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Date Sent: 2013-05-06
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, May 6, 2013 |
Kansas: Federal Agents May be Shot -- Iraq Readies for Civil War?
Reported Israeli airstrikes in Syria could accelerate U.S. decision process -- Baltimore jail case depicts a corrupt culture driven by drugs, money and sex -- A clear case of self-defense rallies supporters of gun rights -- Deadly Afghan attacks against U.S. service members -- Four Obama Policies That Help Keep Guantanamo Open -- Student Arrested in Boston Bombing Seeks Release -- Wrongfully Convicted Often Find Their Record Haunts Them -- Israeli Air Strikes Also Hit Damascus Airport -- Every television newscast is a conspiracy -- Did Israel Invade Lebanon? -- Syria Declares Israel Attack "Act Of War', Israeli Defense Forces Close Northern Airspace -- Israel Helps Its Al-Qaeda Ally With Attack on Syria -- Texas House passes 12 firearms bills on ‘gun day’ -- An iPhone Case For Cops That Can Scan Irises On The Fly -- What Makes Ebola So Deadly? -- Tesla’s Financing Scheme Finally Reflects Reality -- The Great Gold Redemption -- Let’s
Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take -- Nigel
Farage and His UKIP Party Win Big in Britain Once More -- Did Israel Invade Lebanon? -- What you need to know about Bradley Manning -- Will Utilities Embrace Distributed Energy? -- 1,856 to Zero: Secret Spy Court Authorizes 100% of US Government Requests -- Israeli warplanes continue to pound Damascus -- The Amount of Oil We
Can Recover Keeps Growing -- Israel 'Opting to Contain' Nuclear Iran?
-- Experimental aircraft speeds to more than 3,000 mph in test flight -- When Is The Government Going To Shut Down Bitcoin? -- Nuclear incident drills to start Monday across Montana -- If it’s a “states’ rights” issue, why are they asking permission from the federal government? -- Florida student charged and expelled after 'science experiment' goes awry -- 2nd day of Israel attacking Syria, did they just nuke them? (VIDEO) -- Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? -- Sheriff Bradshaw and the Palm Beach County Psihuska - by William Grigg -- Fr33 Aid Abandons Non-Profit Tax Status in Favor of Bitcoin -- IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin -- U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case -- The Best Military Bribes Can Buy
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine May, 2013 Edition READY FOR DOWNLOAD!
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News Link • Gun Rights
Kansas: Federal Agents May be Shot
05-05-2013
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libertyfirewall.com
Let’s see if Government Brownbeck, Kansas Law Enforcement and the People of Kansas have the intestinal fortitude to deny a criminal Federal government the ability to assault and subjugate the citizens of Kansas.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq Readies for Civil War?
05-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
'The civil war in Iraq has already begun': Politician claims conflict... will be 'worse than Syria' ...
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News Link • Israel
Reported Israeli airstrikes in Syria could accelerate U.S. decision process
05-05-2013
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Washington Post
Israel’s reported airstrikes in Syria " and the threat of a retaliatory strike by the Syrian government " are likely to accelerate the decision-making of the Obama administration, which was already moving toward a sharp escalation of U.S. involvement
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News Link • Corruption
Baltimore jail case depicts a corrupt culture driven by drugs, money and sex
05-05-2013
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Washington Post
Inside a gray brick fortress, past a barbed-wire fence, 2 women in prison guard uniforms traded words about their pregnancies. “Did he tell you we was having a son?” Tiffany Linder asked, according to court documents recounting the conversation.
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News Link • Gun Rights
A clear case of self-defense rallies supporters of gun rights
05-05-2013
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Washington Post
Melinda Herman was at home, working upstairs in her office, when she saw a man coming to her front door. Her 9-year-old twins were off from school that day. Don’t answer it, she yelled downstairs, as the doorbell rang several times.
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News Link • Military
Deadly Afghan attacks against U.S. service members
05-05-2013
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CBS News
Seven U.S. soldiers and a member of the NATO-led coalition were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans and other foreign troops in Afghanistan in recent months, as the Taliban continued attacks as part of their spring offensive
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News Link • Obama Administration
Four Obama Policies That Help Keep Guantanamo Open
05-05-2013
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Sarah Childress via PBS.com
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he still wants to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, as he had promised on the campaign trail in 2008:
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Student Arrested in Boston Bombing Seeks Release
05-05-2013
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New York Times
Robel K. Phillipos, the former University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth student who is accused of lying to the authorities investigating the Boston Marathon bombings, will seek to be released from federal custody, his lawyers said
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Wrongfully Convicted Often Find Their Record Haunts Them
05-05-2013
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New York Times
Audrey Edmunds served 11 years in prison in the shaking death of an infant girl for whom she had been baby-sitting. In 2008, a mountain of new medical evidence cast so much doubt on the case that a higher court overturned her conviction
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Air Strikes Also Hit Damascus Airport
05-05-2013
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PrisonPlanet.com
Strong blasts hit the outskirts of Syria’s capital early on Sunday, with reports saying that they were results of Israeli airstrikes on a military research center and Damascus Airport. Israel is thought to have carried out a similar attack days ago.
