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Date Sent: 2014-05-23
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, May 23, 2014 |
US Sends Troops to Chad -- TSA Buys 24 Million Rounds of “Duty” Ammunition
Fairfax Co. police investigating allegations of students creating their own porn site -- Former Player: The NFL Is A Cult -- Restaurant with 'No Weapons, No Concealed Firearms' Sign Robbed... -- FBI chief: _Be suspicious_ of government power -- Latvia Demands Permanent NATO Bases -- US Ambassador to Libya Defends General s Takeover -- Russia and China Agree on $400 Billion Gas Deal -- The Price of Whistleblowing... -- Darkcoin, the Shadowy Cousin of Bitcoin, Is Booming -- VA calculates war's true cost, one disabled veteran at a time -- A Question of Power: The Imperial Presidency -- If Ambassador Stevens Had Lived, the Benghazi Child Trafficking Would've Been Exposed -- Door to Door Mail Service Disappearing -- Military takes control of Thailand -- 05-23-14 -- Charles Goyette - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT) -- Ron Paul, Charles Goyette #10 - Bitcoin, Crypto- and Digital-Currencies -- CORRUPTION, GOLD, CHINA, THE FED AND A TIMELY OPTION -- Police Use Cellphone Spying Device -- Speaking Truth to Monetary Power -- Larken Rose: Wacky Conspiracy Theories! -- Our government would never do that! -- Toshiba expands to food production with indoor vegetable factory -- EURO PACIFIC PRECIOUS METAL SELECTS BITPAY -- Bilderberg Member Admits Secretive Confab More Powerful Than Davos -- Feds Set To Bailout Insurance Corporations With Taxpayer Money -- Worker s Comp. Covers Medical Marijuana in New Mexico
AZ: [Tempe] March Against Monsanto: GMO Free Tempe Block Party tomorrow May 24, 9am; Open Carry Picnic, tomorrow Saturday, noon, May 24, 2014 Phoenix
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News Link • Police State
TSA to Purchase 24 Million Rounds of “Duty” Ammunition
05-23-2014
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Prison Planet
Feds preparing to arm TSA workers?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
EURO PACIFIC PRECIOUS METAL SELECTS BITPAY
05-23-2014
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Herald Online
BitPay, world leader in business solutions for Bitcoin digital currency, announces a partnership with Euro Pacific Precious Metals. Based in New York City, Euro Pacific Precious Metals is one of the major international gold and silver dealers
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News Link • World News
Nitro City Panama - Action Sports Resort
05-23-2014
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Nitro City Panama
36 Room Beach Front Hotel with a focus on Action and Motor Sports - On-site skate park, pit-bike track, wakeboard cable park, fitness gym and kite beach - Nearby surf, skydiving, scuba, fishing and jungle wakeboard tours also available.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drones
Been there, drone that: Pizza air-delivery in Mumbai
05-23-2014
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com,T NN
Would you like your pizza home-delivered by an unmanned drone? That may not be impossible in future, for a little-known pizza chain in Mumbai last week succeeded in making a test-delivery less than 3km away from its outlet in Lower Parel by using a
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Research suggests Earth microbes could survive on Mars
05-23-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Since the first Mariner probes reached the Red Planet in the 1960s, it’s become clear just how very alien Mars is and how hard it is to find parallel examples of possible Martian life on Earth.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Handheld device detects and analyzes soil contamination within seconds
05-23-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Colin Jeffrey
Contamination of soil from petroleum spills is an ongoing problem that threatens to adversely affect the environment and the health of the people in it, so rapid testing of sites is a pressing issue.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
WhistleGPS pet tracker first consumer device to join Sigfox's IoT network
05-23-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren Quick
Billed as a Fitbit for dogs when it hit the market last year, Whistle's compact activity monitor uses a 3-axis accelerometer to monitor Fido's daily exercise.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Robert Redford in Talks to Play Oral Roberts in Film 'Come Sunday' (Exclusive)
05-23-2014
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com, by Tatiana Siege
Jeffrey Wright is also in talks to star in the Jonathan Demme-helmed movie about the world of evangelical ministers.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Restaurant with 'No Weapons, No Concealed Firearms' Sign Robbed...
05-23-2014
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http://www.breitbart.com, by AWR Hawkins
Restaurant with 'No Weapons, No Concealed Firearms' Sign Robbed at Gunpoint
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News Link • Government
FBI chief: _Be suspicious_ of government power
05-23-2014
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http://thehill.com, By Julian Hattem
The head of the FBI says he understands why people worry about the scope of the government's powers, and in fact, he agrees with them.
