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Date Sent: 2013-04-17
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
Secret Service: Ricin-Laced Letter to Obama Has Been Found
APRIL 17 TRIAL TO DETERMINE FATE OF AMERICA -- Official: Arrest imminent in marathon bombing -- Evidence of Nerve Gas in Aleppo Deaths -- Texas Wife of Ex-Judge Charged With Capital Murder -- United States, NATO monopolizing global arms trade: Mike Gravel --
04-17-13 -- Rob Hudelson - Jennifer Reynolds - LISTEN LIVE on
LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon EST -- ... Pushing A New Bill That Would Make It
Easier For Rich Liberals To Pay More Taxes Voluntarily -- 11
Economic Crashes That Are Happening RIGHT NOW -- Is The Takedown
Of Gold A Sign That The Entire Global Financial System Is About To
Crash? -- Californians: Prepare For A 50% Hike In Pension
Costs -- India's Response To The Gold Sell Off: A Massive Buying
Frenzy -- Gun Control Could Die Today -- My Home was
Searched for Growing Vegetables in my Bathroom -- MSNBC Video:
GOP Rep. Peter King On Boston Bombing: "I Do Think We Need More
Cameras" -- Why the Government Hates Homeschooling/How Public
Education Leads to Statism -- 48 hours left to Stop CISPA --
Gold in the Crosshairs -- Terror in Boston: Hagel Says Pentagon
Ready to Violate Posse Comitatus -- First Manned Mars Mission
Draws Flood of Applicants -- Private Rocket's Wednesday Launch a
Long-Awaited Debut -- I'm Dropping Out of College -- Legalize
Polygamy! -- Who Will Protect Us From the 'Protectors'? -- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes Stunning Leap Toward Private
Spaceflight (Photo) -- Why Doctors Can't Give You LSD (But
Maybe They Should) -- Letter from Gitmo: A detainee writes from day
65 of his hunger strike -- UN says Afghan opium
production increases for 3rd year in a row -- House Panel to
Subpoena DOJ Assassination Memos
AZ: Join Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan/Tour de Peace Cyclists Sat,
April 20, 11 a.m. at McCain/Flake's PHX; Spring Party and meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @
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News Link • Obama Administration
Secret Service: Ricin-Laced Letter to Obama Has Been Found
04-17-2013
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ABC News (video)
A letter addressed to President Obama that field-tested positive for the poison ricin was received at the remote White House mail screening facility Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials.
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News Link • States' Rights
APRIL 17 TRIAL TO DETERMINE FATE OF AMERICA
04-17-2013
A startling report prepared by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is today warning that the case known as United States v. Kebodeaux, and due to be heard by the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on 17 April, will be the most important ruling in all of
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ron Paul: Bradley Manning Deserves Nobel Peace Prize More Than Obama
04-17-2013
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J.D. Tuccille
When former congressman Ron Paul remarks that military whistleblower and current guest of Uncle Sam, Bradley Manning, is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than is actual recipient Barack Obama.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Official: Arrest imminent in marathon bombing
04-17-2013
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AP
The official spoke shortly after several media outlets reported that a suspect had been identified from surveillance video taken at a Lord & Taylor store between the two bomb blasts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Evidence of Nerve Gas in Aleppo Deaths
04-17-2013
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ABC News
"I knew then that there were chemicals in the air and I told everyone to get out. I screamed for help and saw my neighbors come in," Yasser said, recounting the horror he experienced while recuperating at a hospital in Afrin, north of Aleppo.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Texas Wife of Ex-Judge Charged With Capital Murder
04-17-2013
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AP
The wife of a former judge was charged Wednesday with capital murder in connection with the slayings of a North Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor, a law enforcement official said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Climate Switch at 5000 BP
04-17-2013
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arclein
Researchers from Columbia University and MIT have discovered that the climate in Sahara was quite lush between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, a period known as the African Humid Period. On either side of that period, the region has been a desert, as we
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
United States, NATO monopolizing global arms trade: Mike Gravel
04-17-2013
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Press TV
A former US Senator says Congress will not stop the expansion of the US military industrial complex and seeks to globalize weapons on the back of its NATO relationship.
