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Date Sent: 2014-07-03
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, July 3, 2014

'Sneak & peek' warrants allow police to secretly enter homes without notice

5 Terrible Things I Learned as a Corporate Whistleblower -- PayPal froze account of secure email startup ProtonMail due to lack of government permission -- North Carolina Sheriff To Stand Trial For Harassing Hispanic Motorists -- NY Court of Appeals Holds Cyberbullying Law Unconstitutional -- Thoughts Aren't Crimes. Even Really Disgusting, Cannibal Thoughts -- DEA Agent Assaults PINAC Crew Member for Video Recording -- Goldman Sachs demands Google unsend one of its e-mails -- Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains -- IRS policy that targeted political groups also aimed at open source projects -- Shocking! Obama's privacy board OKs massive NSA surveillance -- In Florida, Non-Submission to a Police Beating is "Attempted Murder" -- The Deeply Held Religious Principle Hobby Lobby Suddenly Remembered It Had -- Iraq to US: Bomb ISIS Or We'll Ask Iran -- California's Radical Register Your Ammo Bill Advances -- MSNBC Attacks Maine's Governor For Meeting With Sovereign Citizen Extremists -- Rick Perry to Obama: Come to the border -- Cornell Prof Jeffrey T. Hancock behind FaceBook's Pentagon Minerva PsyOps -- Cure for Cancer FOUND! (video)

News Link • Bill of Rights
'Sneak & peek' warrants allow police to secretly enter homes without notice
07-02-2014 • .
Sometimes agents stage the scenes to resemble robberies �" sneak and steal operations. In one case, federal investigators broke into an apartment, collected evidence, and then "trashed the place to make it look like a burglary." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Whistleblowers
5 Terrible Things I Learned as a Corporate Whistleblower
07-02-2014 • .
On November 30, 2009, Linda Almonte was escorted out of her office by security. Almonte did nothing wrong: She was an executive with JP Morgan Chase, and her only mistake was doing her job and blowing the whistle on her lawbreaking boss. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
PayPal froze account of secure email startup ProtonMail due to lack of government permission
07-02-2014 • .
The Switzerland-based startup, established by MIT, Harvard and CERN researchers, couldn't access money that crowdfunding backers have given it, because PayPal had frozen its account. A PayPal rep apparently asked if ProtonMail had asked the governmen Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
North Carolina Sheriff To Stand Trial For Harassing Hispanic Motorists
07-02-2014 • The Newspaper
"If you stop a Mexican, don't write a citation, arrest him," Sheriff Johnson reportedly said during a 2008 staff meeting with supervisors. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Internet
NY Court of Appeals Holds Cyberbullying Law Unconstitutional
07-02-2014 • Simple Justice
There must have been some heavy drinking going on, as lawprofs held an emergency lean-in support group to come up with some spin to counter the NY Court of Appeals decision as it sucked the wind out of their best appeals to emotion. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bill of Rights
Thoughts Aren't Crimes. Even Really Disgusting, Cannibal Thoughts
07-02-2014 • Simple Justice
The more horrible the crime, the less likely a judge is to apply the law neutrally and fairly. After all, the defendant was awful, and nobody likes really awful people. In the scheme of horribles, cooking and eating women is right up there. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Activism
DEA Agent Assaults PINAC Crew Member for Video Recording
07-02-2014 • Photography Is Not a Crime
A trio of DEA agents who walked out of the Drug Enforcement Administration building in Jacksonville, demanding identification and insisting to know why he was recording their sacred building that can be viewed from public Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Internet
Goldman Sachs demands Google unsend one of its e-mails
07-02-2014 • ars technica
Goldman Sachs has demanded a court order to get Google to unsend an e-mail that the bank sent in error. The e-mail contained "highly confidential" information addressed to the wrong account, a mistake on Goldman Sachs' part Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Internet
Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains
07-02-2014 • ars technica
Microsoft surrendered the 23 domain names it confiscated from dynamic domain hosting service No-IP.com, a move that begins the process of restoring millions of connections that went dark as a result of the highly controversial legal action. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Technology: Software
IRS policy that targeted political groups also aimed at open source projects
07-02-2014 • ars technica
The IRS denied a proposal to grant 501(c)(3) status to Yorba, a nonprofit organization that develops open source software for the Linux desktop. Yorba spokesperson Jim Nelson disclosed the full text of the IRS rejection letter. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Surveillance
Shocking! Obama's privacy board OKs massive NSA surveillance
07-02-2014 • ars technica
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Board said that the programs that tap undersea cables and acquire data from ISPs like Yahoo and Google with broad orders from a secret court are "authorized by Congress, reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, and an ex Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
In Florida, Non-Submission to a Police Beating is "Attempted Murder"
07-02-2014 • Lew Rockwell blog
Every day, somewhere in this supposedly free county a police officer spies an individual committing a harmless but "illegal" act, aggressively pursues them, inflicts physical violence on them, then escalates violence to lethal or near lethal levels Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Justice and Judges
The Deeply Held Religious Principle Hobby Lobby Suddenly Remembered It Had
07-02-2014 • commondreams.org
The Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case might not have been surprising, but there's at least one aspect of the media coverage of the company that fails in a big way: Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Business/ Commerce
Renewable Energy's About To Dominate Global Power Investments
07-02-2014 • commondreams.org
New report forecasts rise of solar and wind could lead to peak of carbon emissions Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
The Most Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project In The World ...
07-02-2014 • Business Insider
"We've been keeping a very low profile, mostly intentionally," said Doug Lenat, President and CEO of Cycorp. "No outside investments, no debts. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Iraq
Iraq to US: Bomb ISIS Or We'll Ask Iran
07-02-2014 • antiwar.com
Envoy Warns Maliki Won't Wait Forever for US Intervention Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Police State
California's Radical Register Your Ammo Bill Advances
07-02-2014 • govtslaves.info
California residents would have to register with the state, get fingerprinted, undergo a background check, and pay a state fee to buy a box of bullets if a bill in the state legislature becomes law. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Seriously?
MSNBC Attacks Maine's Governor For Meeting With Sovereign Citizen Extremists
07-02-2014 • govtslaves.info
MSNBC Attacks Maine's Governor For Meeting With Sovereign Citizen Extremists Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Immigration
Rick Perry to Obama: Come to the border
07-02-2014 • politico.com
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that President Barack Obama must visit the Texas southern border to see the immigration crisis for himself. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

