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Date Sent: 2015-05-06
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, May 6, 2015 |
05-06-15 -- Stewart Rhodes - Charles Goyette - Richard Grove (MP3 & VIDEO)
Teacher Op-Ed Reignites Debate On School Lockdown Drills -- SpaceX's emergency escape plan for astronauts was just tested successfully -- The Cult of Celebrity / The Cult of No Personality -- Drone maker DJI nabs $75 million in funding at a $10 billion valuation -- Party for Richard Grove - Lisa Arbercheski Tragedy & Hope Fri May 8th 6 pm til ? @ Hancock's -- Ripple Labs Fined $700,000 by FinCEN, Will Institute Transaction Monitoring Across Ripple Protocol -- LONDON (AP) -- As Britain's political leaders spent a final day campaigning Wednesday, -- 20% Of Americans Use Mind-altering Drugs to Handle Daily Life! -- The Choice Before Europe -- In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn't Amount to Much -- Programmer Convicted in Bizarre Goldman Sachs Case--Again -- Cuba ferry services to resume from US -- Court's Reversal Leaves Phones Open to Warrantless Tracking -- The Oculus Rift Is Coming In Early 2016 -- This is the first road-legal big rig that can drive itself -- Joss Whedon just made the biggest movie on the planet -- now what? -- UK High Court Censors Many Links To Popcorn Time: Useless, Dangerous Gesture -- David V. Goliath: Small-Cap Tech To Save Giant Coal -- Bitcoin Startup LazyPay Competes In Virgin Mobile's Pitch To Rich Competition -- Exclusive: U.S. boosts bird flu emergency funds as Hormel cuts jobs -- Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting -- UK Elections: Business As Usual Triumphs -- Most Stop Smoking Ads Don't Work. This One Takes Things To Another Level -- Stewart and his wife, Tracey, have plans to purchase a New Jersey farm ... -- No Wonder Freddie Gray Ran From the Cops -- Netanyahu struggles to form Israeli coalition before midnight deadline -- Latin America leads world on murder map, but key cities buck deadly trend -- That NASA Warp Drive? Yeah, It's Still Poppycock -- Fracking chemicals contaminated drinking water in Pennsylvania, study finds --
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News Link • Police State
Teacher Op-Ed Reignites Debate On School Lockdown Drills
05-06-2015
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Huffington Post
A pre-K teacher's Washington Post op-ed arguing against school lockdown drills has reignited debate over the practice in the wake of a Washington state high school shooting.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX's emergency escape plan for astronauts was just tested successfully
05-06-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
NASA described it as a test flight "unlike any seen in Florida since the days of Apollo," but for anyone watching the livestream, the SpaceX test looked pretty serene.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drones
Drone maker DJI nabs $75 million in funding at a $10 billion valuation
05-06-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
The biggest company in the consumer drone market wants to become a platform for the entire industry
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Ripple Labs Fined $700,000 by FinCEN, Will Institute Transaction Monitoring Across Ripple Protocol
05-06-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
Earlier today, Ripple Labs Inc. was fined $700,000 for "willfully violating several requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)."
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • World News
LONDON (AP) -- As Britain's political leaders spent a final day campaigning Wednesday,
05-06-2015
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http://hosted.ap.org
LONDON (AP) -- As Britain's political leaders spent a final day campaigning Wednesday, the election race drew to a bumpy close for the U.K. Independence Party, which suspended a candidate for saying he would shoot his Conservative opponent.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
20% Of Americans Use Mind-altering Drugs to Handle Daily Life!
05-06-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Due in part to the absurd illegality of common plants such as marijuana and magic mushrooms, the ascendency of big pharmaceutical industries, sanctioned by governments throughout the world, has lead to an incredible number of people now medicating th
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Military
The Choice Before Europe
05-06-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police State
In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn't Amount to Much
05-06-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
"In a democratic society," observed Oakland police chief Sean Whent, "people have a say in how they are policed."
