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Date Sent: 2013-05-03
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, May 2, 2013 |
Foreign Holdings of US Securities Exploding -- Bolivia, angered by Kerry, ejecting US agency
Mitsubishi working on wireless remote charging for electric cars -- Game
Site Secretly Put Bitcoin Software on Players' PCs -- Scientists 3-D Print A Bionic
Ear With Help From A High School kid -- 05-02-13 -- Steve Meunier - Dwaine Halberg, Daniel Sackett - (Video
& MP3 LOADED) -- Payments Using Chinese Yuan Continue to Surge
as Currency Tops Russian Rouble in Popularity -- IRS eyes U.S. accounts at Caribbean bank --
Nut-sized brain region can be manipulated to increase longevity -- Even With U.S. Guns, Syria’s
Rebels Still Might Lose -- Saddam Hussein offered to leave Iraq in
November of 2002. Guess who persuaded him to stay. -- Cold Fusion: A
Story of Suppressed Technology -- Does the free market cause wealth
inequality? -- Jeffrey Earnhardt: Superman for the
Constitution - He's willing to step up - Will you support him -- Prowling Deposit Confiscation with Ellen Brown -- Bo SingDong -- KPNX 12 news Marc Victor – Jodi Arias Trial
-- "It Can't Happen Here!" - by Larken Rose -- Avoid Drumbeat to Escalate in Syria -- Which companies help protect your
data from the government (An important infographic) -- What is
Aquaponics? -- The Importance of Off Grid Energy -- Communications
Giants in Good Hands with Tom Wheeler -- Tiptoeing Toward War on
Syria
AZ: Tomorrow, Language of Liberty Phoenix
Seminar May 3-4, 2013; Arizona Breakfast Club--Marc
Victor--this Saturday, May 4th, 2013; We're Visiting Hacker Lab This Saturday May 4th After AzBreakfastClub (Noon - 1pm)
TX: The
Center for Natural Living Launch Party and Benefit Sat May 4th, 5-8
p.m. CDT - Austin, TX
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreign Holdings of US Securities Have Exploded
05-02-2013
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CNBC
Foreigners now hold more than $13 trillion in American securities, a record set as the U.S. seeks to assert itself as the safest port in troubled global waters. China and Japan combined owned more than $3.4 trillion, including $2.4 trillion in debt,
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Bolivia, angered by Kerry, says it is ejecting U.S. aid agency
05-02-2013
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Los Angeles Times
Bolivian President Evo Morales was expelling the US Agency for International Development from the country, accusing the aid agency of conspiring against his government. “Surely to think that you can still manipulate us economically, politically
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Language of Liberty Phoenix Seminar May 3-4, 2013
04-22-2013
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Language of Liberty
The Language of Liberty Institute cordially invites you to help us launch our first Liberty Seminar in Arizona, to be held May 3-4 at the Goldwater Institute!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
The Center for Natural Living Launch Party and Benefit Sat May 4th, 5-8 p.m. CDT - Austin, TX
05-02-2013
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Facebook.Com/Center for Natural Living
Join the Center for Natural Living, a new formed 501c3, for their launch party and fundraiser at Irie Bean Coffee House on S. Lamar. The event will include live music, local organic food, raffles and door prizes, silent and live auctions, speeches fr
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Mitsubishi working on wireless remote charging for electric cars
05-02-2013
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dvice.com
Much has been made of the New York Times review of the Tesla Model S in which the reviewer claimed the limitations of the electric car caused him to get stranded.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Game Site Secretly Put Bitcoin Software on Players' PCs
05-02-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Bitcoin, a digital currency whose worth has been in flux of late, is still valuable enough for enterprising users to want a lot of it.
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News Link • Internet
Qualcomm Proposes a Cell-Phone Network by the People, for the People
05-02-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Mobile network speeds in urban areas could dramatically increase if consumers connected small, public base stations to their home broadband.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Search for E.T. Should Extend Beyond 'Alien Earths,' Astronomer Says
05-02-2013
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space.com
Scientists searching for signs of life beyond our solar system should keep an open mind, for planets very different than Earth may well be habitable, a prominent researcher says.
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News Link • Climate Change
NASA Rover to Explore… Greenland
05-02-2013
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space.com
NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet, but will take a look at part of our own. Named Grover, the rover will explore Greenland's ice sheets to better understand how they form, and how quickly they may be melting.
