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Date Sent: 2014-06-09
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, June 9, 2014 |
Video: Minnesota police shut down Libertarian candidate's campaign
What is the anarchist or voluntarist theory of war? -- NH
anti-spying bill passes unanimously -- Hershey Sues Colorado
Edible Pot Company -- OPERA confirms earlier claims of
faster-than-light neutrinos -- "The Future is Too Good to Waste on
Lies": Bowe Bergdahl's Moral Odyssey -- US to offer taxpayer
money to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia -- Carnage Across Iraq
Leaves 184 Killed, 183 Wounded -- Encouraging Words of Regret
From Dean Baquet and Weasel Words From James Clapper -- Spy
Tweets: CIA Joins Twitter, Facebook -- Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto:
'Get Rid Of the NSA' (Video) -- The Lies Grow More Audacious
-- Schoolyard Tiff in Paris -- Photography Is Not A Crime: Al
Jazeera News Segment on PINAC -- Liberty Rising: Oklahoma
Governor Mary Fallin Signs Bill Repealing Common Core -- Beware of
Covert Propaganda to Sway Public Opinion -- Cop smells pot.
Decides to break into and destroy a pickup, and leaves a note on
the windshield -- Ron Paul on 'The Strange Case of
Bowe Bergdahl' -- Declare Your Independence Show Archive List --
Daddy, When Did America Fall?
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News Link • Police State
Video: Minnesota police shut down Libertarian candidate's campaign
06-08-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Libertarian Party candidate Chris Holbrook received enough support to run for governor of Minnesota, despite local police shutting down his signature-collecting campaign.
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
What is the anarchist or voluntarist theory of war?
06-08-2014
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Daily Paul.com
This is one question I haven't explored much with anarchists and strikes my curiosity. Did any of the heavy weight ancaps like Rothbard or Hoppe write about their idea of just war?
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News Link • States' Rights
NH anti-spying bill passes unanimously
06-08-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Today, the New Hampshire House and Senate gave final approval to a bill which bans government officials from obtaining "information contained in a portable electronic device" without a warrant "signed by a judge and based on probable cause." It now
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Hershey Sues Colorado Edible Pot Company
06-08-2014
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http://denver.cbslocal.com
The Hershey Co. has sued a Colorado marijuana edibles maker, claiming it makes four pot-infused candies that too closely resemble iconic products of the chocolate maker.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Thinklabs offers a high-tech take on the stethoscope
06-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Not unlike the fire hydrant, the humble stethoscope is a device that has remained mostly unchanged for quite a long time.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Outdoor Recreation
Amok's flat-bed hammock copes with twists and turns
06-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. Weiss
For generations, the hammock has served as one of the more comfortable ways to relax and sleep outdoors.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists create "spray-on graphene"
06-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Despite its many desirable qualities and potential applications, graphene still isn't as widely used as it could be for one main reason â€" it's difficult to apply to surfaces, particularly large ones.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
OPERA confirms earlier claims of faster-than-light neutrinos
06-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
On September 23rd, researchers from the European OPERA project made the now-famous announcement that they had observed neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Snow Job
06-08-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Schiff
Economists, investment analysts, and politicians have spent much of 2014 bemoaning the terrible economic effects of the winter of 2014.
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News Link • Activism
"The Future is Too Good to Waste on Lies": Bowe Bergdahl's Moral Odyssey
06-08-2014
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www.lewrockwell.com, By William Norman Grigg
"I can't make up my mind to put the damn thing on again. I feel so clean and free. It's like voluntarily taking up filth and slavery again….I think I'll just walk off naked across the fields."
John Andrews, a U.S. soldier in World War I who went A
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News Link • Obama Administration
US to offer financial assistance to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
06-08-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com,
Joe Biden announced the combined $61m aid package in Kiev, on the sidelines of new Ukrainian president's inauguration
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News Link • World News
Russia-Ukraine Talks to Start as Poroshenko Seeks Peace
06-08-2014
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By Daryna Krasnolutska and Kateryna Choursina
Ukraine's new leader, Petro Poroshenko, has agreed to start talks with an envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending separatist violence in the former Soviet republic's easternmost regions.
