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Date Sent: 2014-01-23
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
Why is Illinois, Not the US Government, Putting ‘NATO 3′ on Trial for Terror Conspiracy?
Ukraine prosecutors: 2 dead men hit by live ammo -- America’s
most popular prescription sleep medication linked to mass shootings
-- Sheldon Richman on Almost Everything - From a Libertarian
Standpoint -- How Obamacare Could Lead to Single Payer Sooner Than
You Think -- ‘Too big to fail’ banks are going back to the casino with
your money -- Governments Ignore Definitive Proof that Monsanto’s
Roundup Causes Birth Defects -- Are Water Filters Effective Against
the Chemical in the West Virginia Water Supply? -- A Horrific 'Silent
Epidemic' Is Spreading In The American Southwest -- Jon Stewart
Skewers Obama's Sneaky NSA Speech -- A Comedy Of IMF Forecasting Errors: Global Trade Growth Tumbles
More Than 50%... -- Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story “Absurd” --
01-22-14 -- John Whitehead - Karen Hudes - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM,
M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Russia hacked hundreds of Western, Asian
companies: security firm -- Afghanistan cracks down on
advertising in favor of U.S. troops -- Babes of Bitcoin --
GLPVCs TheRawFeedLive Wed Night Trifecta 3 hrs 3 shows 7-10pm est
1-22-2014 -- Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: U.S. Gold Gone (Video) --
Harper in Israel
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club Saturday Feb 1st, 2014,
8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall) with Patrick Wood speaking; Freedom Tech Workshop #1 - Saturday February 1st 2014;
Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
23-25, 2014, starts this Thursday
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News Link • Activism
Why is Illinois, Not the US Government, Putting ‘NATO 3′ on Trial for Terror Conspiracy?
01-22-2014
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dissenter.firedoglake.com
Three activists known as the “NATO 3″ are scheduled to go on trial tomorrow in Chicago.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Ukraine prosecutors: 2 dead men hit by live ammo
01-22-2014
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AP
2 people were shot to death in anti-government protests in Ukraine, the first fatalities in the increasingly heated clashes with police in the streets of the capital, raising concerns the movement is spiraling into a more dangerous phase
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Judean Date Palm Resurrected
01-22-2014
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arclein
So valued was the tree that it became a recognized as a symbol of good fortune in Judea. It is chronicled in the Bible, Quran and ancient literature for its diverse powers, from an aphrodisiac to a contraceptive, and as a cure for a wide range of di
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News Link • Archaeology
Ark of Covenant - Last Word
01-22-2014
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arclein
The Treatise of the Vessels (Massekhet Kelim) is recorded in the 1648 Hebrew book Emek Halachah, published in Amsterdam. In the book the Treatise is published as Chapter 11 (one of its two pages shown here). The two pages also contain material from o
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News Link • Agriculture
Why Bees Are Disappearing
01-22-2014
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arclein
“Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. […] Scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Departm
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Egyptian Machine Tooling
01-22-2014
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arclein
e clearest evidence of this is in the stone constructions they left behind. And it is through the study of these works that we can see the level of technology each culture had, through what tools they used. Limestone is and has been in great abundanc
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
America’s most popular prescription sleep medication linked to mass shootings
01-22-2014
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thedailysheeple.com
A new report describing the bizarre and dangerous side effects of the sleep aid Ambien has once again raised questions about one of the United States’ most popular prescription drugs.
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News Link • General Opinion
Sheldon Richman on Almost Everything - From a Libertarian Standpoint
01-22-2014
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thedailybell.com
Introduction: Sheldon Richman is vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of FFF's monthly journal, Future of Freedom. For 15 years he was editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, Ne
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
How Obamacare Could Lead to Single Payer Sooner Than You Think
01-22-2014
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thedailybell.com
Obamacare At 'Significant' Risk of 'Death Spiral,' Economist Warns ... Economist John Goodman, who warned last October that Obamacare could plunge into a "death spiral" if not enough young,...
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Cows Eat What?! 6 Surprising Things Fed to US Cows
01-22-2014
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naturalsociety.com
For the most part, cattle in America are seen not as animals or living, breathing entities, but as commodities"products to be bought and sold for consumption.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Shereen El Feki: A little-told tale of sex and sensuality
01-22-2014
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ted.com
“If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms," says Shereen El Feki, who traveled through the Middle East for five years, talking to people about sex. While those conversations reflected rigid norms and deep repression
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
State school kids to ‘hand over pocket money at school gates’, confirms Gove
01-22-2014
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newsbiscuit.com
Michael Gove has today announced that students at state schools who receive over £10 a week in pocket money will be ‘stopped at the school gates by monitors’, nicknamed ‘Gove’s Angels’, and forced to voluntarily donate the cash to school funds.
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News Link • Economy - International
‘Too big to fail’ banks are going back to the casino with your money
01-22-2014
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globalpost.com
Analysis: Don't waste your time on the Davos forum, which kicks off this week. A bigger economic story already happened in another Swiss town, Basel, where the banks just won huge.
