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Date Sent: 2014-06-02
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, June 2, 2014 |
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images -- Snowden Strikes Back at NSA, Emails NBC News
America's Electronic Police State -- Payback time: First patent troll ordered to pay "extraordinary case" fees -- The Plan - by L.Neil Smith -- Victory for Involuntary Servitude in Colorado -- How Microsoft Created Its 'Star Trek' Voice Translator For Skype -- Memo To 8th Circuit: Fairly Inexplicable Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does -- Sudan Foreign Ministry States Christian Woman Sentenced To Death For Apostasy Will Be Freed --
Killing Emmett Young/ Emmett's Mark (a film with Tim Roth) -- The
Generation Gap Has Been Produced: Julius Wellhausen - Part V --
Bilderberg actually talks nukes, euro nationalism and… Barack Obama –
leak -- EFF to Court: There's No Doubt the Government Destroyed NSA Spying Evidence -- Use-of-force policy tightened for Border Patrol -- Drug task force that burned a toddler this week also killed an innocent pastor in 2009 -- Here's The Real, Forgotten Meaning Of 'The Wizard Of Oz' -- Watch An Enormous US Surveillance Drone Arrive In Japan -- Experts Are Lining Up To Warn About The Leveraged ETFs That Could 'Blow Up' -- Self-Driving Cars Will Turn Surveillance Woes Into a Mainstream Worry -- If Ambassador Stevens Had Lived... -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel to Ban Gun Shops from 99.5% of Chicago, Videotape All Sales -- US Illegal Overthrow of Hawaii 1893 -- Congress "restricts" the DEA (with a $35 million budget increase) -- For Libertarian Utopia, Float Away on 'Startup' Nation -- Video: School Security Guard Hitting Student In Wheelchair, Dumping Him On Floor -- LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly -- Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Sweden to serve copyright violation sentence -- Was the Iranian threat fabricated by Israel and the U.S.?
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine, May 2014 Edition RELEASED
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News Link • Internet
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
06-01-2014
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nytimes.com, By JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRAS
For more than a decade there have been sightings of unusual high-speed watercraft patrolling up and down the Columbia River.
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News Link • Surveillance
America's Electronic Police State
06-01-2014
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by Wendy McElroy (FEE)
The NSA keeps making headlines as the force behind the American surveillance state. Civil rights advocates should be equally concerned about a quieter but no less insidious manifestation: the National Counterterrorism Center.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Payback time: First patent troll ordered to pay "extraordinary case" fees
06-01-2014
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ars technica
When Santa Barbara startup FindTheBest was sued by a patent troll called Lumen View it vowed to fight back rather than pay the $50,000 licensing fee Lumen was demanding. Company CEO Kevin O'Connor made it personal
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Plan
06-01-2014
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
More and more, it appears that the destruction of the American economy and the civilization it supports was a deliberately calculated act.
No fewer than fifteen decades of federal government usurpation and mismanagement
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News Link • Government
Victory for Involuntary Servitude in Colorado
06-01-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
The same Colorado government that withholds official recognition of same-sex marriages threatened to fine and imprison Phillips for exercising his property rights by turning down a business opportunity â€" thereby foregoing an opportunity to profit bec
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News Link • Communications
How Microsoft Created Its 'Star Trek' Voice Translator For Skype
06-01-2014
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You can translate almost any word, phrase or document by simply plugging it into a search engine. Microsoft envisions a future where you'll be able to hold a conversation with anyone around the world without language barriers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Memo To 8th Circuit: Fairly Inexplicable Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does
06-01-2014
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Simple Justice
The 8th Circuit made short shrift of the absurd arrest of Frank Snider for desecrating the flag. No big surprise there, as Snider v. City of Cape Girardeau was a slam dunk. But then it raises the hoary question of how neither the cop,
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Sudan Foreign Ministry States Christian Woman Sentenced To Death For Apostasy Will Be Freed
06-01-2014
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Jonathan Turley
After an international outrage and widespread condemnation following the death sentence of a pregnant, Christian Sudanese woman accused apostasy and adultery for her marriage to a Christian man, the Sudanese Government
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Proof that Israel could not have killed the youth on Nakba Day
May 28th 2014
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Elder of Ziyon 2
A Nakba Day Play with very amateur actors.
Action! No, no, no - if you are going to fake an injury for the media, don't make it a leg injury! Cut! Take two! Send the ambulances back to their starting position!
