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Date Sent: 2014-06-18
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, June 18, 2014 |
UK official reveals secret justification for gov't social media spying
Privileged Purveyors of State Violence Seek to Ban — Or Cage — Their Critics -- Chicago announces cash rewards for reports of illegal tobacco sales -- Black Teenage Anarcho-Capitalist -- 'Duke Porn Star': I Lost My Financial Aid
-- Elon Musk Announced Another Huge Bet Today, And The Fate Of The
Solar Industry Is Riding On It -- Fourth Turning Accelerating -- Fed Prepares For Bond-Fund Runs, Looking At Imposing "Exit Fee" Gates -- Signal-jamming cloak keeps you hidden from electronic spying -- Stick A Fork In Yet Another "Housing Recovery": Starts Tumble, Multi-Family Permits ... -- Has the Dept. of Homeland Security Become America's Standing Army? -- Road Pirates and Prohibition Profiteers... -- How to Anonymize Everything You Do Online -- U.S. Meddling Inflames Middle East Conflicts... -- The Western-Imposed Partition of the Middle East Is Dead -- London's Whopping 18.7% Home Price Surge Means UK's Housing Bubble Slams China's -- Greece Goes Medieval - 2/3rds Of Wages Paid In Barter -- How your inbox looks after becoming Internet Enemy #1 -- Tooth "Time Warp": British Researchers Discover Method To Reverse Tooth Decay -- US Supreme Court rules on 'straw purchaser' law -- Record number of expatriates renounce U.S. citizenship -- Over 5,000 Iranians 'sign up to defend Iraq holy sites' --
Apartheid in Detroit: Water For Corporations, Not For People Tue,
6/17/2014 - by Carl Gibson -- Sneaker Pawn in Harlem -- Where your
ideology says you should live -- US military's top 10 weird gizmos and
gadgets -- The Latest News Out Of Iraq - Full Overnight Update -- Russia Halts Ukraine Gas
Shipments, Warns EU of Disruptions -- Over 300 Killed Across Iraq As
US Sends Troops -- Israel Warns US Against Cooperating With Iran
on Iraq -- Katsuyama Vs The High Freaks Round II - Senate
Hearing On HFT Live Feed -- Pentagon, State Dept. at odds over
coordinating with Iran on Iraq crisis -- Greece Goes Medieval - 2/3rds Of Wages Paid In Barter -- Another
Exponential Chart: Americans Who Renounce Their Citizenship -- Why Iraq is imploding. -- Virginia
Cop Block gets local media attention in Richmond -- Black Teenage
Anarcho-Capitalist -- Ralph Nader on Obama, Hillary Clinton, and
their "total support" of war and empire -- House Budget Punishes IRS With 15% Cut,
Halts Obamacare Enforcement -- Fourth Turning Accelerating --
*Epic* Plundering of Iraq -- Kucinich: Stop Calling the Iraq War
a 'Mistake' -- Fourth Turning Accelerating: "No Escaping the
Dire, Deadly and Dangerous Times Directly Ahead -- Videos Americans
Didn't Get to See on Our Nightly News
DC: Bitcoin in the Beltway: June 20-22, 2014 Wash, DC - Marriott
Renaissance Downtown
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News Link • Surveillance
UK official reveals secret justification for gov't social media spying
06-17-2014
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ars technica
Court testimony by a high-ranking British security official, bulk collection of social media posts from sites like Facebook, Google, and Twitter is permissible in the United Kingdom absent a specific warrant under British law,
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Privileged Purveyors of State Violence Seek to Ban â€" Or Cage â€" Their Critics
06-17-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Although government-aligned media outlets generally are faithful stenographers for the coercive caste, the same is not true of social media. Thus it's not surprising police are seeking to ban Facebook pages that document
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News Link • Police State
Chicago announces cash rewards for reports of illegal tobacco sales
06-17-2014
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Chicago Tribune
Chicagoans who report sales of illegal smokes could be in for a payday. A new city program by the mayor and the Chicago Department of Public Health, offers $100 cash rewards to people who alert inspectors to illicit tobacco sales.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
This Magical Scent-Sending Phone Is Now Available to Order
06-17-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Liz Stinson
Just imagine a world where you could snap a picture of your fancy meal, upload it to Instagram and your followers could actually get a waft of your pizza. David Edwards is making that happen.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Duke Porn Star': I Lost My Financial Aid
06-17-2014
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time.com
Instead of focusing on my decision to perform in porn to pay my tuition, let's start paying attention to what got me here: artificially inflated demand for college that pushes tuitions sky high
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News Link • Energy
Elon Musk Announced Another Huge Bet Today, And The Fate Of The Solar Industry Is Riding On It
06-17-2014
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Business Insider
We recently explained how Tesla needs to build what it is calling a "gigafactory" for batteries in order to survive.
