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Date Sent: 2013-04-02
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, April 2, 2013 |
US Navy Moving Warship Closer To North Korea In Response To Threats
Harvesting Without Trying to Sow - by James Bovard -- An Idaho "Gun Violence" Story for the Huffington Post - by William Grigg -- The UN Declares War on Katanga . . . Again - by William Grigg -- The Regime vs. Defense Distributed - by William Grigg -- April Fools’ Day Joke? Feds Seize 3-D Printed Gun Website -- ‘World War Z’ Scene Changed to Please Chinese Censors -- Peter Schiff: We're Headed To A Currency Crisis One Way Or Another - CNBC ... -- Paul Krugman in 1998: Internet will have no Greater Econ Impact than FaxMachines by 2005 -- BitCon: Don't -- When Should You Take Social Security? 62 or Full Retirement Age? -- Stockton, California eligible for municipal bankruptcy protection: judge
AZ activism: Pass out Silver Circle Movie materials to press
and around the campus at ASU, Tuesday, 4-2-13 @ 2 p.m.
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News Link • Military
US Navy Moving Warship Closer To North Korea In Response To Threats
04-01-2013
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Business Insider
Officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Navy is shifting the USS Fitzgerald " a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific Ocean " amid ongoing North Korean threats.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Feature Article • Agriculture
Harvesting Without Trying to Sow
Jim Bovard
In their March 27 response to my "Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout," Philip Fraas and David Frantz, the lead counsel for the Pigford case, disparage the notion that many black claimants merely "attempted to farm."
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News Link • Drug War
An Idaho "Gun Violence" Story for the Huffington Post
04-01-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Why were Bear and Marcella singled out for such abusive treatment? According to recorded radio traffic among the deputies, the paramilitary raid was carried out because Bear had been politically profiled as a “Constitutionalist” " which meant that in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
The UN Declares War on Katanga -- Again
04-01-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
The UN Security Council responded by passing a Chapter Seven resolution " the world body’s equivalent of a declaration of war " authorizing the deployment of a multinational military brigade to disarm and “neutralize” rebel groups in Congo.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Regime vs. Defense Distributed
04-01-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
How will gun-grabbers carry out their confiscations if people can download 3-D printing applications and manufacture their own? They will simply steal the websites. No need to pass troublesome laws, or to prove accusations in a court of law
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
April Fools’ Day Joke? Feds Seize 3-D Printed Gun Website
04-01-2013
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infowars.com
According to a notice posted on the Defense Distributed website, Homeland Security Investigations and the Justice Department have taken the site down.
“This domain name associated with the website DefenseDistributed.com or Defcad.org has been se
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Howard Pearlman
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Unlimited Energy For Your Flashlight! (Video)
04-01-1984
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suntactics.com
It’s called the “forever flashlight” or “shakelight”, it literally provides UNLIMITED POWER by using magnets. Basically how it works is, you wrap Insulated Magnet Wire around a 1″ PVC pipe, and in the pipe you put a 3/4″ x 1″ Neodym
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sonny Blake
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
‘World War Z’ Scene Changed to Please Chinese Censors
04-01-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Communist Party now holds sway over American audiences
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Percent of Americans Believing in the Resurrection Drops To 64% From 77% Last Easter
04-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, go213mph
Still way too many people believe someone can be buried for 3 days and come back to life...but at least more people are coming to their senses.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Peter Schiff: We're Headed To A Currency Crisis One Way Or Another - CNBC ...
04-01-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, Eduardo89rp
CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Peter Schiff's latest gold call.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Breaks Down: "This Whole Thing Is a Kleptocracy"
04-01-2013
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http://www.oftwominds.com, Charles Hugh Smith
Our April Fool's wish: someone in the inner circle of power would finally tell the truth.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Help Pass out Silver Circle Movie materials to press and around the campus at ASU TODAY @ 2 p.m.!
04-01-2013
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
We are going to be passing out Silver Circle Movie promotional materials to the press (TV News Stations, Newspapers, and Radio Stations around the valley) and on the campus at ASU on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 after lunch at J.J. North's at 2:00 p.m.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Paul Krugman in 1998: Internet will have no Greater Econ Impact than FaxMachines by 2005
04-01-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, AnCapMercenary
In 1988, Paul Krugman stepped up to the plate and told us:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
BitCon: Don't
04-01-2013
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http://market-ticker.org, by Karl Denninger
Ok, I've been asked enough times, here it is -- my view and analysis of "Bitcoin", which I have taken to calling "Bitcon." That probably deserves an explanation....
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Bill of Rights
New England Town Declares Food Soveignty
03-25-2013
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From
"It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance." - The key word is recognized.