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
The struggle to stop a ‘threatened’ species from breeding and thus ruining everything
05-05-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
The Mojave Desert Tortoise is listed by the federal government as a “threatened” species, which allows extreme environmentalists and their co-religionist government thugs to impose restrictions on land use by humans in Southern Nevada,.....
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News Link • Agriculture
Forest Gardening, Edible Landscapes, and Urban Permaculture
05-05-2013
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nakedcapitalism.com
Up here in Maine, Memorial Day is under four weeks away, so pretty soon the official planting season will begin!
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News Link • Israel
Did Israel Invade Lebanon?
05-05-2013
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Kurt Nimmo via PrisonPlanet.com
According to the Israeli intelligence asset DEBKAfile, the IDF crossed into Lebanon following a second Israeli attack on a military research facility located on the outskirts of Damascus early Sunday morning.
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News Link • Israel
Syria Declares Israel Attack "Act Of War', Israeli Defense Forces Close Northern Airspace
05-05-2013
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zerohedge.com
In the aftermath of last night's second attack in two weeks by Israel on Syria, the immediate response has so far been muted, with Syria condemning the aggression as an act of war.
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News Link • Israel
Israel Helps Its Al-Qaeda Ally With Attack on Syria
05-05-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
At the end of a week when the Obama administration signaled its intention to send heavy weaponry to Al-Qaeda-led Syrian rebels
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News Link • Gun Rights
Texas House passes 12 firearms bills on ‘gun day’
05-05-2013
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fromthetrenchesworldreport.com
The Texas House approved a batch of bills Saturday to further soften gun laws that were already among the country’s most firearms-friendly, allowing college students to carry handguns in class.....
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News Link • Police State
An iPhone Case For Cops That Can Scan Irises On The Fly
05-05-2013
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Iris scanning as a form of biometric recognition doesn't get as much attention as retinal scanning or fingerprints, but it's got a lot of advantages.
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News Link • Israel
!: Syria and Isreal at war?
05-05-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Damascus, Syria (CNN) -- A Syrian official called an attack Sunday on the nation's military research facility a "declaration of war" by Israel.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla’s Financing Scheme Finally Reflects Reality
05-05-2013
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Damon Lavrinc via WIRED.com
The Silicon Valley automaker, citing the wave of less-than-glowing publicity that followed its outlandish leasing program, is reworking the terms of its Model S financing.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Great Gold Redemption
05-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
The most puzzling part of the investment business is seeing how the vast and largely economically illiterate masses interpret any given piece of news.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take
05-05-2013
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Dan Kaminsky via WIRED.com
Bitcoin. Everybody’s talking about it. What’s true, and what’s hype? Perhaps the only thing that’s clear about Bitcoin is that it’s not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker
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News Link • Political Parties
Nigel Farage and His UKIP Party Win Big in Britain Once More
05-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
Big news.
Drudge is featuring the news prominently " and it is certainly noteworthy. It looks like British voters are going to have a choice once more. Bully for them.
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News Link • Military
Air Force's X-51A Hypersonic Scramjet Makes Record-Breaking Final Flight
05-05-2013
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Mike Wall via Space.com
The U.S. military launched an experimental hypersonic aircraft on its swan song test flight Wednesday (May 1), accelerating the craft to more than five times the speed of sound in the longest-ever mission for a vehicle of its kind.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
The New Normal: Boston Bombing Suspect Interrogated Without Counsel
05-05-2013
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Prison Planet
According to lawyers Derege Demissie and Susan Church, Robel Phillipos, the teenager accused of lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings, was interrogated without the benefit of a lawyer.
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News Link • Israel
Did Israel Invade Lebanon?
05-05-2013
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Prison Planet
According to the Israeli intelligence asset DEBKAfile, the IDF crossed into Lebanon following a second Israeli attack on a military research facility located on the outskirts of Damascus early Sunday morning.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
What you need to know about Bradley Manning
05-05-2013
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mondoweiss.net
In June, Bradley Manning, 25, the army private who caused the greatest security breach in US history by giving hundreds of thousands of classified war and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks, will go on trial at Fort Meade, MD.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Houston Museum to Top Historic NASA Jet with Mock Space Shuttle
05-05-2013
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Robert Z. Pearlman via Space.com
They say that everything is bigger in Texas and that certainly goes for Space Center Houston's newly-announced space shuttle exhibit.