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Killing Emmett Young/ Emmett's Mark (a film with Tim Roth)
06-01-2014
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Christine Smith's Blog
Viewed the 2002-released Killing Emmett Young again (having seen it years ago), and found it once more an interesting suspenseful film…unique in its premise as in its entire story.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
The Real GMO Tipping Point
06-01-2014
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Farm Wars
Coexistence is a myth. What is real is that once your crop is contaminated with GMOs it is ruined, and if your neighbor grows GMOs, you will be contaminated. Let's get real!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Open Carry Brunch
01062014
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The International Libertarian
We had a successful and friendly open carry Sunday brunch at the Court Diner in Media, PA. The event was lead by Mark Fiorino whose arrest by Philadelphia Police sparked outrage. Below is my interview with him. We talked about open carry both here an
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Immigration
Mapping 100 Years Of US Immigration By State
06-01-2014
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zerohedge.com
Several days ago, we looked at the big picture of US immigration, presenting the place of origin of America's 40 million foreign-born residents.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Massive Indonesian volcano eruption grounds flights
06-01-2014
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independent.co.uk
A huge volcanic eruption in Indonesia has covered the region in a vast cloud of ash, grounding flights in Australia and south east Asia.
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News Link • Secret Societies
Bilderberg actually talks nukes, euro nationalism and… Barack Obama â€" leak
06-01-2014
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Prison Planet
The officially released agenda of the prestigious Bilderberg club meeting is not true, claims RT show host Daniel Estulin, a longtime watcher of the 'secret world govt' group. He says he obtained the real agenda for this year's gathering in Copenhage
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
EFF to Court: There's No Doubt the Government Destroyed NSA Spying Evidence
06-01-2014
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Prison Planet
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal court today that there was no doubt that the government has destroyed years of evidence of NSA spying â€" the government itself has admitted to it in recent court filings.
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News Link • Drug War
Drug task force that burned a toddler this week also killed an innocent pastor in 2009
06-01-2014
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Washington Post
After Georgia's Mountain Judicial Circuit Narcotics Criminal Investigation and Suppression Team burned a toddler with a flashbang grenade during a drug raid on Wednesday, Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell told Access North Georgia:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Watch An Enormous US Surveillance Drone Arrive In Japan
06-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
On May 4, the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted system arrived at Misawa Air Base, Japan, where it is scheduled to operate from May to October 2014.
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News Link • Economy - International
Experts Are Lining Up To Warn About The Leveraged ETFs That Could 'Blow Up'...
06-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Experts Are Lining Up To Warn About The Leveraged ETFs That Could 'Blow Up' The Whole Financial System
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News Link • Inventions
The Walking Bicycle strolls along at 15 mph
06-01-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Dave Parrack
If you enjoy the simple pleasure of walking but wish it got you from A to B as quickly as cycling then the Walking Bicycle may be your dream machine.
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News Link • Surveillance
Self-Driving Cars Will Turn Surveillance Woes Into a Mainstream Worry
06-01-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Camille Francois
In the aftermath of the NSA spying revelations, our society is struggling to equip itself with the laws and public understanding necessary to deal with the spread of technology into every corner of our lives.
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News Link • World News
If Ambassador Stevens Had Lived...
06-01-2014
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http://www.dcclothesline.com, by Dave Hodges
If Ambassador Stevens Had Lived, the Benghazi Child Trafficking Practices Would've Been Revealed
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News Link • Anthropology
Living on the outside: Photographer Kitra Cahana documents nomadic...
06-01-2014
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http://blog.ted.com, by: Karen Eng
Living on the outside: Photographer Kitra Cahana documents nomadic cultures from within
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mayor Rahm Emanuel to Ban Gun Shops from 99.5% of Chicago, Videotape All Sales
06-01-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, Melissa Melton
Back in January, U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang said that it is the government's duty to protect constitutional rights in a ruling that overturned Chicago's ban on the sale and transfer of firearms, ordinances that represented some of the toughest
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News Link • How To
Preventing Blood Loss in an Emergency Situation
06-01-2014
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http://www.theorganicprepper.ca, By Lizzie Bennett
Many things can befall us that can cause massive, life threatening blood loss. Gunshot wounds, stabbings, road accidents, the list is almost endless. Even something that appears to be a small nick can be fatal if that small nick perforates a blood ve
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Physical Preparedness: Practical Performance for Real-World Survival
06-01-2014
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http://www.theorganicprepper.ca, By Todd Walker
Is your body fit to function in troubled times? Good times? Events are happening with increasing regularity that are steering us to hard times.
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News Link • History
US Illegal Overthrow of Hawaii 1893
06-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by visible51
Everything you need to know about the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in five minutes.
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News Link • Drug War
Congress "restricts" the DEA (with a $35 million budget increase)
06-01-2014
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Free Press Publications
At the end of May, the US House of Representatives made headlines for voting on an amendment that would restrict the Drug Enforcement Agency from obstructing state industrial hemp programs, and from cracking down on medical marijuana facilities. An e
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News Link • Inventions
High Tensile Strength Supercapacitors
06-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by CTCZ
Here's the deal. Capacitors are really cool things. Capacitors act like energy sponges, sucking up electrical charges quickly (in seconds) and releasing those charges just as quickly.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Is A Russia-Japan Natural Gas Pipeline Next?
