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Date Sent: 2015-04-16
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, April 16, 2015 |
Special delivery: Florida mailman lands gyrocopter on Capitol lawn
Floating Seahorse boats to offer partially submerged living in Dubai's Heart of Europe -- The Man Who Fired The Shot Heard 'Round The World -- The Battery-Powered, 3D-Printed Rocket Engine Designed for Weekly Trips to Space -- California vaccination bill stalls after pushback over strict requirements -- US DoJ declares our book FREEDOM! a "threat" -- Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday April 16th 2015 -- The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers -- 04-16-15 -- Kieth Cyrnek - Adam Kokesh (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Andrew Napolitano: The Saudi Arabian Government's Involvement In 9/11 Finally Revealed; -- Chris Christie: 'I Will Crack Down And Not Permit' Legal Marijuana As President -- George Lucas Planning Payback With Massive Affordable Housing Project On His Marin County Land -- Netanyahu Outrageously Compares Iran to Nazis During WW II -- MIT Thinks It Can Get You to Use Bitcoin -- Spring, a department store in an app, raises $25 million and launches on Android -- Science Continues to Amaze, This Time with the First Successful Penis Transplant -- Greece May Adopt Drachma; US Already Has - Gold Videocast -- SpaceX CRS-6 First Stage Landing (VIDEO) -- Mini teases augmented reality eyewear for drivers -- Lawsuit: Police Give Lawyer Hard Drive Infected with Surveillance Malware -- Europe Will Be Very Angry When It Learns Greece Is About To Buy Russian Anti-Aircraft Missiles -- 'Uber For Weed' Startup Eaze Raises $10 Million In Funding Led By DCM Ventures -- SEC Reaches "Appropriate" Settlement With Freddie Mac Execs... -- Watch: This Is What Happens Inside Your Body When You Eat Fast Food -- The Six Too Big To Fail Banks In The U.S. Have 278 TRILLION Dollars... -- Review: Sena Prism Bluetooth motorcycle action camera -- Lost your Android phone? Just type "find my phone" into Google -- US and Saudi Aggressors Want Yemeni Victims to Halt Conflict -- U.S. Cuts Nuclear Warhead Levels -- Obama's War on Donbass: The Devastating Toll After One Year of Conflict --
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Special delivery: Florida mailman lands gyrocopter on Capitol lawn
04-16-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Doug Hughes lands the flying craft on the west lawn carrying 535 stamped letters one for each member of Congress to protest campaign finance laws.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Transportation
Floating Seahorse boats to offer partially submerged living in Dubai's Heart of Europe
04-16-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com
Developer Kleindienst Group is planning to construct 42 floating properties as part of the Heart of Europe development in Dubai
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • 3D Printing
The Battery-Powered, 3D-Printed Rocket Engine Designed for Weekly Trips to Space
04-16-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
engine. So a company that is hoping to start doing weekly launches to set up constellations of satellites better have some solid engine game.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
California vaccination bill stalls after pushback over strict requirements
04-16-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Measure would bar parents from seeking vaccine exemptions for their children because of religious or personal beliefs. Vote postponed until next week.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday April 16th 2015
04-16-2015
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www.LewRockwell.com
The Imperial Whim of Death / Achtung, Kiddies! / Leftists Attack Libertarian Sci-Fi / Who Owns the North Pole? / The End of AM-FM Car Radio? / El Jefe Speaks WIth Forked Tongue / The Israeli Right To Bomb Iran
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers
04-16-2015
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http://www.wired.com
Who can hate a Roomba? Astronomers, that's who.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Corruption
Andrew Napolitano: The Saudi Arabian Government's Involvement In 9/11 Finally Revealed;
04-16-2015
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com
Former head of the Senate intelligence committee and former two-term governor of Florida Bob Graham says that the FBI is covering up knowledge of connections between the Saudi royal family and al-Qaeda
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics
Chris Christie: 'I Will Crack Down And Not Permit' Legal Marijuana As President
04-16-2015
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http://popularliberty.com
Note to self: Don't vote for Christie. Not that I would anyway, but I would rather not see the Federal Government "crack down" on Seattle or Portland Oregon.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • World News
George Lucas Planning Payback With Massive Affordable Housing Project On His Marin County Land
04-16-2015
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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
NOVATO (CBS SF) -- After George Lucas ran into a buzzsaw of opposition from his wealthy Marin County neighbors when he tried to expand his Skywalker Ranch studio...
