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Date Sent: 2014-06-17
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, June 17, 2014 |
Va. Court Convicts Gun Rights Activist Adam Kokesh
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops -- Size of income tax drop surprises U.S. states -- Pittsburgh Cop Caught on Video Repeatedly Punching Woman who made him Fear for his Safety -- 'Inventing Terrorists': Critical Examination of Government's Use of Preemptive Prosecution -- Stand Up, Sit Down, Fight, Fight, Fight -- Brown University Student Speaks Out on What It's Like to Be Accused of Rape -- Sandy Hook Redux: Obama officials confirm that it was a drill and no children died -- Federal Tax Revenues Set Record Through May; Feds Still Running $436B Deficit -- Ron Paul 'End the Fed' on Jeopardy - June 12, 2014 -- 40,000 Bikers Enroute to Free U.S. Marine In Mexico Prison! -- Iraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia -- Programmer Testifies About Rigging Elections With Vote Counting Machines -- All of the work put in by Ron Paul Supporters in Iowa gets crushed -- "The Historic Fact Is The Constitution Was Intended To Gut The
Rights Of The People" -- Ron Paul: The State Is Not God -- Haven't We Already Done
Enough Damage in Iraq? -- Obama Behind Al-Qaeda Invasion of Iraq --
Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash, Friday the 13th, Illuminati
Murder or Accident? -- The United States Is Experimenting With
Drones To Control The Weather -- Ron Paul Charles Goyette #13 –
Foreign Policy Confusion -- What makes law "legitimate?" - A
question from an anarchist - posed to the minarchist -- No More U.S.
Intervention in Iraq -- John Stuart was right about Quite Title! 9th
Circuit (Federal) Allows Quiet Title and Damages -- Idaho's
GOP convention adjourned without electing chairman, Ron Paul
delegates are blamed -- Matt Drudge Reports on Iraq: A Total
Rout of Neoconservatism -- Iraq Blows Wide Open -- "Cluster Of Central Banks" Have Secretly Invested $29
Trillion In The Market -- The United States Of Debt: Total Debt In
America Hits A New Record High Of Nearly 60 Trillion.. -- FL woman
kidnaps daughter to prevent her from being vaccinated, studying
black history --
Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants -- Ron Paul
Slams Obama's Policy on Iraq -- We Were Warned about the Rise of
Empire -- This now hangs in front of the US Embassy in Moscow --
The Horrible Laugh Of The Damned And The Doomed -- Ron Paul Slams
Obama's Policy on Iraq
DC: Bitcoin in the Beltway: June 20-22, 2014 Wash, DC - Marriott
Renaissance Downtown
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News Link • Activism
Va. Court Convicts Gun Rights Activist Adam Kokesh
06-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
A sad story indeed. Regardless of your personal feelings towards Kokesh, and his antics of the past, he has shown a true belief in the cause of non-aggression, ....
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
06-16-2014
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ABC News
"This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class," Jordan said. "I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else."
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News Link • TAXES: State
Size of income tax drop surprises U.S. states
06-16-2014
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Reuters
Most states were surprised by the size of the drop in their personal income tax collections this April, even though they had expected a decline, according to a report released by the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pittsburgh Cop Caught on Video Repeatedly Punching Woman who made him Fear for his Safety
06-16-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Pittsburgh cop claimed he broke through a crowd of 50 people to apprehend a woman who was attacking a man during a gay pride parade, only for her to start punching and kicking him in the groin and chest as
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News Link • TERRORISM
'Inventing Terrorists': Critical Examination of Government's Use of Preemptive Prosecuti
06-16-2014
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95 percent of individuals on a Justice Dept list of "terrorism and terrorism-related convictions" from 2001-2010 included some elements of preemptive prosecution, according to a study by attorneys which they say is the first
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Stand Up, Sit Down, Fight, Fight, Fight
06-16-2014
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Simple Justice
The harm was in response to what we refer to as "contempt of cop," the failure to do as told, whether completely or quickly enough. The reaction tended to focus on the propriety of the command. Sit down. Stand up. Stay in the car. Get out of the car
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Brown University Student Speaks Out on What It's Like to Be Accused of Rape
06-16-2014
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Months after an evening that irrevocably changed 2 young people's lives, Kopin, a 21-year-old former Brown U. student, sounds genuinely shaken as he recounts his reaction to an email that confronted him with a stark accusation
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News Link • 3D Printing
Strati wins 3D printed car challenge
06-16-2014
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gizmag.com
The first ever 3D Printed Car Design Challenge has been run and won with Strati, a design by Michele Anoé of Italy, chosen from a field of over 200 entries submitted by contestants from more than 30 countries.