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News Link • Politics
Fourth Turning Accelerating
06-17-2014
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ZeroHedge.com
This past week saw an event revealing the cluelessness and ignorance of the linear thinking establishment. They are oblivious to the cyclicality of history and unaware of their precarious situation, as the mood of the country and the world portends t
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Prepares For Bond-Fund Runs, Looking At Imposing "Exit Fee" Gates
06-17-2014
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zerohedge.com
It was two short years ago that the Fed, in its relentless attempt to push everyone into the biggest equity bubble of all time, did something many thought was merely a backdoor ploy to forcibly reallocate capital out of the $2.7 trillion money market
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Signal-jamming cloak keeps you hidden from electronic spying
06-17-2014
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dvice.com
The tablets, phones and laptops we carry on us are, more often than not, always on. This also means that many of our activities are easily tracked and that hackers and government agencies have almost instant access to our information if they really w
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News Link • Homeland Security
Has the Dept. of Homeland Security Become America's Standing Army?
06-17-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead
If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Road Pirates and Prohibition Profiteers...
06-17-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By William Norman Grig
One of the risks of operating a medical marijuana dispensary is the possibility of attracting unwanted attention from violent, dishonest people willing to defraud and even kill others in order to indulge their addiction.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
How to Anonymize Everything You Do Online
06-17-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg
One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion:
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. Meddling Inflames Middle East Conflicts...
06-17-2014
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http://www.forbes.com, Doug Bandow
Syria's civil war has washed over Turkey's border, flooding the latter with hundreds of thousands of refugees.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The Shadow Internet That's 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber
06-17-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Klint Finley
When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes, it seemed like science fiction.
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News Link • Government Waste
The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
06-17-2014
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http://digg.com
'IT'S INHERENTLY A TERRIBLE AIRPLANE'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
The Western-Imposed Partition of the Middle East Is Dead
06-17-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Robert Fisk
"Sykes-Picot is dead," Walid Jumblatt roared at me last night â€" and he may well be right.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
London's Whopping 18.7% Home Price Surge Means UK's Housing Bubble Slams China's
06-17-2014
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zerohedge.com
A month ago, using the latest UK housing data from Rightmove, we asked a simple question: whose housing bubble is bigger:
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News Link • European Union
Greece Goes Medieval - 2/3rds Of Wages Paid In Barter
06-17-2014
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zerohedge.com
Do you remember the serfs and servants and villeins and peasants in the good old times of feudalism and the Middle Ages?
