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Date Sent: 2013-03-27
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, March 27, 2013 |
Web slows under 'biggest attack ever' -- Court Ruling Threatens Internet First Amendment Freedom
Homeland Security seeks student hackers to help counter cyberthreats -- Lean inventories hold back pending home sales -- North Korea says it has cut last military hotline -- Officer who oversaw destruction of CIA torture evidence might get major promotion -- Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama -- Guccifer Emails Link Tony Blair to Top-Secret Bohemian Grove Gathering -- U.S. Out of Vermont! -- Four children killed in Afghan-coalition operation: police -- Eco-Madness: As Earthworms Are Blamed For “Global Warming”, Ecologists Suggest Killing Polar Bears -- Gun Stores Resorting To Bullet “Rationing” -- Congressman Vows To End TSA Screening -- Robo-Reporters to Replace Mainstream Journalists? -- 03-27-13 -- Sheriff Richard Mack 3 Hours In Studio (MP3 LOADED) -- FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013 -- The Biggest Cyber Attack In History Is Taking Place
Right Now -- Phoenix gun buyback
funded by anonymous $100,000 donation -- Burt
Rutan sees the future of space -- Who Are The Casualties Of
America's Drone Strikes? [Infographic] -- Verizon, AT&T, Sprint,
And Even The New T-Mobile Are Trying To Screw You -- Obama has finally created thousands of new jobs... in the
guns and ammo industry -- USDA agricultural census program is a
covert surveillance operation -- Washington Escalates War on Syria
-- Cyprus Postmortems
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News Link • Internet
Web slows under 'biggest attack ever'
03-27-2013
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Daily Telegraph
Millions of people around the world have been affected by slow internet speeds after an unprecedented attack.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Court Ruling Threatens Internet First Amendment Freedom
03-27-2013
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Prison Planet
Copyright troll endangers right to freedom of speech.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security seeks student hackers to help counter cyberthreats
03-27-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
This will be “hackers for good,” and the DHS currently has a need for about 600 of them, Secretary Napolitano added in remarks Tuesday at a Monitor Breakfast.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Lean inventories hold back pending home sales
03-27-2013
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Reuters
Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes fell in February, held back by a shortage of properties, but there is little to suggest that the housing market's recovery is stalling.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea says it has cut last military hotline
03-27-2013
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Associated Press
Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea cut its last military hotline with Seoul on Wednesday, saying there was no need to continue military communications between the countries in a situation "where a war may break out at any moment
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Officer who oversaw destruction of CIA torture evidence might get major promotion
03-27-2013
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RT.com
The woman who signed off on the destruction of evidence proving the CIA’s implementation of torture has been promoted within the agency.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama
03-27-2013
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Farm Wars
Read it and weep. The CEO of corporate America, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, signed into law, the Monsanto Protection Act, which is section 735 of H.R. 933.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Guccifer Emails Link Tony Blair to Top-Secret Bohemian Grove Gathering
03-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Attending the elusive Bohemian Grove retreat should be a priority for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, News Corp executive Andrew Knight allegedly writes in an email to US Gen. Colin Powell obtained by RT.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secession
U.S. Out of Vermont!
03-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Move over, Texas: In the Green Mountain State, it’s leftists who want to secede
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Four children killed in Afghan-coalition operation: police
03-27-2013
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trust.org
Afghan and international special forces staged a night raid in the country's restive east, with police on Wednesday saying five civilians died in the operation, four of them children.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Eco-Madness: As Earthworms Are Blamed For “Global Warming”, Ecologists Suggest Killing Polar Bears
03-27-2013
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Prison Planet
The world of global warming alarmists is increasingly resembling a madhouse, with conservationists falling over each other trying to salvage the last shreds of credibility. Very funny.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Gun Stores Resorting To Bullet “Rationing”
03-27-2013
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Prison Planet
Owners blame mass DHS Orders, have “never seen ammo shortages this bad”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robo-Reporters to Replace Mainstream Journalists?
03-27-2013
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Prison Planet
The mainstream media is now so glib, unquestioning and intellectually castrated that robo-reporters could soon replace real journalists " without anyone noticing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Checkpoint Content Contest " Win HD Videocamera!