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H. Skip Robinson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stockton, California eligible for municipal bankruptcy protection: judge
04-01-2013
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Reuters
Stockton, California, was ruled eligible for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, a US judge said, turning aside creditors' arguments the city was not truly insolvent when it sought protection and had improperly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
What To Do If You Can't Afford Your Taxes
04-01-2013
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Business Insider
If you are among the four in 10 Americans who have no idea how they'll afford their tax bill this year, here are a few words of advice: Act now, not later.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
03-30-2013
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DAVID A. STOCKMAN, New York Times
The Main Street economy is failing while Washington is piling a soaring debt burden on our descendants, unable to rein in either the warfare state or the welfare state or raise the taxes needed to pay the nation’s bills. By default, the Fed has resor
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery
04-01-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Cyprus has highlighted the fundamental weakness in the European banking system and the extreme fragility of fractional reserve banking. Cypriot banks invested heavily in Greek sovereign debt, and last summer's Greek debt restructuring
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Claim: Germany Spends $110 Billion to Delay Global Warming by 37 Hours
03-31-2013
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The Weekly Standard
[John Stossel:] "The Germans are spending about $110 billion on subsidies for these solar panels," said Lomborg. "The net effect of all those investments will be to postpone global warming by 37 hours by the end of the century."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO airstrike kills two Afghan children
03-31-2013
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AFP
A NATO helicopter strike killed two children in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, in the latest civilian casualties to beset the coalition’s war against Taliban militants.
The operation close to Ghazni city was conducted after loca
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Kansas Couple: Indoor Gardening Prompted Pot Raid
03-31-2013
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AP
Former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled
03-31-2013
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DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the skeptical fringe to the mainstream.
In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Companies cut hours of full-time employees to avoid providing health care under new rules
03-31-2013
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The Guardian
In January, a janitor received chilling news from one of her superiors, who had met with upper management. The company was considering cutting full-time employee hours down below 30 per week in order to avoid paying for Obamacare.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Big depositors in Cyprus to lose far more than feared
03-31-2013
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Reuters
Under conditions expected to be announced on Saturday, depositors in Bank of Cyprus will get shares in the bank worth 37.5 percent of their deposits over 100,000 euros, the source told Reuters, while the rest of their deposits may never be paid back.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
UPS agrees to pay $40 million for shipping "illegal" prescription drugs
03-31-2013
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AFP
UPS Friday agreed to forfeit $40 million and implement a compliance program after a Department of Justice probe found the company delivered drugs on behalf of illegal online pharmacies.
The agreement followed an investigation that showed that UPS
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Fusion center director: We don’t spy on Americans, just anti-government Americans
03-31-2013
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http://rt.com
Law enforcement intelligence-processing fusion centers have long come under attack for spying on Americans.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Greg Palast & Alex Jones: Koch Brothers Exposed!
03-31-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex talks with investigative journalist and author Greg Palast about the death of Venezuela’ s Hugo Chavez and the political work of the Koch brothers and their influential foundation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Somali’s case a template for U.S. as it seeks to prosecute terrorism suspects in federal court
03-30-2013
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Washington Post
“There was a fair amount of debate because some of the intel guys didn’t want to stop the interrogation,” said a former administration official. “Others were getting antsy because they thought the longer you hold the guy and don’t Mirandize him,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Mixed Emotions Over Wounded Knee Massacre Site Being For Sale
03-30-2013
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"That historical value means something to us," a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation tribal council said. "We see that greed around here all the time with non-Indians. To me, you can’t put a price on the lives that were taken there."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russian-American crew taking short cut to space station
03-30-2013
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Reuters
2 Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut took a short cut to the International Space Station, arriving at the orbital outpost less than 6 hours after their Soyuz capsule blasted off. The express route shaved about 45 hours off the usual ride,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
EU, IMF resisting Greek bank NBG's takeover of Eurobank
03-30-2013
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Reuters
Greece's international lenders have asked Athens to halt National Bank's takeover of rival Eurobank, worried that the resulting lender would be too big for the state to deal with, two bankers close to the talks told Reuters on Saturday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Business, labor get deal on worker program
03-30-2013
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AP
Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal immigrants eventual U.S. citizenship, labor and Senate officials
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
More Tales from Amerika: Obey the Law, Go to Prison
03-30-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Federal criminal law permits prosecutors to charge people with "crimes" even though they have not broken the law. Prosecutors make up their own narratives and federal judges and juries always buy them no matter how outlandish.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
North Korean State Websites Down After Reports Of Cyber Attacks
03-30-2013
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Business Insider
A number of official North Korean websites appear to be down following a DDOS attack, just hours after the country issed an ominous warning against South Korea.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bitcoin
Charles Goyette on Bitcoin
03-29-2013
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www.youtube.com
Published on Mar 28, 2013 - http://www.titanians.org Charles Goyette talking about Austrian Economics answers a question on BitCoins
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
'Run for the Hills' Now, I'm Doing It: Jim Rogers
03-29-2013
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www.cnbc.com
The EU/IMF raiding bank accounts in Cyprus to bail out the country's financial system sets a dangerous precedent and investors should "run for the hills" said investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Not Even Gold Will Save Us
03-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Dr. Marc Faber, author of the Gloom Boom and Doom newsletter is usually a bear on stocks and a bull on gold. In an interview of 3/27 he discusses gold and the enormity of the crisis ahead. He said:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
War Scare in Korea " A Manufactured Crisis
03-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The United States and the two feuding Koreas could blunder into a real war unless both Pyongyang and Washington cease provoking one another.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Trial of Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged 2 Court Scene)
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Here is the court scene in Atlas Shrugged Part 2 where Hank Rearden is tried in court for selling steel secretly behind the Fair Shares Law.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Poverty in the U.S.A: Nearly 50 Million Americans on Food Stamps
03-29-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Kate Randall
US food stamp use swells to a record 47.8 million
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Robert Lee
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