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Date Sent: 2013-06-07
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, June 7, 2013 |
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
New York Law Would Make it Felony to Annoy Cops -- Mesa panel rejects traffic-camera use -- Film Recommendation/Review of “Dead Man” -- The Smoking Gun: A direct link between Agenda 21 and local planners -- A Political Problem-Not an Economic Problem-Catherine Austin Fitts (Video) -- Guantanamo Bay hunger strike grows; 41 now being force-fed -- Google Reader shutdown spawned by changes in how we consume news -- Denise Herzing: Could we speak the language of dolphins?
AZ: 90th Birthday Party for Beryl Rousseau from the Arizona
Breakfast Club Tomorrow, Sat June 8th, 4 p.m. til ??; Fundraiser raffle (tickets
almost gone) for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment - 36"
Ferret .50 BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver; Bring Jordan Page to AZ Freedom Fest
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News Link • Surveillance
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
06-06-2013
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Washington Post
The NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into 9 leading US Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a target or trace a whole network of associates
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Just For Fun!
90th Birthday Party for Beryl Rousseau from the Arizona Breakfast Club Sat June 8th, 4 p.m. til ??
06-03-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Beryl Rousseau is going to be 90 years old! She has been attending the Arizona Breakfast Club since 1974, and has been active in the Republican Party for a very long time. Birthday Party at the Hancock's on Saturday, June 8th, 2013 starting at 4 p.m.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New York Law Would Make it Felony to Annoy Cops
06-06-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
New York politicians are hoping to pass a bill that would make it a felony to “harass, annoy or threaten” a cop in the line of duty, which would no doubt be used against citizens who record cops in public.
If passed, citizens convicted
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Mesa panel rejects traffic-camera use
06-06-2013
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azcentral.com
A City Council committee is recommending removal of Mesa’s speed and red-light traffic cameras when the contract expires in February.
The public-safety committee’s 2-1 vote last week against renewing the contract with American Traffic Systems is n
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Film Recommendation/Review of “Dead Man”
06-06-2013
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Christine Smith's blog
For me, the journey William Blake (Johnny Depp) and Nobody (Gary Farmer) share is one of beauty in the midst of human depravity.
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News Link • Property Rights
The Smoking Gun: A direct link between Agenda 21 and local planners
06-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
When the fight started against Agenda 21, those of us working to expose it were largely ignored by the main stream media and even the established Conservative movement and its media. Too far out there, they said, to be taken seriously.
Then, as mo
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
A Political Problem-Not an Economic Problem-Catherine Austin Fitts (Video)
06-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts sums up the historic global financial problems by saying, “We have a group of people who have the power to act with impunity.
They are above the law. They are centralizing and consolidating economic and polit
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Chris Menke
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News Link • TERRORISM
Guantanamo Bay hunger strike grows; 41 now being force-fed
06-06-2013
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Washington Post
The number of hunger strikers being force-fed by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has risen to 41, with the protest showing no signs of abating more than a week after President Obama renewed his commitment to close the detention facility.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Internet
Google Reader shutdown spawned by changes in how we consume news
06-06-2013
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slashgear.com
When Google announced that its RSS reader service, Google Reader, would be shutting down on July 1, a part us died that day, especially since Google didn’t give a reason as to why they’re shutting it down.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Solar Flares
NASA shows off whole year of solar flares in one photo
06-06-2013
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slashgear.com
NASA always has some cool photos to show off, and this little gem, especially, doesn’t disappoint.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Synthetic Biology Should We Be Afraid?
06-06-2013
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Farm Wars
Organism created by synthetic biology techniques to be released into the wild and most astonishingly, it will bypass any regulatory approval procedures.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Denise Herzing: Could we speak the language of dolphins?
06-06-2013
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ted.com
For 28 years, Denise Herzing has spent five months each summer living with a pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins, following three generations of family relationships and behaviors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
BBC iScience Nanotechnology
06-06-2013
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youtube
A fun, engaging and relevant programme, inspiring the viewer to consider the science within and how scientific process can be used to test ideas and develop theories, rather than just looking for a given answer to a known question.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Africa Land Grabs: Farmers in several African countries stand up against Bolloré
06-05-2013
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Global Research
Farmers in four African countries, the residents of plantations under the control of the Bolloré group, are organising coordinated actions this Wednesday, June 5th, as the group holds its general shareholders’ meeting.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New World Order
Bilderberg Group Gathers Global Elite in UK
06-05-2013
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Common Dreams
What do the world's most powerful individuals discuss when they all get together? The answer is the world's worst kept secret
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Marc Victor
Driving While Black
06-05-2013
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YouTube
Jessie Thornton was pulled over, Arrested, Charged and Prosecuted for DWB (Driving While Black) in Surprise Arizona.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"No Substitute for Victory" Lecture
06-05-2013
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Phoenix Objectivists
Join Phoenix Objectivists on Thursday, June 13th to listen to a pre-recorded lecture entitled: "No Substitute for Victory: Military Offense and the Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Corruption
Anas Aremeyaw Anas: How I named, shamed and jailed
06-05-2013
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ted.com
Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has broken dozens of stories of corruption and organized crime all over Ghana -- without ever revealing his identity. In this talk Anas shows grisly footage from some of his investigations and demonstrates the importance
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Books
The Real Lincoln in His Own Words
06-05-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
After writing two books and dozens of articles, and giving hundreds of radio and television interviews and public presentations on the subject of Lincoln and the political economy of the American "Civil War"over the past fifteen years,
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
How Will Police Regulate Stoned Driving?
