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Date Sent: 2014-01-08
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
Fukishima Fall-Out Fears as DOUBLE the Normal Amount of Radiation is Found in Missouri Snow
America’s Animal Farm: Clapper Now Did Not Lie But Was Confused And Shocked -- Cops knew suburban mom no terrorist, but they killed her anyway -- For Police, Murder is a Time-Saving Device - by William Grigg -- The Public School-Military Pipeline -- Lawsuit Filed in Which Cops
Charged With Destroying Evidence After Confiscating Camera -- South Florida Deputy on Trial for Stealing Phone From Citizen Recording Him -- French Government Officials Call For A Ban And Prosecution Of Comedian For Hateful Speech -- U.S. senator sues over healthcare subsidy for Congress -- Hike in California 'car tax' would raise up to $4 billion --
Pennsylvania: Lawsuit Filed Over Suspicionless Drug Roadblock --
01-08-14 -- Erik Voorhees - Dianna Henry - Greg Schoen - John Perkins - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM -- “I'm Firing You! And Telling the World Your Sins—on Twitter!” -- Obama’s political agenda backfires, gun sales in 2013 smash all records -- Chicago Gun Ban ‘Unconstitutional’, Judge Says -- Ex-DARPA Head Wants You to Swallow ID Microchips -- Don't Worry Folks, The Fed Says Stocks Aren't Overvalued -- Obama backs repeal of law that green-lighted Iraq War -- Navy’s 757-Sized Drone Will Provide Big-Time Surveillance -- How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet -- Garmin Dash Cam HD driving camera doubles as black box -- Pentagon looks to the next 25 years of robot warriors -- 3D Systems targets families with sub-$1,000 3D printer -- SpaceX launches second satellite -- Politics and Minimum Wage -- Employment Recovery? 1,600 Workers Apply For Just 36 Jobs At An Ice Cream Plant In Maryland -- Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp -- Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
23-25, 2014
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukishima Fall-Out Fears as DOUBLE the Normal Amount of Radiation is Found in Missouri Snow
01-07-2014
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LewRockwell.Com/Marie-Louise Olson
A beach in San Francisco contains five times the safe levels of radiation fueling concerns that Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant’s crisis is impacting areas across the country.
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News Link • Surveillance
America’s Animal Farm: Clapper Now Did Not Lie But Was Confused And Shocked
01-07-2014
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Jonathan Turley
The Obama Administration continues to struggle with questions of why it has blocked any investigation, let alone prosecution, of James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, who previously acknowledged lying before the Senate. Not only has
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops knew suburban mom no terrorist, but they killed her anyway
01-07-2014
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WND
When the Secret Service, Washington Metro Police and U.S. Capitol Police were pursuing a vehicle they feared might pose a terrorist threat last October, they quickly learned the car actually belonged to a young mother and dental hygienist from Connec
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
For Police, Murder is a Time-Saving Device
01-07-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
“We don’t have time for this!” exclaimed a police officer as he shot and killed a psychologically troubled, 90-pound teenage boy who had already been tasered and was pinned down beneath two other officers. The victim, 18-year-old Keith Vidal, was
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News Link • Military
The Public School-Military Pipeline
01-07-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
It turns out that 931 public schools required nearly 50,000 students to take the military ASVAB test, often without parental knowledge or consent. “The ASVAB is the military’s entrance exam that is given to fresh recruits to determine their aptitude
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Lawsuit Filed in Which Cops Charged With Destroying Evidence After Confiscating Camera
01-07-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A lawsuit was filed in the Omaha incident so brazen that it not only got four officers fired, but led to felony criminal charges against two officers for confiscating a cell phone from a citizen recording them before disposing of its memory card.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
South Florida Deputy on Trial for Stealing Phone From Citizen Recording Him
01-07-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Broward County deputy Paul Pletcher was off-duty when he got into road rage altercation with another woman, so he pulled her over, stormed up to her truck and began berating her. Her passenger pulled out a cell phone and began video recording,
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News Link • Bill of Rights
French Government Officials Call For A Ban And Prosecution Of Comedian For Hateful Speech
01-07-2014
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Jonathan Turley
One case in point is French comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, who likes to target Jews in his popular shows. He has already been hit with fines approaching $100,000 for his jokes and there is no a move to have been prosecuted criminally. For jokes. B
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
U.S. senator sues over healthcare subsidy for Congress
01-07-2014
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Reuters
Johnson, of Wisconsin, is challenging a U.S. agency decision allowing the federal government to keep paying part of the costs of health insurance for U.S. lawmakers and their staffs who must buy coverage through the Obamacare
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News Link • TAXES: State
Hike in California 'car tax' would raise up to $4 billion
01-07-2014
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Jonathan Turley
A proposed ballot measure to more than double California's vehicle license fee would raise $3 billion to $4 billion annually for state and local transportation programs, according to estimates by the Legislative Analyst's Office.
