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Date Sent: 2013-05-07
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, May 7, 2013 |
UN investigator suggests it was Syria's rebels who used chemical weapons
Mega Banks, ATF True Culprits Behind Mexican Drug and Gun Violence -- Israeli Airstrike on Syria Coordinated With Al-Qaeda Militants -- US Senator: Big Sis Buying Ammo To Dry Up Supply -- Can You Really Get By With Only Six (or Seven) Bullets? -- The Police State -- FDA proposes stricter regulations for tanning beds -- How ‘insider information’ can come from Congress itself -- We're the Most Spied Upon People of All Time! -- Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ -- Diplomat: US team stopped from going to Benghazi -- Pentagon Lifts Veil on 7 New Obscure Chinese Weapons -- NASA Chief Urges Congress to Fund Private Astronaut Taxis -- Startup Taps Quantum Encryption for Cybersecurity -- European Commission criminalize seeds and plants not registered with government -- Three teens, abducted for a decade, found alive -- Senate passes internet sales tax bill amid opposition from conservatives -- Drop Pig Poop on Mecca After the Next Muslim Attack! - by Greg Dixon -- FBI: Minn. raid disrupts 'localized terror attack' -- Commentary on Disasters, Tragedies, & Government {& recommendation of film “Tsunami –The Aftermath"} - by Christine Smith -- Liberator - Dawn of the Wiki Weapons -- Activist Is Trying To Get 10,000 People To March On DC With Loaded Rifles -- Judge Jeanine Pirro On Obama Admin Caught Red Handed On Boston Bombing -- URGENT! OBAMA Signs Anti-Protest Bill - FREE SPEECH & Protest will get you JAIL TIME! --
Bilderberg Bombing Campaign Exposed By Top Italian Supreme Court Judge
-- How Al Gore's Net Worth Caught Up With Mitt Romney's -- Snell: Waking the dragon, How Feinstein fiddled while America burned -- Solar Eclipse Turns Sun Into 'Ring of Fire' This Week -- Thoughts on the March on D.C. - by Meghan Kellison -- Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: a threat level hard to assess -- Marc Victor at the Arizona Breakfast Club, watch VIDEO
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News Link • Syria
UN investigator suggests it was Syria's rebels who used chemical weapons
05-06-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
The woman leading the UN investigation into possible chemical weapon use in Syria said yesterday that witness and victim testimonies indicate that Syrian rebels likely used chemical weapons such as the nerve gas sarin.
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News Link • World News
Mega Banks, ATF True Culprits Behind Mexican Drug and Gun Violence
05-06-2013
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Daniel Taylor via PrisonPlanet.com
resident Obama, during a recent visit to Mexico, pointed the finger at American’s use of illegal drugs and guns for Mexico’s plague of violence.
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News Link • Military
Source: Israeli Airstrike on Syria Coordinated With Al-Qaeda Militants
05-06-2013
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Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com
Israel’s airstrike on Syria was timed to precede an Al-Qaeda-led rebel offensive against President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces according to Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence sources
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News Link • Gun Rights
US Senator: Big Sis Buying Ammo To Dry Up Supply
05-06-2013
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Steve Watson via PrisonPlanet
A US Senator has stated on record that he believes the Department of Homeland Security is intentionally attempting to exhaust civilian supplies of ammunition by buying huge bulk amounts, as documented by Infowars for some months.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Can You Really Get By With Only Six (or Seven) Bullets?
05-06-2013
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David LaPell via LewRockwell.com
In war and gun legislation, much is made about magazine capacity. It would seem this has always been the case and though practically anyone who teaches self-defense would tell you more rounds are preferred in any conceivable attack
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News Link • Police State
The Police State
05-06-2013
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Scott Lazarowitz via LewRockwell.com
This Infowars reporter interviewed several residents in Watertown, Massachusetts who suffered through the criminal police siege of their town
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
FDA proposes stricter regulations for tanning beds
05-06-2013
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Washington Post
Citing growing evidence of the health risks associated with sunlamps and tanning beds, the Food and Drug Administration would seek regulations and more-detailed labeling of the devices, to discourage their use by people under 18.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself
05-06-2013
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Washington Post
On the same morning a congressional staffer told investors in a private call that odds were improving for a government decision that would help medical insurers, trading spiked in a major health-care company.
The private call, arranged by a consul
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News Link • Anthropology
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
05-06-2013
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Washington Post
.... if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words to hunter-gatherers in Asia in any one of hundreds of modern languages, there is a chance they would understand at least some of what you were saying....
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News Link • 3D Printing
How The World's First 3-D Printed Gun Works
05-06-2013
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Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.com
Defense Distributed creates a fully functional gun, with 3-D printed plastic parts.
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News Link • 3D Printing
News Analysis: The 3-D Printing Of The Future Promises Far More Than Just Guns
05-06-2013
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Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.com
What happens to anti-gun legislation when people can just make weapons in their homes?
