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Date Sent: 2013-04-12
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, April 12, 2013 |
New York State Police Admit Wrongly Confiscating Guns Under New Laws
Chinese Professor: 70-80% Chance of War With North Korea -- Senator Says Universal
Background Checks Could Lead to National Registry -- Italian Supreme Court
President Blames Bilderberg For Terrorist Attacks -- Soviet Balloon Probes May Have Seen Rain on Venus --
Israel police arrest 5 feminists for
praying at Western Wall -- Maine police arrest ‘North Pond Hermit’ --
Syria activists reject Qaeda call for Islamic state -- Washington GOP to auction AR-15 at
fundraising event -- Winklevoss Twins Revealed As Owning 1% Of All
BitCoins -- Church leaders rally in D.C. for stricter gun laws -- Facebook’s Zuckerberg launches lobbying group to push immigration and
education reforms -- Can You Trust Anonymization Services? -- Nebraska
dealer: No license needed to sell ‘personal collection’ of 678 guns, 13
grenades -- New unemployment applications fall after three weeks of
increases -- Tony
Perkins: Obama’s evangelical ‘watch list’ could ban Christian gun buyers
-- Doug Casey on Internationalizing Your Assets -- Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our Gold When They Are Hoarding Gold Like Crazy? -- Stocks surge to new record highs after jobs report -- Israeli army injures ‘physically disabled’ Palestinian man
AZ: Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction with
Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Tomorrow, Apr. 13; Spring
Party and a chance to meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's,
Sat 4/20/13 @ 4pm til ???
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News Link • Gun Rights
New York State Police Admit Wrongly Confiscating Guns Under New Laws
04-11-2013
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Steve Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
State police in Erie County, New York have admitted a huge mistake in confiscating a man’s guns under newly passed gun control laws, saying they identified the wrong person.
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News Link • World News
Chinese Professor: 70-80% Chance of War With North Korea
04-11-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
As the reclusive state prepares another imminent missile launch, a professor with the Chinese Communist Party has warned that there is a 70-80% chance of war with North Korea.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senator Says Universal Background Checks Could Lead to National Registry
04-11-2013
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Kurt Nimmo via PrisonPlanet.com
Nothing short of a rejection of any gun bill should be acceptable to the American people if they wish to retain a modicum of liberty
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News Link • Internet
Google Lets You Manage Your Digital Life From Beyond the Grave
04-11-2013
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Wired.com
We’re all going to die. And when we do, Google wants us to continue controlling our digital selves.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Biden: Gun Owners ‘Like The Way It Feels…Like Driving a Ferrari’
04-11-2013
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Mary Bruce via ABC
Vice President Joe Biden this morning said that the “cultural norm” about gun ownership has changed, arguing that many people buy guns, not for protection or hunting, but because “it’s like driving a Ferrari.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Italian Supreme Court President Blames Bilderberg For Terrorist Attacks
04-11-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
Judge Ferdinando Imposimato, the man who prosecuted the case involving the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II, has sensationally accused the Bilderberg Group of being behind terrorist attacks in Europe.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
IRS Violates Fourth Amendment
04-11-2013
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Kurt Nimmo via PrisonPlanet.com
The Internal Revenue Service believes it is not beholden to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and can read your email without a warrant
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Marc Andreessen and Rockmelt Are Betting the Desktop Has a Future
04-11-2013
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Wired.com
Let’s say we all grew up in tech world where we only used tablets and smartphones. Then one day, someone comes up to you with a 27-inch display hooked up to a notebook.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Louvre reopens after staff walkout over pickpockets
04-11-2013
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David Ferguson via The RawStory.com
Paris’s Louvre museum on Thursday reopened its doors to the public after a walkout by some staff in protest at gangs of pickpockets operating at the world famous art gallery.
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News Link • Police State
Israel police arrest 5 feminists for praying at Western Wall
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Five Jewish feminists who on Thursday wore prayer shawls and prayed out loud at Jerusalem’s Western Wall in defiance of a court order have been detained for questioning, a police spokeswoman said.
