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Date Sent: 2013-08-09
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, August 8, 2013 |
How and Why Adam Kokesh was Framed -- The Ron Paul Channel Will Launch August 12th
Miami teen graffiti artist dies after being tasered by police -- The Boston Bombing, the CIA, and the US Empire -- Are Police in America Now a Military, Occupying Force? -- Scientists To Make Deadlier Versions Of H7N9 Bird Flu In Lab -- A
Material That Could Make Solar Power “Dirt Cheap” -- Photograph Your
House Key With This App, Then Print A Copy Anywhere -- How Tesla Is
Driving Electric Car Innovation -- Shades of the Old Soviet Union? -- Minimum Wage Laws are a Masterful Delusion -- On Obama's cancellation of summit with Putin and extradition -- "China Syndrome" Emergency at Fukushima 8/6/13 (Excellent) Update -- Look Who's Funding the Education of Our Children -- UPDATE 1-U.S. Congress wins relief on Obamacare health plan subsidies -- PayPal tests mobile payments using your face for verification -- Palestinian Prisoners: Petitioning to Block Their Release -- 08-08-13 -- Marc J Victor, Mike Wasdin In Studio (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Thanks to the NSA, the Sky May Be Falling on U.S. Cloud Providers -- TSA: Ask the Fed for Relief... From the Fed? -- A Lousy Investment that May Be a Good Source of Income -- The Constipated Hordes at TEOTWAWKI: A Pharmacologic Strategy, by Anon, M.D. -- Many protein
powders laced with heavy metals, MSG -- Factory chicken slaughterhouses
using super-strength chemicals -- N.S.A. Searches Said to Include Broader Sifting of Data Abroad -- Giant Fatberg Found Under London Has Surprising Use -- Fukushima's Radioactive Water Leak: What You Should Know -- The Rise Of The Bear: 18 Signs That Russia Is Rapidly Catching Up To The United States -- Benton Bribery Scandal Compromises Rand Paul 2016? (w/Video) -- Big Banks Conspiracy is destroying America: All markets manipulated, capitalism getting -- US-Backed Death Squads Massacre Hundreds of Syrian Kurds -- Decades of Israeli/Palestinian Peace Talks Failure: 50 Reasons Why
AZ: Pool party at the Hancock's - Saturday August 10th, 2013 - 2
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News Link • Gun Rights
How and Why Adam Kokesh was Framed
08-08-2013
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www.prisonplanet.com
WeAreChange goes to the home of activist and YouTube host Adam Kokesh to find out what happened on the night he was raided and arrested.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
The Ron Paul Channel Will Launch August 12th
08-08-2013
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Lew Rockwell
Today, former-Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul announced the Ron Paul Channel (www.RonPaulChannel.com) would launch the week of August 12, 2013, and new details about the Channel. Known for refusing to play by the establishment’s rules
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Pool party at the Hancock's - Saturday August 10th, 2013 - 2 p.m. til ???
08-01-2013
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
The pool is about 88 degrees and is pretty refreshing right now, so we hope that you can make it to the party - may be the last one of the summer for us. Bring your bathing suits and towels (and sunscreen). This is a kid-friendly party so if you brin
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Miami teen graffiti artist dies after being tasered by police
08-08-2013
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Reuters
Miami Beach, Florida, police are investigating the death of an 18-year-old graffiti artist who died after being shot with a Taser during a pre-dawn chase with officers who said they caught him spray-painting a building.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
The Boston Bombing, the CIA, and the US Empire
08-08-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Sibel Edmonds talks to Lew Rockwell about what’s really happening in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Short Circuiting The Market
08-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Peters
Evidence continues to accrue that the Soviet Union did not disappear in 1991. It simply transplanted itself to another part of the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Are Police in America Now a Military, Occupying Force?
08-08-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Despite the steady hue and cry by government agencies about the need for more police, more sophisticated weaponry, and the difficulties of preserving the peace and maintaining security in our modern age, the reality is far different.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Super Simple 3-D-Printed Robot Can Inspect Power Lines For Cheap
08-08-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Nosowitz
Don't be surprised to see a few of these inching their way along cables above your head soon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
A Material That Could Make Solar Power “Dirt Cheap”
08-08-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Researchers discover that a material known for a hundred years could lower the cost of solar power.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Photograph Your House Key With This App, Then Print A Copy Anywhere
08-08-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
The app's creators think of it as "lockout insurance."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
How Tesla Is Driving Electric Car Innovation
08-08-2013
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Technologyreview.com
If you believe Tesla, affordable, long-range electric cars could be here sooner than many think.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Shades of the Old Soviet Union?
