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Date Sent: 2015-01-20
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, January 20, 2015 |
The Real Reason George 'CIA' Bush Invaded Panama in 1989
Israel to demand apology for 'anti-Semitic' Netanyahu cartoon -- Revealed: NSA penetrated North Korean networks in 2010, provided Obama evidence of Sony hack -- Is There a "Triple Government" at Work? -- Surveillance Detection for Android Phones -- Cops Worried After Citizens Engage in New Form of Crowd-Funded, Direct Action Against Police -- This Site Randomly Generates Someone to Blame for the Sony Hacks -- Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state -- New Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1% -- Argentine prosecutor who accused Fernandez of Iran plot found dead -- The Free Encryption App That Wants to Replace Gmail, Dropbox, and HipChat -- Crooked narco cops: 10 outrageous ways police enrich themselves on the drug trade -- 'Gray State' Movie Writer/Director Found Dead! -- 12 statements by Martin Luther King Jr. you won't see conservatives post on Facebook today -- "Endgame for Central Bankers" Says Saxo Bank CIO -- Argentine prosecutor who accused Fernandez of Iran plot found dead -- GITMO: Symbol of America's Moral Depravity -- 01-20-15 Tuesday 9-Noon (EST): Cody Wilson - Bruce Fenton - Bitcoin Foundation Election Debate -- US-Backed Naked Kiev Aggression on Donbas -- China's Remote Fortresses Lose Residents, Gain Tourists -- Predicting Volcanoes' Activity Is Tricky, and for Iceland, Nerve-Racking -- SilentVault's Anonymous BTC Multi-Asset Wallet & XCHG Platform - New Op Lead Seamus O'Pearse
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The Real Reason George 'CIA' Bush Invaded Panama in 1989
01-18-2015
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Targetliberty.com
He was found strapped into his Ford Explorer submerged beneath the California Aqueduct in 1998. His hands were missing as was the script he was working on. The script was The Big Steal "the hardest hitting film studios have ever seen...
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News Link • How to Help
Help support John Bush's efforts to cover the Ross Ulbricht Trial
01-16-2015
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The Liberty Beat Support
John Bush is willing to cover the Ross Ulbricht trial in it's entirety, which may last several weeks or more. To help John with expenses, you can donate (including Bitcoin) to help with travel, lodging, and for his family to be taken care of while he
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News Link • Racism
Israel to demand apology for 'anti-Semitic' Netanyahu cartoon
01-19-2015
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http://libertycrier.com
Israel is planning to demand an apology for a controversial cartoon that appeared in the British Sunday Times, Israel's ambassador to London said Monday, while one minister mulled steps against the paper.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Revealed: NSA penetrated North Korean networks in 2010, provided Obama evidence of Sony hack
01-19-2015
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Reuters
The National Security Agency began tapping into North Korean computer networks in 2010, that ultimately helped provide evidence to the Obama administration that Pyongyang was behind the cyber attack on Sony Pictures
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Is There a "Triple Government" at Work?
01-19-2015
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Who What Why
Far from being out of control, the record indicates security services are obedient arms of the executive. Further up the chain of command, the executive is responsive to profound sources of private influence outside government.
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News Link • Surveillance
Surveillance Detection for Android Phones
01-19-2015
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Schneier on Security
SnoopSnitch is an app for Android devices that analyses your mobile radio traffic to tell if someone is listening in on your phone conversations or tracking your location.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Worried After Citizens Engage in New Form of Crowd-Funded, Direct Action Against Police
01-19-2015
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Liberty Crier
Rather than sticking to the traditional form of protest in which signs are held and slogans are chanted, these citizens have taken direct action and offered a grassroots, crowd-funded incentive structure to end police brutality in their community.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
This Site Randomly Generates Someone to Blame for the Sony Hacks
01-19-2015
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Motherboard
The folks over at Da?ta Driven Secu?rity have blessed us with a website that randomly generates a plausible argument for the guilt of everyone from Chinese criminals to call center workers each time you visit.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state
01-19-2015
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ars technica
The chairman of the youth wing of the Swedish Pirate Party successfully fooled attendees at a major Swedish security and defense conference into connecting to an open Wi-Fi network that he controlled--to protest mass digital surveillance.
