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Date Sent: 2014-08-14
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, August 14, 2014 |
NSA eyed preset strikes in cyberattacks -- CIA MKULTRA: they intended to use drugs for "everything"
The U.S. Plans To Bail-In The Banks ? Federal Reserve Vice Chairman -- Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face from Space -- Snowden embraces the American flag -- Snowden: lies pushed me over the edge -- Secret programs to stay secret: Court sides with NSA in surveillance lawsuit -- Infowars Now Accepts Bitcoin -- Small-Town Praetorianism: Barry Township Rejects Victor Pierce's Authoritarian "Vision" -- The Public Records Circus within the Albuquerque Police Department (Part I) -- Making Murder "Reasonable": How the Ferguson PD Will Whitewash the Killing of Michael E. B -- Vatican's approval of Iraq strikes a rare exception to peace policy -- A Father Took His Kids To See Israel's Gaza Offensive After They Requested -- The Tyranny of the Nanny State, Where the Government Knows What's Best for You -- Paul
Craig Roberts: The De-industrialization of America -- Sovereign debt
for territory: A new global elite swap strategy -- Whistleblower:
Arizona inmates are dying from inadequate health care -- The Most Wanted Man in the World:
Edward Snowden in His Own Words
AZ: [Tempe] Premiere Party for ATLAS SHRUGGED lll: Who Is John Galt?
Sun Sept 14, 2014 1 p.m.
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News Link • Internet
Report: NSA eyed preset strikes in cyberattacks
08-13-2014
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Associated Press
The National Security Agency secretly planned a cyberwarfare program that could automatically fire back at cyberattacks from foreign countries without human involvement, creating the risk of accidentally starting a war, according to Edward Snowden.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA MKULTRA: they intended to use drugs for "everything"
08-13-2014
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Drugs to transform individuals?and even, by implication, society.
Drug research going far beyond the usual brief descriptions of MKULTRA.
The intention is there, in the record.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The U.S. Plans To Bail-In The Banks ? Federal Reserve Vice Chairman
08-13-2014
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"As part of this approach, the United States is preparing a proposal to require systemically important banks to issue bail-inable long-term debt that will enable insolvent banks to recapitalize themselves in resolution without calling on government f
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden: lies pushed me over the edge
08-13-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com
Washington (AFP) - Edward Snowden says dishonest comments to Congress by the US intelligence chief were the final straw that prompted him to flee the country and reveal a trove of national security documents.
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News Link • Surveillance
Secret programs to stay secret: Court sides with NSA in surveillance lawsuit
08-13-2014
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Russia Today
A federal judge in California sided mostly with the United States government this week in a decision handed down concerning classified documents pertaining to the National Security Agency's secret surveillance programs.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Infowars Now Accepts Bitcoin
08-13-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
The banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve has openly admitted Bitcoin threatens its fiat money creation system.
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News Link • Israel
Has the Hannibal Protocol run its course?
08-13-2014
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http://www.timesofisrael.com
Drafted in 1986 to prevent the abduction of soldiers, the order has come under intense scrutiny after being executed in full in Rafah.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Small-Town Praetorianism: Barry Township Rejects Victor Pierce's Authoritarian "Vision"
08-13-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Victor Pierce bears a resemblance to notorious death-cult leader Jim Jones, which is a tragic accident of nature.
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News Link • Government
The Public Records Circus within the Albuquerque Police Department (Part I)
08-13-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
When public agencies and officials, determined to deny records to the public in spite of the law's requirements, make fools of themselves.
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News Link • Police State
Show Me, Ferguson
08-13-2014
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http://blog.simplejustice.us
Missouri's nickname is the "Show Me" state, an ironic message to the police in Ferguson. Oh yes, they are showing who they are, in vivid combat colors.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Making Murder "Reasonable": How the Ferguson PD Will Whitewash the Killing of Michael E. B
08-13-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Edward Garner was unarmed when he was shot in the back of the head by Memphis Police Officer Elton Hymon. At the time, the short, slightly built teenager was scaling a fence attempting to flee. Hymon knew the suspect was unarmed,
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News Link • Iraq
Vatican's approval of Iraq strikes a rare exception to peace policy
08-13-2014
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breitbart.com
Fearing a genocide of Christians, the Vatican has given its approval to US military air strikes in Iraq -- a rare exception to its policy of peaceful conflict resolution.
