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Date Sent: 2014-05-04
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, May 4, 2014 |
Man Arrested In FBI Sting Found Dead In Federal Custody
Sober
Woman Arrested for Drunk Driving After Deputy Runs Stop Sign, Crashes
Into Her Car... -- Ben Swann: Why RT Has The State
Department So Concerned -- The Reason Why There Will Be a Second
American Civil War... -- Gerald Celente - WLW Radio
-- The Philanthropic Superpower -- The Logical Beauty of Libertarianism
-- No Chinese Plan to Stop Using Prisoner Organs -- Ukraine crisis: Gunfire and explosions outside rebel-held town of
Slavyansk -- Ron Paul Speaks: 'Liberty Defined and The Future of
Freedom' May 01, 2014 -- Seattle Mayor Unveils Plan for $15 Minimum Wage
-- Polls: Americans Are Sick of the War On Terror, War On Drugs … And
All of the Other... -- Has the Mystery of How the Egyptians Built the
Pyramids Been Solved? -- Magma rising in Washington state's Mount St.
Helens volcano: USGS -- Saudi Arabia Shows Off Chinese Missiles -- German government warns against inviting Snowden to testify in
parliamentary inquiry -- A video that simply explains our right to
travel freely and why
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Sober Woman Arrested for Drunk Driving After Deputy Runs Stop Sign, Crashes Into Her Car...
05-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by RobHino
Sober Woman Arrested for Drunk Driving After Deputy Runs Stop Sign, Crashes Into Her Car, Falsifies Report
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News Link • Future Predictions
The Reason Why There Will Be a Second American Civil War...
05-03-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Dave Hodges
The Reason Why There Will Be a Second American Civil War: “American Citizens are Soon to Become an Endangered Species”
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News Link • Transportation
The Skimmer " 100 km/h ground effect recreational water toy
05-03-2014
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gizmag.com
February 22, 2007 Recreational vehicles will come in many different forms in the future as a raft of developing enabling technologies spawn new categories of technologically-enhanced ground, water and aircraft
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News Link • Inventions
2D self-assembling semiconductor could beat out graphene
05-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Heidi Hoopes
Graphene may be talked about as the future wonder material (and for that matter, the present one), but it has one critical deficiency. It lacks a natural bandgap, the physical trait that puts the “semi” in “semiconductor," so it has to be doped to be
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News Link • Currencies
Gerald Celente - WLW Radio
05-03-2014
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lewrockwell.com
Gerald Celente, publisher and founder of the Trends Research Journal and avowed political atheist, speaks with WLW radio on April 30th.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Philanthropic Superpower
05-03-2014
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lewrockwell.com
If a single word could sum up the goal of Barack Obama’s Asia tour, it would be “reassurance.”
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News Link • China
No Chinese Plan to Stop Using Prisoner Organs
05-03-2014
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arclein
In the way this is generally meant by the Chinese authorities, the term refers to organs from criminals who are sentenced to death and have their organs extracted after they are executed given that, at least in theory, they and their families have si
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News Link • Food
Maple Syrup Does Far More For Your Health Than Just Sweeten Your Food
05-03-2014
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arclein
A previous study published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2007 found that maple syrup contains polyphenols such as abscisic acid (ABA) which is thought to stimulate insulin release through pancreatic cells very much the same way berries incr
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News Link • Spirituality
Clairvoyance, Divination and the Great Work
05-03-2014
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arclein
. (There have been many confirmed cases of this in wartime, when a woman has ‘seen’ a husband or son at the moment when he is killed in action.) In the strict sense, a clairvoyant might see the person standing in the room; a clairsentient might feel
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ayahuasca Risks
05-03-2014
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arclein
On the surface, it may not look that different. It really takes time to discern what’s the real deal and what’s not. If we just watch the way someone walks into the room and talks about the medicine " or the way they introduce themselves to yo
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News Link • Activism
EXCLUSIVE: Rice Withdraws from Rutgers Commencement
05-03-2014
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http://www.nationalreview.com, By NRO Staff
Former secretary of state Condoleeza Rice is withdrawing from the Rutgers University commencement ceremony.
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News Link • World News
Ukraine crisis: Gunfire and explosions outside rebel-held town of Slavyansk
05-03-2014
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, AFP
Insurgents claim "full-scale attack" has been launched by Ukrainian military as helicopter is shot down and the skies are filled with acrid smoke
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News Link • Surveillance
Get Ready for Regulators to Peer Into Your Portfolio
05-03-2014
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http://blogs.wsj.com,By Jason Zweig
In December, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees how investments are sold, proposed what it calls Cards, an electronic system that would regularly collect data on balances and transactions in brokerage accounts.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Image of the Day: Space travel by Boeing
05-03-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Evan Ackerman
While the United States government is busy trying to get its Orion spacecraft into orbit to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station, Boeing is looking even farther ahead, towards the day when we'll all be buying space capsule tickets for
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Massive Arizona energy tower will dwarf every building in the USA
05-03-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Michael Trei
Wind power in the U.S. is about to take a massive leap forward, now that plans to build the tallest building in the country have just been approved by the small city of San Luis, Arizona. At 2,250 feet, the energy tower will be almost 500 feet taller
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News Link • WAR: About that War
I am feeling really positive and optimist about things.