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News Link • Internet
Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo
05-02-2013
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ted.com
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
We're Visiting Hacker Lab This Saturday May 4th After AzBreakfastClub (Noon - 1pm)
05-01-2013
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www.heatsynclabs.org
We are... a place to make things--We call it a hackerspace, made up entirely of volunteers--no staff! Located at: 140 West Main St. Downtown Mesa open FREE - Hacking Arizona Since 2009
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
Payments Using Chinese Yuan Continue to Surge as Currency Tops Russian Rouble in Popularity
05-02-2013
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CNS News
A press release from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication shows that the value of payments using Chinese Yuan currency grew by 171 percent between January 2012 and January 2013.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS eyes U.S. accounts at Caribbean bank
05-02-2013
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Reuters
In a move resembling a recent IRS inquiry into Americans with Swiss bank accounts, the Justice Department said a court order would let the IRS serve a 'John Doe' summons seeking records of FCIB's U.S. correspondent account at Wells Fargo & Co.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nut-sized brain region can be manipulated to increase longevity: scientists
05-02-2013
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The Guardian
In a series of experiments, the researchers found they could extend the lives of mice by a fifth, without the animals suffering from muscle weakness, bone loss, or memory problems common in old age.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why Fantastically Wealthy Apple Is Borrowing Money
05-02-2013
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Michael V. Copeland via WIRED.com
Wall Street is buzzing about Apple issuing around $17 billion in bonds. What this means in simple terms is Apple is borrowing billions of dollars, and paying out a small yield to the people and institutions that purchase the bonds Apple is offering
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News Link • Energy
With Florida Project, the Smart Grid Has Arrived
05-02-2013
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Kevin Bullis via Technology Review
Smart grid technology has been implemented in many places, but Florida’s new deployment is the first full-scale system.
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News Link • Military
Even With U.S. Guns, Syria’s Rebels Still Might Lose
05-02-2013
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
As the Obama administration debates belatedly arming the Syrian opposition, military analysts are arriving at an uncomfortable conclusion: the U.S. can’t hand the rebels guns or rockets and expect them to topple dictator Bashar Assad.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cold Fusion: A Story of Suppressed Technology
05/01/2013
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Brass Check TV
Cold fusion products should be coming to market in the next 18 to 24 months, despite years of suppression, as lame stream media is no longer a reliable source. A least one company is now ready to allow testing of their Low Energy Nuclear Reactor (LEN
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H. Skip Robinson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Blocking HIV Reservoirs
05-02-2013
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arclein
HIV-1 is the virus that causes AIDS, and the discovery could lead to novel approaches for addressing HIV-1 "in hiding" - namely eliminating reservoirs of HIV-1 that persist in patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy. The study was published in t
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Man With Hole in Stomach Revolutionized Medicine
05-02-2013
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arclein
Physiologist William Beaumont, an army doctor, was stationed in Fort Mackinac in Mackinac Island, Mich., on June 6, 1822, when a fur trapper's gun discharged and accidentally shot 19-year-old trapper Alexis St. Martin in the stomach.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Jeffrey Earnhardt: Superman for the Constitution - He's willing to step up - Will you support hi
05-02-2013
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Oathkeepers
NOW HEAR THIS: We are in the final stretch of our fundraiser to put an Oath Keepers car on the NASCAR track, driven by Jeffrey Earnhardt, for the June 1, race in Dover, Delaware.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Prowling Deposit Confiscation with Ellen Brown
05-02-2013
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arclein
The crossing of the Rubicon into the confiscation of depositor funds was not a one-off emergency measure limited to Cyprus. Similar “bail-in” policies are now appearing in multiple countries. (See my earlier articleshere.) What triggered the new r
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robert klein
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News Link • China
Bo SingDong
05-02-2013
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arclein
First, he saw several ex-mistresses and former subordinates turn over information incriminating him. Second, he saw the peaceful transition of power at the 18th Party Congress in November. At the conclusion of the Congress, Bo’s enemies held the hig
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News Link • Marc Victor
KPNX 12 news Marc Victor " Jodi Arias Trial
05-02-2013
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Channel 12 News
Attorney’s Marc Victor and Jordan Rose give mock closing arguments in the Jodi Arias Trial.
