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Date Sent: 2015-04-13
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, April 13, 2015 |
SpaceX To Attempt Revolutionary Falcon 9 Rocket Landing Today
Land for the People: Alaska Passes Bill Returning State Land from Federal Control -- Tax-time devil's dictionary of DC lingo -- First Click: all hail the new rocket scientist -- Oklahoma City bombing: 20 years later, key questions remain unanswered -- The New System Uber Is Implementing at Airports Has Some Drivers Worried -- NSA dreams of smartphones with "split" crypto keys protecting user data -- Weekend Roundup: PayPal Confirms BTC Acceptance, BitMesh Unveils Bitcoin-Internet Prototype -- After Hectic Week for Foundation, MIT Offers to Host a Bitcoin Standards Center -- SeaWorld Being Sued (Again) For Allegedly Drugging and Confining Orcas to "Chemical Tubs" -- So, You Think You're 'Prepped'? For How Long? -- Bitcoin for Freelancers: Popular Billing Service Hiveage Adds Bitcoin -- Thousands dead, few prosecuted -- Everything We Know About the Stingray, the Cops' Favorite Cell Phone Tracking Tool -- Maine police departments pay hackers to unlock computer system -- APR 13 DIGEST: Hillary Clinton Doesn't Want Bitcoins, BTCGAW.com Reported to FBI -- Satoshi Citadel Industries 'Completing the Bitcoin Ecosystem in the Philippines'... -- Four Arrested in US$307M Alleged Pyramid Scheme 'UFun' -- How to Get Your Mom to Use Bitcoin -- Media Pushing the Idea That Fukushima Radiation Is Just Fine... -- So, You Think You're 'Prepped'? For How Long? -- Monsanto Admits There's A Whole Department Dedicated To Discrediting Anti-GMO Experts -- Supercomputer Algorithms Are Here Today to Find Tomorrow's Life-Saving Drugs -- Calculating the Speed Limit of Quantum Information -- Ripple Labs Expands to Asia Pacific Region -- The LHC Has Broken Its Own Particle Acceleration World Record -- Famed German Author Gunter Grass Dies at Age 87 -- The US Patent Office Trashes Key Portions of the Infamous 'Podcasting Patent' -- ISIS Wannabe Hacks Huffington Post Blogger -- Rand Paul, class clown, is now selling novelty Hillary Clinton hard drives --
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX To Attempt Revolutionary Falcon 9 Rocket Landing Today
04-13-2015
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http://www.popsci.com
The Falcon 9 rocket is at its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. Its companion, the autonomous floating barge ship "Just Read The Instructions," is in its more or less stable catching position in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Government
Land for the People: Alaska Passes Bill Returning State Land from Federal Control
04-13-2015
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http://21stcenturywire.com
All across the western states, a grass-roots movement has risen to reclaim states' Constitutionally mandated public lands from federal government control.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First Click: all hail the new rocket scientist
04-13-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
Calling someone a "rocket scientist" used to be the highest form of technical flattery. It was reserved for that rare person capable of harnessing lightning bolts to launch humanity into the future.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • World News
Oklahoma City bombing: 20 years later, key questions remain unanswered
04-13-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols have faced three trials and a vast FBI investigation but many details of their attack remain unexplained
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The New System Uber Is Implementing at Airports Has Some Drivers Worried
04-13-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
Of all the competing regulation issues for car service app Uber, airport-related rules may be some of the most complex and inconsistent.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Weekend Roundup: PayPal Confirms BTC Acceptance, BitMesh Unveils Bitcoin-Internet Prototype
04-13-2015
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http://cointelegraph.com
In a filing at the US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), PayPal details its future as a separate entity from eBay, a split which is due to occur by the end of 2015.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
After Hectic Week for Foundation, MIT Offers to Host a Bitcoin Standards Center
04-13-2015
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http://cointelegraph.com
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could become an important pillar for Bitcoin in the near future, as director of the MIT Media Lab Joi Ito has proposed hosting a Bitcoin standards body at the institution
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Animals and Pets
SeaWorld Being Sued (Again) For Allegedly Drugging and Confining Orcas to "Chemical Tubs"
04-13-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
"SeaWorld accepts that abnormal (even desperate) orca behavior... is the price paid for this form of human entertainment and company profit," the court documents say.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
So, You Think You're 'Prepped'? For How Long?