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News Link • Economy - International
New Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1%
01-19-2015
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The Guardian
Billionaires and politicians gathering in Switzerland this week will come under pressure to tackle rising inequality after a study found that â€" on current trends â€" by next year, 1% of the world's population will own more wealth than the other 9
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News Link • World News
Argentine prosecutor who accused Fernandez of Iran plot found dead
01-19-2015
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Reuters
The Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez of orchestrating a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center has been found shot dead in his apartment,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Free Encryption App That Wants to Replace Gmail, Dropbox, and HipChat
01-19-2015
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Wired
Peerio, an "encrypted productivity suite" meant to help individual users and businesses encrypt everything from IMs to online file storage. The software, initially launching as a Windows and Mac app as well as a Chrome plugin but coming to mobile
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Crooked narco cops: 10 outrageous ways police enrich themselves on the drug trade
01-19-2015
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Rawstory
The drug trade is a great place to make money. It's not surprising police, who interact with the narco-world, decide to go crooked. Officers used the state's monopoly on violence to enrich themselves while persecuting others for the same crimes.
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News Link • Death
'Gray State' Movie Writer/Director Found Dead!
01-19-2015
A writer and director of the controversial 'Police State' - 'Martial Law' movie called "Gray State" has been found dead in an apparent murder/suicide along with his wife and 5-year old daughter according to this breaking news story.
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News Link • History
12 statements by Martin Luther King Jr. you won't see conservatives post on Facebook today
01-19-2015
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Rawstory
As the country celebrates the holiday in his honor, you will likely see the same quotations from Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech shared again and again. To combat the scrubbed and sanitized version Raw Story presents
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
The Super-Rich and Us BBC Documentary 2015 Episode 1 Rich People VS Poor People UK
01-19-2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2BiuW93bos
The Super-Rich and Us Season 1 Jacques Peretti investigates why the super-rich were drawn to Britain.
The Super-Rich and Us BBC Documentary 2015 Episode 1 Rich People VS Poor People UK
In a series about the extraordinary stories behind maps, Profes
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Federal Reserve
"Endgame for Central Bankers" Says Saxo Bank CIO
01-19-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Studies show that the business cycle was less volatile before the Federal Reserve was born. The presence of the Fed means that the implicit backing of the Fed allows excess leverage, and this has resulted in bigger and bigger collapses...
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane ?" And Nobody Knows What's Causing It
01-19-2015
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http://mic.com/articles/91091/a-mysterious-sound-i
Dr. Glen MacPherson doesn't remember the first time he heard the sound. It may have started at the beginning of 2012, a dull, steady droning like that of a diesel engine idling down the street from his house in the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Federal Reserve
A Solemn Pause, Before All Hell Breaks Loose
01-19-2015
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kunstler.com
Next time around, the federals are going to have to confiscate stuff, break promises, take away things, and rough some people up. The question is how much of this abuse will the public take? I take a certain comfort knowing how heavily armed...
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News Link • China
China's Remote Fortresses Lose Residents, Gain Tourists
01-19-2015
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arclein
In Hekeng, a place with several hundred residents, I ticked off 13 tulou. (Tu lou means "earthen structure" in Mandarin, a very modest definition, like describing a coliseum as a stone circle.) The buildings look medieval, with high mud-brown walls
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News Link • Geology
Predicting Volcanoes' Activity Is Tricky, and for Iceland, Nerve-Racking
01-19-2015
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arclein
"Volcanoes are really difficult to predict because they are so nonlinear," said Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland. "They can suddenly decide to do something very different."
Dr. Einarsson studies the earthquakes
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News Link • Bitcoin
SilentVault's Anonymous BTC Multi-Asset Wallet & XCHG Platform - New Op Lead Seamus O'Pearse
01-19-2015
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Silent Vault/ Tyrone
New Operations Lead Seamus O'Pearse is an attorney experienced in alternative online payment systems with 15 years of experience in digital currency businesses. Seamus was one of the earliest legal adopters of digital gold currency and has now embrac
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News Link • NeoCons
The Neocon's War To Break Russia Into Small Vassal States
01-17-2015
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Informationclearinghouse.info
Chris Martenson explains how Neocon Queen Victoria Nuland handed out cookies during the coup last spring, while Radio Free Europe handed out maps showing a new attenuated Russia divided into small vassal states.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, January 18, 2015 Edition
01-17-2015
John Semmens
Obama Says Armed Response to Muslim Terrorism Wrong Approach
While attempting not appear to condone the murder of the Hebdo staff and the Jewish hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris last week, President Obama blamed France's failure to integr
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
100 serial rapists identified after old rape kits from Detroit Crime Lab are finally processed
01-16-2015
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WXYZ
So far, 1,600 rape kits have been processed, resulting in the identification of about 100 serial rapists and ten convicted rapists, according to Worthy.
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News Link • History
Native Hawaiians debate best for path to sovereignty
01-16-2015
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Associated Press
Native Hawaiians could be in line for federal recognition similar to many American Indian tribes. But the issue is inflaming distrust between moderates who support the idea and others who want to see the Hawaiian Kingdom restored.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
South Florida Police Agency Criticized for Using Mugshots of Black Suspects for Target Practice
01-16-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
South Florida police were criticized for claiming there is nothing racist about its habit of using mugshots of black suspects it has arrested in the past for target practice.
