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Date Sent: 2014-10-15
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
FBI Chief: Citizens Should Be 'Deeply Skeptical' of Government
How a '50s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail -- Prosecutors won't use Cornelius cop as witness after federal jury finds he fabricated evidence -- Michigan Cops Raid Wrong House, Shoot Beloved 15-Year-Old Dog -- Free-market love flows in Vietnam, China -- Iraq pleads for U.S. ground troops as Islamic State closes in on Baghdad -- Tennessee Courts Crack Down On Cops Taking Blood From Drivers -- 5-Year-Old Student Reportedly Asked To Sign 'No Suicide' Contract After Misbehaving -- TrackingPoint releases ShotGlass: Shades that let you shoot around corners -- Cannibals with Cutlery -- 10-15-14 -- Brandon Caston - Patrick Byrne - Ryan Gilbert -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon EDT -- Palm Beach libertarian couple donate $5 million toward preserving rights of Americans -- Monsanto reports $156m loss as farmers abandon GM crops -- Here's What Hackers Do With Your Data -- Vermont's Gubernatorial Debate Was Very, Very Special -- Oil Is Crashing Again -- On The Precipice Of A Breakdown In Confidence -- The QE4 Countdown Has Begun -- Ron Paul: Crimes and Hope -- We ran Civil Asset Forfeiture out of Utah -- "Congratulations, America - you're the terrorists that you are so afraid of." -- Palm Beach libertarian couple donate $5 million toward preserving rights of Americans -- The Political System (Funny Pic) -- Monsanto reports $156m loss as farmers abandon GM crops -- Farmer David versus Goliath Monsanto -- Strategic Relocation: One Of The Top Rated Areas In North America -- Condoleezza Rice named as killer of New York Times' story on CIA
AZ: PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Gun Rights
How a '50s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail
10-14-2014
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Nonetheless, under the department's unique interpretation of Penal Code 265.01, almost every pocketknife on the market today can be considered a gravity knife. It's as if authorities in New York City were using an antiquated law
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors won't use Cornelius cop as witness after federal jury finds he fabricated evidence
10-14-2014
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Washington County prosecutors will no longer use a Cornelius cop as a witness following a federal jury's decision that the officer fabricated evidence during a 2010 drug case, according to a letter released Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Michigan Cops Raid Wrong House, Shoot Beloved 15-Year-Old Dog
10-14-2014
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HuffPo
Authorities who went to the wrong house in search of a wanted fugitive and shot a beloved family pet are refusing to take responsibility for their actions, according to a Michigan attorney who has filed a lawsuit against them.
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News Link • Economy - International
Free-market love flows in Vietnam, China
10-14-2014
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A world-topping 95% of Vietnamese say most people are better off in free-market economies, and 76% of Chinese agree, according to a Pew survey of nearly 49,000 people worldwide that might have astonished Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq pleads for U.S. ground troops as Islamic State closes in on Baghdad
10-14-2014
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Associated Press
As Islamic State troops move closer to Baghdad, Iraqi officials have issued a plea for American ground troops to return. A senior governor claimed that 10,000 Islamic State fighters were closing in on the capital, amid reports that forces
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News Link • Drug War
Tennessee Courts Crack Down On Cops Taking Blood From Drivers
10-14-2014
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The Newspaper
The US Supreme Court's McNeely decision has made it difficult for police to forcibly draw blood from motorists without a warrant. The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals became the latest to apply the precedent to discourage
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
5-Year-Old Student Reportedly Asked To Sign 'No Suicide' Contract After Misbehaving
10-14-2014
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HuffPo
The incident occurred after her kindergarten daughter drew a picture that resembled a gun and pointed a crayon at another student and said "pew pew." Authorities made the child sign a contract stating she would not kill herself or harm anyone
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News Link • Gun Rights
TrackingPoint releases ShotGlass: Shades that let you shoot around corners
10-14-2014
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In addition to being able to display and record the output of the rifle's scope (transmitted via Wi-Fi), ShotGlass has its own microphone and forward-facing camera to record what the wearer sees and hears.
