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Date Sent: 2014-05-19
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, May 19, 2014 |
Gunmen loyal to ex-general storm Libyan parliament, demand suspension
Aspiring Cop left Brain-Damaged after Calling 911 on Buffalo Cops -- Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA -- More Government Snoop Dogs -- Martial Law, Detention Camps and Kangaroo Courts: Are We Recreating the Third Reich? -- Freak radio signals from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers -- PINAC Visits Site of one of Many Controversial Police Shootings in Albuquerque -- ‘World’s biggest dinosaur’ discovered in Argentina -- Obama Administration Threatened Nigeria with Sanctions in 2013 for Fighting Boko Haram -- Fleeing suspect? In the future, this bot might chase him down. -- When Propaganda Fails, Humanity Awakens…The Fall of Mainstream Media -- Food Prices Skyrocket... -- Wave Of Citizens Standing Up To Feds -- Google Translate Is About To Get Some Incredible New Features -- What The Fed Won't Tell You About Student Debt -- This Is What Happens When You Leave A Tank Parked On A City Street In Ukraine -- Cities All Over America Are Becoming Extremely Cruel To The Homeless --Â China Built A Prototype For A Train Capable Of Reaching 1,800 MPH -- We Warned You About the Tea Party Express -- 'Operation American Spring' Oddness Abounds -- Ukraine's Fascist Roots -- Sacking NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson -- These Men Are Training to Put You and Your Family In a FEMA Camp
AZ: [Tempe] March Against Monsanto: GMO Free Tempe Block Party May 24, 9am; Open Carry Picnic, Saturday, noon, May 24, 2014Â Phoenix
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News Link • Libya
Gunmen loyal to ex-general storm Libyan parliament, demand suspension
05-18-2014
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Reuters
Heavily armed gunmen stormed Libya's parliament on Sunday demanding its suspension and claiming loyalty to a renegade army general who has vowed to purge the country of Islamist militants.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Aspiring Cop left Brain-Damaged after Calling 911 on Buffalo Cops (Updated)
05-18-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Minutes after an aspiring police officer placed a call to 911 complaining he was being harassed by off-duty Buffalo cops he was beaten into unconsciousness before getting thrown down the stairs, then handcuffed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA
05-18-2014
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The Guardian
The supreme court ruled, 5-4, the case is dismissed because the plaintiffs didn't have "standing" " the ACLU's couldn't prove their clients, including journalists and human rights advocates, were targets of surveillance,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Self-Defense
FX Revolution Insane Accuracy
05-18-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, Ted's HoldOver
I have been using this gun for months, but never got the chance to actually see what it is capable of doing at the range.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
High-speed solar winds increase lightning strikes on Earth
05-18-2014
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Scientists have discovered new evidence to suggest that lightning on Earth is triggered not only by cosmic rays from space, but also by energetic particles from the Sun. A link between increased thunderstorm activity
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Self-Defense
FX Revolution - Part 2 (Accuracy) Semi-Automatic Air Rifle
05-18-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, Ted's HoldOver
In this video, I show you the accuracy I was able to achieve with JSB 18.1gr pellets @ 910fps.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Surveillance
More Government Snoop Dogs
05-18-2014
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Lawmakers want to monitor and control speech on radio, television and the Internet for “hate” and material that government snoops deem to be encouraging “violent acts.” The Act does not specify what constitutes “hate”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Martial Law, Detention Camps and Kangaroo Courts: Are We Recreating the Third Reich?
05-18-2014
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Despite what some may think, the Constitution is no magical incantation against government wrongdoing. Indeed, it’s only as effective as those who abide by it. However, without courts willing to uphold the Constitution
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Freak frequency from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers
05-18-2014
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Daily Mail
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
PINAC Visits Site of one of Many Controversial Police Shootings in Albuquerque
05-18-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The DOJs recent issuance of a scathing report concluding the APD has a history and pattern of excessive use of force and of deadly force " and concluded more than half of the 20 deadly shootings investigated 2009 - 2012
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
‘World’s biggest dinosaur’ discovered in Argentina
05-18-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Paleontologists in Argentina recently discovered fossils belonging to the largest dinosaur on record. During its lifetime, the new species of titanosaur stood 65-feet-tall, 130-feet-long, and weighed 77 tons
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Obama Administration Threatened Nigeria with Sanctions in 2013 for Fighting Boko Haram
05-18-2014
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Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Self-Defense
FX Revolution - Part 1 (Mechanics) Semi-Automatic Air Rifle
05-18-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, Teds HoldOver
The FX Revolution is one of a small handful of semi-automatic air rifles on the market. There is no faster way to burn through air and lead than to own one of these things. They are ridiculously fun.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Food
Report: Food Prices Skyrocket...
