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Date Sent: 2013-04-15
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, April 14, 2013 |
Man in cuffs tazed, kicked by police while his pregnant wife screams
Is There A God? -- Congrats Gavin Seim! Winner of The Checkpoint Contest -- A Republic Madam, If We Can Take It Back -- Creating a North Korean Threat -- Commentary on Violence & A Review/Recommendation of the film “Funny Games U.S.” -- NASA chief: US won't return to moon -- Music activates brain region associated with reward -- Protesters
demand Obama close Guantanamo Bay prison -- ‘Inaccurate’ to say
North Korea has nuclear missiles: U.S. -- TOBOP or TNDOGA?
That is the question! -- The affordable $1,300 50 inch 4K LED HDTV
-- How to Make a Rocket - Bang Goes the Theory - BBC -- How to Boil
Water in the Ground -- Seed Stocking: Heirloom vs. Hybrid -- 10 Tips
for Preppers to Prepare for SHTF Situations -- Austria defies
mounting pressure to end bank secrecy -- Part 3:
Series on overpopulation in America—No species can get away with
this -- Leap Motion hacked to control robotic arm and R/C boat --
What to Expect When No One’s Expecting -- The Week In Numbers: Our
Time Left On Earth, The Distance A Nipple Travels, And More -- This
Is Your Brain on E-Books -- “The Pulpit Is Responsible For It” --
Ticker Clocks the Billions of Bar Codes Scanned Each Day -- Daily
Pfennig: Frank On TV! (by Chuck Butler, President, Everbank World
Markets) -- Watch the Navy’s New Ship-Mounted Laser Cannon Kill a
Drone -- Sleep Disorders and Demons -- China's Naval Threat -- Power
Behind Primordial Soup? -- The Gospel of Judas with Mary
Sparrowdancer
AZ: Spring Party and a chance to meet Cindy Sheehan at
the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @ 4pm til ???
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News Link • General Opinion
Commentary on Violence & A Review/Recommendation of the film “Funny Games U.S.”
04-13-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
To be in denial of reality is always a weakness, and it is there I place many others when it comes to the subject of violence. Violence " it can be aggressive…and it can be non-aggressive (truly defensive).
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA chief: US won't return to moon
04-13-2013
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Terrence Aym
The U.S. is relying more heavily upon private space industry to launch space missions and fill the gaps in NASA's manned space program as budgetary cuts and financial screws are applied to the space agency's annual budget.
With the retirement
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Music activates brain region associated with reward
04-13-2013
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Alok Jha, The Guardian via RawStory.com
Scientists know that music can give intense pleasure by delivering chemical rewards in the brain that are equal to the joy of good food or even sex, but now they think they may have identified the part of the brain where this pleasure starts.
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News Link • Activism
Protesters demand Obama close Guantanamo Bay prison
04-13-2013
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The RawStory.com
Rights activists across the United States held a series of protests on Thursday demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay as a hunger-strike at the jail entered a third month.
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News Link • World News
‘Inaccurate’ to say North Korea has nuclear missiles: U.S.
04-13-2013
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The RawStory.com
The United States insisted North Korea did not have nuclear-armed missiles as officials sought to play down a leaked intelligence report warning Pyongyang had likely succeeded in building atomic warheads that could be fit on a ballistic missile
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News Link • How To
How to Boil Water in the Ground
04-13-2013
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youtube
This video shows you how to boil water in the ground in the wilderness for cooking as well as purifying water.
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News Link • Agriculture
Seed Stocking: Heirloom vs. Hybrid
04-13-2013
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prepperlink.com
The controversy between heirloom and hybrid seeds came up recently and the preference for heirloom seeds has been stated on this forum as well. It comes up pretty much anytime prepper growers get together.
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News Link • Government
Austria defies mounting pressure to end bank secrecy
04-13-2013
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Reuters
Austria defied growing pressure to follow Luxembourg in ending bank secrecy, after a group led by Europe's six biggest countries pledged to work together to tackle tax havens.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Leap Motion hacked to control robotic arm and R/C boat
04-13-2013
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dvice.com
We're just about a month away from the retail launch of the Leap Motion gesture interface device and while existing videos of the device still amaze, the hacks just keep on coming.