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News Link • Police State
Cannibals with Cutlery
10-14-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Carolyn Brewer was startled by the unannounced presence of an armed man in her bedroom. Her mood didn't improve when the intruder sternly ordered her, "You don't get up." That directive was issued in the interest of "officer safety,"
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News Link • Technology: Software
Here's Everything We Know About Magic Leap, The Crazy-Sounding Startup Google...
10-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Here's Everything We Know About Magic Leap, The Crazy-Sounding Startup Google Might Invest Hundreds Of Millions In.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Palm Beach libertarian couple donate $5 million toward preserving rights of Americans
10-14-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Yesterday, October 13, 2014, the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced the establishment of the Bill & Rebecca Dunn Liberty Defense Fund.
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto reports $156m loss as farmers abandon GM crops
10-14-2014
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http://www.hangthebankers.com
Are you invested in Monsanto stock like Bill Gates, who owns hundreds of thousand of Monsanto shares worth about $23 million?
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
Strategic Relocation: One Of The Top Rated Areas In North America
10-14-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com
This week's Strategic Relocation Briefing from Joel Skousen has been contributed by the Strategic Relocation web site. If you've ever wondered about Montana and what living there might be like, where to look for land, and what considerations shou
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News Link • Agriculture
Farmer David versus Goliath Monsanto
10-14-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
"In the last two years, Monsanto has reported huge losses, so we must be doing something right...
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News Link • Marriage
Marriage rates hit new, all-time low
10-14-2014
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http://www.myfoxdc.com
New data shows more young people are waiting to marry - and there's no shortage of opinions on why that's happening.
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News Link • Economy - International
OPEC Split as Oil Prices Fall Sharply
10-14-2014
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http://www.nytimes.com
Oil prices sank again on Monday, giving consumers more of a break and causing a split among OPEC leaders about what action should be taken, if any, to halt the slide.
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News Link • Food
The Aromafork Changes The Way Everyday Food Tastes
10-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The Aromafork, a product from Montreal-based company Molecule-R, enhances food tastes by combining the senses of taste and smell.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Malcolm Gladwell Says IKEA Built A Multibillion-Dollar Brand Because Its...
10-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Malcolm Gladwell Says IKEA Built A Multibillion-Dollar Brand Because Its Founder Had This Disagreeable Personality Trait.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Vermont's Gubernatorial Debate Was Very, Very Special
10-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
All seven of the people running for governor in Vermont faced off last week and it was far from your typical political debate.
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News Link • Government
On The Precipice Of A Breakdown In Confidence
10-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The QE4 Countdown Has Begun
10-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Actually, it may well be QE5, or QE6 depending on how one counts Operation Twist and the extension of QE3, but what matters is that the countdown to whatever it is, has begun courtesy of none other than one of the Fed's biggest doves, the head of the
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News Link • TERRORISM
"Congratulations, America - you're the terrorists that you are so afraid of."
10-14-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
FOX16 News, Arkansas--The Yell County Juvenile Detention Center uses this restraint mechanism called the "wrap system".
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News Link • Government
Condoleezza Rice named as killer of New York Times' story on CIA
10-14-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson said that Condoleezza Rice, who served as secretary of state and national security adviser under President George W. Bush, personally asked for special press treatment â€" specifically, for the new
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online
10-13-2014
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Wired.com
No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Brilliant Ten: Roxana Geambasu Exposes How Companies Use Your Data
10-13-2014
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popsci.com
She's also teaching the cloud to forget personal information.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Claudio Grass: The Upcoming Swiss Gold Referendum
10-13-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Jeff Deist and Claudio Grass discuss the uniquely Swiss mindset behind the upcoming Swiss gold referendum, and how decentralization of political power is part of Swiss DNA
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia in Negotiation with China for alternative SWIFT Bank system
10-13-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com
Russia and China, the two strategic Eurasian nations, are moving clearly to ultimately break free of the stranglehold of the Dollar System.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists close in on diabetes cure with production of insulin-producing cells
10-13-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
Stem cell researchers at Harvard University have devised a method for creating large quantities of human insulin-producing beta cells, which could soon lead to a cure for type 1 diabetes as well as a new treatment for type 2 diabetes.