08-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Margolis
In the late 1980’s, an old friend of mine based in Moscow was calling her husband in the USA late one night. She said it was a “typical dumb husband/wife call,” mostly about a broken garage door.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Minimum Wage Laws are a Masterful Delusion
08-08-2013
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americanthinker.com
Government does not create wealth -- it merely taxes and consumes it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
On Obama's cancellation of summit with Putin and extradition
08-08-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com, Glenn Greenwald
The US frequently refuses extradition requests where, unlike with Snowden, it involves serious crimes and there is an extradition treaty
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
"China Syndrome" Emergency at Fukushima 8/6/13 (Excellent) Update
08-08-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The ground beneath unit 4 is sinking (36" after earthquake + 30" since then.)
Groundwater 3X more cesium than Chernobyl’s total " “Underscores scale of never-ending threat”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
UPDATE 1-U.S. Congress wins relief on Obamacare health plan subsidies
08-08-2013
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http://www.reuters.com, By David Lawder
* Congress, staff, to keep federal health premium payments
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
PayPal tests mobile payments using your face for verification
08-08-2013
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http://news.cnet.com, by Lance Whitney
A new trial in the U.K. lets people pay for items using the PayPal app, a mobile phone, and a photo to prove their identity.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Thanks to the NSA, the Sky May Be Falling on U.S. Cloud Providers
08-08-2013
U.S. cloud providers could lose between $21.5 billion and $35 billion in revenue over the next three years because of worries about the National Security Agency's PRISM program, which enables the government to access user data from U.S. Internet comp
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
The Constipated Hordes at TEOTWAWKI: A Pharmacologic Strategy, by Anon, M.D.
08-08-2013
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www.survivalblog.com
Even the robustly healthy occasionally encounter the minor health annoyance"a stomach bug, say, a case of diarrhea or constipation, or perhaps a urinary tract infection. The problem, of course, is that, in the context of TEOTWAWKI, the minor health
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Nutrition kicks the cigarette fix
08-08-2013
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naturalnews.com
How can someone wean themselves off nicotine by infusing the proper nutrition that kills the cravings, replenishes a depleted system, and helps bring back positive feelings and experiences associated with smoking?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Factory chicken slaughterhouses using super-strength chemicals
08-08-2013
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naturalnews.com
There is a reason why the conventional poultry industry in the U.S. has been fairly successful in recent years at lowering detected levels of salmonella in chicken.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Surveillance
N.S.A. Searches Said to Include Broader Sifting of Data Abroad
08-08-2013
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New York Times
The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans’ e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Giant Fatberg Found Under London Has Surprising Use
08-08-2013
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nationalgeographic.com
Smelly grease that piles up in sewers can be useful.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima's Radioactive Water Leak: What You Should Know
08-08-2013
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nationalgeographic.com
Tensions are rising in Japan over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a breach that has defied the plant operator's effort to gain control.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
The Rise Of The Bear: 18 Signs That Russia Is Rapidly Catching Up To The United States
08-08-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Russian Bear is stronger and more powerful than it has ever been before. Sadly, most Americans don’t understand this. They still think of Russia as an “ex-superpower” that was rendered almost irrelevant when the Cold War ended. And yes, when t
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Corruption
Benton Bribery Scandal Compromises Rand Paul 2016? (w/Video)
08-08-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This just in, Jesse Benton, former Chairman of the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign has found himself mired in an alleged bribery scandal stemming from claims he initiated payoffs to structure the resignation of Bachmann Campaign Chairman Kent Sorenson
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Chris Menke
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Big Banks Conspiracy is destroying America
Commentary: All markets manipulated, capitalism getting
08-08-2013
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/big-banks-conspir
Imagine 100 Goldman Sachs banks running America and the world. It’s happening. Forget politicians, Big Banks rule the world.
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Drug War
Latin America on Its Way to Legalizing Drugs, Experts Say
08-07-2013
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laht.com
Latin America is headed towards the decriminalization of drug possession for personal consumption, according to experts and officials who took part in a regional conference in Buenos Aires.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Last Chance for Liberty (by Matt Papke)
08-07-2013
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Free Tempe
2014 is coming quickly, I encourage each and every one of you to run for some office: school board, corporation commission, or development commission, there are so many offices to chose from. If not you, then consider who will? More of the same stat
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
No Horses, But Detroit Water Department Employs 'Horseshoer'
08-07-2013
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Michigan Capitol Confidential
Yet even with a department so bloated that it has a horseshoer and no horses, the local union president said it is "not possible" to eliminate positions.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Why Are Your Children Buying Houses for Ben Bernanke?
