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Date Sent: 2014-02-27
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
Russia Combat Ready for the Ukraine?
Kerry decries 'new isolationism', says U.S. acts like poor nation -- Since 2000, There Are 29 Percent More Big Banks and 24 Percent Fewer Small Banks --
More retired NY firefighters, cops arrested in pension fraud probe --
Bank Run: Ukraine Pledges to Protect Deposits as Kiev Rally Called -- IRS Warns: Obamacare Tax Must Be Paid with Tax Return -- Church officials blame Minnesota mom for not protecting sons from priest who abused them -- Teen In Medical Dispute Sent To Foster Care -- Utah judge cites ‘she said, he said’ when giving probation to jailer who admitted sex abuse -- Supreme Court makes it easier for police to search homes without a warrant --
Arizona governor vetoes controversial anti-gay, ‘religious freedom’
bill -- Arizona getting anal about Gays -- 10 Years of Failure: New film
documents struggle of farmers deceived by biotech industry -- Holder:
States Can Refuse to Enforce Gay Marriage Bans -- Obama Includes Iranian Missiles in Nuclear Talks -- Will the Wright amendment end and nobody notice? -- PA: Israel NOT Cutting Electricity,
Giving MORE -- Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" video draws Muslim wrath -- Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens -- 10 Years of
Failure: New film documents struggle of farmers deceived by biotech
industry -- U.S. stepped up surveillance of German officials since
Obama ordered NSA to halt spying on Merkel -- 02-26-14 -- Davi
Barker - Richard Fry - Patrick Wood - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F,
9-Noon EST -- New York Times: Supporting US Imperial Lawlessness --
Israel Bombs Syrian/Lebanese Border
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday March 1st, 2014; 8-10
a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall)
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia Combat Ready for the Ukraine?
02-26-2014
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Next News Network
Vladimir Putin ordered his troops on alert, amid growing tension and unrest in the Ukraine. The Russian leader put his military on exercises, making them ready for combat.
Demonstrators in the Ukraine have driven President Viktor Yanukovych from
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kerry decries 'new isolationism', says U.S. acts like poor nation
02-26-2014
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Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry decried what he called a "new isolationism" in the United States on Wednesday and suggested that the country was beginning to behave like a poor nation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Since 2000, There Are 29 Percent More Big Banks and 24 Percent Fewer Small Banks
02-26-2014
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The 5 largest banks by assets now hold 44% of US banking assets and 40.1% of domestic deposits"up from 23.5% and 19.5%, respectively, in early 2000. Correspondingly, small banks’ share of domestic deposits has fallen from 40.4% to 23% since
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
More retired NY firefighters, cops arrested in pension fraud probe
02-26-2014
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Reuters
Disability fraud charges against 106 suspects - 80 of them retired New York cops and firefighters - with some accused of falsely claiming to have been traumatized by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the city.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank Run: Ukraine Pledges to Protect Deposits as Kiev Rally Called
02-26-2014
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Bloomberg
Ukraine is weighing measures to stem cash withdrawals after as much as 7 percent of deposits were taken from banks during last week’s bloody uprising, underscoring the need for action to fend off a default.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obamacare
IRS Warns: Obamacare Tax Must Be Paid with Tax Return
02-26-2014
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Agency employs Orwellian term “Shared Responsibility Payment” to describe Obamacare individual mandate tax.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Church officials blame Minnesota mom for not protecting sons from priest who abused them
02-26-2014
A Minnesota mother says Catholic Church officials are blaming her for not protecting her two sons from the priest who abused them. The Rev. Curtis Wehmeyer, pleaded guilty to abusing the boys, ages 12 and 14, and possessing child pornography.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Teen In Medical Dispute Sent To Foster Care
02-26-2014
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CBS News
The state of Massachusetts took charge of Justina Pelletier as her parents and doctors at Children’s Hospital continue to clash over her diagnosis and treatment. The teen’s mom broke down in court. Paramedics wheeled Linda Pelletier from
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Utah judge cites ‘she said, he said’ when giving probation to jailer who admitted sex abuse
02-26-2014
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Rawstory
David Epperson admitted he touched the bare breasts of 2 female inmates and touched the genital area of one of them. However, US District Judge David Sam repeatedly questioned the victim’s credibility before sentencing Epperson to probation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Supreme Court makes it easier for police to search homes without a warrant
02-26-2014
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Reuters
The court held on a 6-3 vote that police can search a home without a warrant, even if the suspect has objected, as long as he is no longer on the scene and a co-tenant gives consent. It made no difference that the suspect had earlier objected
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona governor vetoes controversial anti-gay, ‘religious freedom’ bill
02-26-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced that she has vetoed a bill that would have allowed state businesses to discriminate against gay and lesbian customers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Will Washington Take Down Apple " And Why?