03-27-2013
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Copblock and Checkpoint USA
A Veho Muvi Gumball 3000 Special Edition MUVI HD Camcorder will be awarded to the creator of the content that best demystifies roadblocks *** Deadline is midnight EST, Sunday, April 8th, 2013
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Marine Life in the Deep
03-27-2013
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arclein
he New Britain Trench featured hundreds of stunning stalked anemones growing on pillow lavas at the bottom of the trench, as well as a shallower seafloor community dominated by spoon worms, burrowing animals that create a rosette around them by licki
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rectennas
03-27-2013
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arclein
In theory, these very small antenna arrays can harvest over 70 percent of the sun’s electromagnetic radiation and convert it into electric power. These are called “rectennas” due to their ability to absorb the alternating current induced by sunlight
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Lake Vostok Yields New Bacterial Life
03-27-2013
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arclein
DNA was found that did not coincide with any of the well-known types in the global database," said Sergei Bulat, of the genetics laboratory at the St Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics.
"We are calling this life form unclassified and unide
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robert klein
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013
03-27-2013
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Salon
Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
How Petra Solar Made New Jersey A Leader In The Solar Energy Industry
03-27-2013
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Business Insider
Petra Solar is a solar energy technology company that pairs its "smart energy modules" with other vendors' solar panels, creating a reliable, cost-effective solution to convert solar energy into electricity.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Biggest Cyber Attack In History Is Taking Place Right Now
03-27-2013
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Business Insider
Internet speeds around the world have noticeably slowed down due to a massive "distributed denial of service" attack, reports the BBC.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix gun buyback funded by anonymous $100,000 donation
03-27-2013
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cronkitenewsonline.com
Residents of the nation’s sixth-largest city can get $100 gift cards for turning in handguns, rifles and shotguns and $200 for turning in assault weapons under an upcoming buyback program funded by an anonymous $100,000 donation.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Burt Rutan sees the future of space
03-27-2013
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ted.com
In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off.
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![Who Are The Casualties Of America's Drone Strikes? [Infographic]](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/533/03/533-0327050537.jpg)
News Link • Drones
Who Are The Casualties Of America's Drone Strikes? [Infographic]
03-27-2013
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popsci.com
More than 3,000 people in Pakistan have been killed by drone strikes. Were they enemies? That's where it gets tricky.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, And Even The New T-Mobile Are Trying To Screw You
03-27-2013
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popsci.com
T-Mobile announced its new "Uncarrier" strategy--no more two-year contracts, pay for the phone up front. It's a step in the right direction, but not enough. Let's ban all smartphone subsidies and contracts.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Obama has finally created thousands of new jobs... in the guns and ammo industry
03-27-2013
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naturalnews.com
President Obama's regulatory and fiscal policies have been blamed for keeping unemployment high, but one industry where there has been dramatic jobs growth is not likely one the president is happy about - firearms.
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News Link • Agriculture
USDA agricultural census program is a covert surveillance operation
03-27-2013
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naturalnews.com
The USDA "census of agriculture" is a government-run farm surveillance program designed to register and inventory detailed private data on farm assets, operations and personnel.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Student loan write-offs hit $3 billion in first two months of year
03-26-2013
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Chicago Tribune
Banks wrote off $3 billion of student loan debt in the first two months of 2013, up more than 36 percent from the year-ago period, as many graduates remain jobless, underemployed or cash-strapped in a slow U.S. economic recovery, an Equifax study sho
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus bail-out: savers will be raided to save euro in future crises, says eurozone chief
03-25-2013
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Daily Telegraph
Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe's single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS To Buy 360,000 More Rounds of Hollow Point Ammunition
03-25-2013
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InfoWars
While the Department of Homeland Security continues to ignore Congress demanding to know why the federal agency is engaged in an apparent arms build-up, the DHS has just announced it plans to purchase another 360,000 rounds
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Video: Hundreds Of DHS Armored Trucks On The Move?
03-25-2013
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InfoWars
The video raises significant questions in the wake of reports that the Department of Homeland Security, headed by Janet Napolitano, recently purchased around 2,700 MRAP trucks that many believe are to be deployed to local law enforcement agencies aro
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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 • 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 • 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Why I totally support background checks... for members of Congress and the Obama administration
03-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
In the midst of the big debate about "background checks," I thought it important to weigh in on the issue and profess my full and total support for background checks... for members of Congress.
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News Link • Government
Senate Passes Monsanto Protection Act Granting Monsanto Power Over U.S. Government
03-25-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Senate Passes Monsanto Protection Act Granting Monsanto Power Over U.S. Government
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News Link • Gun Rights
UPDATED: Bloomberg to Spend Immearsurable Wealth To Deprive Americans of Their Wealth
03-25-2013
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Daily Paul.com
UPDATED: Bloomberg to Spend Immearsurable Wealth To Deprive Americans of Their Wealth
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