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Date Sent: 2013-05-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
Senate Votes Unanimously Toward War Against Iran -- Holder: US killed 4 Americans in drone strikes
Forget Paris: Stymied by Socialist Policies, the French Start to Quit France -- Argentina's Modest Proposal: Buy Bonds Or Go To Jail -- Justice Department tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail -- Department of Homeland Security: Selling Counterfeit Goods is Now “Terrorism” -- MasterCard Leading the Path Toward “A World Beyond Cash” -- How Private Policing Trumps Government Law Enforcement -- Gold Market Update 5/19/13 -- Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence? -- Stockholm burns as rioters battle police after three days of violence in immigrant 'ghetto' -- Strange Times Indeed: Soros Buys the Miners? -- Billion-Trillion Derivatives Market! ... Reform or a Blowup? -- Papers Please: TSA-Style Checkpoints at UK Bus & Train Stations -- Federalized Local Police Helped Arrest Adam Kokesh -- Headset Zaps Video Gamers' Brains For Better Reflexes -- Over 400 Killed in a Week of Iraqi Violence -- Woman Stops Home Invasion, Holds Suspect at Gunpoint: '5 Inches From
Death' -- Forget the Headlines: Chinese Buying Big in US -- $25 Gun Created With Cheap 3D Printer Fires Nine Shots -- The Six Stages of the Libertarian Movement
AZ: Worldwide ‘March
Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for Saturday, May 25th, 8 a.m. - Noon PDT; Fundraiser raffle for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment -
36" Ferret .50 BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver
Free Adam Kokesh Legal Fund - Shield Mutual - George Donnelly
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News Link • Iran
Senate Votes Unanimously Toward War Against Iran
05-22-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Most alarming, however, is that this resolution contains among the clearest legislative language to date promising that should Israel decide to attack Iran, the US would back Israel militarily. It is breathtakingly foolhardy for the US Senate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drones
Holder: U.S. killed four Americans overseas in drone strikes since 2009
05-22-2013
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The Ticket
Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. has killed four Americans in drone strikes since 2009: radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three others who were “not specifically targeted.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Safegunowners Facebook Page has launched
05-21-13
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https://www.facebook.com/SafeGunOwners
I know some of you do not access facebook, however, it is a great tool for reaching out to different groups and communities all over the world. It is also a great tool for reaching the younger generation.
I have been working with a few of the Mons
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Events: Arizona
March Against Monsanto Phoenix AZ - May 25th, 2013 - 8 a.m. - Noon (AZ/PACIFIC TIME)
05-21-2013
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Facebook
We will be having the Really Really Free Market @ 8:00 a.m.! The march will start around 10:00 a.m. There will be speakers at the RRFM and hopefully farmers and bartering so bring things to trade, alternative currencies, or homemade things! We will h
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • How to Help
Fundraiser for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment - 36" Ferret .50 BMG on Olympic AR-15 Lower
05-16-2013
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StevePorak.Com
Donate $20.00 per ticket towards the drawing to win this 36" Ferret .50 BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower with a 30mm Tasco Scope and a .50 cal Ammo can full of ammo to support Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment! (100 TICKETS LEFT)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Forget Paris: Stymied by Socialist Policies, the French Start to Quit France
05-22-2013
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Time magazine
For months now, there has been a steady rumbling of people packing up and moving out. There are few reliable figures of the numbers of people leaving, in part because many are moving within the E.U., where there are no immigration requirements
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina's Modest Proposal: Buy Bonds Or Go To Jail
05-22-2013
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Zero Hedge
Argentina's president Kirchner, a keen observer of recent events in Cyprus, has figured out a way to kill two birds with one stone, namely attempt to put an end to tax evasion, and fund the capex of the recently nationalized state oil company YPF
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSM Really is Dying
05-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Cable TV news continues to bleed viewers and big newspapers have been bleeding readers for years. The alternate Internet media comprising independent journalist, bloggers and website operators are kicking MSM ass. Folks tend to blame the media for ju
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Justice Department tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail
05-22-2013
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Reuters
A Justice official insisted no financial company is too big to jail, in the latest effort to backpedal from statements made by Attorney General Holder that it can "become difficult" to prosecute major financial institutions accused of wrongdoing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security: Selling Counterfeit Goods is Now “Terrorism”
05-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If the IRS scandal wasn’t enough to convince you that bloated, corrupt, bureaucratic government institutions pose a greater threat to our freedoms than any terrorist attack ever could, this story should settle it once and for all. In light of the fa
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
MasterCard Leading the Path Toward “A World Beyond Cash”
05-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
MasterCard is dedicating itself to a strategy that will set a standard and become influential to the future of payments. By coercing urbanized centers to the trendiness of going cashless, their influence on the behavior of consumers and their percept
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Market Update 5/19/13
05-22-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
For those of you who are short of time and are accustomed to scrolling down to the bottom of an article to read its conclusions I’m going to save you the trouble by putting the conclusions at the start:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence?