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Programmer Convicted in Bizarre Goldman Sachs Case--Again
05-06-2015
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Wired
A former Goldman Sachs programmer has been convicted for the second time on charges he misused his former employer's code, a new chapter to an bizarre and controversial case that has drawn much unwanted attention to
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Cuba ferry services to resume from US
05-06-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Florida operators receive approval to relaunch services to Havana as island prepares to officially receive American tourists after 56 years
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Surveillance
Court's Reversal Leaves Phones Open to Warrantless Tracking
05-06-2015
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Wired
A US circuit court has handed privacy advocates a surprising reversal on a landmark pro-privacy decision: Last year, the court ruled against the government in the case of Quartavious Davis, whose cell phone was tracked by cops as he went
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
The Oculus Rift Is Coming In Early 2016
05-06-2015
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Wired.Com
The wait for an Oculus Rift VR headset is almost over. Almost.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
This is the first road-legal big rig that can drive itself
05-06-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
Freightliner shows its Inspiration Truck in Las Vegas
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Joss Whedon just made the biggest movie on the planet -- now what?
05-06-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
This weekend, Joss Whedon's film Avengers: Age of Ultron made $191.3 million domestically, and that's only a small portion of its $631 million global earnings.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Internet
UK High Court Censors Many Links To Popcorn Time: Useless, Dangerous Gesture
05-05-2015
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Privacy Online News
The courts seem to still live in the book burning times, when they had some kind of authority over what information was allowed to exist and what information could be effectively silenced. That has not been the case for 20 years.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Startup LazyPay Competes In Virgin Mobile's Pitch To Rich Competition
05-06-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
Bitcoin startup LazyPay has a chance to win a share of the £1,000,000 in prize money for the winner of Virgin Mobile's Pitch To Rich competition.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Exclusive: U.S. boosts bird flu emergency funds as Hormel cuts jobs
05-06-2015
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http://www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - The U.S. government approved the use of an additional $330 million in emergency funds to help contain the worst avian influenza outbreak in U.S. history, as infected bird cases soared and hundreds of Minnesota poultry workers learned they
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Surveillance
Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting
05-06-2015
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http://www.washingtonpost.com
As Benjamin Shayne settled into his back yard to listen to the Orioles game on the radio Saturday night, he noticed a small plane looping low and tight over West Baltimore
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Most Stop Smoking Ads Don't Work. This One Takes Things To Another Level
05-06-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Anti-smoking advertisements rarely have any positive effect on heavy smokers. Even the most vile of videos tends to make a smoker reach for their cigarettes, which is the go-to aid in stressful times (including the stress of watching what you're do
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Stewart and his wife, Tracey, have plans to purchase a New Jersey farm ...
05-06-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Jon Stewart, the hilarious host of Comedy Central's Daily Show, is a New Jersey native who is ready to return to the simple life. As he winds down his stellar 16-year-career, though, many wonder what new hobbies will employ his time.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu struggles to form Israeli coalition before midnight deadline
05-06-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Prime minister seeks backing of far-right Jewish Home party after Avigdor Lieberman's shock resignation plunges coalition talks into crisis
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • World News
Latin America leads world on murder map, but key cities buck deadly trend
05-06-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela and Brazil earn unwanted distinction but homicides are concentrated among young male poor and policing can slash rates
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
That NASA Warp Drive? Yeah, It's Still Poppycock
05-06-2015
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Wired.Com
A week ago, in a far-off corner of the Internet, a little website called NASAspaceflight.com published a story about a futuristic propulsion drive that produces thrust without propellant.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Fracking chemicals contaminated drinking water in Pennsylvania, study finds
05-06-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
Study adds to growing concerns over the public health risks associated with shale gas boom
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Future Predictions
Apple and Microsoft's visions for the future are delightfully different
05-06-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
One wants the device at the center of your life, the other wants to make the device irrelevant.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Solar Flares
8:45 AM | The sun is now virtually blank during the weakest solar cycle in more than a century
05-05-2015
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http://vencoreweather.com,
The sun is almost completely blank.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Why Iran must remain a US enemy
05-05-2015
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Gareth Porter
The most important factor in shaping US policy towards Iran is domestic politics - not Obama's own geopolitical vision.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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