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Date Sent: 2015-05-30
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, May 31, 2015 |
Southern Arizona residents protest Border Patrol checkpoints
John Whitehead Describes How Robots Will Practically Run Our Government and Society... -- A clash of freedoms during Phoenix mosque protest -- This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Sat. May 29th 2015 -- Could ecstasy be 'penicillin for the soul' of terminally ill patients? -- Watch the Solar Impulse 2 takeoff live from Nanjing, China -- New college graduates: How well prepared to be global problem-solvers -- The Hunger Games: New CBS reality show exploits poor families by making them grovel for $101,000 -- Julian Assange On TPP -- Livivng Off The Grid with the Wind & Solar powered Eco Capsule -- In The Wake Of Tomorrowland's Failure, Disney Kills Tron 3 -- The pilot flying a solar-powered plane across the Pacific: 'We have a parachute' -- New School In Vietnam Has Massive Garden On Its Roof And Teaches Sustainability -- Uber reveals plans for a giant glass headquarters in San Francisco -- Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Amateur Astronomers -- Tesla isn't a threat to the auto industry -- tiny electric golf cars are -- Eric Stowe makes a Splash for clean water -- Breaking military's ultimate glass ceiling? Women start Ranger training. -- Vice President Biden's family announces death of his son Beau Biden -- Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by government subsidies -- Sen. Rand Paul: Tomorrow I Will Stop the Illegal NSA Spying -- Man shot to death in confrontation with Oklahoma troopers during flood -- Tony Blair Not Leaving Middle East After All -- Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert accused of hiding sex abuse of former student -- Deep Web Documentary Shines Light on the Rise and Fall of the Silk Road -- Rand Paul To Force The Expiration of NSA Spy Program -- 'Probiotic Yogurt' for Chickens Could Help Us Fight Superbugs -- The Silk Road Saga Is Way More Than a Crime Story -- Common And Powerful Healing Plants You Can Find In Your Back Garden -- Court Orders 'Vegan' Mother to Feed Her Son Proper Food --
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Southern Arizona residents protest Border Patrol checkpoints
05-30-2015
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Deseret News
AMADO, Ariz. -- Protesters have begun demonstrations against the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints that dot southern Arizona, saying the stops amount to the unwanted militarization of their communities.
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News Link • Future Predictions
John Whitehead Describes How Robots Will Practically Run Our Government and Society...
05-30-2015
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Popular Liberty
John Whitehead Describes How Robots Will Practically Run Our Government and Society in the Near Future on Lions of Liberty
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
A clash of freedoms during Phoenix mosque protest
05-30-2015
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AZCentral.Com
It started as a protest against Islam outside a Phoenix mosque Friday. But by the time it was over, it had turned into a collision of First Amendment ideals.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Sat. May 29th 2015
05-30-2015
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LewRockwell.com
The Real Reason Nixon Created the DEA / The Secret CIA Files on Jim Garrison / In a Long-Term Water Outage / The CIA's Mind Control Op
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Could ecstasy be 'penicillin for the soul' of terminally ill patients?
05-30-2015
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Business Insider
MDMA, the illicit drug that gives users an intense, high-energy euphoria, will soon be used for something much more serious than fueling all-night dance parties and music festival benders.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Watch the Solar Impulse 2 takeoff live from Nanjing, China
05-30-2015
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The Verge
Pilot André Borschberg is about to fly solo from Nanjing, China to Hawaii in a cramped, cold, solar-powered plane, the Solar Impulse 2. Solar Impulse is currently streaming today's takeoff, which has been delayed several times due to inclement weath
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News Link • Future Predictions
New college graduates: How well prepared to be global problem-solvers
05-30-2015
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Christian Science Monitor
A growing number of colleges and universities have been redesigning their curriculum to prepare students to be problem-solvers for the world. 'We're exploring not just the solution to an individual problem, but how that problem fits into a larger p
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
The Hunger Games: New CBS reality show exploits poor families by making them grovel for $101,000
05-30-2015
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Raw Story
As if to prove there are new depths to be plumbed in the world of reality television (because who knew?), CBS just debuted The Briefcase, a show which takes poverty porn, class anxiety, emotional manipulation and exploitation and packages them all ne
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News Link • World News
Julian Assange On TPP
05-30-2015
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Popular Liberty
: Only 5 Of 29 Sections Are About "Traditional Trade," Covers "Essentially Every Aspect Of A Modern Economy...Covers "essentially every aspect of a modern economy"
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
Livivng Off The Grid with the Wind & Solar powered Eco Capsule
05-30-2015
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Popular Liberty
It's as if science fiction and all the biggest tiny-living trends came together and laid an adorably tricked-out egg: Behold the Ecocapsule, a self-sustaining, low-energy, portable dwelling that allows users to live off-grid anywhere in the world (th
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
In The Wake Of Tomorrowland's Failure, Disney Kills Tron 3
05-30-2015
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iO9.com
Disney has officially powered down Tron 3. Last night, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the company has decided to halt preparations for the third film in the cyberpunk franchise.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The pilot flying a solar-powered plane across the Pacific: 'We have a parachute'
05-30-2015
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Business Insider
Nanjing (China) (AFP) - The revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 aircraft took off early Sunday for a six-day flight over the Pacific Ocean, the most ambitious leg of its quest to circumnavigate the globe powered only by the sun.
