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Date Sent: 2015-06-01
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, June 2, 2015 |
A year after armed standoff... at the Bundy Ranch
America Needs a Real Definition of What a 'Natural' Food Is -- Goldman Sachs Warns "Too Much Debt" Threatens World Economy -- Gunslinger: Alan Korwin Has Made a Career Pushing Unbridled Gun Rights, -- US surveillance reform: what has happened and what happens next? -- Facebook just made a move that will infuriate law enforcement -- Will Congress Save PATRIOT Act...And Does It Matter? -- China unveils world's first facial recognition ATM -- Auto Leasing Hits Record High As Car Prices Soar -- MIT's Joi Ito Calls for a 'Supporting' Role for Governments as Community ... -- Mexico City taxi drivers get Uber angry -- Gold Ticks Higher In GBP ?" -- The global economic 'canary in the coal mine' hasn't looked this sick since... -- The hedge fund manager suing Argentina just had his 'That's it!' moment -- EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports -- Hill Intern Arrested,Tried to Bring Unloaded Gun to Work -- The Inside Story of Google's Bizarre Plunge Into VR -- Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States -- Deepwater Horizon: jury selection begins for BP exec charged in oil spill -- 2 of Cisco's top leaders have resigned as the new CEO takes over -- Goldman Sachs' 2nd-most-powerful executive pulled an audacious move... -- Greece Defies Washington: To Join Russia's Turkish Stream Pipeline Project -- NSA reform: Bush-era powers expire as US prepares to roll back surveillance -- US Senate Lets Three Patriot Act Provisions Expire -- Ex-Im Bank is Welfare for the One Percent -- War, American Style -- Thousands of Teenage Girls Enduring Debilitating Illnesses After Routine School Cancer Vaccination -- Declared Candidates for POTUS 2016 - UPDATED 06- -- The Evolution Of The Oil Weapon -- Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) --
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News Link • Activism
A year after armed standoff...
06-01-2015
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theguardian.com
Cliven Bundy still star of his own Tea Party-tinged western
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News Link • Food
America Needs a Real Definition of What a 'Natural' Food Is
06-01-2015
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http://www.wired.com,NICK STOCKTON
EARLIER THIS WEEK, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut both announced they are going natural.
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News Link • Economy - International
Goldman Sachs Warns "Too Much Debt" Threatens World Economy
06-01-2015
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goldcore.com
- Debt load of many countries is an economic risk
- Ageing populations in developed world to put pressure on economies
- Goldman proposes "creative" social policy to deal with looming crisis
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gunslinger: Alan Korwin Has Made a Career Pushing Unbridled Gun Rights,
06-01-2015
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phoenixnewtimes.com
But Critics Say He Doesn't Shoot Straight
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
US surveillance reform: what has happened and what happens next?
06-01-2015
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theguardian.com
Is the Patriot Act gone forever? What exactly is the USA Freedom Act? Can the government still monitor terrorist groups? Here's what you need to know
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook just made a move that will infuriate law enforcement
06-01-2015
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Business Insider
Facebook has announced it is letting users add encryption keys to their profiles and opt in to have notification emails sent in an encrypted format.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Will Congress Save PATRIOT Act...And Does It Matter?
06-01-2015
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https://www.youtube.com, RonPaulLibertyReport
Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act are set to expire at midnight on May 31st. Will Congress act to save the surveillance...and will the NSA stop spying on us if they don't?
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News Link • China
China unveils world's first facial recognition ATM
06-01-2015
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http://www.telegraph.co, By Charlotte Middlehurst
New technology is designed to crack down on financial fraudsters by using big data
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Auto Leasing Hits Record High As Car Prices Soar
06-01-2015
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http://www.nbcnews.com, by PHIL LEBEAU
With new vehicle prices climbing to all-time highs, a record number of Americans are turning to leases in a bid to keep monthly payments as low as possible.
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News Link • Bitcoin
MIT's Joi Ito Calls for a 'Supporting' Role for Governments as Community ...
06-01-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com, by SUSAN WILLMS
MIT's Joi Ito Calls for a 'Supporting' Role for Governments as Community Awaits BitLicense Release
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico City taxi drivers get Uber angry
06-01-2015
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http://blogdowntown.com, Adan Gutierrez
A local taxi driver paints 'Uber out' on his rear windshield during a protest in Mexico City, May 25, 2015.
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News Link • Economy - International
The global economic 'canary in the coal mine' hasn't looked this sick since...
06-01-2015
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Business Insider
South Korea's exports dropped by a huge 10.9% in dollar terms between May 2014 and May 2015, the biggest annual decline since the depths of the Great Recession in August 2009.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports
06-01-2015
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By JUSTIN FISHEL, PIERRE THOMAS, MIKE LEVINE
An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation's busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Hill Intern Arrested,Tried to Bring Unloaded Gun to Work
06-01-2015
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by ALEX MOE and KELLY O'DONNELL
A 25-year-old congressional intern was arrested early Monday morning by the U.S. Capitol Police for trying to carry an unloaded handgun into a House office building.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Inside Story of Google's Bizarre Plunge Into VR
06-01-2015
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http://www.wired.com, CADE METZ
DAVID COZ WORKED in Google's Paris office, but what he really wanted was a job at the mothership in Silicon Valley.
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News Link • States' Rights
Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States
06-01-2015
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cfr.org
This treaty was signed at the International Conference of American States in Montevideo, Uruguay on December 26, 1933. It entered into force on December 26, 1934. The treaty discusses the definition and rights of statehood.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Deepwater Horizon: jury selection begins for BP exec charged in oil spill
06-01-2015
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theguardian.com
David Rainey accused of obstructing congressional investigation as prosecutors say he misled officials about quantity of oil entering Gulf of Mexico
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
2 of Cisco's top leaders have resigned as the new CEO takes over
06-01-2015
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Business Insider
Two top executives close to John Chambers, Cisco's outgoing CEO, have resigned, the company confirmed on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Goldman Sachs' 2nd-most-powerful executive pulled an audacious move...
06-01-2015
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Business Insider
Wall Street titan Gary Cohn, the president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, last week celebrated his 25th anniversary at the bank.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
NSA reform: Bush-era powers expire as US prepares to roll back surveillance
06-01-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Sweeping intelligence capabilities exposed by Edward Snowden shut down as hawks concede defeat on first major surveillance reform in a generation
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Ex-Im Bank is Welfare for the One Percent
06-01-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
This month Congress will consider whether to renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank). Ex-Im Bank is a New Deal-era federal program that uses taxpayer funds to subsidize the exports of American businesses.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War, American Style
06-01-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
[T]he U.S. has bombed and/or invaded at least one other country at least once every year for the past twenty-one years straight. There has been an almost uninterrupted string of foreign interventions dating back to the invasion of Panama in 1989.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Thousands of Teenage Girls Enduring Debilitating Illnesses After Routine School Cancer Vaccination
06-01-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
When Caron Ryalls was asked to sign consent forms so that her then 13-year-old daughter, Emily, could be vaccinated against cervical cancer, she assumed it was the best way to protect Emily's long-term health.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Robert F Kennedy Jr. Says 70% Of News Advertising Revenue Comes From Big Pharma
06-01-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr, son of Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, and nephew of John F Kennedy has been speaking out strongly against big pharma in recent public appearances.
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