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Date Sent: 2014-02-07
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, February 7, 2014 |
Chicago Issues $100 Million in Bonds to Settle Police Brutality Cases
New App Allows Strangers to ID You Just by Looking at You -- New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time -- Constitution Check: What does it mean that there is a right to “bear” guns? -- No Criminal Charges Against TSA Agent Over Pat-Down At DIA -- G Edward Griffin – Agenda 21 – Save Long Island Forum 1/18/14 (Video) -- The Care and Handling of Children -- Firefighter Works To Help Victims At California Crash Scene . . . Gets Arrested -- Iran's president regrets food ration problems -- Top Adviser To The Chinese Government Calls For A “Global Currency” To Replace The U.S. Dollar -- Has the NSA Wiretapping Violated Attorney-Client Privilege? -- Cop burns down home with wife and daughter inside; deferred sentence -- ‘F**k the EU’: Tape Reveals US Runs Ukraine Opposition -- 4406 U.S. record cold temperatures in January – 1073 Snowfall
records -- Lawmakers ‘Disturbed and Angered’ After Classified
Briefing Reveals Extent of Snowden Defense Leaks -- Tech’s biggest
players hire first NSA lobbyist -- U.S.
Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase -- New York Police Department is beta-testing
Google Glass -- New York Times Profit Falls 12%; Print, Digital
Revenues Still Falling -- John B. Wells Fired for Being Too Popular
and Truthful: An Exclusive Interview -- Drought forces California
farmers to idle cropland -- Argentine Banking System Archives
Destroyed By Deadly Fire -- As In the US, Iran’s Hardliners Aim to Derail
Nuclear Talks -- US Steps Up
Military Support for Iraq -- War on Anonymous: British Spies
Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show -- Iraq Near Implosion: The ‘Bad
Years’ Are Back -- How
Amazon Forced CVS to Stop Selling Cigarettes -- FEMA Enlists
Designers to Rethink Disaster Relief -- You Can Build This Open
Source Car in an Hour -- Greek Fiscal Contraction -- BILLIONS IN GOLD
MISSING FROM U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE -- Tennessee
Legislature Introduces the FREEDOM ACT -- 02-06-14 -- Slavko Martinov - Mark Parker - LISTEN LIVE
on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon EST -- Obamacare Harms America's Workforce --
Abbas Accepts Occupation Harshness -- FreeSpeechMe: The
Anti-Censorship Anti-Hijacking Open-Source Dot-Bit Plug-in --
Freedom Summit 2014 Schedule (FINALIZED)
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014, Feb.
14-16; Memorial for Jack McLamb, Saturday February
22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Chicago Issues $100 Million in Bonds to Settle Police Brutality Cases
02-06-2014
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breitbart.com
On February 3, news emerged that the city of Chicago, now run by former Obama right-hand man Rahm Emanuel, is issuing $900 million in bonds, $100 million of which is going directly to pay off plaintiffs of lawsuits against the city.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
New App Allows Strangers to ID You Just by Looking at You
02-06-2014
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The information listed could include your name, occupation, any social media profiles you have set up and whether or not you have a criminal record ("CRIMINAL HISTORY FOUND" pops up in bright red letters according to the demo).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time
02-06-2014
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Washington Post
Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. Hair color, bullet wounds, even the weapon were not visible in the series of pictures taken from an airplane flying two miles above.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Constitution Check: What does it mean that there is a right to “bear” guns?
