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Date Sent: 2013-03-08
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, March 8, 2013 |
John Brennan confirmed as CIA director following White House drone statement
Aaron Swartz’s grand jury: State-enforced betrayal -- Maryland: Execution Ban Advances -- Michigan Sen. Carl Levin will not seek reelection -- U.N. Security Council approves new sanctions against North Korea -- Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law captured, turned over to U.S. -- Venezuela's Chavez to be embalmed for public view -- E-hail app to order yellow cabs in NYC blocked by judge -- Holder: No drone strikes on American citizens ‘not engaged in combat’ -- IT'S WAR: John McCain And Lindsey Graham Just Ripped Into Rand Paul On The Senate Floor -- Gas prices rising, just as Obama planned -- Private SpaceX Capsule Brings Big Science to Space Station -- Making Venezuela safe for the Banksters -- Did US Cancer Weapon Kill Hugo Chavez? -- Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By The Monopoly Men Of The Global Elite -- Reality Check - Sen. Rand Paul's Talking Filibuster of John Brennan -- I am an advocate of a stateless society... Anyone want to debate? -- Peymon Mottahedeh's Freedom Law School Freedom Rally 2013, March 8-11th, 2013 - Ontario, CA -- Warning! Dump your bitcoins! -- BitCoin CIA Connection -- Establishing a Community of Like-Minded People - by P.S. in Virginia -- Bernanke Drives Bull Market to 4th Birthday, 130 Percent Gain
AZ: FIRST EVER PRIVATE GUN SHOW - this Sat, March 9th,
2013 in Lakeside, AZ; Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction
with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
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News Link • Obama Administration
John Brennan confirmed as CIA director following White House drone statement
03-07-2013
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Washington Post
John O. Brennan was confirmed as CIA director on Thursday afternoon, after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) expressed satisfaction with the response he had received to his questions about the Obama administration’s drone program.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Aaron Swartz’s grand jury: State-enforced betrayal
03-07-2013
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Salon
non-cooperation with a grand jury is possible but carries great risk. Despite the fact that witnesses are offered immunity from criminal prosecution " and thus self-indictment " if they refuse to talk they can be held in federal custody for 18 months
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Maryland: Execution Ban Advances
03-07-2013
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AP
A push to abolish the death penalty in Maryland cleared a major hurdle on Wednesday when the Senate approved the measure, which appears to have support in the House and the backing of Gov. Martin O’Malley.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Michigan Sen. Carl Levin will not seek reelection
03-07-2013
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Washington Post
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) will not seek reelection in 2014, he announced Thursday afternoon, saying he wanted to focus on the nation’s challenges rather than politics.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
In Peru, Engineers Make Water out of Thin Air
03-07-2013
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Make Magazine
Lima’s University of Engineering & Technology (UTEC) recently erected this water-producing billboard along the Panamericana Sur, or Panamerican Highway, in the village of Bujama. While the coasts of Peru have humidity levels averaging around 98 perce
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News Link • China
U.N. Security Council approves new sanctions against North Korea
03-07-2013
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Washington Post
The sanctions, drafted by the US and China and approved unanimously, were adopted against a backdrop of apocalyptic rhetoric from Pyongyang, including a threat to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against foreign “aggressors,”
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News Link • TERRORISM
Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law captured, turned over to U.S.
03-07-2013
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Washington Post
A former spokesman for al-Qaeda and son-in-law of its founder, Osama bin Laden, was captured overseas and secretly brought to New York this month to face a criminal trial for allegedly conspiring to kill Americans, U.S. officials said Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Venezuela's Chavez to be embalmed for public view
03-07-2013
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Reuters
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and put on display "for eternity" at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
E-hail app to order yellow cabs in NYC blocked by judge
03-07-2013
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Reuters
A pilot program that would allow people in New York City to hail yellow cabs using a smartphone app was blocked by a judge on Thursday, handing a victory to private car companies that have said the program threatens their business.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Holder: No drone strikes on American citizens ‘not engaged in combat’
03-07-2013
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The Ticket
Attorney General Eric Holder has responded to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's question about whether the federal government can legally use a drone strike against an American citizen on U.S. soil if the person is "not engaged in combat":
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News Link • Drones
IT'S WAR: John McCain And Lindsey Graham Just Ripped Into Rand Paul On The Senate Floor
03-07-2013
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Business Insider
U.S. Sen. John McCain blasted fellow Republican Rand Paul on the Senate floor this morning for his 13-hour filibuster to block John Brennan's confirmation as CIA Director.
