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Date Sent: 2013-03-16
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, March 15, 2013 |
US to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances -- Assault weapons ban passed heated Senate hearing
Burt Rutan's New Project: A Seaplane for Any Surface -- Higgs-Boson Discovery All but Confirmed.. -- 03-15-13 -- Stewart Rhodes - Brandon Smith - (Video & MP3 LOADED) -- How the America Invents Act Will Change Patenting Forever -- U.N. Drone Inquisitor Says It’s Time to End Robot War in Pakistan -- Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free — Until You Get a Job -- Why Immigration Is a Top Priority for US Labor -- Companies Are Putting Sensors On Employees To Track Their Every Move -- Elon Musk Refuses To File Patents At His High-Tech Private Space Company -- Getting off the Globalist Chessboard (Part 1): An Introduction (by Stewart Rhodes/Brandon Smith) -- Farm Subsidies Must Die -- Leviathan’s A Green-Eyed Monster -- Ron Paul Calls For 'Total' Liberty; Disparages Buy And Hold -- The perfect slave -- American Winter - Documentary Trailer -- Feinstein: "Do they need a Bazooka?!?" - The eminently reasonable answer may surprise you. -- Bankruptcy Lawyer Is Named to Manage an Ailing Detroit --
President Obama: I'm no Dick Cheney on drones -- Appeal for Maryland
7-year-old suspended for nibbling pastry into shape of a gun -- Kyle Bass Warns "The 'AIG' Of The World Is Back" -- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is accused of hiding information about big losses -- The SPLC Is At It Agan - by Chuck Baldwin -- Dispute over high-risk prisoners threatens to derail U.S.-Afghan talks -- Here's The Invitation To The Secret Floating Strip Club That Was Made Just For Wall Streeters -- After Recent 'Successes' in Region, France Ready to Arm Syrian Rebels -- How To Buy Any Illegal Drug You Want On The Secret Internet For Criminals -- John Stossel's Illegal Everything - You Are Probably a Felon and Don't Know It!
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 • Surveillance
EXCLUSIVE - U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances
03-15-2013
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Reuters
The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Assault weapons ban passed at heated Senate hearing
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
In addition to the assault weapons ban, the committee approved a bill making the practice of illegally purchasing firearms for someone else a federal crime, and expanding the nation’s gun background check and funding school security plans.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Burt Rutan's New Project: A Seaplane for Any Surface
03-15-2013
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http://www.popularmechanics.com
Burt Rutan, who officially retired in April 2011, reveals exclusively to Popular Mechanics today that he has devised "a new concept for a seaplane that may allow for operation from any surface: water, snow, grass, and hard surface."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday March 15th 2013
03-15-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Get Ready for the GOP Cave-In on Gun Control / A 20-Year War Against Americans? Ralph Benko on the Department of Homeland Security / Conservatives Are Wrong on Guns, Libertarians are right
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
How the America Invents Act Will Change Patenting Forever
03-15-2013
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Wired.com
On Saturday, around 18 months after President Obama signed it into law, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act will take effect.
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News Link • Drones
Prototype Drone Boat Gets Upgraded for an Epic Atlantic Crossing
03-15-2013
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Wired.com
A year ago, Greg Holloway set out to build an ocean drone, based on the tiny Raspberry Pi $35 computer.
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News Link • Drones
U.N. Drone Inquisitor Says It’s Time to End Robot War in Pakistan
03-15-2013
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Wired.com
After days of meeting with Pakistani officials, the United Nations official investigating Washington’s global campaign of drone strikes attacked the legal and strategic basis for the robotic war in its biggest battlefield.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free " Until You Get a Job
03-15-2013
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Wired.com
In a few months, another graduating class of college students will stumble out into an unforgiving job market weighed down by staggering debt.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Snoop Lion Chooses Peace Over Pimping in Reincarnated
03-15-2013
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Wired.com
Almost the entire time Snoop is on screen in the new documentary Reincarnated, he’s grinning ear-to-ear. And it’s not just the weed. The man is truly happy.
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
Parallel Universe’ of Life Described Far Beneath the Bottom of the Sea
03-15-2013
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Wired.com
Deep beneath the ocean floor off the Pacific Northwest coast, scientists have described the existence of a potentially vast realm of life, one almost completely disconnected from the world above.
