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Date Sent: 2013-12-30
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, December 30, 2013 |
The NSA Actually Intercepted Packages to Put Backdoors in Electronics
Federal Cutbacks And A Failed Tax Levy Causes Liberty in Josephine County Oregon -- Milwaukee Cop Michael Vagnini: Short Time for a Long Finger -- Detained for Suspicion of Smoking Cigarettes -- Mehr Licht! - by L.Neil Smith -- Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience -- Ron Paul: Government Policies Hurt Low-Wage Workers -- CT Gun Owners Wait in Line to Do Something Many Gun Owners Hope They Never Have To -- Liberal Commercial Talk Radio Disappears in NY, LA, SF in 2014 -- Duck Dynasty’ Scramble Leaves A&E With Egg On Its Face -- Exposed: The Soviet Union spent $1 billion on mind-control program
-- Earthquake successfully forecasted in Costa Rica -- Neil,
What Are You Really Saying in Plain English by Neil Garfield --
Judge ends Katrina flooding lawsuits against feds -- LAPD
deploys drug detection swab test at sobriety checkpoints --
Calorie Counts Coming To Millions Of Vending Machines Nationwide -- The Third Wave of US Martial Law Mass Detentions -- Gen.
Michael ‘No Probable Cause’ Hayden - by Ray McGovern
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Dave Hodges speaking, next Sat. Jan.
4, 2014
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan. 23-25, 2014
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News Link • Surveillance
The NSA Actually Intercepted Packages to Put Backdoors in Electronics
12/29/2013
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Gizmodo
The NSA revelations keep on coming, and if you're feeling desensitized to the whole thing it's time to refocus and get your game face on for 2014. Because shit continues to get real.
SPIEGEL published two pieces this morning about the NSA's Tai
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Federal Cutbacks And A Failed Tax Levy Causes Liberty in Josephine County Oregon
12-29-2013
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Jonathan Turley
A worrisome situation has been created in a rural Josephine County Oregon. Their governments died.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Companion's Comets the Key to Curious Exoplanet System?
12-29-2013
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The nearby star Fomalhaut A hosts the most famous planetary system outside our own Solar System, containing both an exoplanet and a spectacular ring of comets. Today, an international team of astronomers announced a new discovery
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Milwaukee Cop Michael Vagnini: Short Time for a Long Finger
12-29-2013
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Simple Justice
Milwaukee Police Officer Vagnini’s path to prosecution reflected the failure of cops to deal with the sickest within their ranks, the outcome hasn’t proven any better. Vagnini had a thing he liked to do when he busted someone. He liked it a lot.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Mehr Licht!
12-29-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
As of the start of the coming year, both 60 and 40 watt light bulbs of the incandescent variety will join 75 and 100 watt bulbs in being outlawed by an illegal and record-breakingly stupid government edict.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
12-29-2013
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New York Times
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head. The first commercial version of the new kind of computer chip is scheduled to be released in 2014.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Ron Paul: Government Policies Hurt Low-Wage Workers
12-29-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Fast-food workers across the county have recently held a number of high profile protests to agitate for higher wages. These protests have been accompanied by efforts to increase the wages mandated by state and local minimum wage laws, as well as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
CT Gun Owners Wait in Line to Do Something Many Gun Owners Hope They Never Have To
12-29-2013
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The Blaze
Connecticut residents waited in long lines on Thursday to register their firearms and high-capacity magazines before the state’s new gun laws go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Media: Radio
Liberal Commercial Talk Radio Disappears in NY, LA, SF in 2014
12-29-2013
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Truth Revolt
2014 will mark the beginning of a massive change for liberal talk radio across the country. In New York, WWRL 1600 AM will flip to Spanish-language music and talk, throwing Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, and Alan Colmes off the air.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Neil, What Are You Really Saying in Plain English
by Neil Garfield
12-29-2013
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http://livinglies.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/neil-wh
So let me try to explain the mortgage monstrosity in short plain statements. Based upon my analysis of information in the public domain, there are two ways that anyone claim a loan was securitized " carved up into pieces and then sold to multiple buy
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Government
Judge ends Katrina flooding lawsuits against feds
12-29-2013
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AP
US District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. dismissed the cases. This comes a year after a federal appeals court overturned his ruling that held the US Army Corps of Engineers liable for flooding caused by lax maintenance of a shipping channel.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
LAPD deploys drug detection swab test at sobriety checkpoints
12-29-2013
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Russia Today
Los Angeles Police announced plans to ramp up use of a portable tool that checks for drug use, beginning with a New Year’s Eve crackdown on intoxicated drivers. Officials cited increased medical marijuana use as a main justification.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Calorie Counts Coming To Millions Of Vending Machines Nationwide
12-29-2013
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AP
Requiring calorie information to be displayed on roughly 5 million vending machines nationwide will help consumers make healthier choices, says the Food and Drug Administration, which is expected to release final rules early next year.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Surveillance
Ray McGovern: My Take
Gen. Michael ‘No Probable Cause’ Hayden
12-29-2013
Ray McGovern
Ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden, who once declared that “probable cause” is not part of the Fourth Amendment, is sure to hurl more stones at NSA leaker Edward Snowden, especially after a New York judge endorsed the NSA’s “metadata” as legal, says ex-CIA
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Gallery: Star Trek home is like living on board the USS Enterprise
12-29-2013
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dvice.com
Star Trek fans, or Trekkies (or is it Trekkers?), tend to be some of the most devoted in all of fandom, so it comes as no surprise that some of them want to live their obsession.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, Best of 2013
12-28-2013
John Semmens
President Says “Right of Conscience” Not Valid for Military Personnel
“I am the Commander-in-Chief,” Obama explained. “It is every soldier's duty to carry out my orders without hesitation or mental reservation. No religious dogma can be permitted
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News Link • Syria
Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt " The Wars Continue
12-27-2013
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original.antiwar.com
2013 has expectedly been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed, most violently in some instances, by taking a few countries down the path of anar
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Target Hackers DID Steal Encrypted PINs as Well as 40million Credit and Debit Card Numbers..