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News Link • Israel
A Father Took His Kids To See Israel's Gaza Offensive After They Requested...
08-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
A Father Took His Kids To See Israel's Gaza Offensive After They Requested The New 'Call Of Duty'.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Use This Trick To See A Map Of Everywhere Google Knows You've Been
08-13-2014
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Business Insider
If you have a Gmail account or use any of Google's apps, there's a good chance Google has some of your location data stored in its systems.
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![[Tempe] Premiere Party for ATLAS SHRUGGED lll: Who Is John Galt? Sun Sept 14, 2014 1 p.m.](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/687/08/687-0813135603.jpg)
News Link • Events: Arizona
[Tempe] Premiere Party for ATLAS SHRUGGED lll: Who Is John Galt? Sun Sept 14, 2014 1 p.m.
08-13-2014
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
Harkins Arizona Mills Luxury 25 with IMAX to show Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? on opening weekend Sunday, September 14, 2014, 1:00 PM.
***** Free Movie and Prizes!!! *****
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News Link • Conspiracies
New Evidence of Massive Cover Up in the JFK Assassination
08-13-2014
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economicpolicyjournal.com
As someone who has over 31 years of digital imaging expertise, including years at the highest levels of the industry in Los Angeles, I know this documentary expertly explains to the layman how the Zapruder film was completely altered.
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
CONVERSION BARRELS FOR GLOCK PISTOLS
Chip Saunders
Not only can you have a 9mm conversion barrel for your .40 caliber Glock, but there is another caliber based on the .40 that easily can be converted for as well,…the .357SIG (not to be confused with the .357magnum).
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
To Provoke and Suppress: The Military Occupation of Ferguson, Missouri
08-12-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
The officer fired a second shot at the fleeing victims, hitting Brown, who fell to the ground with his hands in the air, pleading: "I don't have a gun ? stop shooting!" The assailant fired several more shots, killing the unarmed teenager outside an a
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News Link • Corruption
Track who's buying politicians with "Greenhouse" browser add-on
08-12-2014
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ars technica
Nicholas Rubin, a 16-year-old programmer from Seattle, created a browser add-on that makes it incredibly easy to see the influence of money in US politics. Rubin calls the add-on Greenhouse, and it does something so brilliantly simple
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Why the Lights of America are Dimming
08-12-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
You cannot create passion and talent. But you can destroy them. When people are punished for their virtues, such as the drive to excel and to work hard, then passion and talent become liabilities.
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News Link • Inventions
Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask
08-13-2014
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http://www.wired.com
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paul Craig Roberts: The De-industrialization of America
08-13-2014
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paulcraigroberts.org
American university graduates are employed, if they are employed, not as software engineers and managers but as waitresses and bartenders.
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News Link • New World Order
Sovereign debt for territory: A new global elite swap strategy
08-13-2014
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rt.com
Adrian Salbuchi, it all ties in with a global model for domination driven by a system of perpetual national debt which I have called "The Shylock Model".
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Whistleblower: Arizona inmates are dying from inadequate health care
08-13-2014
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http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-t
SAFFORD, Ariz. ? Regan Clarine found out she was pregnant just two days before she was sentenced to two and a half years behind bars for possessing a narcotic for sale. Giving birth to her baby daughter while she was incarcerated at the state prison
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Russell Brand: Robin Williams' divine madness will no longer disrupt the sadness of the world
08-13-2014
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theguardian.com
The manic energy of Williams could turn to destruction as easily as creativity. Is it melancholy to think that a world that he can't live in must be broken?
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Did "Big Pharma" play a role in Robin Williams death?
08-13-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Once again, another person being "treated for depression" does something horrific.
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News Link • Media: Internet
The Most Wanted Man in the World: Edward Snowden in His Own Words
08-13-2014
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http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/
Another concern for Snowden is what he calls NSA fatigue?the public becoming numb to disclosures of mass surveillance, just as it becomes inured to news of battle deaths during a war. ?One death is a tragedy, and a million is a statistic,? he says, m
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News Link • Iraq
The Complete History Of US Presidents Bombing Iraq Back Into The Stone Age
08-12-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
What else is there to add here, it is simple really: if need i) distraction from domestic scandal, ii) a ready source of emergency offshore oil or pushing US E&P companies to drill , or iii) a script for a Hollywood movie provisionally titled "Wag th
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News Link • Economy - International
Ukraine Currency Plunges To Record Low: US Taxpayer To The Rescue?
