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Date Sent: 2014-04-10
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
Syrian Rebels Have US-Made Anti-Tank Missiles
Italy's bishops pass Vatican-backed rule that child molestation does not have to be reported -- Obama Was Mobilizing a Massive Aggression Against Syria -- School Officials Bully Student into Deleting Recording of Bullying, Threaten him with Felony -- Border Patrol Agent Snatches Camera from Truck Driver -- College Violates Student's Rights, Follows Up By Deleting Critical Facebook Comments -- Taking down door gets new meaning: Marietta PD ‘explosive breaching device’ -- Making Cop-Worship Mandatory -- Boston Transit Police Conducts Warrantless Searches on All Bus, Subway Riders -- US Moves To Restrict Travelers Taking International Flights -- THE BLOOD MOON RISES -- Whitehat hacker goes too far, gets raided by FBI, tells all --
Eric Holder’s Agenda to Render the Population Defenseless -- Respond
Firmly to Palestinian Blackmail -- Gerald Celente: Bundy Range War a
Fascist Dream -- Feds prep for Waco style raid of Bundy Ranch -- Netanyahu Declares War on Palestine -- Minutes show Fed officials unanimous in changing rates guidance -- Home invader met by entire family locked and loaded; it didn’t end well for him -- First Successful Regeneration Of An Organ In A Mammal -- Netanyahu
brings stop to meetings with Palestinians -- A Hack That Makes Bitcoins a
Whole Lot Harder to Steal -- Allegations Fly on US and Russian Involvement in East Ukraine Crisis --
Crypto-Ownership Companies Hope You're Ready To Decentralize Everything
On The Internet -- At least 19 stabbed at Pa. school; suspect arrested
-- Major encryption security bug ‘Heartbleed’ impacts two-thirds of the
web -- NATO Members Conduct False Flag Terror In Attempt to Whip Up
War -- Venezuelan President Condemns U.S. Support to Domestic
Opposition -- Auswage Fuels Push for Greek General Strike -- 'Victory for Defenders of Privacy': Top EU Court Smacks Down
Surveillance Law -- Costs Down, Profits Up: Green Energy
Looking Good, Says UN -- Underwater pings relocated in hunt for missing
jet -- Fascist Police Attack Anti-Maidan
Protesters -- Charles Koch is no
advocate for freedom - The Koch Attacks on Freedom 1977 - Today
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Rebels Have US-Made Anti-Tank Missiles
04-09-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
US military intervention in the Syrian Civil War has mostly taken the form of small arms and equipment for various rebel factions, but looks to be picking up the pace dramatically, as new videos come out showing US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Italy's bishops pass Vatican-backed rule that child molestation does not have to be reported
04-09-2014
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The Independent
Italy's bishops have adopted a policy, with backing from the Vatican, that states they are not obliged to inform police officers if they suspect a child has been molested.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Obama Was Mobilizing a Massive Aggression Against Syria
04-09-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Seymour Hersh’s article on Syria confirms what was reported last August and September, which is that Great Britain, France and the U.S. were preparing and mere days away from launching a massive attack on anything attackable in Syria.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School Officials Bully Student into Deleting Recording of Bullying, Threaten him with Felony
04-09-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A high school sophomore in Pennsylvania who had been bullied all year by classmates with no help from his teacher decided to audio record the bullying on his iPad as evidence.