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
MIT Thinks It Can Get You to Use Bitcoin
04-16-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
Bitcoin is everywhere, but the fledgling virtual currency still has a long way to go before your grandparents are using it too.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Technology: Software
Spring, a department store in an app, raises $25 million and launches on Android
04-16-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
Last summer we wrote about Spring, an app that envisioned bringing the experience of strolling through a mall to your mobile device.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Science Continues to Amaze, This Time with the First Successful Penis Transplant
04-16-2015
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http://www.thealternativedaily.com
Science continues to amaze us almost daily with new findings and discoveries. Often, science reveals the possibility of things that once seemed impossible.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece May Adopt Drachma; US Already Has - Gold Videocast
04-15-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
One proposed solution to Greece's European debt problem is for the Mediterranean country to abandon the euro and resurrect its old currency, the drachma.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX CRS-6 First Stage Landing (VIDEO)
04-15-2015
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YouTube
On Tuesday, April 14, the commercial spaceflight company SpaceX attempted what would have been a game-changing feat when it tried to land a rocket on a robotic platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Mini teases augmented reality eyewear for drivers
04-15-2015
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gizmag.com
If you want to drive with something more personal than a heads-up display, Mini is hoping to bring technology to your car in the form of a pair of connected eyewear.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Lawsuit: Police Give Lawyer Hard Drive Infected with Surveillance Malware
04-15-2015
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Prison Planet
Lawyer representing police whistleblowers finds trojans on department-provided drive
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Europe Will Be Very Angry When It Learns Greece Is About To Buy Russian Anti-Aircraft Missiles
04-15-2015
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zerohedge.com
Just days after Russia lifted sanctions on providing anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, Reuters reports that The Greeks are in talks with Russia to purchase missiles for the S-300 defense system.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
'Uber For Weed' Startup Eaze Raises $10 Million In Funding Led By DCM Ventures
04-15-2015
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techcrunch.com
There's an Uber for everything nowadays, so why not an Uber for weed?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Watch: This Is What Happens Inside Your Body When You Eat Fast Food
04-14-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
What happens inside your body when you eat processed junk food? We all have a vague idea, and we certainly see what it does to the exterior portion of our bodies -- but most of us have never seen the actual digestion process take place.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Six Too Big To Fail Banks In The U.S. Have 278 TRILLION Dollars...
04-15-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Snyder
The very same people that caused the last economic crisis have created a 278 TRILLION dollar derivatives time bomb that could go off at any moment.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Review: Sena Prism Bluetooth motorcycle action camera
04-16-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com
Sena's excellent 20S Bluetooth headset is my daily driver these days - and now there's an action camera to go with it
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Lost your Android phone? Just type "find my phone" into Google
04-16-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com
Losing your phone can happen easily. Unfortunately, finding it again can often be not so easy.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Military
U.S. Cuts Nuclear Warhead Levels
04-16-2015
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http://freebeacon.com
Despite nuclear saber-rattling by Moscow, U.S. nuclear forces are close to reaching warhead, missile, and bomber numerical cuts required under the 2010 New START arms treaty, a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Wednesday.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Internet
This Is China's Method For 'Treating' Internet-Addicted Teenagers
04-16-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
In 2008, China declared internet addiction to be a clinical disorder, saying it's a top health threat to its teenagers. This is how they're 'treating' young-adults who over-use the net.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Do You Consume This Hormone Disruptor? Over 50% Of the Population Likely Does…
04-16-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
"Would you like fertility problems and premature balding with that cinnamon bun…"
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drug War
The DEA Has Been Secretly Buying Hacking Tools From an Italian Company
04-16-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
The Drug Enforcement Administration has been buying spyware produced by the controversial Italian surveillance tech company Hacking Team since 2012, Motherboard has learned.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Reserve Bank of Australia Favors Hands-off Approach for Bitcoin Regulation
04-16-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will not intervene in oversight of digital currencies such as bitcoin at the moment, The Australian Business Review reports.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Barry Silbert Shares Vision for Bitcoin Industry Professional Development
04-16-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
The success of the Digital Currency Council (DCC) is exciting and timely for everyone involved in, and everyone who will become involved in, the digital currency economy.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Voting machine password hacks as easy as 'abcde', details Virginia state report
04-16-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
AVS WinVote machines used in three presidential elections in state 'would get an F-minus' in security, said computer scientist who pushed for decertification
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
Help, I made a $57 million garbage food startup monster
04-16-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
I'm Nitasha. I'm disgusting. I order weird food from an app because I don't want to leave my apartment.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Food
Olive Oil: Are You Sure You're Buying the Real Thing?
04-16-2015
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http://www.thealternativedaily.com
When the heart and health benefits of the Mediterranean Diet became well-known about ten years ago, people began to buy its perceived star, olive oil, in droves.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gunter Grass warned of 'sleepwalking' into world war in final interview
04-15-2015
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Prison Planet
Germany's Nobel-winning author Gunter Grass said he feared humanity was "sleepwalking" into a world war, in the last interview he gave before his death on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
The Collapse Of The Petrodollar: Oil Exporters Are Dumping US Assets At A Record Pace
04-15-2015
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zerohedge.com
Back in November we chronicled the (quiet) death of the Petrodollar, the system that has buttressed USD hegemony for decades by ensuring that oil producers recycled their dollar ....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Takes Aim At Dollar Reserve Status:
04-15-2015
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zerohedge.com
Promotes Yuan In Investment Bank
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Robert Lee
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