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Date Sent: 2012-08-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, August 23, 2012 AM edition |
MassGOP Chair and former CongressMEN could face jailtime for political and financial corruption
Was Iraq Worth It: A Strategic Trade-Up -- Matt Akins: Wanted for Free Speech -- Audit: Some D.C. tax officials could alter property data without being detected -- Man wearing anti-TSA t-shirt refused boarding by Delta airlines -- The west's hypocrisy over Pussy Riot is breathtaking -- Recession imminent if ‘fiscal cliff’ of tax hikes, budget cuts not averted, CBO says -- Spanier’s Lawyers Attack Freeh Findings -- U.N. Visit Will Set Back a Push to Isolate Iran -- Time to Take a Look at Silver! -- 08-23-12 -- Bob Prechter, Elliott Wave - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Disneyland acclimates Americans to troops on streets -- A Robot Drill For Mars Will Be NASA's Next Interplanetary Mission -- Man fights to keep wife buried in yard -- 3 Delaware Daycare Employees Accused Of Encouraging Toddlers To Fight Released -- Criminal charges filed against German rabbi for performing circumcisions -- I Went Back To Afghanistan With The US Marines And It's Worse There Than Ever --
Warren Buffett Cancels A Municipal Debt Bet 5 Years Early -- The Best
Sentence You'll Read About Ending The Eurozone Crisis All Day -- Ecuador
Tells Britain It Will Be 'Suicide' To Storm Its Embassy And Arrest
Julian Assange -- Iran Just Unveiled A Brand New Missile To Deter Possibility Of Israeli Attack -- This Two Minute Video Will Give Google Execs Night Sweats -- SocGen Presents 5 Key Clues On What's About To Happen In Europe --
The Scariest Wall Street Movie Ever Will Star Marc Faber, Jim Grant,
Peter Schiff, And More -- A Reminder Of The Incredible Size Of China's
Population -- BOB JANJUAH: THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING, A HUGE SELL-OFF
COULD BEGIN IN DAYS -- Rutherford Institute Files Notice of Appeal Challenging Arrest & Detention of Marine in Psych Ward -- Fed looks set to ease fairly soon barring swift rebound -- 1st Amendment Violated as Facebook Assists Police in Pre-Crime Investigations -- You Are Libertarian! -- 08-22-12 -- Ed Foster, Quartzsite AZ update (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Would you give the government remote control over your router?
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News Link • Corruption
MassGOP Chair and former CongressMEN could face jailtime for political and financial corruption
08-23-2012
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An explosive complaint filed in Superior Court could not only take down the current MassGOP Chairman Bob Maginn and 2 former Congressmen, Peter Blute and Peter Torkildsen, may end up in jail for political and financial corruption.
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News Link • Iraq
A Strategic Trade-Up
08-23-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Condoleezza Rice was asked if the war in Iraq was worth it? .... [Iraq] "becoming for instance the fourth-largest purchaser of American military equipment in the Middle East. That’s called a strategic trade-up....."
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News Link • Activism
Matt Akins: Wanted for Free Speech
08-23-2012
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The Agitator
My friend Mark Flakne has a post up about how the Columbia, Missouri police department targeted Matt Akins, a mutual friend and activist in Columbia. Akins runs a small nonprofit organization, Citizens for Justice, that records the cops.