Opinion  • r3VOLution Continues
Switching Scripts
07-02-2014
Paul Rosenberg
   What is promoted isn't working for most of us, and government/corporate promoters will change last of all...So, what is to be done?
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Cornell Prof Jeffrey T. Hancock behind FaceBook's Pentagon Minerva PsyOps
07-02-2014 • Daily Paul.com
"Emotional Contagion;" Now covering Their Tracks? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cure for Cancer FOUND! (video)
07-02-2014 • Daily Paul.com
Once again Profit proves to be the most important thing in our lives. There is a cure for cancer but the last thing the FDA wants is for you or your loved ones to get it. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul and the Fat Cats
07-02-2014 • Daily Paul.com
"We cannot be the party of fat cats, rich people, and Wall Street," the Kentucky Republican told the audience at the Freedom Summit in New Hampshire in April. "Corporate welfare should once and for all be ended." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Liz Cheney would eat Rand Paul for Lunch
07-02-2014 • Daily Paul.com
Iraq: The Chickens Come Home to Roost -Tom Woods Show hosts Scott Horton on Iraq Rand Paul and Liz Cheney Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

Feature Article  • Economy - Economics USA
Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity
Doug French
   The minimum wage should be the easiest issue to understand for the economically savvy. If the government arbitrarily sets a floor for wages above that set by the market, jobs will be lost. Even the Congressional Budget Office admits that 500,000 jobs
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Feature Article  • World News
World War I, Rather Than World War II, Is Key for U.S. Foreign Policy
Ivan Eland
   The 100-year anniversary of the most important event in the 20th century passed recently with predictably scant notice in the American media. The anniversary can't be that of the allied D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II, because that eve
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin was illegal in California? Whoops, governor fixes that 165-year-old money law
07-01-2014 • theregister.co.uk
Crypto-currencies threatened by anti-counterfeit cash rules Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Liberals Are as 'Obedient' to Authority as Conservatives
07-01-2014 • reason.com
It is a truism among academics that political conservatives like to be ordered around. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Business/ Commerce
Marijuana Sector Positioned to Move Higher as FDA Reviews Drug's Status
07-01-2014 • yahoo.com
The Marijuana Index(TM) traded marginally lower last week after MedBox Inc. (OTC:MDBX) and CannaVEST Corp.'s (OTC:CANV) moves lower offset GW Pharmaceuticals plc's (NASDAQ:GWPH) modest gains. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Justice and Judges
Google Rebuffed by U.S. High Court on Privacy Lawsuit
07-01-2014 • bloomberg.com
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Google Inc. (GOOG), leaving the company to face lawsuits accusing it of violating a federal wiretapping law by secretly collecting personal data while developing its Street View maps. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Employment & Jobs
As Technology Advances, Cybersecurity Jobs Take Center Stage
07-01-2014 • usnews.com
Wearable tech, EHRs and smart appliances all point to a need for increased security �" and that may mean job growth. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

