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Date Sent: 2013-08-03
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, August 3, 2013

NH Police View Peaceful Libertarian and Occupy Activists as Terrorists

FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects -- So THAT’S What They Mean by “Affordable Care” -- 08-02-13 -- Ernest - Nanotube Lab - AzAquadome.com - Jackalope Hunt (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- The $4.1M Accident That Can Never Happen -- If Facebook Can Profit from Your Data, Why Can’t You? -- Math Advances Raise the Prospect of an Internet Security Collapse -- Chinese Hacking Team Caught Taking Over Decoy Water Plant -- Edward Snowden’s Asylum Is Just Putin’s Latest Insult to Obama -- Amazon.com Creates 5,000 Jobs, Destroys 25,000 in the Process? -- Happy 50th Birthday, Cassettes! -- What Legalizing Pot In Uruguay Means For the World -- Acetaminophen Linked to Fatal Skin Reactions -- Arabian flights: Early humans diverged in 150 years -- Archaeologists’ Shock Claim: A Piece of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion Cross Was Potentially Found -- Is your TV watching you? New hi-tech hacks target locks, webcams and TVs -- US diplomat kills man in car crash, flees Kenya

THERE WILL BE NO ARIZONA BREAKFAST CLUB TODAY SATURDAY AUGUST 3RD, 2013

Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine August 2nd, 2013 Edition RELEASED!

AZ: The Jackalope Freedom Festival starts TODAY! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona; Pool party at the Hancock's - Saturday August 10th, 2013 - 2 p.m. til ???

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NH Police View Peaceful Libertarian and Occupy Activists as Terrorists
08-02-2013 • .
Police in Concord, NH have applied for a grant to acquire a $258,000 armored vehicle from the DHS to combat domestic terrorism citing "active threats" from domestic "terror" groups like Free State Project and Occupy New Hampshire Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Surveillance
FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
08-02-2013 • Wall Street Journal
Details about the hacking tools, including spyware delivered to computers and phones through email or Web links�"techniques more commonly associated with attacks by criminals. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Healthcare
So THAT’S What They Mean by “Affordable Care”
08-02-2013 • Lew Rockwell blog
Congress has exempted itself and its employees from the increased health insurance costs of the Orwellian-named “Affordable Care Act.” Health insurance will remain affordable FOR THEM and for them only. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
08-02-13 -- Ernest - Nanotube Lab - AzAquadome.com - Jackalope Hunt (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Ernest goes over the Freedom's Phoenix Headline News; Talks about the Jackalope Freedom Festival, his energy project and recent experiment, and the progress of the aquadome project.
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News Link • Drug War
The $4.1M Accident That Can Never Happen
08-02-2013 • Simple Justice
After being questioned briefly at the DEA facility in San Diego, he was told he would be released. But, for reasons that remain unclear, he was left for five days in a 5-by-10-foot windowless room without food, water or toilet facilities. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine August 2nd, 2013 Edition READY FOR DOWNLOAD!
Donna Hancock
   Featuring survival and sustainable communities that are already established. What can we learn from them, and how can we incorporate what they have done to help our own communities.
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
The International Libertarian Says #MyFriendAdam Kokesh is a Peaceful Person (video)
08-02-2013 • The International Libertarian
Adam Kokesh is being described by the judge who denied him bail as "a very dangerous man". I say #MyFriendAdam Kokesh is a peaceful person. Read about Adam's persecution at http://www.theinternationallibertarian.blogspot.com/2013/08/standing-with- Read Full Story
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Reported by: Darren Wolfe

Opinion  • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, August 4, 2013 Edition
08-02-2013
John Semmens
   Snowden Asylum Irks Administration Russia's decision to grant a temporary one-year asylum to NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden was described as “unfortunate” and “extremely disappointing” by Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney. Carney contr
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Global Power Project, Part 8: Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo: by Andrew Gavin Marshall
08-02-2013 • http://www.occupy.com/article/global-power-project
As the largest bank in the world, Wells Fargo is deeply connected with some of the most powerful U.S. and international institutions to ensure that no matter how many crimes it commits -- fraud, illegal foreclosures, money laundering, you name it -- Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Brosnahan