But instead of disciplining the bullies, school officials called police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Border Patrol Agent Snatches Camera from Truck Driver
04-09-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
For 2 minutes, Border Patrol Agents demanded to know if a truck driver was a US citizen at one of those immigration checkpoints in the Southwest that force citizens to reveal their citizenship status, even if they have not crossed the Mexican border.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
College Violates Student's Rights, Follows Up By Deleting Critical Facebook Comments
04-09-2014
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TechDirt
The video of this encounter is still live (no doubt much to ACC's chagrin) and it shows Saucier discussing the impact of the governor's gun control policies on his ammunition business. Governor Malloy doesn't look too interested in fielding complaint
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Taking down door gets new meaning: Marietta PD ‘explosive breaching device’
04-09-2014
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Marietta Police allow its SWAT teams to detonate a new explosive device capable of taking down doors, walls or windows. It could be used to serve a warrant, according to the standard operating procedures approved by the City Council.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Making Cop-Worship Mandatory
04-09-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“Get on the ground! Get on the ground!” That demand is spat by police into the face of thousands of people every day in this country, many " perhaps most -- of whom have neither been caught in a criminal act nor have been named on an arrest warrant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Boston Transit Police Conducts Warrantless Searches on All Bus, Subway Riders
04-09-2014
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In accordance with the Department of Homeland Security, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is now requiring that all Boston bus and subway riders submit to a warrantless search prior to boarding.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
US Moves To Restrict Travelers Taking International Flights
04-09-2014
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Dollar Vigilante
The US government is using the Malaysian Airlines flight 370 to tackle the "widespread lack of passport screening in all countries." The US is stepping up their processes. Already each passport of incoming visitors to the US is screened
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
THE BLOOD MOON RISES
04-09-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We soon will witness an event that has long been associated with the end of the Earth (fortunate timing before finals for my students): the blood moon. Mars, Earth, and the Sun will all align tonight which happens once every 778 days.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Whitehat hacker goes too far, gets raided by FBI, tells all
04-09-2014
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ars technica
A whitehat hacker from the Baltimore suburbs went too far in his effort to drive home a point about a security vulnerability he reported to a client. Now he’s unemployed and telling all on reddit. David Helkowski was working for Canton Group,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Eric Holder’s Agenda to Render the Population Defenseless
04-08-2014
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American Terrorist
It is the aim of a nation ruled by terrorists to render its population defenseless. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, having no qualms about the fast and furious distribution of arms to the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, wants to hamper U.S. gun own
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J.t. Waldron
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Respond Firmly to Palestinian Blackmail
04-06-2014
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Efraim Enbar
In response to the latest Palestinian attempt to squeeze Israel, Israel's government should remind the Palestinians, through tough countermeasures, that adhering to maximalist political goals is counterproductive.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Police State
Gerald Celente: Bundy Range War a Fascist Dream
04/09/2014
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Next News Network
Gerald Celente joins Gary Franchi to discuss the potential for a Waco style outcome for the Bundy family over a Desert Tortoise.
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Police State
BREAKING: Feds prep for Waco style raid of Bundy Ranch
04/09/2014
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Next News Network
MAKE THIS VIDEO VIRAL!!!
NEVADA | In the state of Nevada, Cliven Bundy and his family are currently caught in a fight over land with the Federal government. This is over his long standing refusal to acknowledge a 1993 modification to grazing rights
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Minutes show Fed officials unanimous in changing rates guidance
04-09-2014
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http://www.reuters.com
Federal Reserve policymakers were unanimous in wanting to ditch the thresholds they had been using to telegraph a policy tightening, according to minutes of a meeting last month that shed little new light on what might prompt an interest-rate rise.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Home invader met by entire family locked and loaded; it didn’t end well for him
04-09-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Dorstewitz
Florida’s gun laws make the state pretty much inhospitable to home invaders " in fact, it can be downright lethal.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Earnings outlook lifts equities; dollar up on economy view
04-09-2014
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http://www.reuters.com,By Herbert Lash
Global equity markets rose on Wednesday after better-than-expected corporate results boosted sentiment on the outlook for first-quarter earnings, while the dollar gained on optimism the U.S. economy will show growth as it sloughs off the effects of a
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Netanyahu brings stop to meetings with Palestinians
04-09-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com,
Israeli PM orders ministers to stop meeting Palestinian counterparts in response to 'provocative' UN move
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
A Hack That Makes Bitcoins a Whole Lot Harder to Steal
04-09-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
Bitcoin is like cash for the internet. You can send bitcoin from person to person with not much more than an online address and a password. No bank required. That’s a great strength of the popular digital currency, but it also makes it very easy to s
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News Link • Inventions
A High-End Beer Glass That Makes Your Stouts Taste Better
04-09-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Tim Moynihan
Some beer tastes good regardless of what you drink it out of. But that doesn’t mean it can’t taste better. Spiegelau’s latest brew-specific vessel is precision-engineered for maximum enjoyment when you’re drinking a stout, thanks to a combination of
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News Link • Bitcoin
Crypto-Ownership Companies Hope You're Ready To Decentralize Everything On The Internet
04-08-2014
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Forbes
Nick Lambert and David Irvine of Maidsafe hope the world is ready to Bitcoin-ize all data on the Internet
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Anthropology
Society is Doomed?