After all, North Miami Beach Police Chief J. Scott Dennis stated, some o
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona passes law requiring students to pass civics test
01-16-2015
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Associated Press
Arizona became the first state in the nation on Thursday to enact a law requiring high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship test on civics before graduation, giving a boost to a growing nationwide effort to boost civics education.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Connecticut Cop Found Not Guilty in Viral Video Stomping Incident
01-16-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Connecticut cop was found not guilty of excessive force even though there was video evidence showing him kicking a man's head after the man had already been tased, stomped-on and subdued by other officers.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cold-Hearted Cop Caught on Video Stealing Money from a Sick Child
01-16-2015
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Filming Cops
A disturbing video has surfaced online showing a police officer unabashedly trying to steal money from a family's make-a-wish foundation fund.
The money was reserved for a sick child who was about to be cared for on a make-a-wish trip.
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News Link • Gun Rights
One In A Million: Park Employee Finds Winchester '73 Leaning Against A Juniper Tree In Nevada Pa
01-16-2015
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Jonathan Turley
A Parks employee was hiking in a remote part of the Great Basin National Park when they spotted something leaning against a tree. It was a 132-year-old Winchester rifle and appeared to have not moved since it was placed there.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Tire ski jump
01-16-2015
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youtube
What happens when you take a bunch of tires to a ski jump...a lot more fun than you might think.
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News Link • Government
What Will You Do When Government Tyranny And Terrorism Work Hand In Hand?
01-16-2015
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http://www.shtfplan.com-Brandon Smith
I was in the middle of working on an article covering real U.S. economic stats versus manipulated statistics when the Charlie Hebdo shootings took place.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Raw: SpaceX Releases Video of Crash Landing
01-16-2015
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youtube
SpaceX has released dramatic footage of its booster rocket trying to land on a floating barge in the Atlantic, an unprecedented attempt that ended in a fiery explosion. (Jan. 16)
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Day 2 Silk Road Trial: Doubts Over Hacking, Fraudulent Document Charges Raised...
01-16-2015
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http://thelibertybeat.com-Derrick Broze
Day 2 Silk Road Trial: Doubts Over Hacking, Fraudulent Document Charges Raised and Details of Ulbricht Arrest.
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News Link • Economy - International
'Like Christmas': Rush to cash in on soaring Swiss franc
01-16-2015
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https://sg.finance.yahoo.com-AFP
"It's like Christmas all over again!" enthused Vanessa, as she joined a swelling queue outside a currency exchange office in downtown Geneva Thursday.
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News Link • Economy - International
Q&A: Why has Switzerland abandoned its currency ceiling?
01-16-2015
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk-Peter Spence
The Swiss National Bank has maintained a minimum exchange rate against the euro since the heights of the eurozone crisis. What will its removal mean for you?
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News Link • Economy - International
Switzerland stuns markets by giving up on currency peg
01-16-2015
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http://apnews.myway.com-PAN PYLAS
LONDON (AP) -- Bowing to the inevitable, Switzerland has ditched an increasingly expensive policy to limit the export-sapping rise of the Swiss franc -- a decision that propelled the currency a whopping 30 percent higher against the euro within min
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News Link • Surveillance
Cameron to Obama: Force Tech Companies to Cooperate with Surveillance Agency
01-16-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com-Kurt Nimmo
British government engaging in "cynical opportunism" following attack in France.
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News Link • Surveillance
Advertisers, Feds Want Data Automakers Collect From High-Tech Cars
01-16-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com-Kit Daniels
Data reveals when a car carrying a child is passing by McDonald's and when a driver is speeding.
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News Link • Economy - International
Rabbit Hole Intervention Fails: Wild Moves in Swiss Franc as Switzerland Abandons Euro...
01-16-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com-Mike S.
Rabbit Hole Intervention Fails: Wild Moves in Swiss Franc as Switzerland Abandons Euro Peg; Morals of the Story.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops: The Changing Face of American Police
01-16-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-William Norman Grigg
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." ? Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
The "Malheur Mafia" Takes Its Cut
01-16-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-William Norman Grigg
"If I don't have my black robe on, I'm just like anybody else," Oregon District Judge Gregory Baxter once pontificated from the bench. "But if I am wearing my black robe I expect my orders to be followed."
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Undercover Agent Reveals How He Helped the FBI Trap Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht
01-16-2015
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http://www.wired.com-ANDY GREENBERG
The FBI agents who arrested Ross Ulbricht in the science fiction section of a San Franciso public library in October of 2013 left nothing to chance.
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