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show on KQCK Live
03-07-2013
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Youtube
Mike Wasdin fills in for Marc Victor on the Attorney for Freedom Show. Mike and his Guest Johnny Ray discuss "What's in our food?" and many other issues.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Obama Administration
Gas prices rising, just as Obama planned
03-07-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
Last week, Nevada gasoline prices averaged $3.75 at the pump " a leap of 59 cents since the beginning of the year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private SpaceX Capsule Brings Big Science to Space Station
03-07-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Miriam Kramer
The International Space Station is now home to more than 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms) of supplies delivered by an unmanned, privately built space capsule that reached the orbiting science laboratory on Sunday (March 3).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Making Venezuela safe for the Banksters
03-07-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Now that Hugo Chávez is out of the way in Venezuela, the banksters are free to move forward with the effort to loot and pillage the oil-rich nation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Special Report: Did US Cancer Weapon Kill Hugo Chavez?
03-07-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Could the Venezuelan leader’s death have been chemically induced by means of an exotic cancer bio-weapon?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Corporatism: A System Of Control Designed By The Monopoly Men Of The Global Elite
03-07-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Snyder
The Dow is at a record high and so are corporate profits " so why does it feel like most of the country is deeply suffering right now?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
5 Longest Filibusters in U.S. History
03-07-2013
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http://usgovinfo.about.com, Tom Murse
The longest filibusters in American political history can be measured in hours, not minutes. They were conducted on the floor of the U.S. Senate during charged debates on civil rights, public debt and the military.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Reality Check - Sen. Rand Paul's Talking Filibuster of John Brennan
03-07-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, meowmixeater
Filibuster ended after almost 13 hrs. TY Sen. Rand Paul.
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Rand Paul Filibuster Entire Transcript
03-07-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, MindlessPaulBot
Here are the unedited transcripts of Rand Paul's marathon filibuster.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
I am an advocate of a stateless society... Anyone want to debate?
03-07-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, hairydodger
I just saw a thread that prompted me to offer a place to go to debate this topic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie at Pollack Tempe Cinemas - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ
03-07-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Liberty Coin and Precious Metals along with our friends at FreedomsPhoenix.com will be helping put on a one-night event to remember at the Pollack Cinema! We will have tickets available here, or pending the show isn't sold out, you can purchase your
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stanford Researchers Build Complex Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes
03-07-2013
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Technologyreview.com
A simple sensor circuit made of hard-to-handle but promising carbon nanotubes is a first step in making the materials practical for computing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Africa ... Next China?
03-07-2013
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The Daily Bell
Celebrations are in order on the poorest continent. Never in the half-century since it won independence from the colonial powers has Africa been in such good shape.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conferences
Peymon Mottahedeh's Freedom Law School Freedom Rally 2013, March 8-11th, 2013 - Ontario, CA
03-07-2013
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Freedom Law School
This 4-day event includes a seminar on how to "Legally Beat IRS Assessments and Collections" featuring Donald Macpherson (BeatIRS.com). We will also have 10 of the most exciting Freedom speakers in the country, a seminar on "Stopping Home Mortgage F
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Warning! Dump your bitcoins!
03-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Remember what happened to the Facebook pump and dump scheme?
Remember when bit coin dropped to 0?
There is nothing backing bitcoin execpt computer code. Don't be a chump. Dump your bitcoins before they drop in value significantly.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
BitCoin CIA Connection
03-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
BitCoin is a ponzi scheme.
When you take something of no value, then set the value based on demand, you still have something with no value.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Unintended Consequences - DOWNLOAD PDF, MOBI, OR AZW File of book (UPDATED 2019-09-18)
02-20-2013
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Accurate Press
The next printing is going to be softcover and will probably be priced at $28.95 and $6 shipping. Download PDF, MOBI or AZW of entire book - NOW While you still can. Also available on AccuratePress.Net and Amazon (links provided)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Letter Re: A Newbie's Perspective on Raising Chickens
03-07-2013
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Survivalblog.com
To follow up on chicken coop design article "A Newbie's Perspective on Raising Chickens", please consider:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Establishing a Community of Like-Minded People, by P.S. in Virginia
03-07-2013
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Survivalblog.com
Whenever you read fiction stories about surviving TEOTWAWKI, reading articles here on SurvivalBlog or any other similar site.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Gentlemen, Start Your Presses
03-07-2013
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The Daily Bell
In his Congressional testimony last week in Washington, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke took time to downplay the significance of the few dissenting voices on the Fed's Open Market Committee (FOMC).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
I've Fired The New York Times
03-07-2013
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The Daily Bell
For years I subscribed to The New York Times online. Then I took the Sunday Times only for a couple of years but they managed to annoy me nearly as much as the daily edition
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
With Italy's Election, the EU Chasm Grows
03-07-2013
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The Daily Bell
Italy's Bersani on collision course with Germany and ECB over austerity ... Italy's Pier Luigi Bersani vowed to break free of the country's austerity regime as he laid out plans for a centre-Left government, risking a serious clash with Germany and t
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Insect Wings: Nature's Most Violent Antimicrobial? [Video]
