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Date Sent: 2012-09-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, September 29, 2012 |
Iraqi-American is imprisoned by US for saving his family from US sanctions
Fullerton Police Ripped Film out of Woman's Camera After Kelly Thomas Beating Death -- Backlash in New Zealand -- How I Convicted A Man For Helping Terrorists Who Now Aren't Terrorists --
Calls for crime lab to shut down amid more evidence doubts --
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News September 30, 2012 Edition -- The war on free advice - by George Will -- Louisiana death-row inmate Damon Thibodeaux exonerated with DNA evidence -- Syria: The Strange US/Israel/Al-Qaeda Ménage à Trois -- Convicted TSA Officer Reveals Secrets of Thefts at Airports -- GDP Growth Under 2 Percent -- Scary New Malware Targets Android Phones, Steals Images, Reconstructs Rooms -- A Top Law School's Email Gaffe Reveals Just How Bad Things Look For Its Grads -- World Health Organizaton Mulls First “World Tax” -- Reality Check: Actions Speak Louder Than Words With President Obama and the NDAA -- Fitch Warns UK Likelihood It Loses AAA Rating Has Increased -- All Your Private Data Are Belong To Obama -- Gold And Silver Lead Everything Week-, Month-, Quarter-, & Year-To-Date -- "Gospel of Jesus' wife" fragment is a fake, Vatican says -- Germany's Wind Power Chaos Should Be A Warning To Everyone -- And Now Let Us Gasp In Astonishment At What Just Happened To The Newspaper Business -- Short Video: Why the U.S. Government Will Default on Its Debt -- Why an Islamic Revolution in Saudi Arabia Is a Surefire Way to Send Oil to $300 a Barrel --
4 Candidates Confirmed for the 2012 Presidential Debate Hosted by Free
& Equal Elections Foundation -- A lack of education explains the
state of the nation -- Who in the World Is Gary Johnson -- and Why Don't You Know About Him? -- How to tackle U.S. debt: Just do it -- How the Fed Gave a Boost to Luxury Stocks -- Housing Market: What the Latest Reports Reveal -- Wake Up Folks! The Eurozone Mess May Be a Time Bomb
AZ: Sign making party for Michael Kielsky (running for
Maricopa County Attorney) today 2PM - 5PM!!!!
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News Link • TERRORISM
Iraqi-American is imprisoned by US for saving his family from US sanctions
09-28-2012
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The Guardian
Dr. Shakir Hamoodi, an Iraqi-American nuclear engineer who just began a 3-year prison sentence at the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas penitentiary for the "crime" of sending sustenance money to his impoverished, sick, and suffering relatives in Iraq
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News Link • Activism
Sign making party for Michael Kielsky (running for Maricopa County Attorney)
09-28-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Saturday, September 29, 2012 - 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Let's build on the past success and produce more signs and arrange to get them out there ... Please come and help.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Fullerton Police Ripped Film out of Woman's Camera After Kelly Thomas Beating Death
09-28-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A day after a 3rd cop was charged in the beating death of a mentally ill homeless man that was caught in a gruesome and horrifying city surveillance video, the victim’s father said there is more video that has yet to be released,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Backlash in New Zealand
09-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
In New Zealand there is a growing backlash against the govt's treatment of Kim Dotcom. The US is trying to extradite him for copyright charges because he offered an online file storage service. The NZ govt was illegally spying on him.
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News Link • TERRORISM
How I Convicted A Man For Helping Terrorists Who Now Aren't Terrorists
09-28-2012
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retrospect, I should add "sort of."
The man " let's call him "Bob" " ran an immigration services business, and was helping people secure legal residence in the United States through various forms of fraud, including fraudulent asylum applications
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Calls for crime lab to shut down amid more evidence doubts
09-28-2012
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As questions about the St. Paul police crime lab spread to fingerprint evidence, top defense attorneys say the lab needs to shut down entirely until it can prove that its work is reliable.
