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Date Sent: 2013-06-27
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
Bank of America wants you to shut up about their Banking Crimes or they will have you thrown in jail
US economy grows at slower 1.8 pct. rate in Q1 -- Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why -- Game of Drones: Does NYC Have an ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’ Problem? -- Porn, wine and kazoos on IRS worker charge cards -- PRISM-break: Technology links to defeat surveillance -- Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional -- Military court overturns Marine’s murder conviction -- Silver At Less Than 19 Dollars An Ounce? Are You Kidding Me??? -- Rep. Massie to Introduce Bill Blocking Syria Rebel Military Aid -- Glenn Jacobs: Does The Free Market Cause Wealth Inequality? -- Great Video: Japan’s Debt Problem Visualized (Video) -- Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if ‘Anything Happens’ to Him -- In First, F.D.A. Rejects Tobacco Products -- Gold Drops Below Its Average Cash Cost -- Lawrence O'Donnell: What The U.S. Constitution Says About Treason (OMG) -- Sibel Edmonds Blows the Whistle on Government Blackmailing -- Swiss Rocket Plane May Launch People on Private Science Trips -- Michael Hastings’ Wife Vows to “Take Down Whoever Did This” -- The Snowden Case: What You’re Not Being Told -- Police Officer Tobler Blows His Top Because Citizen Knows His Rights -- An Important Lesson from Tony Soprano -- Greenwald: Snowden’s Files
Are Out There if ‘Anything Happens’ to Him -- The Other (Worse) Side of
the PRISM Scandal -- The Death of Daniel Somers -- A New Beginning
Without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask -- IRS' Greg Roseman Pleads the Fifth -- 06-26-13 -- Colleen Tweedy on Obamacare (3 Hours in Studio) (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
George Zimmerman Trial Livestream link
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Bank of America wants you to shut up about their Banking Crimes or they will have you thrown in jail
06-26-2013
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http://www.cbs8.com/story/22686986/local-mans-chal
The United States two-tiered Injustice System in full effect: A San Diego man is looking at 13 years in prison and $13,000 in fines for using washable chalk to protest the banking industry. Jeff Olson is being charged with 13 counts of vandalism for
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US economy grows at slower 1.8 pct. rate in Q1
06-26-2013
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AP
The US economy grew at an annual rate of 1.8% in the first 3 months of the year, significantly slower than first thought. The steep revision occurred because consumers spent less than estimated, a sign that higher taxes are dampening growth.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why
06-26-2013
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Despite the 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast.
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News Link • Drones
Game of Drones: Does NYC Have an ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’ Problem?
06-26-2013
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“The fact that police would obstruct cameras just sort of put in our minds that we might be in a situation where you can’t get a good shot because there’s a wall or a fence or something,” Mr. Pool, now 27, told The Observer..
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Porn, wine and kazoos on IRS worker charge cards
06-26-2013
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CNN
Pornography, wine bottles and kazoos were among improper purchases made by IRS employees using their work-issued charge cards, according to watchdog report.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Mini-Review: 'Lawless' (2012)
06-26-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
At first Rakes suggests to the local Sheriff that they simply murder those who are uncooperative, but the sheriff makes it clear that law enforcement officials who abuse their power in Franklin County will find themselves hanging from a tree.
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News Link • Immigration
Ich bin ein Berliner
06-26-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
The old totalitarian John McCain finally let the cat outta the bag concerning border security: "We’ll make border with Mexico look like ‘the Berlin Wall.’" The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep East Berliners from escaping,
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News Link • Marriage
Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional
06-26-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Of course, DOMA is unconstitutional, since marriage is none of the federal government's business. Under the present system, it is a state issue. Of course, it is actually none of any government's business.
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News Link • Military
Military court overturns Marine’s murder conviction
06-26-2013
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AP
The military's highest court has overturned a murder conviction against a Camp Pendleton Marine in one of the most significant cases against American troops from the Iraq war.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Silver At Less Than 19 Dollars An Ounce? Are You Kidding Me???