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News Link • Science
Sweet Potato DNA Indicates Early Polynesians Traveled to South America
03-15-2013
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arclein
Initial DNA analysis done on sweet potato samples found in several locations around the world revealed that its history is varied and cloudy at best, with several varieties mixing to create a mish-mash that doesn't provide many answers. To help clea
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Why Immigration Is a Top Priority for US Labor
03-15-2013
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arclein
Today, labor is one of the key forces pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in Washington, DC. To learn more about the movement's advocacy and more about how unions transformed themselves into outspoken champions of immigrant rights, I spoke
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robert klein
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Shipyard Worker Imprisoned After Setting Submarine On Fire So He Could Leave Work
03-15-2013
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Business Insider
After setting fire to a nuclear submarine so he could get out of work, a 25-year-old shipyard employee has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of $400 million, AP reports.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rat Brain Sharing
03-15-2013
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arclein
Remarkably, the communication between the rats was two-way. If the receiving rat failed at the task, the first rat was not rewarded with a drink, and appeared to change its behaviour to make the task easier for its partner. In further experiments, th
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News Link • Food
Arclein Diet a Complete Success
03-15-2013
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arclein
What we set out to achieve is not an actual fast so much as establishing offsetting cycles of dormancy and normal digestion.
Why we need to do this is simple empirical science. Our digestive tract on been fully engaged will hold 125% of its daily
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Here's Samsung's Brilliantly Bizarre S4 Event That Had The Tech World Freaking Out
03-15-2013
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Business Insider
Samsung is often accused of copying Apple. Last night, no one was saying that.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Zappos Is Building An Intentionally Inconvenient Office In Downtown Las Vegas
03-15-2013
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Business Insider
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh recently jumped into the debate over working from home that was sparked by Yahoo's recall of its remote workers, telling CNBC that he feels that it's difficult to build a strong company culture when you have lots of telecommuter
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News Link • Obama Administration
Donald Trump Just Gave A Nonsensical Speech, And Even Conservatives Were Dumbstruck
03-15-2013
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Business Insider
Donald Trump gave his highly anticipated speech at CPAC Friday morning, and all anyone is talking about now is how confusing and terrible it was.
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News Link • New World Order
Getting off the Globalist Chessboard (Part 1): An Introduction (by Stewart Rhodes/Brandon Smith)
03-15-2013
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Oathkeepers
To put it simply, America is nearing a checkmate scenario. Like the final torrid maneuvers of a rigged chess match, we have been pressed, manipulated, and attacked into the last remaining corner of the “grand global chessboard” left to us; centraliz
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
Farm Subsidies Must Die
03-15-2013
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reason.com
How agriculture subsidies waste money, distort the economy, and steal from the poor to give to the rich.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
A New Business Could Change The Way Men Shave
03-15-2013
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Business Insider
It was an ill-fated trip to the drug store that convinced Jeff Raider that there had to be better alternatives for shaving.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New World Order
Getting Off The Globalist Chess Board (Part 2): Safe Haven Relocation
03-15-2013
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Oathkeepers
Ideally, it would be grand if enough Americans across this nation would decouple from the fraudulent fiat system so that they and their communities could be sufficiently strong, independent, and resilient enough to weather the coming storm and walk o
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Leviathan’s A Green-Eyed Monster
03-15-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
It seems the Old Glory crowd at city hall doesn't like rival flags being flown.” The nationalists in “Atlantic Beach, northeast Florida” have ordered the “owners of Culhane's Irish Pub” there to remove the Irish flag they’ve flown for 8 years “becaus
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Trailer - Baghdad Taxi
03-15-2013
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youtube
Director Frédéric Tonolli travels across Iraq in a taxi, shortly after the withdrawal of American troops. At every step of the journey, passengers board his taxi and talk about their daily lives, fears and hopes for the future.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Calls For 'Total' Liberty; Disparages Buy And Hold
03-15-2013
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The focus should be on total individual liberty that allows people to do what they want as long as they don't hurt others, Paul noted, adding that social and economic liberty are connected.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
American Winter - Documentary Trailer
03-15-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Premiering on HBO on March 18, 2013, AMERICAN WINTER is a powerful and timely documentary that follows the stories of eight families struggling to survive in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and reveals the impact of cuts to social services,....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bankruptcy Lawyer Is Named to Manage an Ailing Detroit
03-15-2013
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New York Times
A veteran lawyer who once worked on Chrysler’s bankruptcy was handed the case of bringing Detroit back from the edge of financial collapse. Michigan officials appointed him as emergency manager to oversee operations in Detroit
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News Link • Gun Rights
Feinstein: "Do they need a Bazooka?!?" - The eminently reasonable answer may surprise you.
03-15-2013
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Daily Paul.com
It has been well established that the original intent of the 2nd amendment was to enable the people to defend against tyranny which invariably comes in the form of an overbearing and oppressive government.
