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Date Sent: 2011-11-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 21, 2011 AM edition |
VIPR: America's new federal goon squad? -- Facebook is a CIA Databank
Support Your Local Police State - by William Grigg -- Video Showing Oakland Police Beating Veteran Posted Online -- Republican Party R.I.P. (1854-2012) - by L. Neil Smith -- UC Davis Incident Shows Pepper Spray Becoming Weapon Of Choice Against Occupy Activists (updated) -- Mayor threatens pastors with felony charges over recall -- The
Science of Anarchism -- Spain elects conservative in response to debt
crisis -- Device that harvests water from thin air wins the James Dyson Award -- Gadhafi's Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar --
Return of the War Party? -- Bilderberg Leader Mario Monti Takes Over
Italy in “Coup” -- Newly developed metallic "micro-lattice" material is
world's lightest -- Foreclosure Fraud: First Criminal Charges Filed In
Nevada Over Robo-Signing -- Insight: Anger rises as MF Global clients
see billions frozen -- Bummer - Barack Obama turns out to be just another drug warrior --
The next financial crisis will be hellish, and it’s on its way -- With
Global Unrest and Militarized Police, Where Do You Go To Escape? --
Catherine Bleish & John Bush Speaking At End The Fed Houston Rally
11/ 19/ 2011 -- Ron Paul urges GOP not to ‘capitulate’ on pledge not to raise taxes... -- Israel shuts down dovish radio station -- Obama Praises Australia’s Draconian Carbon Tax -- TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners -- Debating Bush’s drug czar on legalization -- US to stockpile cluster bombs in Australia? -- Two cops fired over horrific video which shows them beating up suspect - then CELEBRATING -- Police burn protest tents to clear Cairo's Tahrir
AZ: Debate watching party Tuesday,
Nov 22nd, 2011 - 6 p.m. Hancock's (Glendale, AZ)
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News Link • Police State
VIPR: America's new federal goon squad?
11-20-2011
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www.examiner.com
The Transportation Security Administration has taken a giant step towards mutating itself into America's first truly statist/socialist/fascist federal goon squad: VIPR.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Facebook is a CIA Databank
11-20-2011
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www.henrymakow.com
In my Feb. 16 article ''Facebook & Google are CIA Fronts,'' I argued that Facebook and Google data mine information about you. This is now public knowledge.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Support Your Local Police State
11-20-2011
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by William Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“Do you see this soldier in this checkpoint?” Iraqi Wael al-Khafaji asked a Reuters reporter, pointing to a spot just a few feet from his Baghdad barbershop. “He can do whatever he wants to me right now and I can't say a word. Is this democracy?”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Video Showing Oakland Police Beating Veteran Posted Online
11-20-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
It took more than two weeks, but we finally get to see the video of an Oakland police officer beating an Iraq war veteran with his nightstick, which left him with a lacerated spleen.
The video was obtained by The Guardian newspaper in the United K
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican Party R.I.P. (1854-2012) - by L. Neil Smith
11-20-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
It pretty much agrees with my experience that the collective intelligence of any given group may be accurately calculated by dividing the intelligence of the group's smartest individual member by the number of people in the group.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
UC Davis Incident Shows Pepper Spray Becoming Weapon Of Choice Against Occupy Activists (updated)
11-20-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The name of the officer spraying the students as if they were cornered roaches is Lt. John Pike, according to the following tweet:
@mtracey: Lieutenant John Pike pepper-sprayed UC Davis students today, phone number and email: 530-752-3989 japi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Kyle Bass pawns BBC's HARDtalk (Publisher Recommended)
11-20-2011
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www.wallstreetoasis.com
Kyle Bass on the other hand knows his shit cold, and on the show last Friday the subprime superstar didn’t hold back on taking down Sara Montague’s accusive, somewhat insulting rhetoric and absolutely decimated her absurdly sensationalist arguments.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Mayor threatens pastors with felony charges over recall
11-20-2011
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www.wnd.com
A group of churches and pastors in El Paso, Texas, are in a legal battle with the city's mayor, who has cited a state election law he says would make their distribution of recall petitions against him a third degree felony.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
The Science of Anarchism
11-20-2011
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c4ss.org
Gitlin describes contemporary anarchism accurately (if generally) as “a theory of self-organization,” one opposed to a plutocracy of elites who have “artfully arranged a mutual back-scratching society to enrich themselves.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain elects conservative in response to debt crisis
11-20-2011
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www.usatoday.com
MADRID " Spanish voters kicked out the Socialist government Sunday in elections seen as a referendum on the handling of the European debt crisis, which has left Spain buckling under soaring unemployment, burgeoning debt and cuts in public benefits.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Device that harvests water from thin air wins the James Dyson Award
11-20-2011
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www.gizmag.com
The Swinburne University of Technology design graduate was driven to transform an ancient cooling technique into a new sub-surface irrigation system, following the enduring Australian drought that saw high levels of farmer suicide along Australia's M
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gadhafi’s Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar
11-20-2011
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thenewamerican.com
Libya is Africa‘s largest oil producer. But one possible reason in particular for Gadhafi’s fall from grace has gained significant traction among analysts and segments of the non-Western media: central banking and the global monetary system.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Return of the War Party?