06-01-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Ankit Panda
Following Russia's historic $400 billion natural gas supply deal with China last week, Japanese lawmakers are looking to revive efforts to tap into Russian natural gas supplies themselves.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private group re-establishes contact with ISEE-3 comet probe
06-01-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
A 35-year old space probe has come back to life after a 16-year slumber thanks to the world's largest single-aperture radio telescope. Using the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico, the ISEE-3 Reboot Project has re-established contact with the m
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News Link • Transportation
Audi gets sporty with Q3 inflatable camper and 525-hp A3 concept
06-01-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. Weiss
Heimplanet makes some of the most interesting inflatable tents on the market, including the three-person Cave and two-person Wedge.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
For Libertarian Utopia, Float Away on 'Startup' Nation
06-01-2014
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By Edward Robinson
As dawn breaks over the Gulf of Fonseca, southeast of El Salvador, Patri Friedman sets out for a jog.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Caught On Video:
06-01-2014
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cbslocal.com, by Carlos E. Castañeda
A security guard at a high school in Oakland has been arrested and charged with a felony for an assault on a student in a wheelchair, caught on video by school surveillance cameras.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
George Clooney planning to move into POLITICS after marriage to Amal Alamuddin
06-01-2014
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http://www.mirror.co.uk, By Halina Watts
Hollywood heartthrob Clooney already counts Barack Obama as a friend and is a committed political activist - now he is looking to take on a more official role.
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News Link • Surveillance
LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly
06-01-2014
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http://www.latimes.com, By Joel Rubin
The Los Angeles Police Department has acquired some eyes in the sky. .
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News Link • World News
Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Sweden to serve copyright violation sentence
06-01-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, Reuters
One of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay has been arrested in southern Sweden to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations after being on the run for nearly two years, Swedish police said on Saturday.
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News Link • Israel
Was the Iranian threat fabricated by Israel and the U.S.?
06-01-2014
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http://www.haaretz.com, By Shemuel Meir
In a new book and in a conversation with Haaretz, U.S. historian Gareth Porter charges that U.S. and Israeli policies on Iran have been based on fabricated evidence.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, June 1, 2014 Edition
05-30-2014
John Semmens
President Not Getting Enough Credit for Foreign Policy
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki lamented the perception that President Obama's foreign policy has been plagued by incoherence and inconsistency, saying that "President Obama doesn't giv
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why We Should All Take A Moment To Listen To Jim Rogers
05-30-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Nina Xiang
Legendary investor Jim Rogers has been warning about "the ocean of artificial liquidity" as a result of the unprecedented money printing by central banks around the world for quite some time now.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk unveils Dragon V2 manned spacecraft
05-30-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Having teased the public by showing off the SuperDraco engine, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken the wraps off the Dragon V2 manned spacecraft that it's designed to propel.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
French actor Depardieu pays low tax rate in Russia
05-30-2014
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news.yahoo.com
Veteran actor Gerard Depardieu who fled his native France in protest over a new wealth tax is now paying a rate of only six percent in his newly adopted country of Russia, the Izvestia daily reported Friday.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Washington mom outraged over 'pay to potty' policy in classroom
05-30-2014
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myfoxdc.com
A Washington state mom vowed to take legal action after she said her child was forced to "pay" to use the bathroom in her third-grade class.
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News Link • Police State
Dana Hills High Students Allowed To Go Home After 4-Hour Class-By-Class Weapons Search
05-30-2014
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losangeles.cbslocal.com
Dana Hills High School students were released from a four-hour lockdown Thursday after an empty rifle or shotgun carrying case was reportedly found in a campus parking lot.
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News Link • Economy - International
World Bank sounds alarm on rising global food prices
05-30-2014
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uk.news.yahoo.com
World food prices rose in the first quarter of the year for the first time since their all-time high in August 2012, driven by rising demand in China, drought in the United States and unrest in Ukraine.
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News Link • General Opinion
Lest We Never Learn A Lesson by Travis Wilson
05-30-2014
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zerogov.com
Memorial Day is another fabricated holiday to remember the exact opposite of what the day should represent. This is the day that should inspire millions to march on DC and every other satellite occupation facility throughout the ....
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News Link • Government
Killing Abroad and At Home: Why the VA is Broken by Bill Buppert
05-30-2014
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zerogov.com
"Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appea
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News Link • Whistleblowers
America's Timeless Revolution
05-30-2014
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jneilschulman.rationalreview.com
I wrote this on Facebook as a summation of a series of tweets I sent out today and copied to my Facebook wall â€" including links to both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
J. Neil Schulman @jneilschulman
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
NBC Censors Snowden's Critical 9/11 Comments from Prime Time Audience
05-30-2014
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Daily Paul.com
"They found that we had all of the information we needed as an intelligence community... to detect this plot"
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News Link • Police State
Exclusive: Libertarian Candidate for Governor Arrested For Gathering Signatures
05-30-2014
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benswann.com
Lake Calhoun, MN- For months Benswann.com has reported on the uphill battle Libertarian candidates face when trying to obtain ballot access,
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