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Date Sent: 2013-12-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, December 23, 2013 |
American Troops Sent to South Sudan -- Scientists successfully reverse aging in mice
TSA releases cartoon animation to introduce kids to warrantless checkpoints -- Video Goes Viral After Garden City Cop Threatens To Ticket Man Washing Car In Own Driveway -- Snowden ally Applebaum says his Berlin apartment subject to raids -- White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts -- Atlantic City Cop Ordered to Pay $250,000 From Own Pocket to Citizen He Abused -- The End of Private Property in the Era of the American Police State - by John W. Whitehead -- US military aircraft hit in South Sudan -- Covert action in Colombia -- The next Detroit? Atlantic City and Las Vegas facing catastrophic collapse -- Harry Reid flips on nuclear option -- MONSTER
PORN: Amazon Cracks Down On America’s Latest Sex Fantasy -- Philips
flattens the light bulb -- What's Next For The US Prison System? -- 2013 Year In Review --
The Hidden Motives Behind The Federal Reserve Taper -- Researchers
crack the world’s toughest encryption by listening --
Move over Sister Wives! Utah
polygamist with FIVE wives and 24 children to get his own reality TV
show
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News Link • NeoCons
American Troops Sent to South Sudan
12-22-2013
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Time magazine
In a White House letter to the leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, Obama said that although the troops were “equipped for combat,” they were sent only “for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property.”
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA releases cartoon animation to introduce kids to warrantless checkpoints
12-22-2013
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In an effort to condition children to accept the police state, the TSA has released a cartoon depicting an family enduring a warrantless federal checkpoint at an airport. The video casts the the travelers and government agents as cute
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Video Goes Viral After Garden City Cop Threatens To Ticket Man Washing Car In Own Driveway
12-22-2013
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CBS News
A Long Island man recorded a police officer who threatened to ticket him if he washed his car in the driveway. The 24-year-old said he was washing his 1997 Volkswagen in his driveway when a police officer told him he wasn’t allowed to do that.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Snowden ally Applebaum says his Berlin apartment subject to raids
12-22-2013
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Russia Today
Jacob Appelbaum, a Berlin-based US journalist with access to some of Edward Snowden’s documents, claims there have been a series of raids on his apartment, saying he suspects possible US involvement.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts
12-22-2013
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New York Times
Obama moved to prevent a federal judge from ruling on the constitutionality of warrantless surveillance programs authorized during the Bush administration, telling a court recent disclosures about NSA spying were not enough to undermine its claim
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Atlantic City Cop Ordered to Pay $250,000 From Own Pocket to Citizen He Abused
12-22-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
We’ve seen so many police abuse lawsuits settled before making it to trial where cops admit no wrongdoing while guiltily dishing out thousands of taxpayer dollars that it’s surprising to see one actually make it to trial. And it’s absolutely flabberg
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News Link • Property Rights
The End of Private Property in the Era of the American Police State - by John W. Whitehead
12-22-2013
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If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love, you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home. If the government can
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
US military aircraft hit in South Sudan
12-22-2013
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Al Jazerra
Gunfire hit 3 US military aircraft responding to the outbreak in violence in South Sudan, wounding 4 US service members and heavily damaging at least 1 of the aircraft. South Sudan blamed the attack on renegade troops in control of the breakaway regi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Covert action in Colombia
12-22-2013
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Washington Post
The 50-year-old Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, once considered the best-funded insurgency in the world, is at its most vulnerable in decades, due in part to a CIA covert action program that has helped Colombian forces kill at least
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The next Detroit? Atlantic City and Las Vegas facing catastrophic collapse
12-22-2013
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FOX News
With the closure of the recent Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, rumors of the bankrupt Revel being sold to Hard Rock, Las Vegas real estate prices remaining depressed, casinos opening up all around the country and online gambling legislation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Harry Reid flips on nuclear option
12-22-2013
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Free Press Publications
In November, with little media coverage, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led the charge in changing the Senate rules relating to filibusters. The Washington Post reported, “Democrats used a rare parliamentary move to change the rules so that federa
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
PHOTOS: How Planet Labs Is Saving The Earth With These Cheap Handmade Satellites
12-22-2013
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Business Insider
Move over Elon Musk. There's a new super cool startup founded by three NASA scientists that is also saving the world by launching things into space.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
MONSTER PORN: Amazon Cracks Down On America’s Latest Sex Fantasy
12-22-2013
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Business Insider
Author Virginia Wade's fiction debut follows a group of women who embark on a week-long camping trip to Mt. Hood National Forest.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
A Contingency Bag for Frequent Air Travelers, by T.R. in North Carolina
12-22-2013
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Survivalblog.com
Your Bug Out bag, Go Bag, SHTF Bag, or whatever you call it contains similar items for each one of us. Some are kept at the door ready at a moment’s notice, some in the trunk of each vehicle all with the same purpose; Mitigation of Risk.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Researchers crack the world’s toughest encryption by listening ..
12-22-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening " yes, with a microphone " to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data.
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News Link • Energy
Cansolair RA 240 Solarmax space heater demo
12-22-2013
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youtube
The cansolair solar space heater works as advertised. I post this video to show my personal experience.
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News Link • Energy
“We Have a Social Responsibility to Innovate
and Develop Solar* Energy”
12-22-2013
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cansolair.com
The CanSolAir SOLAR MAX - Aircraft quality construction in a product that out performs anything on the market for its size and flow rate.
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News Link • Energy
Heat Your Home With 240 Recycled Aluminum Cans
12-22-2013
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offgridworld.com
Heat your home with recycled aluminum cans. It’s a simple idea, and one that many will look at and say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Bonds & Bullion Battered As Russell Retraces Half FOMC Ramp
12-20-2013
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zerohedge.com
While stocks were the headline-makers yesterday, they mostly range-traded today taking a breather to think (even with a double-POMO) as the rest of the world's asset classes did their thing.