The lab already suspended drug testing in July after empl
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News Link • Food
The war on free advice - by George Will
09-28-2012
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North Carolina is giving Steve Cooksey some choices. He can stop speaking. Or he can get a PhD in nutrition, or a medical degree, or a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and then pass an examination after completing a 900-hour clinical internship. Or he
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News Link • Death Penalty
Louisiana death-row inmate Damon Thibodeaux exonerated with DNA evidence
09-28-2012
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Washington Post
A little after 4 a.m. on July 21, 1996, Damon Thibodeaux, a deckhand on a Mississippi River workboat, cracked at the end of a nine-hour interrogation and confessed to the brutal rape and murder of his 14-year-old step-cousin, Crystal Champagne.
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News Link • Syria
Syria: The Strange US/Israel/Al-Qaeda Ménage à Trois
09-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
A little more than a week after the extremists linked to Al-Qaeda by our own US government set up and murdered Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the United States would send an additional $45 mil
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Convicted TSA Officer Reveals Secrets of Thefts at Airports
09-28-2012
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ABC News (video)
A convicted TSA security officer says he was part of a "culture" of indifference that allowed corrupt employees to prey on passengers' luggage and personal belongings with impunity, thanks to lax oversight and tip-offs from TSA colleagues.
"It wa
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GDP Growth Under 2 Percent
09-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
You need 2.5% to get anything even resembling enough growth to actually add real employment. GDP number includes growth in government spending too, so private-sector growth is even more anemic than 1.3% implies.
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News Link • Surveillance
Scary New Malware Targets Android Phones, Steals Images, Reconstructs Rooms
09-28-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
The fellas at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are calling it, "The Malware that will steal your life," and their doomsaying is not unfounded.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
A Top Law School's Email Gaffe Reveals Just How Bad Things Look For Its Grads
09-28-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Erin Fuchs
George Washington University's law school got some bad press this summer when its dean made noises about reducing a stipend for unemployed graduates.
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News Link • World News
World Health Organizaton Mulls First “World Tax”
09-28-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by McWilly
Read that headline. Now read it again. The World Health Organization is mulling the first “World Tax” on cigarettes.
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News Link • Surveillance
All Your Private Data Are Belong To Obama
09-28-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
When it comes to spying, eavesdropping on its citizens as well as the complete invasion of American privacy, the first thing that comes to mind is the Patriot ACT and Dubya.
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News Link • Humor
Nick Jr. Suspends Production On 'The Almighty Muhammad's Porkalicious Toon Jihad'
09-28-2012
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the onion
“This isn’t to say Porkalicious Toon Jihad will never see the light of day,” Coates added. “Hopefully, when the international climate is slightly less volatile, children will be able to enjoy all of Muhammad’s hijinks, especially in the episode ‘Weee
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold And Silver Lead Everything Week-, Month-, Quarter-, & Year-To-Date
09-28-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It has been a volatile week but equities have drifted lower overall with today's early going retracing all of yesterday's gains only to bounce post Europe's close (once again) on the farce of the Spanish bank audit.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
"Gospel of Jesus' wife" fragment is a fake, Vatican says
09-28-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Naomi O'Leary
An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said on Friday.
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News Link • Surveillance
Smart meter data shared far and wide
09-28-2012
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Vince Chadwick, Craig Butt, Henrietta Cook
DETAILED information about electricity customers' power usage, which gives insights into when a house is occupied, is being shared with third parties including mail houses, debt collectors, data processing analysts and government agencies.
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News Link • Energy
Germany's Wind Power Chaos Should Be A Warning To Everyone
09-28-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Christopher Booker
Germany has gone further down the 'renewables' path than any country in the world, and now it's paying the price,
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News Link • Media: Print
And Now Let Us Gasp In Astonishment At What Just Happened To The Newspaper Business
09-28-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
Over the past decade, lots of big newspaper companies have gone bust.