11-20-2011
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by Patrick J. Buchanan via LewRockwell.com
Is a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war? Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded war of choice, this time with a nation, Iran, three times as large and populous as Iraq?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Bilderberg Leader Mario Monti Takes Over Italy in “Coup”
11-20-2011
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thenewamerican.com
Italy’s new Prime Minister Mario Monti, who rose to power in what critics called a “coup d’etat,” is a prominent member of the world elite in the truest sense of the term.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Newly developed metallic "micro-lattice" material is world's lightest
11-17-2011
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http://www.gizmag.com/
The new micro-lattice material is so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it (Image: Dan Little, HRL Laboratories, LLC)
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Verda Gagnon
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Fraud: First Criminal Charges Filed In Nevada Over Robo-Signing
11-20-2011
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www.huffingtonpost.com
Nevada attorney general indicted two midlevel staffers at a mortgage document company, Lender Processing Services, on 606 counts of felony and gross misdemeanor for directing employees to forge signatures and falsely notarize documents used to illega
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Insight: Anger rises as MF Global clients see billions frozen
11-20-2011
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ca.news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three weeks after MF Global's collapse, furious former customers are still fighting for access to billions of dollars as they question why as much as two-thirds of their money is still frozen.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Bummer - Barack Obama turns out to be just another drug warrior.
11-20-2011
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reason.com
It is not hard to see how critics of the war on drugs got the impression that Barack Obama was sympathetic to their cause. Buuuuut...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The next financial crisis will be hellish, and it’s on its way
11-20-2011
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news.yahoo.com
"There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner," says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, "because we haven't solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
With Global Unrest and Militarized Police, Where Do You Go To Escape?
11-20-2011
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by Jamie Douglas via LewRockwell.com
Americans look at options available in living abroad, because the increasing militarization of the police forces has frightening fascist overtones. There are more Americans afraid of their own government today than there ever have been… and justifiab
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
What Will We Say?
11-20-2011
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LewRockwell.com
What will we say when the government announces that “for security reasons” it will begin conducting random checks of our homes? That we will be required by law to open our doors and stand aside while government agents do a walk-through, just to “be s
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Architecture
At planned Sunny Isles Beach condo, cars and drivers ride elevator home
11-20-2011
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www.miamiherald.com
The latest twist on designer parking garages: a Jetsonesque elevator that whisks residents to their condos while they are still in the driver’s seat.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - November 19-20 2011
11-20-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Coming? The Warrantless 'Security Check' of Your Home - Occupy the Government - Letters to Me Defending Joe Paterno - Bernanke Is Terrified of Ron Paul - We're Not Getting Out of This in One Piece - Bad To Drink, Worse To Shower In
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel shuts down dovish radio station
11-20-2011
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apnews.myway.com
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has ordered the shutdown of a dovish Israeli-Palestinian radio station, officials and the station's operators said on Sunday. The station and other critics said the move was politically motivated, and part of a broader assault
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Chemtrails
Chem Webs USA: Order your testing kits!
11-20-2011
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Farm Wars
Order a free chem web kit to test the chemtrail fallout in your area.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Torture Candidates
11-20-2011
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www.nytimes.com
Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann said they would approve waterboarding of prisoners to extract information. They denied, of course, that waterboarding is torture, even though it’s been classified as such since the Spanish Inquisition.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Praises Australia’s Draconian Carbon Tax
11-20-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
President Barack Obama has ominously praised Australia’s draconian carbon tax, even as details emerge over how the government plans to fine businesses up to $1.1 million dollars merely for suggesting the fact that the new tax will cause prices to ris
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners
11-20-2011
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www.propublica.org
The head of the Transportation Security Administration has backed off a public commitment to conduct a new independent study of X-ray body scanners used at airport security lanes around the country.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Debating Bush’s drug czar on legalization
11-20-2011
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www.salon.com
Last Thursday at Brown University, I debated former Bush drug czar John Walters on the virtues of drug legalization, and the video is below.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
2021: The New Europe
11-20-2011
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online.wsj.com
Niall Ferguson peers into Europe's future and sees Greek gardeners, German sunbathers"and a new fiscal union. Welcome to the other United States.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
US to stockpile cluster bombs in Australia?