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News Link • Drones
President Obama: I'm no Dick Cheney on drones
03-15-2013
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politico.com
President Barack Obama’s defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Kyle Bass Warns "The 'AIG' Of The World Is Back"
03-15-2013
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occupysydney.sharedby.co
Kyle Bass, addressing Chicago Booth's Initiative on Global Markets last week, clarified his thesis on Japan in great detail, but it was the Q&A that has roused great concern.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Appeal for Maryland 7-year-old suspended for nibbling pastry into shape of a gun
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
The father of a 7-year-old suspended from his Anne Arundel County school for nibbling his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun filed a formal appeal asking that the second-grader’s school records be wiped clean of the offense.
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Opinion • Police State
The SPLC Is At It Again
03-15-2013
Chuck Baldwin
Well, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is at it again. In their typical obsessive hate-filled paranoia, the SPLC has issued another baseless assassination piece against anyone whom they consider to be “right-wing.” They call their hit piece, “T
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News Link • Federal Reserve
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is accused of hiding information about big losses
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
Washington dealt 2 blow sto JPMorgan Chase as a Senate report accused its chief executive of hiding information about a massive loss from regulators while the Federal Reserve said it had found a “weakness” in the bank’s capital plans.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Here's The Invitation To The Secret Floating Strip Club That Was Made Just For Wall Streeters
03-15-2013
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Business Insider
The latest Wall Street secret to bubble up to the surface is Saint Venus Theater, the secret roving strip club that was created just for bankers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Dispute over high-risk prisoners threatens to derail U.S.-Afghan talks
03-15-2013
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Washington Post
A dispute over the fate of about three dozen militants held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan has disrupted negotiations over a long-term security agreement to leave U.S. troops in the country after 2014.
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News Link • Syria
After Recent 'Successes' in Region, France Ready to Arm Syrian Rebels
03-15-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
France and Britain announced they are sick of the EU arms embargo on Syria's rebels and have announced that come hell or high water they are about to begin openly providing deadly weapons to those seeking to overthrow Syrian
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News Link • American History
Suffolk Resolves
03-15-2013
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Wikipedia
The Suffolk Resolves was a declaration made on September 9, 1774 by the leaders of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, of which Boston is the major city. The declaration rejected the Massachusetts Government Act and resolved on a boycott of imported goods
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
How To Buy Any Illegal Drug You Want On The Secret Internet For Criminals
03-15-2013
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Business Insider
A website called the Silk Road appears to enable you to buy drugs as easily as you would buy an item on eBay.
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News Link • Healthcare
Appendicitis and TEOTWAWKI, by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD
03-15-2013
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Survivalblog.com
When considering the question of appendicitis at TEOTWAWKI the most important questions are these:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Caring For Moms and Babies in Disastrous Times, by EMT Tina
03-15-2013
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Survivalblog.com
Having a baby under normal circumstances is a great and beautiful thing, but when disaster strikes there’s going to be some issues.
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News Link • Police State
John Stossel's Illegal Everything - You Are Probably a Felon and Don't Know It!
03-15-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I found this on youtube and thought it was worth sharing here on DP. John Stossel covers a lot of mind-boggling laws put out by the government that show just how far we have sunk into tyranny in the United States.
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News Link • Constitution
YOU NEVER LOST THE RIGHT!
3/14/2013
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Bradlee Dean
We have never lost our rights. The government is only here to protect our rights, not take them away. The only way for us to lose our rights is to give them up.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
'After Ever After': Disney Spoof By Jon Cozart Will Blow Your Mind (VIDEO)
03-14-2013
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www.huffingtonpost.com
In case you were wondering what happens after your Disney princesses live happily ever after, Jon Cozart, aka "Paint" has all the answers. And it's not pretty... although his singing is.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Bradley Manning Speaks
03-14-2013
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Free Press Publications
Bradley Manning explains why he leaked some government cables.
Transcript:
I believe that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information, this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and o
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
How to Extract Water From Thin Air " Part 2
03/14/2013
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suntactics.com
We live in unpredictable times, we face nationwide blackouts, nuclear war, and water shortages. It’s been projected that two-thirds of the earth’s population will live in ‘water stressed’ areas by 2025. Water is the most important element for surviva
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News Link • Corruption
Florida lieutenant governor resigns, 57 others charged in scandal
03-13-2013
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Washington Post
Florida’s lieutenant governor resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a scandal involving a purported veterans charity that authorities said Wednesday was a front for a $300 million gambling operation.
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News Link • Military
Military sexual assault victims detail humiliation
03-13-2013
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AP
Victims of sexual assault and violence in the military told Congress Wednesday they're afflicted with a slow and uncaring system of justice that too often fails to hold perpetrators accountable and is fraught with institutional bias.
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