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Date Sent: 2013-05-09
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, May 8, 2013 |
U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws -- Pentagon Wants Human Surrogate for Ray Gun Tests
05-08-13 -- Glenn Jacobs - Bill Buppert - Rachel Linden (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Political Decentralization Might Help in Conflict-Ridden Countries -- Opposing Theocracy -- Oath Keepers Founder Attending Benghazi Hearing in DC Today/Boston Bombing Hearing Tomorrow -- There's a New Armed March on D.C. -- Syrian Internet blackout enters second day -- 'Let the People In!': NY Senate GOP Bars Public From Public Hearing -- Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel -- Honeypots Lure Industrial Hackers Into the Open -- Why I Am on a
Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison -- One-Third of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter, Threatening
Food Supply -- BORG
Agent: We Will Arrest Adam Kokesh and Open Carry Protesters -- UN
Human Rights Council Duplicity -- Fannie and Freddie in Good Hands
with Mel Watt
AZ: March Against Monsanto - Free Market
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine May, 2013 Edition READY FOR
DOWNLOAD!
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
05-08-2013
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New York Times
Obama, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
March Against Monsanto - Free Market
05-25-13
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http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6536375475
The fight for our food!
We will be having the Really Really Free Market @ 8:00 a.m.! The march will start around 10:00 a.m. There will be speakers at the RRFM and hopefully farmers and bartering so bring things to trade, alternative currencies, o
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Afghanistan
Political Decentralization Might Help in Conflict-Ridden Countries
05-08-2013
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www.antiwar.com
What do Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan have in common? Although it’s true that the United States has conducted recent military interventions in all of them, the more fundamental answer is that they are all artificial countries.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Lightening Modeling
05-08-2013
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arclein
high-energy radiation known as "dark lightning" immediately preceding a flash of ordinary lightning. The new finding provides observational evidence that the two
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
Ancient Earth Crust Stored in Deep Mantle
05-08-2013
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arclein
oceanic volcanic rocks contain samples of recycled crust dating back to the Archean era 2.5 billion years ago. Their work is published in Nature.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Beet Juice Lowers High Blood Pressure
05-08-2013
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arclein
people with hypertension, the medical term for high blood pressure, who drank about eight ounces of beet juice daily had a decrease in blood pressure of about 10 mm Hg. The scientists explained in their paper that the amount of juice from beets (know
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Opposing Theocracy
05-08-2013
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arclein
Theocracy is inherently oppressive and contrary to America's core values. It regards God as the sovereign and source of law. It therefore places the coercive power of the state--including interpretation and enforcement of law--in the hands of believ
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Oath Keepers Founder Attending Benghazi Hearing in DC Today/Boston Bombing Hearing Tomorrow
05-08-2013
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Oathkeepers
It is now looking like they (including Obama himself) intentionally and callously withheld crucial military support, watched good men die on their screens, and then punished and purged those who tried to help them.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
There's a New Armed March on D.C.
05-08-2013
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Meghan Kellison
In response to Adam Kokesh's July 4th armed march on Washington D.C., other activists have organized another march the day before, but the terms are slightly different.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Internet blackout enters second day
05-08-2013
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AFP
Syria’s Internet blackout entered into its second consecutive day, which the state news agency blamed on a fault in optical fiber cables. Landline phone services between Syrian provinces have also been down since Tuesday, SANA said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
Granite discovery off Brazil may be evidence of hidden continent - VideosScience
05-08-2013
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youtube
Scientists have discovered a 10-metre-high rock of granite deep in the Atlantic, suggesting a continent may have existed off the Brazilian coast. As granite is usually only found on land, the discovery points to a previously unknown landmass that was
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
05-08-2013
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guardian.co.uk
Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Introducing TF-X: Terrafugia's Vision for the Future of Personal Transportation
05-08-2013
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youtube
TF-Xâ„¢ is the practical realization of the dream of countless visions of the future; it is designed to be the flying car for all of us. In order to achieve this long-sought-after vision, Terrafugia will focus the TF-Xâ„¢ program with clear goals that en
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Honeypots Lure Industrial Hackers Into the Open
05-08-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Dummy water-plant control systems rapidly attracted attention from hackers who tinkered with their settingsâ€"suggesting it happens to real industrial systems, too.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Why I Am on a Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison
05-08-2013
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Common Dreams
As a fourth generation shrimper and an environmental activist on the Texas gulf coast,I have gone on hunger fasts to protect the seas that my community of fishermen depend upon.I know how far I would go to be heard.To have a voice.To push for justice
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
One-Third of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter, Threatening Food Supply
05-08-2013
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Wired.com
Nearly one in three commercial honeybee colonies in the United States died or disappeared last winter, an unsustainable decline that threatens the nation’s food supply.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Inventions
The 10-Year-Old Inventor and the World’s Cutest Patent Drawing
05-08-2013
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Wired.com
As a lawyer who works in Silicon Valley and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Len Nannarone has helped his fair share of tech companies.