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News Link • Military
Navy’s Big Brain Will Retire to Chair Its Unofficial Think Tank
04-11-2013
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Wired.com
Adm. James Stavridis might be retiring from the Navy, but he’s not leaving the Navy family.
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News Link • Police State
Maine police arrest ‘North Pond Hermit’
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Police in the far north-eastern state of Maine have arrested a loner who vanished from sight in 1986 and survived by stealing supplies from area camps, local media reported Thursday.
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News Link • World News
Syria activists reject Qaeda call for Islamic state
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Syrian activists on Thursday dismissed as “blatant interference” a weekend call by Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri for an Islamic state to be established in the strife-torn country.
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News Link • World News
Cornerstone laid for Palestinian culture museum
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Palestinian officials on Thursday joined a ceremony to lay the cornerstone for a new museum of Palestinian culture, history and society in Bir Zeit near Ramallah.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Washington GOP to auction AR-15 at fundraising event
04-11-2013
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
The Washington State Republican Party plans to auction an AR-15 rifle at its annual fundraising dinner this weekend.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Winklevoss Twins Revealed As Owning 1% Of All BitCoins
04-11-2013
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zerohedge.com
Think the 75% plunge in BitCoin values in two days has crushed all former supporters of the virtual currency (which truth be told is only back to levels from a month ago)? Wrong.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Church leaders rally in D.C. for stricter gun laws
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Sam Saylor’s son Shane was 20 years old when he became the 20th homicide victim of 2012 in Hartford, Connecticut on October 20. The suspected gunman? Another 20-year-old.
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News Link • Immigration
Facebook’s Zuckerberg launches lobbying group to push immigration and education reforms
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new political action group he is spearheading Thursday to press for reforms in areas including immigration and education.
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News Link • Internet
Can You Trust Anonymization Services?
04-11-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by James Black
Every Internet connection has a unique number " known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address " issued by an Internet service provider (ISP) and is almost always registered to a legal name, address, and Tax Identification Number.1
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News Link • Gun Rights
Nebraska dealer: No license needed to sell ‘personal collection’ of 678 guns, 13 grenades
04-11-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
A Nebraska man says that he is not guilty of illegally selling firearms to people who told him they were felons because the items were out of his personal collection of 678 guns and 13 grenades.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
British organ donations jump 50 percent in five years
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
The number of people in Britain donating their organs after death has surged 50 percent in the past five years, says the NHS Blood and Transplant service (NHSBT).
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News Link • World News
Norwegian teens return $81,500 found in bag on a train left by elderly passenger
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Two Norwegian teens returned 467,200 kroner (some 62,000 euros, $81,500) they found left on a train by an elderly passenger, Norwegian media reported Thursday.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
New unemployment applications fall after three weeks of increases
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
New claims for US unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, partly erasing the increases of the prior three weeks, Labor Department data released Thursday showed.
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News Link • Housing
Still Think The Housing Recovery Is Sustainable?
04-11-2013
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zerohedge.com
While hope springs eternal that the US housing sector 'record-inventory-compression and foreclosure-stuffed' 'recovery' will become self-sustaining, there are two rather disappointing 'facts' to ruin the 'fiction' that all is well.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima nuclear plant springs another radioactive leak
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has sprung yet another leak of radioactive water, its operator said on Thursday, the latest in an increasingly long line of mishaps to rattle public confidence.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Tony Perkins: Obama’s evangelical ‘watch list’ could ban Christian gun buyers
04-11-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has warned that President Barack Obama could be planning to create a special “watch list” for Catholics and evangelical Christians to prevent them from buying guns.
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News Link • Cuba
Fidel Castro attends school ribbon-cutting in Cuba
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Leaders inaugurating public works projects is a staple of Cuba, and a surprisingly spry-looking 86-year-old Fidel Castro has done it for the first time since stepping aside as president in 2006, media here reported on Thursday.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ted Nugent promotes ‘Knife Rights’ with gun giveaway just days after mass stabbing
04-11-2013
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
Just days after a student at the Houston-based Lone Star College went on a stabbing spree that left 14 people injured, Texas resident and Detroit-born rocker Ted Nugent is featured in a promotional contest for a group called “Knife Rights,”
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News Link • History
Anthropologists carbon date beam from temple holding Mayan calendar
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Carbon-dating of an ancient beam from a Guatemalan temple may help end a century-long debate about the Mayan calendar, anthropologists said on Thursday.
