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Date Sent: 2014-01-23
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
Bug In Chrome Browser Lets Websites Listen To You, After You Close Them -- Yuma Border Check Point
Americans Are One Step Away from Being Chinese Slaves -- Democracy needs Whistleblowers -- 01-23-14 -- Leon Weinstein - Adam Kokesh - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM,
M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Josh Brown Nails The Mutual Fund Industry With This
Hilarious Brochure Decoder -- John Stossel: Stop Subsidizing the Rich -- The IMF's
Meaningless Words -- The Influenza Deception -- Virgin Galactic sold space
tourism tickets it can't legally honor -- Meet The Fortress
Hotel That Separates The Davos Billionaires From The Peasants -- If we would all resist Tyranny, tyranny will fail!
AWESOME video! -- It Has Begun: The Line Drawn in the Sand -- Mexico
- The Right to Bear Arms -- Fed’s Dirty Little Secret: “The Gold
Isn’t There… Exists as Paper IOU’s” -- The Chart That Really
Scares The Government… -- Homemade Rockets Soar in Laos in 'The
Rocket' (Movie Trailer) -- CREDIT
SUISSE: The 3-D Printing Market Is Going To Be 357% Bigger Than We
Initially Thought -- Shinzo Abe Just Ended A Speech With A
Not-So-Veiled Message To China -- Someone
Just Said Something About The Japan-China Conflict That Scared The
Crap Out Of Everyone -- Here's A Map Of The Internet From 1969
-- Obama Maintains a State of National Emergency
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club Saturday Feb 1st, 2014,
8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall) with Patrick Wood speaking; Freedom Tech Workshop #1 - Saturday February 1st 2014;
Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
23-25, 2014, starts this Thursday
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News Link • Internet
There's A Bug In The Chrome Browser That Lets Websites Listen To You, Even After You Close Them
01-23-2014
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businessinsider.com
Google's Chrome Web browser offers voice control for touchless interface use, but a bug in this system makes it possible for websites to "eavesdrop" on you, reports Gizmodo.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Democracy needs Whistleblowers
01-23-2014
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arclein
A shout went up among the group of eight of us. One of us had stumbled on a document from FBI headquarters signed by Hoover himself. It instructed the bureau's agents to set up interviews of anti-war activists as "it will enhance the paranoia endem
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News Link • Archaeology
Second' Lascaux Cave?
01-23-2014
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arclein
There have long been rumours of another cave system hidden away in a separate underground cavern that contains another set of prehistoric paintings, but it appears local authorities are now ready to take them seriously after one local family shared a
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A New Method to Measure Consciousness Proposed
01-23-2014
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arclein
Leonardo Da Vinci, in his Treatise on Painting (Trattato della Pittura), advises painters to pay particular attention to the motions of the mind, moti mentali. “The movement which is depicted must be appropriate to the mental state of the figure,” he
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News Link • Agriculture
Elderberry Syrup and Elderberry Husbandry
01-23-2014
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arclein
The Organic Prepper calls elderberry extract “nature’s tamiflu” and she couldn’t be more correct in this statement. In her article, the Organic Prepper writes, “Scientists have isolated the active compound in the elderberry. It is called Antivirin an
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Carrie Fisher Confirms That She'll Be Princess Leia In The Next 'Star Wars' Movie
01-23-2014
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Business Insider
While Disney has yet to confirm it's bringing back the original "Star Wars" cast members for the next installment of the franchise, "Episode VII," that hasn't stopped a few of them from spilling the beans.
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News Link • Humor
Josh Brown Nails The Mutual Fund Industry With This Hilarious Brochure Decoder
01-23-2014
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Business Insider
For most finance novices, the language of mutual funds can be a mix of daunting, impressive, and suspicious.
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News Link • Economy - International
The IMF's Meaningless Words
01-23-2014
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thedailybell.com
IMF Raises Global Outlook as Advanced Nations Accelerate ... The International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for global growth this year as expansions in the U.S. and U.K. accelerate, and urged advanced economies .....
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News Link • Propaganda
The Influenza Deception
01-23-2014
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theorganicprepper
With the latest round of hysteria regarding the prevalence of the annual flu season and the “need” for the flu vaccine in full swing, one unaccustomed to reading the details of government statistics....
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iWatch concept we could see ourselves wearing and using
01-23-2014
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dvice.com
Smartwatches are a tough category to nail. If CES 2014 was any indicator, a flood of smartwatches and fitness bands will try to convince us this is the year wearables finally go mainstream.