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News Link • Obama Administration
Diplomat: US team stopped from going to Benghazi
05-06-2013
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AP
4 members of Army special forces ready to head to Benghazi, Libya, after the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission had ended were told not to go. Gregory Hicks argued that if the US military had flown aircraft over the Benghazi facility
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News Link • Food
News Round-Up: Food, Foodborne Illness, And Antibiotic Resistance In Food
05-06-2013
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Maryn McKenna via WIRED.com
OK, still catching up. Today: food, foodborne illness, and antibiotic use and resistance in food " lots of news in a multi-item rundown.
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Still Believes Assad Has Control of Syria’s Chemical Arsenal
05-06-2013
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
There’s still no hard evidence about who caused the recent, deadly sarin gas attack in Syria. But the Pentagon’s “strong view at this point” is that dictator Bashar Assad maintains control of his chemical arsenal.
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Lifts Veil on 7 New Obscure Chinese Weapons
05-06-2013
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David Axe via WIRED.com
Two new models of stealthy jet fighter. A new(ish) aircraft carrier. Separate ballistic missiles for targeting orbital satellites and ships at sea. A host of cyberespionage tools.
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News Link • Solar Flares
Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption
05-06-2013
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Tariq Malik via Space.com
An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday (May 3) in a dazzling space weather display captured by a NASA spacecraft.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Chief Urges Congress to Fund Private Astronaut Taxis
05-06-2013
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Mike Wall via Space.com
American astronauts could be forced to fly on Russian spacecraft beyond 2017 if Congress continues to cut funding for private crewed vehicles, NASA chief Charles Bolden says.
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News Link • Energy
Startup Taps Quantum Encryption for Cybersecurity
05-06-2013
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
GridCom Technologies says quantum cryptography can work to make the electricity grid control systems secure.
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News Link • Food
European Commission criminalize seeds and plants not registered with government
05-06-2013
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Natural News
A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Three women, missing for a decade, found alive
05-06-2013
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The Lookout
3 women, 2 of them missing for a decade since they were teens in Cleveland, have been found alive, according to police.A 52-year-old man has been arrested, police say. The women were being treated at the hospital. One of the women reportedly had a ba
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Senate passes internet sales tax bill amid opposition from conservatives
05-06-2013
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The Guardian
The Marketplace Fairness Act, which has cross-party supporter and the backing of powerful retailers, would give states the power to require retailers with sales over $1m to collect state and local sales taxes for online purchases.
The bill has the
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI: Minn. raid disrupts 'localized terror attack'
05-06-2013
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AP
FBI officials said they foiled a terrorism attack being planned in a small western Minnesota town, but they offered no details about the exact targets of the attack " or the motive of the man accused of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Commentary on Disasters, Tragedies, & Government {& recommendation of film “Tsunami "The Aftermath**
05-06-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
One of the last nails into the coffin containing my illusion that governments care about protecting the well-being of people occurred following the horrendous tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004. I buried the illusion a few years later.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Liberator - Dawn of the Wiki Weapons
05-06-2013
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www.youtube.com
3D Printing's First Killer App. Download at DEFCAD.org
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News Link • Activism
Activist Is Trying To Get 10,000 People To March On DC With Loaded Rifles
05-06-2013
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Business Insider
Independence Day in Washington, D.C. may see bigger fireworks if the "Open Carry March" put forth by a Marine veteran turned libertarian activist actually goes forward.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
MONEYBALL AT WORK: They've Discovered What Really Makes A Great Employee
05-06-2013
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Business Insider
Hiring decisions have always been limited to a few imperfect factors, including what appears on a resume and what impression a candidate gives off in an informal interview.
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News Link • Internet
5 Lessons Learned By A Guy Who Quit The Internet For A Year
05-06-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Megan Rose Dickey
Paul Miller recently came back online after quitting the Internet for a full year.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
This Satellite Contract Shows Just How Much China Is Winning In Africa
05-06-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
American satellite communication over Africa is so bad that the Department of Defense contracted Chinese satellite Apstar 7 to provide communications for AFRICOM.
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News Link • Transportation
There's A New Generation Of Young People Hopping America's Trains [PHOTOS]
05-06-2013
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Business Insider
Mike Brodie began train-hopping in 2002 at the age of 17 when he left his house unannounced with a few belongings.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Judge Jeanine Pirro On Obama Admin Caught Red Handed On Boston Bombing
05-06-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, clynbrit
She gives some information I was unaware of; three friends disposing of evidence?
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News Link • Obama Administration
URGENT! OBAMA Signs Anti-Protest Bill - FREE SPEECH & Protest will get you JAIL TIME!
05-06-2013
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current.com
URGENT! OBAMA Signs Anti-Protest Bill - FREE SPEECH & Protest will get you JAIL TIME!
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bilderberg Bombing Campaign Exposed By Top Italian Supreme Court Judge
05-06-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, cooper11
“The Bilderberg Group is one of the leading organizations behind the strategy of tension, and therefore the (Operation Gladio) massacres.”