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News Link • Drug War
Pennsylvania: Lawsuit Filed Over Suspicionless Drug Roadblock
01-07-2014
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The Newspaper
The Office of National Drug Control Policy and US Department of Transportation have been sponsoring "voluntary" roadblocks. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court on December 27, these roadblocks are not exactly voluntary.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s political agenda backfires, gun sales in 2013 smash all records
01-07-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Emily Miller
One year ago this month, President Obama announced that radical gun control was the top of his agenda for his second term. Although he failed to get any of the gun bans or government registrations passed on the federal level, he was successful in one
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News Link • Gun Rights
Chicago Gun Ban ‘Unconstitutional’, Judge Says
01-07-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Sky News
Chicago’s attempts to cut gun-related violence in America’s murder capital may have suffered a setback after a ban on selling guns in the city was called unconstitutional by a federal judge.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Don't Worry Folks, The Fed Says Stocks Aren't Overvalued
01-07-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Remember when the Fed got its Series 7 and Series 63, and was solely engaged in the business of advising on stock valuation? Neiter do we.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama backs repeal of law that green-lighted Iraq War
01-07-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, By Olivier Knox
The law that green-lighted the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq is still on the books ― but maybe not for much longer if President Barack Obama has his way, the White House said on Tuesday, two years after he declared the war officially over.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
A Pill Could Help You Acquire Perfect Pitch
01-07-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Douglas Main
Sounds too good to be true, but new research suggests a mood stabilizer could help restore plasticity to the brain for learning.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Vegas Jackpot: The 8 Coolest Gadgets We Saw on the First Day of CES
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Gadget Lab Staff
The 2014 International CES is underway. The expo floor doesn't open for another day, and the crowds and the spectacle haven't even hit full strength yet. But we've gotten an early peek at some of the year's newest gear.
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News Link • Transportation
BMW Builds a Self-Driving Car " That Drifts
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
BMW makes the Ultimate Driving Machine, and now it’s made the Ultimate Drifting Machine. Except it’s the code that’s in control.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Viva Las Vegas: See More of the Coolest Gadgets at CES
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Gadget Lab Staff
The main expo hall hasn't even officially opened here at CES, but we've already had the opportunity to fondle scores of innovative products.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The First Look at the New Oculus VR Prototype
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Peter Rubin
Every time virtual-reality company Oculus brings a prototype of its Rift headset to a show, it takes another big step forward. And the prototype at this year’s CES may be the biggest leap yet.
