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Date Sent: 2013-03-18
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, March 18, 2013 |
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Semi-Auto and Private Sales Bans
03-18-13 -- Curt Schultz (Right to Bear Arms Super Brochure) (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Obama Seeks Global Rules on Drones -- Mail "Right to Bear Arms" Super Brochures across the country now!!! -- Using Graphene, Lockheed Martin Wants To Turn Salt Water Into Drinking Water -- Holding Harvard's Crimson Accountable -- Making NanoTubes at Home!! with Ernest Hancock!! (Video - Part 1&2) -- I Tried to Make the Intelligence Behind the Iraq War Less Bogus -- Prince Admits: Blackwater = CIA -- FoxNews: Rand Paul is a 2016 Frontrunner (Video) -- My Experience With the Police -- U.S., Peru to hold military, political talks next week [The Camel gets its nose in another tent] -- Driver’s Taxes and Other Money-Grabbing Schemes Throughout History -- March Madness: The 5th Straight Year of Extreme Corporate Tax Avoidance -- Government Prosecutes Homeowner For Backyard Chickens That Produce Organic Eggs --
Photovoltaic Polymer Lets Damaged Retinas See the Light -- The
Pressure's High As Iran Sits Down With West For Nuclear Talks In
Istanbul -- A 14-Year-Old Girl Offers Five Key Business Lessons About Perception And Reality -- Donated Previously Unidentified Painting Ends Up Being $30 Million
Rembrandt -- 6 Tough Lessons That Germany Just Taught The Rest Of Europe
-- GOLDMAN: Now EVERYONE With Deposits In Euro Zone Banks Has To Worry About A New Wealth Tax -- Infamous iPad Hacker Makes No Apologies As He Faces Jail Time -- STOCKS TANK: Markets Dive All Around The World Thanks To Tiny Cyprus -- Growing Number of States to Defy Federal Gun Laws
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas -
April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction
with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Semi-Auto and Private Sales Bans
03-18-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
On March 12 and 14, the Senate Judiciary committee held two working sessions to deal with gun-related bills.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama Seeks Global Rules on Drones
03-18-2013
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arclein
That stance is just now beginning to change, in part under pressure from growing public and Congressional discomfort with the drone program. U.S. lawmakers have demanded to see White House legal justifications for targeting U.S. citizens abroad, and
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robert klein
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mail "Right to Bear Arms" Super Brochures across the country now!!!
03-09-2013
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SuperBrochure.Com
Creator of the Ron Paul Super Brochure now has a 'Right to Bear Arms' Super Brochure available to order - The media and politicians want the American public to believe their lies that we don't want our guns. Nothing could be farther from reality.
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Iraq
Ray McGovern: My Take
A Last-Second Appeal for Sanity
03-18-2013
Ray McGovern
Ten years ago, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was only hours away, but the case for this unprovoked war was already falling apart with exposure of hyperbole, half-truths and even a forgery. On March 18, 2003, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans pleaded
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
High Tech Brain
03-18-2013
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arclein
"They allow us to construct extremely energy-efficient and robust processors that are able to learn by themselves," Thomas said, suggesting principles taken from nature can be recreated in technological systems to develop a neuromorphic or nerve-
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Flu Breakthrough
03-18-2013
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arclein
In order to infect cells, flu viruses bind onto sugars on the cell surface. To be able to spread they need to remove these sugars. The new drug works by preventing the virus from removing sugars and blocking the virus from infecting more cells. It is
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope Francis Confronts Poverty
03-18-2013
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arclein
He has truly lived his vow of poverty,” said Father Thomas Reese, a sociologist and author of Inside the Vatican, serving as a media commentator at the Holy See Press Office this week. “He was very progressive on social justice, fighting the Argentin
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robert klein
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News Link • Battery Project
Making NanoTubes at Home!! with Ernest Hancock!! (Video - Part 1&2)
03-18-2013
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www.youtube.com
This tutorial is from Patriot Leader Ernest Hancock as he walks through his successful experiments in his garage(!) making nanotubes for home made high capacity batteries!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
I Tried to Make the Intelligence Behind the Iraq War Less Bogus
03-18-2013
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Wired.com
Ten years ago this week, the U.S. invaded Iraq, citing intelligence that turned out to be bogus.
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News Link • Police State
My Experience With the Police
03-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I came back home this weekend to visit family. Every time I'm in town, I have to meet up with my old friends. I still keep in touch with a lot of them back home which always makes the visit so much sweeterr.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Sea lions washing up in S. California “Epidemic" proportions Center declares state of emergency
03-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but keep an eye on this. Reports from California: “Something is going badly wrong offshore”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Solar Flares
Solar Storms: Their Impact and How To Prepare
03-18-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Solar Storms: Their Impact and How To Prepare
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Imperialism
U.S., Peru to hold military, political talks next week [The Camel gets its nose in another tent]
03-18-2013
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Washington Times
The State Department on Friday announced that it will host extensive military and political talks with a delegation from Peru in Washington next week.
