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Date Sent: 2012-04-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 26, 2012 AM edition |
White House approves broader Yemen drone campaign -- Banned from College for Free Speech
A Little History Lesson - by L. Neil Smith -- Iran halts ‘cyber attack’ on its oil servers ---- All the state’s spies -- CISPA cybersecurity bill gets veto threat from Obama -- Judge refuses to dismiss GI’s WikiLeaks case -- WAR! Economists Are Freaking Out At Bernanke Like We've Never Seen Before --
MIT PROFESSOR: 10 Predictions About The World My Grandchildren Will
Inherit -- These 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy --
GEITHNER'S FULL OF CRAP -- Australia's Credit Bubble Is Built On An Even Bigger Chinese Credit Bubble -- GOP Golden Boy Gives The Most Hawkish Foreign Policy Speech Since Woodrow Wilson -- Confidants: Secret Service agents contend misbehavior on trips not unprecedented -- Gingrich to leave presidential race next Tuesday, sources say -- Russia Is Sending Troops To The US To Learn American Military Tactics -- FOX News Admits Ron Paul Will Be On The Ballot at The National Convention in Tampa! -- Unorthodox Exception Or Preferential Treatment? -- Don't Pay Your New Mexico Photo Tickets, No Water For You! -- Secrets of Survival with Joel Skousen -- Department of Homeland
Security buying up enough ammo to wage seven-year war -- DOES THIS GIRL
LOOK LIKE A TERRORIST? -- As children's brains are being eaten by
vaccines -- Using U.S. Dollars, Zimbabwe Finds a Problem: No Change -- George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting -- So Long, US Dollar -- The Best Reason in the World to Buy Gold
Schulz Answers Judge Napolitano:
See the VIDEO & the PLAN: Live WEBINARs this Thurs.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
White House approves broader Yemen drone campaign
04-25-2012
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Washington Post
The US is launching drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under approval by President Obama that allows the CIA and the military to fire even when the identity of those to be killed is not known.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Banned from Keene State College for “Free” Speech
04-25-2012
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http://us4.campaign-archive1.com
College official claims no one, including students allowed to distribute information on campus without permission.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
A Little History Lesson - by L. Neil Smith
04-25-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
In 1964, the "movers and shakers" in the Republican Party were faced with the terrible prospect of the voters actually getting the candidate they wanted, instead of whatever the party elite, in their wisdom, had chosen for them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran halts ‘cyber attack’ on its oil servers
04-25-2012
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AFP
Iran said it had halted the spread of a data-deleting virus targeting computer servers in its oil sector, and hoped to have all systems back and running within days.
Hamdolah Mohammadnejad, a deputy oil minister heading up a crisis committee to co
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
All the state’s spies
04-25-2012
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Salon
Congress is seriously considering a bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Intended to allow information sharing both between corporations and between corporations and the government
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
CISPA cybersecurity bill gets veto threat from Obama
04-25-2012
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Washington Post
The White House threatened to veto cyber-legislation that is widely expected to pass the House, asserting the bill would put Americans’ privacy at risk and give a pass to companies that fail to secure their computer networks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Judge refuses to dismiss GI’s WikiLeaks case
04-25-2012
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AP
A military judge refused on Wednesday to dismiss the charges against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history.
Army Col. Denise Lind denied the defense motion during a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade in the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sulphur in Every Pore
04-25-2012
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arclein
o this end, Thomas Bein and his team at NIM first developed a network of porous carbon nanoparticles. The nanoparticles have 3- to 6-nanometer wide pores, allowing the sulfur to be evenly distributed. In this way, almost all of the sulfur atoms are a
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Early Farming Site In Albania
04-25-2012
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arclein
The country began forming closer ties with the West following Hoxha's death in 1985 and the fall of communism in 1989, paving the way for international collaborations such as SANAP, which has pushed back the chronology of the Albanian Early Neolithi
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robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
WAR! Economists Are Freaking Out At Bernanke Like We've Never Seen Before
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Ben Bernanke always takes a lot of flak.
People say he's going to print so much money that we're becoming Weimar. Other people say he's committing treason!
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Science
Chromosomes Organize into Yarns
04-25-2012
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arclein
The scientists have shown that chromosomes fold in a series of contiguous "yarns" that harbor groups of genes and regulatory elements, bringing them in contact with each other and allowing them to work in a coordinated manner during development.
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robert klein
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News Link • Future Predictions
MIT PROFESSOR: 10 Predictions About The World My Grandchildren Will Inherit
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
What will the world look like in 100 years?
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
These 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
A chart we found on Reddit.com today shows that most products we buy are controlled by just a few companies. It's called "The Illusion of Choice."
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GEITHNER'S FULL OF CRAP
04-25-2012
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businessinsider.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance
As big banks have repaid TARP loans in the past few years, it's become commonplace for government officials and certain pundits to tout the "profits" taxpayers made on the hugely controversial program.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Testing
This Chart Shows Just How Much Smarter Engineers Are Than Everyone Else
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Aimee Groth
Earlier this week we wrote about the Flynn Effect, which is the theory that worldwide IQ has been steadily increasing over the past century.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - International
Australia's Credit Bubble Is Built On An Even Bigger Chinese Credit Bubble
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Concerns of a slowdown in China have caused investors to grow even more cautious about Australia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Golden Boy Gives The Most Hawkish Foreign Policy Speech Since Woodrow Wilson
04-25-2012
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businessinsider.com, Michael Brendan Dougherty
Currently Florida Senator Marco Rubio is giving a major foreign policy speech at the Brookings Institution.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Primer on Peak Oil
04-25-2012
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arclein
As the developed-world economy tries to gain momentum, it faces a persistent headwind. The oil price remains stubbornly over $100 a barrel, acting like a tax on Western consumers. Some blame the high price on evil speculators"Barack Obama unveiled pl
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
SCIENCE: What Are The Oil Sands And Why Are They So Valuable?
