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Date Sent: 2013-04-08
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, April 8, 2013 |
ATF Seeks 'Massive' Database of Personal Info: 'Assets, Relatives, Associates and More'
Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion on 'War on Poverty' -- Feds Look Closer at Cash Source in McAuliffe Car Scam -- Obama budget to take aim at wealthy IRAs -- A weekend of death in Afghanistan -- FBI interviews Petraeus about giving his Ho top secret access -- Online translation on the rise, changing lives -- Egyptian police fire tear gas to disperse Cairo protest -- U.S.-Pakistani Cooperation over Drone Strikes -- Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty - by Ron Paul -- Just Say "No!" To War With North Korea -- ‘They want me dead!’ Venezuelan president claims US murder plot -- Obama's Budget Proposal: Cut Social Security, Medicare Benefits -- Radioactive Water 'Escapes' from Fukushima Tank
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine April 5th, 2013 Edition NOW
AVAILABLE
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
TICKETS NOW ON SALE - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day
Dinner and Auction with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack,
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
ATF Seeks 'Massive' Database of Personal Info: 'Assets, Relatives, Associates and More**
04-07-2013
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CNS News
A recent solicitation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) reveals that the agency is seeking a "massive" online database capable of pulling up individuals' personal information, connections and associates.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Spring Party and a chance to meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @ 4pm til ???
04-05-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Spring Party at the Hancock's and a chance to meet and hang out with Cindy Sheehan as she travels thru Phoenix on her Tour de Peace bike ride across the country. There will be other riders here along with Cindy, so come down and show them the LOV3!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion on 'War on Poverty'
04-07-2013
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Breitbart
Since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,” U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on so-called anti-poverty programs"a figure slightly less than the national debt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Feds Look Closer at Cash Source in McAuliffe Car Scam
04-07-2013
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Breitbart
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and a brother of Hillary Clinton used a similar EB-5 operation to raise cash from foreigners in what a financial adviser calls the McAuliffe operation a fraud.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama budget to take aim at wealthy IRAs
04-07-2013
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The Hill
President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals " like Mitt Romney " can keep in IRAs and other retirement accounts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
A weekend of death in Afghanistan
04-07-2013
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various
A fierce battle between U.S.-backed Afghan forces and Taliban militants in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan left nearly 20 people dead, including 11 Afghan children killed in an airstrike and an American civilian adviser, officials said Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Portable Solar Charger That US Troops Rely On
04-06-2013
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suntactics.com
Being a soldier in unfamiliar territory must be tough, not knowing what’s coming next, not having the comforts of home, and most importantly, not having contact with the ones you love. Family members and troops want only the best military gear out on
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
How To Make A Wood Gas Stove
04-07-2013
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suntactics.com
When you need to boil questionable water or cook some food, you need a portable stove, preferably one that is compact and light-weight so you can have one where ever you go. Why pay $70 bucks for one when you can make one at home for FREE?
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News Link • Treason and Sedition
FBI interviews Petraeus about giving his Ho top secret access
04-07-2013
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Reuters
FBI agents met with former CIA Director David Petraeus at his northern Virginia home as part of an investigation into whether an ex-lover improperly handled classified documents, USA Today reported.
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News Link • Internet
Online translation on the rise, changing lives
04-07-2013
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AP
Google is now doing a record billion translations on any given day, as much text as you'd find in 1 million books for everything from understanding school lunch menus to gathering national security intelligence. It translates in 65 languages, from Af
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Egyptian police fire tear gas to disperse Cairo protest
04-07-2013
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Reuters
500 people marched for much of the day through Cairo, chanting "The people want to topple the regime" on the fifth anniversary of the founding of the opposition April 6 youth movement. When some protesters hurled fireworks and rockets at
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S.-Pakistani Cooperation over Drone Strikes
04-07-2013
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The target was not a top operative of Al Qaeda, but a Pakistani ally of the Taliban who led a tribal rebellion and was marked by Pakistan as an enemy of the state. In a secret deal, the C.I.A. had agreed to kill him in exchange for access to
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie Tickets available now for the April 11th, 2013 showing at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
03-21-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Why are gas prices are so high? Why is it getting harder to put food on the table? Some seek answers from government, but those who control the money control everything. Silver Circle is the story of our world after the worst economic collapse in US
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie at Pollack Tempe Cinemas - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ
03-07-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Liberty Coin and Precious Metals along with our friends at FreedomsPhoenix.com will be helping put on a one-night event to remember at the Pollack Cinema! We will have tickets available here, or pending the show isn't sold out, you can purchase your
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty - by Ron Paul
04-07-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to their rule, and few things promote the thinking of “unapproved” thoughts li
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News Link • Military
Just Say "No!" To War With North Korea
4-7-2013
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Free Press Publications
Is war with North Korea inevitable? Some people are hinting that it can't be avoided. CNN asked retired General James Marks to explain the military strategies likely to be used by North Korea and the United States in a conflict. Fox News has reporte
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Energy
Electric Car Battery that charges off grid
04-07-2013
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http://www.off-grid.net, TECHSTAR
A ground-breaking car battery that requires no mains recharging may revolutionise ecofriendly transport..