06-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The day that silver traders have been waiting for has arrived. On Wednesday, the price of silver dropped another 5 percent. As I write this, it is sitting at $18.55 an ounce. On Wednesday it hit a low that had not been seen in three years. Overal
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Chris Menke
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rep. Massie to Introduce Bill Blocking Syria Rebel Military Aid
06-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
House sources tell RPI that Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) is preparing to introduce legislation to forbid the president from providing military assistance to any of the combatant groups in the current Syrian conflict. Absent a Congressional dec
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Glenn Jacobs: Does The Free Market Cause Wealth Inequality?
06-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The wealth gap is a serious problem. The richest 20 percent of Americans now own 80 percent of the country’s wealth. Over the past three decades, the average American has seen his income either fall or remain flat. Over the same period, the top 20 pe
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
Great Video: Japan’s Debt Problem Visualized (Video)
06-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A very well done video on the Japanese debt crisis. Anyone who cares about the world economy should have some understanding of what is going on currently in the world’s 3rd largest economy.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if ‘Anything Happens’ to Him
06-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who Snowden first contacted in February, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Snowden “has taken extreme precautions to make sure many different people around the world have these archives to insure the storie
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Drug War
In First, F.D.A. Rejects Tobacco Products
06-26-2013
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New York Times
The FDA announced it had begun exercising its power to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products, an authority given in a 2009 law in authorizing the sale of 2 new products " both Newport cigarettes and rejected 4 other competing products.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Drops Below Its Average Cash Cost
06-26-2013
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zerohedge.com
As shown two months ago, the marginal cost of production of gold (90% percentile) in 2013 was estimated at $1300 including capex.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
Lawrence O'Donnell: What The U.S. Constitution Says About Treason (OMG)
06-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
"You're now on a through route to the land of the different... the bizarre... the unexplainable... Go as far as you like on this road. You’ve just crossed over into...
the Twilight Zone."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Sibel Edmonds Blows the Whistle on Government Blackmailing
06-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
In this remarkable conversation, Sibel Edmonds reflects on Russ Tice's recent revelations to Boiling Frogs Post and The Corbett Report that the NSA has wiretapped top government officials for years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Swiss Rocket Plane May Launch People on Private Science Trips
06-26-2013
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space.com
A startup Swiss spaceflight company is planning to upgrade its proposed private satellite launch system into a manned suborbital space shuttle for science missions, the company announced Monday (June 17).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Michael Hastings’ Wife Vows to “Take Down Whoever Did This”
06-26-2013
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Prison Planet
Friend of journalist reveals colleagues were “too scared” to release panicked email
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Snowden Case: What You’re Not Being Told
06-26-2013
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Prison Planet
When the mainstream media shows you something with their right hand, watch what the left hand is doing.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
An Important Lesson from Tony Soprano
06-26-2013
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The Daily Bell
"All due respect, you got no f----g idea what it's like to be Number One. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other f-----g thing. It's too much to deal with almost." " Tony Soprano
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if ‘Anything Happens’ to Him
06-26-2013
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Prison Planet
As the U.S. government presses Moscow to extradite former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, America’s most wanted leaker has a plan B.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
The Other (Worse) Side of the PRISM Scandal
06-26-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The fallout from the PRISM scandal has reached Stage Two, where faces in front of television cameras promote memorable slogans to give people reasons to accept their abuse and to pretend that everything is okay.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
The Death of Daniel Somers
06-26-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
I am reading the heartbreaking suicide note of Daniel Somers, a US combat veteran who spent several years fighting in Iraq.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
A New Beginning Without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask
06-26-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
It is hard to understand the fuss that Washington and its media whores are making over Edward Snowden.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Repeal the Patriot Act
06-26-2013
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creators.com
Since 2006, Team Bush, and then Team Obama, have allowed the little-known, hugely powerful National Security Agency to run a daily dragnet through your and my phone calls "
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News Link • Philosophy: Communism
Freedom versus The National-Security State
06-26-2013
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fff.org
U.S. officials are poking fun at the fact that Edward Snowden, whose commitment to a free society motivated him to disclose the NSA’s massive secret surveillance scheme over the American people ......
