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Date Sent: 2013-04-16
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
Iraq Bloody Monday: 75 Dead, 356 Hurt -- Karzai: Blames US, Taliban for Killing 12 Kids in Airstrike
Hunger Striking for Liberation, Justice and Dignity -- Here’s
Russia’s Badass Next-Generation Stealth Strategic Bomber -- 10 Years
After Matrix Trilogy, Agent Smith Stars In GE Ad -- SCHIFF: Wall Street
And Gold Were Never A Good Match -- The Gold Collapse Is Personally
Costing Ron Paul A Fortune -- ROUBINI PILES ON: 'Eat Your Gold!' --
KRUGMAN: Gold Bugs Are Really Annoying, They Don't Have A Clue... --
FULL VIDEO OF THE MARATHON EXPLOSION -- Compromise: Political Poison --
Laura Snyder: The Philosophical Breakfast Club -- Hackers Attack 90,000 WordPress Blogs -- ‘Sustainable’? Tell me your time frame -- Winding down the War on Drugs -- Lessons Learned From Hurricane Sandy -- What Happened The Last Time We Saw Gold Drop Like This? -- All US Reactors Flawed -- How North Korea Tipped Its Hand -- 04-16-13 -- Dean Pleasant - Anthony Gregory - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM,
9-Noon -- Eyewitness: Authorities
Announced “Drill” Before Boston Explosions -- Get Ready to Buy Gold -- The Great Gold
vs. Bitcoin Debate: Casey vs. Matonis -- X-Prize Winners Unveil the
1,400-Pound Edison2 ‘Very Light Car’ -- Legal pot draws tourists to
Colo., Wash., for 4/20 -- Bloomberg: If You Sell a Gun to Your Son,
'There's Something Wrong in Your Family' -- Gun group ‘had hand in
writing’ Manchin-Toomey background check amendment -- BOVARD: The
‘you are the government’ canard -- Gold Drops Most in 30 Years
AZ: Join Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan/Tour de Peace Cyclists Sat,
April 20, 11 a.m. at McCain/Flake's PHX; Spring Party and meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @
4pm til ???
NY Reminder: Benjamin Wassell's Day in Court is tomorrow
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq’s Bloody Monday: 75 Killed, 356 Wounded
04-16-2013
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
At least 75 Iraqis were killed and 356 more were wounded in a series of attacks across the country.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai: US, Taliban Both to Blame for Airstrike That Killed 12 Children
04-16-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
US Won't Admit Civilians Killed in Last Week's Attack
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News Link • TERRORISM
2 Dead, Several Dozen Hurt In Explosions At Boston Marathon Finish Line
04-15-2013
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http://boston.cbslocal.com
BOSTON (CBS) " Boston Police have confirmed that two people are dead and that several dozen were injured after two explosions went off near the Boston Marathon finish line Monday afternoon.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Join Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan/Tour de Peace Cyclists Sat, April 20, 11 a.m. at McCain/Flake's PHX
04-15-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Stop Killer Drones! Join Cindy and other Tour de Peace riders outside Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake's office at 2201 E Camelback Rd/ Phoenix on Saturday, April 11th, 2013 at 11 a.m.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Spring Party and a chance to meet Cindy Sheehan at the Hancock's, Sat 4/20/13 @ 4pm til ???
04-05-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Spring Party at the Hancock's and a chance to meet and hang out with Cindy Sheehan as she travels thru Phoenix on her Tour de Peace bike ride across the country. There will be other riders here along with Cindy, so come down and show them the LOV3!
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
10 Years After Matrix Trilogy, Agent Smith Stars In GE Ad
04-16-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Laura Stampler
It might be 10 years since the last installment of "The Matrix" was released, but GE decided to use Agent Smith as the new spokesman for its campaign about the "brilliant machines" which help the medical industry.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
SCHIFF: Wall Street And Gold Were Never A Good Match
04-16-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Peter Schiff
In the opening years of the last decade, most mainstream investors sat on the sidelines while "tin hat" goldbugs rode the bull market from below $300 to just over $1,000 per ounce.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Gold Collapse Is Personally Costing Ron Paul A Fortune
04-16-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Hickey
A few weeks ago, we figured out what was happening to the Ron Paul portfolio " the former Texas congressman's 64% investment in gold and other rocks " and it wasn't pretty.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
ROUBINI PILES ON: 'Eat Your Gold!'
