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Date Sent: 2015-02-10
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, February 10, 2015 |
Obama to send his new war powers request to Capitol Hill
Noam Chomsky: A Brief History of America's Cold-Blooded, Terroristic Treatment of Cuba -- The Pentagon Once Considered False-Flag Attacks To Justify An Invasion Of Cuba -- Western Spy Agencies Secretly Rely on Hackers for Intel and Expertise -- Russia sanctions have cost EU 21 bn euros: Spain -- NASA Finds Mysterious Bright Spot on Dwarf Planet Ceres: What Is It? -- Sarah Palin Calls for Article V States Convention -- Feds to seek death penalty against reputed head of drug gang -- Colorado Cops Defend "Pain Compliance Techniques" on Teen Rolling Joint -- Conspiracy Theory In America -- Why Google made the NSA (Part 2) -- Explosive Saudi 9/11 Evidence Still Ignored By Media -- Satoshi Roundtable Re-Cap on the Declare Your Independence -- Who Controls Bitcoin? -- Teijin Aramid and LUT enable nanotechnology to enter electric motors -- Teijin Aramid's carbon nanotube fibers awarded with Paul Schlack prize -- How To Thrive In The Current Oil Environment -- Meet the Mark One: the world's first Carbon Fiber 3D printer -- Ukraine: A Platform for US War with Russia -- Part 10: Impregnating America with Muslims--How Do We Stop Islam in the United States? -- Putin v. Obama and Netanyahu on Iran's Nuclear Program -- Chinese Regime Pads Military's Pockets -- Human Ancestors May Have Used Tools Half-Million Years Earlier Than Thought -- Rosetta Spacecraft, First to Orbit Comet, Finds Surprises Aplenty
AZ: Arizona Sci Tech Gila County Festival - February 26-28, 2015; Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ; BitcoinSummit.info - March 14th 2015 9am-5pm & Evening Party; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama to send his new war powers request to Capitol Hill
02-10-2015
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Associated Press
President Barack Obama is expected - as early as Tuesday - to ask Congress for new war powers, sending Capitol Hill his blueprint for an updated authorization for the use of military force to fight the Islamic State group.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Noam Chomsky: A Brief History of America's Cold-Blooded, Terroristic Treatment of Cuba
02-10-2015
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alternet
Washington backed a military coup to install hawkish generals more attuned to JFK's actual commitments; President Diem and his brother were murdered in the process. With victory apparently within sight,
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News Link • Cuba
The Pentagon Once Considered False-Flag Attacks To Justify An Invasion Of Cuba
02-10-2015
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Business Insider
After the explosion, the US could then stage a mock rescue attempt. Afterwards, mock "casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Western Spy Agencies Secretly Rely on Hackers for Intel and Expertise
02-10-2015
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The Intercept
The US, UK and Canadian governments characterize hackers as a criminal menace, warn of threats they pose to critical infrastructure, and aggressively prosecute them, but they also secretly exploit their information and expertise
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News Link • European Union
Russia sanctions have cost EU 21 bn euros: Spain
02-10-2015
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AFP
"Sanctions have had a heavy cost for us all, the EU has so far lost 21 billion euros.. In Spain we have been badly hit in terms of agriculture and tourism," said Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, giving the first figure of its kind for the EU.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Budwig Protocol
02-10-2015
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arclein
Dr. Johanna Budwig left us in 2003, at the age of 95. This German doctor was nominated six times for the Nobel Prize for medicine, which means that it would be wise to take her health work seriously. We call her a saint, but doctors-in-the-know thoug
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Microsoft's Remarkable Holographic Headset
02-10-2015
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arclein
t's going to be a huge leap over the flat-screen computing that we've all become used to over the past 30 years. It's so much obviously better that once people try it, there will be no going back.
Augmented Versus Virtual
This was the second t
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Finds Mysterious Bright Spot on Dwarf Planet Ceres: What Is It?
02-10-2015
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arclein
"Yes, we can confirm that it is something on Ceres that reflects more sunlight, but what that is remains a mystery," Marc Rayman, mission director and chief engineer for the Dawn mission, told Space.com in an email.
The new images show areas o
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News Link • Politics
Sarah Palin Calls for Article V States Convention
02-10-2015
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arclein
"It's an amazing thing to see state legislatures from every region in the country lining up to file their convention of states applications," said Mark Meckler with Citizens for Self Governance, according to The Washington Examiner.
"Soo
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News Link • Death Penalty
Feds to seek death penalty against reputed head of drug gang
02-09-2015
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Associated Press
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey will seek the death penalty for only the second time against a man they say led a violent street gang charged in 2013 with six murders.
