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Date Sent: 2014-05-13
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, May 13, 2014 |
400 US Mercenaries in Ukraine to Fight Protesters
Russia targets space projects in response to U.S. high-tech sanctions -- Asteroids Whack Earth More Often Than Thought -- Navy’s New Railgun Can Hurl a Shell Over 5,000 MPH -- What Happens When a Country Takes its Livestock Off Antibiotics? -- Underwater archaeologist thinks he's discovered Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria -- Ukraine’s Strategy to Disrupt Vote: Open Fire on Crowds -- US military begins research into moral, ethical robots, to stave off Skynet-like apocalypse -- Public Hysteria Over Boko Haram May Be Counterproductive -- 05-13-14 -- Chris Duane - Ademo Freeman - (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Democracy Landslide in Eastern Ukraine -- Bashing Real Democracy
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russia targets space projects in response to U.S. high-tech sanctions
05-13-2014
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Reuters
Russia will bar the US from using Russian-made rocket engines for military satellite launches, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said retaliating for sanctions on high-tech equipment which Washington has imposed
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News Link • Science
Asteroids Whack Earth More Often Than Thought
05-13-2014
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arclein
an asteroid large enough to destroy a city is likely to occur about once every century or so," Ed Lu, a former NASA astronaut who now oversees the asteroid-hunting B612 Foundation, told reporters on a conference call.
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News Link • Science
Navy’s New Railgun Can Hurl a Shell Over 5,000 MPH
05-13-2014
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arclein
Its latest weapon is an electromagnetic railgun launcher. It uses a form of electromagnetic energy known as the Lorentz force to hurl a 23-pound projectile at speeds exceeding Mach 7. Engineers already have tested this futuristic weapon on land, and
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News Link • Agriculture
What Happens When a Country Takes its Livestock Off Antibiotics?
05-13-2014
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arclein
Antibiotic overuse and inappropriate use " such as taking antibiotics to treat viral infections " bears a heavy responsibility for creating the antibiotic-resistant superbug crisis we are facing today.
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News Link • Food
Arclein Diet Four Years of Success
05-13-2014
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arclein
I do have a standard to compare with. After basic training, my weight was also 185 +/- 5 but included twenty pounds of muscles on my upper body and legs with a thirty inch waist. Thus loss of my belly fat is likely to take me down to 165 +/- 5 poun
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News Link • History
Underwater archaeologist thinks he's discovered Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria
05-13-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus abandoned his Santa Maria on a Caribbean reef, an underwater archaeologist believes he may have discovered the ship's remains off Haiti's north coast.
“All the geographical, underwater topography and
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News Link • Drones
US military begins research into moral, ethical robots, to stave off Skynet-like apocalypse
05-13-2014
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www.extremetech.com
Yes, the US DoD is trying to get out in front of Skynet before it takes over the world. How very sensible.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
05-13-14 -- Chris Duane - Ademo Freeman - (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Chris Duane (Don't Tread On Me; SilverShield) on precious metals, Bitcoin, and predictions for the future - Ademo Freeman (CopBlock.Org) provides us an update on his wiretapping retrial (despite already having served his sentence)
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News Link • Police State
Call the Cops at Your Peril
05-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
“Live free or die” is the motto of the state of New Hampshire.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Gun Control in Nazi Germany
05-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,
Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State” by Stephen P. Halbrook, Independent Institute, 2014, 364 pp.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
DOJ seeks new authority to hack and search remote computers
05-11-2014
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http://www.computerworld.com, By Grant Gross
The agency asks that judges be allowed to issue warrants to search computers outside their judicial districts
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Another View -- Scott McPherson: Libya lessons go beyond Benghazi
05-11-2014
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http://www.unionleader.com, SCOTT McPHERSON
ON MAY 6, the U.S. House of Representatives formed a select committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, which ended in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
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News Link • Israel
‘An Israeli spy hid in Al Gore’s hotel room’
05-11-2014
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http://www.timesofisrael.com, Staff
Newsweek: A chance restroom moment 16 years ago revealed surprise visitor; claim follows magazine’s reports on Israel’s ‘shocking’ spy activities
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News Link • Syria
U.S. missiles sent to Syrian rebels as test
05-11-2014
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http://www.thetimesherald.com, by Jim Michaels
American-made anti-tank missiles are surfacing in Syria as part of a "pilot program" to boost rebel groups but make sure the powerful weapons do not fall into the wrong hands.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Israel’s Aggressive Spying in the U.S. Mostly Hushed Up
05-11-2014
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http://www.newsweek.com, By Jeff Stein
When White House national security advisor Susan Rice’s security detail cleared her Jerusalem hotel suite for bugs and intruders Tuesday night, they might’ve had in mind a surprise visitor to Vice President Al Gore’s room 16 years ago this week: a sp
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Texas man arrested for suspected premarital sex with 16-year-old wife
05-11-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, By Amanda Orr
The marriage may be legal but the suspected premarital sex was not, authorities said on Saturday after arresting a 41-year-old Houston-area drama teacher for the alleged sexual assault of a child, his 16-year-old wife.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama administration to spend $20 BILLION on helicopter program...
