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Date Sent: 2014-11-26
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, November 26, 2014 |
Afghanistan: A Similar Pattern of Military Incompetence
Russia Changes Law to Allow Guns for Self Defense? -- Why I Stopped Spending My Time on Politics… And Why I Think You Should Too -- The Clock is Ticking in Switzerland -- Deutsche Bank's Modest Proposal To Central Banks: "Purchase The Gold Held By Private Households" -- A Veteran Teacher Turned Coach Shadows 2 Students for 2 days – a Sobering Lesson Learned -- 5 Things You Should Know About Fluoride Found in Your Drinking Water -- The Violence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Is Actually Good for Teens -- The Baffling and Beautiful Wormhole Between Branches of Math -- SpaceX Unveils Autonomous Drone Ship For Landing Reusable Rockets -- America's Laser Gun Goes To War -- Filling the Blanks in Snowden's 'Citizenfour' -- Rand Paul Is Wrong. Leave Iraq Alone! -- George Stephanopoulos Interviews Police Officer Darren Wilson -- Automakers Aim to Drive Away Car Computer Hackers
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan: A Similar Pattern of Military Incompetence
11-26-2014
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, Ivan Eland
As U.S. forces withdraw from parts of Afghanistan, the Taliban is making gains in several areas of the country.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
11-26-14 -- Boston T Party - Jerry Day (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Boston T Party (Author) comes in studio to talk about the agenda set forth by 'big gov't' at the outset of the constitution - and to talk about his new book, Modules for Manhood - Jerry Day (Video Producer) talks about EMF's, smart meters, and using
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News Link • Self-Defense
Russia Changes Law to Allow Guns for Self Defense?
11-26-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Dean Weingarten
In 2010, it was reported that the Russian Parliament was considering loosening the Russian law on self defense, to allow Russians who legally own firearms to carry them for the purposes of self defense.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Why I Stopped Spending My Time on Politics… And Why I Think You Should Too
11-26-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Rosenberg
Many of my friends vote; people I love and respect vote; but I've given it up. That horrifies many people, but--truth be faced--it bothers them mostly because it calls their choices into question.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Clock is Ticking in Switzerland
11-26-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Schiff
For most of my career in international investing, I had always placed a great deal of faith in Switzerland's financial markets.
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News Link • Economy - International
Deutsche Bank's Modest Proposal To Central Banks: "Purchase The Gold Held By Private Househ
11-26-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Tyler Durden
From the bank that a few days ago informed us that "People Are Talking About Helicopter Money And Debt Cancellation Being The End Game", comes the logical next step.
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News Link • History
The Quest for the Fountain of Youth
11-26-2014
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arclein
The search for eternal youth and a fountain of youth is a frequent fixture of various myths and legends from around the world. One of the earliest accounts of such a place comes from the 5th century BC, when the Greek historian Herodotus wrote of a f
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News Link • Food
Is Avocado the Perfect Food?
11-26-2014
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arclein
Before we decide whether avocado is a perfect food, we need to define what that means.
I wasn't able to find a formal definition of "perfect food." Perfect is a pretty lofty claim, though. I can only assume that a perfect food is one that coul
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Benefits of Magnesium
11-26-2014
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arclein
A number of studies have previously shown magnesium can benefit your blood pressure and help prevent sudden cardiac arrest, heart attack, and stroke. For example, one meta-analysis published earlier this year in the American Journal of Clinical Nut
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
A Veteran Teacher Turned Coach Shadows 2 Students for 2 days â€" a Sobering Lesson Learned
11-26-2014
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arclein
The following account comes from a veteran HS teacher who just became a Coach in her building. Because her experience is so vivid and sobering I have kept her identity anonymous. But nothing she describes is any different than my own experience in si
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robert klein
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News Link • Internet
The Startup That Lets You Communicate From Beyond the Grave
11-26-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Jon Mooallem
One way to imagine dying is like time travel, except instead of journeying into the future or seeing Ancient Rome, you go to eternity, see nothing, and never come back.
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News Link • Inventions
A Tea Kettle Alternative That's Cooler, Cleaner, and More Eco-Friendly
11-26-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Margaret Rhodes
In a 2013 TED talk, design consultant Leyla Acaroglu shared an odd statistic with the crowd: In the United Kingdom, 65 percent of tea drinkers overfill their kettles and boil more water than is needed for a cup of tea.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Violence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Is Actually Good for Teens
11-26-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Devon Maloney
If, as an adult, you saw The Hunger Games: Mockingjay--Part 1 last weekend, you might have been a little disturbed.
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News Link • General Opinion
The Baffling and Beautiful Wormhole Between Branches of Math
11-26-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Lee Simmons
Math geeks extol its beauty, even finding in it hints of a mysteÂrious connectedÂness in the universe. It's on tank tops and coffee mugs. Aliens, apparently, carve it into crop circles (in 8-bit binary code). It's appeared on The Simpsons. Twic
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Filling the Blanks in Snowden's 'Citizenfour'
11-26-2014
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http://consortiumnews.com, By James DiEugenio
To grasp the full story of Citizenfour, the documentary on Edward Snowden's decision to expose NSA spying, you must go back four decades to see how the reality slowly dawned on Americans that their privacy and freedoms were at risk, writes James Di
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News Link • Iraq
Rand Paul Is Wrong. Leave Iraq Alone!
11-26-2014
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
Still opposing the Iraq War in 2003, Senator Rand Paul now wants Congress to declare war against the Islamic State and engage in military action in Iraq. He says that "national security" is at stake.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Exclusive: George Stephanopoulos Interviews Police Officer Darren Wilson
11-26-2014
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http://abcnews.go.com, By MEGHAN KENEALLY
In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, police officer Darren Wilson breaks his silence about the shooting of Michael Brown.