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News Link • Iraq
Carnage Across Iraq Leaves 184 Killed, 183 Wounded
06-08-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, Margaret Griffis
Militants continued their siege of Mosul today and also attack a university in Ramadi. Later in the day, Baghdad suffered from a series of bombings. Overall, at least 184 people were killed and 183 were wounded.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Encouraging Words of Regret From Dean Baquet and Weasel Words From James Clapper
06-08-2014
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https://firstlook.org, By Glenn Greenwald
NPR's David Folkenflik has a revealing new look at what I have long believed is one of the most important journalistic stories of the last decade: The New York Times' 2004 decision, at the behest of George W. Bush himself, to suppress for 15 months (
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Spy Tweets: CIA Joins Twitter, Facebook
06-08-2014
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http://abcnews.go.com, By Lee Ferran
"By expanding to these platforms, CIA will be able to more directly engage with the public and provide information on CIA's mission, history, and other developments," CIA Director John Brennan said in a public release today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Very Informative: Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto: 'Get Rid Of the NSA' (Video)
06-08-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Paul says limited reform of the National Security Agency is insufficient. Instead, Paul explains that the correct course is abolishing the agency and terminating its destructive activities:
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News Link • Propaganda
The Lies Grow More Audacious
06-08-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
If there were any doubts that Western "leaders" live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Schoolyard Tiff in Paris
06-08-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Margolis
Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin were ships passing in the night while in Paris for the G-7 meeting.
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News Link • Police State
Photography Is Not A Crime: Al Jazeera News Segment on PINAC
06-08-2014
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Daily Paul.com
A news crew from Al Jazeera spent a few days in Miami last month working on a feature on Photography is Not a Crime.
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News Link • Propaganda
Beware of Covert Propaganda to Sway Public Opinion
06-08-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Since reading about the history of subliminal methods of media propaganda and its use in foreign newspapers by the CIA in the 70's and 80s*, I have started noticing its covert employment here in the US particularly with Headlines.
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News Link • Police State
Cop smells pot. Decides to break into and destroy a pickup, and leaves a note on the windshield
06-08-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Matthew Heller was returning to his truck after having attended a Juicy J concert in Ybor City, Florida last February when he noticed something was wrong.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul on 'The Strange Case of Bowe Bergdahl'
06-08-2014
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Daily Paul.com
"But then it got rather complicated when it was discovered that Bergdahl developed second thoughts about the war in Afghanistan and may have even deserted his unit.
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News Link • Government
Moo
06-08-2014
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
We have been cowed, ladies and gentlemen. We have been cowed. We have been branded, herded from one government-selected pasture to another, and compelled to pull the sledges of our unspeakable masters
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, June 8, 2014 Edition
06-06-2014
John Semmens
President Calls Return of Bergdahl a "Mission of Mercy"
President Obama continued to insist that Sgt Bergdahl's health was a major factor in his decision to negotiate the exchange with the Taliban.
"On the videos I saw he looked sick," the Pres
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Opinion • Corruption
Bribery in America
06-06-2014
Paul Rosenberg
I know something about bribery. When I was a teenager, my dad was in the construction business in Chicago. So, as soon as I got my driver's license (at 16), I was sent out delivering bribes. That's just the way things were done, and my dad let me
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
US Expats in Mexico Left Stranded In Latest FATCA Escalation
06-05-2014
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Dollar Vigilante
Notices have begun to be sent by Banamex USA, a bank operating in Mexico and used by many American expats in Mexico, to all US citizens notifying them that their accounts will be closed within 30 days.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Time for the "Press Secretary" to Issue Another "Statement"
06-05-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
"'Don't we all have equal rights to our life, and should we not have equal opportunity to defend that life?' he said. 'I'm … incensed at these gun laws that seemed intentionally devised to disarm the good people of this country.'" And so he "let his
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News Link • Gun Rights
For Civilian Disarmament Advocate David Gerrold, Suppressing Contrary Opinions is No Tribble at All
06-05-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
When Gerrold dismissed that matter as a "red herring," I asked, in essence, why the slaughter of millions by governments exercising a monopoly on firearms ownership was considered a distraction.
