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Date Sent: 2013-05-09
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, May 9, 2013 |
US heads 41-nation war games in Gulf, Iran fears conflict in volatile region
The Fourth Strike of the Match - by Bill Buppert --
Tsarnaev brothers not yet linked to foreign terror groups, officials say
-- Psychic Who Said Amanda Berry Was Dead Silent After Berry Is Found
Alive -- Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Writes A Dissent To A Stay Of Execution -- Legislator’s Talks on Tape With Officials Started With a Ruse -- Porter Stansberry vs. Marin Katusa: Who Won the Bet? -- Vernon Hershberger Real Food Trial -- GOP Immigration Amendments Boost Drones,
Incarceration and Criminalization -- Whistleblower Ellsberg to SF Pride: Manning
Should be Lauded as "Hero That He Is" -- Navy Ship Can’t Meet
Mission, Internal U.S. Report Finds -- CIA requested Zero Dark
Thirty rewrites, memo reveals -- California, New York and DC
look to ban 3D-printed guns -- OpGTMO: Anonymous vows global
hack attack to shut down Guantanamo -- 3D-Printed Gun's Blueprints
Downloaded 100,000 Times In Two Days -- This 3D printed prosthetic
‘Robohand’ will restore your faith in humanity
AZ: March Against Monsanto - Free Market
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine May, 2013 Edition READY FOR
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News Link • Military
US heads 41-nation war games in Gulf, Iran fears conflict in volatile region
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
Massive US-led military drills began in the Persian Gulf in a second such show of maritime might in under a year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
The Fourth Strike of the Match - by Bill Buppert
05-08-2013
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ZeroGov
“Dad, how did America die?”
“The actual murder of the idea of freedom and liberty in America was dealt its greatest blow on 19 April 2013 in Boston. It lasted 238 years but the cracks and fissures that would destroy the country started to become
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Tsarnaev brothers not yet linked to foreign terror groups, officials say
05-08-2013
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Washington Post
Dozens of federal agents and local and state police officers are tracing the steps of the Tsarnaev brothers in the weeks and months before the Boston Marathon bombing, but they have so far not been able to connect them to a foreign terrorist organiza
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Psychic Who Said Amanda Berry Was Dead Silent After Berry Is Found Alive
05-08-2013
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ABC News (video)
Psychic Sylvia Browne, who has made a career of televised psychic readings, told Louwanna Miller on a 2004 episode of the show that her daughter was dead, causing Miller to break down in tears on the show's set.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Writes A Dissent To A Stay Of Execution
05-08-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
It's bad enough when that kind of posturing comes from a district attorney trying to cover his own mistakes. But it's appalling to hear it come from a state supreme court justice -- and not in a speech or an offhand remark, but in an actual opinion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Legislator’s Talks on Tape With Officials Started With a Ruse
05-08-2013
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New York Times
Her guests, according to court papers, included some of the most prominent elected officials in Queens and Brooklyn, and she recorded their conversations.