08-07-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
Every now and then I like to look at government numbers and see what they really mean. I ran into this batch several months ago but hadn’t had time to play with them till now.
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • General Opinion
In a tattoo state of mind
08-07-2013
Menckens Ghost
Is there a deeper meaning to today’s tattoo trend? Are tattoos an example of how easy it is to get Americans to emulate what they see on TV, in movies, and in professional sports? Are tattoos a reflection of diminished economic opportunities or of s
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima leaks will keep fisheries closed
08-07-2013
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newscientist.com
Over two years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan was devastated by a tsunami, radioactive water is still leaking into the ocean, spelling more trouble for the local fishing industry along the coast of Fukushima prefecture.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Propaganda
Washington Thinks You Are Stupid " Paul Craig Roberts
08-07-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
There’s the old saying that if the government fears the people, there is liberty, but if the people fear the government there is tyranny. The criminals in Washington not only do not fear us, they do not respect us. Washington looks upon Americans as
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Chris Menke
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News Link • TERRORISM
Government Officials Hoping Terror Threat ‘Diverts Attention’ From NSA Spying Scandal
08-07-2013
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DSWright
In a troubling vindication for the cynics, it seems government officials in Washington are celebrating the recent announcement of a terror threat to US interests around the world as a happy distraction from the NSA spying scandal.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The “New Economy” Is The No Jobs Economy " Paul Craig Roberts
08-07-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Official government statistics are make-believe. The government makes inflation and unemployment disappear by how it defines inflation and unemployment, and it makes the economy grow by how it defines Gross Domestic Product. The definitional basis de
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
CA Returns Husband's Guns That Were Confiscated After Wife's Voluntary Mental Health Visit
08-06-2013
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The Blaze
Lynette Phillips’ home in California was visited by police who were there to confiscate her husband’s firearms and ammunition because she had spent 3 days in the hospital (checked herself in) for mental health reasons, making her ineligible
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Journalist Fired for Negative Obama Editorial
08-06-2013
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Ben Swann
President Obama visited Tennessee last week where he was greeted by a mass of protesters. The Chattanooga Times Free Press' “Take Your Jobs Plan and Shove it, Mr. President” ran front and center. The article was written by editorial manager
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News Link • Government
Taken
08-06-2013
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Under civil forfeiture, Americans who haven’t been charged with wrongdoing can be stripped of their cash, cars, and even homes. Is that all we’re losing?
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News Link • Police State
Ivutin: U.S. on track to become U.S.S.R.
08-06-2013
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Under communist rule, the Russian police spied on people, collecting files to use against them. Neighbors were encouraged to report on neighbors. Ivutin sees similarities between what happened in Russia and what is happening here.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Proceeding With Massive Purchase of Russian Helicopters That Afghans Cannot Operate
08-06-2013
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Jonathan Turley
As Afghanistan quickly unravels and the Taliban resume control over large areas of the country, the Obama Administration appears to be rushing to spend as much money as possible before we are kicked out. The latest example is the Pentagon
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Police Helicopter and Patrol Cars Dispatched for Man Photographing Courthouse
08-06-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
With a .45 caliber legally strapped to his side, Jordan McManus decided to photograph the federal courthouse in Phoenix, realizing he would probably draw attention from police, especially after reading about Raymond Michael’s experience
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News Link • Housing
US gov’t accuses Bank of America of civil fraud in sale of $850M of mortgage bonds in 2008
08-06-2013
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AP
The U.S. government has accused Bank of America Corp. of civil fraud, saying the company failed to disclose risks and misled investors in its sale of $850 million of mortgage bonds during 2008.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Jeff Bezos Pays $250 Million for The Washington Post
08-06-2013
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Wired.com
In an ironic twist for a tycoon whose company has always kept its distance from the press, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has agreed to pay $250 million cash for The Washington Post.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Is the FBI a Criminal Organization?
08-06-2013
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antiwar.com
Last week, in a piece I wrote for The Huffington Post on the hypocrisy in the Bradley Manning trial, I argued that “The law is for the powerful to defy with impunity, and for the weak to be punished with.”
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News Link • Syria
Stay Out Of Syria To Avoid Turning War Into Another Federally Funded Entitlement
08-06-2013
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forbes.com
Obama administration policy toward Syria is a slow train wreck.
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