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Date Sent: 2014-09-09
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, September 9, 2014

President can order warrantless wiretaps of Americans at all times

5 Things Our Parents Did That Would Get Them Arrested Today -- When an Amateur Thug Turns Pro: The Corey Pegues Story -- Release of U.S. Senate CIA 'torture' report still on hold -- AT&T and Verizon say 10Mbps is too fast for "broadband," 4Mbps is enough -- No Protection: The Long Ordeal of Cyndi Steele -- DC Inspector General Blasts City Over Bogus Camera Tickets -- Offering "Plea Bargains" Is Actually a Horrible Government Practice -- How Much Has Federal Regulation Grown Since 1950? -- 8-Year-Old Girl Tased by Cops: State Attorney Claims It Was The Best Option -- Why Does the Government Need Guillotines? -- Neocon Mythmongering About WW1 -- Hitachi developing reactor that burns nuclear waste

AZ: [Tempe] Premiere Party for ATLAS SHRUGGED lll: Who Is John Galt? Sun Sept 14, 2014 1 p.m.

NY: Events Planned in NYC for the 13th Anniversary of 9/11

News Link • Surveillance
President can order warrantless wiretaps of Americans at all times
09-08-2014 • AFP
The Justice Dept released 2 heavily redacted memos detailing the George W. Bush administration's legal justification for monitoring the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
5 Things Our Parents Did That Would Get Them Arrested Today
09-08-2014 • .
Your parents probably have dozens of cute photos of you as a tyke sporting nothing but your birthday suit. It's not illegal to take snaps of your kiddies in the buff, but it could be treated as a crime. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
When an Amateur Thug Turns Pro: The Corey Pegues Story
09-08-2014 • by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
The retired NYPD Deputy Inspector, who once sported a "Thug Life" tattoo, recalled his early career as a street gangster and drug dealer. By his account, Pegues was a very successful crack dealer who at the age of 17 attempted to murder a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Release of U.S. Senate CIA 'torture' report still on hold
09-08-2014 • Reuters
The public release of a long-awaited U.S. Senate report detailing the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques could be held up for weeks as the Senate Intelligence Committee and Obama administration negotiate what material can be included in the Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Internet
AT&T and Verizon say 10Mbps is too fast for "broadband," 4Mbps is enough
09-08-2014 • ars technica
AT&T and Verizon have asked the Federal Communications Commission not to change its definition of broadband from 4Mbps to 10Mbps, saying many Internet users get by just fine at the lower speeds. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
No Protection: The Long Ordeal of Cyndi Steele
09-08-2014 • by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
In anticipation of Cyndi's refusal to collaborate, FBI agent Michael Sotka, who orchestrated the operation, paid Fairfax $500 and sent him to Oregon to make a phone call to Steele's home, thereby forging the "interstate nexus" used to justify Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
DC Inspector General Blasts City Over Bogus Camera Tickets
09-08-2014 • The Newspaper
The city's inspector general issued a report questioning the diligence of city officials and private vendors in ensuring that the 2,398,136 tickets issued in 2013 -- nearly four tickets per resident, worth $171,680,640 -- were valid. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Offering "Plea Bargains" Is Actually a Horrible Government Practice
09-08-2014 • .
"Plea bargains are extraordinarily common in the American legal system, accounting for roughly 90% of all criminal cases. Many countries, however, do not allow plea bargains, considering them unethical and immoral." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Government
How Much Has Federal Regulation Grown Since 1950?
09-08-2014 • .
235 volumes of federal regulation have been created. 18x the amount of regulation that existed in 1950. Mandates such as "Shall, Must, Prohibited" appear over 1,000,000 times throughout existing federal regulations. Read Full Story
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
8-Year-Old Girl Tased by Cops: State Attorney Claims It Was The Best Option
09-08-2014 • .
In October of 2013, four officers responded to a 911 call by a babysitter that an 8-year-old girl had a knife and was trying to cut herself. The family disputes the contention that the girl was cutting herself. According to the police report the disp Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Education: Private Religious Schools
Harvard Just Received Its Largest Donation Ever At $350 Million
09-08-2014 • Business Insider
Harvard University has received the largest donation in its history, the school announced on Monday: $350 million from the Morningside Foundation to the School of Public Health. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Man Fakes Beheading Video, Fools Global Media
09-08-2014 • http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Astounding story a reminder of how easily war propaganda can be staged Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Entertainment: Outdoor Recreation
The Amphibious Plane Camper Will Be Here In 18 Months
09-08-2014 • supercompressor.com, By Ethan Wolff-Mann
Growing up I assumed that by 2014 we would all be piloting our own private aircraft�"boats, cars, etc. It's a bummer that this hasn't happened�"and that I don't live in a house-plane�"but apparently a company in Delaware is keeping the dream alive Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Israel
Star of David?
09-08-2014 • arclein
This article is about the origins of Sat-kona [the Star of Goloka or Goloka-yantra], its transcendental significance, its historical use in Vedic and other ancient cultures, its use in Christianity and Islam, and its eventual adoption by the Jewish f Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Science
Butter Knife That Grates Cold Butter