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News Link • Libya
US Ambassador to Libya Defends General’s Takeover
05-23-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
In a speech at the Stimson Center today, US Ambassador to Libya Deborah Jones sought to downplay the attempted military coup in Libya, arguing that Gen. Khalifa Hifter never said he “wants to be in charge,” defending it as an anti-terrorism move.
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News Link • Archaeology
King David's Legendary Citadel
05-23-2014
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arclein
Shukron's dig, which began in 1995, uncovered a massive fortification of five-ton stones stacked 21 feet (6 meters) wide. Pottery shards helped date the fortification walls to be 3,800 years old. They are the largest walls found in the region from b
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News Link • Events: Arizona
[Tempe] March Against Monsanto: GMO Free Tempe Block Party May 24th, 2014
05-15-2014
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March Against Monsanto
We will be having our GMO FREE BLOCK PARTY starting @ 8:00 a.m. There will be speakers at the rally. SOME vendors will trade - so bring something to trade or alternative currencies, or homemade things! We will have music, emergency water (BYO water!!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Geology
Bacteria That Produces Pure Gold
05-23-2014
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arclein
The bacteria is incredibly resistant to this toxic element. In fact, it's 25 times stronger than previously thought. The researchers' compact factory"which they named The Great Work of the Metal Lover"holds the bacteria as they feed it the gold chl
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News Link • Military
VA calculates war's true cost, one disabled veteran at a time
05-23-2014
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http://www.stripes.com, By Greg Jaffe
It had taken a while, but Army Staff Sgt. Sam Shockley had meticulously compiled a list of all of his war wounds, including his diminished memory, only to leave it sitting in his bedroom as he went rushing off to his appointment.
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News Link • Government
A Question of Power: The Imperial Presidency
05-23-2014
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http://www.legion.org, By Jonathan Turley
When James Madison shaped a new constitutional system for the United States, he and his fellow framers had one overriding fear: tyranny.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
3D Machine Made Cosmetic Colors
05-23-2014
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arclein
Then she brushes the pink on her hand. "Mink enables the web to become the biggest beauty store in the world," says Choi. "We’re going to live in a world where you can take a picture of your friend’s lipstick and print it out."
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics
Door to Door Mail Service Disappearing
05-22-2014
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Next News Network
Is door-to-door mail service from the Postal Service disappearing? A committee has recently approved changes that could end such deliveries for millions of people.
If this proposal is adopted, Americans all over the country who currently have mai
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Police State
Military takes control of Thailand
05-22-2014
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Next News Network
Military forces in Thailand have taken control of several government buildings, and they are claiming control of the nation. Prayuth Chan-ocha, the army chief general, announced the successful coup on Thursday, May 22.
The nation has seen massive
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul, Charles Goyette #10 - Bitcoin, Crypto- and Digital-Currencies
05-23-2014
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Ron Paul, Charles Goyette
The Justice Department has broadened its investigation of Bitcoin. This week Ron Paul and Charles Goyette discuss digital currencies, competitive currencies, and the legal tender laws. How long will the State allow digital currencies to challenge i
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Opinion • China
CORRUPTION, GOLD, CHINA, THE FED AND A TIMELY OPTION
05-23-2014
Mike Hoy
We are very rapidly approaching a point in time where the citizens of the US and the inhabitants of the free world will be faced with the true reality of the simple fact that there is no such thing as a “free lunch” and the bills must be paid!
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News Link • Police State
Police Use Cellphone Spying Device
05-23-2014
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myfoxny via rense.com
A stingray is a device that mimics a cell tower and thereby tricks all wireless devices on the same network into communicating with it. Erie County, New York has used one since 2008.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Speaking Truth to Monetary Power
05-23-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Until Ron Paul raised the issue at the national level in 2007, the Federal Reserve System had been treated with the kind of lazy indifference or acquiescence with which the public gradually comes to accept any institution of long standing. To be sure
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Roger Federer Shows You What It's Like To Play Tennis From His Perspective Using Google Glass
05-23-2014
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Business Insider
Google Glass may not be the most purposeful product ever made, but it certainly is entertaining.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Larken Rose: Wacky Conspiracy Theories!
05-23-2014
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Daily Paul.com
In light of the recent pro-statist piece in Newsweek...
