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News Link • Gun Rights
California lawmakers consider regulating, taxing ammunition
04-02-2013
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The Sun
Democratic lawmakers are pushing like never before to regulate or tax ammunition sales. They say the logic is simple: A firearm is nothing but an expensive paperweight without ammunition.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Conn. lawmakers unveil bipartisan gun control plan
04-02-2013
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AP
ban on new high-capacity ammunition magazines, registration requirements for existing magazines, a dangerous weapon offender registry, a "ammunition eligibility certificate," imposes universal background checks for all firearms sales and
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.N. passes sweeping international arms regulation viewed by some as Second Amendment override
04-02-2013
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Washington Times
The United Nations signed off on a sweeping treaty to regulate the international arms trade, brushing aside worries from US gun rights advocates that the pact could lead to a national firearms registry and disrupt the American gun market.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Christian Exodus in Middle East
04-02-2013
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arclein
under Islamic law a Muslim couldn’t settle disputes in the courts of infidels. This limitation handicapped Muslim-Christian business relations, particularly since under Islamic law the word of Muslims often trumped that of infidels, even when the inf
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How a 3D printer gave a man his face - and his life - back
04-02-2013
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http://www.smh.com, Richard Gray
When restaurant manager Eric Moger surprised his girlfriend by proposing over Christmas dinner, he could have no idea that less than a year later his life and appearance would be changed beyond recognition.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Texas Prosecutors Lived In A State Of Terror Before They Were Gunned Down
04-02-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Erin Fuchs
A Texas district attorney and an assistant DA who were killed within months of each other both seemed to know they might be targeted.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Judge: Stockton, Calif., Can File for Bankruptcy
04-02-2013
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http://www.cnbc.com
A judge accepted the California city of Stockton's bankruptcy application on Monday, making it the most populous city in the nation to enter bankruptcy.
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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 • TERRORISM
Tikrit Tanker Bomb Leaves Dozens Killed; Iraq Executes Four on Terrorism Charges
04-02-2013
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Antiwar.com
On what otherwise would have been a relatively peaceful day,
a suicide bomber using a tanker bomb was able to cause a significant amount of casualties at a police base in northern Iraq.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla expects its first-ever profit
04-02-2013
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money.cnn.com
Tesla Motors is expecting to report its first-ever quarterly profit after sales of its all-electric Model S exceeded expectations.
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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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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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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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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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