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Date Sent: 2012-11-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 12, 2012 |
Making "Voluntary" Service Mandatory—One Step At A Time - by C. Jeffery Small
Denmark to scrap world’s first fat tax -- Police officer shot by partner trying to kill dog -- A celebration of our veterans on Veterans Day (previously Armistice Day) -- Foreign air power is crucial to Mali battle plan -- After Obama's re-election, financial stocks cringe -- Remembering a Peace Veteran -- Government wants absolute rule over you -- Greek Parliament passes 2013 austerity budget with comfortable majority -- Unitary vs. Federal Power Structures; States Rights -- Undersea Gas Leaks Discovered Off Israel's
Coast -- Here Are The Major Signs That An Employee Is Losing
Motivation -- Who Will Stop These Sado-Monetarists As Youth
Unemployment Surges To 58% In Greece? -- An Exec Tells Us 3 Ways Women Leadership
Benefits A Company -- Kior ‘Biocrude’ Plant a Step
toward Advanced Biofuels -- Microsoft Brings Star Trek’s Voice
Translator to Life -- A Carbon Microthread
That Makes Contact with the Mind -- A War-Criminal Resigns...
Because of an Affair
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News Link • Draft
Making "Voluntary" Service Mandatory"One Step At A Time - by C. Jeffery Small
11-11-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
It was the Obama Administration's push for the institution of a national service program back in 2009 that was the impetus for my original essay launching the John Galt Pledge, along with this accompanying blog. You can find past articles on the subj
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The New Professionalism
11-11-2012
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The Agitator
Florida cop responding to a report of a stolen motorcycle snoops around a cemetery at night, knocks on the door to an equipment shed without identifying himself. Cemetery owner is in the shed, hears the knock, fears he’s being robbed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Denmark to scrap world’s first fat tax
11-11-2012
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AFP
“The fat tax and the extension of the chocolate tax " the so-called sugar tax " has been criticized for increasing prices for consumers, increasing companies’ administrative costs and putting Danish jobs at risk,” the Danish tax ministry said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police officer shot by partner trying to kill dog
11-11-2012
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FOX News
A Memphis Police officer was shot near the downtown area. The officer was serving a warrant when he was shot. He is listed in critical condition. Bryant was accidentally shot by a fellow officer who was trying to shoot a pit bull, but missed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
A celebration of our veterans on Veterans Day (previously Armistice Day)
11-11-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Remembering those millions of young men whose lives were cruelly taken away from them by the imperialist warmongers who waged the First World War. The song is "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Shane McGowan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Foreign air power is crucial to Mali battle plan
11-11-2012
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Reuters
Malian troops backed by foreign air power will lead the assault to recapture Timbuktu and other northern cities from al Qaeda-linked militants, under a battle plan now being considered, Malian army sources said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
After Obama's re-election, financial stocks cringe
11-11-2012
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AP
Financial stocks are less than enthusiastic about an Obama second term.
US stocks plunged across the board, the day after President Barack Obama was decisively re-elected. But no segment of the market was hit harder than the financial industry
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Remembering a Peace Veteran
11-11-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
As the media and other voices of the state continue to twist Armistice Day into another War-Lovers holiday, I am reminded of a genuine hero from World War I. A man, Howard Moore, who had been ordered to report for military service in that war.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Government wants absolute rule over you
11-11-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The New York Times, house organ of New York City’s government (regardless of whose administration currently lords it over the serfs), hints ever so gently that Our Rulers should have absolute power to make mandatory evacuations, um, mandatory
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Greek Parliament passes 2013 austerity budget with comfortable majority
11-11-2012
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Washington Post
Greek lawmakers approved the country’s 2013 austerity budget, an essential step in Greece’s efforts to persuade its international creditors to unblock a vital rescue loan installment without which the country will go bankrupt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Unitary vs. Federal Power Structures; States Rights
11/11/2012
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Socio-Economic For the Majority
A call to place States Rights as a Constitutional Right through a Constitutional Convention - or perhaps you just want to continue fighting for the rest of our lives.
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H. Skip Robinson
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Is Every Single Elephant a Village-Wrecking Booze Hound?
11-11-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Eli MacKinnon
"Marauding pack of booze-addled elephants wreak havoc on Indian village." It's a story, or at least a headline, that's surprisingly common.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Identical Twins Are Genetically Different, Research Suggests
11-11-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Tia Ghose
Identical twins may not be so identical after all. Even though identical twins supposedly share all of their DNA, they acquire hundreds of genetic changes early in development that could set them on different paths, according to new research.