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News Link • Books
What to Expect When No One’s Expecting
04-13-2013
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jonathanlast.com
His book on fertility and demographics, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting, is published by Encounter.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
The Week In Numbers: Our Time Left On Earth, The Distance A Nipple Travels, And More
04-13-2013
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popsci.com
$50 billion: the amount Russia will invest in an ambitious space program to put a person on Mars, build a moon base, and shoot down foreign threats
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
“The Pulpit Is Responsible For It”
04-13-2013
Chuck Baldwin
By refusing to resist the Big-Government machinations of Washington, D.C.; by hiding behind an erroneous, passive, and compliant interpretation of Romans 13; by fearing the IRS more than they fear God;... America’s pulpits are the ones that are the m
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Ticker Clocks the Billions of Bar Codes Scanned Each Day
04-13-2013
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Wired.com
Forty years ago, a group of American grocery executives got together and decided to upend the global economy with a series of black lines.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Daily Pfennig: Frank On TV! (by Chuck Butler, President, Everbank World Markets)
04-13-2013
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Casey Research
I came across a recent report from the IMF, where they highlighted the importance of understanding commodity price fluctuations for commodity producing and consuming countries and the role of commodity prices in growth, inflation, and monetary and fi
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News Link • Science
Sleep Disorders and Demons
04-13-2013
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arclein
e man told her about his frequent sleep paralysis episodes, during which he'd experience extremely realistic hallucinations of a young child, skipping around the bed and singing nursery rhymes. Sometimes, the child would sit on his pillow and talk t
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News Link • China
China's Naval Threat
04-13-2013
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arclein
The potential impact of introducing anti-ship ballistic missiles into our naval and air forces would be significantly multiplied if we could sell such a capability to our allies, provided an agreement can be reached with Russia to retire the 1987 Int
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News Link • Science
Power Behind Primordial Soup?
04-13-2013
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arclein
he scientists simulated the impact of such a meteorite with the hot, volcanically-active, early Earth by placing samples of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite, an iron meteorite which fell in Siberia in 1947, in acid taken from the Hveradalur geothermal area
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News Link • Religion: Believers
The Gospel of Judas with Mary Sparrowdancer
04-13-2013
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arclein
we find we have actually been divinely invited to seek the truth and ask questions, because the truth is never marred or harmed by questions. Asking questions only serves to make the truth shine brighter. One might wonder into which direction we s
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 14, 2013 Edition
04-12-2013
John Semmens
Obamacare Unworkable, GOP Blamed
The unforeseen difficulties of implementing the Affordable Health Care Act (aka Obamacare) have key proponents scrambling for answers.
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the leading writers of the Obamacare
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Guantanamo sneaked 540,000 defense attorneys' e-mails to prosecutors
04-12-2013
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Washington Post
The military justice system at Guantanamo, which has been caught secretly monitoring proceedings and defense communications, was revealed that hundreds of thousands of defense e-mails were turned over to the prosecution.
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News Link • World News
Chinese Professor: 70-80% Chance of War With North Korea
04-11-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
As the reclusive state prepares another imminent missile launch, a professor with the Chinese Communist Party has warned that there is a 70-80% chance of war with North Korea.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senator Says Universal Background Checks Could Lead to National Registry
04-11-2013
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Kurt Nimmo via PrisonPlanet.com
Nothing short of a rejection of any gun bill should be acceptable to the American people if they wish to retain a modicum of liberty
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News Link • TERRORISM
Italian Supreme Court President Blames Bilderberg For Terrorist Attacks
04-11-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
Judge Ferdinando Imposimato, the man who prosecuted the case involving the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II, has sensationally accused the Bilderberg Group of being behind terrorist attacks in Europe.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
IRS Violates Fourth Amendment
04-11-2013
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Kurt Nimmo via PrisonPlanet.com
The Internal Revenue Service believes it is not beholden to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and can read your email without a warrant
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News Link • Gun Rights
New York State Police Admit Wrongly Confiscating Guns Under New Laws
04-11-2013
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Steve Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
State police in Erie County, New York have admitted a huge mistake in confiscating a man’s guns under newly passed gun control laws, saying they identified the wrong person.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Louvre reopens after staff walkout over pickpockets
04-11-2013
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David Ferguson via The RawStory.com
Paris’s Louvre museum on Thursday reopened its doors to the public after a walkout by some staff in protest at gangs of pickpockets operating at the world famous art gallery.