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News Link • Drug War
Colorado Cops Defend "Pain Compliance Techniques" on Teen Rolling Joint
02-09-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Police in Colorado say they were justified in aggressively arresting a teenager for rolling a joint on a bus bench -- slamming him to the ground and applying pressure behind his ear in what they call a "pain compliance technique"
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News Link • Conspiracies
Conspiracy Theory In America
02-09-2015
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Government Denies Knowledge
The popular conception of conspiracy theories is they are impaired thinking, analogous to a mental illness or a superstition. Conspiracy theories are any theory of official wrongdoing that have not yet been substantiated by
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News Link • Surveillance
Why Google made the NSA (Part 2)
02-09-2015
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Medium
The results have been catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a permanent state of global war, and a new initiative to transform the US military into Skynet.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Explosive Saudi 9/11 Evidence Still Ignored By Media
02-09-2015
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Who What Why
One of the people Moussaoui says he met as an Al Qaeda representative was Prince Salman, who in January became the new king of Saudi Arabia. Others he claims to have met include Turki al-Faisal, who at the time was
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News Link • Bitcoin
Who Controls Bitcoin?
02-09-2015
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Nakamoto Institute
A common and understandable concern about Bitcoin is that it might become corrupted at the protocol level to serve special interests rather than the unwashed masses. For example, features might become adopted which make Bitcoin much less anonymous or
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News Link • Transportation
Geeking out on electric motorcycles â€" a trip to the Zero factory
02-09-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Loz Blain
Regular readers will know I'm a bit of a fan of Zero's electric motorcycles â€" as the market leader in performance electric two-wheelers, Zero offers a glimpse into a future where gasoline engines feel frankly archaic.
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News Link • Inventions
Teijin Aramid and LUT enable nanotechnology to enter electric motors
02-09-2015
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http://www.teijinaramid.com, Mrs. Saskia Verhoeven
Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) introduces the first electrical motor applying carbon nanotube yarn. The material replaces copper wires in windings. The motor is a step towards lightweight, efficient electric drives. Its output power is 4
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Twaron spinning process is key to carbon nanotube fiber breakthrough
02-09-2015
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http://www.teijinaramid.com, Mrs. Saskia Verhoeven
Groundbreaking scientific research has been published on carbon nanotube fiber with high thermal and electrical conductivity.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Meet the Mark One: the world's first Carbon Fiber 3D printer
02-09-2015
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youtube
Brilliant ideas need brilliant materials.
Designed to overcome the strength limitations of traditional 3D printed materials, the revolutionary Mark One 3D printer is the world's first 3D printer designed to print continuous carbon fiber.
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News Link • Aquaponics
My Dipkit -DIY Do It Yourself
02-09-2015
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mydipkit.com
DIY Hydrographics Instructional Videos and How Tos
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News Link • China
Chinese Regime Pads Military's Pockets
02-09-2015
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arclein
The new order from Xi may have China's military officers shaking in their boots. Around the same time Xi made the announcement, 16 Chinese generals were placed under investigation, and it's very likely a longstanding policy that has quietly suppo
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News Link • Archaeology
Human Ancestors May Have Used Tools Half-Million Years Earlier Than Thought
02-09-2015
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arclein
Who swung the first hammer stone? Early human ancestors may have hefted tools more than three million years ago, ancient hand bones suggest. That's roughly half a million years earlier than the oldest stone tools yet discovered.
The hand-bone
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Rosetta Spacecraft, First to Orbit Comet, Finds Surprises Aplenty
02-09-2015
Drama abounded when Europe's Philae probe landed on a comet last November?"especially when the lander bounced a half mile into the air before its final touchdown, then quickly lost power.
But Philae's mother ship, the European Space Agency's
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News Link • World News
The fall of Yemen's government is a huge problem for Saudi Arabia
02-07-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, ARMIN ROSEN
Friday marked the death knell of the internationally-backed post-Arab Spring order in Yemen, whose parliament and government were finally dissolved by the Iranian-allied Houthi rebels who took over Sa'ana in late 2014.
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News Link • Economy - International
S&P Downgrades Greece, Suggests Worst Case Scenario With Bank Runs ....