02-06-2014
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There is a growing court of appeals decisions that, while stopping short of holding there is no 2nd Amendment right outside the home, consistently reach the same result by deeming any right to bear arms in public outside the 2nd Amendment
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
No Criminal Charges Against TSA Agent Over Pat-Down At DIA
02-06-2014
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CBS News
Denver District Attorney declined to file criminal charges against a female Transportation Security Administration agent at Denver International Airport after a passenger complained the pat-down she received amounted to sexual assault.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
G Edward Griffin " Agenda 21 " Save Long Island Forum 1/18/14 (Video)
02-06-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The legendary author G Edward Griffin was the headline speaker at the Save Long Island Forum talking about the eugenic plans of the UN’s Agenda 21 to covertly exterminate most of the world’s population.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Care and Handling of Children
02-06-2014
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Simple Justice
Jacob Gocheski was a teen with issues, which was why he went to school at the Parsons Child and Family Center. To get there, he took a bus, but the driver wasn’t comfortable with this troubled kid, and so the Rotterdam police were called
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Firefighter Works To Help Victims At California Crash Scene . . . Gets Arrested
02-06-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Unfortunately, the officer arrested a fire fighter who was struggling to help the seriously injured driver and other victims. The police officer ordered a fire fighter to move his truck and the fire fighter said that he was too busy saving the life o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran's president regrets food ration problems
02-06-2014
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AP
In a rare expression of regret by an Iranian official, President Rouhani has said that he is sorry for any troubles with the distribution of a food ration to the poor, following reports that three people have died waiting for the goods in subzero wea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Top Adviser To The Chinese Government Calls For A “Global Currency” To Replace The U.S. Dollar
02-06-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The former chief economist at the World Bank, Justin Yifu Lin, is advising the Chinese government that the time has come for a single global currency. Lin, who is also a professor at Peking University, says that the U.S. dollar “is the root cause of
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Has the NSA Wiretapping Violated Attorney-Client Privilege?
02-06-2014
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A document leaked by Edward Snowden, along with interviews with lawyers representing terrorism suspects, reveal a disturbing loophole in this once-sacred legal principle.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop burns down home with wife and daughter inside; deferred sentence
02-06-2014
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A former Gore police officer charged with setting fire inside his home while his wife and stepdaughter were inside received a deferred sentence. “The very fact that you got this charge against you shows incredibly bad judgment,” the judge said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
‘F**k the EU’: Tape Reveals US Runs Ukraine Opposition
02-06-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was caught on tape micro-managing Ukraine opposition party strategies with US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. That the Ukraine regime-change operation is being directed from Washington
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
4406 U.S. record cold temperatures in January " 1073 Snowfall records
02-06-2014
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http://www.climatedepot.com, By, Marc Morano
4406 Record Cold Temps, 1259 Record Warm temps, 1073 Snowfall records
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Lawmakers ‘Disturbed and Angered’ After Classified Briefing Reveals Extent of Snowden Defense Leaks
02-06-2014
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http://pjmedia.com, by Bridget Johnson
Leading members of the House Armed Services Committee emerged from a classified briefing on the Edward Snowden leaks Wednesday afternoon “shocked” at the amount of information he reportedly leaked beyond the NSA surveillance programs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Tech’s biggest players hire first NSA lobbyist
02-06-2014
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http://www.politico.com, By TONY ROMM
Apple, Google, Facebook and five other technology giants that have banded together in their calls for surveillance reform officially registered a Washington lobbyist on Thursday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The real-life DEATH STAR:
02-06-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Mark Prigg
It will be the most powerful laser ever created, and could give researchers incredible new insights into how the cosmos was created.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase
02-06-2014
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infowars.com
Post Office joins other federal agencies stockpiling over two billion rounds of ammo
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CNN Cancels CNN Latino News Service
02-06-2014
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breitbart.com
Despite that the single fastest-growing TV audience in the USA is made up of Spanish-speaking viewers, CNN has shuttered CNN Latino, its Spanish-language news division.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New York Police Department is beta-testing Google Glass
02-06-2014
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http://venturebeat.com, Richard Byrne Reilly
Google Glass may soon become a favored tool for law enforcement agencies in the United States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Print
New York Times Profit Falls 12%; Print, Digital Revenues Still Falling
02-06-2014
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breitbart.com
The New York Times announced Thursday that operating profits had fallen 12% in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the same period a year before.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Radio
John B. Wells Fired for Being Too Popular and Truthful: An Exclusive Interview