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News Link • Police State
Israel police arrest 5 feminists for praying at Western Wall
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Five Jewish feminists who on Thursday wore prayer shawls and prayed out loud at Jerusalem’s Western Wall in defiance of a court order have been detained for questioning, a police spokeswoman said.
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News Link • Police State
Maine police arrest ‘North Pond Hermit’
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Police in the far north-eastern state of Maine have arrested a loner who vanished from sight in 1986 and survived by stealing supplies from area camps, local media reported Thursday.
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News Link • World News
Syria activists reject Qaeda call for Islamic state
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Syrian activists on Thursday dismissed as “blatant interference” a weekend call by Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri for an Islamic state to be established in the strife-torn country.
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News Link • World News
Cornerstone laid for Palestinian culture museum
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Palestinian officials on Thursday joined a ceremony to lay the cornerstone for a new museum of Palestinian culture, history and society in Bir Zeit near Ramallah.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Washington GOP to auction AR-15 at fundraising event
04-11-2013
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
The Washington State Republican Party plans to auction an AR-15 rifle at its annual fundraising dinner this weekend.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Winklevoss Twins Revealed As Owning 1% Of All BitCoins
04-11-2013
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zerohedge.com
Think the 75% plunge in BitCoin values in two days has crushed all former supporters of the virtual currency (which truth be told is only back to levels from a month ago)? Wrong.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Church leaders rally in D.C. for stricter gun laws
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Sam Saylor’s son Shane was 20 years old when he became the 20th homicide victim of 2012 in Hartford, Connecticut on October 20. The suspected gunman? Another 20-year-old.
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News Link • Immigration
Facebook’s Zuckerberg launches lobbying group to push immigration and education reforms
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new political action group he is spearheading Thursday to press for reforms in areas including immigration and education.
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News Link • Internet
Can You Trust Anonymization Services?
04-11-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by James Black
Every Internet connection has a unique number " known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address " issued by an Internet service provider (ISP) and is almost always registered to a legal name, address, and Tax Identification Number.1
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News Link • Gun Rights
Nebraska dealer: No license needed to sell ‘personal collection’ of 678 guns, 13 grenades
04-11-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
A Nebraska man says that he is not guilty of illegally selling firearms to people who told him they were felons because the items were out of his personal collection of 678 guns and 13 grenades.
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News Link • Housing
Still Think The Housing Recovery Is Sustainable?
04-11-2013
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zerohedge.com
While hope springs eternal that the US housing sector 'record-inventory-compression and foreclosure-stuffed' 'recovery' will become self-sustaining, there are two rather disappointing 'facts' to ruin the 'fiction' that all is well.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima nuclear plant springs another radioactive leak
04-11-2013
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The RawStory.com
Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has sprung yet another leak of radioactive water, its operator said on Thursday, the latest in an increasingly long line of mishaps to rattle public confidence.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Tony Perkins: Obama’s evangelical ‘watch list’ could ban Christian gun buyers
04-11-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has warned that President Barack Obama could be planning to create a special “watch list” for Catholics and evangelical Christians to prevent them from buying guns.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ted Nugent promotes ‘Knife Rights’ with gun giveaway just days after mass stabbing
04-11-2013
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
Just days after a student at the Houston-based Lone Star College went on a stabbing spree that left 14 people injured, Texas resident and Detroit-born rocker Ted Nugent is featured in a promotional contest for a group called “Knife Rights,”
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