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News Link • Corruption
Audit: Some D.C. tax officials could alter property data without being detected
08-23-2012
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New York Times
A handful of managers in the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue had the ability to alter the assessed values of property in the city without leaving any trace of changes that were made, according to an internal audit obtained by The Washington Post.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Man wearing anti-TSA t-shirt refused boarding by Delta airlines
08-23-2012
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My wife and I had arrived at the airport to fly home to Phoenix after attending my wife’s grandfather’s funeral.. We had cleared the security checkpoint without incident, but while waiting at the gate, a Delta supervisor informed me my shirt made pa
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The west's hypocrisy over Pussy Riot is breathtaking
08-23-2012
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The Guardian
Our courts now jail at the drop of a headline " for stealing water or abuse sent on Twitter. So who are we to condemn Russia?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession imminent if ‘fiscal cliff’ of tax hikes, budget cuts not averted, CBO says
08-23-2012
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Washington Post
The US economy will hurtle into a recession if Congress fails to avert a series of tax increases and budget cuts, the Congressional Budget Office said, warning a fiscal impasse would have consequences even more dire than previously forecast.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Spanier’s Lawyers Attack Freeh Findings
08-23-2012
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New York Times
Former Penn State president Spanier issued a searing rebuttal to findings by the former FBI director Freeh that Spanier and other top university officials had helped conceal allegations of child abuse involving a former assistant football coach
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News Link • Iran
U.N. Visit Will Set Back a Push to Isolate Iran
08-23-2012
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New York Times
Efforts by the United States and Israel to isolate Iran suffered a setback on when the United Nations announced the secretary general would join officials from 120 countries in Tehran for a summit meeting that Iran has trumpeted a vindication of its
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News Link • Police State
Disneyland acclimates Americans to troops on streets
08-22-2012
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www.libertyfight.com
Kids and adults alike interact with friendly 'Army troops' daily
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Quantum Processor Calculates That 15 = 3x5 (With Almost 50% Accuracy!)
08-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
For the first time, a functional solid-state quantum computer has completed a fairly simple math problem, factoring a prime number into its constituent parts.
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News Link • Energy
SWITCH60 Review: The First Liquid-Cooled LED Bulb Will Light Up Your House Like Edison
08-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
But it will lighten your wallet, too
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
A Robot Drill For Mars Will Be NASA's Next Interplanetary Mission
08-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
NASA’s next interplanetary mission won’t be a space boat or a comet-hopper, but another mission to Mars, this time with a stationary probe to drill into the planet.
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News Link • Seriously?
3 Delaware Daycare Employees Accused Of Encouraging Toddlers To Fight Released
08-22-2012
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http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com, By Todd Quinones
The three daycare employees who were arrested on Monday for allegedly watching and encouraging toddlers to fight each other were released Tuesday afternoon after posting $10,000 secured bond.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Criminal charges filed against German rabbi for performing circumcisions
08-22-2012
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http://www.timesofisrael.com, By Raphael Ahren
David Goldberg, who oversees a 400-member strong community in northern Bavaria, is the first mohel to be charged since Cologne court banned the ritual
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News Link • General Opinion
Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16
08-22-2012
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http://hosted.ap.org, By DINESH RAMDE
Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
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News Link • Afghanistan
I Went Back To Afghanistan With The US Marines And It's Worse There Than Ever
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
I spent four years in the Marine Corps covering everything from combat patrols in Iraq to commanding generals cutting ribbons. It was challenging, exciting, life-changing and boring in almost equal measure.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Warren Buffett Cancels A Municipal Debt Bet 5 Years Early
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Reuters
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. terminated a large wager on the municipal-bond market five years early, the Wall Street Journal quoted a person familiar with the transaction as saying.
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News Link • European Union
The Best Sentence You'll Read About Ending The Eurozone Crisis All Day
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
A new note out from Citi's Steven Englander tries to assess the latest state of play with regardes to ECB bond buying, the Greek situation, and so forth.
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News Link • World News
Ecuador Tells Britain It Will Be 'Suicide' To Storm Its Embassy And Arrest Julian Assange
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, The Telegraph
Rafael Correa warned such a provocative precedent would leave British embassies across the world facing similar “violating” moves by foreign governments.
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News Link • Iran
Iran Just Unveiled A Brand New Missile To Deter Possibility Of Israeli Attack
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Hickey
Iran just announced six weapons upgrades, including a domestically-made short range missile with accuracy unheard of until now.
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News Link • European Union
SocGen Presents 5 Key Clues On What's About To Happen In Europe
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
SocGen economist Michala Marcussen has a fantastic note out this morning putting together some of the puzzle pieces to figure out what's going to happen next in Europe.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Scariest Wall Street Movie Ever Will Star Marc Faber, Jim Grant, Peter Schiff, And More
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Sam Ro
Wall Street's biggest bears and doomsayers will make appearances in The Bubble, a new documentary on the financial crisis based on the New York Times bestseller Meltdown.
