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Date Sent: 2013-03-26
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, March 26, 2013 |
US Training Syrian Forces in Jordan -- Troopers Indicted In Roadside Cavity Search Of Women
Cyprus banks remain closed to avert run on deposits -- Mossad agent hanged self in suicide-proof cell after passing intel to Hezbollah --
Freedom to Travel gets its day in court -- Defense contractor accused
of espionage had worked in deterrence at US Pacific Command -- South Korea, US sign go to war deal against North Korea's 'provocations' -- Health Insurers Warn on Premiums -- Somali national held aboard Navy ship pleaded guilty, U.S. officials say -- Kerry and Karzai smooth over tensions as Afghans take control of detention center --
Chinese citizen sentenced in military data-theft case -- Warning It
Started - Police Brutality Unlawful Entry, Cops Bully & Threat To
Take -- World's First Bitcoin ATM Is Announced - First Location: Cyprus -- Billy Corgan: Total Paradigm Shift, Something Greater Than Fear --
If the Military’s Future Stealth Jet Fails, the Navy’s Got a Backup Plan
-- The Cyprus Fiasco Is A Metaphor For The Entire Global Financial System -- Yahoo Buys A Mobile News Startup Founded By A 15-Year-Old For $30 Million
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
TICKETS NOW ON SALE - April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ
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News Link • Syria
Officials: US Training Syrian Forces in Jordan
03-25-2013
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ABC News
The US is training secular Syrian fighters in Jordan in a bid to bolster forces battling President Assad's regime and stem the influence of Islamist radicals among the country's persistently splintered opposition, American and foreign officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Troopers Indicted After Roadside Cavity Search Of Two Women
03-25-2013
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CBS News (video)
One of the troopers, Kelley Helleson, who left the courthouse after testifying Friday, is charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of official oppression. She was seen on dashcam video searching the body cavities
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
Cyprus banks remain closed to avert run on deposits
03-25-2013
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Reuters
The president of Cyprus assured his people a bailout deal he struck with the European Union was in their best interests, but banks will remain closed until Thursday - and even then subject to capital controls to prevent a run on deposits.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Mossad agent hanged self in suicide-proof cell after passing intel to Hezbollah
03-25-2013
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AFP
A man identified by media as an Australian-Israeli Mossad agent and found hanged in a Tel Aviv jail had passed secrets to Hezbollah before his death, an influential German magazine reported Sunday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Freedom to Travel gets its day in court
03-25-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
I was not optimistic that Freedom To Travel would carry the day in a lawsuit against the TSA, but they're scored a legal victory in the preliminaries, so heartiest congrats to them!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Defense contractor accused of espionage had worked in deterrence at US Pacific Command
03-25-2013
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AP
A civilian defense contractor accused of giving his Chinese girlfriend military secrets worked on developing military plans to deter potential U.S. enemies. Benjamin Bishop, 59, says he worked as a planner on “extended deterrence”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
South Korea, US sign go to war deal against North Korea's 'provocations'
03-25-2013
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BBC News
"This allows both nations to jointly respond to the North's local provocations, with the South taking the lead and the US in support," South Korean defense ministry spokesman said. "It will have the effect of preventing the North from daring to provo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Health Insurers Warn on Premiums
03-25-2013
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Wall Street Journal
Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting that rates could
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Somali national held aboard Navy ship pleaded guilty, U.S. officials say
03-25-2013
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Washington Post
A Somali national indicted on federal terrorism charges pleaded guilty nearly a year and a half ago, Justice Department officials announced Monday, disclosing a previously secret agreement with prosecutors.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Kerry and Karzai smooth over tensions as Afghans take control of detention center
03-25-2013
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Washington Post
Karzai’s rhetoric was noticeably muted at Monday’s news conference with Kerry, where he focused largely on his appreciation of the U.S. contribution in Afghanistan. With the handover of the Parwan detention center and the U.S. announcement
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Chinese citizen sentenced in military data-theft case
03-25-2013
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Washington Post
Sixing Liu, a Chinese citizen who worked at L-3’s space and navigation division, was sentenced in federal court here to five years and 10 months for taking thousands of files about the device, called a disk resonator gyroscope, and other defense syst
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Warning It Started - Police Brutality Unlawful Entry, Cops Bully & Threat To Take
03-25-2013
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www.youtube.com
Quoted from his Video - "You have no rights. I was warned to stop posting police brutality videos of coral springs dirty cops. The next day you see by this video I was illegally invaded for posting videos of the truth. F###########CK!!!
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
World's First Bitcoin ATM Is Announced - First Location: Cyprus
03-25-2013
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http://dollarvigilante.com
While European politicos negotiate in Brussels, deciding the fate of other people's money in Cyprus, the free market has already moved in to help Cypriots get access to their money via other means...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Billy Corgan: Total Paradigm Shift, Something Greater Than Fear
03-25-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
Smashing Pumpkins founder and lead singer Billy Corgan joined Alex Jones once again in studio for a powerful interview. In this excerpt, Corgan analyzes the momentum of the infowar, while hinting at an even greater awakening hindered only by populati
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
If the Military’s Future Stealth Jet Fails, the Navy’s Got a Backup Plan
03-25-2013
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Wired.com
The U.S. Navy is carefully backing away from the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program "
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Are Your Doctor’s Hands Clean? This Wristband Knows
03-25-2013
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Technologyreview.com
An RFID-reading, motion-sensing wristband buzzes to tell health-care workers if they are washing their hands properly.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - International
The Cyprus Fiasco Is A Metaphor For The Entire Global Financial System
03-25-2013
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Business Insider
Of course, everybody should have been worried a lot sooner than last week because the basic operating system of global banking is accounting fraud...