12-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The hackers who attacked Target Corp and compromised more than 40 million credit cards and debit cards also managed to steal encrypted personal identification numbers, according to a senior payments executive familiar with the situation.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Sailors Sue Japanese Company Over Radiation Injuries Following The Fukushima Disaster
12-26-2013
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Jonathan Turley
US service members have developed cancer and other illnesses after serving in the rescue efforts following the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The Navy told them there was no harm from radiation so long as they avoided the plume
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
PBS Drops a Bombshell on the Federal Reserve’s 100th Birthday Party
12-26-2013
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PBS promised a “debate” this past Friday night on the “benefits and dangers” of the Federal Reserve as the Fed marks its 100 years of existence tomorrow. Instead of a debate, two famous stock market historians made the same stunning announcement " th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Monsignor William Lynn conviction overturned by Pa. court; D.A. 'most likely' to appeal
12-26-2013
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Lynn served as the secretary for clergy and was tasked with handling child sex abuse complaints. He was found guilty of felony child endangerment for covering up sex abuse claims brought against priests by reshuffling them to other parishes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
How Debtors' Prisons Are Making A Comeback In America
12-26-2013
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zerohedge.com
Apparently having 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of its prisoners simply isn’t good enough for neo-feudal America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Itemizing The Obamacare Fees
12-26-2013
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zerohedge.com
Obamacare's rollout may be in limbo even though the official deadline has come and gone (despite a much touted 2 million visitors to healthcare.gov on Monday which probably means it should IPO immediately), but the real sticker shock of actual fees a
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Now China ... Reasons for Printing Money Abound
12-26-2013
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thedailybell.com
China move calms credit concerns ... Chinese authorities have been trying to curb excessive lending ... China's central bank has pumped $5bn (£3.1bn) into the banking system to ease concerns over a credit squeeze that has caused rising interest rates
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening :
12-26-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Messengers for ...
"You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a differenc
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Cop Tells College Grad ‘You’re Lucky I Didn’t F-ing Shoot You’ After Raiding Wrong House (VIDEO)
12-26-2013
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http://www.infowars.com, Adan Salazar
Connor Guerrero didn’t exactly get an apology after police erroneously raided his home last week and handcuffed him on his front lawn.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security Extends REAL ID Deadline to 2016
12-26-2013
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http://thelibertybeat.com, Derrick Broze
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an extension to the remaining states who have yet to implement the REAL ID.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Houston Police Department Issues Body Cams for 100 Officers
12-26-2013
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http://thelibertybeat.com, Derrick Broze
On December 9th the Houston Police Department launched a pilot program arming 100 officers with “body cams”.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Be prepared: Wall Street advisor recommends guns, ammo for protection in collapse
12-26-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Bedard
A top financial advisor, worried that Obamacare, the NSA spying scandal and spiraling national debt is increasing the chances for a fiscal and social disaster, is recommending that Americans prepare a “bug-out bag” that includes food, a gun and ammo
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Emmigration
And the Media Gets It Wrong (Again )
12-26-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Mark Nestmann
Pop icon Tina Turner has just joined a multitude of famous " and not so famous " expats.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry
12-26-2013
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ted.com
Almost everything we own and use, at some point, travels to us by container ship, through a vast network of ocean routes and ports that most of us know almost nothing about. Journalist Rose George tours us through the world of shipping, the underpinn
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
What Will Happen When the Arrests Begin?
12-26-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bernie Suarez
Here in America people are beginning to visualize what it will be like to overcome the mass political oppression we are now all under at the hands of a small group of global control freak elites who also control the money.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
'The Only Thing we have to Fear...' is the CIA (Ray McGovern)
12-26-2013
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Lew Rockwell.Com/Ray McGovern
Fifty years ago, exactly one month after John Kennedy was killed, the Washington Post published an op-ed titled “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence.” The first sentence of that op-ed on Dec. 22, 1963, read, “I think it has become necessary to take anothe
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Feature Article • Conferences
Passport to Freedom 2014
Donna Hancock
Join Ernest Hancock and learn how to protect your liberties and assets " before it’s too late…Ernest will be one of the featured speakers at the Passport to Freedom Event in Las Vegas, NV January 23-25th, 2014
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Reference Link • Prepping
Save Yourself While You Still Can
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Many websites focus on saving the ignorant sheep. It is time to focus on those who can be helped. But most of all, it is time to focus on saving yourself first and foremost while you are still able.
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto and Trans Pacific Partnership with Ellen Brown
12-26-2013
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arclein
The other, more disturbing modification involves insensitivity to glyphosate-based herbicides (plant-killing chemicals). Often known as Roundup after the best-selling Monsanto product of that name, glyphosate poisons everything in its path except pla
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Comparing US and Canadian Healthcare
12-26-2013
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arclein
Canada has a government deficit this year of about $6 billion vs $600 billion for the US and had deficits of $25-40 billion during the crisis while the US had over $1 trillion deficits each year.
Even if multiplying by nine times for population ad
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News Link • WAR: About that War
: From Al-Qaida Reject to Reuters
12-23-2013
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Honest Reporting
A Reuters photographer, Molhem Barakat, was killed in Aleppo on Friday. Some emerging details of his life are raising uncomfortable questions for the wire service and for the press corps covering Israel and the PA.
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