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News Link • China
A Reminder Of The Incredible Size Of China's Population
08-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
Even in 2007, China had more than 60 cities with populations greater than one million people. This infographic by Chinfographics shows each city and comparisons to other big urban centers like New York and Paris.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Rutherford Institute Files Notice of Appeal Challenging Arrest & Detention of Marine in Psych Ward
08-22-2012
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http://us4.campaign-archive2.com
CHESTERFIELD, VA" Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a Notice of Appeal in the General District Court of the City of Hopewell, Virginia, in the case of a former Marine, Brandon Raub, who was arrested by local police and FBI agents and
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed looks set to ease fairly soon barring swift rebound
8-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Federal Reserve is likely to deliver another round of monetary stimulus “fairly soon” unless the economy improves considerably, minutes from the U.S. central bank’s latest meeting suggested.
Photo: A view shows the Federal Reserve building on
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News Link • Police State
1st Amendment Violated as Facebook Assists Police in Pre-Crime Investigations
8-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
On August 16th former US Marine Brandon Raub was arrested for posting his opinion about the US government on his Facebook page . Raub is currently being held in a psychiatric ward. In a statement by Raub, he explains : “I’m currently in John Randolph
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News Link • Voting and Elections
You Are Libertarian!
08-22-2012
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Mike Wasdin
If you are planning on voting for either one of the two major party candidates known as the Republicons and the Dumbocrats you may not know it, BUT YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! In fact you may be all of the problem!
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News Link • Internet
Would you give the government remote control over your router?
08-22-2012
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Ars Technica
Wireless routers already support a technology that might make the idea feasible"creation of guest networks that home owners can use to grant visitors access to the Internet. But the proposal"laid out in a new paper in the peer-reviewed International
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
“Bleed ‘Em, Plead ‘Em,” and Lie: The State of California versus Robert Adams
08-21-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The State of California, which gave us such outrages as the McMartin Case and the Kerns County prosecutions, claims to have learned its lesson, and the Sacramento Bee has solemnly assured iit no longer runs over the cliff when someone is accused of c
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Anti-Obama Film Drawing Big Crowds, Even in New York City
08-21-2012
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The Hollywood Reporter
An anti-Obama documentary will expand nationwide this weekend after doing notable business in select markets across the country -- including in liberally minded New York City.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
U.S. Funds Israel’s ‘Iron Dome,’ But Doesn’t (Quite) Know How It Works
08-21-2012
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
The top U.S. military officer’s plane got damaged in Afghanistan by insurgent rockets on Tuesday morning. It’s a reminder that the U.S. military’s defense against short-range rockets remains a work in progress.
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News Link • Police State
More on Brandon Raub Involuntarily Committed for First Amendment Speech on Facebook?
08-21-2012
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The Agitator
Law enforcement officials said they did not arrest Brandon Raub for his anti-government Facebook postings, even though they slapped handcuffs on him and forced him into a car before transporting him to a psychiatric hospital
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Darpa Looks to Make Cyberwar Routine With Secret ‘Plan X’
08-21-2012
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
The Pentagon’s top research arm is unveiling a new, classified cyberwarfare project. But it’s not about building the next Stuxnet. The just-introduced “Plan X” is designed to make online strikes a more routine part of U.S. military operations.
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News Link •
U.S. launches test of Wi-Fi to prevent car accidents
08-21-2012
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The RawStory.com
A US government-funded program on Tuesday launched a test of Wi-Fi technology to help reduce road accidents.
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News Link • Military
Top U.S. general blasts ex-officers for attacking Obama
08-21-2012
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The RawStory.com
US military chief General Martin Dempsey denounced ex-officers Tuesday for waging a campaign against President Barack Obama, arguing that soldiers had a duty to stay above the political fray.
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News Link • Police State
Government Documents Prove Domestic Drones Are For Spying On Americans
08-21-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A data dump of government documents secured via the Freedom of Information Act shows that the roll out of domestic unmanned drones will, for the most part, be focused solely on the mass surveillance of the American people.