05-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Gmartine
Ever since I was young and watching the first war in Iraq I have always known that something was wrong. I used to be an anti-war leftist and voted for Kerry. Then in 2007 I saw the real anti-war philosophy with Ron Paul and I have not turned back.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Speaks: 'Liberty Defined and The Future of Freedom' May 01, 2014
05-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by ProudAmericanFirst
Ron Paul Speaks: 'Liberty Defined and The Future of Freedom' May 01, 2014
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Seattle Mayor Unveils Plan for $15 Minimum Wage + Video
05-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Diamond Dog
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray on Thursday proposed a phased-in increase of the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
It’s An Illusion: Here Are the REAL Unemployment Numbers
05-03-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Mainstream financial pundits are falling over themselves today following a report from the Labor Department indicating that the national unemployment rate has fallen yet again, this time to just 6.3%.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Polls: Americans Are Sick of the War On Terror, War On Drugs … And All of the Other...
05-03-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,Washingtons Blog
Polls: Americans Are Sick of the War On Terror, War On Drugs … And All of the Other Failed U.S. Wars
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Human stem cells used to repair damaged monkey hearts
05-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick Lavars
In what could mark a significant breakthrough in the treatment of heart disease, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have successfully repaired damaged tissue in monkey hearts using cells created from human embryonic stem cells.
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News Link • Food
10 Sensual Aphrodisiacs And How They Got Their Reputations
05-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Debra Kelly
Oysters, avocados, chocolate, honey: We’ve all heard that certain foods are supposed to arouse your passions when you eat them. What’s less known is the history and folklore behind these foods, which explain just how they came to be known as tools fo
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News Link • Archaeology
Has the Mystery of How the Egyptians Built the Pyramids Been Solved?
05-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Mark Prigg
Researchers have uncovered one of the key methods the Egyptians used to build the pyramids.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Magma rising in Washington state's Mount St. Helens volcano: USGS
05-03-2014
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news.yahoo.com
Magma levels are slowly rebuilding inside Mount St. Helens, a volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980 and killed 57 people, although there was no sign of an impending eruption, U.S. scientists said.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Physics students devise concept for Star Wars-style deflector shields
05-03-2014
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phys.org
If you have often imagined yourself piloting your X-Wing fighter on an attack run on the Death Star, you'll be reassured that University of Leicester students have demonstrated that your shields could take whatever the Imperial fleet can throw at you
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Coming soon: a brain implant to restore memory
05-03-2014
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news.yahoo.com
In the next few months, highly secretive US military researchers say they will unveil new advances toward developing a brain implant that could one day restore a wounded soldier's memory.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
LeBron James High School Tale A Jump Ball With Four Studios Courting
05-03-2014
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deadline.com
A feature based on the high school years of Miami Heat star LeBron James is in play, and I’m hearing there are two offers on the table, with at least two more expected by tomorrow.
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News Link • Movies
Patrick Gavin’s WHCD documentary to include ‘fans and haters’
05-03-2014
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washingtonpost.com
At least one camera capturing this weekend’s madness surrounding the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner will be looking for something less ephemeral than a selfie: Patrick Gavin, a longtime reporter for Politico, will be filming scenes fo
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News Link • Whistleblowers
German government warns against inviting Snowden to testify in parliamentary inquiry
05-03-2014
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news.yahoo.com
The German government advised against calling former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to Berlin as a witness in a parliamentary inquiry into U.S. spying, saying this would cause damage to relations with Washington.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Monaco royals slam Grace biopic ahead of Cannes opening
05-03-2014
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news.yahoo.com
Monaco's royals on Friday accused those behind a biopic starring Nicole Kidman as their mother Grace of hijacking their family history, just days before the film premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence...
