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Date Sent: 2015-04-22
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
Czech pol claims to have established new country
U.S. Homeland Security to set up cyber security office in Silicon Valley -- The Encryption Debate is Really About How Best to Spy on You -- Supreme Court: Cops can't hold suspects to wait for drug-sniffing dog -- DEA chief to retire from agency, facing pressure -- Caught on Video: Police Smash Woman's Phone as She Tapes Crime Scene; -- Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces contempt hearing in Phoenix -- DEA Head Resigns: What They Are Not Telling You -- Volunteer deputy heading to Bahamas amid manslaughter charge -- OKLAHOMA CITY AND 9/11 -- American Oligarchy: Who They Are and How to Fight Back -- Ludding the Way -- Could you benefit from the FDA while NOT obeying it? -- Why Google Is the New Evil Empire -- A Reminder -- Ken O'Keefe, renouncing his 'state contract' -- Battlefield America: The War on the American People -- Earth Day: 45 Years of Futility -- Forget Text Messages--Send Emotions Over The Air -- The International Space Station Is Open For Business -- You Say You Want a Revolution? -- How To Judge a Political Candidate -- 04-24-15 -- Joel Skousen - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Grand Theft Auto gang hit with US sanctions -- Senate may face contentious debate on Iran nuclear bill -- Birth of a nation? Czech pol claims to have established new country in no-man's land -- Pope OKs resignation of US bishop for not reporting abuse -- SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS -- Acapulco Gold Rush -- Google and the EU foreign policy --
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News Link • World News
Birth of a nation? Czech pol claims to have established new country in no-man's land
04-22-2015
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Perry Chiaramonte
Welcome to Liberland, population 250,000…and anyone else looking for a tax haven.
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News Link • Homeland Security
U.S. Homeland Security to set up cyber security office in Silicon Valley
04-22-2015
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com, By Bill Rigby
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in the final stages of planning to set up a satellite office in California's Silicon Valley, aiming to build relationships with the technology industry and scout for talent there, the department's secretary
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News Link • Surveillance
The Encryption Debate is Really About How Best to Spy on You
04-22-2015
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http://www.counterpunch.org, by ALFREDO LOPEZ
A debate, going on in the quasi-private and well-catered halls of government-corporate collusion, has reached the post-smoldering stage. It's now a virtual forest fire in full public view.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court: Cops can't hold suspects to wait for drug-sniffing dog
04-22-2015
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popularliberty.com
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that the Constitution forbids police from holding a suspect without probable cause, even for fewer than 10 extra minutes.
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News Link • Drug War
DEA chief to retire from agency, facing pressure
04-22-2015
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http://america.aljazeera.com
Michele Leonhart resigns in wake of report detailing allegations that DEA agents attended sex parties with prostitutes
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News Link • Police State
Caught on Video: Police Smash Woman's Phone as She Tapes Crime Scene;
04-22-2015
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
How to Stop "I am Above the Law" Mentality
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces contempt hearing in Phoenix
04-22-2015
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http://www.latimes.com, By MICHAEL MUSKAL
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio cut a wide swath even beyond his Arizona world, where he was a very big political fish.
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News Link • Drug War
DEA Head Resigns: What They Are Not Telling You
04-22-2015
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Prison Planet
Agency repeatedly caught working with violent drug cartels
Now that DEA head Michelle Leonhart has retired off into the sunset with a glorious benefit package, it's time to look at what they are not telling you about the agency that is fighting th
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Volunteer deputy heading to Bahamas amid manslaughter charge
04-22-2015
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http://www.sfchronicle.com, JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS
A volunteer sheriff's deputy plans to vacation in the Bahamas while facing a second-degree manslaughter charge in Oklahoma, his attorneys told a judge Tuesday, drawing immediate criticism from the family of the man he killed.
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News Link • History
OKLAHOMA CITY AND 9/11
04-22-2015
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Ludding the Way
04-22-2015
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http://cafehayek.com, by DON BOUDREAUX
Warning that modern labor-saving technology is making humans expendable, Zeynep Tufekci writes that "[o]ptimists insist that we've been here before, during the Industrial Revolution, when machinery replaced manual labor, and all we need is a litt
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News Link • Iraq
A Reminder
04-22-2015
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LewRockwell.com
Iraq was an ugly place, but it was also a dismal time in my life.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ken O'Keefe, renouncing his 'state contract'
04-22-2015
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popularliberty.com
It seems to me that Anarcho-Capitalists should all be doing what Ken O'Keefe is doing, that is, renouncing their "state contract", i.e. citizenship papers.
