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Date Sent: 2014-11-04
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, November 4, 2014 |
Marijuana profits up in smoke under IRS rules -- Amazon-CIA $600 Million Deal Facing Scrutiny
Top Retired Israeli Security Officials Support Peace with Palestinians -- Saudi Arabia Raises Asia, Europe Prices; Cuts US Prices -- A&E 9/11 Truth Preparing to Sue NIST and FEMA to Force Release of Documents -- Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crash: Full Coverage and Investigation -- Benjamin Lawsky Keynote - Money 2020 - Nov 2, 2014 - #bitcoin #regulation -- Share of First-Time Home Buyers Hits 27-Year Low -- Norway is world's most prosperous country -- Rogue pastors endorse candidates, but IRS looks away -- Lawless Israeli House Demolitions -- Rock the Vote hypocrites -- Hungary Knows How to Respond To Government Tyranny -- Dysfunctional America -- This damning story on Mitch McConnell could very well be a storyline -- Latest news on Galt's Gulch Chile, from Jeff Berwick -- More Guns Plus Less War Equals Real Security -- Weather Channel Founder: Man-Made Global Warming is 'Baloney' -- Kiev Reneges on Donbas Self-Rule Status -- Gunmen kill Mexican general sent to tame cartel violence -- Tech groups aid terror, says UK spy chief -- Former RNC chair Steele: Rand Paul is the 2016 Republican frontrunner -- How Much Does It Cost To Keep JPMorgan FX-Riggers Out Of Jail?
AZ: Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – Starts This Saturday, November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Drug War
Marijuana profits up in smoke under IRS rules
11-04-2014
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USA Today
"A lot of times, instead of paying a tax rate that should be 30 to 40%, they are paying rates between 80 or 90%," Cornelius, the accountant, said. "I even have a client right now that is paying more than 100% effective tax rate."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - International
Saudi Arabia Raises Asia, Europe Prices; Cuts US Prices
11-04-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It appears, just as we warned two weeks ago, that the 'dumping strategy' designed to punish Obama's nemesis Putin could have morphed into a Saudi Arabian strategy to keep its foot on the neck of the US Shale Oil industry.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
A&E 9/11 Truth Preparing to Sue NIST and FEMA to Force Release of Documents
11-04-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
Researchers with Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth are planning on suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency and National Institute of Standards and Technology to force the release of nearly 500,000 records related to the attacks of September
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crash: Full Coverage and Investigation
11-04-2014
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http://www.space.com, by Tariq Malik
On Oct. 31, 2014, the space tourism company Virgin Galactic suffered a serious accident during a SpaceShipTwo test flight, resulting in the loss of the spacecraft. One pilot died in the crash, while another suffered injuries. Scroll Down for our full
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Assad's Warnings Start to Ring True in Turkey
11-04-2014
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arclein
mid a backlash against political Islam across the region Erdogan is still irritating his Arab neighbors by offering himself as a Sunni Islamist champion.
The world, meanwhile, is transfixed by the desperate siege of Kobani, the Syrian Kurdish tow
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Effect of Biochar on Maize Productivity in Ghana
11-04-2014
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arclein
Generally, trend of soil moisture content increased with the rate of biochar application in the order control < 2t/ha biochar < 4t/ha biochar. The application of biochar with inorganic fertilizers increased maize biomass production. Maize plant heig
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News Link • Inventions
Scubus S puts HD video recording, underwater communications...
11-04-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Loz Blain
Scubus S puts HD video recording, underwater communications and HUD in your diving mask
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News Link • Housing
Small living goes old-school with the Shepherd Hut
11-04-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam Williams
Canadian company Güte recently designed a prefabricated trailer-like hut that's suitable for use as a small dwelling, office space, or guest room.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Benjamin Lawsky Keynote - Money 2020 - Nov 2, 2014 - #bitcoin #regulation
11-04-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, World Crypto Network
Buy Silver and Gold -- for Bitcoin!
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News Link • Housing
Share of First-Time Home Buyers Hits 27-Year Low
11-04-2014
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http://blogs.wsj.com
Just 33% of primary residences sold this year were purchased by first-time buyers, down from 38% last year to the lowest level since 1987, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday.