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
How Al Gore's Net Worth Caught Up With Mitt Romney's
05-06-2013
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zerohedge.com
Mitt Romney's net worth of $250 million is well-known by virtually everyone in America:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Snell: Waking the dragon " How Feinstein fiddled while America burned
05-06-2013
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http://m.iowastatedaily.com, By Barry Snell
Along with bombs and bombers, guns seem to be all the media wants to talk about these days
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News Link • Healthcare
Getting Your Body to Produce More Anti-Oxidant Enzymes
05-06-2013
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Nutrition-Now.Com
By stimulating the production of your own antioxidant enzymes to the levels you had when you were young would have incredible anti-aging properties.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Solar Eclipse Turns Sun Into 'Ring of Fire' This Week
05-06-2013
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space.com
The moon will block the sun in a potentially spectacular solar eclipse this week " a celestial event that will transform the sun into a cosmic "ring of fire" in the daytime sky
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News Link • Internet
Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: a threat level hard to assess
05-06-2013
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Mark Guarino
Authorities are leaning more toward zero tolerance of teenagers who fling around online threats about acts of violence or terrorism. As a result, what might have once merited a slap on the wrist may today result in criminal charges.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Diehard Fans Are Bringing Astonishing Prop Replicas to a Garage Near You
05-06-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
Summer movie season kicks off this weekend with the release of Iron Man 3, the perfect inspiration to build your own suit of power armor and recreate iconic superhero scenes.
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News Link • European Union
German euro founder calls for 'catastrophic' currency to be broken up
05-06-2013
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www.telegraph.co.uk, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course is "leading to disaster".
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Socialist Propaganda in New Zealand
05-06-2013
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Morpheus Titania
Anti-Bitcoin Socialist Panel Discussion Propaganda in New Zealand
This "panel" of apologists for socialism and big Government, "discuss" all the problems with BitCoin. What is a "social contract" exactly anyway. Is that the one where you are sold
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News Link • Gun Rights
Kansas: Federal Agents May be Shot
05-05-2013
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libertyfirewall.com
Let’s see if Government Brownbeck, Kansas Law Enforcement and the People of Kansas have the intestinal fortitude to deny a criminal Federal government the ability to assault and subjugate the citizens of Kansas.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq Readies for Civil War?
05-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
'The civil war in Iraq has already begun': Politician claims conflict... will be 'worse than Syria' ...
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News Link • Israel
Did Israel Invade Lebanon?
05-05-2013
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Prison Planet
According to the Israeli intelligence asset DEBKAfile, the IDF crossed into Lebanon following a second Israeli attack on a military research facility located on the outskirts of Damascus early Sunday morning.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Florida student charged and expelled after 'science experiment' goes awry
05-05-2013
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The Guardian
To Florida teenager Kiera Wilmot, it was a simple experiment in preparation for her school's science fair, mixing common household chemicals in a small plastic bottle to see how they would react.
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News Link • Israel
2nd day of Israel attacking Syria ... WTF, did they just nuke them?! (VIDEO)
05-05-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The US is suddenly "appalled by horrific reports" with no evidence, while silent on the truly horrific atrocities committed by its allies, the insurgents -- including documented evidence of their forcing children to behead enemies of the insurgency.
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News Link • Surveillance
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
05-05-2013
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by Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sheriff Bradshaw and the Palm Beach County Psihuska
05-05-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
What Sheriff Bradshaw had in mind was a strike force composed of deputies, social workers, and “mental health” professionals from a “Behavioral Sciences Unit” who would be deployed to visit the homes of “socially dangerous people.”
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Fr33 Aid Abandons Non-Profit Tax Status in Favor of Bitcoin
05-05-2013
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“Now that there are ways for us to do banking without government involvement, we decided fulfilling (IRS demands) would not be a responsible way for Fr33 Aid to spend its money nor for our volunteers to spend their time.”
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News Link • Bitcoin
IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin
05-05-2013
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Forbes
The IRS already gets a piece where you swap one product or service for another, as the IRS explains at its Bartering Tax Center. Soon the IRS may have a Bitcoin Center too. The Treasury unit, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network,
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News Link • Internet
U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case
05-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The U.S. Government has just submitted its objections to Megaupload’s motion to dismiss the case against the company. Megaupload’s lawyers have pointed out that the Department of Justice is trying to change the law to legitimize the destruction of Me
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Best Military Bribes Can Buy
05-03-2013
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StrategyPage.com
What it comes down to is that the politicians want to keep the only American tank manufacturing plant open. It's all about political posturing and getting reelected. But the army wants to spend its shrinking budgets on things that will save lives.
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Whistleblower Censored from 60 minutes (Video)
05-04-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Julia Davis, DHS whistleblower, speaks out on how DHS declared her a “Domestic Terrorist” then dispatched a Blackhawk Helicopter SWAT raid on her home because " She was doing her job protecting the border.
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News Link • Gun Rights
SPLC: "Right-wing media will teach you to build untraceable assault rifles"
05-04-2013
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Salon.com
It has long been legal to make your own firearm at home for your own use, as long as it is not intended for resale. But now that someone is making a buck selling info on how to do it, the contract government agents at SPLC are going insane.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gov. Jan Brewer Vetoes Arizona Gold and Silver Bill
05-04-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
Seems to me like she vetoed it because it would be hard to regulate. These clowns cant even fathom an idea that is unregulated by government.
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