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News Link • World News
Catalonian President Faces Prosecution For Staging Referendum On Independence
11-24-2014
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http://jonathanturley.org
President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas i Gavarró, his deputy, and his education minister face prosecution by the Spanish Government for alleged civil disobedience, abuse of power, usurpation of duties, and embezzlement of public funds
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News Link • World News
Journalists In Turkey Sentenced To Prison For Reporting Corruption In Government
11-24-2014
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http://jonathanturley.org
In another example of the diminishing freedom of the press in Turkey, Yurt newspaper reporter Meriç ?enyüz and Ulusal Kanal reporter Özer Sürmeli received sentences of six and five months respectively for their reporting of a December seventeent
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News Link • Economy - International
Guest Post: Why Monetizing Debt Could End In Revolutions
11-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Much has been made of the decision by the Japanese government to inject another $700 billion into their ailing economy. While some may see this as an earnest attempt to save Japan from further stagnation and deflation, even some of the mainstream med
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student Debt By Major: What Not To Study To Avoid A Lifetime Of Debt Slavery
11-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
As recently reported by the Project On Student Debt, 7 in 10 seniors who graduated from public and nonprofit colleges in 2013 had student loans, with an average debt load of $28,400 per borrower. This represents a two percent increase from the averag
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Why I'm Glad to See Lower Gold Prices
11-24-2014
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http://charlesgoyette.com
It's probably Milton Friedman's most famous saying: "Put government in charge of the Sahara desert and in five years you'll have a shortage of sand."
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Labeling is an Essential Element in Achieving Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods
11-24-2014
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Farm Wars
From importation and labeling to acceptance and cultivation, leading to increased contamination and subsequent threshold increases. That is the way it is being played out in the UK.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Free Trade
NAFTA, CAFTA & SHAFTA
11-24-2014
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Farm Wars
The TTIP, or as it should be termed, the "eat, breathe and drink our poison or we will sue for loss of profits" deal.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Military
Robot troopers: America's future military force
04-08-2011
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Terrence Aym (From 2011)
The United States military has seen the future of warfare and that future is filled with robots. The growth curve of bots swelling the ranks of military ranks is nothing short of astonishing. From a few dozen autonomous robot aircraft ten years ago,
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News Link • Motivation
From the gridiron field to the potato farm: NFL player quits to take up farming
11-24-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Joseph.Ngo
At one point number 60, Jason Brown, was one of the best centers in the NFL. At one point he had a five-year, $37 million contract with the St. Louis Rams. And at one point he decided it was all meaningless - and just walked away from football.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Not Just Our Crumbling Economy: "Something's Happening to America No Amount of Money Can Fi
11-24-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Michael Snyder
10 Examples Of The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like Cancer
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News Link • Activism
Police and Protesters Clashing in Ferguson
11-24-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
Supporters of Michael Brown and police officers in riot gear clashed on Wednesday and Thursday night as Ferguson awaits a decision from the grand jury.
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News Link • Activism
Protests Continue in Hong Kong
11-24-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
Protesters with the Occupy Central movement have been occupying major roads in Hong Kong for eight weeks now despite an apparent drop in support.
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News Link • Activism
International Protests Mark the Kidnapping of 43 Mexican Students
11-24-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
On Thursday thousands of demonstrators across Mexico and the United States participated in strikes and protests to raise awareness on the kidnapping of 43 students from Iguala, in the southern state of Guerrero.
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News Link • Immigration
TGIF: Unjust Immigration Law Is Not Law
11-24-2014
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http://fff.org, by Sheldon Richman
So President Obama is going to defer deportation of five million people without government papers, mostly parents of children whom the government deems citizens or legal permanent residents.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
In Great Britain, Protecting Pedophile Politicians is a Matter of "National Security"
11-24-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Krieger
I've long written about how the percentage of sociopaths within a group of humans becomes increasingly concentrated the higher you climb within the positions of power in a society, with it being most chronic amongst those who crave political power
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Hagel Submits Resignation as Defense Chief Under Pressure
11-24-2014
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New York Times
Mr. Hagel, a Republican and a combat veteran who was skeptical about the Iraq War, came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestrations.
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News Link • China
China Is Getting Ready To Cut Interest Rates Again
11-24-2014
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http://static1.businessinsider.com
China's leadership and central bank are ready to cut interest rates again and also loosen lending restrictions, concerned that falling prices could trigger a surge in debt defaults, business failures and job losses, said sources involved in policy-ma
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Federal Reserve Embezzles $4 Billion from the U.S. Government--Daily - by Olde Reb
11-24-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
A popular concept is the government will "borrow" from the Federal Reserve for deficit spending. This involves giving a Treasury security (bill, bond, or note) to the Fed as collateral and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will credit
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Hip Hop Artist Facing Life in Prison for Rap Album
11-24-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
California rapper, Tiny Doo, otherwise known as Brandon Duncan, may beat the rap. But he won't beat the ride. Especially considering he is currently incarcerated in a Southern California jail facing life in prison on
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News Link • WAR: About that War
When Is a "Base Camp" Neither a Base Nor a Camp?
11-24-2014
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Nick Turse looks at the US military in Chad. Yep, I said "in Chad." 99% of Americans are undoubtedly unfamiliar with that landlocked African country and the remaining 1% have no idea the US military is deeply involved in Chad.
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Fraud?
11-24-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Since the Great Recession officially started in December of 2007, millions of people have lost their homes to foreclosures. It turns out that many of those foreclosures may have been fraudulent or in violation of foreclosure laws.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Highly advanced backdoor trojan cased high-profile targets for years
11-24-2014
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ars technica
Researchers have unearthed highly advanced malware they believe was developed by a wealthy nation-state to spy on a wide range of international targets in diverse industries, including hospitality, energy, airline, and research.
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