The talks, building on a 2011 dialogue begun in Lima, will focus on implementing the non-binding m
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Driver’s Taxes and Other Money-Grabbing Schemes Throughout History
03-18-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
I think "Driver’s Taxes" is a pretty good and descriptive name for this topic and article.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
March Madness: The 5th Straight Year of Extreme Corporate Tax Avoidance
03-18-2013
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Common Dreams
The brackets are set for the big dance -- the dance around tax responsibility. Most of the teams are in the bottom bracket. In this league, the lowest score wins.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Government Prosecutes Homeowner For Backyard Chickens That Produce Organic Eggs
03-18-2013
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govtslaves.info
An ongoing debate over the rights of homeowners to raise and keep their own chickens may soon gain an audience in the Virgina Supreme Court.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
The Pressure's High As Iran Sits Down With West For Nuclear Talks In Istanbul
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
Experts of Iran and six world powers will meet behind closed doors in Istanbul tomorrow for “technical-level” nuclear talks aimed at turning recent diplomatic progress into concrete measures.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
A 14-Year-Old Girl Offers Five Key Business Lessons About Perception And Reality
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
My daughter Lily is fourteen. Over the holidays, she had her her first job. She was employed as a Christmas elf in Santa's grotto at our local farm shop. She is studying business at school but she learned a lot more on the job.
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News Link • Art
Previously Unidentified Painting Ends Up Being $30 Million Rembrandt Selfie
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
A painting donated to Britain's National Trust by the estate of a wealthy supporter has been identified as a Rembrandt self-portrait worth 20 million pounds ($30 million), the heritage body said Monday.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • European Union
6 Tough Lessons That Germany Just Taught The Rest Of Europe
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
One of the most disturbing angles to the Cyprus bailout -- wherein the government is being forced to tax bank depositors -- is this idea that Berlin is calling the shots in Europe.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
GOLDMAN: Now Everyone With Deposits In Euro Zone Banks Has To Worry About A New Wealth Tax
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
The Cyprus bailout deal has a lot of people scratching their heads over what EU leaders were thinking when they came up with it.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Infamous iPad Hacker Makes No Apologies As He Faces Jail Time
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the hacker who called attention to AT&T's poor security by releasing hundreds of thousands of iPad owners' email addresses, will be sentenced in a New Jersey court on Monday for computer crimes.
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News Link • Economy - International
STOCKS TANK: Markets Dive All Around The World Thanks To Tiny Cyprus
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
Markets are tanking all around the world thanks to the goings on in a country with a GDP that's less than Shreveport, Louisiana's.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Growing Number of States to Defy Federal Gun Laws
03-18-2013
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patriotupdate.com
Shortly after voters in Colorado and Washington State approved measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana, President Obama told Barbara Walters that his Justice Department would not prosecute pot users in these states.
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News Link • Bank of International Settlements
Ecuador Moves to Annul U.S.-Ecuador BIT, Denounces Investor-State System
03-16-2013
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citizen.typepad.com
As global criticism of the investor-state dispute system mounts, Ecuador is taking concrete steps to secede from pacts that enshrine this system, which exposes the country to direct attacks on its public interest policies from foreign investors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Whole Foods announces Mandatory GMO Labeling
03-16-2013
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arclein
It's a brilliant move for Whole Foods, given that by 2018, anyone who wants to be certain whether they are avoiding GMOs will gladly choose to do all their shopping at Whole Foods. After all, if Albertson's (for example) doesn't require GMO labeli
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News Link • Syria
High-Ranking Syrian General Defects From Army, Citing Low Morale
03-16-2013
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Business Insider
A high-ranking general in the Syrian army defected on Saturday with the help of rebels and said morale is low among those still fighting for President Bashar Assad as the civil war enters its third year.
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News Link • Activism
Introducing: The American Hero Fund! Compensating Whistleblowers Who Have Had Their Lives Destroyed
3-16-2013
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Daily Paul
I'm SICK of even hoping that any politician is going to help us. I think it's time we raised the anti and became a little more pro-active about bringing corrupt public officials to justice.
We blow a ton of money on political candidate
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News Link • Death Penalty
Maryland House, like Senate, votes to repeal death penalty
03-15-2013
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Reuters
The Maryland House of Delegates voted on Friday to overturn the state's death penalty, putting it a step closer to becoming the 18th state to abolish executions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Colorado approves universal background checks for gun purchases
03-15-2013
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Reuters
Colorado lawmakers voted on Friday to mandate universal background checks for all gun buyers in a state that has experienced two of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
EU's planned tobacco curbs break WTO rules, Malawi says
03-15-2013
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Reuters
The European Union's plans for tough new anti-smoking rules would break international trade rules, Malawi has told the World Trade Organization, signaling a potential legal challenge from the developing world.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
U.S. Bolstering Missile Defense to Deter North Korea’s Threats
03-15-2013
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New York Times
The Pentagon will spend $1 billion to deploy additional ballistic missile interceptors along the Pacific Coast to counter the growing reach of North Korea’s weapons, a decision accelerated by Pyongyang’s recent belligerence and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Appeals court rejects CIA’s argument over acknowledging drone operations
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
A federal appeals court rejected the CIA’s claim it could neither confirm nor deny whether it has an “intelligence interest” in the use of drones, a ruling that could force the agency to disclose limited details about the use of drones in counterterr
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI surveillance tool is ruled unconstitutional
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
A federal court in California has ruled that a surveillance tool widely used by the FBI to obtain information on Americans without court oversight is unconstitutional because the gag order that accompanies it violates the First Amendment.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama couldn’t eat at Hill meeting without food ‘taster’
03-15-2013
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The Daily Caller
Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his “taster” was not present.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Was Blackwater The CIA?
03-15-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Fascinating information has emerged from the federal government's attempt to prosecute employees of Blackwater Worldwide for murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US government's case against Blackwater fell apart
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Obama, Civil Liberties, And The Presidency: An Interview With Gene Healy
03-15-2013
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The Agitator
In terms of civil liberties, who was the worst American president in U.S. history?
I’m going to go with Woodrow Wilson: the pointless carnage of WWI, conscription, Espionage Act prosecutions on a scale much greater than
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