04-09-2014
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arclein
In fact, they argue, the rise and fall of great social structures is so common a theme in human civilization " recurrent throughout history and worldwide in scope " that it's more the rule than the exception.
Advanced societies frequently collaps
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cheap Synthetic Muscle
04-09-2014
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arclein
The newest material used to make artificial muscle can lift more than 100 times more than the meaty stuff you have stuck to your skeleton. It forms a sinewy band that's flexible, dynamic, and can be reused millions of times. No, we're not talking a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Increase in Kidney Disease in the US and Abroad Linked To Roundup
04-09-2014
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arclein
his information, while shocking to many who still consider glyphosate herbicide and the GM food produced with it to be relatively non-toxic, is not surprising to those who have been tracking the published research on glyphosate’s wide ranging harmful
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robert klein
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Aerobic Exercise May Help Older Women at Risk for Dementia
04-09-2014
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http://www.philly.com,
Regular aerobic workouts increase the size of the brain's memory area in older women and may help slow the progression of dementia, according to a small new study.
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News Link • Events: America
Lights Out: Total Lunar Eclipse Leaves NASA Moon Probe in the Dark
04-09-2014
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http://www.space.com,By Mike Wall
Next week's total lunar eclipse may thrill millions of skywatchers, but it poses a bit of a challenge for a sharp-eyed NASA moon probe.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Google Glass field trial aims to help those with Parkinson’s
04-09-2014
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http://androidcommunity.com, Robert Nelson
Newcastle University has recently begun a field trial to see whether Google Glass will be able to assist people with Parkinson's. In this case Newcastle University was gifted five pairs of Glass which researchers are using to see whether they can be
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Why Procter & Gamble Is Dropping Out of Dog Food
04-09-2014
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http://www.businessweek.com, By Justin Bachman
Feeding Fido is no longer part of Procter & Gamble’s (PG) grand plan for greatness in consumer goods.
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News Link • Events: America
At least 19 stabbed at Pa. school; suspect arrested
04-09-2014
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http://www.usatoday.com,
A male student armed with two knives went on a slashing and stabbing rampage at a high school in Murrysville, Pa., Wednesday, injuring at least 19 students before he was subdued and handcuffed, police said.
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News Link • Israel
Mu-ha-ha-ha. Jooz Hax teh Hax0rs.
04-14-2014
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Buddhax
#OPIsrael pwned by IEF
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Major encryption security bug ‘Heartbleed’ impacts two-thirds of the web
04-09-2014
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http://rt.com
Tens of millions of servers were exposed to a security vulnerability called “Heartbleed” in OpenSSL, software used to encrypt much of the internet. While an emergency patch has been released, sites like Yahoo have raced to fortify security.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
NATO Members Conduct False Flag Terror In Attempt to Whip Up War
04-09-2014
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Washington's Bl
Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh (who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam) says that high-level American sources tell him that the Turkish government carried out the chemical weapon
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Venezuelan President Condemns U.S. Support to Domestic Opposition
04-09-2014
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http://www.plenglish.com, Prensa Latina
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the U.S. government of backing violent actions and promote a coup against his administration in an interview released today by the British newspaper The Guardian.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Austerity Outrage Fuels Push for Greek General Strike
04-09-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org, Sarah Lazare
Media outlets in Greece went dark Tuesday as journalists staged a work stoppage ahead of an anti-austerity general strike expected to sweep the country Wednesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
'Victory for Defenders of Privacy': Top EU Court Smacks Down Surveillance Law
04-09-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org, Andrea Germanos
"This ruling is an invitation for everyone to continue the fight against surveillance."