04-16-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam Ro
Gold prices are tumbling deeper into bear market territory.
As the gold bugs suffer, Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini is only piling on.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
KRUGMAN: Gold Bugs Are Really Annoying, They Don't Have A Clue...
04-16-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
KRUGMAN: Gold Bugs Are Really Annoying, They Don't Have A Clue, And They've Made Things Worse
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News Link • Events: America
FULL VIDEO OF THE MARATHON EXPLOSION
04-16-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Here's another full, clear video of the explosion at the Boston Marathon. The video is intense and may contain content that is disturbing.
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News Link • Political Theory
Compromise: Political Poison
04-16-2013
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http://www.ncc-1776.org, by L. Neil Smith
As American kids grow up, authority figures all around them"public school teachers, local and national political leaders, the broadcast and print media, ministers and priests, and other useless busybodies"are always very enthusiastic about the idea o
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers Attack 90,000 WordPress Blogs
04-16-2013
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Marshall Honorof
Keeping the default settings on any Internet-connected service is just asking for trouble. It's easy enough to scoff at people whose brilliant "12345" password fell victim to hackers, but it's just as simple to target usernames.
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News Link • Energy
‘Sustainable’? Tell me your time frame
04-16-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
A regular reader writes in to protest my assertion that America now has enough proven fossil fuel reserves to last for centuries, warning “Fracking technology isn’t sustainable.”
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Winding down the War on Drugs
04-16-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
Nevada voters approved medical marijuana at the polls, placing it in the state constitution in the year 2000 and instructing “The Legislature shall provide by law for … appropriate methods for supply of the plant to patients authorized to use it.”
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Lessons Learned From Hurricane Sandy
04-16-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by The Angry Prepper
Hurricane Sandy tore through the northern eastern seaboard. The hurricane combined with two other weather systems to create a Super storm (Some say). The Hurricane or Super Storm created a destructive path that hasn’t been seen this far up north, e
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ebike Revolution Underway
04-16-2013
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arclein
n 2011,there were more than one billion cars and trucks in use in the world,compared with around 70 million alternative fuel and advanced technology vehiclesthat had been sold or converted worldwide as of December 2011.
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News Link • TERRORISM
CBS: Saudi Man In Custody Was Tackled By Bystanders At Boston Marathon
04-16-2013
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CBS News
The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS.
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News Link • Climate Change
Decadal Climate Change Driven by South Polar Sea?
04-16-2013
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arclein
Professor Ian Hall, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, added: "Our study finds large changes in chemical stratification of the Southern Ocean not only across the shifts from ice ages to warm interglacial conditions, but also on more rapid, millenni
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
All US Reactors Flawed
04-16-2013
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arclein
I was just thinking about the issues more, and watching as the industry and the regulators and the whole nuclear safety community continues to try to figure out how to address these very, very difficult problems,” which were made more evident by the
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How North Korea Tipped Its Hand
04-16-2013
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arclein
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a classified assessment last month saying that it now has “moderate confidence” that the “North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles however the reliability will be lo
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News Link • Gun Rights
Unintended Consequences - DOWNLOAD PDF, MOBI, OR AZW File of book (UPDATED 2019-09-18)
02-20-2013
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Accurate Press
The next printing is going to be softcover and will probably be priced at $28.95 and $6 shipping. Download PDF, MOBI or AZW of entire book - NOW While you still can. Also available on AccuratePress.Net and Amazon (links provided)
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News Link • TERRORISM
Eyewitness: Authorities Announced “Drill” Before Boston Explosions
04-16-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
UM coach “thought it was odd” bomb sniffing dogs were at start and finish lines
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Get Ready to Buy Gold
04-16-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, Marc Faber
The sell-off will bring a new low, but the the bull market is far from over, says Marc Faber
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Great Gold vs. Bitcoin Debate: Casey vs. Matonis
04-16-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Andy Duncan
Following the Mt. Gox takedown, I acted as referee between Doug Casey, of Casey Research, and Jon Matonis, of Bitcoin Foundation, as they discussed the relative merits of two free market monies, gold and Bitcoin. It was a great contest.