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News Link • Science
Nanocellulose Breakthrough
04-17-2013
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arclein
By genetically engineering vinegar bacterium into blue-green algae, Brown’s lab has effectively created organic factories capable of making nanocellulose on a potentially industrial scale. …
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
... Pushing A New Bill That Would Make It Easier For Rich Liberals To Pay More Taxes Voluntarily
04-17-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Caroline May
Republicans Are Pushing A New Bill That Would Make It Easier For Rich Liberals To Pay More Taxes Voluntarily
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News Link • Economy - International
11 Economic Crashes That Are Happening RIGHT NOW
04-17-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
The stock market is not crashing yet, but there are lots of other market crashes happening in the financial world right now.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Californians: Prepare For A 50% Hike In Pension Costs
04-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It is no surprise that pension funds in the US are significantly underfunded (median 72% funded). California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CALPERS), specifically, is about 26% short of meeting its long-term commitments.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
India's Response To The Gold Sell Off: A Massive Buying Frenzy
04-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Panic, depression, rage, suicidal ideations: watching the US mainstream media, one would think that these are the prevailing sentiments among those who unlike the prevailing "developed world" speculative class, are invested most heavily in physical o
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News Link • Police State
My Home was Searched for Growing Vegetables in my Bathroom
04-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by sharpsteve
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares how his home was recently searched by police because he is growing vegetables in his bathroom.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lazarus Effect
04-17-2013
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arclein
"It is my belief," he says, "that anyone who dies of a cause that is reversible should not really die any more. That is: every heart attack victim should no longer die. I have to be careful when I state that because people will say, 'My husband h
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News Link • Surveillance
MSNBC Video: GOP Rep. Peter King On Boston Bombing: "I Do Think We Need More Cameras"
04-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalvini
ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC: Congressman briefly, do you think that this will lead to more cameras?
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News Link • Surveillance
48 hours left to Stop CISPA
04-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Rafael 111
The House is about to vote on the "cybersecurity" bill known as CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold in the Crosshairs
04-17-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Peter Schiff
In the opening years of the last decade, most mainstream investors sat on the sidelines while "tin hat" goldbugs rode the bull market from below $300 to just over $1,000 per ounce.
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Terror in Boston: Hagel Says Pentagon Ready to Violate Posse Comitatus
04-17-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
During testimony on Capitol Hill, Chuck Hagel characterized the attack in Boston as terrorism and said the Pentagon is prepared to respond quickly to any request from domestic law enforcement, according to Pentagon’s propaganda newspaper, Stars and S
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
First Manned Mars Mission Draws Flood of Applicants
04-17-2013
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http://www.space.com, Stephanie Pappas
They'll be crammed into a space the size of an RV for more than a year, breathing recycled air, subsisting on dehydrated food and drinking their purified urine.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Private Rocket Launching from Virginia Coast Wednesday: Watch It Live
04-17-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Tariq Malik
An untested commercial rocket is poised to launch into space from Virginia's Eastern Shore on Wednesday (April 17), and you can watch the test flight live online.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Join Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan/Tour de Peace Cyclists Sat, April 20, 11 a.m. at McCain/Flake's PHX
04-15-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Stop Killer Drones! Join Cindy and other Tour de Peace riders outside Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake's office at 2201 E Camelback Rd/ Phoenix on Saturday, April 11th, 2013 at 11 a.m.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Rocket's Wednesday Launch a Long-Awaited Debut
04-17-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
It's been a long road for the private cargo-launching Antares rocket, which is set to blast off on its highly anticipated first test flight Wednesday.
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News Link • Government
Who Will Protect Us From the 'Protectors'?
04-17-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by William L. Anderson
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, prosecutor Glenn McGovern writing about the recent shooting of two prosecutors in Texas asked, "Who will protect the protectors?"
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News Link • Future Predictions
How Will Kim Climb Back To Safety?