03-07-2013
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popsci.com
Nanoscale spikes in cicada wings behave like a medieval torture device, ripping bacteria to shreds.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
I’m Losing My Edge: 7 Knife Sharpeners Reviewed
03-07-2013
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Wired.com
In my family, there was a Christmas ritual that went along with the usual routine of piling all the kids in the car and heading over to grandmother's house. We also piled all the kitchen knives into the car.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Strap-On Computer Will Do for Paragliding What Deep Blue Did for Chess
03-07-2013
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Wired.com
POKHARA, Nepal " Calin Popa is about to leap from a sharp edge on Sarangkot Mountain wearing a Tupperware box laden with wires and blinking LED lights. It looks something like a bomb, but could be the future of paragliding.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started
03-07-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Smartphones, tablets, and wireless data plans are already a trillion-dollar business. It’s just the beginning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Drives Bull Market to 4th Birthday, 130 Percent Gain
03-07-2013
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cnbc.com
One of the longest and most powerful equity bull markets in history turns 4 years old today. And traders believe there is just one man to thank: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Russell Crowe captures UFO on camera at Sydney's Botanic Gardens
03-07-2013
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news.com
Crowe, the co-owner of South Sydney Rabbitohs and a Twitter fan, said he captured what appears to be several flying objects whizzing over Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens earlier this week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
FBI Investigating Unidentified Drone Spotted Near JFK Airport
03-06-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday it is investigating an unidentified black drone an Alitalia pilot said he encountered while approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
03-06-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Birgitta Jónsdótt
February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, the former Secretary of State in Tunisia for Sport & Youth nominated Private Bradley M
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The New Era in Gold Repatriation Will Affect Everything
03-06-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Staff Report
Mexico to audit its gold holdings at the Bank of England ...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
RARE! Dr. Ronald Ernest Paul Rockin' an AR15! No Really! From 1989.
03-06-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, AnCapMercenary
Is the right to firearms really essential? Doctor and Congressman Ron Paul reminds us that freedom to defend yourself is natural and proper.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syrian rebels seize UN peacekeepers in Golan (+video)
03-06-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
Syrian rebels are holding about 20 UN peacekeepers who monitor the Israel-Syria border in an attempt to force the withdrawal of Syrian Army forces from a nearby village.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
The State Rep from Keene doesn't think the gas tax discussion is worth 100% of her attention.
03-06-2013
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FreeKeene.com
Cynthia Chase Photographed Playing Solitaire During State House Testimony
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Russian Leader Demands Investigation of Chavez’ Death
03-06-2013
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Prison Planet
Head of Communist Party says simultaneous cancers of Latin-American politicians was “far from a coincidence”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoins $48.00... Rises while FIAT currency continue to fall
03-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Hey Everyone,
Back here with an update on Bitcoin. It's trading at about $46.50 this morning and as I predicted well on it's way to $100 and over.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Nationwide SWAT Teams being investigated and not cooperating.
03-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Some times your enemies enemy can be your friend. And I know it's from that despicable HuffPost but I haven't seen this elsewhere.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Minimum Wage
03-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I would hope that all of us agree that the idea of a govt-mandated minimum wage has nothing to do with a free market. That said, I have a couple questions concerning it....
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News Link • WAR: About that War
You're Not Supposed To See This (For Your Protection)
03-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
War is hell. Your government loves you. When you love something you make it be free. Government protects you from seeing the hell they make.
They free you to not see. You are free. Now go away.
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News Link • Police State
Rand Paul On Hannity: Drone Strikes on US Citizens on US Soil
03-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Rand Paul exposes Obamas ability to attack American Citizens with drones. This is unconstitutional and basically gives him a license to kill!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
How Hugo Chavez Masterfully Trolled the United States on Twitter, TV
03-06-2013
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Wired.com
Chavez responded to the fall of Tripoli like this: “We must stop the unleashed imperial madness! World, good world, humane world, do not be overwhelmed by the barbarism!”
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News Link • Iraq
Over $8B of the Money You Spent Rebuilding Iraq Was Wasted Outright
03-06-2013
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Wired.com
The legacy of all the money the U.S. wasted in Iraq might be summed up with a single quote. “$55 billion could have brought great change in Iraq,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently told the U.S.’s Iraq auditor
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News Link • Afghanistan
Military Decides You Shouldn’t See Key Data on Afghan Insurgency
03-06-2013
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Wired.com
One of the major metrics for the decade-long Afghanistan war is seriously flawed. Rather than fix the problem, the U.S.-NATO military command in Kabul has decided that you simply shouldn’t see the data.
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News Link • History
Holocaust Gets More Shocking
03-06-2013
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arclein
The documented camps include not only “killing centers” but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named “care” centers, where pregnant women were forced to have a
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Coming Hunger Games: Young People Forced To Serve, Kill and Die
03-06-2013
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lewrockwell.com/jeff berwick
Even if these young people don't become cannon fodder, they will literally be forced to perform unpaid labor for their government. Last we checked unpaid labor at gunpoint satisfied the definition of slavery.
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