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News Link • Government Waste
Meet The Fortress Hotel That Separates The Davos Billionaires From The Peasants
01-23-2014
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zerohedge.com
The theme of this year's Davos meeting where the world's wealthiest and most powerful people meet to enjoy each other's company, a fawning media, and of course the best food and entertainment that money can buy,..
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News Link • Books
Free for Kindle (at least today): Various gardening books (from 101 to advance)
01-23-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Gardening secrets-discover the secrets how to create quickly amazing organic garden-step by step guide with pics
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News Link • Activism
If we would all resist Tyranny, tyranny will fail! AWESOME video!
01-23-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Another entry in the info wars film contest! These guys have a great concept, and an even better execution! Please view on youtube, comment and share!
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mexico - The Right to Bear Arms
01-23-2014
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Daily Paul.com
A civil war is practically taking place in the Mexican state of Michoacan. It is illegal in Mexico for civilians to own weapons, but the people in Michoacan had had enough of the uncontrolled kidnappings, rapes and murders committed by organized crim
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed’s Dirty Little Secret: “The Gold Isn’t There… Exists as Paper IOU’s”
01-23-2014
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shtfplan.com
The assumption by global depositors who have entrusted their national savings with the Federal Reserve and US Government has always been that when they request to repatriate their holdings the ...
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Chart That Really Scares The Government…
01-23-2014
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Prison Planet
With a government intent on growing its entitlements, welfare state, and implicitly it’s debt load… what could be more terrifying than the future debt-serfs refusing to be born into existence.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Homemade Rockets Soar in Laos in 'The Rocket' (Movie Trailer)
01-23-2014
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space.com
A coming of age tale set in Laos, "The Rocket" follows a boy on a mission " he wants to build a rocket and enter it into a rocket competition.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Soft pneumatic exoskeleton could be perfect for use in rehab
01-23-2014
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gizmag.com
We've recently been hearing a lot about how exoskeletons can be used in rehabilitation, guiding patients' disabled limbs through a normal range of motion in order to develop muscle memory.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MIT researchers clarify things with new transparent display technology
01-23-2014
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gizmag.com
There are a number of approaches currently used to create transparent displays, such as transparent OLED and LCD displays or simple reflection, however, most are limited in terms of viewing angle.
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News Link • 3D Printing
CREDIT SUISSE: The 3-D Printing Market Is Going To Be 357% Bigger Than We Initially Thought
01-23-2014
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businessinsider.com
If you need more evidence that 3-D printing and additive manufacturing are viable business sectors, try this.
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Opinion • Inspiration
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Igniting the creative genius within you
01-23-2014
Frosty Wooldridge
Ideas fly around the universe waiting for someone to grab them and bring them to form. Your mind constitutes a “net” that captures ideas. You may remember that tiny, gold, winged ball in the Harry Potter books that flew around....
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News Link • China
Someone Just Said Something About The Japan-China Conflict That Scared The Crap Out Of Everyone
01-23-2014
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businessinsider.com
I went to one of those fancy private dinners last night in Davos, Switzerland.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Here's A Map Of The Internet From 1969
01-23-2014
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businessinsider.com
A lot of people in the tech world are passing around this image of what the Internet looked like in 1969.
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News Link • World News
Russia hacked hundreds of Western, Asian companies: security firm
01-22-2014
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Reuters
A US. cybersecurity firm says it gathered evidence the Russian government spied on hundreds of American, European and Asian companies, the first time Moscow has been linked to cyber attacks for economic - rather than political - gains.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan cracks down on advertising in favor of U.S. troops
01-22-2014
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Reuters
Afghanistan's government, increasingly at odds with Washington, is cracking down on advertisements that promote keeping US troops in the country after 2014 and has shut down a spot aired by the country's most widely watched broadcasters.
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Feature Article • Activism
Babes of Bitcoin
Agorist Alma
A financier, an agorist, a blogger and a vlogger on cryptocurrency's power to liberate finance, create alternative markets, improve consumer goods and usher in a stateless society.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Chicago archdiocese hid decades of child sex abuse
01-21-2014
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AP
Top leaders at the Archdiocese of Chicago helped hide the sexual abuse of children as they struggled to contain a growing crisis, that raise new questions about how Cardinal Francis George handled the allegations even after the church
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News Link • Corruption
Ex-Va. governor McDonnell: 'I did nothing illegal'
01-21-2014
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USA Today
Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell said Tuesday he did "nothing illegal" and vowed to fight the federal government's "false allegations" that he and his wife improperly accepted gifts and loans from a political donor.