05-22-2013
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popsci.com
Deadly pertussis is on the rise in the U.S., but is it really the fault of the anti-vaccine crowd?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Stockholm burns as rioters battle police after three days of violence in immigrant 'ghetto'
05-22-2013
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Becky Evans
Two schools and a cultural centre were set on fire in Stockholm
Gangs of up to 60 youths hurled rocks at police and firefighters
Yesterday's violence is the worst the country has seen in years
Provoked debate on youth unemployment and immigrati
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Transportation
Papers Please: TSA-Style Checkpoints at UK Bus & Train Stations
05-22-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Jolly
‘Airport-style’ harassment to “help people who use public transport feel safer.”
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Headset Zaps Video Gamers' Brains For Better Reflexes
05-22-2013
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popsci.com
For when you just HAVE to beat everyone at Call of Duty.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Over 400 Killed in a Week of Iraqi Violence
05-22-2013
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antiwar.com
Is Sectarian Civil War Up and Running Again?
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Woman Stops Home Invasion, Holds Suspect at Gunpoint: '5 Inches From Death'
05-22-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Jennifer Cruz
A woman in Toledo, Ohio, found herself the victim of an attempted home invasion on Thursday. After having her car broken into two mornings in a row, she refused to be a victim for a third time, especially not in her own home.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
Forget the Headlines: Chinese Buying Big in US
05-22-2013
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cnbc.com
Although all the news about Chinese investment in the U.S. have focused on the deals that don't get done, Chinese investment in the U.S. is at an all-time high.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
$25 Gun Created With Cheap 3D Printer Fires Nine Shots
05-22-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
When high tech gunsmith group Defense Distributed test-fired the world’s first fully 3D-printed firearm earlier this month, some critics dismissed the demonstration as expensive and impractical, arguing it could only be done with a high-end......