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News Link • Books
Battlefield America: The War on the American People
04-22-2015
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LewRockwell.com
"A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear."--John Salter
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News Link • Environment
Earth Day: 45 Years of Futility
04-22-2015
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LewRockwell.com
Forty-five years ago today, the Left celebrated their first Earth Day. Nothing has come of it. But they still celebrate it. They take their anniversaries seriously.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
You Say You Want a Revolution?
04-22-2015
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LewRockwell.com
Looking back on the American Revolution, John Adams (in 1813) wrote:
"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
How To Judge a Political Candidate
04-22-2015
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AntiWar.com
As buds sprout on long-dormant trees and the first blooms of Spring peek out from their beds, presidential candidates are gearing up for the political season â€" which is, I fear, already upon us. It therefore behooves us to examine what to make of t
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News Link • Government
Grand Theft Auto gang hit with US sanctions
04-22-2015
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http://www.sunherald.com, BY KEVIN G. HALL
It's not every day that a tattoo-loving, magazine-printing criminal syndicate finds itself in the crosshairs of the pin-striped suits at the U.S. Treasury Department.
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News Link • Iran
Senate may face contentious debate on Iran nuclear bill
04-22-2015
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http://www.reuters.com, BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE
The U.S. Senate could plunge into a heated debate on legislation giving Congress the power to review a nuclear deal with Iran as soon as Wednesday, as some Republicans sought to change the bill to take a harder line on any agreement.
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News Link • World News
Birth of a nation? Czech pol claims to have established new country in no-man's land
04-22-2015
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Perry Chiaramonte
Welcome to Liberland, population 250,000…and anyone else looking for a tax haven.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope OKs resignation of US bishop for not reporting abuse
04-22-2015
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http://www.joplinglobe.com,
Pope Francis accepted the resignation Tuesday of a U.S. bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected child abuser, answering calls by victims to take action against bishops who cover up for pedophile priests.
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News Link • Government
SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
04-22-2015
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http://thegarrisoncenter.org, THOMAS L. KNAPP
Presidential candidates work hard to convince ordinary Americans that they're just like us. Regular folks. Put their pants on one leg at a time, you betcha.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Acapulco Gold Rush
04-22-2015
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http://libertyunbound.com, by Bill Merritt
Last weekend my wife was seized by an unwholesome enthusiasm for tiny houses. She'd read they were featured at something called a Better Living Show and wanted to go.
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News Link • European Union
Google and the EU foreign policy
04-22-2015
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http://econlog.econlib.org, Alberto Mingardi
The European Commission is opening an investigation on Google, for alleged anti-competitive practices. The EC is concerned that "the company has given an unfair advantage to its own comparison shopping service, in breach of EU antitrust rules".
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Defending the Ethical Enterpriser in an Anti-Business Climate
04-22-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Richard Ebeling
In spite of the great advances in reducing poverty and increasing the freedom and dignity of hundreds of millions of people around the world, the political and cultural climate virtually everywhere around the world is one of anti-business and anti-ca
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
This Time, We're Failing to Talk About 'American Sniper'
04-22-2015
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https://www.thefire.org, By Peter Bonilla
Every so often, a cultural touchstone descends on college campuses, with the effect of putting campus discourse under the microscope for all to see.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Tennessee governor amends 'Guns in Parking Lots' law to protect workers
04-22-2015
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Kyle Rothenberg
There's an arms race playing out in Nashville, where lawmakers have been fighting for and against the rights of workers to take guns to work.
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News Link • Activism
'POOP EQUALITY': STUDENTS HOLD 'SH*T-IN' AT PUBLIC CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY
04-22-2015
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http://www.breitbart.com,
"Put yourself in the shoes of a trans*/gender non-conforming student and take the pledge to use only all gender bathrooms," a post from the organization's Facebook page read.
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News Link • History
How the fall of Qaddafi gave rise to Europe's migrant crisis (+video)
04-22-2015
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Dan Murphy
Under Qaddafi, Libya worked closely with Europe to harshly stem the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean. But the country's chaos has upended that.
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News Link • Drug War
Video Trailer: End the War on Drugs
04-22-2015
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http://popularliberty.com, By tony m
Jim Ostrowski - Libertarian, adjunct scholar Mises Institute, 1st Amendment attorney, author, activist, somewhat regular on Lew Rockwell's site, asked me to make a trailer film to help unite the Liberty Movement.
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News Link • Propaganda
Truth Is Washington's Enemy
04-22-2015
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paulcraigroberts.org
US Representative Ed Royce (R, CA) is busy at work destroying the possibility of truth being spoken in the US.
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News Link • China
The Mystery Of China's Gold Holdings Is Coming To An End
04-22-2015
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Zero Hedge
Back in 2011, Zero Hedge first asked the key question that matters to the gold market: what are China's true holdings of physical gold.
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