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Date Sent: 2013-07-19
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, July 19, 2013 |
Ex-CIA operative convicted in Italy of kidnapping Muslim cleric is detained
Chemicals found in Syria were from Saudi Arabia -- Feds seize gold coins worth $80 million from Pennsylvania family -- Will people's trust in government be restored? -- Detroit Files For Bankruptcy -- Lobbying Effort Keeps Flawed Drone Flying -- The U.S. Government Will Borrow Close To 4 Trillion Dollars This Year -- Second Dutch Bank To Follow ABN Amro, Close Gold Accounts -- Former GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell told her tax records were breached -- Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation Event in US History -- Who Supports This Administration? -- Attorney For Freedom Show Zimmerman-Martin --
State officials balk at defending laws they deem unconstitutional --
WORLD PREMIERE: “STATE OF MIND: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTROL” w/ RoundTable
Discussion HD -- A 24-Year-Old Is Creating an Operating System for Google Glass That Google Can't Control -- Iran is no threat: Our Middle East 'allies' are -- US Government-Funded News Comes Home -- New Self-Aiming Rifle Would Outshoot Human Snipers
AZ: VPA Mesquite Harvesting Class Now FREE! this Sat morning
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-CIA operative convicted in Italy of kidnapping Muslim cleric is detained
07-18-2013
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Washington Post
A former CIA operative who was convicted by an Italian court of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003 has been detained by authorities in Panama, raising the prospect that he could be extradited, according to Italian news reports.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Chemicals found in Syria were from Saudi Arabia
07-18-2013
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Chemical materials found by the Syrian army in a storage building used by anti-government insurgents in Jobar were “Made in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia”. Al-Alam reporter said there were packs of poisonous materials and deadly chemicals in the storag
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Feds seize gold coins worth $80 million from Pennsylvania family
07-18-2013
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Russia Today
A federal judge has upheld a verdict that strips a Pennsylvania family of their grandfather’s gold coins " worth an estimated $80 million " and has ordered ownership transferred to the US government.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Will people's trust in government be restored?
07-18-2013
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by Wendy McElroy
This question assumes the revelations of late about govt. malfeasance has destroyed trust in govt. I doubt it. Do not confuse mistrust of a current govt. as mistrust of all govt., i.e., mistrust of the concept of govt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit Files For Bankruptcy
07-18-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
As is often the case, Matthew Yglesias offers up an unsophisticated and lifeless assessment of the issue in about 190 dull-as-dishwater words. Ho hum. But he made it into the “firsters” club.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drones
Lobbying Effort Keeps Flawed Drone Flying
07-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
WASHINGTON " Despite budget sequesters, weekly furloughs of civilian Defense Department employees, and the prospect of budget-imposed reductions in the number of active-duty and reserve personnel, the Pentagon has still found money to fund the underp
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The U.S. Government Will Borrow Close To 4 Trillion Dollars This Year
07-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
When you add maturing debt to the new debt that the federal government is accumulating, the total is quite eye catching. You see, the truth is that the U.S. government must not only borrow enough money to fund government spending for this year, it m
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Precious Metals
Second Dutch Bank To Follow ABN Amro, Close Gold Accounts
07-18-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Rabobank has just followed in the footsteps of ABN Amro which effectively defaulted by halting deliveries of gold bullion in April, as the Dutch bank will close customers’ gold accounts effective September 1st!
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics
Former GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell told her tax records were breached Errant lien on ho
07-13-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
More than two years after her upstart Senate campaign rocked the Delaware political world, Christine O’Donnell got an unexpected contact from a U.S. Treasury Department agent warning that her private tax records may have been breached.
The phone m
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Politics
Who Supports This Administration?
7/18/2013
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Bradlee Dean
It has been proven over and over again that Obama has very little support yet the media keep telling us that he is supported by everyone. The media have been lying to us.
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Kevin Banet
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show Zimmerman-Martin
07-18-2013
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Mike Wasdin
Mike Wasdin and Shelton 4409 debate the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case. Was it murder or self-defense?
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Government
State officials balk at defending laws they deem unconstitutional
07-18-2013
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Washington Post
Once state legislation is passed, it’s usually up to the governor and attorney general to see that the law is implemented. But in a number of high-profile cases around the country, top state officials are balking at defending laws on
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Isabelle Brosnahan from Sedona Arizona takes home the Mono Wheel Bronze Medal for team USA.
07-18-2013
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https://www.facebook.com/wheel2013
This event, which was held for the first time outside of Europe, took place July 8th-14th, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois on the campuses of North Park University and North Eastern Illinois University.
150 athletes from over 25 nations participated. Com
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • History
WORLD PREMIERE: “STATE OF MIND: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTROL” w/ RoundTable Discussion HD
07-18-2013
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TragedyandHope.com
State of Mind is a Co-Production of Free Mind Films & Tragedy and Hope, distributed by InfoWars.com. Thank you for Tuning-In (and not Dropping-Out)!
State Of Mind: The Psychology Of Control, from the creators of A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995...