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News Link • Drones
Navy’s 757-Sized Drone Will Provide Big-Time Surveillance
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Allen McDuffee
A new drone with the mammoth wingspan of a Boeing 757 is set to give the U.S. Navy some serious surveillance power.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
This Spacesuit for Exploring Mars Is a Form-Fitting Math Problem
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
In science fiction, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Ender’s Game, astronauts zip around zero-g environments clad in stylish, skin-tight spacesuits. In reality, outfits designed for outer space are bulky, hard to maneuver, and have all the charm of adul
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News Link • Internet
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
01-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Steven Levy
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell"and why the Internet will never be the same.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
WaterWheel aims to lighten the load for women in developing nations
01-07-2014
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gizmag.com
Since landing in India in September of 2011, social venture Wello has carried out extensive research in an effort to improve the efficiency of water transport and storage in developing countries.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Garmin Dash Cam HD driving camera doubles as black box
01-07-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. Weiss
At CES this week, GPS giant Garmin has added a new HD camera to its growing line.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon looks to the next 25 years of robot warriors
01-07-2014
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gizmag.com
Last month, the US Pentagon pulled out its crystal ball and released a report that presents a blueprint of what it sees as the future of military robots over the next quarter of a century.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Intel presents wearable technology vision
01-07-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Stuart Robarts
Intel used its keynote presentation at CES to focus on wearable technology, with Chief Executive Brian Krzanich providing a whistlestop tour of wearable devices that the company will be rolling out.
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D Systems targets families with sub-$1,000 3D printer
01-07-2014
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gizmag.com
After first catching our attention with its out-of-the-box Cubify 3D printer back in 2012, 3D Systems is again looking to make inroads beyond the hobby market with its family-oriented Cube 3.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
LG unveils world's first flexible OLED TV
01-07-2014
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gizmag.com
OLED technology has already enabled LG and Samsung to produce TVs with curved displays, but now LG has gone one step further with the unveiling of an OLED TV with a changeable curvature.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX launches second satellite
01-07-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Stuart Robarts
Commercial space company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has launched a second satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Politics and Minimum Wage
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
There’s little debate among academic economists about the effect of minimum wages.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboard outed at CES
01-07-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By James Holloway
I don't know about you, but I know that when I pop out on my electric skateboard to do a spot of shopping, I always find myself thinking "hello " this would even more exciting with three fewer wheels."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Employment Recovery? 1,600 Workers Apply For Just 36 Jobs At An Ice Cream Plant In Maryland
01-07-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The stock market may be soaring to unprecedented heights, but things just continue to get even tougher for the middle class. In this economic environment, there is intense competition for virtually all kinds of jobs. For example, more than 1,600 ap
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News Link • Police State
Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: ....
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
What is most striking about the American police state is not the mega-corporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the invasive surveillance regime....
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Corning reveals antimicrobial version of Gorilla Glass
01-07-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Last July, Corning announced that germ-killing glass for mobile device screens could be less than two years away.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Too Big to Pop
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Most economic observers are predicting that 2014 will be the year in which the United States finally shrugs off the persistent malaise of the Great Recession.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Moon Rovers Planned for Commercial Lunar Exploration Project
01-07-2014
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http://www.space.com, by Laura Poppick
The commercial spaceflight company Golden Spike " which aims fly private missions to the moon by 2020 " has teamed up with the New York-based firm Honeybee Robotics to design robotic rovers for the planned lunar expeditions.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
You Say You Want a Revolution? Keep it Non-Violent
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
History is full of violent revolutions and civil wars. Overthrow the government; disband the state; our guys will be better than their guys.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
2014-Crisis in Dollar Will Trigger Inflation-John Williams
01-07-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Economist John Williams thinks 2014 will mark the beginning of hyperinflation.
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property
01-07-2014
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https://mises.org,
What is the status of intellectual property? Are patents and copyrights legitimate in a free society?
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News Link • Transportation
FutureCar: The Skateboard
01-07-2014
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http://www.youtube.com, NormanBlog
What if the next car you buy will be the only car you ever have to buy again?