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News Link • Iraq
Turkmen Demonstrators, Young Athletes Among 53 Killed, 142 Wounded in Iraq
06-26-2013
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antiwar.com
Today’s attacks focused on a group of Turkmen demonstrators in Tuz Khormato and football players near Baghdad. Shi’ite pilgrims and security officials were also targeted. At least 53 people were killed and 142 were wounded across the country.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban: Attack Near Kabul Presidential Palace Targeted CIA Base
06-26-2013
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antiwar.com
Militants With Forged Papers Crossed Checkpoint, Pounded CIA Offices
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Report: 36 killed after knife gang attacks China police station
06-26-2013
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worldnews.nbcnews.com
Knife-wielding assailants killed nine policemen and 17 civilians in a bloody attack that only ended after 10 attackers were shot dead in western China early Wednesday.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Putin confirms Snowden in Moscow airport but denies extradition " as it happened
06-26-2013
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The Guardian
• Vladimir Putin says Snowden is in Moscow airport transit zone and has committed no crime in Russia
• Russian president says NSA whistleblower will not be extradited to US
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks says leaker safe, gives no added detail
06-26-2013
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news.yahoo.com
WikiLeaks says that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is "safe and well," a brief statement that gave no indication of how the information was obtained and did little to clear up the mystery concerning his whereabouts.
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
IRS' Greg Roseman Pleads the Fifth
06-26-2013
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youtube
Mr. Gregory Roseman, Deputy Director, Enterprise Networks and Tier Systems Support, was involved in securing nearly $500 million in government contracts to Strong Castle.
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News Link • Energy
10,000 miles per gallon of gasoline: Shell's Ecomarathon
06-26-2013
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wind-works.org
On Aprill 11 and 12, 2008 teams from highschools, colleges, and universities from across the continent were scrambling in the garages at the Fontana raceway preparing their cars for the Shell's Ecomarathon.
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News Link • Surveillance
Booz Allen Hamilton: What You Don't Know About Snowden's Former Employer
06-24-2013
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dailypaul.com
Let's take another trip down the rabbit hole, shall we?
Lost in the Edward Snowden debate is a critical look at his former employer, the company doing the spying on Americans in the first place: Booz Allen Hamilton.
Booz Allen Hamilton is a go
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News Link • Immigration
Former border activist arrested on suspicion of child molestation
06-25-2013
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Arizona Republic
Christopher Allen Simcox, 52, who founded the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in 2005, was booked into a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of child molestation, attempted child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.
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News Link • Transportation
Full remote control of ALL modern U.S. market cars PROVEN
06-25-2013
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secretsofthefed.com
A team of hackers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington conducted a study in 2010 which concluded that all cars equipped with antilock brakes sold in the U.S. can be hacked.....
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News Link • Gun Rights
Protestors Defy Open Carry Ban & Openly Carry Firearms During Civil Disobedience Protest
06-25-2013
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secretsofthefed.com
According to a report on The Blaze, protestors in Erie, PA gathered to defy the city’s local ordinance which bans carrying firearms openly in public.
Many of the protestors carried slung rifles and some carried holstered handguns.
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
BUSTED: Bankers Caught On Tape, Joking About Bailout, And How They'd Never Pay It Back
06/25/13
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Once again, we have more embarrassing conversations between bankers ...
The Irish Independent, a Dublin-based newspaper, has uncovered tapes of an internal phone conversation from September 2008 between two executives at Anglo Irish Bank during i
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
These Crazy Guns Shoot Pewter, Plastic, and Paper Mache
06-25-2013
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Wired.com
You can take pretty much any kid to an arcade, drop a few quarters into whatever Resident Evil knockoff you find there, put the fluorescent blue Uzi in their tiny little hands, and they’ll know what to do.
