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Date Sent: 2013-06-19
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
Supreme Court Rules Pre-Miranda Silence Can Be Used Against You To Prove Guilt
U.S. to launch formal peace talks with Taliban -- Julian Assange: Google's just an arm of US government -- Liars for the Total State -- Swiss Lawmakers Reject Deal to End US Tax Spat -- 06-19-13 -- Davi Barker - Carla Gericke - Dave Butler - From Porcfest X - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM -- Shock: Iceland Defies EU, Freezes Membership Bid -- Full House committee transcripts shed new light on genesis of IRS
targeting -- Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out -- Has the Moslem Cyber Jihad
Against Christian Web Sites Begun? -- Reporter Who Brought Down General
Stanley McChrystal Is Dead at 33 -- Farewell Bernanke ... Thanks For Inflating The Biggest Bond Bubble The World Has Ever Seen -- It’s Obama’s Safari – But We’re the Ones Taken for a Ride! -- Uncle Sam’s Growing Ownership of Student Loans -- Secrets of the Transhumanist Agenda Revealed at 2013 Conference -- Google Says Secret Intelligence Court Restricts Its Right to Free Speech -- First Known Four-Quark Particle Pops Up In Japanese Collider -- Nursing Home Tracks Residents' Every Move --
'Wikileaks' Film Flop Scores on BitTorrent Sites -- Mystery on Venus:
'Super-Hurricane' Force Winds Inexplicably Get Stronger -- Congress
Considers Nixing NASA Asteroid Mission
AZ: We have a .50 cal WINNER!!!; Kick-Off Rally - People's Veto
of Medicaid Expansion
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Supreme Court Rules Pre-Miranda Silence Can Be Used Against You To Prove Guilt
06-18-2013
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Jonathan Turley
In a major loss for individual rights vis-a-vis the police, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that prosecutors could use a person’s silence against them in court if it comes before he’s told of his right to remain silent.
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. to launch formal peace talks with Taliban
06-18-2013
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Washington Post
The Obama administration will start formal peace talks with the Taliban in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, the first direct political contact between them since early last year and the initial step in what the administration hopes will lead to a neg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Julian Assange: Google's just an arm of US government
06-18-2013
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The Register
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that Google is tied up in a conspiracy stretching up to the very highest levels of American government. The pale blond hacker claimed that Google was a US government "echo".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Liars for the Total State
06-18-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Government claims they foiled 50 terror plots by snooping on you. Ron Paul comments on Caputo.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Swiss Lawmakers Reject Deal to End US Tax Spat
06-18-2013
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AP
Switzerland's lower house of parliament pushed back strongly Tuesday against a government proposal to end a bitter dispute with U.S. authorities over American tax cheats suspected of hiding money in the country's banks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Shock: Iceland Defies EU, Freezes Membership Bid
06-18-2013
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The Daily Bell
Iceland's new government is no more apt to speed an entry into the EU than previous administrations. Representatives reaffirmed a halt to efforts to join the European Union. Reasons included worries over control of Iceland's resources and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
06-18-2013
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Washington Post
Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests the court makes, arguing the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it is forced to give the government.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Full House committee transcripts shed new light on genesis of IRS targeting
06-18-2013
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Washington Post
Democrats just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in the investigation of IRS targeting of conservatives " and it appears to confirm that the initial targeting did originate with a low-level employee in the Cincinnati office.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
06-18-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
Wake up and see the world as it is. Turn off the talking heads on TV and get to know the real world. Stop spending all your brain cycles on celebrities, sports heroes and gossip hounds " get to know your neighbor and the old woman who lives around th
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
“Brostitute”- extremely amusing short online video with Tim Roth
06-18-2013
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Christine Smith's blog (video from Funny or Di
Now, that’s satire we need more of...
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News Link • World News
Reporter Who Brought Down General Stanley McChrystal Is Dead at 33
06-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Michael Hastings, the journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone reports. He was 33.
Hastings' 2010 profile of McChrystal in the pages of Rolling St
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Farewell Bernanke " Thanks For Inflating The Biggest Bond Bubble The World Has Ever Seen
06-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is on the way out the door, but the consequences of the bond bubble that he has helped to create will stay with us for a very, very long time. During Bernanke’s tenure, interest rates on U.S. Treasuries have fal
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
It’s Obama’s Safari " But We’re the Ones Taken for a Ride!
06-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Remember the Sequester? Remember the Administration threatening the end of the world if the phony “cuts” (which were actually just decreases in future spending increases) came into effect? Remember the cuts to Air Traffic Controllers while we were to
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Government Waste
Uncle Sam’s Growing Ownership of Student Loans
06-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Murray Rothbard would, correctly, object to this government spending as investment. My point in quoting Marron is simply to show how large a factor student loans have become, rather than to hail it as magical new investment. Indeed, given new evide
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Secrets of the Transhumanist Agenda Revealed at 2013 Conference
06-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Dmitry Itskov spoke at the Global Future 2045 Conference (GF2045) wherein he said that he would like to see technology developed that would allow human consciousness to be inputted into artificial computer neuro-brains and hologram bodies.
