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Date Sent: 2013-05-13
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, May 13, 2013 |
Supreme Court sides with Monsanto in major patent case
Syrian rebel bites heart of dead soldier: video -- Spain, Portugal demand quick action on bank union -- Judge: Soldier premeditated Iraq killings -- NY state's pension fund
reaches record $160B -- Israeli Lobby Power in America -- New video
shows parade shooting suspect -- Bangladesh building collapse: woman
rescued after 17 days speaks of ordeal -- 2012 Aquaculture at 42% of
Global Fishery -- Dems Caught Mocking Gun Owners -- Our
Algorithms Can Predict Future Disasters — Now What? -- Major Solar Flare
Erupts from the Sun, Strongest of 2013 -- Another Anti-Assad False Flag
-- Israelis Protest Austerity Harshness -- Another False Flag Attack?
Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May 25th
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News Link • Food
Supreme Court sides with Monsanto in major patent case
05-13-2013
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USA Today
The court ruled unanimously that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto's patent on genetically modified soybeans when he culled some from a grain elevator and used them to replant his own crop in future years.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Syria
Syrian rebel bites heart of dead soldier: video
05-13-2013
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Reuters
A video of a Syrian rebel commander cutting the heart out of a soldier and biting into is emblematic of a civil war that has rapidly descended into sectarian hatred and revenge killings, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain, Portugal demand quick action on bank union
05-13-2013
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AP
The leaders of Spain and Portugal demanded that the 17-nation eurozone speed up efforts to create a banking union and complained that credit is frozen in their countries, preventing economic growth and crucial job creation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Judge: Soldier premeditated Iraq killings
05-13-2013
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AP
The shooting was one of the worst instances of soldier-on-soldier violence in the Iraq war and raised questions about the mental health problems for soldiers caused by repeated tours of duty.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NY state's pension fund reaches record $160B
05-13-2013
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AP
The New York pension fund for state and local government workers has topped $160 billion after reporting a 10.4 percent return on investment for its last fiscal year, the state comptroller's office reported Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • False Flag Operations
New video shows parade shooting suspect
05-13-2013
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youtube
Police release surveillance video that shows a suspect in the New Orleans Mother's Day shooting.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
Time Crystals
05-13-2013
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arclein
time crystals derive their movement not from stored energy but from a break in the symmetry of time, enabling a special form of perpetual motion.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Understanding Student Weaknesses
05-13-2013
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arclein
those better able to predict their students' wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most. The findings are described in a paper published last month in the American Educational Research Journal titled "The Influence of Teach
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robert klein
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News Link • Positive News
Bangladesh building collapse: woman rescued after 17 days speaks of ordeal
05-13-2013
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youtube
A woman found alive in the rubble of Dhaka's Rana Plaza after 17 days tells of how she got rescuers' attention with a stick as she heard voices above her. Workers were astounded when they found the woman alive so long after the accident, which now ha
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
2012 Aquaculture at 42% of Global Fishery
05-13-2013
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arclein
World aquaculture production of food fish reached 62.7 million tonnes in 2011, up by 6.2% from 59 million tonnes in 2010. The estimated value of farmed food fish is USD 130 billion. Farmed aquatic algae production in 2011 was 21 million tonnes, worth
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robert klein
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News Link • Gun Rights
Dems Caught Mocking Gun Owners
05-13-2013
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patriotupdate.com
Second Amendment rights advocates are fuming today over words from three Democratic state senators caught on tape after Thursday’s hearing on the upper chamber’s gun control package.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Algorithm That Automatically Detects Polyps in Images from Camera Pills
05-13-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Analysing the footage from camera pills is a time-consuming task for medical professionals. Now computer scientists are attempting to automate the process
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News Link • Future Predictions
Our Algorithms Can Predict Future Disasters " Now What?
05-13-2013
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Wired.com
California is studded with a network of sensors that can perceive almost any motion in the ground, including the slightest perturbation of the Earth’s crust.
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News Link • Solar Flares
Major Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun, Strongest of 2013
05-13-2013
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space.com
The sun unleashed a colossal Mother's Day solar flare on Sunday (May 12) in what has become the most powerful solar eruption of the year.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Reference Link • False Flag Operations
Another False Flag Attack?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Always watch the first new reports and official statements in a false flag attack, because this is where the perpetrators typically make their mistakes. This is proving to be the case in New Orleans in the wake of today’s Mother’s Day shooting in New
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Dave Hodges
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 12, 2013 Edition
05-10-2013
John Semmens
President Tells Grads that Fear of Tyranny a “Mental Illness”
In a commencement address to graduates of Ohio State University, President Obama urged them to eschew “the deranged rantings of those who see growth of government as antithetical to hum
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
05-10-2013
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ted.com
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, .......