02-26-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Is Apple being given a hint to fork over more campaign contributions?
The US Department of Justice has not only successfully sued Apple for arguably non-existent anti-trust violations in the e-book market. It has even demanded" and gotten" a court
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Food
31 Percent Of All Food In America Is Wasted " And Why That Is About To End
02-26-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
According to a stunning new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly a third of all food produced in the United States gets wasted. We are probably the most wasteful society in the history of the planet, and we are also one of the most
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona getting anal about Gays
02-26-2014
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Next News Network
Arizona lawmakers are feeling increasing pressure from the gay community to reject a bill they believe discriminates against them. The statehouse in the Grand Canyon State recently passed a bill allowing businesses to not serve homosexuals. This caus
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Agriculture
10 Years of Failure: New film documents struggle of farmers deceived by biotech industry
02-26-2014
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naturalnews.com
It has been 10 years since the Philippine government approved the country's first genetically modified (GM) crops for commercial cultivation, and its farmers are now far worse off becauseo f it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Sideswipe Car, Look For Cameras, Then Charge Man With Causing The Accident
02-25-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Officers Oliver and Shigri are accused of sideswiping a parked SUV owned by Robert Jackson, 31, and then charging him with the accident " after looking around for any security cameras that would contradict them. They missed one.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Chicago PD creates PreCrime Watch List
02-21-2014
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Next News Network
Some analysts have long been troubled by the concept of predictive law enforcement. The Chicago Police Department is raising new concerns with just such a program. Under a $2 million grant awarded to the Chicago Police Department by the National Inst
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Community Gangs Up On "Bad Actor" As Mt.Gox Site (And Feed) Disappears
02-25-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
UPDATE: Mt. Gox website and feed is now offline
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Conspiracy Theory Is True...
02-25-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The Conspiracy Theory Is True: Agents Infiltrate Websites Intending To "Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations"
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Spaceflight Now - A leading source for online space news
02-25-2014
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Spaceflight Now
A regularly updated listing of planned missions from spaceports around the globe. Dates and times are given in Greenwich Mean Time.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Marriage
Holder: States Can Refuse to Enforce Gay Marriage Bans
02-25-2014
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Next News Network
Attorney General Eric Holder told his state counterparts they do not have to defend bans on same sex marriage. The remarks were made in an interview with the New York Times.
Holder said that although state AG's cannot change laws, they can refus
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Bitcoin
Mt Gox disappears, future of Bitcoin unknown
02-25-2014
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Next News Network
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has disappeared from the internet. The owner cannot be found, and an office in Tokyo is suddenly empty. The owner, Mark Karpeles, resigned from the Bitcoin Foundation on Monday. That organization is the world's largest advoc
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Agriculture
Plausible Viral Vector Identified for CCD
02-26-2014
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arclein
Over the past month, the dossiers on two of those suspects got a little thicker. In the January issue of the peer-reviewed journal Ecotoxicology, UK researchers delivered yet more evidence that a widely used pesticide class called neonicotinoids migh
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robert klein
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D Titanium Printed Castings for Bicycles
02-26-2014
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arclein
So, how could this project lead to cheaper titanium frames? For one thing, in the laser melting process, there's no waste " all of the titanium alloy powder that isn't fused to make one frame can be reused in another, plus the topological optimizat
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Will the Wright amendment end and nobody notice?
02-26-2014
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DallasNews.Com
Last week, Southwest Airlines called a news conference to tout its plans for the end of the Wright amendment, which restricts flights at Love Field. The story led local newspapers and TV news, even though Southwest held back key details, such as fare
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Political Theory
The Secret Appeal of Politics
02-26-2014
Paul Rosenberg
The Internet is full of stories about politicians acting badly and doing the opposite of what they promised. Talk radio is full of the same things, all day, every day. Even around office water coolers, almost everyone will admit that politicians are
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself?