05-03-2014
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independent.co.uk
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks, says a group of leading scientists
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 4, 2014 Edition
05-02-2014
John Semmens
Democrats Say Benghazi Is Old News Unworthy of Further Concern
The revelation of Obama Administration memos proving that it knowingly perpetrated a fraudulent cover story blaming a little watched video for the attack on the US Benghazi Consulate i
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
CA: Recently Retired Judge Withheld Favorable Evidence as Prosecutor
05-01-2014
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A California man has been taken off death row after the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office declined to retry the penalty phase of his murder trial. Miguel Bacigalupo’s death sentence was vacated by the California Supreme Court late last year due
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News Link • Property Rights
Feds consider taking Alaska tribal land into trust
05-01-2014
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AP
The US Dept of Interior announced it will consider taking Alaska tribal land into trust. The move could lead to pockets of "Indian country," where tribal courts and governments would have authority to create their own laws and justice systems,
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Mexican Army troops continuing their invasion of the USA
05-01-2014
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Has a unit of Mexican Army soldiers who patrol right on the Arizona border gone rogue? This small group has attacked U.S. citizens, and even challenged U.S. federal agents within the U.S. A Tucson investigation into the dangerous world of rogue soldi
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Ja, Mein Führer, I Am Loyal
05-01-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Susan Correa writes of her enrollment in PreCheck, the TSA’s "speed up the security line at selected airports” [The process] "included copying the copies of our birth certificates, swearing allegiance to the flag and showing a valid driver’s license.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Adam Kokesh: Libertarians Need to Get Over Rand Paul
05-01-2014
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The simple fact is that Rand Paul is a conservative. Yes, I know. You had hoped he'd be like his father. Get over it.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Batons, Like Tasers, are only “Non-Lethal” When Used to Kill Mundanes
05-01-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
One of Chief Flynn’s “troops” shot and killed a man yesterday after beating the victim with a baton for refusing a pat-down. The victim, who appears to have been homeless, was already on the ground when the emissary of the Milwaukee PD arrived.
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News Link • Government
Happy Loyalty Day!
05-01-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
President Obama, pursuant to Public Law 85-529, today signed the 2014 annual “Loyalty Day” proclamation, declaring that today, “we renew our conviction to the principles of liberty, equality, and justice under the law.”
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News Link • TERRORISM
Standing Up To Government Is Now Domestic Terrorism
05-01-2014
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Within just a few hours, 3 of the top 4 most post powerful politicians in the country unabashedly revealed the low opinion they have of liberty and the American people and a willingness to persecute, prosecute and lie to those who advocate and
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
DEA Raids Four Denver Marijuana Sites
05-01-2014
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Daily Paul.com
A Denver medical marijuana business owner wanted in connection to money-laundering charges surrendered to authorities Wednesday, shortly after masked federal agents raided four locations that are part of the long-running investigation.
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News Link • Bitcoin
‘Dark Wallet’ Is About to Make Bitcoin Money Laundering Easier Than Ever
05-01-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg
Government regulators around the world have spent the last year scrambling to prevent bitcoin from becoming the currency of choice for money launderers and black marketeers. Now their worst fears may be about to materialize in a single piece of softw
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Snowden Saga: A Shadowland of Secrets and Light
05-01-2014
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http://www.vanityfair.com, Suzanna Andrews
Whether hero or traitor, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is the most important whistle-blower of modern times, one whose disclosures will reverberate for decades to come.
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News Link • Corruption
IMF Demands Ukraine Risk World War 3 in Return For Bailout Money
05-01-2014
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Prison Planet
Globalists desperate to loan shark another country into debt slavery
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News Link • Gun Rights
Justice Dept. Launches Covert Sanctions Against Gun Owners
05-01-2014
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Prison Planet
Media denial is part of disinformation campaign
The U.S. Department of Justice is currently attacking the Second Amendment by fiat while constantly denying its abuses despite clear evidence to the contrary.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court Refuses to Uphold the Constitution: Allows Indefinite Detention
05-01-2014
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Prison Planet
Pulitzer prize winning reporter Chris Hedges " along with journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, activist Tangerine Bolen and others " sued the government to join the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Ame
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News Link • American History
On this Date in 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Outlawed Private Ownership of Gold
05-01-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Stroke of the pen, law of the land, kind of cool! Paul Begala - Aide to President Clinton, on presidential executive orders.
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News Link • Police State
Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State
05-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead
How do you persuade a nation to march in lock step with a police state? You start by convincing them that they’re in danger, and only the government can protect them.
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News Link • World News
US Sanctions Against Russia an Act of War, Ron Paul Says
05-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,
Former GOP congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul says US sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis are an act of war, adding that the American people are tired of US-imposed wars.
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News Link • China
China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic power this year
05-01-2014
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ft.com
The US is on the brink of losing its status as the world’s largest economy, and is likely to slip behind China this year, sooner than widely anticipated, according to the world’s leading statistical agencies.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
As border security expands, complaints of abuse rise among Americans
05-01-2014
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mcclatchydc.com
A series of lawsuits filed in recent months in federal courts along the U.S. border with Mexico highlight what advocates say is a growing list of complaints against two U.S. agencies that have expanded rapidly amid the clamor to secure the nation’s
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News Link • Police State
Supreme Court: Pennsylvania cops no longer need a warrant to search citizens’ vehicles
05-01-2014
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lancasteronline.com
Pennsylvania police officers no longer need a warrant to search a citizen’s vehicle, according to a recent state Supreme Court opinion.
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