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Date Sent: 2015-05-07
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, May 7, 2015 |
Ancestry.com Is Now Sharing Your DNA With the Police
Ancestry.com Is Now Sharing Your DNA With the Police -- Ghost Gunner: Leveling the Playing Field (Ghost Gunner Raffle - Drawing LIVE on Radio) -- Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel -- Party for Richard Grove - Lisa Arbercheski Tragedy & Hope Fri May 8th 6 pm til ? @ Hancock's -- 05-07-15 -- Lisa Arbercheski - Richard Grove - Joe Jarvis - Cody Wilson -- Breaking: itBit Raises $25 Mil, Granted Charter by NYDFS to Operate Nationwide w/ FDIC Ins -- Elon Musk hails 'crazy' response to Tesla battery launch -- Super-scholars: MPAA offers $20,000 for academic research in copyright battle -- NSA phone surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden ruled illegal -- What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? -- Going after the green-tip -- Here Is Who I Am -- Secrecy Defines Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal as Opponents Decry Threat to Jobs -- New Gold Backed Cryptocurrency Has Been Announced -- US/Saudi Proposed 5-Day Ceasefire in Yemen: Hold the Cheers -- Natalie Portman Sounds Off on Israel, Netanyahu, French Anti-Semitism and the "False Idol" -- Tom Brady discipline: 'everything is being considered' -- 'Restore the Fourth': Repeal the Patriot Act and End NSA Bulk Data Collection -- US-Mexico border braces for summer migrant surge as children risk lives alone -- The 2016 presidential election could be brought to you by drones -- Russia's Progress spacecraft set to crash to Earth within 24 hours -- Obama to Recognize Palestinian Statehood? -- The First Ten Years: The Monster Proceeds Apace by Bill Buppert -- A DIY Laser Set-Up to Accurately Measure the Speed of Light -- This new tool predicts how much energy your rooftop solar will generate -- 'Jade Helm' military exercise causing political firestorm in Texas, western states -- WATCH: Water drops levitated by sound explode in slow motion -- WATCH: US doctoral student films his own brain surgery -- Keep Your House in Tip-Top Shape: -- How Do You Know When She's the One? --
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Ancestry.com Is Now Sharing Your DNA With the Police
05-07-2015
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thedailysheeple.com
The police state just took a very dark turn. We all know that private corporations tend to side with the government on privacy issues, and they're more than willing to hand over our information when the government asks for it.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel
05-07-2015
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Fox News
Cody Wilson had a vision to forward the digital revolution by creating the nation's first firearm on a 3-D printer, and, taking a page from WikiLeaks, share the blueprints with the world via the Internet in what he called the "Wiki Weapons projec
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Breaking: itBit Raises $25 Mil, Granted Charter by NYDFS to Operate Nationwide w/ FDIC Ins
05-07-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
Today, international bitcoin exchange itBit announced that they had been granted a trust charter by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYFDS) under New York State banking law.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Elon Musk hails 'crazy' response to Tesla battery launch
05-07-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Tesla Motors made more than 1,000 cars per production week in the first quarter of 2015 and its stock spiked more than 2% on the news in after-hours trading, but investors wanted to talk about the company's new Powerpack and Powerwall batteries.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Super-scholars: MPAA offers $20,000 for academic research in copyright battle
05-07-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Leaked email describes programme 'to solicit pro-copyright academic research papers', but group says it won't influence experts' findings
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA phone surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden ruled illegal
05-07-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/nsa
The US court of appeals has ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata is unlawful, in a landmark decision that clears the way for a full legal challenge against the National Security Agency.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Gun Rights
Going after the green-tip
05-07-2015
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vinsuprynowicz.com
Back in mid-February, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives announced it was considering a ban on the popular M855 variety of .223 rifle ammunition -- the popular "green-tip" fodder for the AR-15 rifle -- by re-catego
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Opinion • Inspiration
Here Is Who I Am
05-07-2015
Chuck Baldwin
Last Sunday, May 3, was my 63rd birthday. Accordingly, it is time for my annual "Come Clean" column. I think it only fair that readers should have an opportunity to learn a little something about the person who writes the words they read. Today
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News Link • Obama Administration
Secrecy Defines Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal as Opponents Decry Threat to Jobs
05-07-2015
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thedailysheeple.com
Critics are mounting in Congress and across the country over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), making a major issue out of stopping President Obama's attempt to fast track the secretive trade agreement.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Currencies
New Gold Backed Cryptocurrency Has Been Announced
05-07-2015
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thedailysheeple.com
The most legitimate argument against Bitcoin, is the fact that it isn't backed by anything tangible.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Israel
Natalie Portman Sounds Off on Israel, Netanyahu, French Anti-Semitism and the "False Idol"
05-07-2015
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Hollywood Reporter
With strong opinions on everything from the Israeli elections ("I'm very, very upset") to Hollywood's worship of awards, Portman will unveil her directorial debut, 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' her way -- all in Hebrew
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tom Brady discipline: 'everything is being considered'
05-07-2015
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Miami Herald
The small tidbit of news I can offer is that the NFL is weighing a suspension of New England quarterback Tom Brady that could span up to one season.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
'Restore the Fourth': Repeal the Patriot Act and End NSA Bulk Data Collection
05-07-2015
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Reason
If you plan to visit a college campus this month, don't be surprised if you see signs and placards encouraging you to "Restore the Fourth." Restore the Fourth is not about an athletic event or a holiday; it is about human freedom.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
US-Mexico border braces for summer migrant surge as children risk lives alone
05-07-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Officials say US is better prepared after last year, when 67,339 unaccompanied minors arrived but 'every day we're getting more than the day before'
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics
The 2016 presidential election could be brought to you by drones
05-07-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
CNN gains approval from FAA to explore how drones can be safely used in populated areas are dramatic images from presidential campaign trail to follow?
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russia's Progress spacecraft set to crash to Earth within 24 hours
05-07-2015
Scientists say only 20-40% of uncrewed cargo vessel likely to survive heat of re-entry and risk of people being hit is smaller than being hit by lightning
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Government
The First Ten Years: The Monster Proceeds Apace by Bill Buppert
05-07-2015
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zerogov.com
"The United States Constitution provides that Congress "shall have the power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises … but all Duties, Imposts, and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States."
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Inventions
A DIY Laser Set-Up to Accurately Measure the Speed of Light
05-07-2015
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motherboard.vice.com
One of the earliest apparatuses designed to measure the speed of light on Earth just got an update with lasers and webcams.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
'Jade Helm' military exercise causing political firestorm in Texas, western states
05-07-2015
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http://www.foxnews.com
A massive military exercise planned in states across the American West has touched off a political firestorm, with several top Texas officials now questioning the military's plans-
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Marriage
How Do You Know When She's the One?
05-07-2015
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artofmanliness.com
When we wrote 14 Ways to Affair Proof Your Marriage, several people rightly pointed out that the best way to obtain a happy and faithful marriage is to marry the right person.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
Does it matter if we're oppressed for what we 'do,' rather than what we 'are'?
05-07-2015
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vinsuprynowicz.com
Vin's latest post at https://www.academia.edu/s/965353a49d , where Nese Devenot invites members of the psychedelic community to "come out of the closet":
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Books
Steven Spielberg's Amblin, Syfy Adapting Classic Novel 'Brave New World' (Exclusive)
05-06-2015
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com, Lesley Goldberg
The Aldous Huxley novel was ranked fifth among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th Century by Modern Library.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Asteroid-Mining Company to Deploy 1st Satellite This Summer
05-06-2015
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http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
The nascent asteroid-mining industry is set to take its first steps into space this summer.
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Robert Lee
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