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News Link • Corruption
In wake of protection scandal, Miami police chief says department cleaned house
01-21-2014
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Miami Herald
When Miami police brass first found out about officers protecting a sports-betting ring run out of a Liberty City barbershop, they had no idea how bad the resulting federal investigation would turn out. Eventually, a dozen officers were
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
More plaintffs, defendant officers, named in Milwaukee strip search lawsuit
01-21-2014
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Several people claiming they were victims of illegal body cavity and strip searches in Milwaukee have amended their federal civil rights lawsuit to name several additional police officers as defendants, including some involved in the Derek Williams c
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News Link • Drug War
Chicago bans indoor electronic cigarette smoking
01-21-2014
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Chicago Tribune
E-cigarettes will join regular smokes and other tobacco products as forbidden in most public places in Chicago after aldermen passed a measure backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to restrict where electronic cigarettes can be used and sold.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security special agents hold up a Google Glass moviegoer
01-21-2014
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ars technica
A patron of an AMC theater in Columbus, Ohio, was detained for wearing Google Glass while watching a movie. The Glass-wearer, who wishes to remain anonymous, was pulled out of the theater mid-Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and questioned
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Florida district attorney isn’t a fan of a free press, an informed public, or reading
01-21-2014
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by Radley Balko (Washington Post)
If this report on a speech Florida State Attorney Angela Corey gave at a luncheon last week is accurate, it paints an alarming picture of a public official who has the power to put people in prison"and in Florida, to send people to their deaths.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Exoneree Anthony Graves Asks the State Bar to Discipline the Man Who Prosecuted Him
01-21-2014
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Much has happened since we published “Why Was This Prosecutor Never Punished?” which questioned why Charles Sebesta"the ex-Burleson County DA responsible for sending Anthony Graves to death row"had never been disciplined
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Nearly Half of Black Men Arrested by Age 23, Study Finds
01-21-2014
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AP
Nearly 50 percent of black men and 40 percent of white men are arrested at least once on non-traffic-related crimes by the time they turn 23, according to a new study.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Florida High School Student Expelled After Disclosure Of Work In Porn Industry
01-21-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We have previously discussed the increasing discipline of both students and teachers for conduct outside of the schools. Now a significant free speech issue after a student was kicked out of his high school, Cocoa High School, for working
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Bottom Half And The Global Elite Like It That Way
01-21-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Did you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does? In other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do. This
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gerald Celente: 2014 Global Collapse and the Next War (Video)
01-21-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
With the coming of the new year, everyone wants to know what 2014 will hold for themselves and the world.
Futurists do their best to predict what events will come about over the next 12 months, as well as how current trends will affect, and be aff
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Deflation Menace
01-21-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Dedicated readers of The Wall Street Journal have recently been offered many dire warnings about a clear and present danger that is stalking the global economy. They are not referring to a possible looming stock or real estate bubble (which you can f
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News Link • Transportation
TSA Agent Actually Cares About Personal Liberties…When They Are HIS Liberties
01-21-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by BarracudaTrader
A TSA agent tells a man not to record him on camera because he is an “individual” with rights.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
"We kind of had to steal the Republican nomination" - Mitt Romney Documentary
01-21-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Allison Bricker
While, I realize some of you still place faith in voting in a system of rigged federal elections in hopes Rand will fare better than Ron, you may wish to digest Mitt Romney's admission in the forthcoming documentary "MITT"
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News Link • Technology: Software
The End of Ownership: Why You Need to Fight America’s Copyright Laws
01-21-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Kyle Wiens
Just the other day, I got a card in the mail for my 30th birthday. When I opened it up, the card started singing “Happy Birthday.” And that little thing " pealing out at the top of its automated lungs " made me laugh. What a strange thing to computer
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News Link • Bitcoin
Fed Banker Tries Criticizing Bitcoin, Ends Up Perfectly Describing The Fed
01-20-2014
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BitCoin Magazine
In an article for Fox News, senior economist Francois Velde of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago describes Bitcoin. “Although some of the enthusiasm for Bitcoin is driven by a distrust of state-issued currency, it is hard to imagine a world where t
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News Link • Syria
Cynical New PR Stunt Greases Skids For “Humanitarian” Invasion of Syria
01-21-2014
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Prison Planet
Dubious defector’s claims emerge after think tank called for “realpolitik” ploy
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Lies, NSA Spies, and the Sons of Liberty
01-21-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by John W. Whitehead
Will You Choose Dangerous Freedom or Peaceful Slavery?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What Did Our Wars Win?
01-21-2014
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original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchanan
“He ended one war and kept us out of any other,” is the tribute paid President Eisenhower.
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