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News Link • Transportation
New Breed of Classic Sailing Yachts Automate the Crew
05-08-2013
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Wired.com
The latest pleasure boats allow sailors to take to the water with a crew of just one, with sails that can move at the touch of a button.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New satellite sail is propelled by solar protons
05-08-2013
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newscientist.com
A tiny new satellite is propelled by repulsion. ESTCube-1, which went into orbit on Tuesday, will put proton-powered electric solar sails to the test for the first time. It could pave the way for speedy trips through the solar system.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
BORG Agent: We Will Arrest Adam Kokesh and Open Carry Protesters
05-08-2013
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Morpheus
BORG AGENT Threatens ARREST, BORG Agent (District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department Chief) Cathy Lanier says she will arrest Adam Kokesh and any other protesters who violate the district’s gun laws. Actually she probably won’t be the one do
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Privacy Rights
We're the Most Spied Upon People of All Time!
05-06-2013
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M.D. Creekmore
Experience the Thrill of Being Spied on Via Warrantless Data Mining, Wiretaps, and Facial Recognition
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Internet
Internet Explorer Zero-Day Attack Targets Nuclear Researchers
05-06-2013
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Ben Weitzenkorn via LiveScience.com
Microsoft has confirmed the existence of a zero-day code-execution exploit for Internet Explorer 8 that's currently being used in a series of watering-hole attacks.
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Senate passes bill letting states tax Internet purchases, siding with traditional retailers
05-06-2013
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The Washington Post
The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping â€" for many a largely tax-free frontier â€" to state sales taxes.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA collects 25 handguns at airport checkpoints
05-06-2013
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Ashley Halsey III via The Washington Post
Twenty-five would-be fliers learned an expensive lesson at the nation’s airports last week: It’s not a good idea to pack a gun in your carry-on bag.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be Abolished
05-06-2013
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Michael via The Economic Collapse
If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
DHS Whistleblower Censored By 60 Minutes
05-06-2013
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The Daily Bail
Start watching at 50 seconds. Brand new video. CBS 60 Minutes interviewed Julia Davis at length â€" and then cancelled the scheduled airing â€" because of political pressure.
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News Link • Gun Rights
US Senator: Big Sis Buying Ammo To Dry Up Supply
05-06-2013
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Steve Watson via PrisonPlanet
A US Senator has stated on record that he believes the Department of Homeland Security is intentionally attempting to exhaust civilian supplies of ammunition by buying huge bulk amounts, as documented by Infowars for some months.
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News Link • Police State
The Police State
05-06-2013
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Scott Lazarowitz via LewRockwell.com
This Infowars reporter interviewed several residents in Watertown, Massachusetts who suffered through the criminal police siege of their town
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
FDA proposes stricter regulations for tanning beds
05-06-2013
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Washington Post
Citing growing evidence of the health risks associated with sunlamps and tanning beds, the Food and Drug Administration would seek regulations and more-detailed labeling of the devices, to discourage their use by people under 18.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself
05-06-2013
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Washington Post
On the same morning a congressional staffer told investors in a private call that odds were improving for a government decision that would help medical insurers, trading spiked in a major health-care company.
The private call, arranged by a consul
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News Link • Anthropology
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
05-06-2013
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Washington Post
.... if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words to hunter-gatherers in Asia in any one of hundreds of modern languages, there is a chance they would understand at least some of what you were saying....
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News Link • 3D Printing
How The World's First 3-D Printed Gun Works
05-06-2013
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Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.com
Defense Distributed creates a fully functional gun, with 3-D printed plastic parts.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Diplomat: US team stopped from going to Benghazi
05-06-2013
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AP
4 members of Army special forces ready to head to Benghazi, Libya, after the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission had ended were told not to go. Gregory Hicks argued that if the US military had flown aircraft over the Benghazi facility
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Startup Taps Quantum Encryption for Cybersecurity
05-06-2013
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
GridCom Technologies says quantum cryptography can work to make the electricity grid control systems secure.
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