02-07-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com,by Tyler Durden
S&P Downgrades Greece, Suggests Worst Case Scenario With Bank Runs And "Capital Controls": Full Report
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News Link • Activism
The UK arms industry's Annual Dinner Disrupted By Excellent Speech
02-07-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com,by cebulon
The courage to speak truth in a sea of hypocrisy.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The government's cyberterrorism 'concerns' are a pretext for their own hacking operation
02-07-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com,Jeremy Hammond
Invoking the threat of terrorism is the most common mechanism used to deny citizens both due process and free speech in the 21st century
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News Link • Military
Afghanistan War Hero Stripped of Silver Star
02-07-2015
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Free Beacon
In 2011, shortly after a book came out that detailed Golsteyn's heroism and quoted him making critical remarks about the American strategy in Afghanistan, I learned the Army had launched a criminal investigation into his actions
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News Link • Police State
NYPD Commish Bratton Seeks To Make Resisting Arrest A Felony
02-07-2015
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The Liberty Beat
"We need to get around this idea that you can resist arrest," Bratton testified, "You can't. You just can't do it. (It) results in potential injury to the officers, to the suspect, and we need to change that. One of the ways to change that is sta
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Top NATO general warns of Russian reaction to arming Ukraine
02-07-2015
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Associated Press
The top NATO commander warned Thursday that any move to provide Ukraine with lethal defensive weapons must take into account any possible angry reaction from Russia. U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove said that any action the U.S. or other Western
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Two Philadelphia Cops Charged With Brutality After Video Shows Beating Unarmed Man
02-07-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Resulted in her uncovering footage from a barbershop, that would clear Rivera of any charges and lead to the arrest of the officers who beat him without any provocation and then arrested him on false charges.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House of Cards: A DC Real Estate Column
02-07-2015
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The Intercept
For those at the top of the economic pyramid, like Tom Daschle, government is ruthlessly efficient at funneling money upward via tax cuts and loopholes, corporate subsidies, deregulation and other business-friendly policies.
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News Link • World News
Argentine Ex-Spy Chief at Center of Prosecutor's Murder Mystery Is Missing
02-07-2015
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Bloomberg
Argentine authorities can't locate the former spy chief at the center of an investigation into the death of a prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of an attempted cover up.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Rhode Island Cop Convicted of Felony for Beating Caught on Video Receives Misdemeanor Probation
02-07-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Rhode Island cop who was convicted of a felony after he was caught on video beating a handcuffed man into a coma with a flashlight ended up on probation this week. Robert DeCarlo will eventually have his records sealed.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
New prison policy punishes investigators who speak out
02-07-2015
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Miami Herald
After Florida legislators asked a series of probing questions of the top inspector at the Department of Corrections, the agency has banned inspectors from discussing any investigations to outsiders -- including legislators.
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News Link • Gun Rights
How Guns Made the CIvil Rights Movement Possible (1/3)
02-07-2015
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Punk Rock Libertarians
Charles Cobb author of the book, "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" talks about how firearms: "I say how guns made the civil rights movement possible for what should be obviousâ€"because they kept us alive."
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Good Samaritan Saves Woman's Life After Overpowering Cop Who Was Killing Her
02-07-2015
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The Free Thought Proiject
When did the roles reverse? When did the hero become the person who saved people from the police instead of the other way around?
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News Link • Justice and Judges
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SAMI AL-ARIAN, PROFESSOR WHO DEFEATED...
02-06-2015
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BY MURTAZA HUSSAIN AND GLENN GREENWALD
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SAMI AL-ARIAN, PROFESSOR WHO DEFEATED CONTROVERSIAL TERRORISM CHARGES, IS DEPORTED FROM U.S.
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News Link • Economy - International
Faber: Dump Biotech, Short Central Banks, Buy Gold
02-06-2015
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http://www.wsj.com
Mark Faber says the biotech sector, as well as social media and chip stocks, are due for a plunge. He also thinks investors will lose confidence in central banks.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
The Silk Road Trial: WIRED's Gavel-to-Gavel Coverage
02-06-2015
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http://www.wired.com,BY ANDY GREENBERG
After 13 short days of trial, Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of running the unprecedented, anonymous online black market known as the Silk Road.
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News Link • Drones
Why the US Government Is Terrified of Hobbyist Drones
02-06-2015
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http://www.wired.comBY KEVIN POULSEN
If you want to understand why the government freaked out when a $400 remote-controlled quadcopter landed on the White House grounds last week, you need to look four miles away, to a small briefing room in Arlington, Virginia.
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News Link • Internet
FCC CHIEF PROPOSES STRICTER NET NEUTRALITY RULES FOR BROADBAND
02-06-2015
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http://www.popsci.com,By Dan Moren
REGULATIONS APPLY TO BOTH WIRED AND WIRELESS PROVIDERS
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News Link • History
Lon Horiuchi: American Sniper
02-06-2015
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William N. Grigg
Somewhere, a figure clothed in a pseudonym has been tracking the box office returns of "American Sniper" with great interest and no small measure of envy. He may be among the tens of millions who contributed to its unprecedented commercial succes
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