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News Link • How To
How to shield all your electronic communications from the NSA
06-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
In the wake of recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government snoops are monitoring the electronic communications of U.S. citizens, millions of us wanted to know what, if anything, we could do to protect our email, ce
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Before his death, father of ADHD admitted it was a fictitious disease
06-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
If you or someone you know has a child that has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), chances are the child is actually just fine.
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News Link • Agriculture
Washington rejects restriction on honeybee-killing garden pesticide
06-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
Faceless, nameless bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., are once again demonstrating their ignorance of an issue by refusing to take a necessary action that literally could have an impact on the health and well-being of millions of Americans.
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News Link • Inspiration
Heather Donahue: 10 Reasons I Ditched the City and Moved to the Country
06-25-2013
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Yahoo.HealthyLiving
I'm Heather Donahue, previously known as The Girl from the Blair Witch Project. I burnt up my LA life out in the desert, (headshots, resumes, lingerie, lint--a flaming rainbow) and moved up here.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • New World Order
Tragedy & Hope Made Easy - Chapter 5
06-25-2013
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JoePlummer.com
So far we’ve covered how the network uses money to control governments, businesses and trusted institutions. We’ve touched on how it developed ingenious ways to control other people’s financial resources; their savings accounts, their insurance payme
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
"I Am Sorry That It Has Come to This": A Soldier's Last Words
06-24-2013
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Gawker.com
Daniel suffered greatly from PTSD and had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and several other war-related conditions. On June 10, 2013, Daniel wrote the following letter to his family before taking his life. Daniel was 30 years old. His wife
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News Link • Military
Why Obama is promising to lower nuclear warheads by 1/3
06-24-2013
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Wendy McElroy
gdp is the resident physicist, and uber tech guy, at Wendy McElroy's group blog. At the end of the thread above, gdp identifies a fitting motive for our Noble Peace Prize winner's call for reducing the number of nuclear warheads.
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News Link • Surveillance
Cryptohippie podcast on PRISM, etc.
06-24-2013
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CryptoHippie.Com
This podcast is 50 minutes, but if you really want to understand PRISM and government spying, you should listen to it.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Markets tumble as China enters bear market
06-24-2013
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Washington Post
U.S. stocks stumbled again Monday, extending losses that some market analysts fear may accelerate this month as investors adjust to expectations that the Federal Reserve could soon begin scaling back its bond-buying program.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Ron Paul: What We Have Learned From Afghanistan
06-24-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Last week the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar with the US government’s blessing. They raised the Taliban flag at the opening ceremony and referred to Afghanistan as the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan"
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden vs. the Soyuz
06-24-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
This little-appreciated fact should be pointed out to those who have claimed there was something inappropriate about Edward Snowden receiving help from Russia in his search for political asylum from the world’s most powerful and lawless regime.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Monsanto’s GMO Wheat Conspiracy Theory
06-24-2013
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Farm Wars
Monsanto invents conspiracy theory - Points finger at some unknown activist perpetrator. No facts, just theory, and a pretty lame one at that.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutor opens with Zimmerman's obscenity
06-24-2013
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AP
A prosecutor told jurors in opening statements George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin "because he wanted to," not because he had to, while a defense attorney said the neighborhood watch volunteer shot the teen in self-defense to stop him
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Lawn chair balloonist’s flight goes awry
06-24-2013
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The Sideshow
A 60-year-old man whose lifelong dream was to take flight in a lawn chair using helium-filled balloons did so on Saturday, though his attempt to set a record didn't go quite as planned. “I've been thinking about this forever," Joe Barbera, an enginee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS chief: Inappropriate screening was broad
06-24-2013
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AP
The Internal Revenue Service's screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency said Monday.
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