In 2020
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Free Speech
Google Says Secret Intelligence Court Restricts Its Right to Free Speech
06-18-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Google is demanding that a secret intelligence court allow it to share some details about surveillance requests for user data.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Wikileaks' Film Flop Scores on BitTorrent Sites
06-18-2013
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technewsdaily.com
No box office smash, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks," captured the No. 4 spot in last week's most pirated movies roster, compiled by TorrentFreak, a news site covering all things torrent-related.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Future Buildings Could be Made of Artificial Bone
06-18-2013
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livescience.com
Move over nanotubes, there's a new futuristic building material in town and its origins may surprise you.
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News Link • Corruption
Hain Celestials " Not so “Organic” or Healthy " High Pesticide Content in Tea
06-18-2013
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Farm Wars
Hain Celestials caught mislabeling “organic” products, and Celestial Seasonings tea laden with pesticides and known carcinogens.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress Considers Nixing NASA Asteroid Mission
06-18-2013
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space.com
A draft authorization bill from the House Science space subcommittee would cap NASA spending at about $16.87 billion for the next two years, prohibit a proposed asteroid retrieval mission, overhaul the agency’s........
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Today’s Birthday, June 15: The Magna Carta
6/17/13
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Res ipsa loquitur (
“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history . . . It was written in Magna Carta.”
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Economy - International
Bilderberg Group
06-17-2013
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arclein
It is above all a club for life’s winners. George Osborne, Ed Balls and Ken Clarke, the Cabinet Minister who also serves on the group’s steering committee, will arrive this afternoon, as will Mr Mandelson. They will be joined by Jose Manuel Barroso,
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
A Socialism for the 21st Century with Richard Wolff
06-17-2013
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arclein
Capitalism has stopped "delivering the goods" for quite a while now, especially in its older bases (Europe, North America and Japan). Real wage stagnation, deepening wealth and income inequalities, unsustainable debt levels and export of jobs have
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robert klein
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News Link • China
The Secret War
06-17-2013
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arclein
Alexander runs the nation’s cyberwar efforts, an empire he has built over the past eight years by insisting that the US’s inherent vulnerability to digital attacks requires him to amass more and more authority over the data zipping around the globe.
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robert klein
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News Link • Self-Defense
TX Mother Protects Kids From Carjacker: 'I Told Him He Messed With The Wrong -
06-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by adap2k
TX Mother Protects Kids From Carjacker: 'I Told Him He Messed With The Wrong -
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News Link • Transportation
U.S.Court Decisions confirm "Driving a Motor Vehicle" is a right...
06-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by go213mph
U.S.Court Decisions confirm "Driving a Motor Vehicle" is a right, not a govt granted privilege.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt " If You Want To See The Future Of America Just Look At Detroit
06-17-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Eventually the money runs out. Much of America was shocked when the city of Detroit defaulted on a $39.7 million debt payment and announced that it was suspending payments on $2.5 billion of unsecured debt, but those who visit my site on a regular b
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Secret History Of Western Education " Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
06-17-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt " The Historical Untold Truth Of Western Education and the purposely done Scientific Destruction of young children’s minds.
Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Obama’s Syria Policy Looks a Lot Like Bush’s Iraq Policy
06-17-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Setting aside the question of why 100 killed by gas is somehow more important than 99,900 killed by other means, the fact is his above explanation is full of holes. The Washington Post reported that the decision to overtly arm the Syrian rebels
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits
06-16-2013
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The Guardian
Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by
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News Link • Syria
US' Shah of Syria Introduced
06-16-2013
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Washington Post
Gen. Salim Idriss, 56, heads the Supreme Military Council of the fragmented Free Syrian Army, and the Obama administration has anointed him as the sole conduit of weapons to the rebels, whether supplied by the United States or by vassals
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
State photo-ID databases become troves for police
06-16-2013
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Washington Post
The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases state officials assembled to prevent driver’s-license fraud but increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders in a wide
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases
06-16-2013
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AP
An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she personally was scrutinizing the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Life-producing phosphorus was carried to Earth by meteorite
06-16-2013
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secretsofthefed.com
Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key .......
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News Link • Iran
Iranians Have No Free Press, No Fair Elections
06-16-2013
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Free Press Publications
On June 14, many Iranians voted in the election to choose the successor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinjad. Voters were given eight choices, and two of those candidates eventually withdrew leaving voters with 6 candidates on their ballot. I say “voters
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Global Future 2045 Congress: Robotic Avatar
06-16-2013
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popularmechanics.com
Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro's robotic avatar on stage at Alice Tully Hall. Global Future 2045 Congress. The robot gave a nice spoken introduction to the real Dr. Ishiguro. While Ishiguro speaks, the robot sits on stage, making slight movements of its head.
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News Link • Syria
Syria is Iran's Stalingrad
06/01/2013
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Gary Gambill at Middle East Forum
The growing infusion of Iranian-backed Lebanese and Iraqi Shiite fighters into the Syrian civil war is causing some veteran pundits to panic. Vali Nasr, dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, warns that
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