05-18-2014
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http://www.theorganicprepper.ca, by Mac Slavo
Report: Food Prices Skyrocket: “We’re Going to Have a Major Problem Coming Into the Fall”
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Apple And Google Agree To Drop All Lawsuits Against Each Other
05-18-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility unit have agreed to drop all lawsuits against each other and work together on patent reform.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Inventions
Google Translate Is About To Get Some Incredible New Features
05-18-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Way back in 2010, Word Lens arrived offering the ability to translate a foreign language by simply pointing your camera at the text in question.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
Xiaomi: The Scrappy Chinese Smartphone Maker That's Poised To Wallop...
05-18-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Xiaomi: The Scrappy Chinese Smartphone Maker That's Poised To Wallop Samsung And Apple
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Federal Reserve
What The Fed Won't Tell You About Student Debt
05-18-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Two weeks ago, the San Fran Fed released "research" on the topic of whether "it is still worth going to college."
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • World News
This Is What Happens When You Leave A Tank Parked On A City Street In Ukraine
05-18-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As Jalopnik reports, a BMP light tank was reportedly left stalled on a city street near Mariupol... A gassed-up, fully-loaded tank. Ready to roll. Ready to obliterate some separatists. This is what happened next...
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Oculus Rift for chickens?
05-18-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Robin Burks
Virtual reality allows us to explore worlds without ever leaving the comfort of our own homes, but what happens when that technology is applied to animals, particularly chickens?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Transportation
Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die
05-18-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In the past several years, one of the topics covered in detail on these pages has been the surge in such gimmicks designed to disguise lack of demand and end customer sales, used extensively by US automotive manufacturers...
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Automotive Industry Is In A Major Crisis And It's Only Getting Worse
05-18-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Tax hikes, devaluation, rising interest rates and lower demand in foreign markets have combined to push the automotive industry into a deep crisis.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
An African Adventure
05-18-2014
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The International Libertarian
How being a libertarian anarchist gets you banned from a gun forum for allegedly being a Sovereign Citizen and a Nazi.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Cities All Over America Are Becoming Extremely Cruel To The Homeless
05-18-2014
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By Michael Snyder
Have you ever given food to a homeless person? Well, if you do it again in the future it might be a criminal act depending on where you live.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Books
'Freakonomics' Authors Show How The Fear Of Failure Clouds Decision-Making
05-18-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The authors of "Freakonomics" and "Super Freakonomics" have a new book called "Think Like A Freak."
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Transportation
China Built A Prototype For A Train Capable Of Reaching 1,800 MPH
05-18-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Scientists at Southwest Jiaotong University in China have built a prototype testing platform for a near-vacuum high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds up to 2900 km/h or about 1,800 mph.