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News Link • Government
Rogue pastors endorse candidates, but IRS looks away
11-04-2014
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http://www.politico.com, By RACHAEL BADE
A record number of rogue Christian pastors are endorsing candidates from the pulpit this election cycle, using Sunday sermons to defiantly flout tax rules.
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News Link • Books
Arthur Clarke's '3001: The Final Odyssey' Set As Syfy Miniseries From Scott Free
11-04-2014
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http://deadline.com, by Nellie Andreeva
Forty six years after the release of Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey, the final book in Arthur C. Clarke's Odyssey series is getting a screen adaptation.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Rock the Vote hypocrites...
11-04-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Francesca Chambers
Rock the Vote hypocrites: Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg and other celebs who urged young people to turn out didn't take part in last midterms themselves, records reveal
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News Link • Government
Hungary Knows How to Respond To Government Tryanny ...
11-04-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com,
Hungary Knows How to Respond To Government Tryanny - Protest Turns the Government 180 Degrees
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News Link • General Opinion
Dysfunctional America
11-04-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
If you require more evidence that the United States is a dysfunctional society, observe American elections. Election season is slander season.
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News Link • Government
This damning story on Mitch McConnell could very well be a storyline...
11-04-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Vots
This damning story on Mitch McConnell could very well be a storyline on House of Cards
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News Link • World News
Latest news on Galt's Gulch Chile, from Jeff Berwick
11-04-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Jeff Berwick
On August 27th of this year I wrote, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly on Galt's Gulch Chile" where I outlined major management competence and fraud issues at Galt's Gulch Chile. It took the liberty and anti-liberty media by storm.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
More Guns Plus Less War Equals Real Security
11-04-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
Last week's tragic shootings in Canada and Washington state are certain to lead to new calls for gun control.
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News Link • Climate Change
Weather Channel Founder: Man-Made Global Warming is 'Baloney'
11-04-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Patrick Goodenough
On the same day that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a major new global warming report, John Coleman, a founder of the Weather Channel, appeared on CNN Sunday to reiterate his stance that "climate change is not happening.
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News Link • Drug War
Gunmen kill Mexican general sent to tame cartel violence
11-04-2014
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www.france24.com
De la Garza said the general usually travelled in an armored vehicle with a security detail, but the victims were unarmed and in a civilian car. Nino Villareal survived a previous attack on October 9 when unidentified gunmen shot at his armored vehic
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • TERRORISM
Tech groups aid terror, says UK spy chief
11-04-2014
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Financial Times
The new chief of Britain's electronic spying agency, GCHQ, has accused US technology companies of becoming "the command and control networks of choice" for terrorists in a broadside against Silicon Valley in his first week in office.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Christmas Shopping Season Starts Today: Walmart Leads the Way ..
11-03-2014
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
In the past few years the Christmas shopping season moved from the "Black Friday" the day after Thanksgiving, to earlier and earlier starts on Thanksgiving, then to the day before Thanksgiving.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolving Door
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Revolving door between companies, Army on display in intelligence program
10-27-2014
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KEN DILANIAN , Associated Press
"The Defense Department and the Army are not going with companies that have proven solutions, What they are going with are people who know government and the government acquisition process."
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Asteroid-Mining Tech Among Casualties of Antares Rocket Explosion
11-03-2014
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http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
The rocket explosion that destroyed a cargo vessel bound for the International Space Station Tuesday (Oct. 28) also took out an asteroid-mining company's first spacecraft.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
It Will Take 6.25 BILLION "Man Years" To Pay Off Federal Government Liabilities
11-02-2014
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Puts a different spin on it, huh? Now, you really want your mind blown? Do that same calculation with the debt (now $18 trillion). Now do it with the unfunded liabilities of the FEDGOV (conservatively $250 trillion).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Why A Christian Should Not Vote
11/02/2014
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C. Smith's Blog
As one who believes in freedom, in non-aggression, in love, in God, I reject voting. Voting is the antithesis of Jesus' teaching of love, peace, and faith.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Court Rules Police Can Force Users to Unlock iPhones With Fingerprints, But Not Passcodes
11-02-2014
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Judge Steven C. Frucci ruled this week that giving police a fingerprint is akin to providing a DNA or handwriting sample or an actual key, which the law permits. A pass code, though, requires the defendant to divulge knowledge,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
I Will Never Vote for Jeb Bush - by L. Neil Smith
11-02-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Attention Republicans! You're about to make an historic mistake"you're about to make the usual historical mistake that has given Democrats the upper hand too many times over the past eighty years or so.
