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Date Sent: 2013-10-04
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, October 4, 2013 |
Jail time for selling raw milk is greater than jail time for raping children
Saudi Arabian Backed Insurgents Responsible for Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack -- Vatican Bank likely to close embassy accounts after Iran, Iraq red flags -- Amnesty International: Louisiana Put Prisoner Herman Wallace Through 'Hell' --
A Taste of Future Twitter Technologies -- The Ultimate Layer of
Financial Protection -- Portland Light Rail Draws In Big Real Estate
Investments -- Silk Road bust hints at FBI's new cybercrime powers -- Corporate Coup d’Etat (Alternative Radio Podcast) By Chris Hedges --
Unintended consequences of Obamacare devastating American jobs and
workers -- Staged Police Violence: NWO loves it -- Public Banking Ignores Today's Debacle -- America: The Republic of Lying
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine October, 2013 Edition
RELEASES BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT 10/4
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow; FREEDOM
SUMMIT 2014 REGISTRATION Announcement; Freedom Under the
Stars! Jordan Page playing in Tempe, AZ - Oct 18th, 2013
Upcoming March Against Monsanto to take place October 12
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News Link • Police State
Jail time for selling raw milk is greater than jail time for raping children
10-04-2013
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naturalnews.com
The American system of justice is indeed in major need of overhaul when, in one place, you can get a month in jail for raping a child, but in another, you can get several months in jail for daring to sell milk that wasn't government approved.
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
EXCLUSIVE-Vatican Bank likely to close embassy accounts after Iran, Iraq red flags
10-4-2013
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http://www.trust.org/item/20130930155045-gdkix
Reuters has learned that the Financial Information Authority (AIF), the Holy See's financial watchdog, wrote to the IOR in the second half of 2011 expressing its concern over several cash withdrawals and deposits by the embassies of Iran, Iraq and I
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems?
10-04-2013
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ted.com
In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big problems. Fast forward to present day, and what's happened?
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Amnesty International: Louisiana Put Prisoner Herman Wallace Through 'Hell'
10-4-2013
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/amne
Amnesty International USA issued the following comments today from Steven Hawkins, executive director, upon learning of the death of Herman Wallace in Louisiana:
'Today is a very sad day for the family and friends of Herman Wallace and for those
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News Link • Energy
Genetically Modified Bacteria Produce 50 Percent More Fuel
10-04-2013
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Technologyreview.com
By changing the way certain organisms process sugar, UCLA researchers have shown how to produce more biofuel.
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News Link • Energy
How Chemistry Impacts Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
10-04-2013
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earthtechling.com
[Last month] I had the privilege of attending the 246th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition.
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News Link • Transportation
Portland Light Rail Draws In Big Real Estate Investments
10-04-2013
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earthtechling.com
The Blue Line " TriMet’s light rail route from Gresham to Hillsboro " attracted the biggest real estate investments of any surface transit system in the country, according to a new study.
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
Scientists Warn Of ‘Deadly Trio’ Risk To Ailing Oceans
10-04-2013
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earthtechling.com
Marine scientists warned Thursday that our oceans are declining more rapidly than previously thought -- becoming ever warmer and more acidic and losing oxygen at an alarming rate.
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News Link • Energy
Solar-Harvesting Pavement Installed At George Washington University
10-04-2013
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earthtechling.com
Thanks to the increasing affordability of the solar panel, we often talk about the energy-generating potential of rooftops.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic joins the reality TV space race
10-04-2013
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newscientist.com
Reality TV is set to become a little more out of this world. This morning, Virgin Galactic and NBC announced plans for a Survivor-like series that will send the winner to space.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Silk Road bust hints at FBI's new cybercrime powers
10-04-2013
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newscientist.com
The biggest drug marketplace on the internet has been busted. The illicit empire of the Silk Road came crashing down on Wednesday after its founder Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts , was arrested and charged with narcotics trafficking, money l
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Corporate Coup d’Etat (Alternative Radio Podcast) By Chris Hedges
10-4-2013
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http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/chris-hedges-corp
Corporations constitute the most powerful force in society. Their influence has seeped into our classrooms, our newsrooms, our entertainment systems, our consciousness and crucially into our politics. Big money buys access to lawmakers. For sheer arr
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News Link • Art
Fabian Oefner: Psychedelic science
10-04-2013
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ted.com
Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner is on a mission to make eye-catching art from everyday science. In this charming talk, he shows off some recent psychedelic images, including photographs of crystals as they interact with soundwaves.