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News Link • How To
Build a Small Solar Solution, With a Budget of $150 (Guide and Video)
09-28-2012
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http://www.prepperlink.com
Solar power is one of the most reliable forms of alternative energy. That is why it is at the top of most Prepper’s equipment purchase lists.
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News Link • Teen View
Voices Without A Vote
09-28-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by networktalkradio
These young people realize that if they don't stand up and speak out for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness today, they will be living in a very different America tomorrow.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
4 Candidates Confirmed for the 2012 Presidential Debate Hosted by Free & Equal Elections Foundation
09-28-2012
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ww.freeandequal.org
Free and Equal Elections Foundation announced today that four candidates have confirmed their participation in the 2012 Presidential Debate at the University Club of Chicago on October 23: Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, Green Party candida
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday September 28th 2012
09-28-2012
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LewRockwell.com
They're Going to Hell in a Handbasket - Don't join them, says Peter Schiff / 'Officer Safety' Is Sacred - Your safety is dirt. Article by Will Grigg / When the US Regime Collapses What are the chances for something better? Article by Terry Hulsey
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Who in the World Is Gary Johnson -- and Why Don't You Know About Him?
09-26-2012
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Christina Scotti, Fox News
Only 5% have heard a lot about Johnson. However, that doesn't mean you wouldn't agree with him. The website Isidewith.com, which features a political quiz that well over 3 million people have filled it out, suggests that if the Presidential race was
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What’s Really Driving the Latest Economic Report?
09-28-2012
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com
The latest data regarding the economic growth rate of America came from the Commerce Department’s durable goods report, and the headline numbers weren’t good. The total orders for durable goods in the month of August fell 13%, primarily due to a mass
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News Link • World News
Why Larry Ellison’s $500-million Island Purchase Is the Problem
09-28-2012
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com
There are the rich and then there are the mega-rich. A study showed that those with a net worth of at least $25.0 million tend to spend more lavishly on vacations and home renovations, compared to their spending on clothing, cars, and jewelry, accord
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News Link • World News
Yahoo! CEO Speaks"What’s the Message for Investors?
09-28-2012
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com
Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ/YHOO), recently spoke about her plans for the future of the company. As we all know, technology stocks in this sector are constantly evolving. At one time, Yahoo! was a giant among technology stocks;
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News Link • China
How the Fed Gave a Boost to Luxury Stocks
09-28-2012
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com
In a recent editorial, I talked about QE3 (a third round of quantitative easing implemented by the Federal Reserve) and how it was a reward largely for the upper echelons of income-earners. The middle class will benefit due to the lower carrying cost
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Housing Market: What the Latest Reports Reveal
09-28-2012
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/
The latest release of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Index is out, measuring data through July 2012. For the third consecutive month, all 20 cities recorded monthly gains in home prices. The 20-city average year-over-year gain was 1.2%. The numbers
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News Link • European Union
Wake Up Folks! The Eurozone Mess May Be a Time Bomb
29-28-2012
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/inflation/wak
I hate that “R” word, but here we go"recession.
Don’t worry too much about the economic recovery in the U.S.; the real threat, as I have said on many occasions, will be the inevitable deterioration of the eurozone. What happens in the eurozone wil
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Opinion • Politics: Republican Campaigns
This Is Insanity!
09-28-2012
Chuck Baldwin
If Mitt Romney has proven anything, it is that his word means absolutely nothing. Nothing! Romney is an opportunistic chameleon who will say anything or do anything to get elected. Yet, this is the man whom conservatives trumpet as the savior of Amer
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News Link • Military
Declassified Documents Reveal US Military Designated Assange ‘Enemy of State’
09-28-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
This is the same designation held by al-Qaeda, and it means that Assange could be killed or detained without trial
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News Link • Homeland Security
Hitler's Hotel
09-27-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
It offers serfs a deal: If “its most loyal guests” will enroll in the “Customs and Border Protection's Global Entry and the Transportation Security Administration's PreCheck” " furnishing the Feds with biographical and biometric information
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Flagstar Bank to face trial over mortgage servicing: judge
09-27-2012
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Reuters
Flagstar Bank, the ninth-largest mortgage lender in the United States, must face trial over allegations that it breached contracts for financial guaranty insurance on nearly $1 billion in securities backed by home equity loans.