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News Link • Healthcare
Researchers Develop New Pain-Free Ways to Make Sure You Are Vaccinated
08-21-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Pharmaceutical corporations, the US government and researchers at state-sponsored universities are focused on more sophisticated ways of ensuring the general population worldwide succumbs to vaccinations now have a new option .
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hank Williams Jr. Says Obama ‘staged’ Sikh shooting
08-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Sean Michaels
Hank Williams Jr has become the second musician in as many weeks to accuse Barack Obama of plotting to destroy the United States.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Who Does the Government Intend To Shoot?
08-21-2012
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by Major General Jerry Curry
The Social Security Administration (SSA) confirms that it is purchasing 174 thousand rounds of hollow point bullets to be delivered to 41 locations in major cities across the U.S.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Amerika’s Future Is Death
08-21-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
According to the presstitutes, Americans have to find some explanation for their frustrations and failings, so Americans shift the blame to the Bilderbergers, the Rothschilds, the New World Order and so forth and so on.
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News Link • NeoCons
The Truth About Neoconservatism
08-21-2012
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, by Ron Paul
The modern-day, limited-government movement has been co-opted. The conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of government. There has not been, nor will there soon be, a conservative revolution in Washington.
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News Link • Self-Defense
65-Year-Old Woman With a Gun Chases Off 5 Armed Robbers
08-21-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, End of the American Dream
In Garden Grove, California the other day, a 65-year-old woman with a gun chased 5 armed criminals out of her jewelry store. The video of this amazing incident (posted below) is quite funny, but it also demonstrates a very serious point.
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu ‘Determined to Attack Iran Before US Vote’
08-21-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Israeli Analyst 'Doubts' Anything Could Change His Mind
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Valley woman told she could not hand out free bottled water in summer heat
08-21-2012
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http://www.abc15.com, By: Corey Rangel
The City of Phoenix could face a lawsuit if the city doesn’t apologize to a Valley woman for telling her she could not hand out free bottled water to people in the summer heat.
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News Link • Anonymous
'Operation Free Assange': Anonymous take down UK government websites
08-21-2012
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http://rt.com,
Several British governmental websites, including the Ministry of Justice, have been attacked by hacktivists in retaliation for Britain’s handling of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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News Link • General Opinion
Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16
08-21-2012
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http://www.cbsnews.com, AP
Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Army Sends Mobile 3-D Printing Labs to Afghanistan For On-Demand Gear
08-21-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
3-D printing has yielded items both fascinating and potentially troubling. Now we can add one more to the list of printed achievements...
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News Link • Police State
"This Isn't America" -- You Can't Say That Here - Will Grigg
08-21-2012
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freedominourtime.blogspot.com
challenge the government’s official version of events by asking impertinent questions and face the prospect of “protective custody.” Berlin circa 1933, this was called schutzhaft. In the contemporary American Reich it is called “emergency custody.”
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News Link • Activism
Kidnapped Marine vet Brandon Raub speaks out from psych ward
08-21-2012
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www.youtube.com
Video and Commentary by Adam Kokesh
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Opinion • r3VOLution Continues
Ray McGovern: My Take
Pussy Riot’s Appeal for Justice
08-21-2012
Ray McGovern
A Russian judge has sentenced three female “punk” rockers from the group “Pussy Riot” to two years in prison for performing a protest song at a Moscow cathedral, what the judge called anti-religious “hooliganism.”
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
New Webpage for Marc Victor for U.S. Senate - Arizona - Libertarian
08-21-2012
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www.victorforsenate.com
I have used my position as a criminal defense attorney to promote freedom to many different actors in the justice system. I used my appointment as a Superior Court Judge Pro Tem to make a stand for freedom. My law firm has accepted many clients and c
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Opinion • Police State
My Day In Court
Click It Or Ticket
08-21-2012
Mike Wasdin
This is a follow up to my last article titled 'My Day In Court' that was about another police state 'safety minded' program that is known as photo radar enforcement. That too is all about public safety and something that is for our best interest...th
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