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News Link • Energy
Will Utilities Embrace Distributed Energy?
05-05-2013
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
Disruptive technological changes are at work but utilities are hamstrung by outdates business models and regulations.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
1,856 to Zero: Secret Spy Court Authorizes 100% of US Government Requests
05-05-2013
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Common Dreams
In court where civilians have no representative, government's "national security" claims win again and again
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News Link • Israel
Israeli warplanes continue to pound Damascus
05-05-2013
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cbsnews.com
Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group....
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News Link • Energy
The Amount of Oil We Can Recover Keeps Growing
05-05-2013
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
The U.S. Geological Survey doubles its estimate for the size of a huge U.S. oil and gas resource.
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News Link • Israel
Israel 'Opting to Contain' Nuclear Iran?
05-05-2013
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israelnationalnews.com
Report in Sunday Times says U.S. is brokering a deal between Israel, Saudis, Jordan, Turkey and UAE.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Experimental aircraft speeds to more than 3,000 mph in test flight
05-05-2013
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mcclatchydc.com
A lightning-quick experimental aircraft made history when it sped more than 3,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean in a test flight, reigniting decades-long efforts to develop a vehicle that could travel faster than a speeding bullet.
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News Link • Israel
Israel strikes Syria, says targeting Hezbollah arms
05-05-2013
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Reuters
Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah.
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News Link • Bitcoin
When Is The Government Going To Shut Down Bitcoin?
05-05-2013
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endoftheamericandream.com
Do you actually believe that the central banks of the world are going to sit back and do nothing while their monopoly over money creation is being threatened?
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News Link • Military
Nuclear incident drills to start Monday across Montana
05-05-2013
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greatfallstribune.com
If a nuclear incident happened in Montana, key officials don’t want to be meeting each other for the first time.
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News Link • Internet
If it’s a “states’ rights” issue, why are they asking permission from the federal government?
05-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
For many months now, “limited government, free market, reduced spending, Conservative Republicans™” Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker and Bill Haslam have been lobbying for and/or sponsoring the Marketplace Fairness Act, also known by a more appropriate ti
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Florida student charged and expelled after 'science experiment' goes awry
05-05-2013
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The Guardian
To Florida teenager Kiera Wilmot, it was a simple experiment in preparation for her school's science fair, mixing common household chemicals in a small plastic bottle to see how they would react.
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News Link • Israel
2nd day of Israel attacking Syria ... WTF, did they just nuke them?! (VIDEO)
05-05-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The US is suddenly "appalled by horrific reports" with no evidence, while silent on the truly horrific atrocities committed by its allies, the insurgents -- including documented evidence of their forcing children to behead enemies of the insurgency.
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News Link • Surveillance
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
05-05-2013
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by Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sheriff Bradshaw and the Palm Beach County Psihuska
05-05-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
What Sheriff Bradshaw had in mind was a strike force composed of deputies, social workers, and “mental health” professionals from a “Behavioral Sciences Unit” who would be deployed to visit the homes of “socially dangerous people.”
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Fr33 Aid Abandons Non-Profit Tax Status in Favor of Bitcoin
05-05-2013
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“Now that there are ways for us to do banking without government involvement, we decided fulfilling (IRS demands) would not be a responsible way for Fr33 Aid to spend its money nor for our volunteers to spend their time.”
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News Link • Bitcoin
IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin
05-05-2013
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Forbes
The IRS already gets a piece where you swap one product or service for another, as the IRS explains at its Bartering Tax Center. Soon the IRS may have a Bitcoin Center too. The Treasury unit, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network,
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News Link • Internet
U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case
05-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The U.S. Government has just submitted its objections to Megaupload’s motion to dismiss the case against the company. Megaupload’s lawyers have pointed out that the Department of Justice is trying to change the law to legitimize the destruction of Me
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Best Military Bribes Can Buy
05-03-2013
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StrategyPage.com
What it comes down to is that the politicians want to keep the only American tank manufacturing plant open. It's all about political posturing and getting reelected. But the army wants to spend its shrinking budgets on things that will save lives.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 5, 2013 Edition
05-03-2013
John Semmens
Abortionist Kermit Gosnell Not an Anomaly
Details on how Dr. Kermit Gosnell dispatched babies who survived late term abortions by “snipping their spinal cords” are as grisly as any contemporary “slasher film.” Unfortunately, the practice of dispos
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