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Date Sent: 2013-03-11
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, March 11, 2013 |
Gabby Giffords's Husband Buys AR-15 -- Suburbs secede from Atlanta
Contact Speaker of Arizona House of Representatives Today -- Rose
Koire and Christina Tobin Discuss Agenda 21 and the Non-Partisan Effort
to Defeat It -- Unreal Combat Footage Shot From Syrian Government Tank Shows Complete Devastation -- SpaceX: Grasshopper Successfully Completes 260 Feet Hover Slam -- Ron Paul: Congress, Drones, and The Imperial Presidency -- Navy Might Lose Its Technological
Testing Ground — The Drug War -- Electronic Sensors Printed Directly
on the Skin -- A Wireless Brain-Computer
Interface -- Seattle Bar Bans Google Glasses, Threatens "[Rear]
Kickings" For Violators -- Horrific Video Of The Thousands Of Pigs
Found Floating In A Shanghai River -- John Paulson May Move
To Puerto Rico To Avoid A Gigantic Tax Bill -- The PC Business Isn't
Growing Anywhere, And It's Really Scary For Microsoft -- US Companies Keeping Even More Money Offshore --
Organized Crime Hackers Are The True Threat To American
Infrastructure -- Mummies With Clogged Arteries Prove That It's Not
Just Caused By Lifestyle -- Thomas Perez: Obama's Labor
Secretary Choice -- Mid-April Venezuelan Presidential
Elections Scheduled
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
Checkpoint Content Contest Now Underway!
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gabby Giffords's Husband Buys AR-15
03-11-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Mark E. Kelly, gun-control proponent and husband to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, recently purchased an AR-15 (an "assault weapon," he called it)"which he now says he intended as an illustration of the need for more stringent gun laws.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Rose Koire and Christina Tobin Discuss Agenda 21 and the Non-Partisan Effort to Defeat It
03-11-2013
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Daily Paul.com
According to Rosa Koire the United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development program is the action plan and blueprint to inventory and control every person and thing on the planet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Unreal Combat Footage Shot From Syrian Government Tank Shows Complete Devastation
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
The footage below, uploaded to YouTube by the U.K.'s Channel 4, gives a startling glimpse into the Syrian war from an unusual perspective " the turret of a Syrian government tank.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
Exposing China's Weakness
03-11-2013
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arclein
You see, China is home to the world's largest shale gas resources, one that dwarfs our own. But their struggle lies in their methods of extraction.
They haven't figured out a way to extract these fossil fuels economically.
China is years away
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Five Ways to Induce Lucid Dreaming
03-11-2013
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arclein
Draw a large dot or symbol on your hand. Look down at it periodically throughout the day, each time asking yourself: “Am I awake or dreaming?” Make this a habit. Eventually, this question will pop up within a dream, allowing you to become aware and e
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robert klein
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News Link • China
China's Organic Illusion
03-11-2013
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arclein
No! "Organic" certifies a process of how food is grown or produced. It certifies that the farmer doesn't add pesticides, herbicides, petroleum-based fertilizer, metals or synthetic chemicals to the crop (among other things), and it certifies that
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robert klein
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Congress, Drones, and The Imperial Presidency
03-11-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Last week Senator Rand Paul held a 13-hour filibuster to force the Obama administration to state whether it believes the President has the right to kill American citizens with drones on US soil. I find it tragic that there has to be a discussion
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
New drug being developed using compound found in red wine
03-11-2013
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dailymail
Drugs that could combat ageing and help people to live to 150-years-old may be available within five years, following landmark research.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Why You Should ‘Lean In’ to Sheryl Sandberg’s New Book
03-11-2013
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Wired.com
To get a sense of how I reacted to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, look no further than the stars and exclamation points that fill the margins of my review copy.
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News Link • Drug War
Navy Might Lose Its Technological Testing Ground " The Drug War
03-11-2013
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Wired.com
Budget cuts have forced the Navy to cancel its deployments to Latin America supporting the drug war. And what happens in Latin America doesn’t stay in Latin America.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
An Anti-iPad for India
03-11-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Suneet Singh Tuli, the man behind the ultracheap Aakash 2 tablet, says the West doesn’t understand mobile business in the developing world.
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News Link • Activism
Seattle Bar Bans Google Glasses, Threatens "[Rear] Kickings" For Violators
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
A Seattle bar dive just deemed that Google Glass will not be allowed inside its building.
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News Link • China
Horrific Video Of The Thousands Of Pigs Found Floating In A Shanghai River
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
This weekend, over 900 dead pigs were found floating dead in a river near Shanghai, and nobody new the cause. (UPDATE: It's actually over 2000 pigs now)
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The PC Business Isn't Growing Anywhere, And It's Really Scary For Microsoft
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
You may have thought that the fine that the European Commission handed out to Microsoft for screwing up the coding on the browser choice screen was hefty-
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
US Companies Keeping Even More Money Offshore
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
U.S. companies are keeping more of their profits offshore, choosing overseas tax havens amid talk in Washington about closing corporate tax loopholes, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Organized Crime Hackers Are The True Threat To American Infrastructure
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
CHINESE hackers may get all the notoriety, but their cyber-security exploits against American targets are chickenfeed compared with the damage done by organised crime.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Mummies With Clogged Arteries Prove That It's Not Just Caused By Lifestyle
03-11-2013
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Business Insider
Scans of mummies from as long ago as 2,000 BC have revealed that ancient people also had clogged arteries, a condition blamed on modern vices like smoking, overeating and inactivity, a study said Monday.
