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Date Sent: 2013-06-28
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, June 28, 2013 |
License Plate Readers Are Photographing You Everywhere
Incoming police chief shoots woman while trying to kill her dog -- World's Oldest Genome Sequenced From 700,000-Year-Old Horse DNA -- George Zimmerman Witness Can't Say Who Threw First Punch -- Treasury: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups, just 6 progressive groups -- Park Police lost track of thousands of weapons, inspector general’s report says -- Justice Dept. targets general in leak probe -- Gold Premiums Double in India as Demand Outstrips Supply -- Jeb Presents Hillary Neo Con of the Year Award -- David Stockman Takes On the Fed’s Easy-Money Policies—and the World -- Cheaper, Sportier Google Glass Competitor Is Now Available For
Pre-Order -- California Man Cleared After Contaminated Paramedic Equipment
Found... -- Why It Took Regulators Nearly Two Years To Bring A Case
Against Jon Corzine For MF Global -- BREAKING NEWS: Army Has Sprayed
Citizens with Radioactive Particles! (Chemtrail Link?) -- Recall of Second Anti-Gun
Senator in Colorado Certified to Proceed -- A 20-30% S&P Drop
Coming? -- Sock Puppet Kabuki; Nikkei Today Parallels Dot-Com Bust
-- NSA Leak
Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower -- Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and
Baffling Region at Edge of Solar System -- CNN Edits Out Comparison
of TWA 800 and Benghazi -- We’re Going Into the Greatest Depression: Gerald Celente -- McDonald's refuses to operate in West Bank
settlement -- Ecuador turns away US trade benefits, makes defiant
offer amid Snowden asylum request -- Brussels army of 'slave'
trainees escapes EU gaze -- The New Black Official Trailer
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News Link • Surveillance
License Plate Readers Are Photographing You Everywhere
06-27-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
What are police departments doing with all that data?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Incoming police chief shoots woman while trying to kill her dog
06-27-2013
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Rawstory
A woman in North Carolina says that the incoming police chief in one town did not react to provide immediate assistance after accidentally shooting her while trying to kill her allegedly aggressive dog.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
World's Oldest Genome Sequenced From 700,000-Year-Old Horse DNA
06-27-2013
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National Geographic
Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50,000 and 110,000 years old, respectively. But samples from a horse leg bone more than 700,000 years old have yielded the oldest full genome known to date.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
George Zimmerman Witness Can't Say Who Threw First Punch
06-27-2013
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ABC News
In a painfully embarrassing moment, Jeantel was forced to admit she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with Martin moments before he was shot. West asked her to read
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Treasury: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups, just 6 progressive groups
06-27-2013
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Washington Times
Refuting Democratic suggestions that progressive groups were also swept up in the IRS probe of the tax status of Tea Party organizations, the Treasury Department's inspector general has revealed that just 6 progressive groups
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Park Police lost track of thousands of weapons, inspector general’s report says
06-27-2013
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Washington Post
The US Park Police lost track of thousands of handguns, rifles and machine guns in the latest example of mismanagement on a police force trusted to protect millions of visitors to the city’s iconic monuments.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Justice Dept. targets general in leak probe
06-27-2013
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Washington Post
A retired four-star Marine Corps general who served as the nation’s second-ranking military officer is a target of a Justice Department investigation into a leak of information about a covert U.S.-Israeli cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Premiums Double in India as Demand Outstrips Supply
06-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
MUMBAI (Reuters) " Gold premiums doubled in India on Wednesday as suppliers struggled to meet surging demand after a ban on consignment imports, but futures prices fell to their lowest in more than a month as international gold prices fell due to a s
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Chris Menke
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News Link • NeoCons
Jeb Presents Hillary Neo Con of the Year Award
06-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Neo conservatism does not just cross party lines, it is the party line. Both major US parties share the same foreign policy, which is “humanitarian interventionism,” pushing “democracy” at the barrel of a gun, militarized diplomacy, covert and overt
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Stockman Takes On the Fed’s Easy-Money Policies"and the World
06-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A great in-depth article on David Stockman, gadfly, revolutionary, Washington insider/outsider, and friend of Against Crony Capitalism.
The entire establishment hates Mr. Stockman because for the most part he is right, and that means bad things fo
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Cheaper, Sportier Google Glass Competitor Is Now Available For Pre-Order
06-27-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Nosowitz
The XTREME Google Glass. Google Glass 2000! (It's actually called the Recon Jet, and it looks pretty sweet.)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
California Man Cleared After Contaminated Paramedic Equipment Found...
06-27-2013
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http://jonathanturley.org, JONATHAN TURLEY
There is an interesting story out of San Jose where a man was falsely accused of being an accomplice to murder despite being in a hospital at the time of the crime.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Why It Took Regulators Nearly Two Years To Bring A Case Against Jon Corzine For MF Global
06-27-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
In November 2011, commodity futures brokerage MF Global was liquidated after then-CEO Jon Corzine's levered bets on risky European sovereign debt didn't pan out.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Recall of Second Anti-Gun Senator in Colorado Certified to Proceed
06-27-2013
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http://www.ammoland.com
Pueblo Grass Roots Group Makes More State History* With Successful Recall Effort
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News Link • Economy - International
Sock Puppet Kabuki; Nikkei Today Parallels Dot-Com Bust
06-27-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Peter Schiff
The Japanese stereotype of excessive courtesy is being confirmed by the actions of prime minster Shinzo Abe who is giving the world a free and timely lesson on the dangers of overly accommodative monetary policy. Whether or not we benefit from the tu
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News Link • Whistleblowers
NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower
06-27-2013
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Wired.com
Today’s revelations that the National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans provides startling evidence for the first time to support a whistleblower’s .......