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Sandy Hook Redux: Obama officials confirm that it was a drill and no children died
06-16-2014
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thedailysheeple.com
"I have a lot of sources in regards to as to what's going on with the president and the administration and so on, and every one of my sources said it was a false flag"--Paul Preston
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Federal Tax Revenues Set Record Through May; Feds Still Running $436B Deficit
06-16-2014
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cnsnews.com
Federal tax revenues continue to run at a record pace (in inflation-adjusted dollars) in fiscal 2014, as the federal government's total receipts for the fiscal year closed May at an unprecedented $1,934,919,000,000, according to the Monthly Treasury
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Ron Paul 'End the Fed' on Jeopardy - June 12, 2014
06-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Ron Paul 'End the Fed' on Jeopardy - June 12, 2014
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
40,000 Bikers Enroute to Free U.S. Marine In Mexico Prison!
06-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
40,000 Bikers Enroute to Free U.S. Marine In Mexico Prison!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia
06-16-2014
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independent.co.uk
Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lost
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hubble captures the most comprehensive image of the universe yet
06-16-2014
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gizmag.com
A newly-released picture taken by the Hubble Telescope is adding more color to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) image by detecting thousands of galaxies in the ultraviolet spectrum.
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News Link • Energy
Electric test car with aluminum-air battery takes to the track
06-16-2014
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gizmag.com
Last year, Phinergy and Alcoa announced the development of an aluminum-air battery that could give an electric car a potential range of 1,000 miles (1,609 km), though stops for a water top-up would be needed every couple of hundred miles.
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News Link • Transportation
Gizmag visits London Motorexpo 2014
06-16-2014
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gizmag.com
It was first run in Canary Wharf, London, in 1996, with the intention of bringing a new format to the traditional motor show. Gizmag visited the 19th London Motorexpo this week.
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News Link • Energy
Quantum dot breakthrough could lead to cheap spray-on solar cells
06-16-2014
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gizmag.com
Researchers at the University of Toronto have manufactured and tested a new type of colloidal quantum dots (CQD), that, unlike previous attempts, doesn't lose performance as they keep in contact with oxygen.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Progress made on a 'bionic pancreas' for diabetics
06-16-2014
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wtop.com
Scientists have made big progress on a "bionic pancreas" to free some people with diabetes from the daily ordeal of managing their disease.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Programmer Testifies About Rigging Elections With Vote Counting Machines
06-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Vote Fraud: How it's done to counter freedom.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
All of the work put in by Ron Paul Supporters in Iowa gets crushed
06-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
At local conventions starting in January and continuing through April, the governor's machine successfully mobilized supporters to elect a slate of 16 people to the GOP central committee, including a few loyal holdovers.
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News Link • American History
"The Historic Fact Is The Constitution Was Intended To Gut The Rights Of The People"
06-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The Fix Was In From The Beginning
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News Link • Iraq
Haven't We Already Done Enough Damage in Iraq?
06-16-2014
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Prison Planet
In 2006, I invited the late General Bill Odom to address my Thursday Congressional luncheon group.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama Behind Al-Qaeda Invasion of Iraq
06-16-2014
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Prison Planet
Al Qaeda used by western powers as a destabilizing force to foment chaos and disorder and facilitate divide and conquer
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News Link • Conspiracies
Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash, Friday the 13th, Illuminati Murder or Accident?
06-16-2014
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Prison Planet
David Rockefeller's son Richard was killed in a plane crash on Friday the 13th.
Here, Mark Dice discusses the story and some history of the Rockefeller family.