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News Link • Police State
Obama Signs Executive Order 13295 â€" Detention of Americans with "Respiratory Illnesses"
10-13-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Is America headed for widespread, involuntary incarceration due to Ebola biowarfare?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The Sordid Contra-Cocaine Saga
10-13-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The movie, "Kill the Messenger," is forcing the mainstream U.S. media to confront one of its most shameful episodes, the suppression of a major national security scandal implicating Ronald Reagan's CIA....
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News Link • Activism
Protests Continue in Hong Kong
10-13-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com
Early Monday morning police in Hong Kong began removing barricades placed by protesters who have occupied parts of the city for the last two weeks.
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News Link • Drug War
Time to Cut the Card
10-13-2014
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http://fff.org
Conservatives have been outraged since the first of the year, not only because Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana, but also because some welfare recipients have, so they maintain, used their benefits to purchase it.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Liberty, Not Government, is Key to Containing Ebola
10-13-2014
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ronpaulinstitute.org
According to Forbes magazine, at least 5,000 Americans contacted healthcare providers fearful they had contracted Ebola after the media reported that someone with Ebola had entered the United States.
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News Link • Bitcoin
European Prosecutors Launch Project to Combat Online Dark Markets
10-13-2014
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coindesk.com
European prosecutors are speaking out about a new pan-European project designed to combat dark markets on the web â€" and they're addressing bitcoin as a key tool of these illicit bazaars.
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News Link • Economy - International
The hidden force in global economics: sending money home
10-13-2014
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http://www.ted.com
In 2013, international migrants sent $413 billion home to families and friends â€" three times more than the total of global foreign aid (about $135 billion).
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Banks Harvest Callers' Voiceprints To Fight Fraud
10-13-2014
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breitbart.com
The caller said her home had burned down and her husband had been badly hurt in the blaze. On the telephone with her bank, she pleaded for a replacement credit card at her new address.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Slips to 12th in Economic Freedom
10-13-2014
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breitbart.com
A new report of "economic freedom" around the world finds the US ranked 12th among 152 countries, tied with the United Kingdom, and lower than neighbor Canada or Australia.
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News Link • Iraq
Joint Chiefs Chairman: Ground Role for Troops in Iraq Likely
10-13-2014
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antiwar.com
Gen. Dempsey Warns of Possible ISIS Attacks on Baghdad
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News Link • Transportation
After Spending A Day With A Lyft Driver, We Can See Why The Taxi Industry Is Scared
10-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Lyft is a ride-sharing service that aims not only to make taxis look antiquated, but also to take market share from industry leader Uber by being more fun and friendly.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War Against Isis: US Strategy in Tatters as Militants March on
10-13-2014
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unz.com
American-led air attacks are failing. Jihadis are close to taking Kobani, in Syria â€" and in Iraq western Baghdad is now under serious threat
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News Link • Pandemic
Ebola, 'Scaremongering,' and the Epidemiology of Interventionism
10-13-2014
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antiwar.com
Why are we sending troops to Liberia?
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News Link • Activism
Here's Why The 'Umbrella Revolution' Isn't Going Anywhere
10-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The pro-democracy protests that have gripped Hong Kong since late September have reached an impasse that appears to suit the territory's government and its backers in Beijing.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Military Base Dependency
10-13-2014
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fff.org
One of the most disastrous effects of America's post-World War II embrace of a permanent warfare-state apparatus has been the extreme dependency on domestic military bases that dot towns and cities across America.
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News Link • Transportation
Morgan Stanley Predicts The Death Of The Auto Industry As We Know It
10-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
"Our team has come to the realization that a prosecution of our craft along traditional lines will fade to irrelevance, ultimately ending in extinction,"
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Citizenfour review â€" Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicated
10-13-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com
Laura Poitras' documentary disentangles NSA surveillance and plots the story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow.
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