News Link • Inventions
Beardyman: The polyphonic me
08-02-2013 • ted.com
Frustrated by not being able to sing two notes at the same time, musical inventor Beardyman built a machine to allow him to create loops and layers from just the sounds he makes with his voice. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Transportation
Next Year’s F1 Cars Will Sound Like Amplified Vacuum Cleaners
08-02-2013 • Wired.com
Bad news Formula One fans. The turbocharged V6 engines running in 2014 sound as appealing as a Dyson upright running through an archaic amplifier. With a blown speaker. Plug in your headphones, watch the video above from Mercedes-Benz, and prepar Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Transportation
Riding the Mission RS Is Like Driving a Two-Wheeled Tesla
08-02-2013 • Wired.com
Mission Motorcycles president Mark Seeger owns a Tesla Model S. He drove it to Los Angeles from Mission’s San Francisco headquarters, and it’s telling. The S is a fully realized consumer product. It’s emotionally compelling, and feels like the future Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Internet
If Facebook Can Profit from Your Data, Why Can’t You?
08-02-2013 • Technologyreview.com
Reputation.com says it’s ready to unveil a place where people can offer personal information to marketers in return for discounts and other perks. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Internet
Math Advances Raise the Prospect of an Internet Security Collapse
08-02-2013 • Technologyreview.com
Academic advances suggest that the encryption systems that secure online communications could be undermined in just a few years. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Chinese Hacking Team Caught Taking Over Decoy Water Plant
08-02-2013 • Technologyreview.com
A hacking group accused of being operated by the Chinese army now seems to be going after industrial control systems. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Foreign Policy
Edward Snowden’s Asylum Is Just Putin’s Latest Insult to Obama
08-02-2013 • swampland.time.com
When it comes to Russia, Mitt Romney gets the last laugh. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Business/ Commerce
At Long Last, a Bar at the Supermarket �" With $1 Bottles During Happy Hour!
08-02-2013 • business.time.com
Suddenly, going out to the grocery store doesn’t seem like such a chore. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

Feature Article  • Casey Research Articles
Amazon.com Creates 5,000 Jobs, Destroys 25,000 in the Process?
Alex Daley
   Software is making human beings obsolete.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Happy 50th Birthday, Cassettes!
08-02-2013 • entertainment.time.com
In August of 1963, the world met a new piece of technology that would go on to change the history of music: the audio cassette tape. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Drug War
What Legalizing Pot In Uruguay Means For the World
08-02-2013 • ideas.time.com
This small Latin American country is now on the forefront of global drug policy reform Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Drugs and Medications
Acetaminophen Linked to Fatal Skin Reactions
08-02-2013 • healthland.time.com
Acetaminophen is one of the most widely used medicines for fever and pain, commonly found in drugs like in Tylenol. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Arabian flights: Early humans diverged in 150 years
08-02-2013 • newscientist.com
Humanity's dramatic race across the Old World after it left its African cradle has been told countless times. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Religion: Believers
Archaeologists’ Shock Claim: A Piece of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion Cross Was Potentially Found
08-02-2013 • The Blaze
This particular item, found in a stone chest, was uncovered in the ruins of Balatlar Church in Sinop, Turkey. The container, found at the house of worship that was constructed in A.D. 660, is described as housing “a piece of a cross.” Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Surveillance
Is your TV watching you? New hi-tech hacks target locks, webcams and TVs
08-02-2013 • Yahoo! News blog
“Smart TVs” can be hacked allowing attackers to “watch” families through webcams, and working even if the victims try to turn the set off. More than 80 million Smart TVs sold around the world in 2012, but, “we hardly see security research Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Foreign Policy
US diplomat kills man in car crash, flees Kenya
08-02-2013 • AP
An American diplomat who was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of 3 whose widow is 6 months pregnant. US Embassy officials rushed the American out of Kenya the next day, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Events: Arizona
THERE WILL BE NO ARIZONA BREAKFAST CLUB THIS WEEKEND SATURDAY AUGUST 3RD, 2013...
Donna Hancock
   DUE TO THE JACKALOPE FREEDOM FESTIVAL IN NORTHERN ARIZONA THIS WEEKEND, THERE WILL BE NO ARIZONA BREAKFAST CLUB. WE WILL RETURN FOR THE SEPT 7TH MEETING
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Feature Article  • Police State
XKeyscore: Instrument of Mass Surveillance
Stephen Lendman
   police state
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Feature Article  • Activism
Ernest Hancock - Food, Fuel & Fish: The Double Geo-Dome Aquaponics Bio-Diesel System - PorcFest X
Drew
   PorcFest experienced "The MoneyDome" in 2012... Now learn what we've done with it. Ernest Hancock is the publisher at FreedomsPhoenix.com, and a co-founder of The Freedom Summit. He is the founder of Second Amendment for Everyone, The "L" Factor,
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show with guest Dr. T. Colin Campbell
08-01-2013 • Attorney For Freedom Show
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Author of The China Study joins Attorney Marc J. Victor on The Attorney for Freedom Show to talk about why a whole food diet can save your life! Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Wasdin