Ms. Huntley had an agenda: She was under investigation for corruption and hoped that cooper
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Vernon Hershberger Real Food Trial
05-08-2013
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Farm Wars
Wisconsin farmer, Vernon Hershberger is facing criminal charges for feeding his community. Vernon supplies wholesome food to a private food club of 200 members. The outcome of his trial will set precedent for all food clubs around the country!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Turning “Mirage Recovery” into a Real Economic Recovery
05-08-2013
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globalresearch.ca, Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flower
Recently, news reporters have been sounding almost giddy, saying that unemployment is dropping, housing prices are rising and the stock market is growing to new highs. But, these reports do not ring true with what people see around them. When you loo
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
GOP Immigration Amendments Boost Drones, Incarceration and Criminalization
05-08-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Lee Fang
On Tuesday evening, the Senate Judiciary Committee released amendments to the immigration bill as the legislation begins its mark-up phase.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
35 Reasons You Should Never Be Without Vinegar
05-08-2013
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Farm Wars
Whether you are storing up supplies for hard times or just want to save a little grocery money on cleaning supplies, one thing you should never be without is vinegar.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Whistleblower Ellsberg to SF Pride: Manning Should be Lauded as "Hero That He Is"
05-08-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Lauren McCauley
Over 100 Manning supporters shut out of public meeting on Gay Pride controversy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Navy Ship Can’t Meet Mission, Internal U.S. Report Finds
05-08-2013
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By Tony Capaccio
U.S. Navy leaders were warned last year that a $37 billion program to build Littoral Combat Ships can’t meet its promised mission because the vessels are too lightly manned and armed, according to a confidential report.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals
05-08-2013
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Ben Child
Document shows agency requested removal of interrogation scene with dog, and shots of operatives partying with AK47
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
California, New York and DC look to ban 3D-printed guns
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history of the infant technology. If some lawmakers have their way, it will also be the last.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
OpGTMO: Anonymous vows global hack attack to shut down Guantanamo
05-08-2013
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http://rt.com
The hacktivist group Anonymous has announced it will mark the 100th day of the Guantanamo hunger strike with three days of massive protests, calling on supporters to join their global action both on the ground and online.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
RoboKeg Is a Heady Mix of Technology and Beer
05-08-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Long beer lines may be the most hipster of first-world problems, but that hasn't stopped a team of self-described "lazy hackers" from doing something about it.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Primitive Outdoor Skills: Dead Trees
05-08-2013
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prepperlink.com
One of the most exciting things about primitive outdoor survival skills is the fact that nothing is viewed as garbage. Everything in the environment can be put to use if a person is willing to think out of the box.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Researchers Build World's Fastest Carbon Nanotube Transistor
05-08-2013
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http://www.forbes.com, Alex Knapp
A lot of researchers are out there working to put an end to the “silicon” in Silicon Valley.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
D-Wave’s Quantum Computer Goes to the Races, Wins
05-08-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Tom Simonite
Tests suggest that a CIA-backed quantum computing technology can be very powerful for some kinds of problems.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D-Printed Gun's Blueprints Downloaded 100,000 Times In Two Days
05-08-2013
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http://www.forbes.com,
If gun control advocates hoped to prevent blueprints for the world’s first fully 3D-printable gun from spreading online, that horse has now left the barn about a hundred thousand times.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
This 3D printed prosthetic ‘Robohand’ will restore your faith in humanity
05-08-2013
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http://venturebeat.com, Ricardo Bilton
While a lot of the focus on 3D printing these days is on how it can be used to take lives, the technology can be used to improve them as well.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Federal Europe will be 'a reality in a few years', says Jose Manuel Barroso
05-07-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
A fully fledged federal Europe may seem like "political science fiction" today but will soon become reality for all European Union countries whether inside or outside the euro, Jose Manuel Barroso has said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin: The Tyranny Test
05-07-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Paul Rosenberg
An increasing number of people have complained about governments and central banks in recent years, even using the word "tyranny" to describe them. They are, of course, called names in the establishment press: conspiracy theorists, mainly.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Robert Fisk: The truth is that after Israel’s air strikes, we are involved
05-07-2013
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independent.co.uk
If the EU and US say nothing about these attacks, approval is granted
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Video: Obama Civilian Defense Force Volunteers Check Backpacks On SDSU Campus
05-07-2013
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rumormillnews.com
Video: Obama Civilian Defense Force Volunteers Check Backpacks On SDSU Campus
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin On The PayPal Network
05-07-2013
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http://www.forbes.com, Jon Matonis
PayPal has recently entertained the notion of accepting and clearing the bitcoin unit on its pervasive platform. It’s a bit like the prince joining the revolution. Is this a good thing?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Woman who ran secret prison bypassed as top spy
05-07-2013
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AP
One of the CIA’s highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency’s top spy job. The officer, who remains undercover, was a finalist for the job and would have beco
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News Link • Food
European Commission criminalize seeds and plants not registered with government
05-06-2013
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Natural News
A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."