02-06-2014
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http://thecommonsenseshow.com, Dave Hodges
John B. Wells has one of the most recognized voices in America, but unfortunately a million Americans will no longer get to hear his melodious voice on Saturday nights on what was his popular Coast to Coast radio broadcast.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Drought forces California farmers to idle cropland
02-06-2014
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news.yahoo.com
Drought-stricken California farmers facing drastic cutbacks in irrigation water are expected to idle some 500,000 acres of cropland this year in a record production loss that could cause billions of dollars in economic damage, industry officials said
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Argentine Banking System Archives Destroyed By Deadly Fire
02-06-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
While we are sure it is a very sad coincidence, on the day when Argentina decrees limits on the FX positions banks can hold and the Argentine Central Bank's reserves accounting is questioned publically, a massive fire - killing 9 people - has destroy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Renault Kwid Concept Gets Its Own Drone
02-06-2014
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motorauthority.com
Jesse Ventura would run screaming from the Renault Kwid concept. Not because it's scary-looking or loaded up with 50-caliber machine guns. Because it has its own drone, and Ventura doesn't like drones.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
As In the US, Iran’s Hardliners Aim to Derail Nuclear Talks
02-06-2014
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antiwar.com
Parliament Seeks Full 'Oversight' of Negotiations
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
How to Survive on a Desert Island
02-06-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Hart
Paul Hart, a former Royal Navy lieutenant commander, offers advice on how to survive should you find yourself stranded on a desert island, including tips on finding food and building a shelter
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Iraq
US Steps Up Military Support for Iraq
02-06-2014
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antiwar.com
State Dept: Al-Qaeda in Iraq Is an Army
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show
02-06-2014
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nbcnews.com
A secret British spy unit created to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies has waged war on the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq Near Implosion: The ‘Bad Years’ Are Back
02-06-2014
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antiwar.com
As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hurried to his helicopter ready to take off at the end of a visit to Iraq last year, it was becoming clearer that the Americans have lost control of a country they wished to mold to their liking.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make an Android Phone
02-06-2014
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Wired.com
At the Apps World North America conference in San Francisco, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave WIRED a wide-ranging interview, touching on everything from his preferred iPhone 5s color (he has all three) to the fictional operating system in the mov
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
How Amazon Forced CVS to Stop Selling Cigarettes
02-06-2014
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Wired.com
Pharmacy giant CVS is booting cigarettes and other tobacco products from its stores. The change has earned CVS showers of praise, including from the White House, but there’s one player not getting the credit it should: Amazon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
FEMA Enlists Designers to Rethink Disaster Relief
02-06-2014
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Wired.com
In late October of 2012, as Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the eastern seaboard, some important members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were toying with an idea that was a little bit unusual, at least for members of a government agenc
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
You Can Build This Open Source Car in an Hour
02-06-2014
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Wired.com
It takes about an hour to make Nigella Lawson’s lamb shank stew. In that same amount of time, you can put together the world’s first open source, build-your-own car.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
Patrick Stewart’s Inspired Performance as a Dying Chinese Lunar Rover
02-06-2014
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Wired.com
Not content with charming the world through his ball pit romps, lobster Halloween costumes and willful misunderstandings of the word “football,” Patrick Stewart appeared on The Daily Show last night to lend his acting skills to a tragic new role: Chi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Root Canal Issues
02-06-2014
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arclein
Anaerobic bacteria, which do not require oxygen to survive, thrive in these side canals and excrete toxicity from digesting necrotic tissue that leads to chronic infection. Blood supply and lymphatics that surround those dead teeth drains this toxici
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Science of Sedona
02-06-2014
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arclein
For many years, stories and reports about the Sedona, Arizona, region have included claims of “vortexes” or energy streams and fields that affect people and the environment there in various ways.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
Greek Fiscal Contraction
02-06-2014
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arclein
This article not only debunks the myth of Greece as an economic "success story," but shows that current trends and developments in the country make for a bleak economic future. The mindless austerity imposed on Greece by the European Commission, th
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Alien DNA Identified In Paracas Elongated Skulls
02-06-2014
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arclein
The Paracas skulls, however, are different. The cranial volume is up to 25 percent larger and 60 percent heavier than conventional human skulls, meaning they could not have been intentionally deformed through head binding/flattening. They also conta
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robert klein
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Debt: The Last Social Taboo?