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
New School In Vietnam Has Massive Garden On Its Roof And Teaches Sustainability
05-30-2015
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True Activist
A creative and revolutionary new school in Vietnam has been constructed with a massive garden on its roof.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Uber reveals plans for a giant glass headquarters in San Francisco
05-30-2015
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The Verge
It's a rite of passage for so many tech companies: building their first wildly ambitious, kind of ridiculous, and generally stunning headquarters to accommodate a ballooning headcount as growth explodes
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Amateur Astronomers
05-30-2015
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Space.Com
A global team of vigilant satellite watchers has caught the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane on camera as the craft circles Earth on its fourth mysterious mission.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla isn't a threat to the auto industry -- tiny electric golf cars are
05-30-2015
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Business Insider
Bartman suggests that the actual disruptive innovation for electric drivetrains will be low-speed electric vehicles and electric utility vehicles.
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News Link • Military
Breaking military's ultimate glass ceiling? Women start Ranger training.
05-30-2015
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Christian Science Monitor
The first women ever to enter the Army's elite Ranger School are finding more than dirt, sweat, and a historic opportunity. They're finding acceptance.
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News Link • Family
Vice President Biden's family announces death of his son Beau Biden
05-30-2015
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Washington Post
A major in the Delaware National Guard, he was an Iraq War veteran and was awarded the Bronze Star. As Delaware's Attorney General, he fought for the powerless and made it his mission to protect children from abuse.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by government subsidies
05-30-2015
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LATimes
Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times.
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News Link • Surveillance
Sen. Rand Paul: Tomorrow I Will Stop the Illegal NSA Spying
05-30-2015
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Time
I have fought for several years now to end the invasive and illegal spying of the NSA on ordinary Americans. I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Man shot to death in confrontation with Oklahoma troopers during flood
05-30-2015
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Raw Story
A man was shot to death by at least one Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper after he was told to get away from rising flood waters on a road and began fighting with a trooper, an official said on Saturday.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert accused of hiding sex abuse of former student
05-30-2015
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LA Times
Dennis Hastert stumbled into political power amid a Republican sex scandal in 1998 that unexpectedly elevated the husky Illinoisan to a position just two heartbeats away from the presidency.
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News Link • Surveillance
Deep Web Documentary Shines Light on the Rise and Fall of the Silk Road
05-30-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
Filmmaker Alex Winter has written, directed, and produced a film outlining the story of the rise and fall of Silk Road called Deep Web. It premieres on May 31st at 8PM on Epix.
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News Link • Surveillance
Rand Paul To Force The Expiration of NSA Spy Program
05-30-2015
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http://truthinmedia.com
Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul (R-KY) will be spending Sunday forcing the expiration the Patriot Act's surveillance provisions.
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
'Probiotic Yogurt' for Chickens Could Help Us Fight Superbugs
05-30-2015
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Motherboard
Could feeding chickens their version of probiotic yogurt be the solution to our antibiotic-resistant superbug woes? Researchers think so, and some feed developers are jumping at the chance to offer such an alternative.
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News Link • Surveillance
The Silk Road Saga Is Way More Than a Crime Story
05-30-2015
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Wired
In October 2013, the FBI arrested a young entrepreneur named Ross Ulbricht at the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library.