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News Link • Freedom Summit
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2014 SPEAKER - PATRICK BYRNE - CEO of OVERSTOCK.COM
01-07-2014
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Overstock.Com
Patrick Byrne will be joining the list of awesome speakers. His focus will be on Bitcoin (Overstock.Com will be the first major company to be taking Bitcoin) and Education (Patrick serves as co-chair, along with Rose Friedman, for The Friedman Founda
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
01-07-14 -- Patrick Byrne - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)
Patrick Byrne (CEO Overstock.Com) comes on the show to provide an update on Overstock.Com, Bitcoin, market conditions/predictions for 2014 Patrick Byrne speaks at FreedomSummit 2014 www.FreedomSummit.com
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Parents call police for help, cops show up and kill their 18-year-old son
01-06-2014
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http://dailycaller.com, Robby Soave
Two North Carolina parents are in shock after local police shot and killed their 18-year-old son in their own home, while they watched helplessly.
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News Link • Police State
NSA Software Program Bugs iPhone (Publisher Recommended)
01-02-2014
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news.firedoglake.com
30th Chaos Communication Congress Jacob Applebaum revealed the existence of an NSA software program known as DROPOUTJEEP which turns a user’s iPhone into a surveillance device for the government. (MUCH more in VIDEO)
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News Link • Surveillance
Neocon Lashes Rand Paul With A Wet Noodle In Republican Punch and Judy Show
01-06-2014
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Washingtonpost.com
Switchblade is here to give you an example of neocon Republican logic in the "Theatre of the Absurd". He is perhaps one of the only Republicans whose foreign policy would be worse than Obama’s.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Switchblade Dares You To Ask: Who Are The Real Mafioso That Are Bleeding You Dry?
01-06-2014
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Youtube.com
I am Switchblade, and I will spare no one from the wrath of my rhetorical blade.
In the video "Sin City" I ask you to consider that your entire life you have lived in a land where the populace is the most propagandized on the face of the earth.
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News Link • Surveillance
Peter King and Rand Paul's Grand Republican Puppet Theatre For The Deluded Faithful
01-06-2014
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Huffingtonpost.com
The wanton bloodlust of Republican Congressman Peter King is hard to watch but is nearly matched by the creepiness of Senator Rand Paul's need to cave to his Likud Party masters.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Rhode Island: ACLU Challenges Parking Ticket Whitewash
01-05-2014
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The Newspaper
Police officers took out their frustration on city councilmen who rejected a proposed departmental pay increase by blitzing their wards with parking tickets. An internal investigation is expected to clear the police department of any wrong doing,
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Walking in Broad Daylight is “Suspicious” Behavior
01-05-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
“What was going on with the police officer a few minutes ago?” I asked the young couple to whom I had offered a ride on sunny but severely cold morning. “Well, he said that we looked like juveniles, and he questioned us about being runaways,”
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News Link • Police State
The Police State in Review, 2013
01-05-2014
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While some “journalists” would have you believe the biggest stories of 2013 were about twerking celebrities and over-hyped real-life courtroom sagas, much bigger events were happening with far more lasting national significance. The foundation of an
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands
01-05-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters.
Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovere
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News Link • Gun Rights
A Note to the Women of India
01-05-2014
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
We used to have a saying in America: "Nobody ever raped a .38". I say used to have. Not many folks actually say it any more, not because it's been discredited, but in the years since it was coined, it has fallen into the category of self-evident trut
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Puerto Rico default to tank $3.7 trillion muni-bond market?
01-05-2014
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WND
Puerto Rico’s public debt of $53 billion is nearly $15,000 per person, but when we add inter-governmental debt it rises to $70 billion, or $17,500 per person. Throw in pension and healthcare obligations, that's $160 billion. That’s $46,000 per person
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News Link • Surveillance
Justice Department Pays Linkedin $500,000 For Unlimited Access To Your Personal Information
01-05-2014
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The Justice Dept. is spending more than $500,000 to “enhance” its company profile on LinkedIn and increase its “brand awareness.” The contract, gives the government “unlimited access” to each of the networking site’s 250 million users through LinkedI
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