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News Link • Immigration
Jesuit father tells Congress: U.S. immigration system violates Scripture
04-11-2013
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
Jesuit Father Sean Carroll told members of Congress on Wednesday that the United States current immigration system ran counter to the teachings of the Christian Bible.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mass Stabbing Rocks Houston Area Campus as Gun Control Talks Rage On
04-11-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Aaron Samsel
It’s believed that 15 students have been wounded in a mass stabbing that took place today at Lone Star College Cy-Fair in Harris County near Houston, Texas, with four believed to be in critical condition.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Court nixes anti-abortion giveaways in schools after students light fetus dolls on fire
04-11-2013
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Kay Steiger via RawStory.com
A federal appeals court ruled that an anti-abortion group did not have the right to distribute rubber fetus dolls to a high school
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News Link • Counter-Economics
Lawyers: Guantánamo hunger strike could be deadly
04-11-2013
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Paul Harris, The Guardian via RawStory.com
Lawyers representing hunger-striking detainees at America’s controversial Guantánamo Bay prison have warned they fear some of the protesters could soon die in the ongoing protest.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our Gold When They Are Hoarding Gold Like Crazy?
04-11-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your gold.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama tells North Korea to end ‘belligerent approach’
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
US President Barack Obama on Thursday called on North Korea to end its “belligerent approach,” as the world waited for Pyongyang to carry out an expected missile launch.
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Authentic Liberalism Vindicated
04-11-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Anthony Gregory
If any one word is responsible for more confusion in the United States than “liberalism,” I’d surely like to know what it is.
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News Link • Israel
Israeli army injures ‘physically disabled’ Palestinian man
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Israeli troops shot and wounded a physically disabled Palestinian man during an arrest operation in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday, a prisoners’ rights group said.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
9 Percent of Americans Say They'd Bonk A Sexbot
04-11-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Nosowitz
Can a married person ethically use a sex robot? Is that cheating? And more questions answered by today's best poll (about people having sex with robots).
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News Link • Anonymous
Suicide of raped teen reignites concerns over cyberbullying in Canada
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Another Canadian teen’s suicide after months of harassment and circulation of an image of her alleged rape by four boys has reignited concerns over cyberbullying, and led hacker group Anonymous Thursday to call for a new investigation.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
FBI Trying to Infiltrate Keene, New Hampshire
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FBI agent Phillip Christiana apparently tried to pressure Paul into wearing a wire into the KAC and luring people into pot transactions, offering him immunity from prosecution in exchange. Follow the link to read more about how the FBI agent tried to
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Reference Link • Cartoons and Web Graphics
Who Gets the Kids, Anyway?
Tristan Shoubt
An MSNBC host says kids belong to communities, not their parents, and the chorus of "parents do too own them!" thunders through the talkosphere. Tristan Shoubt brings both sides up short in his latest cartoon. To share, link to the source page or ema
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Microbes Can Mass-Produce Malaria Drug
04-11-2013
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Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.com
Thanks to extensive genetic engineering, drugmakers can now brew large vats of the malaria drug artemisinin, stabilizing the world supply.
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News Link • Energy
A Startup’s Nanowire Ink Lifts Solar Cell Efficiency
04-11-2013
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
Sol Voltaics plans to make a nanowire-laden ink to boost solar panel efficiency using a rapid manufacturing process.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Implanted 'Bracelet' Helps Treat Heartburn
04-11-2013
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A 'bracelet' made of magnetic titanium beads has greatly improved the lives of some chronic heartburn sufferers. It's implanted at the base of the esophagus and reinforces the weakened muscle that allows acid to splash back up.
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