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News Link • Environment
Undersea Gas Leaks Discovered Off Israel's Coast
11-11-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Megan Gannon
Beneath the seafloor in northern Israel's Haifa Bay, a vast system of vents is leaking gassy emissions into the eastern Mediterranean Sea, scientists have discovered.
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News Link • How To
How To Overcome The Skills Gap And Stay Competitive
11-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Melissa Stanger
The rate of unemployment is actually higher now than it was at the start of the recession.
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News Link • Communications
Solving the Smartphone-Dashboard Disconnect With Developers
11-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Doug Newcomb
Automakers are racing to get apps in the dash, with varying degrees of success.
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News Link • Government
Petraeus Resigns From CIA After Feds Uncover ‘Extramarital Affair’
11-11-2012
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By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman
Petraeus told CIA employees Friday in a letter that he was stepping down “for personal reasons…
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News Link • Art
Origami Owlets and Other Foldable Creature Cuteness
11-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Daniela Hernandez
First, we brought you RoboZoo. And while mechanical animals are cool, we still love paper. So we rounded up an ark-full of origami bears, birds and bugs.
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News Link • Biofuel
Kior ‘Biocrude’ Plant a Step toward Advanced Biofuels
11-11-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Martin LaMonica
A Kior plant in Mississippi will start shipping fuel made from wood chips as planned as it chases large-scale production.
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News Link • Inventions
A Carbon Microthread That Makes Contact with the Mind
11-11-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Antonio Regala
An ultrathin electrode spun from a single carbon fiber can record neurons in living animals.
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News Link • Government
A War-Criminal Resigns... Because of an Affair
11-11-2012
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Free Press Publications
David Petraeus Resignation: "nothing to do with Benghazi"
President Obama became the first President since FDR to win re-election by a small margin than his initial election (Obama receive 8 million fewer votes and 33 fewer Electoral Votes in
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Darryl W. Perry
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Opinion • Police State
Ray McGovern: My Take
Pundit Tears for Petraeus’s Fall
11-11-2012
Ray McGovern
A day after the surprise announcement that CIA Director David Petraeus was resigning because of marital infidelity, the pundits continue to miss the supreme irony. None other than the head of the CIA (and former bemedaled four-star general) has becom
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Coming to Washington? The eight unsettled House races
11-09-2012
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http://www.cnn.com
Parker might have Libertarian candidate Powell Gammill to blame if he does not win. Gammill won more than 6% of the vote in Tuesday's election despite urging supporters to stay home rather than vote on Election Day in protest of the political system.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Political Parties
Republicans Rage as the Great Burning Arrives
11-09-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Republicans descend into civil war as Tea Party movement vows to drive party further to the right ...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
EU's Plight: Sadism or a Cold-Blooded Takedown?
11-09-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Who will stop the Sado-Monetarists as jobless youth hits 58pc in Greece? Greek unemployment rose to 25.4pc in August. Youth unemployment rose to 58pc.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
TSA Opt Out Week Coming!!
11-09-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
This Thanksgiving, Infowars.com is giving thanks for the First Amendment
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Armored truck with cameras will roam St. Pete neighborhoods
11-09-2012
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http://www.myfoxtampabay.com, By, Steve Nichols
Coming soon to a St. Petersburg neighborhood near you: an armored truck that you cannot miss and that cannot miss you, at least not with the four cameras mounted behind bullet-resistant glass, pointed in all four directions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Greece Says Cash Reserves Almost Depleted
11-09-2012
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http://www.cnbc.com, By: Reuters
Greece is fast running out of cash while it awaits the next tranche of its 130-billion euro ($165.16 billion) international bailout that is keeping it afloat, a deputy finance minister said on Friday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Baltimore announces city-wide surveillance roll out that records passenger conversations...
11-09-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: J. D. Heyes
Baltimore announces city-wide surveillance roll out that records passenger conversations on city buses
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
'Next Bush' makes campaign filing in Texas
11-09-2012
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http://apnews.myway.com, By SCHUYLER DIXON
George P. Bush, a nephew of former President George W. Bush and son of one-time Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has made a campaign filing in Texas that is required of candidates planning to run for state office, an official said Thursday night.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Cash-free Greek communities take off while economy collapses
11-09-2012
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http://metronews.ca, By Kieron Monks
The early morning peace is shattered by the sound of Pan’s saw biting through wooden planks as he constructs a new table. “There are no rules,” he says, “but we all have jobs. We’re not here to screw around.”