$In Pennsylvania's fracking boom, new wells far more likely to leak than old, study finds$ News Link • Environment
In Pennsylvania's fracking boom, new wells far more likely to leak than old, study finds
07-01-2014 • usnews.com
In Pennsylvania's gas drilling boom, newer and unconventional wells leak far more often than older and traditional ones, according to a study of state inspection reports for 41,000 wells. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Justice and Judges
In Hobby Lobby ruling, the Supreme Court uses a 'fiction'
07-01-2014 • Washington Post
Mitt Romney said it, and on Monday the Supreme Court upheld it: Corporations are people, my friend. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Drones
FAA will miss deadline to integrate drones in U.S. skies, report says
07-01-2014 • Washington Post
The Federal Aviation Administration will miss a September 2015 deadline set by Congress to allow drones to fly throughout the nation's skies because of technical and regulatory obstacles that are unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, according to a g Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Iraq
In Baghdad, we could see the fall of Saigon all over again
07-01-2014 • Washington Post
I know what it looks like when a city is captured. I was there. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Egypt
Citing terrorism, Egypt to step up surveillance of social media
07-01-2014 • csmonitor.com
Egyptian authorities have invited foreign software companies to help the government track online speech amid a sweeping crackdown on dissent. A twin bombing Monday killed two police officers. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Democrat Pastor Accuses Thad Cochran Campaign of Vote-for-Pay Scheme
07-01-2014 • breitbart.com
A black Mississippi pastor has emerged to claim Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) campaign paid "thousands" of Democrats $15 each to vote in the June 24 GOP runoff �" and that he was part of the scheme. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • General Opinion
John McCain: Cochran's Tactics against Tea Party in MS Worth Emulating
07-01-2014 • breitbart.com
One week after traveling to Mississippi to do his utmost to help Senator Thad Cochran (R) beat Tea Party rival Chris McDaniel, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) talked about the strengths he saw in Cochran's approach to campaigning. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Political Parties
France's Sarkozy held in custody over campaign inquiry leaks
07-01-2014 • Reuters
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was held for questioning on Tuesday over suspicions he used his influence to secure leaked details of an inquiry into alleged irregularities in his 2007 election campaign. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan takes historic step from post-war pacifism, OKs fighting for allies
07-01-2014 • Reuters
Japan took a historic step away from its post-war pacifism on Tuesday by ending a ban that has kept the military from fighting abroad since 1945, a victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but a move that has riled China and worries many Japanese voters Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Art
Polish city's new statue cuts a urinating Lenin down to size
07-01-2014 • france24.com
A Lenin statue has returned to a onetime model communist city in Poland but the monumental hero of Soviet days is now a small, lurid green man urinating from atop a black plinth. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto Halted in Canada
07-01-2014 • arclein
(NaturalNews) Grassroots activism against transgenic encroachment has paid off in Canada, where licenses for genetically modified (GM) alfalfa have been put on hold, according to new reports. Massive protests in Montreal, Levis, Quebec City, Toronto Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • China
Chinese Military Trump Cards?
07-01-2014 • arclein
"We often speak of trump card equipment," Lt. Gen. Wang Hongguang, who retired in 2012, wrote in an opinion piece in China's state-run Global Times. He then said that China will use these weapons suddenly, and warned Americans in their "pride and arr Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Kerry: 'I'm Working Hard to ... Have Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ambassadors'
06-23-2014 • JERYL BIER, The Weekly Standard
With much of the Obama administration's foreign policy in tatters, John Kerry is clear on at least one goal he hopes to achieve by the end of his time as secretary of state: having lesbian, bisexual, and transgender ambassadors representing the US. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Researcher Charged in Major HIV Vaccine Fraud Case
07-01-2014 • arclein
He said Han's case was "particularly brazen" and noted that charges are rarely brought because the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, which investigates misconduct, doesn't have prosecution authority, and most cases involve smaller amounts of mon Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New York City police to subway acrobats: Sit down
07-01-2014 • Associated Press
Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledges he is targeting subway acrobats as part of his embrace of the "broken windows" theory of policing �" that low-grade lawlessness can cultivate a greater sense of disorder and embolden more dangerous offe Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Iraq
For U.S. Vets, Iraq's Newest Conflict Awakens Complex Emotions
6-20-2014 • NPR Staff
A lot of veterans are struggling right now to understand their own feelings about the situation in Iraq �" not just seeing cities they remember fall to insurgents, but also watching U.S. military advisers return to the country. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins

News Link • Media: Television
Why I Left 60 Minutes: The networks say they care about uncovering the truth. Really?
6-29-2014 • CHARLES LEWIS, Politico
Fewer commercial news organizations support investigative journalism now than at any time in recent history, and reporters today are arguably more alone, more exposed and more vulnerable to professional and even physical harm than they ever were. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins

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