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
The persuasive prepper: convincing loved ones to prepare
04-07-2013
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http://www.off-grid.net, by TREASUREGIFT
It would seem that I’m not the only blogger/prepper who is also worried about getting family on board for prepping.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
‘They want me dead!’ Venezuelan president claims US murder plot
04-07-2013
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http://rt.com
Acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro believes there is a US plot to assassinate him during his election campaign. He called on his followers to be “vigilant” and warned conspirators want to prevent his victory in next week’s election.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Budget Proposal: Cut Social Security, Medicare Benefits
04-07-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Andrea Germanos
President Obama's budget proposal to be unveiled next week will include cuts to Social Security and Medicare, according to media reports Friday morning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Radioactive Water 'Escapes' from Fukushima Tank
04-07-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org
Up to 120 tonnes of radioactive water may have "escaped" from an underground storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, an official announced Saturday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Zoo to build power plant that uses panda poop to produce electricity
04-07-2013
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
Not content with housing a pair of celebrity pandas that attract hordes of avid onlookers, a zoo in France has decided to put their droppings to good use by recycling them into gas and electricity.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Salt-based solar thermal power plant takes shape in Nevada
04-07-2013
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http://www.rawstory.com, By CleanTechnica
The notorious Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant near Tonopah, Nevada passed another milestone this month, as workers finished placing receiver panels on top of a 540-foot tower that forms the centerpiece of the facility.
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Robert Lee
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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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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 7, 2013 Edition
04-05-2013
John Semmens
Administration Touts Obamacare as Jobs Engine
The complexities of the Affordable Health Care Act (aka Obamacare) are now being hailed as a stimulant for the economy by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
“The GOP has been trying to lampoon the Health
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Cody Wilson: 3D Gun Printing Possible ‘By the End of April’
04-05-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Firearms 3D printer Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed and the Wiki Weapon project has been making wave after wave with every one of his statements, updates, videos and blog posts. He’s been making the circles, with an interview with Vice Magazine an
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News Link • Iraq
The Real Reason for the Iraq War
04-05-2013
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vice.com
Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling author and fearless investigative journalist whose reports appear on BBC Television Newsnight and in The Guardian.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
France says 75 per cent tax will apply to footballers
04-05-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
France will lose its best footballers due to President François Hollande’s “crazy” 75 per cent tax on millionaire earners, the country’s football league warned on Tuesday, after a failed attempt by leading players to avoid the levy.
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News Link • Police State
*VIDEO* COPS SHOOT UNARMED MAN IN BED 16 TIMES, DEPT OF CORRECTIONS SAYS: “OK”
04-05-2013
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thelibertarianrepublic.com
A King County man was shot while sleeping in his bed 16 times by local police who invaded the house. Police declared they “felt threatened” by the man who was not the subject of a warrant or investigation.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Cops need warrants for dog searches … sometimes
04-05-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
By a disturbingly slim 5-4 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled March 26 that police cannot bring a drug-sniffing police dog onto a suspect’s property to look for evidence without first getting a search warrant.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Justice Department: If You Are A Teenager Who Reads News Online, You May Be A Criminal
04-05-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, emalvini
During his first term, President Barack Obama declared October 2009 to be “National Information Literacy Awareness Month,” emphasizing that, for students, learning to navigate the online world is as important a skill as reading, writing and arithmeti
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Visualizing Bitcoin - The 'Encryption' Standard
04-05-2013
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zerohedge.com
What currency is feared by the European Central Bank as a threat to fiat monetary institutions?
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News Link • European Union
CEO Of Italy's Largest Bank Says Haircuts Of Uninsured Depositors "Acceptable",
04-05-2013
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zerohedge.com
While the head of the ECB and his assorted kitchen sinks scramble to explain how Diesel-BOOM was horribly misunderstood when saying that depositor impairment may and will be the template for future European bank "resolution"
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Is It Time To Sell Your Gold?
04-05-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Bill Bonner
Dear readers ask about gold. Is it time to sell? To buy? To forget about it?
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News Link • Corruption
Doug Casey: All Banks Are Bankrupt
04-05-2013
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Doug Casey Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, Int
L: Doug, there is considerable disagreement over the significance of the Cyprus crisis. A lot of people are saying that it's just a flash in the pan; Cyprus is a small country, far off, and doesn't really matter.
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News Link • Corruption
MF Global Trustee Speaks: It Was All Corzine's Fault
04-05-2013
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zerohedge.com
In the somewhat unsurprising conclusion of former FBI Director Louis Freeh's investigation into the MFGlobal collapse, Jon Corzine's aggressive bets on European sovereign debt led to the firm's dramatic collapse.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why Ex-Enron Chief Jeff Skilling Might Get Out Of His 24-Year Sentence
04-05-2013
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Business Insider
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling reportedly has a chance of getting out of prison early because the government is considering a deal to cut his sentence.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Private Equity Firms Would Now Like To Tap Into Your 401(k)
04-05-2013
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Business Insider
There have been whispers about this for a while, but now it's happening.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Sarcastic Headline Doesn’t Fly At Metro Airport
04-05-2013
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http://detroit.cbslocal.com,
Officials at Detroit Metro Airport are defending a decision to pull a free newspaper from terminals over a headline that appeared to slam Detroit.
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News Link • Currencies
The Euro Is Rocketing Higher
04-05-2013
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Business Insider
The euro has completely erased earlier losses and now it's exploding higher.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/euro-surging-2013-4#ixzz2PaLjSOdI
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News Link • Surveillance
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance
04-04-2013
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c/Net
Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are "impossible to intercept," even with a warrant.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Veteran’s Guns Confiscated After Forced ‘Psychiatric Evaluation’
04-04-2013
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InfoWars
A US Navy veteran had his guns confiscated by police following a forced “psychiatric evaluation” in another purge of armed ex-servicemembers in accordance with a federal government demonization campaign labeling vets domestic terrorists.
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News Link • Gun Rights
"State Control": What the UN Firearms Treaty is All About
04-04-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
White House mouthpiece Jay Carney says the Obama administration will “conduct a thorough review” of the UN’s newly enacted gun control pact “to determine whether to sign the treaty.” The suspense is hardly unbearable, given that
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