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina Spector
This week our own Robert Johnson is headed north to investigate one of the most controversial energy projects in the world: the Canadian oil sands.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
These Frightening Mutated Creatures Living In The Gulf Will Make You Sick
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
Two years ago, the BP Horizon Deepwater released five million barrels of crude into the Gulf over three months. BP subsequently released two million gallons of a dispersant called Corexit to break up the oil
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government
Confidants: Secret Service agents contend misbehavior on trips not unprecedented
04-25-2012
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washingtonpost, By Carol D. Leonnig and David Naka
Some Secret Service employees accused of misconduct in the Colombian prostitution scandal are privately contending that their conduct didn’t warrant dismissal because senior managers tolerated similar behavior during official trips.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gingrich to leave presidential race next Tuesday, sources say
04-25-2012
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http://www.foxnews.com, FoxNews.com
Newt Gingrich plans to formally leave the Republican presidential race next Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Russia Is Sending Troops To The US To Learn American Military Tactics
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eloise Lee
Russian paratroopers will meet up with American forces next month for an unprecedented military exercise in Colorado, according to RT News.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
FOX News Admits Ron Paul Will Be On The Ballot at The National Convention in Tampa!
04-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com,
FOX News Admits Ron Paul Will Be On The Ballot at The National Convention in Tampa!
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
Unorthodox Exception Or Preferential Treatment?
04-25-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org, JONATHAN TURLEY
There is an interesting story out of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn District Attorney routinely releases the names of charged individuals " as do all prosecutors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Don't Pay Your New Mexico Photo Tickets, No Water For You!
04-25-2012
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The Newspaper
"The city is notifying offenders by mail that they have until the due date stated in the letter to pay the fines," a Las Cruces press release warned. "Failure to comply will result in termination of utilities services."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Day of Reckoning
Secrets of Survival with Joel Skousen
04-25-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by TheAlexJonesChannel
Joel Skousen is a political scientist, by training, specializing in the philosophy of law and Constitutional theory, and is also a designer of high security residences and retreats.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security buying up enough ammo to wage seven-year war
04-25-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by Mike Adams
As we recently reported, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency that says its main purpose now is to thwart "homegrown terrorism."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
DOES THIS GIRL LOOK LIKE A TERRORIST?
04-25-2012
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The Daily
Flying is always difficult for the family, but this week was particularly dreadful, Frank and his wife, Marcy, said. With her crutches and orthotics, 7-year old Dina cannot walk through metal detectors and instead is patted down by security agents.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Using U.S. Dollars, Zimbabwe Finds a Problem: No Change
04-25-2012
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New York Times
For years, Zimbabwe was infamous for the opposite problem: mind-boggling inflation. Trips to the supermarket required ridiculous boxloads of cash. By January 2009, the country was churning out bills worth 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars, which were s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
The food industry is waging war on your cells with these 10 toxic ingredients
04-25-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: S. D. Wells
Preservatives and synthetic food agents found in foods inhibit oxygen and delay the development of fungus and mold, creating a longer shelf-life for products.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting
04-25-2012
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Reuters
"Don't use pepper spray," [the cop] told the Zimmermans, according to a friend. "It'll take two or three seconds to take effect, but a quarter second for the dog [a pit bul] to jump you," he said. "Get a gun."
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
So Long, US Dollar
Marin Katusa
There's a major shift under way, one the US mainstream media has left largely untouched even though it will send the United States into an economic maelstrom and dramatically reduce the country's importance in the world: the demise of the US dollar a
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News Link • Economy - International
The Best Reason in the World to Buy Gold
04-25-2012
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Forbe.com
Beijing is planning to avoid U.S. financial sanctions on Iran by paying for oil with gold. China’s imports of the metal are already large, and you can guess what additional purchases are going to do to prices...[and the dollar]
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores
04-25-2012
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dailycaller.com
A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
CISPA Amendment Allows DHS to Intercept Tax Returns
04-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Perennial big government advocate Sheila Jackson Lee strikes again
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-CIA Officer Who Destroyed Waterboarding Videos
04-25-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Former CIA officer, Jose Rodriguez on waterboarding tape destruction: ‘Just getting rid of some ugly visuals’
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
THE PENTAGON'S "COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR" ON LATIN AMERICA : Colombia, America 's '
04-25-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
The Pentagon announced on April 23 that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has begun a trip to South America, arriving in Colombia as part of a three-nation tour that will also take him to Brazil and Chile.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Another way to kill US farmers: Seize their bank accounts on phony charges
04-23-2012
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Rady Ananda Food Freedom News
Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT att
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Free Trade
Rebels Call for Free Market Flash Mobs
04-25-12
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http://silverunderground.com/2012/04/rebels-call-f
While poking around for Rebels on Facebook I came across this group that is promoting an idea so awesome I had to spread the word. The group is called Rebel Road and they’re hosting a public event they’re calling a Free Market Flash Mob. They invite
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