11-19-2011
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aljazeera
Despite Australia having signed the convention against cluster munition, a US base may transport and stockpile munition.
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Verda Gagnon
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Two cops fired over horrific video which shows them beating up suspect - then CELEBRATING
11-20-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Two cops have been fired after being filmed brutally beating a suspect then doing a celebratory chest bump. The shocking footage shows the officers holding the man down, punching him and kicking him in the head more than a dozen times
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
650 horsepower, 200 mph 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 debuts at L.A. Auto Show
11-20-2011
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www.gizmag.com
Packing a 5.8-liter supercharged V8 producing a headline-grabbing 650 horsepower and 600 lb-ft of torque, Ford claims the new 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 is the most powerful production V8 in the world.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Newly developed metallic "micro-lattice" material is world's lightest
11-20-2011
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www.gizmag.com
The new micro-lattice material is so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it (Image: Dan Little, HRL Laboratories, LLC)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
"Anarchy and the efficient law" - David Friedman
11-20-2011
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vimeo.com
Brazil plays host to an exclusive seminar on the Austrian School of Economics. It was on April 11 and 12, 2010, the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre welcomed students and professionals from all over the country to discuss the challenges of Eco
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Budget Failure Further Evidence of Decline of Representative Democracy
11-20-2011
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Paul Levinson
The bipartisan bozos in Washington - the super-committee tasked this summer with working out a new budget by the day before Thanksgiving - are reported to be on the verge of announcing failure to reach agreement on a new budget.
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News Link • Politics
Why I Oppose a Balanced Budget Amendment
11-20-11
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Free Patriot Press
Many groups have been lobbying the U.S. Congress to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment. In fact, a proposed amendment was rejected by the House of Representatives on November 18, 2011. However, an amendment requiring a balanced budget will not prevent
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Police burn protest tents to clear Cairo's Tahrir
11-20-2011
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news.yahoo.com
CAIRO (AP) " Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to protest tents in Cairo's Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault Sunday to drive out thousands demanding that the military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilia
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Free Jerry Seinfeld!
11-18-2011
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http://mises.org
Any fan of the classic 1990s sitcom Seinfeld knows the unfortunate conclusion by which the series ends.
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News Link • Police State
Tampa Police Roll Out A TANK To Deal With A Few Dozen Protesters
11-20-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
UPDATE: It’s not actually a “tank,” of course, though it certainly looks like one. It’s a “12-ton armored personnel carrier.” It is supposedly for “rescue” operations, though why it needs to be armored to do that is not clear.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Jay Carney (and Obama) Have It All Wrong about Police and OWS
11-20-2011
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Paul Levinson
Carney, seeking to dispel concerns about Fed coordination of local attacks on OWS, says it's all up the municipalities - but the 1st and 14th Amendments obligate the Feds to make sure municipalities don't violate the rights of citizens.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Interview On DeFace The Nation 11/20/11
11-20-2011
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www.youtube.com
Airing Date Nov.20, 2011, Here is a quote from facebook that i think explains the interview very well below from a Mr.Jeff Hook: Jeff Hook " I just watched the Ron Paul interview (11/20) and I must say, your show couldn't have been more rude or unpro
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
I AM NOW A CANDIDATE FOR MONTANA LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
11-20-2011
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www.newswithviews.com
On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Montana Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Fanning and I held a press conference in downtown Kalispell, Montana, and announced that he and I are running for Montana Governor and Lieutenant Governor in the 2012 Mon
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Thanksgiving Family Forum " Complete Video (Presidential Online Debate)
11-19-2011
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www.citizenlink.com
Hear what the candidates have to say about family issues, life challenges, the sanctity of life, marriage and more. Watch the event in its entirety. The Forum took place in Des Moines, Iowa, on Nov. 19.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Egyptians back in Tahrir for anti-military protests, 10 months after Mubarak’s ouster
11-20-2011
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english.alarabiya.net
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians rallied Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir square with Islamists in the forefront to protest against what they say are attempts by the country’s military rulers to designate themselves as the guardians of a new Egypt.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • European Union
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
11-20-2011
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
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