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News Link • Activism
'Operation American Spring' Oddness Abounds
05-18-2014
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YouTube
Once again trying to assemble facts online. Not so easy when the 'Lamestream Media' is clamped down tight in the 'ridicule' stage, and the live stream feeds mysteriously stop uploading...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Accused of Tasering Washington Man Four Times Before He Collapsed and Died
05-17-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Now, in University Place in Washington, Ron Hillstrom is dead after he was reportedly tasered by four officers " each tasering the man. Hillstrom died after the encounter with the police.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Mistake Teen For Murder Suspect, Shoot Him, Lie About Brandishing Knives
05-17-2014
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Jonathan Turley
There is a disturbing report out of San Bernardino County where Sheriff’s deputies claimed that they fired 13 rounds, wounding Keivon Young who had been mistaken for a murder suspect, Robert Pope, yet the police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Boston Police Intimidate Journalists from Document Training Exercise
05-17-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The actors appeared to be heading towards ambulances, but were instead grabbed and detained by police officers who frisked them and searched their bags, a sight that we found very troubling.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: The Ukraine Fuse Has Been Lit
05-17-2014
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Ron Paul & Charles Goyette Podcast
Ron Paul and Charles Goyette discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, including a new Senate bill that seeks to push the US to the very brink of war with Russia. The bill appropriates $10 billion to push regime change in Russia!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
When Propaganda Fails, Humanity Awakens...The Fall of Mainstream Media
05-17-2014
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Dollar Vigilante
The NYT has functioned as a fourth branch of government, a gatekeeper for a totalitarian world a la 1984 or Brave New World. But the gig is up. The world knows NYT's complicity in erecting a sick and deranged world,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Fortune threatened, Ukraine's richest man joins the fray
05-17-2014
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Reuters
Akhmetov, whose fortune is estimated by Forbes at $11.4 billion, has acquired almost feudal status in the industrial hub of Donetsk in the past 20 years - but the separatist rebellions there have altered the dynamics of power.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ray Boyer and The Safest Way
05-17-2014
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Simple Justice
So when North Dakota State University Police and Safety Office Director Ray Boyer decided to ban its budding fencing club from campus, the pitch was easy:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: ‘US Involvement Into Affairs of Other States Leads Only to Trouble’
05-16-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Involvement in other states doesn’t benefit the US or help national security, and in the case of Ukraine it doesn’t assist the Ukrainian people, so it would be best if the US stays out, former US congressman Ron Paul said in RT’s Boom Bust show.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Are Loose Lips Sinking Accused Boston Bomber’s Right to a Fair Trial?
05-16-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers have asked the judge in the case to determine if a flood of leaks and public comments by law enforcement officers are prejudicing the defendant’s right to a fair trial.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 18, 2014 Edition
05-16-2014
John Semmens
Industry Group Warns Prescription Costs Will Rise under Obamacare
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) reports that a study comparing out-of-pocket costs under Affordable Care Act health insurance policies will likely e
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News Link • Police State
First They Came For The Porn Stars...
05-15-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
The DOJ is targeting banks and payment companies, such as PayPal, with a tsunami of subpoenas and other expensive legal demands which go away if the institutions refuse to do business with people whose activities are
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 3D Printing
How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved Into Serious Weapons in Just One Year
05-15-2014
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wired.com
A burgeoning subculture of 3-D printed gun enthusiasts dreams of the day when a lethal firearm can be downloaded or copied by anyone, anywhere, as easily as a pirated episode of Game of Thrones.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
The founders grew hemp only for the paper and rope? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight,...
05-16-2014
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youtube
The youth know the truth,...now to the voting booth.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia Dumps 20% Of Its Treasury Holdings As Mystery "Belgium" Buyer ...
05-16-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Russia Dumps 20% Of Its Treasury Holdings As Mystery "Belgium" Buyer Adds Another Whopping $40 Billion
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
PREPARATION FOR DECLARATION: THINGS TO DO AND NOT TO DO
05-15-2014
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copblock
If noon were a free and just republic, and midnight were absolute tyranny, I can’t say how close we are to absolute tyranny. Perhaps if I study the trajectory Nazi Germany took I’d have a better idea. It’s clear we’re far from
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Rupert Murdoch’s Drop Boxes: Where Central Bankers Post Front-Runners On When To “Buy”
05-15-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The Wall Street Journal appears to be saving money by dispensing with journalists and using human drop boxes instead.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
GAO: Pentagon’s Decades of Audits Not Accounting for Spending
05-15-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Pentagon Official: Auditing Goals a 'Challenge'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Lawmakers Tell Feds to End Medical Marijuana Arrests
05-09-2014
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Next News Network
Representatives from both parties in Washington are staking a united front against federal raids of medical marijuana facilities and patients.
The group is sponsoring a bill that would prohibit federal arrests of patients using cannabis in accord
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Thatcher officer resigns after lying, coercing in drug arrest case
05-14-2014
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Eastern Arizona Courier
Police corruption in Arizona is not limited to the big cities. For the second time in two years in Thatcher, Arizona criminal charges have been dropped because of a too-close relationship between an investigating officer and the suspect.
Thatcher
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