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and Baffling Region at Edge of Solar System
06-27-2013
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Wired.com
Not content with simply being the man-made object to travel farthest from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft recently entered a bizarre new region at the solar system’s edge that has physicists baffled.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
CNN Edits Out Comparison of TWA 800 and Benghazi
06-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
On this past Saturday morning, I did a live remote from Kansas City for CNN's "New Day" program on the subject of TWA Flight 800, hosted by Alison Kosik.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Elliott Wave Steven Hochberg predicts $20 silver - Declare Your Independence w/ Ernest Hancock 02/13
06-27-2013
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Freedom's Phoenix
You heard it here first...On the February 21st, 2013 show of Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock radio show
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News Link • Future Predictions
We’re Going Into the Greatest Depression " Gerald Celente
06-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Top trends forecaster Gerald Celente says NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a non-event. Celente charges, “What did Snowden say that we didn’t write about over a year ago.” Celente says the real stories are the imploding economy and coming war.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Boycotts
McDonald's refuses to operate in West Bank settlement
06-27-2013
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ctvnews.ca
The McDonald's restaurant chain refused to open a branch in a West Bank Jewish settlement, the company said Thursday, adding a prominent name to an international movement to boycott Israel's settlements.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ecuador turns away US trade benefits, makes defiant offer amid Snowden asylum request
06-27-2013
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foxnews.com
Ecuador's government gave the Obama administration a defiant response in the face of warnings not to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, sending the message that it does not need U.S. aid and assistance.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Brussels army of 'slave' trainees escapes EU gaze
06-27-2013
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Reuters
When Alex Godson accepted his first unpaid internship in Brussels after receiving a master's degree in international relations from the University of Manchester, he believed a full-time position was just a few months away.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The New Black Official Trailer
06-27-2013
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youtube
The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights.
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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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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
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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Robert Lee
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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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Robert Lee
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News Link • Communications
Victory for Community Radio as FCC Puts 1,000 Low-Power FM Frequencies Up For Grabs
06-26-2013
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newblackman.blogspot.com
In a major victory for the community radio movement after a 15-year campaign, the Federal Communications Commission has announced it will soon begin accepting applications for hundreds of new low-power FM radio stations in October.
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News Link • Racism
Could an X-Ray Death Ray Really Work?
06-26-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Ray guns, death rays, freeze rays " these make-believe weapons have long been staples of the wackier side of science fiction.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Friend of MLK, Jr.: Government Conspiracy Killed Dr. King
06-26-2013
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www.prisonplanet.com
“There was a military team there, an Alpha 184 team there, and they were backups. They did not kill Martin King,” Pepper said. “Martin was killed by a lone, contract gunman who got off that shot.”
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Friend: Michael Hastings Was Working on “Biggest Story Yet” About CIA
06-26-2013
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www.prisonplanet.com
A friend of Michael Hastings told Fox News today that the Rolling Stone journalist was working on the “the biggest story yet” about the CIA before his suspicious death and that Hastings drove “like a grandma,” making it extremely out of character for
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News Link • Obama Administration
Charting the Murky Waters of ObamaCare
06-26-2013
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The New American
If you think what you’ve seen of ObamaCare thus far is bad, think again. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
DC Report " Revisiting the “Patriot” Act (Video)
06-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The ongoing controversy regarding the NSA’s wiretapping and data-mining program has refocused attention on the USA PATRIOT Act, which was enacted shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The NSA claims that their programs are fully authorized by
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The Verdict Is In: Mainstream Media is Dead
06-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Mainstream media viewership is dying almost as quickly as overall viewer trust, and the alternative news is now rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the scripted media. A new age of media has begun.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal Regulations Have Made You 75 Percent Poorer " U.S. GDP is just $16 trillion instead of $54 t
06-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The growth of federal regulations over the past six decades has cut U.S. economic growth by an average of 2 percentage points per year, according to a new study in the Journal of Economic Growth. As a result, the average American household receives a
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Message from the Voluntaryist
06-25-2013
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Wendy McElroy
How does the government finance the surveillance? Governments seek to exert power and control over their citizens. Made possible only by the collection of taxes and the coercive monopolization of public services, such as courts, army and police.
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News Link • Environment
America's Emperor Acts on Carbon Emissions
06-25-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
"With little to no hope on Capitol Hill for action on climate change, President Obama on Tuesday plans to bypass Congress and move forward with executive actions designed to reduce carbon emissions."
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
California Police Shoot Family Dog And Then Offer Account Contradicted By Videotape
06-25-2013
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Jonathan Turley
We have another controversial dog shooting case. Cathy Luu and her family say that an El Monte police officer shot their 2-year-old female German Shepherd, named Kiki inside their fenced-in front yard while looking for a runaway teenager.
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News Link • Police State
WV Court Officials Trying to Silence Media in Quest to Convict Boy for NRA Shirt
06-25-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
What started off as a routine harassment from a middle school teacher to a student over a t-shirt he was wearing has turned into an embarrassing and infuriating abuse of First Amendment rights in West Virginia.
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