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News Link • Drones
The United States Is Experimenting With Drones To Control The Weather
06-16-2014
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Prison Planet
For years, there have been plenty of conspiracy theories about the government building machines that control the weather, be it via cloud seeding or Nikola Tesla's weather weapon HAARP.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ron Paul Charles Goyette #13 â€" Foreign Policy Confusion
06-16-2014
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Money and Markets
President Obama chose his West Point commencement address to reaffirm the globalist, interventionist posture that has characterized his presidency. This week, against the backdrop of Iraq descending into chaos with hundreds of casualties a day and Li
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Property Rights
What makes law "legitimate?" - A question from an anarchist - posed to the minarchist
06-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
So the "anarchist vs minarchist" debate is on pretty strong here at the DP. I like it, let's keep that topic open. Jan, Marc, and BILL3 have been doing well at keeping this topic alive at the DP.
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Feature Article • Iraq
No More U.S. Intervention in Iraq
Ivan Eland
Despite all of the hysteria surrounding the advances in northern Iraq of the brutal group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), no crisis exists for U.S. security, and the American people are wise in their skepticism of renewed U.S. military involv
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
John Stuart was right about Quite Title!
9th Circuit (Federal) Allows Quiet Title and Damages for W
06-16-2014
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http://livinglies.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/9th-cir
9th Circuit (Federal) Allows Quiet Title and Damages for Wrongful Filing of False Documents
Posted on June 13, 2014 by Neil Garfield
Hat Tip to Beth Findsen who is a good friend and a great lawyer in Scottsdale, Az and who provided this case
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Idaho's GOP convention adjourned without electing chairman, Ron Paul delegates are blamed for ch
06-16-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Idaho's state Republican Party convention degenerated into a fiasco Saturday after attempts to disqualify up to a third of the delegates attending appeared to be succeeding â€" and the convention adjourned without electing a chairman...
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News Link • Iraq
Matt Drudge Reports on Iraq: A Total Rout of Neoconservatism
06-16-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Gary North
The neoconservatives can run, but they can't hide. Their policies have come home to roost.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq Blows Wide Open
06-16-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Margolis
The late Saddam Hussein was certainly right when he predicted that America's invasion of Iraq would become "the Mother of All Battles." Eleven years later, it continues.
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News Link • Energy
QEG aWARENESS vIDEO
06-16-2014
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http://www.fixtheworldproject.net,
The QEG is a crisp, clean, and modern device based on Tesla's public domain design and built with incredible engineering precision (for example it has over 300 precision cut steel plates each at 18 ½ 1,000ths of an inch thick).
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News Link • Economy - International
"Cluster Of Central Banks" Have Secretly Invested $29 Trillion In The Market
06-16-2014
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zerohedge.com
Another conspiracy "theory" becomes conspiracy "fact" as The FT reports "a cluster of central banking investors has become major players on world equity markets."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The United States Of Debt: Total Debt In America Hits A New Record High Of Nearly 60 Trillion..
06-16-2014
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
What would you say if I told you that Americans are nearly 60 TRILLION dollars in debt?
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News Link • Child Protective Services
FL woman kidnaps daughter to prevent her from being vaccinated, studying black history
06-16-2014
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Rawstory
"You are a great dad" but "if I let them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her, I wouldn't be doing what's right. I cannot let a judge tell me how my daughter should be raised. We will miss you. But I had to leave."
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
For Fox, Much Is Riding on 3 Sequels to 'Avatar'
06-16-2014
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nytimes.com
Like the deep-sea craft James Cameron used to dive nearly seven miles down in the Pacific, the long-awaited screenplays for his three sequels to "Avatar" will soon pop to the surface, probably within weeks.
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News Link • Iran
Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants
06-16-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, Martin Chulov
Tehran hints at cooperation with US to aid Nouri al-Maliki as jihadist group threatens to take Baghdad
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News Link • Obama Administration
Ron Paul Slams Obama's Policy on Iraq
06-16-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Russia Today
Former congressman Ron Paul is attributing the current crisis in Iraq to failed American foreign policy and warns the worse has yet to come.
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News Link • Internet
Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing
06-16-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that's already one of the hottest new ideas in the world of cloud computing.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
TGIF: We Were Warned about the Rise of Empire
06-16-2014
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http://fff.org, by Sheldon Richman
American critics of U.S. foreign policy (as well as some neoconservative supporters) often refer to the United States as an empire.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA rendition jet was waiting in Europe to SNATCH SNOWDEN
06-15-2014
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The Register
As the whistleblowing NSA Edward Snowden made his escape to Russia, a secret US government jet - employed in CIA "rendition" flights on which terror suspects disappeared into invisible "black" imprisonment - flew into Europe
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News Link • Iraq
Manning says US public lied to about Iraq from the start
06-15-2014
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AFP
"As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanista
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US condemns attack on Russian embassy in Kiev
06-15-2014
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AFP
"The United States condemns the attack on the Russian Embassy in Kiev, and calls on Ukrainian authorities to meet their Vienna convention obligations to provide adequate security," a State Department spokeswoman said.