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News Link • Torture
Will Waterboarding Make a Comeback?
09-27-2012
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New York Times
Last September, Mitt Romney’s advisers were so determined to attack President Obama from every direction and to revive long-discredited neo-con theories about interrogation that they actually encouraged the candidate to come out strongly pro-torture
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
California man behind anti-Muslim film arrested on probation violation
09-27-2012
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Washington Post
The California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video posted to YouTube that has inflamed parts of the Middle East was arrested for violating terms of his probation, authorities said Thursday.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was convicted
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News Link • European Union
FT: Euro Crisis May Fuel the Breakup of Spain
09-27-2012
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http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com,
Some real good may come out of the eurozone crisis. It's spawning a separatist movement in Spain
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News Link • Environment
The Regulatory State " Behind the Myth
09-27-2012
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http://c4ss.org, by Kevin Carson
A colleague at Center for a Stateless Society recently brought to my attention a story from late last year about unusually high concentrations of severe illness in the area surrounding a Crossett, Ark. paper mill.
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News Link • Military
A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders.
09-27-2012
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http://able2know.org
Looking at the ugly pictures coming out of Tibet, I ask myself a question. "How would I feel as a policeman or a soldier facing a protesting crowd of civilians? If I know in my heart that these crowds are innocent or even right, do I have to go and b
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Inside N.Z. Police Megaupload Files: U.S. Investigation Began in 2010
09-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Juha Saarinen
U.S. and New Zealand law enforcement action against filesharing kingpin Kim Dotcom and associates was set in motion over a year ahead of the raid on the Megaupload founder’s mansion in January...
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News Link • Whistleblowers
...Julian ... stop “persecuting” WikiLeaks and alleged leaker Bradley Manning.
09-27-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
In a rambling speech to a United Nations panel on Tuesday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on the U.S. to stop “persecuting” WikiLeaks and alleged leaker Bradley Manning.
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News Link • Government
Authors Forum: Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State | Gerard Casey
09-27-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by misesmedia
Presented at the 2012 Austrian Scholars Conference. Recorded 8 March 2012 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
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News Link • Economy - International
An International Bank? July 19, 1944
09-27-2012
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http://bastiat.mises.org, By Mises.org Quotes
“The drive for a $10,000,000,000 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development illustrates once more the fetish of machinery that possesses the minds of the governmental delegates at Bretton Woods.
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News Link • Military
LRAD Sonic Weapons To Be Deployed “Throughout” America For Crises
09-27-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
The U.S. Air National Guard has purchased half a million dollars worth of portable LRAD acoustic systems, which are commonly used by police to quell protests and civil unrest, ensuring that the sonic weapons will be deployed “throughout” America duri
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed Virtually Funding the Entire US Deficit: Lindsey
09-27-2012
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www.cnbc.com
Lindsey said that with the Fed purchasing at least $40 billion a month in mortgage debt through QE3, “they are buying the entire deficit.”
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Parents of Shot Teen Decry Police Cover-Up
09-27-2012
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Courthouse News Service
A mentally ill teenager was left with severe brain damage and paralysis after being shot by officers during a confrontation. The officers lied and misrepresented the situation saying they were acting in self defense and are being sued by the parents.
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe's Got A New Crisis, And This Time The ECB Can't Solve It
09-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Since the European sovereign debt crisis began, it was always clear that somehow it must end with the ECB.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
UC Davis Students Win $1 Million Settlement For Being Pepper-Sprayed
09-27-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
Administrators at the University of California have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million to end a lawsuit brought by UC Davis students who were pepper sprayed by police at protest last November, the Sacramento Bee reports.
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