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News Link • Energy
Costs Down, Profits Up: Green Energy Looking Good, Says UN
04-09-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org, Jacob Chamberlain
'A long-term shift in investment over the next few decades towards a cleaner energy portfolio is needed to avoid dangerous climate change'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
5 Ways to Tame Springtime Allergies Naturally
04-09-2014
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http://wakeup-world.com, Deane Alban
More people consider spring their favorite season over any other.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Wheat is an Endocrine Disruptor, Elevates Prolactin in Celiac Disease
04-09-2014
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Sayer Ji
A provocative new study published in the journal Hormone Research in Paediatrics confirms for the first time in a human trial that one of the adverse effects of wheat consumption includes a disruption of the levels of a hormone produced by the pituit
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Boycott the Komen Foundation and the American Cancer Society
04-09-2014
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Sydney Ross Singer
Don’t Send Them Money for Breast Cancer Research… Send Them Your Bra!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Underwater pings relocated in hunt for missing jet
04-09-2014
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AP
Finding the black boxes quickly is a matter of urgency because their locator beacons have a battery life of only about a month, and Tuesday marked exactly one month since the plane vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
16 Signs That Most Americans Are NOT PREPARED For The Coming Economic Collapse
04-09-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Most of the country is not prepared at all. In many ways, it is just like 2007 all over again. There were many people that could see what was about to happen and were doing all they could to warn people, but most did not listen. And then the great
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News Link • Immigration
The Border Patrol has a big problem with excessive force
04-07-2014
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Manzanares, a Border Patrol agent, was on duty along the Rio Grande when he came across a Honduran woman and 2 girls who had crossed the river illegally. Instead of apprehending them, he sexually assaulted the woman and her 14-year-old daughter,
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News Link • Climate Change
His Goal Is Gaol - by L. Neil Smith
04-07-2014
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
Basically, having lost the global warming argument"thanks mostly to another pack of liars and connivers at the University of East Anglia"he now proposes that we who disagree with him must be jailed, which is the last refuge of
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
"Send Him To Juvie": Student Suspended After He Twirled A Pencil
04-07-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Ethan Chaplin was suspended for twirling a pencil in math class. He says that a student (who had been allegedly bullying him) yelled to the teacher that “He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie.” The school responded by suspending Chaplin
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
What Libertarianism Is, and Isn't - by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
04-07-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
The explosive growth in the number of converts to libertarianism since Ron Paul first ran for president is one of the most exciting developments of my lifetime. But I’d like to issue a note of caution.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
US Supreme Court Endorses Involuntary Servitude
04-07-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
A slave is somebody compelled to provide service to another. Elane Huguenin, a wedding photographer from New Mexico, was arraigned before that state’s “human rights” soviet for politely declining to provide her services to a lesbian couple planning
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. to send F-16 jets to Romania for exercises
04-07-2014
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Reuters
The United States will deploy F-16 fighter jets to Romania this month as part of planned joint exercises, the NATO member's defense minister was quoted as saying, amid rising tensions in neighboring Ukraine after Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
After deal, Libya's ports prepare to load oil tankers
04-07-2014
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Reuters
Libya's Zueitina oil port prepared on Monday to load crude into tankers after the government reached a deal with rebels to reopen four terminals that insurgents have occupied since the summer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drones
In Pakistan, giant poster of a child looks up at drone operators
04-07-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
In an attempt to put a face on civilian victims of U.S. drone strikes, a group of artists has installed a massive portrait of a girl facing up from a field in Pakistan. The poster, measuring 90 by 60 feet and made of vinyl, was unrolled with the help
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