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News Link • Government
Governments Ignore Definitive Proof that Monsanto’s Roundup Causes Birth Defects
01-22-2014
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thedailysheeple.com
Big Agra giants Monsanto, Dow and Syngenta have flatly denied any negative reproductive effects of the best-selling herbicide glyphosate, stating:
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News Link • Environment
Are Water Filters Effective Against the Chemical in the West Virginia Water Supply?
01-22-2014
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theorganicprepper
Officials in West Virginia claim that the water in parts of the state is now safe after a chemical spill left 300,000 people without water, but local residents aren’t so sure. A reader graciously provided his eyewitness assessment and opinion of the
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Here's What It Means When Peyton Manning Yells 'Omaha'
01-22-2014
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Business Insider
Peyton Manning yelled "OMAHA" before 44 of his team's 70 plays last week against San Diego, and he's back at it in today's AFC championship game.
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News Link • Pandemic
A Horrific 'Silent Epidemic' Is Spreading In The American Southwest
01-22-2014
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Business Insider
Every year, there are about 150,000 cases of a disease whose impact in the deserts of the American Southwest "is equal to the impact of polio... before the vaccine," John Galgiani, an infectious-disease physician told Dana Goodyear.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Supertramp Breakfast in America album cover in bizarre 9/11 conspiracy theory on David Icke forum
01-22-2014
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UK Mirror
According to the latest theory from the 9/11 truther community, however, Supertramp’s album cover was never just a jokey little piece of absurdist art. What was it instead? A prophecy of doom.
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News Link • Architecture
An Architect Built This Stunning, 196-Square-Foot 'Tiny Home' In Idaho
01-22-2014
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Business Insider
Boise, Idaho-area architect Macy Miller traded her 2,500-square-foot residence for a 196-square-foot home she built herself after dealing with a long and complex foreclosure settlement.
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News Link • Future Predictions
A Comedy Of IMF Forecasting Errors: Global Trade Growth Tumbles More Than 50%...
01-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
The comedy of errors that are IMF forecasts is well known: it was covered most recently in "Hilarious Charts Of The Day: IMF's "Growth Forecasts" Over Time."
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Meanwhile, Peak Symbolism In Front Of GM's Detroit Headquarters
01-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
Let's see: do massive sinkholes next to the headquarters of other massive sinkholes, located in a bankrupt city that may soon become a massive sinkhole, qualify for Federal bailouts?
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story “Absurd”
01-22-2014
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Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
On NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Mike Rogers, Republican, described Snowden as a “thief, who we believe had some help.” The show’s host, David Gregory, interjected, “You think the Russians helped Ed Snowden?” Rogers replied that he believed it was neither
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
01-22-14 -- John Whitehead - Karen Hudes (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
John Whitehead (President and Founder of the Rutherford Institute) provides us an update on the status of civil liberties and human rights in America today - Karen Hudes (World Bank Whistleblower) talks about the IMF laying the groundwork for global
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News Link • World News
Russia hacked hundreds of Western, Asian companies: security firm
01-22-2014
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Reuters
A US. cybersecurity firm says it gathered evidence the Russian government spied on hundreds of American, European and Asian companies, the first time Moscow has been linked to cyber attacks for economic - rather than political - gains.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan cracks down on advertising in favor of U.S. troops
01-22-2014
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Reuters
Afghanistan's government, increasingly at odds with Washington, is cracking down on advertisements that promote keeping US troops in the country after 2014 and has shut down a spot aired by the country's most widely watched broadcasters.
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Feature Article • Activism
Babes of Bitcoin
Agorist Alma
A financier, an agorist, a blogger and a vlogger on cryptocurrency's power to liberate finance, create alternative markets, improve consumer goods and usher in a stateless society.
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
GLPVCs TheRawFeedLive Wed Night Trifecta 3 hrs 3 shows 7-10pm est 1-22-2014
01/22/2014
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http://therawfeedlive.com/
3 hours 3 shows -
7-8pm est dr astro A Supernova has Appeared in the Cigar Galaxy!
8-9pm est arts tower of power
9-10pm est the man cave
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts " U.S. Gold Gone (Video)
01-22-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, the Father of Reaganomics, predicts, “I think, this year, you are going to see a further downturn in the economy. The signs are not only that we do not have a recovery, but it’s going to get worse. . . . Christmas sales were v
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News Link • Media: Internet
Vietnamese hackers target EFF staffers, journalist in phishing attack
01-20-2014
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ars technica
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published details of an attempted malware attack on two of its employees by a group of hackers associated with the Vietnamese government. The hacker group, known as Sinh Tử Lệnh, has targeted Vietnam
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News Link • Syria
Iran invite to Syria talks withdrawn after boycott threat
01-20-2014
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Reuters
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon withdrew a last-minute invitation to Iran to attend peace talks on Syria on Monday after the Syrian opposition threatened to boycott this week's conference if President Bashar al-Assad's main sponsor took part.