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News Link • Healthcare
Common And Powerful Healing Plants You Can Find In Your Back Garden
05-30-2015
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True Activist
We can't stand the system, but we know we'd be screwed without it if we got sick. This is why discovering the long-lost art of plant medicine is so important. In search of alternatives, we have to rediscover what our ancestors knew so well...
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News Link • Food
Court Orders 'Vegan' Mother to Feed Her Son Proper Food
05-30-2015
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http://www.breitbart.com
Disagreements over the correct diet for a twelve-year-old boy became so heated for one divorced Italian couple, the father took the matter to court and won, meaning the mother must now cook him meat.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
GoPro made a crazy 16-camera rig for Google Jump
05-30-2015
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The Verge
Now, GoPro announced that it has built a completely separate rig with Google. It's a 360-degree, 16-camera array, and it's the first one specially made for filming 3D VR content for Google's new "Jump" VR ecosystem.
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News Link • Prepping
The Prepper's Water Survival Guide: Are You Ready for a Long-Term Water Emergency?
05-30-2015
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Lew Rockwell - Daisy Luther
You don't have to be a contestant on a survival show or a survivor of a major disaster to require a water supply or a way to acquire it. There are a myriad of smaller issues that can spiral into a personal disaster if you don't have supplies on h
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News Link • Transportation
EarthCruiser FX 4x4 expedition vehicle rolls far off the beaten track
05-30-2015
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Gizmag
Similarly named competitor EarthCruiser showed the FX, a new simpler, lower-priced Mitsubishi Fuso-based expedition truck with fixed roof.
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News Link • World News
World's largest hotel proposed for Mecca
05-30-2015
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Gizmag
Host to millions of Muslim pilgrims each year, the holy city of Mecca is a lucrative location for hoteliers. Architecture conglomerate Dar Al-Handasah aims to capitalize on this by building the world's largest hotel in the city.
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News Link • 3D Printing
TE Connectivity 3D-prints first functioning motorcycle
05-30-2015
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Gizmag
Considering that fundamental parts such as the frame and wheel bearings are entirely printed in plastic, one would agree that TE's goal to portray a technology that manufactures load-bearing production parts has been achieved.
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News Link • Surveillance
Naked Body Scanner Lobbyist Now Has Control Over TSA's Budget In Congress
05-30-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
A lobbyist who worked for the company that built TSA's naked body scanners is now working in the government department responsible for TSA spending, it has been revealed.
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News Link • China
China tells workplaces they must have Communist Party units
05-30-2015
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http://news.yahoo.com
China has passed a regulation ensuring government organizations and private companies have Communist Party units so that party policy can be implemented across society, the People's Daily, the official party mouthpiece, said on Saturday.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The Argument for Teaching Computer Science Without Computers
05-30-2015
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Motherboard
Among the more disappointing recurring metaphors used in the teaching of computer science--based on my own informal recollection as a computer science student--has to be the stack of plates.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Google Learned How to Make Its Internet Balloons By Studying Condoms
05-30-2015
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Motherboard
Google X, the company's "moonshot" development arm, dedicated to dreaming up wacky things like driverless cars and wearable face computers, had a problem. Its stratospheric, internet-providing balloons kept leaking and falling down after a couple mon
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News Link • Surveillance
Google and Levi's Are Weaving Computers Into Your Clothes
05-30-2015
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Popsci
'Project Jacquard' brings simple, powerful tech to textiles
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News Link • Energy
California Is Giving Away FREE Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents
05-30-2015
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True Activist
Thanks to a cap-and-trade program, 1,600 free solar panels will be given to the least-wealthy residents in California by 2016.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Texas 'open carry' law passes, allowing guns in holsters on the street
05-30-2015
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The Guardian
State approves scheme for licenses to carry handguns openly as legislators pass bill to reverse ban dating to post-civil war era
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook users plan protest against site's 'real name' policy at headquarters
05-30-2015
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The Guardian
Drag queens, transgender people and others part of #MyNameIs coalition will demand removal of fake name reporting option and clearer appeals process
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News Link • Surveillance
Security News This Week: If the Patriot Act Expires It Won't Spell Doom
05-30-2015
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Wired
So many hacks, so few days in the week to write alarming stories about every one.
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