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News Link • World News
Ukraine: 49 dead as rebels down military plane
06-14-2014
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AP
Pro-Russia separatists shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane, killing all 49 crew and troops aboard in a bloody escalation of the conflict in the country's restive east. It was a bitter setback for the Ukrainian forces - the deadliest
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News Link • Police State
Cops In Texas Seize Millions By 'Policing for Profit'
06-14-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Texas law enforcement are continuing to enrich themselves using a little-known legal doctrine known as civil forfeiture, according to a new series of investigative reports.
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News Link • Government Waste
Inspector General Reveals Staggering Waste in Afghan War
06-14-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Billions Spent on Never-Used Gear
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Donald Sterling Hires Private Investigators To Dig Up Dirt On NBA Owners, Commissioner
06-14-2014
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losangeles.cbslocal.com
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's team of lawyers has hired four private investigation firms to dig up dirt on the NBA's former and current commissioners and its 29 other owners, a person familiar with Sterling's legal strategy said.
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News Link • Iraq
Americans being evacuated from Iraqi air base
06-14-2014
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http://www.salon.com, Lara Jakes and Julie Pace
Officials say three planeloads of Americans are being evacuated from a major Iraqi air base in Sunni territory north of Baghdad to escape potential threats from a fast-moving insurgency.
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News Link • Obama Administration
US 'Urgently' Readies Air Strikes Against al-Qaeda in Iraq
06-14-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Obama Won't Rule Out Anything in Aiding Maliki Govt
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News Link • Iran
Exclusive: Alarmed by Iraq, Iran open to shared role with U.S. - Iran official
06-14-2014
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Reuters
Shi'te Muslim Iran is so alarmed by Sunni insurgent gains in Iraq that it may be willing to cooperate with Washington in helping Baghdad fight back, a senior Iranian official told Reuters.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS: So… Our Computer Crashed And Erased All Of Lois Lerner's Emails
06-13-2014
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The Daily Caller
The Internal Revenue Service claimed it cannot produce Lois Lerner's emails to and from the White House and other administration departments due to a supposed computer crash.
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News Link • Art
Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
06-13-2014
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How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Here's how he conducted his experiment.
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
The coming digital anarchy
06-13-2014
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The Telegraph
It's already beginning. We used to need banks to keep track of who owned what. Not any more. Bitcoin proved banks can be replaced with software and clever math. Programmers of libertarian bent ask what else we don't need?
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
'None Of The Above' Tops Nevada's Dem Gubernatorial Primary
06-13-2014
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CBS News
As embarrassing as it was for leaders of Nevada's Democratic Party who's candidate topping the ticket in November will be best known as the man who beat out 7 other contenders by finishing 2nd to "none of the above."
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Uber's sign-ups jump 850% after strike 'own goal'
06-13-2014
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CNBC
Taxi-hailing app Uber saw sign-ups jump to record levels on Wednesday, following a rush of publicity as cab drivers across Europe went on strike to protest against the company.
Marketing experts described the strike as an "own goal", after Uber s
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News Link • Police State
Man's Car Siezed as an "Illegal Cab" After Driving Wife to Work
06-13-2014
Married couple Dan Keys Jr., 66, and Symone Palermo, 53 were recently investigated by a New York City government agency because Dan was under suspicion of running an illegal cab service.
The agency had no good reason to assume that Dan was runnin
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Witness Tampering, Always
06-13-2014
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Simple Justice
It's really a matter of protection. Within an hour of my giving a name, two agents will knock on their door to explain to them the penalties and prison time they will face for testifying on behalf of the defense.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, June 15, 2014 Edition
06-13-2014
John Semmens
Cochran Gears Up for Final Campaign Push
Surprised that he is facing a run-off against State Senator Chris McDaniel to represent Mississippi in the US Senate, sitting Senator Thad Cochran (R) made an odd bid to corner the bestiality and animal cru
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