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News Link • Corruption
Prosecutors Seem Surprised that Banksters May Still Be Breaking the Law
11-02-2014
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Jonathan Turley
It would be the Wall Street equivalent of a parole violation: Just two years after avoiding prosecution for a variety of crimes, some of the world's biggest banks are suspected of having broken their promises to behave.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
North Carolina voters report voting machines switching their votes to GOP candidate
11-02-2014
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Rawstory
A voter in Guilfrord County, attempting to take advantage of early voting in North Carolina, told the News-Record that the voting machine he used repeatedly switched his vote for a Democrat to a vote for her Republican opponent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Sensitivity Training For Crazy Joe Arpaio
11-02-2014
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Simple Justice
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered a controversial Arizona sheriff to undergo the same training as his deputies to prevent racial profiling and unlawful detention in the wake of the lawman's recent comments.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media
11-02-2014
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Associated Press
The US government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, Missouri, for 12 days in August to keep away news helicopters during violent street protests.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden could face criminal charges for Fox interview
11-02-2014
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Despite objections from the Pentagon, Fox News Channel plans to air a 2-day documentary featuring an interview with the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden. The move could result in criminal charges for the SEAL,
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Marine veteran out of Mexico jail, home in Florida
11-02-2014
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Associated Press
Tahmooressi, 26, has said he took a wrong turn on a California freeway that funneled him into a Tijuana port of entry with no way to turn back, and that he had no intention of illegally bringing guns into Mexico.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Sharyl Attkisson releases video of apparent computer hack
11-02-2014
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http://www.politico.com, By DYLAN BYERS
Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News correspondent who claims that her computers were hacked by the government while she was reporting on the Benghazi scandal, has released a video she took with her cellphone of one apparent hack...
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Former Israeli soldier describes how IDF troops do not view Palestinians...
11-02-2014
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http://www.independent.co, Rose Troup Buchanan
Former Israeli soldier describes how IDF troops do not view Palestinians as 'human beings'
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli Matrix of Control: Use of Palestinian Civillians as Human Shields
11-02-2014
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http://www.euromid.org, Euromid Observer
This report presents documented cases of Palestinian civilians used as human shields by Israeli military forces during the 51-day conflict in the Gaza Strip, 8 July-26 August, 2014. It also discusses Israeli claims that Palestinian armed factions use
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Vatican calls for worldwide government via a world bank even more powerful than the U.N.
11-01-2014
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www.worldtruth.tv
"Of course, this transformation will be made at the cost of a gradual, balanced transfer of a part of each nation's powers to a world authority and to regional authorities, but this is necessary,...."
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News Link • Police State
Bundy clan now flagged as terrorists by TSA & Senator Harry Ried
11-01-2014
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bundyranch.blogspot.com
I asked the agent why we were being treated so differently and why we were selected out. He told me it was because my boarding pass was tagged with the bold letters "SSSS". He also told me that this will happen every time you fly because you are mark
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News Link • Internet
The Dark Net Is Thriving
11-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The first ever e-commerce transaction, conducted by students from Stanford and MIT in the early 1970s, involved the sale of a small quantity of marijuana.
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News Link • Surveillance
Prostrate Yourselves! The Crypto Wars Are Back, and This Time Big Brother Aims to Win
11-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Rosenberg
Control over information is far more important than most people know. It always has been, but in an information-rich environment like our Internet age, the power of information has skyrocketed. Unfortunately, it has taken some time for people to unde
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News Link • Drug War
Government Drug Dealing: from "Kill the Messenger" to "Pinocchio"
11-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Nathan Kleffman
"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intellige
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The Olympics: The Biggest Corporatist Sports Scam of All
11-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ryan McMaken
The 2022 Olympics (i.e., the Winter Games) is now down to only two applicant nations: China and Kazakhstan. This follows the withdrawal of Norway after the taxpayers of Norway balked on ponying up the cash necessary to make the Olympics a playground
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