04-17-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Eric Margolis
Korea, wrote the famed German expert on geopolitics Baron Haushofer a century ago, was one of the world’s five most strategic areas. So it remains today, as China, Russia, Japan and the United States vie for influence on the peninsula and the waters
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes Stunning Leap Toward Private Spaceflight (Photo)
04-17-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Miriam Kramer
A new private spaceship is one step closer to flying its first passengers after acing a spectacular test flight over the California desert last week.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Richard Branson Hints at SpaceShipTwo’s First Powered Flight
04-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
SpaceShipTwo left a trail across the sky for the first time on Friday after test pilots checked the rocket’s engine oxidizer flows during the latest glide flight.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Benedict Cumberbatch Menaces Kirk in New Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer
04-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Angela Watercutter
Even though they dare not speak his name, the latest trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness (in theaters May 17) promises Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing the biggest bad-bad bad guy in the history of ever.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Why Doctors Can't Give You LSD (But Maybe They Should)
04-17-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Shaunacy Ferro
For the first time since the 1970s, researchers are being allowed to study the potential medical properties of the most tightly controlled substances around. But it's not easy.
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News Link • How To
How To Make Beer [Infographic]
04-17-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rose Pastore
Check out this beautiful 1933 brewing guide from the pages of Popular Science.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Letter from Gitmo: A detainee writes from day 65 of his hunger strike
04-17-2013
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, by Max Fisher
In early February, more than 11 years into his detention at Guantanamo Bay, a Yemeni man named Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel went on a hunger strike.
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News Link • Afghanistan
UN says Afghan opium production increases for 3rd year in a row
04-17-2013
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Associated Press
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been increasing for a third year in a row and is heading for a record high, the U.N. said in a report released Monday.
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News Link • Events: America
FBI appeals for help solving marathon bombings
04-17-2013
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By JAY LINDSAY and EILEEN SULLIVAN
A bomber may have been seen amid the Boston Marathon revelers carrying an unusually heavy nylon bag, weighed down with shrapnel-packed explosives, the FBI has suggested.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bloomberg: If You Sell a Gun to Your Son, 'There's Something Wrong in Your Family'
04-16-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Elizabeth Harrington
If you sell a gun to your son, “there’s something wrong with your family," says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun group ‘had hand in writing’ Manchin-Toomey background check amendment
04-16-2013
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http://www.examiner.com, By David Codrea
The head of a national gun rights group is supporting the Manchin-Toomey background check bill, an email sent today to a group of Second Amendment activists, scholars and journalists revealed.
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News Link • Gun Rights
BOVARD: The ‘you are the government’ canard
04-16-2013
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By James Bovard
Obama joins predecessors in blaming his overreach on us
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News Link • Precious Metals
JIM ROGERS: Like I Said, I Expect Gold To Go As Low As $1,200
04-15-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Commodities guru Jim Rogers isn't buying gold yet. He told Business Insider there were four key things driving the sell-off.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Governments Fueled by Fear & Control - Ernest Hancock
04-05-2013
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Next New Network
Appearing on Next News Network's End the (March) Madness broadcast on Saturday, March 30th, 2013, this pretty much sums it up...
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Popcorn Sutton: Whiskey Rebel by John Meyers
04-15-2013
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http://zerogov.com
“Jesus turned water into wine, I turned it into damn likker” " Popcorn Sutton
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News Link • TERRORISM
Syrian rebels’ pledge of allegiance to al Qaeda complicates Western intervention strategies
04-15-2013
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The RawStory.com
The West is floundering over how to respond to Syria’s worsening civil war, especially after a leading Islamist rebel group pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, opposition officials and experts say.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Molon Labe Coming to a Head in New York State
04-15-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
The state has a special HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) unit to search private medical records without warrants, and that Lewis was simply the first person to be caught up in that net.
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News Link • Activism
Portuguese union rallies thousands in anti-austerity protest
04-15-2013
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The RawStory.com
Thousands of people on Saturday rallied in the streets of Lisbon to protest rising poverty resulting from the government’s belt-tightening measures.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge frees man after 38 years behind bars
04-15-2013
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The RawStory.com
A US man convicted of murdering a young girl " a crime he always denied committing " is enjoying his first weekend of freedom in 38 years after a New York judge freed him.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Guantanamo guards fire rubber bullets to quell detainee resistance
04-15-2013
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The RawStory.com
Guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison fired non-lethal shots to quell prisoner unrest Saturday as they relocated inmates into individual cells, US military officials said.
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