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Mike Wasdin
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Opinion • Police State
"It Can't Happen Here!"
05-02-2013
Larken Rose
This is for all those Americans who seem to imagine that there is some magic spell which renders the U.S. immune from the tyranny that has plagued every other major empire in history.
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News Link • Syria
Avoid Drumbeat to Escalate in Syria
05-02-2013
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www.antiwar.com
Many politicians in Washington"not yet realizing that the still-broken American economy can no longer sustain an informal, globe-girdling U.S. empire"have sought to use Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons on a small scale to escalate U.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Which companies help protect your data from the government (An important infographic)
05-02-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
See where the companies you use stand regarding your internet freedom. The folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation do such good work. Everyone who cares about freedom in the online world should send them a check (or some bitcoin.)
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Food
What is Aquaponics?
05-02-2013
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survivalist.com
In a time of crisis having an aquaponics system could be the difference between feeding your family and standing in the bread line.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Printable Robots Could Help Millions Cheaply
05-01-2013
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LiveScience
MIT Professor Daniela Rus leads an effort to perfect specialized robot designs that anyone could easily adapt and quickly print locally almost anywhere. Currently, it takes years and many resources to produce, program and design a functioning robot.
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News Link • Environment
Clever Drones See Truth of Ice Sheet Meld And Seal Level Rise
05-01-2013
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LiveScience
In harsh arctic regions, it's very tough to get good data while on the ground. Researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) use aircraft including unmanned UAV drones and elegant new software modelling to watch changes in ice.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Breast-Milk Protein May Help Defeat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
05-01-2013
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Ryder Diaz via LiveScience.com
The fight against antibiotic resistance has gained an ally in breast milk. An ingredient found in human milk may make surface infections by the resistant bacteria MRSA more sensitive to attack by antibiotics
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News Link • Homeland Security
Mock DHS News Report Depicts Gun Owners as Terrorists
05-01-2013
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Prison Planet
A mock news report produced by the Department of Homeland Security depicts American gun owners as terrorists in another example of how the federal agency is trying to demonize the Second Amendment while itself stockpiling ammunition.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
U.S. Mint Sales of Gold Coins Jump to Highest in Three Years
05-01-2013
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Prison Planet
Sales of gold coins by the U.S. Mint rose to the highest since December 2009 after the price of the metal in April fell the most in 16 months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Firefox maker says British surveillance company has hijacked its brand to help spy on targets
05-01-2013
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Fox News
The maker of one of the Internet's most popular browsers is taking on one of the world's best known purveyors of surveillance software.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases
05-01-2013
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Raw Story
The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases and backpacks to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times reported Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Breaking: Boston police take three Boston Marathon bombing suspects into custody
05-01-2013
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The Lookout
The suspects are 3 college students that are suspected of aiding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after he allegedly bombed the marathon. The 3 have been under FBI surveillance for 10 days. The suspects were roommates with Dzhokhar in college,
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Justice Department OKs ousting Texas school board
05-01-2013
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AP
State-appointed managers will take over the El Paso Independent School District after the U.S. Department of Justice said it won't oppose ousting the locally elected school board in the wake of a testing scandal at several of high schools.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Obamacare’s Tax Hike Train Wreck
05-01-2013
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American's For Tax Reform
Unmentioned was the wave of destructive Obamacare tax increases that will begin to hit Americans during the next tax filing season and beyond
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News Link • China
China's Labour Camp Expose
05-01-2013
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arclein
“There is definitely something behind this,” says Heng He, a senior political commentator with NTD Television. He suggested that former leader Jiang Zemin and those who have benefitted from Jiang’s policies are the ultimate targets of the article"wit
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News Link • Internet
To evade copyright cops, The Pirate Bay moves domain to tiny Caribbean island
05-01-2013
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BGR
It’s been a wild year for The Pirate Bay as the infamous BitTorrent site has moved its domain name from one country to another in a desperate bid to stay ahead of the world’s copyright cops. TorrentFreak reports that less than a month after getting b
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Internet Tax Bill Draws Strange Alliances
04-30-2013
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Jack Kenny via PrisonPlanet.com
As the Senate moves toward likely passage of legislation to allow states to tax Internet sales, some unusual coalitions continue to push for and against the bill. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is for it.
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