Dennis Miller
Social taboos have dropped left and right since I was a young man raising a family, but one is unlikely to disappear any time soon: holding too much personal debt. But debt need not be a personal tragedy nor a badge of shame. For some, it is simply a
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News Link • Federal Reserve
BILLIONS IN GOLD MISSING FROM U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE
01-10-2014
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Turner Radio Network
Billions of dollars in gold from Germany, stored with the U.S. Federal Reserve, seems to have gone "missing" and Germany wants to know where it went and why they're being given someone else's gold as replacement? When Germany demanded to SEE the
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Ronald Bogner
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Opinion • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Who lost America?
02-06-2014
Frosty Wooldridge
“The conditions and the factors that facilitate the exercise of military power for them have for years been destroyed and today they (the Americans) are in an erosion of political, cultural, financial and military power.”
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News Link • Free Speech
Tennessee Legislature Introduces the FREEDOM ACT
02/05/14
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lptn.org
Representative Craig Fitzhugh (D-Ripley) and Senator Jim Kyle (D-Memphis) have introduced HB 2353/ SB 2575 the Fiscally Responsible Equal Election Diversification Optimization Measures (FREEDOM) Act. The FREDOM Act addresses the fundamental issues t
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Daniel Lewis
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News Link • Police State
Iowa Cops Storm Home, Ripping Out and Covering Surveillance Cameras, Seeking Non-Violent Suspects
02-04-2014
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Photography is not a crime
These are the police we asked for. The ones we demanded. The ones who would protect us from all evils.
They are now battering down our doors, ripping out our surveillance cameras and storming inside our homes in tight brigades with weapons drawn.
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Internet
FreeSpeechMe: The Anti-Censorship Anti-Hijacking Open-Source Dot-Bit Plug-in
02-05-2014
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www.indiegogo.com
FreeSpeechMe is a free open-source plug-in for Firefox that allows you to effortlessly view Dot-Bit websites. Dot-Bit is a new type of website that, unlike Dot-Com or Dot-Net (etc), is NOT controlled by any government or corporation.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eminent Domain
‘Kelo’ Revisited
02-05-2014
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weeklystandard.com
Properties were seized and a neighborhood razed in the name of ‘economic development’ that never came
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Robert Lee
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News Link • American History
Mark Levin Now Attacking 10th Amendment Center
02-05-2014
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Before It's News
Mark Levin is now attacking the Tenth Amendment Center in addition to pushing a dangerous con-con along with numerous liberal groups.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Our Two Most Onerous Taxes: College Tuition and Healthcare Insurance
02-05-2014
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It is not coincidence that these two unofficial taxes--healthcare and college tuition--are soaring in cost, outpacing all other household expenses. I have long argued that to make an apples-to-apples comparison of real tax rates in the U.S. and other
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona first US state to attempt legal resistance to NSA surveillance
02-05-2014
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RT.Com
Arizona’s state senate panel approved a bill withdrawing state support for intelligence agencies’ collection of metadata and banning the use of warrantless data in courts. The panel becomes the first legislative body in US to try and thwart NSA spyin
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt-laden Puerto Rico’s credit rating cut to ‘junk’ status
02-05-2014
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AFP
Standard & Poor’s cut the debt rating of Puerto Rico to junk status, saying the US territory is facing a liquidity squeeze due to high debts and a high deficit. S&P lowered Puerto Rico’s rating by one step to the “speculative” grade of BB+ as the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Scenes from a militarized America: Iowa family ‘terrorized’
02-05-2014
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by Radley Balko (Washington Post)
Watch this video, taken from a police raid in Des Moines, Iowa. Send it to some people. When critics (like me) warn about the dangers of police militarization, this is what we’re talking about. You’ll see the raid team, dressed in battle-dress unifor
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