09-08-2014 • arclein
Given that cutlery is something we use every day, you'd have thought the potential for its innovation might have been exhausted. Nonetheless, a number of projects have shown that it's still possible to innovate this most simple of tools. Recent exa Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Martial Law
Why Does the Government Need Guillotines?
09-08-2014 • http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com
When retired FBI agent, the now deceased Ted Gunderson, reportedly told a gathering of militia members that the federal government had set up 1,000 internment camps across the country, I had no trouble believing his statement because there is ample d Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Price Index Chart
09-08-2014 • http://www.coindesk.com
Bitcoin Price Index Chart. Read Full Story
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Kitco
09-08-2014 • http://www.kitco.com
24-hour Spot Chart. Read Full Story
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News Link • NeoCons
Neocon Mythmongering About WW1
09-08-2014 • http://www.lewrockwell.com
The success of neoconservative myth-mongering about World War One was brought home to me for the millionth time this weekend as I picked up our borough weekly The Elizabethtown Advocate. Read Full Story
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Duke Engines' incredibly compact, lightweight valveless axial engine
09-08-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com
New Zealand's Duke Engines has been busy developing and demonstrating excellent results with a bizarre axial engine prototype that completely does away with valves, while delivering excellent power and torque from an engine much smaller, lighter and Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hitachi developing reactor that burns nuclear waste
09-08-2014 • http://www.gizmag.com
The problem with nuclear waste is that it needs to be stored for many thousands of years before it's safe, which is a tricky commitment for even the most stable civilization. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Ecuador to target unhealthy diets with 'junk food tax'
09-06-2014 • channelnewsasia.com
Ecuador plans to impose a "junk food tax" on fast food restaurants, and will use the revenues to address the negative health effects on its citizens of diets laden with salt and fat. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Government
The Bureaucracy of Building a House
09-06-2014 • Lewrockwell.com
When I was a child, I got to see the house my grandfather built, by himself, in the 1950s, on a small plot of land, in a small rural town with dirt roads, for his wife and children. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Transportation
While Uber And Lyft Have At It, Gett Quietly Releases $10 Flat-Fee Rides In Manhattan
09-06-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com,
Uber and Lyft have been battling it out in New York City, with Uber's "Operation Slog" targeting Lyft drivers for recruitment and a brutal rivalry snowballing. But a less well-known car service app called Gett has sidestepped the rivalry with its own Read Full Story
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Christian Amulet Referencing The Last Supper Found In UK Library Vault
09-06-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com
A 1,500-year-old fragment of Greek papyrus with writing that refers to the biblical Last Supper and "manna from heaven" may be one of the oldest Christian amulets, say researchers. Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina Goes Full-Venezuela - Plans To Regulate Prices, Profits, & Production
09-06-2014 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Just weeks after defaulting (yet again) on its debt (whether technically or not), and shortly after raising the minimum wage by 31% (to $523 a month) amid runaway inflation, it appears Argentina has gone full-Venezuela. Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe Needs A New Source Of Oil And Gas, Fast
09-06-2014 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Claude Salhani
Summer is over and many Europeans may have to keep warm this coming winter by thinking about their summer holidays while wrapped in blankets, praying for a short winter or for the world to come to its senses. It both cases, they may well be disappoin Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What's The Point Of Hiding It Any Longer?
09-06-2014 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Compare and contrast. Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The American Bankers Association and the Quiet War on Students
09-06-2014 • http://www.thedailysheeple.com,Devon Douglas-Bower
College students and graduates around the nation are buried in debt and trying to succeed in an extremely difficult and competitive economic environment. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Military
Minneapolis City Council Demands Answers On 'Black Helicopter' Military Drills
09-06-2014 • Prison Planet
"Why didn't we know?" A member of the Minneapolis City Council is demanding answers after officials were kept in the dark over unannounced military exercises involving black helicopters that started residents of the twin cities last month. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Top Universities to Offer Courses on CryptoCurrency
09-06-2014 • thelibertybeat.com
Duke University and New York University have recently begun offering courses on cryptocurrencies. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
09-06-2014 • firstlook.org/theintercept
A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
CDC Autism Scandal: Tsunami of Anger is Brewing and About to Explode
09-06-2014 • healthimpactnews.com
As we have previously reported, CNN so far is the only mainstream media (MSM) outlet to report on the CDC whistleblower story regarding CDC senior vaccine scientist Dr. William Thompson,.... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Economy - International
On The Brink Of A Major Crisis: "This Will Be A Literal Collapse of the Entire Global ....
09-06-2014 • shtfplan.com