05-11-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By David Martosko
The Department of Defense awarded a contract on Wednesday to a Connecticut company that will build a fleet of helicopters to replace the Marine One fleet that ferries U.S. presidents short distances.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Morocco building wall at Spain's Melilla border: NGO
05-11-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, AFP
Rabat (AFP) - Morocco has begun construction of a blade-topped wall near Spain's north African territory of Melilla in an effort to dissuade would-be migrants from crossing into Europe, local activists said on Saturday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Misinformation
The Stats Are Lies From the Ministry of Truth
05-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Dr. Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions and memory of the stock and futures markets around the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Walter Jones Repels a War Party Attack
05-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
The GOP Beltway establishment is celebrating the victory of Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House, over his Tea Party and Evangelical rivals in Tuesday’s primary for the U.S. Senate.
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News Link • World News
Ukraine President Decries Eastern Sovereignty
05-11-2014
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and IVAN SEKRETAREV
As two of the most tense regions in eastern Ukraine prepare to vote on declaring sovereignty, the country's acting president is warning them against self-destruction.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
2 Yemenis Shot by Americans Are Linked to Qaeda Cell
05-11-2014
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nytimes.com, By SHUAIB ALMOSAWA and ERIC SCHMITT
The kidnappers pulled up in a pickup truck outside the Taj barbershop in an upscale neighborhood here in the Yemeni capital. One held an AK-47 assault rifle and the other carried a stun gun. As the men went inside, nearby shopkeepers heard shots.
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News Link • China
Chinese going for broke on thorium nuclear power, and good luck to them
05-10-2014
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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The nuclear race is on. China is upping the ante dramatically on thorium nuclear energy. Scientists in Shanghai have been told to accelerate plans (sorry for the pun) to build the first fully-functioning thorium reactor within ten years, instead of 2
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News Link • Drones
Obama Federal Appeals Court Nominee Made Case In Favor of Killing Americans With Drone Strikes
05-8-2014
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usbacklash.org
Obama’s nominee for a federal appeals court, David Barron, wrote memos in favor of a legal foundation for a large-scale killing program, which included killing American citizens, including a 16-year old boy, with drone strikes.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Intelligence Policy Bans Citation of Leaked Material
05-10-2014
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New York Times
Policy for the Office of Director of National Intelligence says the agency’s current and former employees and contractors may not cite news reports based on leaks in their speeches, opinion articles, books, term papers or other unofficial writings.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Boy punished at school for refusing to stand for Pledge of Allegiance
05-10-2014
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Mason Michalec says he loves his country but just not the government.
“I’m really tired of our government taking advantage of us,” said Michalec. “I don’t agree with the NSA spying on us. And I don’t agree with any of those Internet laws.”
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tennessee Deputies Arrested Student for Video Recording on Night Choking Photos went Viral
05-10-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
But while Messner’s photos and the accompanying story ended up going viral, not much attention was paid to University of Tennessee student Jacob Shelton who was arrested for video recording the aggressiveness of deputies that night.
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News Link • World News
Ukraine Military Attacks Anti-Coup Civilians, US Silent
05-10-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
As most in the former USSR celebrated the 69th Victory Day over Nazi Germany today, the US-backed government in Kiev (which took power after the February coup) decided to launch one of its bloodiest military operations thus far, this time against
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News Link • Internet
Censorship in Amerika
05-10-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Jeff Berwick has a post regarding YouTube and Statebook Facebook banning Adam Kokesh’s pages and Josie the Outlaw’s as well. I believe that everything is back up except for Adam Kokesh’s CIAbook Facebook page. Berwick suggests having a free
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon Contracts Lifted in April by $17.8 Billion Sub Award
05-8-2014
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Jonathan D. Salant, Bloomberg
A $17.8 billion submarine contract, the biggest weapons deal announced by the U.S. military in more than a dozen years, kept Pentagon awards from sinking last month. The contract to General Dynamics & Ingalls had been stuck in limbo during Congress’s
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News Link • Internet
Et Tu, YouTube?
05-10-2014
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Simple Justice
The video was evidence used in the case before Justice Hart, and this piece of evidence in a New York courtroom was uploaded to YouTube, and embedded in my post. As of yesterday, poof, it was gone. No notice. No letter. No email. No, questions aske
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Propaganda Photo, Revised and Corrected
05-10-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Michelle Obama spared a moment between lavish tax-victim-funded vacations and celebrity outings to join this year’s version of the Kony campaign, which seeks military action in Nigeria to liberate 276 Christian schoolgirls abducted by Muslim militant
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Florida Police Kill Wrong Man In Search of A Suspect Accused Of Attempted Murder
05-10-2014
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Jonathan Turley
The shooting of Andrew Lee Scott, 26, an entirely innocent man who was killed by Florida police after they went to the wrong home to arrest an attempted murder suspect, did not announce they were officers, pounded on a door at 1:30 am and then
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News Link • Drug War
Federal agents target synthetic drugs, sellers
05-10-2014
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AP
The Drug Enforcement Administration is trying to stay one step ahead of synthetic drug makers, wholesalers and retailers as it broadens its crackdown on the growing black market product.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Michigan Cops Attack Mentally Ill Man in Disturbing Dash Cam Video
05-10-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A disturbing dash cam video shows a group of Michigan police officers pouncing on a mentally ill man who was doing nothing more than standing on a residential street trying to fix his bicycle chain. The first Dearborn cop pulls up, steps out of the c
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New York Cops Caught on Surveillance Video Beating Man for Recording Traffic Stop
05-10-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Last January, Kyle Howell was pulled over by Nassau County police in New York and pulled out his phone to record the stop, only to get threatened with violence if he dared do it again. Last month, he was pulled over again by the same officer, boldly
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