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News Link • How To
Five easy steps to choosing safe foods
10-04-2013
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naturalnews.com
People prefer organic foods for varying reasons, such as quality and price, and because they are known to be healthy.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Medical insanity: Prozac prescriptions rise sharply in family pets
10-04-2013
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naturalnews.com
The culture of prescription drug addiction in America seems to be spreading to the pet population, as an increasing number of pet owners opt to medicate their furry family members into behavioral compliance with mind-altering mood medications like Pr
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
Unintended consequences of Obamacare devastating American jobs and workers
10-04-2013
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naturalnews.com
I'm not naive enough to believe that politics is anything but a blood sport, but it would be nice to have national media organizations whose editors and reporters remembered that their responsibility, first and foremost, is not to be shills for left-
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News Link • Police State
Staged Police Violence: NWO loves it
10-04-2013
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The Local Voluntary
I have to admit. I’m getting a little tired of all the staged police violence. NWO loves Hegelian dialectic. So they amplify the problem until everyone is looking for a solution. And like clockwork, they roll in with their solution and you are still
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Judge orders monitor in Ariz. sheriff profile case
10-02-2013
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AP
The judge's order mandates the sheriff's office install audio and video recording devices in patrol vehicles and requires deputies to notify dispatch of the reason they are making a traffic stop prior to contacting the vehicle's driver "unless exigen
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News Link • Homeland Security
Germany Asks US Why NSA Critic Was Denied Entry
10-02-2013
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AP
Trojanow was one of several prominent German authors who signed an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel urging her to take a firm stance against the mass online surveillance allegedly conducted by the NSA.
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA chief admits testing US cellphone tracking
10-02-2013
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AP
National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander revealed Wednesday that his spy agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations, in addition to its practice of sweeping broad information about calls made.
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News Link • Surveillance
Gov't: Court should not allow disclosure
10-02-2013
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AP
A federal court should not permit five leading Internet companies to reveal how often they are ordered to turn over information about their customers in national security investigations, the government argued in papers released Wednesday.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Student Loans: What to Consider Before Consolidating
10-02-2013
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College students relying on student loans to pay for college can easily graduate with 16 or more separate loans. Plan to borrow for graduate school, too? Add a few new loans, interest rates and bills to that list.
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News Link • Food
Finally: American Chickens Will No Longer Be Fed Arsenic
10-02-2013
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70% of meat birds raised in the US are given arsenic as an additive to help the chickens put on more weight with less feed. Chickens, turkeys and hogs are also fed the carcinogen because it happens to impart a healthier pinkish color to the meat.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Florida Student Reportedly Suspended For Using Finger Gun In Playground Game
10-02-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Harmony, Florida where teachers have suspended 8-year-old Jordan Bennett for using a finger as a play gun. This is only the last of such absurd finger gun cases. In the meantime, a student in Rhode Island was suspended for having a key chain with
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Skinning Leviathan Some Day Should Be Easy, Given Its Tissue-Thin Hide
10-02-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Dan’s distributors refused to display his new creation. He eventually learned that the NSA was intimidating them. And the thugs at Homeland Stasi-sorry, Security had been filing cease-and-desist orders against Dan’s mockery of their sorry butts since
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News Link • Military
Are They Brave?
10-02-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Is a member of the Mafia brave when he goes into the territory of another Mafia family and kills for his godfather? Is a member of a street gang brave when he goes into the territory of another gang and kills a rival gang member? Is a hitman brave
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
How The Government Explains The Internet
10-02-2013
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Simple Justice
No one is arguing that the info was available via search " but rather that it was incredibly wide open because of a security hole, and you’d need some level of technical proficiency to figure it out, but as far as I know there’s no law making it ille
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News Link • Internet
Lavabit got order for Snowden’s login info, then gov’t demanded site’s SSL key
10-02-2013
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ars technica
The American government obtained a secret order from a federal judge demanding that Lavabit hand over its private SSL key, enabling authorities to access Edward Snowden’s e-mail, and e-mail belonging to Lavabit's 400,000 other users
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News Link • Government
Today NEW- Jesse Ventura - talks about the government shutdown
10-02-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by BarracudaTrader
Today NEW- Jesse Ventura - talks about the government shutdown - CNN (1.Oct.2013) HD Piers Morgan
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obamacare Fines to be Seized From Bank Accounts?