In exasperation, Gerrold said he was "tired of gun f
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News Link • Afghanistan
"The Future is Too Good to Waste on Lies": Bowe Bergdahl's Moral Odyssey
06-05-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Trying to find their footing amid a gale-force outpouring of largely manufactured outrage, officials in Hailey, Idaho canceled their long-planned homecoming for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. They were understandably intimidated
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Libertarian Kobayashi Muru Test
06-05-2014
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Larken Rose has his version of the Kobayashi Marumoto test; he wants to ask us when we would use violence in self-defense against a cop. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you wish that you had prepared
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News Link • China
Remembering Tiananmen Square, 25 Years Later
06-05-2014
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The Independent Institute
25 years ago, on June 4, 1989, the Chinese government launched a brutal military crackdown on student-lead demonstrations assembled in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. For 7 weeks prior, protestors swelled into the
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Legally, Police Do Not Have to Protect You â€" Yet, You Go to Jail For Not Assisting Them
06-05-2014
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copblock
It seems that here in Florida it is a crime not to assist with an arrest or the capture of an escaped prisoner. That's right, you can go to jail for not jumping into the fray if a law officer asks you for help!
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
A Nation of Cowards Fears Freeing Taliban POWs
06-05-2014
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counterpunch.org
Back during World War II â€" a bitterly fought, bloody conflict that lasted seven years (four years for the US) â€" many German prisoners of war were held in camps in the US.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Is Fascism Rising in Europe?
06-05-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By Paul Gottfried
Having just finished a book on fascists and antifascists, I am now investigating the antifascist hysteria that has followed the elections for the European parliament last week.
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News Link • Secession
It's Not Just Europe; As Many As 16 California Counties May Seek Secession...
06-05-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
It's Not Just Europe; As Many As 16 California Counties May Seek Secession From The State
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News Link • Drug War
Richard Branson: The War on Drugs Has Failed, So Let's Shut it Down
06-05-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by telepathic
If I started a business and it was clearly failing, I would shut it down. The war on drugs has failed -- why isn't it being shut down?
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Neocon Krauthammer Wrong on Russia/China Trade Deal
06-05-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
On the Ron Paul Channel, Dr. Paul reviews a recent article by neoconservative writer Charles Krauthammer, in which Krauthammer expresses his great fear that US "influence" is on the decline after a $400 billion trade deal between Russia and China was
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Individual Versus the State
06-05-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Robert Ringer
My last article, "Shame on Walmart," evoked a spirited and healthy debate among readers.
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News Link • European Union
Have Questions About The ECB's Unprecedented Negative Deposit Rate? Call This Guy
06-05-2014
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zerohedge.com
Here is the press release from the ECB on its historic, unprecedented and experimental negative deposit rates.
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Responses to Critics of my Call for Interplanetary Welfare: Sharing Moons
06-05-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Walter E. Block
Previously, I published this article in which I revealed a New Source of Inequality: the fact that some planets have more moons than others.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
End of the War Against Marijuana? with Robert Platshorn
06-04-2014
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Next News Network
The House of Representatives in Washington recently moved to cut off funding for raids on medical marijuana dispensaries.
The amendment to a spending bill was sponsored by California representatives Sam Farr, a Democrat, and Republican Dana Rohra
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight On Fire Heading for Arabian Sea
06-05-2014
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arclein
Katherine Tee was traveling across the Indian Ocean with husband Marc Horn when she saw what she believed was a plane on fire crossing the night sky, trailing a plume of black smoke behind it.
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News Link • Death
Bodies of 800 Babies Found in Septic Tank in Ireland
06-04-2014
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Next News Network
The bodies of 800 babies have been discovered buried in a septic tank in Ireland.
The grisly discovery was made at at a home for unwed mothers in Yuam, located in Galway County. Saint Mary's Mother and Baby Home was operated by Bon Secours nuns b
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News Link • China
The Tiananmen Vigil In Hong Kong Is Staggering
06-05-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
More than 180,000 people gathered in Hong Kong's Victoria Park for a candlelit vigil tonight to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown that killed between 300 and 2,600 peaceful protesters.
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News Link • Iraq
US Begins Delivering F-16s To Iraq This Week...
06-05-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
US Begins Delivering F-16s To Iraq This Week, A Decade After It Wiped Out Iraq's Air Force
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