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News Link • Internet
How your inbox looks after becoming Internet Enemy #1
06-17-2014
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ars technica
In late April, the "contact us" form on the Peoria, Illinois, website experienced a sudden deluge of traffic. People from across the country wanted to let Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis know what they thought of his decision to get local police
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Tooth "Time Warp": British Researchers Discover Method To Reverse Tooth Decay
06-17-2014
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Jonathan Turley
The technique is known as Electrically Accelerated and Enhanced Remineralization and it has been found to repair tooth decay by using electrical current to boost the tooth's natural repair process.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
US Supreme Court rules on 'straw purchaser' law
06-17-2014
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AP
The Supreme Court says federal law does not allow a "straw" purchaser to buy a gun for someone else, even if both are legally eligible to own firearms.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Record number of expatriates renounce U.S. citizenship
06-17-2014
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marketwatch.com, By Liam Pleven and Laura Saunders
U.S. on track for 3,000 renunciations in 2014, says analyst of Treasury data
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News Link • Iraq
Over 5,000 Iranians 'sign up to defend Iraq holy sites'
06-17-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, AFP
Some 5,000 Iranians have pledged online to defend Iraq's Shiite Muslim holy sites against Sunni extremists who are waging war against the Baghdad government, a report said on Tuesday.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Apartheid in Detroit: Water For Corporations, Not For People Tue, 6/17/2014 - by Carl Gibson
06-17-2014
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http://www.occupy.com/article/apartheid-detroit-wa
Detroit citizens have been protesting the decision on the basis that water is a human right that cannot be denied to families who need it for cooking, bathing and flushing toilets. Many residents facing water shutoffs are currently on monthly payment
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Sneaker Pawn in Harlem
06-17-2014
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http://www.myfoxny.com
A father and son team have opened a business in Harlem called Sneaker Pawn.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Where your ideology says you should live
06-17-2014
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Reid Wilson
Last week's Pew Research Center report detailing the partisanship that increasingly defines American life showed the average American is much more likely to choose to live near people of similar ideological bents.
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News Link • Military
US military's top 10 weird gizmos and gadgets
06-17-2014
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Rosa Prince
As a laser weapon capable of shooting down enemy drones is developed by the US military, we look at other weird gizmos and gadgets soon to be rolled out by the US army
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News Link • Iraq
The Latest News Out Of Iraq - Full Overnight Update
06-17-2014
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zerohedge.com
Events in Iraq are changing by the hour, now that US combat boots are "on the ground", expect them to change even faster.
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News Link • Government
House steps up IRS probe over missing e-mails
06-17-2014
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usatoday.com, Gregory Korte and Fredreka Schouten
House Republicans stepped up their investigation of the Internal Revenue Service on Monday after the tax agency said it lost copies of more than two years worth of e-mails at the center of a congressional probe.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
What "Low-Flation"? Core CPI Jumps Most In 3 Years As Food Costs Push Higher
06-17-2014
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zerohedge.com
The Fed is losing its reasons for printing, leaving it desperate to revive the meme that the US economy is in self-sustaining recovery mode.
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News Link • Food
Price Index for Meats, Poultry, Fish & Eggs Rockets to All-Time High
06-17-2014
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http://www.cnsnews.com, By Ali Meyer
The seasonally-adjusted price index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs hit an all-time high in May, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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News Link • Drones
AirDog drone automatically follows you and films your sporting feats
06-17-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Stu Robarts
Typical. You wait ages for an autonomous aerial camera drone and then two come along at once.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vessyl is no mug â€" it's a smart cup that tells you what you're drinking
06-17-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Colin Jeffrey
At first glance, "Vessyl" looks like an ultra-modern, but relatively ordinary, 13 oz (385 ml) mug.
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News Link • World News
Australia Seizes 360M From Dormant Bank Accounts And All 50 U.S. States Are Doing This Too
06-17-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Michael Snyder
Do you have a bank account that you don't actively use or a safe deposit box that you have not checked on for a while?
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Flu Vaccine Contains Toxic Levels of Mercury
06-17-2014
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lewrockwell.com, By Dr. David Brownstein
My colleague Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, tested the flu vaccine for its mercury content.
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News Link • Surveillance
Secret State...