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
The Overly-Attached Girlfriend Explains What It's Like Being A Wildly Popular Internet Meme
03-25-2013
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Business Insider
Last June, 21-year-old Laina Morris uploaded her first-ever YouTube video for a Justin Bieber contest.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Yahoo Buys A Mobile News Startup Founded By A 15-Year-Old For $30 Million
03-25-2013
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Business Insider
Yahoo announced today that it has acquired Summly, a mobile news aggregation app from British entrepreneur Nick D'Aloisio.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie Tickets available now for the April 11th, 2013 showing at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
03-21-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Why are gas prices are so high? Why is it getting harder to put food on the table? Some seek answers from government, but those who control the money control everything. Silver Circle is the story of our world after the worst economic collapse in US
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Media Reaction to Icelandic Revolution
03-25-2013
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arclein
It was during a time of a lot of financial turmoil around the world and stories were popping up all over the news of how banks around the world had been crushing or minimizing rebellions by receiving massive bailouts to keep them alive. The Iceland s
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robert klein
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News Link • Bitcoin
The US Treasury Announces Money-Laundering Rules Apply to "Virtual Currencies"
03-24-2013
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Economic Policy Journal
The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to "virtual currencies," amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit activities. Issue or exchange of online cash will now be regulated
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Northern Virginia officials worry secret CIA facility could scuttle hopes for landing FBI HQ
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
In what has been an open secret in Virginia for years, elected officials say the CIA maintains a classified facility in what appears to be a warehouse on property owned by the General Services Administration, the federal government’s landlord
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Police: Boris Berezovsky, self-exiled Russian tycoon and Putin rival, found dead in England
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken Russian tycoon who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in southeast England on Saturday. He was 67.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Parwan prison to be turned to Afghans, removing obstacle to long-term security agreement
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
The text of the detainee agreement was not released. A senior defense official said Afghanistan will have full sovereign control of the facility, but “an Afghan-led process with an opportunity for U.S. input will determine the disposition of detainee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • European Union
Cyprus weighs big bank levy
03-23-2013
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Reuters
Cyprus conceded to a one-off 20% levy on deposits over 100,000 euros in a dramatic U-turn as it raced to satisfy European partners and seal an 11th-hour bailout deal to avert financial collapse.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
A decade after Iraq invasion, America’s voice in Baghdad has gone from a boom to a whimper
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
With no troops on the ground to project force and little money to throw around, the United States has become an increasingly powerless stakeholder in the new Iraq.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Obama’s “No Fly” List for FedEx and UPS
03-23-2013
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by Wendy McElroy (Future of Freedom Foundation)
The Obama administration is notorious for crony capitalism, through which big businesses reap huge riches by virtue of their cozy association with government. Big oil, big car companies, big agrobusinesses, big banks, and big drug corporations
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Highly illogical: IRS training video that parodies ‘Star Trek’ apparently lacks training value
03-23-2013
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Washington Post
Nobody’s going to win an Emmy for a parody of the TV show “Star Trek” filmed by Internal Revenue Service employees at an agency studio in Maryland.
Instead, the IRS got a rebuke from Congress for wasting taxpayer dollars.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Veteran pleads not guilty to 1st SAFE Act violation
03-23-2013
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“My son served two terms in Iraq and was wounded twice. He was a sergeant in the Marines. He’s a good man. He’ll do anything for anybody. What they’re doing to him is very unfair,” Dianne Wassell said.
Patrick Hurley, his father-in-law, said that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police from Hialeah, “City of Progress,” Stealing Cameras from Citizens
03-23-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The Hialeah Police Dept. has gone on a camera-grabbing, rights-squashing, charge-trumping rampage against citizens in recent weeks without any apparent fear of repercussions, proving to be one of the most power-abusing police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Rights Activists Not Welcome in Coatesville
03-16-2013
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The International Libertarian
You know you're doing something right when the establishment press takes the time to lambaste you. That is what happened to the liberty-minded people standing up for gun rights at Coatesville, PA's gun buy.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • TERRORISM
Major terror attack averted from Delhi
03-23-2013
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youtube
A possible terror strike in the national capital has been averted. Delhi police today detained two suspected terrorists from the Jama Masjid area in Old Delhi.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin: the fastest growing currency in the world - video
03-23-2013
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guardian.co.uk
Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency " worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Xbox Reportedly Won’t Let You Play (Unless It Can Spy On You)
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
People throughout the world could soon be voluntarily outfitting their homes with indefinitely active cameras, infrared sensors and microphones if they purchase Microsoft’s new Xbox video game console, slated for release sometime next year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
FEMA Preparing Police for ‘Domestic War’
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
On FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness site, a listing for Program J, known as “Field Force Operations,” details how DHS has been training state and local law enforcement “to prepare for and successfully mitigate threat incidents....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama presses Congress to vote on gun-control measures
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
President Obama in his weekly address urged both chambers of Congress to hold a vote on a series of gun-control measures, including the controversial assault weapons ban and a limit on magazine sizes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
The 22-Year Bush War of Aggression on Iraq
03-23-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Several commentators have been observing the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, but really the U.S. government’s war on Iraq began over 22 years ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Why the Greenbackers Are Wrong
03-23-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
One of Ron Paul’s great accomplishments is that the Federal Reserve faces more opposition today than ever before.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Nullify the War on Drugs
03-23-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Public opinion now favors the outright legalization of marijuana with nearly three-out-of-four adults in favor of legalizing medical marijuana.
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Robert Lee
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