10-02-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Man who attempted to sign up claims he was threatened with drivers license being revoked, federal tax lien on home
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Opinion • Bitcoin
Bitcoin and Other Altcoins: A Solution for Millennials
10-02-2013
Bob Ross
As we as a population face such issues as mounting debt and endless warfare, one oft-reviled generation is really getting a sour deal: the millennials. Those narcissistic, lazy, good-for-nothing louts who played by all the rules only to realize the r
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
After 4 Decades in Solitary, Dying Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Freed, Conviction Overturned
10-2-2013
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www.democracynow.org
Wallace’s defense attorney, George Kendall; and Jackie Sumell, an artist and Wallace supporter who is with him at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans. "This is a tremendous victory and a miracle that Herman Wallace will die
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
WHY IS OBAMA MEETING WITH WALL STREET CRIMINALS?
10-2-2013
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http://www.theburningplatform.com/2013/10/02/why-i
Do you need any more proof about who is calling the shots in this country than the fact that the CEOs of the TOO BIG TO TRUST Wall Street are meeting face to face with Obama in the midst of a government shutdown “crisis”?
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Reference Link • Day of Reckoning
Brzezinski's Words Point to the Coming Apocalypse
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Brzezinski is an insider's, insider. He co-founded the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller. He handpicked Jimmy Carter to be President. Therefore, when he speaks to the fact that it is easier to kill a million people than control a million p
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News Link • Surveillance
How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying
10-02-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
It began as an ordinary purse snatching. On an early Baltimore morning in 1976, a local street thug crouched alongside his green Monte Carlo, pretending to change a flat, biding his time.
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News Link • History
A Poignant Anniversary
10-02-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Thomas Sowell
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and of the Reverend Martin Luther King’s memorable “I have a dream” speech, is a time for reflections " some inspiring, and some painful and ominous.
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News Link • Free Speech
They Still Don’t Get It
10-02-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Butler Shaffer
It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so.
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News Link • Iran
Iran FM: US Flip Flop on Diplomacy Undermines Trust
10-02-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
US Officials Say They 'Understand' Criticism
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Freedom Under the Stars! Jordan Page playing in Tempe, AZ - Oct 18th, 2013
09-24-2013
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Free Tempe
My friends, I am thrilled to announce that the one and only Mr. Jordan Page is on his way to Tempe Arizona to help my campaign! (Matt Papke, Candidate for Tempe City Council)
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News Link • General Opinion
Karl Denninger Goes John Galt!
10-02-2013
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silverdoctors.com
The Market Ticker founder has released a statement that he is shutting down active market reports and updates at The Market Ticker, as he no longer wishes to actively fund the abuses of our fascist government and banking sector, and says in two words
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News Link • Police State
Jean Luc Picard vs NSA: "The Drumhead," a Cautionary Tale vs Surveillance PoliceState ....
10-02-2013
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dailypaul.com
Jean Luc Picard: "I don't like what we have become."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Millennials Devastated As American Dream Becomes Nightmare For Most
10-02-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
"It seems to me that if you went to college and took on student debt, there used to be greater assurance that you could pay it off with a good job," sums up one 'millennial', adding - sadly - "but now, for people living in this economy and in our age
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News Link • Government
91% Of The IRS Has Been Furloughed: Here Is Who Else Got The Government Shut Down Axe
10-02-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
For all the drama surrounding today's political drama...
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News Link • Healthcare
Flashback: 13 Reasons Why The Revolution Might Start with Obamacare
10-02-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by realman2020
Has any of the Supreme Court Justices read the Constitution lately?
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News Link • Surveillance
The one leak with bigger fallout than Snowden’s combined
10-02-2013
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salon.com
A leak about an August al-Qaida plot reportedly has left U.S. intelligence reeling
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