02-26-2014
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ted.com
After a traumatic brain injury, it sometimes happens that the brain can repair itself, building new brain cells to replace damaged ones. But the repair doesn't happen quickly enough to allow recovery from degenerative conditions like motor neuron dis
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
PA: Israel NOT Cutting Electricity, Giving MORE
02-26-2014
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Ari Yashar for Arutz Sheva
PA official says talk of massive electricity debt is not a threat, claims PA was offered country status and reduced rates by Electric Corporation.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Seriously?
Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" video draws Muslim wrath
02-26-2014
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UK Daily Mail
A Muslim man has launched a petition asking YouTube to remove Katy Perry's new video from their site because it shows her disintegrating a man wearing a pendant which reads 'Allah'.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens
02-26-2014
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ted.com
Hacking is about more than mischief-making or political subversion. As Catherine Bracy describes in this spirited talk, it can be just as much a force for good as it is for evil. She spins through some inspiring civically-minded projects in Honolulu,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. stepped up surveillance of German officials since Obama ordered NSA to halt spying on Merkel
02-24-2014
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Ted Thornhill, Mail Online
NSA monitors 320 politicians and business leaders in Germany, said paper.
Barack Obama ordered its spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel to stop.
Snooping on other German officials stepped up, it's been claimed.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Israel
Challenging the Long-Held Notion That Israeli Settlements Are ‘Illegal’
02-25-2014
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The Blaze
It’s an almost undisputed consensus in diplomatic circles and much of the media that Israeli settlements are “illegal” or “illegitimate.” The truth, however, is that the settlements are neither.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • World News
Russia Awakes...
02-25-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Russia Awakes: Accuses Ukraine's New Government Of "Armed Mutiny", Says It Poses "Real Threat To Our Interests, Citizens"
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News Link • Government
YOU Have Been Targeted for Internment & Resettlement
02-25-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Dave Hodges
As a followup to his many informative articles that include an expansive investigation into FEMA camp locations around the United States, Dave Hodges of The Common Sense Show blows the doors open on the legislation, executive orders and policies that
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News Link • Surveillance
Cyber-Security Experts Ask If Apple “Flaw” Was Really NSA Backdoor
02-25-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Security hole appeared just one month before NSA bragged it had penetrated Apple servers
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
The moment woman jogger in headphones is knocked to the floor and handcuffed by cops...
02-25-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Snejana Farberov
The moment woman jogger in headphones is knocked to the floor and handcuffed by cops because she didn't hear when they tried to ticket her for jaywalking
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News Link • Surveillance
Nowhere to Hide
02-25-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Theodore Dalrymple
People who were charged with a crime in England used to be told by the police that they did not have to say anything, but that anything they did say might be taken down and used as evidence against them. I think we should all be given this warning wh
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News Link • Government
The War Against Truth
02-25-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Butler Shaffer
February 22nd was the 71st anniversary of the murder of Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christopher Probst. They were young people, in their early twenties, who lived in Munich, Germany. They, along with other members of a peaceful, anti-war
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
02-25-2014
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By THOM SHANKER and HELENE COOPER
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel plans to shrink the United States Army to its smallest force since before the World War II buildup and eliminate an entire class of Air Force attack jets in a new spending proposal that officials describe as the first P
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News Link • Activism
News From Venezuela"but Where Is It Coming From?
02-25-2014
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http://www.fair.org, By Jim Naureckas
There's a post from the blog Caracas Chronicles (2/20/14) that's been making its way around social media, called "The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night-"and the International Media Is Asleep at the Switch," written by Francisco Toro.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Rigging Goes Mainstream:
02-25-2014
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http://www.silverdoctors.com, By The Doc
The Financial Times reports this morning that global gold prices may have been manipulated on 50% of occasions between January 2010 and December 2013, according to analysis by Fideres, a consultancy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Trade
Advancing the NAU " We Told You So
02-24-2014
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thedailybell.com
Why North America is stronger than its parts ...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
NJ Man Escapes 5 Year Sentence After Dash Cam Footage Clears Him; Cops Indicted
02-24-2014
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Daily Paul.com
NJ Man Escapes 5 Year Sentence After Dash Cam Footage Clears Him; Cops Indicted
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Huge Win! Idaho Senate Passes Bill to Punish Gun-Seizing Cops!
02-24-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The Idaho Senate passed a bill today without any objection to affirm the 2nd amendment by punishing cops who would obey federal orders to seize the guns of Idaho citizens: Start pushing this in your state now!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
FDA harasses farmers: Compost is dangerous, keep animals away from crops, kale is never eaten raw
02-24-2014
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Daily Paul.com
At some point it just becomes a farce.
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