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
The Six Stages of the Libertarian Movement
05-22-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com,by Murray N. Rothbard
HOST: In presenting Murray to you, he's a teacher, a scholar, a writer, a professor, editor of Libertarian Forum. About his many books, let me give one title, the latest, I believe, The Ethics of Liberty. I think that will do for this audience.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
05-21-13 -- Cody Wilson www.DEFCAD.org (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Cody Wilson (Defense Distributed; DEFCAD) provides an update on the the State Department forcing him to remove 3D printable gun files - AquaDome Picture updates here at "The Farm" - Kathrine Paulk (concerned citizen wants to share with Audience)
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News Link • Gun Rights
New guns effectively banned in California
05-21-2013
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offgridsurvival.com
California has effectively banned the sale of all new guns after Attorney General Kamala Harris officially certified a law that will require all new semiautomatic handguns to use technology that stamps identifying information on bullet casings.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Unintended Consequences - DOWNLOAD PDF, MOBI, OR AZW File of book (UPDATED 2019-09-18)
02-20-2013
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Accurate Press
The next printing is going to be softcover and will probably be priced at $28.95 and $6 shipping. Download PDF, MOBI or AZW of entire book - NOW While you still can. Also available on AccuratePress.Net and Amazon (links provided)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Treasury Secretary taps government retiree pension fund
05-21-2013
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AP
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said late Monday he will begin tapping into two government employee retirement funds to buy more time before the U.S. Treasury is faced with the prospect of defaulting on the national debt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Wheel Tax is latest ploy demonstrating hypocrisy of Republicans
05-21-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Instead of creating a Committee to cut waste, the Commission created a Committee to Study Lost Revenue. The all-Republican Commission finished out the last month of the first year of their current term with litigation fee increases, with the resoluti
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Fix IRS by shutting it ‘once and for all’
05-21-2013
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By David Sherfinsk
Former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas called the recent IRS fiasco troubling " but writes that the only way Congress can protect the freedoms of Americans from a long pattern of suspected IRS abuse is to “shutter the doors” of the agency “once and for all.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Doug Casey on Conspiracies, Gold and the Continuing 'Greater Depression' of the World's
05-21-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com
Doug Casey has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows and has been the subject of articles in People, US, Time, Forbes, The Washington Post and numerous other publications.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns
05-21-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve's policy of Quantitative Easing (QE).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Bank Run Happening in Bullion " Jim Willie
05-21-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Greg Hunter
Jim Willie, Editor of The Hat Trick Letter, says the recent gold price take-down has caused, “A bank run in gold bullion banks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
No Act of Violence Is Too Big for the US
05-21-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, Gerald Celente
Celente is a outspoken critic of US policy on every front: financial, political, its militant imperialism and spying all over the planet. Perhaps that's why he has such a strong following of LRCers. (18:58)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds...
05-21-2013
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by Mike Adams
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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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Illegal Detention (video)
05-20-2013
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Live Leak
Five members of The Panic Hour were followed into the City Hall rail station in Center City Philadelphia. Kyle Prouty was illegally searched and detained by SEPTA police officer Nicole Lawson at 3:20pm on 5/20/13. Kyle was charged with "disorderly c
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Spied On Peaceful Protestors; Worried Protests Getting News Coverage
05-20-2013
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techdirt
The documents show a Department of Homeland Security obsessed with whether any protests being surveilled receive media attention and coverage. Why media coverage of peaceful demonstrations concerns “homeland security” in any way
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Owners: Freedom Lovers or Cry Babies? - by Paul Bonneau
05-20-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Well, what about a "legitimate" traffic stop, where the officer wants to "temporarily" control your weapon? I say sure, go ahead and give him a warning you won't be disarmed. Point out that if "officer safety" were really his concern,
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond
05-20-2013
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AP
A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond.
Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at the airport in Romulus, Mic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Oklahoma Tornado: At Least 51 Dead, 'Horrific' Damage
05-20-2013
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ABC News (video)
A mammoth tornado carved a trail of destruction through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, killing at least 51 people, including some children, and ripping apart two elementary schools today, local authorities said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Marijuana waste helps turn pot-eating pigs into tasty pork roast
05-20-2013
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Reuters
With Washington state about to embark on a first-of-its-kind legal market for recreational marijuana, the budding ranks of new cannabis growers face a quandary over what to do with the excess stems, roots and leaves from their plants.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Ron Finley: "Growing your own food is like printing your own money!"
05-20-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by LunaTech
I was in the car and switched the channel to NPR and listened to a great story about a guy who started a community garden. You can listen to the story here: NPR: TED Radio Hour - How Can You Give A Community Better Health - May 17, 2013
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Justice Department’s scrutiny of Fox News reporter James Rosen in leak case draws fire
05-20-2013
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FOX News
Journalists, First Amendment watchdogs and government transparency advocates reacted with outrage to the revelation that the Justice Department had investigated the newsgathering activities of a Fox News reporter as a potential crime
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