04-13-2015
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Me, Ed Vallejo, and Greg Peterson The Urban Farmer
Guns and Gold will do great, considering you are willing to forcefully take what you can't buy after 'TSHTF'; but there is an alternative for 'The Long Haul'. SEEDS.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin for Freelancers: Popular Billing Service Hiveage Adds Bitcoin
04-13-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
Operating a small business with Bitcoin just got a bit easier. Online billing service Hiveage has announced its integration with Bitcoin wallet and exchange Coinbase, allowing its 45,000-plus small business and freelance clients around the world to
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Thousands dead, few prosecuted
04-11-2015
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Kimberly Kindy, Kimbriell Kelly, Washington Post
Among the thousands of fatal shootings at the hands of police since 2005, only 54 officers have been charged, a Post analysis found. Most were cleared or acquitted in the cases that have been resolved.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Police State
Everything We Know About the Stingray, the Cops' Favorite Cell Phone Tracking Tool
04-13-2015
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Lucy Steigerwald, Vice.com
While Edward Snowden gives interviews to John Oliver and the NSA continues to gobble up our data, local police departments are quietly spying on people without public oversight, often thanks to a little device known as a Stingray.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Maine police departments pay hackers to unlock computer system
04-12-2015
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http://www.pressherald.com
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and four towns that share a system say they paid $300 after the hackers claimed the 'ransomware' program would wipe the system clean.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics
APR 13 DIGEST: Hillary Clinton Doesn't Want Bitcoins, BTCGAW.com Reported to FBI
04-13-2015
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http://cointelegraph.com
Hilary Clinton won't be accepting bitcoin for her US$2.5 billion American election bid.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Satoshi Citadel Industries 'Completing the Bitcoin Ecosystem in the Philippines'...
04-13-2015
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http://cointelegraph.com
With BuyBitcoin.ph Acquisition
The Philippines' first Bitcoin exchange, Buybitcoin.ph, has been sold to resident universal Bitcoin service Satoshi Citadel Industries
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Four Arrested in US$307M Alleged Pyramid Scheme 'UFun'
04-13-2015
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http://cointelegraph.com/news
Thai police have arrested four executives of UFun Store Co. Ltd., a business that operates an alleged pyramid scheme.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
How to Get Your Mom to Use Bitcoin
04-13-2015
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http://cointelegraph.com
As someone who's gotten two mothers to use Bitcoin, I thought I'd offer up a few tips on what seems to entice the maternal amongst us.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Environment
Media Pushing the Idea That Fukushima Radiation Is Just Fine...
04-13-2015
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http://truthstreammedia.com
So Why Not Go Swim in It for Six Hours a Day...
The mainstream media and their experts are finally openly admitting that radiation from the crippled nuclear reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the initial meltdown of which was
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
So, You Think You're 'Prepped'? For How Long?
04-13-2015
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Me, Ed Vallejo, and Greg Peterson The Urban Farmer
Guns and Gold will do great, considering you are willing to forcefully take what you can't buy after 'TSHTF'; but there is an alternative for 'The Long Haul'. SEEDS.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto Admits There's A Whole Department Dedicated To Discrediting Anti-GMO Experts
04-13-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
After glyphosate was recently linked to cancer, could this be the end for Monsanto?
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Supercomputer Algorithms Are Here Today to Find Tomorrow's Life-Saving Drugs
04-13-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
From aerospace to mechanical engineering, professionals across the world rely on powerful supercomputers to aid their work each day.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - International
Ripple Labs Expands to Asia Pacific Region
04-13-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
The company behind the consensus network and currency, Ripple, has announced a new office in Sydney, Australia as part of a push further into the large Asian and Pacific markets.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The LHC Has Broken Its Own Particle Acceleration World Record
04-13-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
On April 5, after two years of refurbishment and upgrades, the Large Hadron Collider officially went back online: two proton beams firing in opposite directions around a 27-kilometer ring with an initial "injection energy" of 450 GeV, or about three
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Internet
The US Patent Office Trashes Key Portions of the Infamous 'Podcasting Patent'
04-13-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
On Friday, the United States Patent Office ?trashed key elements of the so-called "podcasting patent," the result of a series of petitions submitted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against what the organization describes as a classic case of
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Internet
ISIS Wannabe Hacks Huffington Post Blogger
04-13-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/isis-wannabe-hack
The hacking group that calls itself the Islamic State Hacking Division claimed another victim on Sunday night, defacing the biography of an Huffington Post blogger.
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News Link • Politics
Rand Paul, class clown, is now selling novelty Hillary Clinton hard drives
04-13-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
Hillary Clinton officially announced she's running for president today, and Republican rival Rand Paul spared no time adding anti-Hillary merchandise to his campaign store.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Garmin's new action cameras offer a rugged alternative to GoPro
04-13-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
GoPro is the first company most people think about when they hear the words "action camera," but that doesn't mean its competition can't find clever ways to sell their products.
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News Link • Politics
Hillary Clinton begins presidential push with Iowa visit
04-13-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
After announcing her decision to seek the Democratic nomination, Clinton will visit state whose initial lack of support undermined her entire campaign in 2008
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics
Marco Rubio to launch campaign on the heels of Hillary Clinton's announcement
04-13-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Florida senator to announce run on Monday in carefully orchestrated Miami event as his team competes with Clinton and Jeb Bush for nation's attention
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics
Rand Paul on criticism over treatment of women: they 'have come a long way'
04-13-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
After facing questions over his behavior in interviews with female journalists, presidential candidate says women are 'intelligent'
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News Link • Cuba
In Meeting, Obama and Castro Signal Path to Normalization
04-12-2015
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Castro: Don't Blame Obama for Past US Oppression
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