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News Link • Transportation
X-Prize Winners Unveil the 1,400-Pound Edison2 ‘Very Light Car’
04-16-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
The car of the 21st century is an ultra-efficient, slippery sled on wheels that’s half plane, half pod, 1,400 pounds and capable of triple-digit fuel economy. At least, that’s what the crew at Edison2 believe.
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News Link • Events: America
Legal pot draws tourists to Colo., Wash., for 4/20
04-16-2013
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http://hosted.ap.org, By KRISTEN WYATT
Thousands of people are expected to join an unofficial counterculture holiday celebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, including out-of staters and even packaged tours.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bloomberg: If You Sell a Gun to Your Son, 'There's Something Wrong in Your Family'
04-16-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Elizabeth Harrington
If you sell a gun to your son, “there’s something wrong with your family," says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun group ‘had hand in writing’ Manchin-Toomey background check amendment
04-16-2013
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http://www.examiner.com, By David Codrea
The head of a national gun rights group is supporting the Manchin-Toomey background check bill, an email sent today to a group of Second Amendment activists, scholars and journalists revealed.
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News Link • Gun Rights
BOVARD: The ‘you are the government’ canard
04-16-2013
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By James Bovard
Obama joins predecessors in blaming his overreach on us
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News Link • Police State
Police put on high alert across U.S. after Boston Marathon attack
04-15-2013
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The RawStory.com
US police departments from New York to Los Angeles boosted security and were on heightened alert Monday after a double blast killed at least two people and injured 23 others at the Boston marathon.
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News Link • World News
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah Celebrate Boston Terror Attack
04-15-2013
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Israel News Agency
Shortly after terror bombs exploded and murdered over 12 people at the Boston Marathon, members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah were reported to be dancing in the streets of Gaza, handing out candies to passerbys.
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News Link • Police State
N.H. police chief faces fine after teen kills self with his service weapon
04-15-2013
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
A New Hampshire police chief could have to pay up to $1,000 in fines after a 15-year-old boy killed himself with the officer’s service weapon.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Linked smartphones catch the action from all angles
04-15-2013
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newscientist.com
WHAT'S better than a smartphone packed full of features and with lightning-fast processing power? How about a handful " or even hundreds " of smartphones wirelessly networked together?
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News Link • Drug War
Activist Refuses Plea Deal - Offered No Jail Time For Selling Cannabis
04-15-2013
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FreeKeene.com
In a story that seems like a Hollywood screenplay, a political activist is making a stand against laws he feels are unjust. Rich Paul, the founder of the New Hampshire based 4:20 Foundation, is facing four felony charges for selling marijuana.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Afghanistan’s opium cultivation to surge in 2013: UN
04-15-2013
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The RawStory.com
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to increase for a third straight year, expanding even to poppy-free areas this year, a United Nations report warned on Monday.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Gitmo inmate who was deemed no threat describes cycle of hunger strikes and force feedings
04-15-2013
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The RawStory.com
An inmate detained at Guantanamo for over a decade without charge on Monday gave a graphic account of his participation in a two-month-old hunger strike at the US-run military prison.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Authorities probe whether Samsung hired students to give HTC bad online reviews
04-15-2013
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The RawStory.com
Taiwanese authorities said Monday they had launched an investigation into allegations that South Korean tech giant Samsung hired students to post malicious comments about local rival HTC online.
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All?
04-15-2013
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arclein
In January of 1979, a New York Times article was headlined: “Experts Tell How Antarctic Ice Could Cause Widespread Floods.” The abstract in the Times archives says: “If the West Antarctic ice sheet slips into the sea, as some glaciologists believe is
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News Link • Police State
Congrats Gavin Seim! Winner of The Checkpoint Contest
04-15-2013
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Copblock and Checkpoint USA
Seim, a self-described “portraitist, pictorialist, and wrriter” who left with his family from Washington to go on a road trip, recorded his interaction with employees at an internal checkpoint.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Christian Idolatry: The Worship Of Government
04-15-2013
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Chuck Baldwin Live
This message was preached by Chuck on Sunday, April 7, 2013, during the service at Liberty Fellowship.
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