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Date Sent: 2013-04-01
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, April 1, 2013 |
U.S. F-22 stealth jets join South Korea drills amid saber-rattling
(Surveillance) The Bad Sort of Stringray -- The Real Reason for the Iraq War -- The Dorner Reward: Let's Get Technical -- What Would We Do Without the State? (video) -- Future Crime, Redux -- Police Restrain Hundreds of People As Food Trashed -- Could the Banksters Grab Your Bank Deposits? -- PA, Jordan Ink Deal to 'Defend' Jerusalem Against 'Judaization' -- New York Times Rejects Letter From Mother Of Victim of Intifada It Promotes -- Dutch company offers one way ticket to Mars -- IMF team to arrive in Egypt on Wednesday for loan talks -- Green Meteorite May Be from Mercury, a First -- The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland -- “Liberating Iraqis”, Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene -- Syria: Democracy vs. Foreign Invasion. Who is Bashar Al Assad? -- New GMO Gene Silencing Technology – Backdoor Terminator?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. F-22 stealth jets join South Korea drills amid saber-rattling
03-31-2013
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Reuters
The United States sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea on Sunday to join military drills aimed at underscoring the U.S. commitment to defend Seoul in the face of an intensifying campaign of threats from North Korea.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
The Bad Sort of Stringray
03-31-2013
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Simple Justice
The device works by pretending to be a mobile phone tower, so devices can connect to it, and law enforcement gets all your data. It's basically a cellular man-in-the-middle attack, with law enforcement being that man in the middle. Yay.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
The Real Reason for the Iraq War
03-31-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
In 1990, Murray Rothbard suggested the Iraq War at that time had the purpose of RAISING the price of oil. The idea was to stop Saddam from cheating on OPEC. Iraq had the capacity to flood the market with oil, break the price, and reap big revenues.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Dorner Reward: Let's Get Technical
03-31-2013
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Simple Justice
So why offer such a big reward? I offered a theory before his killing. Apparently, the message is that if they capture Dorner, they will kill him as punishment. This trio is really comprised of two messages, one for Dorner and the other for public
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
What Would We Do Without the State?
03-31-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Skeptics of liberty wonder how a libertarian society would deal with various human problems. We can speculate, but do not always know. Do we need to know? In view of the dismal, bloody record of government, does it really matter?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Future Crime, Redux
03-31-2013
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Simple Justice
Neuroscientists can predict whether felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decision-making and action are more likely to be arrested again, and soone
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Police Restrain Hundreds of People As Food Trashed
03-31-2013
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Information Clearinghouse
But the goods never made it into the hands of people who desperately needed, as local police barricaded the stockpile of food. They called in a disposal company and tossed every bit of it into the trash, angering many
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Could the Banksters Grab Your Bank Deposits?
03-31-2013
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Jonathan Turley
I couldn’t believe the plan in Cyprus hinged on the idea that the bank could just steal customer’s funds to balance the bank’s books. I muttered to myself that couldn’t possibly happen here. Unfortunately, I learned the plan was already in the works
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
PA, Jordan Ink Deal to 'Defend' Jerusalem Against 'Judaization'
03/31/2013
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Aruta Sheva
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas signed an agreement on Sunday confirming their "common goal to defending" Jerusalem and their opposition to efforts to “Judaize” the eternal capital of Israel.
Palestinia
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Hooded, hanged and left in agony for hours on end:
Palestinian security chief tells how he has tor
03/30/2013
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David Rose for dailymail.co.uk
Chilling confessions made by a former official from the Palestinian Authority
Said in nineties people were tortured 'badly' and 'beat them hard'
Now they use 'shabeh', which involves hooding and tying prisoners
Britain pays £33million to the
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Energy
Natural gas begins to flow from Tamar gas field
03/30/2013
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Avital Lahav for Ynet.com
Israel's first batch of natural gas begins flowing through underwater pipe en route to Ashdod intake center, where it is expected to arrive in 30 hours; Israel begins move to energy independence
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
New York Times Rejects Letter From Mother Of Victim of Intifada It Promotes
03/31/2013
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Bennet Ruda at Daled Amos
The New York Times jumps at opportunities to promote a Third Intifada, but refuses to balance their reporting by presenting the other side: the suffering and death that results from Palestinian violence.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Dutch company offers one way ticket to Mars
03-31-2013
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Reuters
A Dutch company called Mars One is looking for volunteer astronauts to participate in the first manned-mission to Mars. The company wants to send 4 people to the Red Planet to start a colony and will have no way of coming back.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF team to arrive in Egypt on Wednesday for loan talks
03-31-2013
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Reuters
An IMF delegation will arrive in Egypt for talks with the government on a $4.8 billion loan, a government spokesman said seeking to easing a deep economic crisis. Egypt would not seek any emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Giant egg from extinct elephant bird up for auction
03-31-2013
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BBC News
A rare giant bird egg is being auctioned at Christie's auction house in London. It was laid by an Elephant Bird in Madagascar and is thought to have been discovered by archaeologists in the late 19th or early 20th century.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Green Meteorite May Be from Mercury, a First
03-31-2013
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Space
Scientists may have discovered the first meteorite from Mercury. The green rock found in Morocco last year may be the first known visitor from the solar system's innermost planet, according to meteorite scientist Anthony Irving, who unveiled the find
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland
03-31-2013
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Farmers have been taking on mounting debt, creating an unsustainable increase in land prices and risking a crash that would ripple through our economy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
“Liberating Iraqis”, Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene
03-31-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Felicity Arbuthno
“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths … I mean, it’s not relevant, so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that …” (Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, Good Morning America, 18th March 2003)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syria: Democracy vs. Foreign Invasion. Who is Bashar Al Assad?