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News Link • General Opinion
"It won't be long before the people storm this chamber and hang you . . .
12-20-2013
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Daily Paul.com
"It won't be long before the people storm this chamber and hang you . . . and they'll be right!"
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The future of whistleblowers is grim
12-19-2013
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www.tomdispatch.com
Leaked revelations will be as pointless as dusty old books in some attic if no one knows about them. What's the point if no one will be able to read it?
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Military
Navy investigator pleads guilty in international bribery scandal
12-19-2013
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AFP
John Bertrand Beliveau Jr., 44, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, pleaded guilty to participating in a massive international fraud and bribery scheme. Specifically he admitted regularly searching NCIS databases for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Lawsuit: Mississippi school forced ‘pathetic dyke’ to use the boys’ bathroom
12-19-2013
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Rawstory
The anti-LGBT comments started after Holmes enrolled at Magnolia Junior High in 2011. Teachers would call her a “he/she” and she was forced to use the boys’ restroom. Students regularly referred to her as “dyke,” “lesbo” and “dyke-ass freak.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
How the vitamin industrial complex swindled America
12-19-2013
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"We believe that the case is closed " supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
'Green Bullets' Overtaking Lead Thanks to EPA, State Regs, Military
12-19-2013
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Breitbart
Thanks to EPA regulations, state regulations, and military goals, traditional lead ammo is on its way out and "green bullets" are on their way in. EPA regulations led to the closing of the Herculaneam lead smelter in
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News Link • Torture
Judge orders sanity hearing for accused Sept. 11 plotter
12-19-2013
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Washington Post
Binalshibh was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and whisked to a secret CIA prison, where he was subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.” He and 13 other high-value detainees were transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Air Force general drank too much, fraternized with foreign women in Moscow
12-19-2013
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Washington Post
An Air Force general in charge of nuclear weapons repeatedly drank too much and behaved like a boor last summer during an official trip to Moscow, where he insulted his Russian hosts and hung out with two suspicious women he met at a hotel bar,
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News Link • Internet
Eric Schmidt Tried To Get Google To Hide His Political Donation In Search Results
12-19-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matt Rosoff
Departing Google CEO Eric Schmidt was known for some of his bumbling public statements -- like saying that privacy didn't matter -- but apparently he made some internal blunders as well.
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News Link • Internet
Google is Going to Blackmail You
12-19-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, CollegeHumor
Google is trying harder than ever to force people to sign up for Google Plus. And now, they've discovered a new strategy to do this: either you join Plus, or they'll release your search history and all the private information they've learned about yo
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News Link • Media: Internet
Edward Snowden doesn’t show up once in Google’s list of top 2013 searches
12-19-2013
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Brian Fung
This year's National Security Agency revelations have created a firestorm of reports and debates about the state of U.S. surveillance technology and intelligence policy. It set off a brief international manhunt. Entire countries are now building coun
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News Link • Death
Scientists looking closer at what happens when body dies...
12-19-2013
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http://www.newsnet5.com, By: Lee Bowman
Scientists looking closer at what happens when body dies; edge closer to new understanding
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News Link • Books
It's a Jetsons World Public Miracles and Private Crimes
12-19-2013
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library.mises.org
Yes, there is a revolution afoot, one that is happening much more
quickly than the industrial revolution.
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News Link • Bitcoin
How Bitcoin Became the Honey Badger of Money
12-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
If you’ve driven on Santa Clara’s Lawrence Expressway sometime in the past six months, you may have seen the Bitcoin honey badger.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
NSA's goal is elimination of individual privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The NSA’s ultimate goal is to destroy individual privacy worldwide, working with its UK sidekick GCHQ, journalist Glenn Greenwald warned an EU inquiry, adding that they were far ahead of their rivals in their “ability to destroy privacy.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Target Admits Massive Credit Card Breach; 40 Million Affected
12-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
Shoppers weren’t the only ones rooting through Target stores the week of Thanksgiving.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Of Poker and Plunder: Commissarina Olson Strikes Again
12-19-2013
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freedominourtime.blogspot.com
In spite of the fact that he has not committed a criminal act, Boise resident Skinner Anderson faces three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The Legend of the Phoenix
12-19-2013
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http://www.unz.com, By Todd E. Pierce
It would seem the CIA has gone back into their archives, blown the dust off the Phoenix Program, and put it into play again as the “Drone War.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Record High in U.S. Say Big Government Greatest Threat
12-19-2013
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http://www.gallup.com, by Jeffrey M. Jones
Now 72% say it is greater threat than big business or big labor
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News Link • Energy
Science moving closer to creating power through nuclear fusion
12-19-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
Nuclear fusion is pretty much the holy grail of power sources. In development for over 60 years already, the creation of electricity through nuclear fusion has been the goal of generations of scientists.
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News Link • American History
Lincoln and His Legacy
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
At this point it is probably futile to try to reverse the deification of Abraham Lincoln.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biofuel
Geek Oil: Scientists Manufacture Biofuel from Algae in Minutes
12-19-2013
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by Warner Todd Huston
A new scientific discovery that takes algae and turns it into crude oil in minutes rather than millions of years could be the end of constant worries over "peak oil."
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News Link • Government
A Lot of Hope is Dangerous
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
President Snow: Seneca… why do you think we have a winner?
Seneca Crane: [frowns] What do you mean?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Government Using NSA to Change Amount in Bank Accounts, Warns Panel
12-19-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Americans at risk of enforced Cyprus-style bail-in
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