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Montana Voters Overwhelmingly Said That Corporations Aren't People
11-09-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Erin Fuchs
A whopping 75 percent of Montana's voters approved an initiative Tuesday stating corporations are not people.
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News Link • Inventions
The Decades That Invented the Future, Part 4: 1931-1940
11-09-2012
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http://www.wired.com
Today's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
ELON MUSK: 'If We Published Patents, It Would Be Farcical'
11-09-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kim Bhasin
The patent system has been getting a lot of heat lately, especially with the high-profile fight between Apple and Samsung.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
3D-Printed Rockets Help Propel NASA’s Space Launch System
11-09-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Philippa Warr
Parts for the rocket engines of NASA’s Space Launch System will be created using a method of 3D-printing known as selective laser melting.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
View Internet Porn, Get Blackmailed By Hackers
11-09-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julie Bort
Hackers have discovered a new way to part computer uses with their money. They plant malware on a computer that threatens to report the computer user to the police for viewing or distributing porn.
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News Link • China
There Are 500 Trillion Cubic Feet Of Gas Under Those Disputed Islands In The South China Sea
11-09-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Adam Taylor
While China's leadership transition captured the world's attention, it was away from that spotlight that the Chinese state revealed a crucial bit of information that says a lot about what motivates its foreign policy.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Forget Everything You've Heard About 'Winning' In Afghanistan
11-09-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Gary Owen
It’s been a bit of a rough week here in Afghanistan, punctuated by at least one good thing: the first professional boxing match in Afghanistan in over 30 years.
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News Link • Government
Super Weapons and Global Dominion
11-09-2012
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lewrockwell, by Alfred McCoy and Tom Engelhardt
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Cold War was commonly said to have partially plunged "into the shadows" as a secret, off-the-grid, spy-versus-spy conflict fought between the planet's two superpowers.
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News Link • Drug War
Feds move to seize OR medical marijuana properties
11-09-2012
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http://www.seattlepi.com, AP
The federal government is attempting to seize two properties near Medford that were used to grow medical marijuana.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Voter Turnout Plunges Throughout the Western World … Largely Due to Political Corruption
11-09-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by George Washington
Less People Voted than in 2004 or 2008
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Marc Faber's Asset Protection Plan: 'Buy a Machine Gun,' No Really, 'You're Righ
11-09-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Tyler Durden
Trish Regan and Adam Johnson do their best to hold themselves together in this sublime rant by 'Gloom, Boom & Doom's Marc Faber on Bloomberg TV as he sees Obama's re-election as "very negative for the economy".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
"I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did." - Ron Paul
11-09-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by P.Au.L
Paul took his message to campuses such as the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin
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News Link • Government
“Renounce citizenship” is now one of the fastest growing search terms in Google
11-09-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, Simon Black
According to Google’s trend analysis, keyword searches for terms like “renounce citizenship” have soared in the past week.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Report Raises Questions About Central Bank Gold Holdings
11-09-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by John Browne
For years I have cautioned that changes in the ownership of gold held in the vaults of key central banks around the globe may not have been accurately reported.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The Pressure’s on for Intel
11-09-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Mike Orcutt
Intel missed out on the shift to mobile computing. Now it finds itself in a precarious position.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Now EU Seeks to Ban the Family
11-09-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Critics said the proposals for 'study materials' to be amended so that men and women are no longer depicted in their traditional roles would mean the withdrawal of children's classics, such as Enid Blyton's The Famous Five series, Paddington Bear or
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News Link • Republic for the united States of America
I-Team investigates shadow government
11-09-2012
We attended the October meeting of the California Assembly of the Republic for the united States of America. People from all over the state, including the Bay Area, gather in the Central Valley town of Visalia once a month to plan for the future.
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News Link • Property Rights
In Defense of Private Property Rights
11-09-2012
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The Rutherford Institute
Rutherford Institute Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Affirm Landlord’s Right to be Free From Warrantless Searches of Private Residences
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Poll: One-Third of Americans Would Accept Cavity Searches By TSA
11-09-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
Citizens now treat security officials as naturally posing unchecked authority over their lives. Almost 60 percent found that a law allowing for the arrest of citizens would be appropriate if they disobey any order by a TSA agent.
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Opinion • Obama Administration
No Change
11-09-2012
Chuck Baldwin
As everybody on the planet knows now, Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States. Democrats retained control of the US Senate, while Republicans retained control of the US House of Representatives. In other words, the national electio
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