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Date Sent: 2013-07-29
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, July 29, 2013 |
Bradley Manning: Enemy of "The State" -- Debt limit needs to be raised . . . yet again
Cenk Uygur: ‘It’s over’ if Obama appoints Larry Summers to the Federal Reserve -- Is Your Cable Box Spying On You? -- Where's America These Days? - by Cathy L.Z. Smith -- Among the Many Things We've Lost... - by Cathy L.Z. Smith -- Questions for Constitutionalists - by Paul Bonneau -- Glyphosate, Brain Damaged Babies, and Yakima Valley – Heroes Three - by L. Neil Smith -- Ron Paul: A House Divided Over NSA Spying on Americans -- Egypt warns sit-ins as weekend death toll climbs -- Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have 'Powerful and Invasive' Search Tool -- Fusion Energy Quest Faces Boundaries of Budget, Science -- Lies, Damn Lies and US Promises
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning: Enemy of "The State"
07-28-2013
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Free Press Publications
The faux trial of Bradley Manning is almost over. Closing arguments ended on Friday July 26, nearly two full months after the trial began on June 3.
Defense lawyer David E. Coombs said in his closing arguments that Bradley Manning is a whistleblow
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt limit needs to be raised . . . yet again
07-28-2013
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AP
Congress needs to raise the debt limit and take away the "cloud of uncertainty" about the nation's ability to pay its bills, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Cenk Uygur: ‘It’s over’ if Obama appoints Larry Summers to the Federal Reserve
07-28-2013
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Rawstory
“If he appoints Larry Summers it is over,” he remarked. “There is no one that can make the case that President Obama is actually a progressive at heart. ‘Oh, wait for the second term. In the second term he’ll be really progressive.’
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Is Your Cable Box Spying On You?
07-28-2013
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IBT
Should a TV-mounted box have the ability to track our movements, record our voices and monitor our behaviors? Should cable providers and tech companies be allowed to collect such information without our consent?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Where's America These Days? - by Cathy L.Z. Smith
07-28-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
A man who has told the truth to the world is declared"by a man who has never told the truth"to be a criminal, and his life, future, and freedom hang in limbo, a captive of all the 21st Century wannabe dictators who currently infest this planet,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Among the Many Things We've Lost... - by Cathy L.Z. Smith
07-28-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
We lost this thing the very moment that one individual member of the species homo sapiens accepted the authoritarian assertions of another member of the species homo sapiens over his own life (which is his right), but then agreed not only to accept,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Questions for Constitutionalists - by Paul Bonneau
07-28-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
I earlier wrote an article explaining why anarchists ought to stop their Constitution-bashing and start talking with Constitutionalists. Now I want to hit it from the other end, asking what Constitutionalists are prepared to give. l
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Glyphosate, Brain Damaged Babies, and Yakima Valley " A River Runs Through It
07-28-2013
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Farm Wars
Could Glyphosate, used for years on both land and in the river to control weeds, have caused an increase in anencephaly?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Heroes
Heroes Three
07-28-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
One of the most unmistakable indications that a civilization is in decline is when it is no longer capable of telling its heroes from its villains. Three heroic individuals, recently in the news, come to mind.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: A House Divided Over NSA Spying on Americans
07-28-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Last week’s House debate on the Defense Appropriations bill for 2014 produced a bit more drama than usual. After hearing that House leadership would do away with the traditional “open rule” allowing for debate on any funding limitation amendment, it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt warns sit-ins as weekend death toll climbs
07-28-2013
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AP
Egypt's interior minister pledged to deal decisively with any attempts to destabilize the country as the death toll in weekend clashes between Morsi's Islamist backers and security forces near one of those sit-ins reached 72,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have 'Powerful and Invasive' Search Tool
07-28-2013
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ABC News (video)
"The NSA has trillions of telephone calls and emails in their databases that they've collected over the last several years," Greenwald said. "These programs are very simple screens...where all an analyst has to do is enter an email address
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Fusion Energy Quest Faces Boundaries of Budget, Science
07-28-2013
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nationalgeographic.com
A large banner hangs from the front of the stadium-size building that houses the world's most powerful array of lasers: "Bringing Star Power To Earth."
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 28, 2013 Edition
07-26-2013
John Semmens
NSA Demands Passwords and Security Questions/Answers
CNET reports that Internet service providers are being pressed by the National Security Agency to turn over users' passwords and security questions and answers to the Government. While many see
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Reference Link • Police State
The State of the Union
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The illusion of normalcy is almost in the rear view mirror in regard to our previous way of life in the US. Even those who have the most virulent cases of normalcy bias, will soon be beyond their self-deluded ability to deny what has happened to our
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Pentagon is spending taxpayer dollars on what?
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
One of the biggest failings of conservatives over the years, and especially since the end of the Cold War, has been the failure to understand that the military is big government too. It is full of waste, and much larger than it should be.
Some wil
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Using fake names on Facebook, Surveillance State, androids
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
File this one in the ever-burgeoning category of: how insane can legislators get?
Congress is now debating an update to the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Turns out it’s already a misdemeanor to “exceed authorized use” of a computer, but th
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Feel-free fee: TSA will grope you less for $85
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If full-body scanners and TSA pat-downs make you feel uncomfortable, you now have an alternate option " making the agency like you and paying a fee of $85.