06-17-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Popham
Secret prisons, drone bases, surveillance stations, offices where extraordinary rendition is planned: Trevor Paglen takes pictures of the places that the American and British governments don't want you to know even exist
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News Link • Racism
Slavery Reparations
06-17-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Walter E. Williams
Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" in The Atlantic magazine (May 21, 2014).
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News Link • Bitcoin
The Only Bitcoin Wallet Approved for the iPhone
06-17-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
Apple is letting bitcoin back onto the iPhone.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bionic Pancreas Handles Ice Cream Sundaes, French Fries
06-17-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, Francie Diep
The device takes over the duties of a typical pancreas in people with type 1 diabetes.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Verne Troyer Shares Photo of TSA Groping Him
06-17-2014
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http://www.boston.com, By Bruce Wright
Verne Troyer, the diminutive actor most known for playing the comedically villainous role of "Mini Me" in the Austin Powers series of films, got acquainted with the Transit Security Administration this weekend.
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News Link • Propaganda
Their War, Not Ours
06-17-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchana
As the Islamic warriors of ISIS rolled down the road from Mosul, John McCain was an echo of French Premier Paul Reynaud, when word reached Paris that Rommel had broken through in the Ardennes:
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid
06-17-2014
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By Karen DeYoung, Adam Goldman and Julie Tate
U.S. Special Operations forces captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in a secret raid in Libya over the weekend, the first time one of the accused perpetrators of the 2012 assaults has been apprehended, accord
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News Link • World News
Russia Halts Ukraine Gas Shipments, Warns EU of Disruptions
06-17-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Ukraine on a Prepayment Plan, And Didn't Prepay for Any Gas
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News Link • Obama Administration
Over 300 Killed Across Iraq As US Sends Troops
06-17-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
At least 339 people were killed today and 91 more were wounded. This figure includes 200 militants that the Iraqi government says were killed in Anbar province.
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News Link • Israel
Israel Warns US Against Cooperating With Iran on Iraq
06-17-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Steinitz: Cooperation Would 'Soften' US Position on Iran
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News Link • Corruption
Katsuyama Vs The High Freaks Round II - Senate Hearing On HFT Live Feed
06-17-2014
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zerohedge.com
In what we are sure will be a reassuring hearing full of confirmation that markets are unrigged, safe for investors, and why retail has never had it better,...
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News Link • Obama Administration
Pentagon, State Dept. at odds over coordinating with Iran on Iraq crisis
06-17-2014
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Maggie Ybarra
The Pentagon is pushing back against a State Department assertion that there is the potential for a military coordination with Iran to help Iraq combat violent al Qaeda-inspired Sunni extremists.
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News Link • Iraq
Why Iraq is imploding.
06-17-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The Bush/Obama nation-building effort in Iraq was ALWAYS going to be a bloody, expensive failure.
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News Link • Police State
Virginia Cop Block gets local media attention in Richmond.
06-17-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Virginia Cop Block gets local media attention after a cell phone video sparks protest.
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News Link • Obamacare
House Budget Punishes IRS With 15% Cut, Halts Obamacare Enforcement
06-17-2014
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Daily Paul.com
House Budget Punishes IRS With 15% Cut, Halts Obamacare Enforcement
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News Link • Iraq
*Epic* Plundering of Iraq
06-17-2014
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Daily Paul.com
This has been a sad event for US taxpayers. Looting by an army during war occurs often in history. Here is a list of the reported ISIL plunder.
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News Link • Iraq
Kucinich: Stop Calling the Iraq War a 'Mistake'
06-17-2014
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Daily Paul.com
As Iraq descends into chaos again, more than a decade after "Mission Accomplished," media commentators and politicians have mostly agreed upon calling the war a "mistake."
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News Link • Propaganda
Videos Americans Didn't Get to See on Our Nightly News
06-17-2014
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Prison Planet
While the U.S. media obsess with the Iraq War that we created 11 years ago and can't stop, and that we aren't really causing right now, they're covering up our current invasion (overseen by our CIA and former Blackwater mercenaries),.....
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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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