Discussions of the possible collapse of the U.S. dollar often center around how such an event will affect the domestic economy. But the dollar doesn't just operate inside of a bubble. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Foreign Policy
Arab Spring Today: Cronyism and Green Shoots
09-06-2014 • arclein
Back in the early 2000s, international institutions, like the International Monetary Fund, fell over themselves praising ?neoliberal? reform in nations like Tunisia and Egypt. It was nothing of the sort, of course. Instead, the elites were reassertin Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • Economy - International
Europe's Malaise: The New Normal?
09-06-2014 • arclein
Europe has been mired in an economic crisis for half a decade now. Germany is the economic engine of Europe, and it is expected that it will at some point pull Europe out of its crisis. There have been constant predictions that Europe may finally be Read Full Story
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order
09-06-2014 • arclein
Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan's young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relation Read Full Story
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News Link • Transportation
MORGAN STANLEY: We Could See The 'Largest Decline In Used Car Prices...
09-06-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com
MORGAN STANLEY: We Could See The 'Largest Decline In Used Car Prices In History' Read Full Story
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News Link • Afghanistan
New Study Confirms Staggering $1 Trillion Mineral Deposits In Afghanistan
09-06-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com
Despite being one of the poorest nations in the world, Afghanistan may be sitting on one of the richest troves of minerals in the world, valued at nearly $1 trillion, according to U.S. scientists. Read Full Story
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News Link • Military
The Pentagon Is Rethinking Investments In Future Technology
09-06-2014 • http://www.businessinsider.com
Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall will soon review the military services' budget proposals for fiscal year 2016. Most likely, he will challenge their funding choices. Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - International
Everything That's Wrong With Banking Summed Up In One Bonehead Advertisement
09-06-2014 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Simon Black
If you're looking around right now for a new bank account that pays a reasonable rate of return, ANZ bank has a hell of a deal for you: 0%! Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks Close At Record High On Worst Jobs Number Of 2014
09-06-2014 • http://www.zerohedge.com,
Worst jobs data of the year? BTFATH. For the 9th day in a row, S&P 2,000 was all that mattered. Read Full Story
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News Link • China
No one likes the Dalai Lama anymore
09-06-2014 • http://www.globalpost.com, Timothy McGrath
Here's why governments around the world are unfriending the Tibetan leader. Read Full Story
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Video on ISIS - "If We Did Less, There Would Be More Peace"
09-06-2014 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by Zak Carter
Ron Paul Video on ISIS - "If We Did Less, There Would Be More Peace" Read Full Story
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News Link • Police State
Philadelphia Police Seize Family Home Without Homeowners Being Charged
09-06-2014 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by Jao171
Did you know it is possible for the government (local, state, or federal) to take away your house or your car without you ever having committed a crime? Read Full Story
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Wow this guy lays out the truth on www.presstv.com....
09-06-2014 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by tog2476
Wow this guy lays out the truth on www.presstv.com, former Marine says what is really going on in Mideast Read Full Story
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News Link • Media: Internet
Why I refuse to watch ISIS beheading videos or view naked pics of Jennifer Lawrence
09-06-2014 • http://www.naturalnews.com, by Mike Adams
We all have to be careful not to let popular content pollute our minds with images we don't want residing in our psyche. Read Full Story
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Anti-Interventionism and Its Discontents
09-06-2014 • antiwar.com
The ISIS "crisis" and the War Party's pushback Read Full Story
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News Link • TERRORISM
Top CIA officer in Benghazi delayed response to terrorist attack, US security team members claim
09-06-2014 • foxnews.com
A U.S. security team in Benghazi was held back from immediately responding to the attack on the American diplomatic mission on orders of the top CIA officer there, three of those involved told Fox News' Bret Baier. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • NATO
NATO Pledges New Ukraine Military Aid, Debates New Bases
09-06-2014 • antiwar.com
Eastern Europe Bases Expected to Be Finalized Friday Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Ron Paul on 9/11: "I Believe That If We Ever Get The Full Truth, ....
09-06-2014 • Daily Paul.com
Background: Overwhelming evidence shows that 9/11 was foreseeable. Indeed, Al Qaeda crashing planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was itself foreseeable. And see this. Read Full Story
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News Link • Police State
Video: Man Stands Up For Constitution As Cop "Detains" Him For Sitting Outside His Own Hou
09-06-2014 • Prison Planet
"He'll probably leave now, because this is America" Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • New World Order
Hillary Clinton Praises Kissinger's Upcoming Book: World Order
09-06-2014 • Prison Planet
"Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state" Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

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