The Transportation Security Administration has launched an expansion to their program that
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Internet
Aaron Swartz " The Network Transformation (Video)
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Here Swartz describes the nature of the shift from centralized one-to-many systems, such as broadcast television, to the decentralized many-to-many topography of network communication. The end of scarcity in transmission capacity poses the question o
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between The Last Financial Crisis And Today
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008? That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
How Nancy Pelosi Saved the NSA Surveillance Program
07-25-2013
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FP
Ahead of the razor-thin 205-217 vote, which would have severely limited the NSA's ability to collect data on Americans' telephone records if passed, Pelosi privately and aggressively lobbied wayward Democrats to torpedo the amendment
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Prosecution Calls Bradley Manning an Anarchist and Traitor
07-25-2013
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ABC News
In their closing arguments, Army prosecutors portrayed Bradley Manning as an anarchist and a man hungry for fame who was fully aware that his leak of hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks would end up in the hands of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill evidence
07-25-2013
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Reuters
Halliburton agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Halliburton's guilty plea is the third by a company over the spill and requires the world's second-largest oilfield services company to pay
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson's Campaign Still $1,000,000 in Debt
07/24/2013
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Bill Still
A former Libertarian Presidential candidate is making economic news -- bad news -- for the LP once again. According to his latest filing with the Federal Election Commission, former Libertarian Presidential nominee, Gary Johnson's campaign is now ov
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
False memory planted in mouse's brain
07-25-2013
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The Guardian
Scientists have implanted a false memory in the brains of mice in an experiment that they hope will shed light on the well-documented phenomenon whereby people "remember" events or experiences that have never happened.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
07-25-2013
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by Declan McCullagh (c/Net)
The US government has demanded major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Scientists name possible culprit in honey bee deaths: agricultural chemicals
07-25-2013
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sciencerecorder.com
The most lethal pesticide found in the pollen samples was chlorothonatil.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
An unstoppable oil leak is flowing in Alberta
07-25-2013
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treehugger.com
As if ruptured pipelines, train explosions and drilling rig fires weren't enough ways for oil to damage the environment, oil companies are now creating new types of disasters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
How will the driverless car affect the design of our cities?
07-25-2013
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treehugger.com
The driverless car is one of those ideas that I used to look at and respond, "get a bike."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
The North Pole is now the North Pool
07-25-2013
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treehugger.com
So, ice at the North Pole has melted and formed a freshwater lake. Yes, there is a lake at the North Pole. Naturally, the sight of Santa's home all melty has raised concerns about climate change.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
Federal government spends $13.8 million destroying houses in bankrupt Detroit
07-25-2013
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buzz.naturalnews.com
The Detroit area remains one of the top 10 metros for foreclosed and vacated homes. Its abandoned residences often become hideouts for drug users and prostitutes, and occasionally scenes of murder.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Paul Kemp-Robertson: Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.
07-25-2013
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ted.com
Currency -- the bills and coins you carry in your wallet and in your bank account -- is founded on marketing, on the belief that banks and governments are trustworthy.
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Robert Lee
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Reference Link • Corruption
Why Was Michael Hastings Murdered?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Part one of this series demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that Michael Hastings was murdered and his body was cremated to cover up the crime. This part tells why he was murdered.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Surveillance
Irish watchdog won't probe U.S. firms over continuing spying on its citizens
07-25-2013
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Reuters
A watchdog in Ireland, home to the European headquarters of Apple and Facebook, says it will not investigate them for transferring personal data to a U.S. spy agency BECAUSE they have signed up to EU privacy principles. lol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Dramatic CCTV: Moment of Santiago high-speed train crash caught on tape
07-25-2013
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youtube
A high-speed train has derailed outside Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, leaving at least 78 people dead and 178 injured.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
LHC Discovery Maims Supersymmetry, Again
07-25-2013
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news.discovery.com
This is one discovery that will likely excite and disappoint physicists in equal measure. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientists have confirmed the detection of an ultra-rare subatomic decay for the first time, a decay that is predicted by the Standa
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Who Controls The Global Economy? Do Not Underestimate The Power Of The Big Banks
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Are the big banks really as powerful as some people say that they are? Do they really control the global economy? If y0u asked most people, they would tell you that governments control the global economy. But the campaigns of our politicians are f
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers Break into Smartphones to Access Your Bank Account
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Security Research Labs (SRL) states that SIM cards in smartphones could be utilized by hackers to gather online banking account information.
Indeed, an estimated 500 million subscriber identity module (SIM) cards have been identified as having vul
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas
07-25-2013
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Reason Magazine
Hanners blew the whistle on the department’s tactics and was eventually fired for refusing to comply and keep quiet. Each officer was required to make 100 contacts each month, which included tickets, arrests, field interviews, and warnings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
After 226 years, a constitutional answer to a controversial question
07-25-2013
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National Constitution Center
Who in government decides whether the U.S. will recognize the legitimacy of another nation’s government? Many have long assumed that the answer was: the President. George Washington thought that, and so have his successors.
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News Link • Economy - International
Debt Levels Are Skyrocketing To Extremely Dangerous Levels " How Long Can This Possibly Keep Going?
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Never before has the world faced such a serious debt crisis. Yes, in the past there have certainly been nations that have gotten into trouble with debt, but we have never had a situation where virtually all of the major powers around the globe were
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
In a Close Vote, Congress Shamefully Defeats Amendment That Sought to Curtail NSA Surveillance
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The US House of Representatives came within a few votes of passing a novel amendment that attempted to strike out funding for the highly contentious NSA calling records surveillance program. Under this program, the NSA acquires the records of who you
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Analysis: How much is Fed aid to U.S. corporate profits worth?
07-25-2013
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Reuters
Many on Wall Street believe the Federal Reserve's monetary policy is behind record corporate earnings and the stock market's surge to all-time highs this year.
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Robert Lee
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