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News Link • Conferences
Peymon Mottahedeh's Freedom Law School Freedom Rally 2013, March 8-11th, 2013 - Ontario, CA
03-07-2013
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Freedom Law School
This 4-day event includes a seminar on how to "Legally Beat IRS Assessments and Collections" featuring Donald Macpherson (BeatIRS.com). We will also have 10 of the most exciting Freedom speakers in the country, a seminar on "Stopping Home Mortgage F
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Donna Hancock
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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 • Philosophy: Libertarianism
PIGSTY
03-08-2013
Glenn Jacobs
I was reminded of Animal Farm recently when I flew into my home airport. As I was walking to the parking lot, I noticed a very nice, expensive car parked in the “Authorized Cars Only” area of the airport. This parking area is much closer to the termi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Stopping Illegally Funded Gun Buy-Backs
03-08-2013
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The International Libertarian
Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo and Director of Public Safety Fred Harran of Bensalem, PA state that their two day gun buy-back of February 6 and 16 was the first in the nation financed with federal funds seized from drug dealers.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Michigan School Confiscates 3rd-Grader’s Cupcakes Decorated With Toy Soldiers
03-09-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Steve Watson
The nationwide panic over anything remotely related to guns continues apace as a third grader in Michigan was reprimanded by school officials when he brought a cupcake to school with a plastic toy soldier on top of it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
US Unemployment Figures are a Camouflage. Boom in Corporate Profits, Collapsing Wages
03-09-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Andre Damon
The number of jobs in the US grew by 236,000 in February, and the official unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 2008, according to the Labor Department’s latest jobs report released Friday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Court curbs laptop searches at U.S. border
03-09-2013
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Washington Times
A federal appeals court said the Border Patrol cannot confiscate or download every laptop or electronic device brought into the U.S., ruling people have an expectation their data are private and the government must have “reasonable suspicion”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Army’s First Interactive iPad Book Lets You Finger-Swipe Through Afghanistan
03-09-2013
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Wired.com
The Army has no shortage of battlefield maps. But until Friday, it didn’t have many that animate troop movements or enemy positions at the touch of a fingertip.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Phone Service Kills Roaming Charges With Virtual Local Numbers
03-09-2013
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Wired.com
You really ought to save your international friends money with a local number, or at least impress people with a number in Sweden. You can do that with VIR2SIM.
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News Link • Activism
Whole Foods announces mandatory GMO labeling by 2018; here's how it happened
03-09-2013
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naturalnews.com
In a huge victory for the alternative media and grassroots activism, Whole Foods announced on Friday that it would require GMO labels on all products by 2018.This announcement deals a significant blow to Monsanto, DuPont and all the GMO pushers ....
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News Link • Egypt
CHAOS IN EGYPT After Court Confirms Death Sentence Of Soccer Rioters
03-09-2013
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Business Insider
The verdict that had everyone in Egypt scared has come out and it's not good.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Money Velocity Could Be A Problem When The Fed Takes Its Foot Off The Interest Rate Brake Pedal
03-09-2013
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Business Insider
With the DOW blowing by milestones I went looking for other things that were at record levels.
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News Link • Drug War
Florida Police Raid Home of Sick Woman Hours After She Is Featured In Medical Marijuana Story
03-08-2013
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Jonathan Turley
For Cathy Jordan it began as a banner day. A hearing was just held unveiling the “Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act,” legislation to legalize medical marijuana for people like her who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s Disease and is wheelchair-bound.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Mexico Man Held 22 Months Without Trial Is Awarded $15.5 Million
03-08-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Dona Ana County in New Mexico has agreed to pay Stephen Slevin, 59, $15.5 million after it kept Slevin in solitary confinement for 22 months without a trial for a DUI arrest. The horrific case was made worse by the county refusing to pay a verdict
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Pentagon Ran Torture Centers in Iraq, Atrocities Revealed
03-08-2013
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antiwar
“The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the ‘dirty wars’ in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents,” The Guardian reports. “These units conduct
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Alabama Judge Orders Governor Not To Sign Controversial Education Bill
03-08-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Circuit Judge Charles Price has issued an order blocking a governor from signing a controversial education bill. Price wants to have a hearing on the legal issues surrounding the education bill and does not want Governor to sign it until then.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Trial of Osama's Son-in-Law Will Be on US Soil, a Rarity
03-08-2013
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AP
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law was charged with conspiring to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaeda's top propagandist. His trial will mark one of the first prosecutions of senior al-Qaeda leaders on US soil. The case marks a legal victory for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Activist who shot hidden camera video settles with former community group worker for $100K
03-08-2013
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Washington Post
The videos showed Vera and other ACORN employees appearing to give O’Keefe and Giles advice regarding prostitution, illegal immigration and other activities. The widely aired footage and the resulting outrage led to ACORN disbanding.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 10, 2013 Edition
03-08-2013
John Semmens
McCain Calls Fellow Senators “Wacko Birds”
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) assailed fellow Senators Rand Paul (R-Ken) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex) as “wacko birds” for participating in a 13-hour long filibuster against the confirmation of CIA Director nomine
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News Link • Drones
Rand Paul challenges Obama spokesman's comment on son of terrorist killed by drone strike
03-08-2013
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Politifact.com
The killing of the 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, on Oct. 14, 2011, is a lot less well-known. The younger al-Awlaki was reportedly killed two weeks after his father and was also an American citizen, born in Denver in 1995.
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Leon Felkins
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