08-12-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
With all eyes firmly focused on Ukraine's borders and the bloodshed in the East as fighting rages, it appears few are paying attention to the ongoing collapse of the nation's currency.
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News Link • Iraq
US starts providing weapons to Kurdish forces in Iraq ? report
08-12-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
The US has reportedly started direct arms supplies to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq to help them battle the Islamic State militants.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Before the fear of war, fear of fracking in Ukraine
08-12-2014
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http://america.aljazeera.com
People in the embattled Donbass know the shale beneath their feet could be the real reason for conflict in their towns
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Who Needs Russia? Ukraine Will Destroy Itself With New Gas Tax
08-12-2014
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Ukraine doesn't need Russia to take it down-Kiev is doing fine destroying itself, most recently with a new tax code that doubles taxes for private gas producers and promises to irreparably cripple new investment in the energy sector
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News Link • Iraq
Obama Calls Iraq "Long Term Project"; US Bombs Its Own Weapons;...
08-12-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Obama Calls Iraq "Long Term Project"; US Bombs Its Own Weapons; "These People Are Coming Here" Says Senator Graham.
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News Link • World News
US Produces Evidence Rebels Shot Down MH17
08-12-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
At long last, the US produced evidence the rebels shot down MH17. Here is the damning proof.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
A warning on 'torture report' release
08-11-2014
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https://news.yahoo.com
An internal U.S. intelligence memo warns that the release of a Senate report on CIA interrogation techniques could inflame anti-U.S. passions in the Mideast, resulting in potentially violent street protests and threats to U.S. embassies and personnel
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News Link • Syria
Hillary Slams Obama for Not Arming Syrian Rebels Even More
08-11-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com
In her newly published interview with hawkish Jeffrey Goldberg, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sharply critical of President Obama's "failure" in Syria, saying that if he had only sent dramatically more weapons to the so-called "modera
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News Link • Pandemic
Why Ebola Isn't A 'Global Health Emergency'?At Least Not In The Way You Might Think
08-11-2014
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http://www.popsci.com
It's not going to cause massive worldwide epidemics
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Hollywood blacklists Cruz, Bardem over Gaza letter
08-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Having chosen to remain silent vis-?-vis Israel's massacre of Palestinians, Hollywood has moved one step further by blacklisting the stars who said in an open letter that Tel Aviv is committing genocide.
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News Link • Imperialism
US/UK/Israel 'Empire' same as Roman Empire: They Make a Desert and Call it Peace
08-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Let's examine connections between the empires of Rome and modern US/UK/Israel to discover possible solutions to restore republic from empire in our world of the present.
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News Link • Economy - International
Can the World Really Abandon the Dollar As A Reserve Currency?
08-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Throughout history there has always been a dominant currency. As each empire became the new financial capital of the world, their currency became the most prized and tended to circulate around the globe into even the fringe economies that they may ha
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News Link • Police State
Police Union Commissar: If You Resist, You Should Expect to Die
08-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
"We've heard a lot in the last number of weeks about what police officers can't do, and what police officers shouldn't do," groused Patrick Lynch, designated spokesliar for the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, New York's largest police union.
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News Link • History
James Brady: Collateral Damage
08-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Many observers, including author Roger Stone in his LRC podcast interview with Lew Rockwell today, believe that James Brady was the unfortunate collateral damage of the Bush-engineered assassination attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan.
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News Link • Books
The Rise and Decline of the State
08-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
With this post, I begin a review of the book by Martin Van Creveld: "The Rise and Decline of the State." Best to start with his opening statement in the Preface:
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
US Sanctions on Russia May Sink the Dollar
08-11-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
The US government's decision to apply more sanctions on Russia is a grave mistake and will only escalate an already tense situation, ultimately harming the US economy itself.
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News Link • Iraq
Washington Threatens The World ? Paul Craig Roberts
08-11-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
The consequence of Washington's reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil.
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