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News Link • Food
March Against Monsanto - Free Market
05-25-13
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http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6536375475
The fight for our food!
We will be having the Really Really Free Market @ 8:00 a.m.! The march will start around 10:00 a.m. There will be speakers at the RRFM and hopefully farmers and bartering so bring things to trade, alternative currencies, o
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News Link • World News
Mega Banks, ATF True Culprits Behind Mexican Drug and Gun Violence
05-06-2013
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Daniel Taylor via PrisonPlanet.com
resident Obama, during a recent visit to Mexico, pointed the finger at American’s use of illegal drugs and guns for Mexico’s plague of violence.
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News Link • Housing
N.Y. to sue Bank of America, Wells Fargo over alleged violations of mortgage deal
05-06-2013
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Danielle Douglas via The Washington Post
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday threatened to sue Bank of America and Wells Fargo for allegedly failing to help struggling homeowners under the $25 billion national mortgage settlement.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Killer Robots Condemned in New UN Report
05-06-2013
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Elizabeth Palermo via LiveScience.com
Killer robots might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but they're alarmingly close to becoming a reality. A new report from the United Nations Human Rights Commission suggests that lethal autonomous robots need to be regulated
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News Link • Military
Source: Israeli Airstrike on Syria Coordinated With Al-Qaeda Militants
05-06-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
Israel’s airstrike on Syria was timed to precede an Al-Qaeda-led rebel offensive against President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces according to Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence sources
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News Link • Gun Rights
US Senator: Big Sis Buying Ammo To Dry Up Supply
05-06-2013
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Steve Watson via PrisonPlanet
A US Senator has stated on record that he believes the Department of Homeland Security is intentionally attempting to exhaust civilian supplies of ammunition by buying huge bulk amounts, as documented by Infowars for some months.
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News Link • Food
The Real Problem with GMO Food with Thierry Vrain
05-07-2013
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arclein
My offending response was after my lecture during the Question period to a comment by a woman in the audience of a previous lecture. That her husband developed a rash every time they had sweet corn last summer. In the light of the many scientific res
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News Link • Agriculture
GMO Pesticide Resistence
05-07-2013
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arclein
"Our simulations tell us that with 10 percent of acreage set aside for refuges, resistance evolves quite fast, but if you put 30 or 40 percent aside, you can substantially delay it," says Yves Carriere, a professor of entomology at the UA College o
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News Link • Internet
Internet Explorer Zero-Day Attack Targets Nuclear Researchers
05-06-2013
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Ben Weitzenkorn via LiveScience.com
Microsoft has confirmed the existence of a zero-day code-execution exploit for Internet Explorer 8 that's currently being used in a series of watering-hole attacks.
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Senate passes bill letting states tax Internet purchases, siding with traditional retailers
05-06-2013
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The Washington Post
The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping " for many a largely tax-free frontier " to state sales taxes.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself
05-06-2013
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Jia Lynn Yang, Tom Hamburger and Dina ElBoghdady
On the same morning a congressional staffer told investors in a private call that odds were improving for a government decision that would help medical insurers, trading spiked in a major health-care company.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Pentagon: Chinese government, military behind cyberspying
05-06-2013
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Ernesto Londoño via The Washington Post
Cyber-espionage targeting U.S. government and business entities appears “to be attributable to the Chinese government and military,” the Pentagon charged Monday in the U.S. government’s most explicit public accusation to date against Beijing.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA collects 25 handguns at airport checkpoints
05-06-2013
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Ashley Halsey III via The Washington Post
Twenty-five would-be fliers learned an expensive lesson at the nation’s airports last week: It’s not a good idea to pack a gun in your carry-on bag.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be Abolished
05-06-2013
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Michael via The Economic Collapse
If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.
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