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Aerion's AS2 supersonic business jet gets extra engine and cabin space
05-23-2014
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gizmag.com
Aerion Corporation has upped the cabin size and added an extra engine to the first in its planned range of supersonic business jets currently on the drawing board.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Toshiba expands to food production with indoor vegetable factory
05-23-2014
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gizmag.com
Looking to take a bite out of the Japanese food market, electronics giant Toshiba has announced plans to construct a vegetable production factory in the city of Yokosuka.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Feds Set To Bailout Insurance Corporations With Taxpayer Money
05-23-2014
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Prison Planet
Feds Set To Bailout Insurance Corporations With Taxpayer Money
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Robert Lee
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News Link • States' Rights
Worker’s Comp. Covers Medical Marijuana in New Mexico
05-23-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
Medical marijuana laws around the nation continue to broaden and become more inclusive, particularly in the wake of Colorado legalizing pot for recreational use.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
FBI Announces Marijuana OK for New Hires
05-22-2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now telling potential recruits to not let a history of marijuana smoking keep them from applying for a job.
Current FBI regulations prohibit hiring applicants who have smoked cannabis in the last three years
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea artillery fires at South Korean navy ship, and misses
05-22-2014
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Reuters
North Korean artillery fired at least one shot which landed near a South Korean navy patrol ship south of the two sides' disputed maritime border but it did not hit the vessel. South Korean artillery fired at a North Korean naval vessel
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers raid eBay in historic breach, access 145 million records
05-22-2014
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Reuters
EBay Inc said hackers raided its network 3 months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised.
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News Link • Israel
Syrian al Qaeda reach foothills of Israeli-held Golan
05-22-2014
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Reuters
Atop the hill of Tel Ahmar just a few kilometres from Israeli forces on the Golan Heights, Syrian Islamist fighters hoist the al Qaeda flag and praise their mentor Osama bin Laden.
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News Link • TERRORISM
31 killed, 90-plus injured in Xinjiang attack
05-22-2014
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AP
Assailants in 2 SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives on a busy street market in China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday killing 31 people and injuring more than 90.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Thailand's army chief announces military coup
05-22-2014
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AP
Thailand's army chief announced a military takeover of the government Thursday, saying the coup was necessary to restore stability and order after six months of political deadlock and turmoil.
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News Link • Economy - International
Who Needs The United States? Not Russia And China
05-22-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Russia and China have just signed what is being called “the gas deal of the century”, and the two countries are discussing moving away from the U.S. dollar and using their own currencies to trade with one another. This has huge implications for the
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Central Banks Are Waging War on Your Savings
05-22-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Martin Wolf is the chief economics commentator at the influential Financial Times. He has received numerous honorary awards, positions, and degrees. My first knowledge of him came from a friend who had attended a lecture where Mr. Wolf mentioned that
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA, FBI Agents Dying for Illegal Junta in Ukraine
05-21-2014
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The recent capture and killing of 25 CIA officers in Ukraine shows the desperation of the US effort and the complete disregard for not only international law and the Ukraine people but also for the lives of the CIA personnel.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hacker Invoices Justice Department for Time in Prison, Refuses to Accept U.S. Dollars
05-21-2014
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I do not accept United States dollars, as it is the preferred currency of criminal organizations such as the FBI, DOJ, ATF, and Federal Reserve and I do not assist criminal racketeering enterprises.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Now “Armed For War” Against Returning Veterans
05-21-2014
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Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department states, “... you have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build IEDs and to defeat law enforcement techniques.”
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News Link • Gun Rights
Police Can Kick In Your Door and Seize Guns Without Warrant or Charges
05-21-2014
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In a unanimous decision the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals determined law enforcement officers are not required to present a warrant or charges before forcibly entering a person’s home, searching it, and confiscating firearms if they
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Why the IRS Can Now “Ground” You
05-21-2014
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If you’re a US citizen and believe you have an unfettered right to leave your country " and come back " think again.
Since the events of 9/11, your government has imposed draconian restrictions on international travel:
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News Link • Activism
'Happy' video arrests highlight tensions in Iran
05-21-2014
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AP
An Internet video of 6 young Iranian men and women dancing to Pharrell Williams' "Happy" has led to their arrests, showing how far Tehran will go to halt what it deems to be decadent Western behavior " despite the views of
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Open Carry Picnic
Powell Gammill
Food & Drink provided by the Maricopa Co. Libertarian Party. Openly carrying firearms encouraged. Meet some of their 2014 candidates. Saturday, May 24 at noon, at the Steele Indian School Park Acacia Ramada
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists figure out how to turn light into matter
05-21-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Robin Burks
In 1934, scientists Gregory Breit and John Wheeler theorized that turning light into matter was as simple as crashing two photons of light into each other to create an electron and a positron.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Barclays' Head Of Gold Trading, And Gold "Fixer", Is Leaving The Bank
05-21-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Last week, for the first time ever, in "From Rothschild To Koch Industries: Meet The People Who "Fix" The Price Of Gold"
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