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News Link • China
Lijian stealth drone prepares for test flight
05-10-2013
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The Lijian is described as the world's third stealth combat drone. A newly designed Chinese drone is ready for its first flight test after completing its taxi test at an unknown airfield in the southeastern province of Jiangxi.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Mystery Aircraft Frightens Quincy Residents
05-10-2013
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CBS News (video)
A mystery in Quincy continues to deepen: Who is flying around the city from dusk to dawn, for the past ten days or so? “It’s frightening, not just weird, but frightening,” said one resident. Every night for nearly the last 2 weeks, residents have
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Michigan school district lays off all its teachers
05-10-2013
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The Lookout
The Board of Education in Buena Vista, MI has declared a financial emergency. The school district lacks funds to pay teachers for the rest of the school year. Students have not attended classes in a week. The district laid off all teachers earlier th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference
05-10-2013
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ABC News (video)
When it became clear last fall that the CIA's now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups
05-10-2013
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AP
The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said. Organizations were singled out
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Rise of the Militarized Police (Video)
05-10-2013
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The Rutherford Institute
In conjunction with the upcoming release of his new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, John W. Whitehead sits down to discuss several "pressure points" that are threatening the Bill of Rights and undermining our essenti
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senator Joe Manchin Steps up his Campaign of Lies
05-10-2013
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Gun Owners of America
Within the past 48 hours, we have seen clear evidence that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and his staff have openly lied about the status of talks with two Republican Senators.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror? " Prof. Beau Grosscup
05-10-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror? " Prof. Beau Grosscup (Video Interview)
Next News Network interviews Prof. Beau Grosscup regarding the governments response to terror threats and terror attacks.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Currencies
Yen Falls Beyond 101 per Dollar on Bond Purchases; Franc Slides
05-10-2013
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www.businessweek.com, Lucy Meakin and Kevin Buckla
The yen weakened beyond 101 per dollar for the first time since April 2009 after a government report showed Japanese investors boosted holdings of overseas bonds, ending the longest streak of sales since January 2010.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Hubble finds dead stars "polluted" with planetary debris
05-10-2013
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http://www.spacetelescope.org,
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
House passes 'Pay China First' Act
05-10-2013
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http://rt.com
The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday that would require the government to begin paying back foreign nations before spending funds on domestic items.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US wants 9 permanent bases in Afghanistan after 2014 ISAF withdrawal
05-10-2013
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http://rt.com
Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed Thursday to wring concessions out of the United States in negotiations for a security pact for the country, as Washington wants to maintain nine military bases in Afghanistan after ISAF troops withdraw in 2014.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Academic Cesspools - by Walter E. Williams
05-09-2013
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Lew Rockwell
Because Klingenstein wouldn't help finance the college's diversity craze, Mills insinuated, in remarks to the student body, that Klingenstein is a racist. Mills also told students: "We must be willing to entertain diverse perspectives throughout our
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
12-Year-Old Boy Who Questioned Cop on Camera Posts Follow-Up Video
05-09-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
His name is Jeremy Drew and he looks like any shaggy haired kid his age but his message in his second video shows he is wise beyond his years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Gyft Opens Bitcoin Acceptance to 50,000 Merchant Locations
05-09-2013
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Through a partnership with Bitcoin payment processor BitPay Inc., Gyft now accepts bitcoins for its mobile gift card product. This extends the virtual currency's reach to more than 50,000 retail locations.
"The biggest issue with Bitcoin to date i
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News Link • Healthcare
Why Your Dog’s Knee Surgery Is So Much Cheaper than Yours
05-09-2013
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The only explanations I can come up with for why human knees cost so much more are (1) government regulations, (2) malpractice liability, and (3) the inefficiencies created by the third-party payment system. It looks like these three factors are doub
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News Link • Currencies
A Gold-Price Rule as a Middle-Ground Path to a Genuine Gold Standard
05-09-2013
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central banking and gold-based money are incompatible; in logic and history alike they don’t go together, at least not for long. “If you want the gold standard in durable form,” he writes, “you can’t have central banking,” and “if you want central ba
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
What Anarchists Should Learn From Chairman Mao
05-09-2013
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Dollar Vigilante
Beyond those frustrations lives an almost universal belief that one day an event, or a series of events, will occur setting into motion the elimination of government which will be replaced by a society based solely on voluntary connections.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
In the Fight for Freedom, Technology Gives Individuals an Edge Over Governments
05-09-2013
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Reason Magazine
.... this growing divergence between what we can do and what our rulers want us to do may be a portent of an accelerating technology-fueled cold civil war....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. citizens ditch passports in record numbers
05-09-2013
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CNN
Americans are ditching their U.S. passports in record numbers, a sign of growing frustration with a system that taxes U.S. citizens on their global wealth whether they live in Montana or Mongolia.
The latest bold-faced names to relinquish their U.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Kevyn Orr: Detroit Is In Worse Shape Than I Thought
05-09-2013
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CBS News
Detroit’s emergency manager says the city is bleeding much more red ink than originally thought. “The situation is severe,” Orr said. “It’s worse that we originally thought. It ain’t good.”
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Feds in NYC: Hackers stole $45M in ATM card breach
05-09-2013
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AP
A worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe and outmoded U.S. card technology may be partly to blame.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Sues JPMorgan Chase Over Credit Card Cases
05-09-2013
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New York Times
California’s top law enforcement official accused JPMorgan of flooding the state’s courts with questionable lawsuits to collect overdue credit card debt. JPMorgan “committed debt collection abuses against tens of thousands of California consumers.”
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News Link • Science
Dear Schools: Stop Treating Science-Curious Kids Like Criminals - 16 yr old Kiera Wilmot
05-07-2013
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popsci.com
On April 22, Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year-old public school student in Bartow, Florida did what any kid with an ounce of curiosity does: She performed an experiment. Like many acts of science, however, it didn’t go as planned.
Wilmot allegedly mixed a fe
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