06-05-2013
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popsci.com
Now that recreational marijuana is legal in two states, lawmakers and law enforcement have to grapple with how best to deal with cannabis-impaired drivers.
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News Link • Secession
Thomas DiLorenzo: More on the Myth of Lincoln, Secession and the 'Civil War'
06-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas DiLorenzo.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism
06-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
May was Iraq's deadliest month in nearly five years, with more than 1,000 dead " both civilians and security personnel " in a rash of bombings, shootings and other violence.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Brazil calls in army to defuse conflicts over Indian lands
06-05-2013
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Reuters
President Dilma Rousseff's government said on Tuesday it would send 110 federal troops to the Brazilian farm state of Mato Grosso do Sul to try to prevent more violence between Indians claiming their ancestral territory and ranchers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
How Big Institutional Money Distorts Housing Prices
06-05-2013
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zerohedge.com
The airwaves are full of stories of economic recovery. One trumpeted recently has been the rapid recovery in housing, at least as measured in prices.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Guggenheim On The Canary In The Coalmine
06-05-2013
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zerohedge.com
Ongoing monetary stimulus is leading to heightened volatility, and the bull market which has been in place since 2009 is becoming overextended.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Housing Bubble Pop Alert:
06-05-2013
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zerohedge.com
Here is a simple way to test if the last year of housing market gains have been due to a real, fundamental, consumer-led recovery, or nothing but the latest iteration of the Fed's money bubble machine manifesting itself in the place of least du jour
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • China
Threat From China Is Being Hyped
Donna Hancock
Stories have appeared about China’s military hacking into the computer systems of the American government and business and Chinese oil companies’ reaping of unfair gains in Iraq on the backs of dead American soldiers. Yet the threat from China in the
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
History... Interview and a Movie: Larken Rose premieres the Directors Cut of "It Can't Happ
06-05-2013
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TragedyAndHope.Com
In America we’re taught to believe that Tyranny can’t happen here. What does Tyranny actually look like, and how does it grow? Larken Rose sets the stage so you can then enjoy his new documentary film “It Can’t Happen Here”, shown in a Director’s Cut
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News Link • Healthcare
Finally: A Farmer Sues Monsanto for Genetic Contamination
06-04-2013
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The Local Voluntary
Ernest Barnes, a wheat farmer in Morton County, Kansas has finally, this week, filed suit this week in the U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kansas, alleging that Monsanto’s genetic pollution has financially damaged himself and other farmers.
GE whe
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Michael Baysek
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
BORG Supremes Destroy Fourth Amendment
Thomas Costanzo
The BORG Supremes “ruled” this week to uphold a Maryland “law” that allows BORG Agents to collect without a warrant DNA material from human beings who are arrested. The 5-4 decision is a further indication; the United States is a now operating as a
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News Link • Healthcare
Welcome to State Run Healthcare
06-04-2013
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The Local Voluntary
The regulation says that you have to be 12 years old to qualify for an adult transplant. That includes a lung transplant.
And because older patients are statistically more likely to survive based on past experience, the State gets to decide wheth
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Michael Baysek
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News Link • Food
New NYC Ad Campaign Targets Sweetened Teas, Fruit Drinks
06-04-2013
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CBS News
New York City’s campaign to cut consumption of sugary drinks now features ads warning people about sweet teas, sports and energy drinks and fruit-flavored beverages.
The city health department launched the TV and bus ads Monday. The spots say suc
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News Link • Drug War
Oregon Legislature passes ban on smoking in car with kids present
06-04-2013
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The Oregon House passed Senate Bill 444 Monday in a 43-15 vote, against the objections of some lawmakers who groused about it as a “nanny state” provision, or questioned its effectiveness.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
13-Year-Old Girl Gang Raped In Pakistan . . . Village Elders Order Her Killed
06-04-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Another story of a rape victim subjected to a demand for an honor killing in a traditional Muslim area. Kainat Soomro was gang-raped by 4 men at the age of 13. According to their religious and cultural traditions, her village classed her as a “Kari”
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News Link • Drug War
Pot arrests more likely for blacks
06-04-2013
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AP
Black people are arrested for possessing marijuana far more often than white people, even though marijuana use by both races is about the same, the American Civil Liberties Union reports in a new study.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Neale's Weekly Gun Rant Volume 12 - by Neale Osborn
06-04-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
The next assault on the 2nd Amendment is coming. Obama is scheduled to get the UN Small Arms Treaty on his desk. If he signs it (and we know the asshat will) it goes to the Senate, where Reid will surely try to sneak it in with little or no debate.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Iran, Hezbollah mine Latin America for revenue, recruits, analysts say
06-04-2013
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CNN
An Argentine special prosecutor's accusation that Iran has established terrorist networks throughout Latin America has renewed debate over how big a threat that poses to the region and the United States.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Syria
George Galloway on Syria
06-04-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
British MP George Galloway gave his opinion about the latest incident where Abu Saqqar, a commander in one of the earliest "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) brigades, the al-Farouq Brigade, ate the heart and liver of a dead Syrian soldier
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