03-31-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Arabi Souri
A Syrian's Perspective: Bashar al-Assad's Democratic Movement
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bioterrorism
New GMO Gene Silencing Technology " Backdoor Terminator?
03-31-2013
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Farm Wars
An unregulated GM technology is ready to replace the old, and this technology appears to be exactly what is needed for implementation of the Terminator.
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Barbara Peterson
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 31, 2013 Edition
03-29-2013
John Semmens
Party Donors Warn of “Dire Consequences” for Those Who Let Obama Down
A handful of Democratic members of Congress were warned by the Party's big donors to get in line behind President Obama's push for gun-control legislation lest they face “dire c
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News Link • Military
Let’s All Stop Saying ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Forever
03-29-2013
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Wired.com
Any term that conflates nuclear weapons with any other kind of weapon is bound to be a poor descriptor.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus Can Learn From Iceland
03-29-2013
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arclein
As the Eurozone financial crisis continues to plague the island nation of Cyprus, its citizens are receiving a crash course in how an out-of-control banking industry and its corrupt banksters can bring an entire economy to its knees.
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robert klein
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF Raids YouTube's Favorite 'Russian' Weapons And Explosives Expert
03-29-2013
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Business Insider
Kyle Myers, better known as the wildly popular "FPS Russia" on YouTube " with a penchant for shooting guns and blowing things up in videos " has caught the eye of federal authorities.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Armed protesters show up to counter Indianapolis gun control rally
03-29-2013
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Rawstory
A group participating in the “National Day to Demand Action” to end gun violence in Indianapolis this morning faced a counter-protest from gun rights advocates, who brought their loaded firearms with them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
New CFAA Draft Aims To Expand, Not Reform, The ‘Worst Law In Technology’
03-29-2013
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IBT
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was passed in 1984 and is regarded as overly “expansive” and “sweeping,” as it lets the government incarcerate “any Internet user they want,” according to former federal prosecutor Orin Kerr.
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Home-schooling family who fled to U.S. from Germany face deportation
03-29-2013
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Daily Mail
After they fled to the United States in 2010, the Romeike family were granted political asylum and found a home in Tennessee. They had a sixth child. But then US Immigration and Customs Enforcement appealed the asylum decision in 2012.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
So, What’s It Like To Have a Business in Cyprus Right Now?
03-29-2013
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www.prisonplanet.com
Here’s an account (literally) - Writes the owner: The most of circulating assets on our business Current Account are blocked.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama uses executive power to move gun control agenda forward
03-29-2013
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The Hill
The president has used his executive powers to bolster the national background check system, jumpstart government research on the causes of gun violence and create a million-dollar ad campaign aimed at safe gun ownership.
The executive steps will
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea tensions: Russia's Lavrov fears 'spiral'
03-29-2013
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BBC News
Russia has warned of tensions in North Korea slipping out of control, after Pyongyang said it was placing its missile units on stand-by.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the situation could slip "toward the spiral of a vicious circle"
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Welcome to Sulphur Springs, Where the Police Chief is a Murderer
03-28-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Like many third-world countries, Arkansas is a beautiful place inhabited by lovely people who are burdened with an extravagantly corrupt ruling class. This helps explain how Sulphur Springs, Arkansas has a convicted killer as its police chief.
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News Link • Economy - International
'Run for the Hills' Now, I'm Doing It: Jim Rogers
03-28-2013
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CNBC
"I for one, am making sure I don't have too much money in any one specific bank account anywhere in the world, because now there is a precedent," he said. "The IMF has said 'sure, loot the bank accounts' the EU has said 'loot the bank accounts'
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News Link • Police State
One Man Blocking Arizona Anti-NDAA Bill
03-28-2013
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The 2012 NDAA allows any person, including American citizens, to be indefinitely detained without charge or trial, sent to a foreign country to be held, and even executed. Not a single law has eradicated more of our Constitution
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News Link • Homeland Security
Teenage Railfan Sues Over Unlawful Arrest (and Other Rail News, Including Metrorail Update)
03-28-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Gregory Grice was 16-years-old, when he ventured to a New York train station to take some photos in 2011. But that didn’t stop police from arresting him while calling him a terrorist.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Checkmate on your “Military Type” Firearms Ban
03-28-2013
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The Price of Liberty
Progressives at the state and federal level are rushing to enact legislation that would ban firearms they claim are “military type” weapons. If they want to classify these weapons as “military type” firearms, then they have a problem,
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News Link • Energy
Obama administration moves ahead with sweeping rules requiring cleaner gasoline
03-28-2013
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Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency will move ahead with rules requiring cleaner gasoline and cars nationwide, despite fierce protests from the oil industry and some conservative Democrats,
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