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News Link • Surveillance
New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years
01-20-2014
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ars technica
According to newly-declassified court orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the National Security Agency (NSA) was (and may still be) tipping off the FBI at least two to three times per day going back at least to 2006.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
How To Serve A Warrant " Then and Now
01-20-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
An old-time retired cop explains the difference between then and now, between a knock on the door and a battering ram, between a police car and an armored vehicle, between one or two officers and a SWAT team, between seeing a cop and
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News Link • Activism
Live Streamer Records Own Arrest During Kelly Thomas Protest; Footage Survives
01-20-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Fullerton police began making random arrests during a protest against the Kelly Thomas verdict, including pouncing on an independent journalist who was live streaming the action. Although police managed to turn off PMBeer’s camera, whose
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: Government Lawyers Committed "Egregious Misconduct"
01-20-2014
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Lawyers in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington committed "egregious misconduct" in their handling of discovery in a lawsuit that challenges how the Federal Bureau of Prisons treats inmates classified as terrorists, a judge said this week.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What really happened when a U.S. drone hit a Yemeni wedding convoy?
01-20-2014
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Al Jazerra
On Dec. 12, 2013, shortly before the sun dipped behind the mountains and left a handful of modest stone-built homes and grazing goats in a fading silhouette, the ground shook. Across the valley, black smoke billowed into the sky. In the moments
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
For American Police, Criminal Violence is Routine
01-20-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Kang Wong is an 84-year-old New York resident who doesn’t understand English. Late in the afternoon on January 19, Wong was crossing the street when a police officer, believing the elderly man was jaywalking, ordered him to stop.
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News Link • Activism
Is This War? Anarchist arrested, Anonymous hack police web site, Riot Police attack demonstrators
01-20-2014
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The police declared the protest an unlawful assembly. Officers in riot gear came to disperse the crowd, and arrested at least 10 for not complying. A black police van was spotted driving around snatching protesters off the streets.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Pentagon & NSA Officials say They Want Snowden Extrajudicially Assassinated
01-20-2014
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Common Dreams
President Obama claims the right to extrajudicially execute American citizens, keeps a so-called “kill list,” and has bragged he’s “really good at killing people.” This isn’t bluster. Obama has backed this up with action, having killed U.S. citizens
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Family calls 911, Deputy shoots 16 year old boy, for carrying a hammer
01-20-2014
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When deputies arrived, the teen was outside. As they pulled up next to him, he allegedly approached deputies with a hammer and a sharp object, the sheriff’s department said. The teen then attempted to attack one of the deputies, the sheriff’s departm
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News Link • Media: Internet
Federal Court: Bloggers Have Same First Amendment Rights As Journalists
01-20-2014
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Jonathan Turley
There was an important decision in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in which a panel ruled that bloggers are entitled to the same protections as journalists. The decision is in sharp contrast to the view of Obama Administratio
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"A Reasonable Mistake": Police Ram Car of Innocent Man, Shoot Wildly Into Car . . . Cleare
01-20-2014
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Jonathan Turley
If you recall, Torrence Police Department was responsible for a shootout with an unarmed innocent man during their search for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner. Surfer Perdue only survived due to the poor marksmanship of Torrence McGee.
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News Link • Economy - International
The $23 Trillion Credit Bubble In China Is Starting To Collapse " Global Financial Crisis Next?
01-20-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Did you know that financial institutions all over the world are warning that we could see a “mega default” on a very prominent high-yield investment product in China on January 31st? We are being told that this could lead to a cascading collapse of
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News Link • Technology: Software
When Refrigerators Attack (Video)
01-20-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In the first proven attack of its kind in history, a refrigerator has been used to hack into computers. The home appliance was used to send spam emails in a cyber-attack in December.
From December 23rd through January 6th, smart home electronics w
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News Link • American History
MLK Encouraged Children to be Thrown in Jail to Fight Racism
01-20-2014
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Tarrin Lupo
The 1960s seem like a completely different planet compared to what most of us are used to now. Many younger readers have no clue just how vastly different it was.
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News Link • Government
Human Farming
01-20-2014
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Daily Paul.com
An interesting story exposing how the government is just a giant human farming plantation...
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News Link • Surveillance
3 Glenn Greenwald Interviews on NSA 'Reforms' 01/17/14
01-20-2014
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Daily Paul.com
To Collect or not to Collect. That IS the question all Placators won't address... and the ONLY question the 4th amendment imposes in plain language and DEMANDS submission to. It IS a violation to simply 'collect' on Americans. It is theft. Period.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
11,000 declassified cables from Berlin Wall tell dramatic tales of escape
01-20-2014
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washingtontimes.com
CBS tried to film an escape, nearly triggered a trap
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Warfare, Welfare, and Wonder Woman " How Congress Spends Your Money
01-20-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Supporters of warfare, welfare, and Wonder Woman cheered last week as Congress passed a one trillion dollar “omnibus” appropriation bill.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
USA Wages War More Often than Just Annually
01-20-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The United States, an example of public and social order for the countries of the “golden billion,” has a unique history.
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