News Link • TERRORISM
New report: Gitmo costs U.S. $2.7 million per prisoner
08-01-2013 • Yahoo! News blog
The U.S. will spend $454 million this year to maintain the facility and pay troop salaries, among other fees �" a little under half a billion dollars. With only 166 prisoners, that works out to an annual cost of about $2.7 million per detainee. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Surveillance
Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds
08-01-2013 • The Atlantic Wire
Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Not Bombs T-shirt Update
Donna Hancock
   Since we do have about 25 shirts left over we wanted to give you all a chance to pick up one or two of the remaining shirts... We will NOT be printing the two designs again and they are one of a kind so please act fast!
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Feature Article  • World News
Big Brother is Watching You: Welcome to Italy, the Fiscal Hell
Alessandro Fusillo
   Starting from July 2013, but stretching back to 2011, a new law by the Italian Republic has come into force that not only enables the Italian tax offices to have free access to all data stored in the bank accounts in Italy, but also compels the banks
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News Link • Internet
NSA-Proofing Your Passwords
08-01-2013 • Lew Rockwell blog
"Silent Circle" has a password test. Note that longer passphrases, even if they are only lower case characters, are tougher to crack than shorter passwords with all sorts of numbers and non-characters. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Activism
VIDEO Manchester PD employees target free speech, advise person threatened to have judge sort it out
08-01-2013 • www.copblock.org
I will be at Manchester, District Ct., 8th of August 2013 defending free speech. I have retained legal council and will fight this charge to the fullest extent possible. I would like to file motions in Superior Court. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • How To
Write Bradley Manning
08-01-2013 • BradleyManning.Org
Bradley is currently eligible to receive mail from anyone who wishes to write to him. Bradley does receive a good amount of mail from supporters; however, he usually only replies to family and longtime friends. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security says it is illegal to freely play music in The United States.
08-01-2013 • I Am Not Anonymous Blog
The DHS is actually saying it is illegal to play music or operate a business where music is played for any reason without paying The Department of Homeland Security, and giving them much personal and private information. If The DHS can regulate the p Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

Feature Article  • Activism
Russia Grants Snowden One-Year Asylum
Stephen Lendman
   Snowden
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News Link • Conspiracies
Why Was Michael Hastings Murdered?
08-01-2013 • The Common Sense Show/ Dave Hodges
At the end of the day, I am not going to waste time debating the mechanism of death. All three theories are viable. The fact remains that Michael Hastings is dead and he was probably killed by the CIA and I want to know why. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Homeland Security
Folly Moon challenges Department of Homeland Security entertainment law
08-01-2013 • Muncie Free Press
A local band leader and downtown bar operator is challenging the Indiana Department of Homeland Security's authority to regulate and permit live entertainment. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Legislative Mischief
New bill aims to make 'smart' meters mandatory for entire nation
08-01-2013 • naturalnews.com
There is a sinister agenda underway to forcibly convert every standard electric meter in the U.S. to the "smart" variety under the guise of promoting renewable energy interests. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Egypt
U.S. assistance to Cairo breaks American law, is hurting Egypt
08-01-2013 • Doug Bandow, Detroit News
Egypt is a disaster veering toward catastrophe. The Obama administration’s decision to ignore the law by continuing U.S. assistance is making the situation worse. Indeed, the administration’s main achievement has been to make America the target of bo Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins

News Link • Animals and Pets
Animal intelligence now irrefutable: Bottlenose dolphins call each other by name
08-01-2013 • naturalnews.com
The dolphin is a fascinating marine mammal species with amazing cognitive and intellectual capacities that science has shown far exceed those of almost all other non-human mammals. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Agriculture
U.S. government routinely steals almost half of all raisin harvests from American farmers
08-01-2013 • naturalnews.com
Recently declared by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to be "the world's most outdated law," a little known U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy that steals up to half of American raisin farmers' harvest while providing little or no compensa Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

Opinion  • Philosophy: Fascism
Obama's Grand Bargain 2.0
August 2, 2013
Stephen Lendman
   class war
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News Link • Food
EPA to American People: ‘Let Them Eat Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Cake’
08-01-2013 • http://wakeup-world.com, By Sayer Ji
The EPA, whose mission is to “to protect human health and the environment,” has approved Monsanto’s request to allow levels of glyphosate (Roundup) contamination in your food up to a million times higher than have been found carcinogenic. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Quantum computers: coming to a store near you?
08-01-2013 • http://www.businessspectator.com, David Glance
Mike Lazaridis, founder and former CEO of BlackBerry, may be forgiven for not having the foresight of recognising the threat that the iPhone and Android smartphones would pose to his business. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Gold and Silver
The Coming Shortage Of Physical Gold That Will Change Everything
08-01-2013 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Is the paper gold scam about to be brutally crushed by a crippling shortage of physical gold? If so, what will that do to global financial markets? According to the Reserve Bank of India, “the traded amount of ‘paper linked to gold’ exceeds by far Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Menke

News Link • WAR: About that War
The U.S. Government Has Awarded Contracts To Al-Qaeda In Afghanistan? This can’t be true.
08-01-2013 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Menke

News Link • WAR: About that War
ON LOCATION: Manning Trial Aftermath Ft Meade (Video)
08-01-2013 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Gary Franchi of Next News Network interviews Kevin Gosztola, writer for FireDogLake, who is on location of the Bradley Manning trial in Ft. Meade, MD. Gosztola has been covering the Manning trial on a daily basis. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Menke

Feature Article  • Police State
Bradley Manning: Victimized by Police State Injustice
Stephen Lendman
   police state
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News Link • Surveillance
Angela Keaton Explains the Antiwar.com Lawsuit Against the FBI
07-31-2013 • Russia Today
Angela gave a concise explanation of the Antiwar.com lawsuit against the FBI to RT America. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

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