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Cody Hall
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News Link • Technology: Software
A 24-Year-Old Is Creating an Operating System for Google Glass That Google Can't Control
07-18-2013
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slate.com
Hackers have already started to make Google Glass do a whole bunch of things that Google has forbidden the device to do. And thanks to a 24-year-old named Stephen Balaban, they may soon be able control the device even more.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran is no threat: Our Middle East 'allies' are
07-18-2013
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communities.washingtontimes.com
Contrary to dominant thinking in Washington, Iran poses no immediate threat to the U.S. In fact, our Middle Eastern allies, eager to have America do their fighting for them, wildly inflate the supposed threat from Iran.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
US Government-Funded News Comes Home
07-18-2013
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antiwar.com
Following the amendment of a long-standing US law, people in this country will now be exposed to news which is produced by the US government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Report: Michael Hastings’ Body Cremated Against Family’s Wishes
07-17-2013
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InfoWars
Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings’ body was cremated against his family’s wishes, destroying potential evidence that could have contradicted the explanation that he died as a result of an accident, according to a San Diego 6 reporter
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tucson cop arrested, fired for pulling gun on gas station clerk
07-17-2013
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CopBlock
This time he is accused of pulling a gun on a gas station clerk, and it’s all caught on camera. Kyle McCartin, a Tucson cop charged with two counts of aggravated assault, was released to pretrial services Tuesday night.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FBI Raid On Deric Lostutter, AKA KYAnonymous, Was In Connection With Steubenville Hack
07-17-2013
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Huffington Post
He noticed what appeared to be a FedEx truck in his driveway. "As I open the door to great [sic] the driver approximately 12 F.B.I. Swat Team agents jumped out of the truck screaming for me to 'Get The F**k Down' with m-16 assault rifles and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
The Blunt Truth about The Trayvon Martin Case
07-17-2013
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youtube
Let's take a step back from this Jerry Springer circus side show and put the Trayvon Martin Case into perspective.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • American History
Why Can’t We Party Like It’s 1905?
07-17-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
When writing historical things, I try to include perspective from people who actually lived through the events. And for money issues in the US, I’m able to do that back to about 1905.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Michael Hastings Wreck"Video Evidence Only Deepens The Mystery
07-17-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Michael Krikorian, an essayist and former Los Angeles Times crime reporter, happened upon the scene a few hours after journalist Michael Hastings’s speeding car slammed into a palm tree and burst into a fireball.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Surveillance
Whatever Happened to MoveOn.Org? Progressives and NSA Spying
07-17-2013
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truth-out.org
Ever since the Edward Snowden story about the NSA spying program erupted, there has been a disturbingly eerie silence from progressives.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Driving somewhere? There's a gov't record of that
07-17-2013
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news.yahoo.com
Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Gov't Bureau 'Creating a Google Earth on Every Financial Transaction,' Senator Warns
07-17-2013
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cnsnews.com
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking to create a "Google Earth" of every financial transaction of every American, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) warned today in a Senate speech opposing confirmation of Richard Cordray as CFPB director.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Air Force drone crashes and explodes in Florida, shutting down highway (VIDEO)
07-17-2013
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RT.com
A United States military drone presumed to be a QF-4 crashed, exploded and sent up a large black cloud of smoke Wednesday morning at Tyndall Air Force Base.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Hilsenrath: What Bernanke Means
07-17-2013
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blogs.wsj.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke highlights risks to the Fed’s economic outlook in his prepared testimony to Congress Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Russia in largest war games since Soviet era
07-17-2013
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edition.cnn.com
Russia is in the midst of its biggest war games since Soviet times, with 160,000 troops, 130 planes, 70 ships and thousands of tanks and armored vehicles participating in the country's Far East, according to media reports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Geology
Gold on Earth formed in collision of exotic stars
07-17-2013
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http://www.usatoday.com, Dan Vergano
There's gold in them thar neutron stars! That's right, astronomers claim Earth's gold, the stuff of wedding bands and pricey speaker wires, originated in cataclysmic collisions of exotic stars.
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News Link • Surveillance
License Plate Readers Track You for Profit
07-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
As license plate readers proliferate, law enforcement and private business are pooling surveillance data in light of conflicting guidelines on how long they may retain the data, which often is marketed for profit, according to a report by the America
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News Link • Food
VPA Mesquite Harvest Class Now FREE!
07-17-2013
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Valley Permaculture Alliance
This was a $15 class until I got the word this morning it was being opened up for free. Carob and Mesquite pods have been ground into flour and used for food for a long time, and now you can learn all about this free food source this Saturday.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republicans Try to Exclude Real Competition on Ballot!
07-17-2013
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Channel 8, Horizon
Barry Hess, of the Protect Your Right to Vote Committee, and Vice-Chair, of the Arizona Libertarian Party, debates the Republican Comm. Dir. over HB2305. We're challenging the "Republican Cry-Baby" Bill--the most extensive overhaul of Arizona's elect
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Barry Hess
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