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Date Sent: 2014-06-19
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, June 19, 2014 |
'Vegas Shooters' Had Relationship with Nevada Police
Justina Pelletier Has Been Freed -- Man ticketed for warning of sobriety checkpoint --
Drug War Blowback: Vegas Murderers were Police Informants -- Recent
Crimes of the FBI: Is Agency America's Greatest Threat to Domestic
Freedoms? -- Judge Finds Courts Cannot Protect US Citizens Tortured by US Government Officials Abroad -- Factory Farm Model Fails Again—Produces Virus That Wiped Out US Pig Population -- Libya condemns U.S. arrest of Benghazi suspect -- US Aims for Trial of Benghazi Suspect Held on Ship -- It's Patently Absurd! - by Butler Shaffer --
Why You Shouldn't Gamble With Uncle Sam -- Elon Musk: I'm Worried About
A 'Terminator'-Like Scenario Erupting From Artificial Intel -- Web Filtering Company Launches Purge of Libertarian, Conservative Media -- Ron Paul's School of 1776 to Counter Common Core Indoctrination -- Student Accuses High School Of Blocking Conservative Websites
-- DARPA Brain Chips to Implant False Memories -- SIXTEEN QUESTIONS
THAT DEMAND THE TRUTH -- US warship with 550 Marines enters Persian Gulf
-- Over 500 Killed in Iraq Carnage -- June Snow: Winter Storm in Montana, Utah, Wyoming As Summer Approaches -- Supreme Court Agrees to Rule On Limiting First Amendment
DC: Bitcoin in the Beltway: Starts tomorrow, June 20-22, 2014 Wash, DC - Marriott
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News Link • Conspiracies
Sin City: 'Vegas Shooters' Had Relationship with Nevada Police...
06-18-2014
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http://21stcenturywire.com
Why haven't authorities released all of the CCTV footage to let the public decide for themselves what really took place, are they worried that the rest of the footage doesn't fit into their crafted narrative, like so many other things about...
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News Link • Child Protective Services
Justina Pelletier Has Been Freed
06-18-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
16-year-old victim of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families Justina Pelletier is finally going home to her family in Connecticut, after the DCF judge ordered her to be released from State custody.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man ticketed for warning of sobriety checkpoint
06-18-2014
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Doug 'Deo' Odolecki stood on a street corner Friday night with sign warning drivers about an upcoming drunken-driving checkpoint, but two words on the sign cost him a citation and an upcoming trial.
The sign, white poster-board with black letters,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Drug War Blowback: Vegas Murderers were Police Informants
06-18-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Jerad and Amanda Miller, banished from Bunkerville by supporters of Cliven Bundy, worked as informants for Nevada law enforcement agencies. After the Millers murdered 3 people their handlers claimed they were unaware
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News Link • Police State
Recent Crimes of the FBI: Is Agency America's Greatest Threat to Domestic Freedoms?
06-18-2014
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On June 3, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Justice Dept will revive a task force on domestic terrorism to curb that form of violence in the United States. Holder stated that the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee
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News Link • Torture
Judge Finds Courts Cannot Protect US Citizens Tortured by US Government Officials Abroad
06-18-2014
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A federal district court dismissed a case brought on behalf of a US citizen and against US government officials who allegedly tortured, abused and subjected him to rendition and incommunicado detention in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
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News Link • Agriculture
Factory Farm Model Fails Againâ€"Produces Virus That Wiped Out US Pig Population
06-18-2014
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Did you know over the past year, 10% of the entire swine population in the US has been wiped out by a highly lethal virus? The virus, called Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus has been traced back to pig's blood fed to piglets
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News Link • Libya
Libya condemns U.S. arrest of Benghazi suspect
06-18-2014
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Reuters
Libya condemned the United States on Wednesday for snatching a man suspected of masterminding the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, describing the arrest as a violation of Libyan sovereignty.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US Aims for Trial of Benghazi Suspect Held on Ship
06-18-2014
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AP
The capture of an alleged leader of the deadly 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, gave US officials a rare moment of good news. Now, they are preparing to try the captured Libyan in the US court system and
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
It's Patently Absurd! - by Butler Shaffer
06-18-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has refused to register the name of the NFL team the "Washington Redskins" because the name is "disparaging to Native Americans." Political Correctness is no longer just a bad idea;
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Ignoring the Elephant
06/17/2014
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Caroline Glick
Three Jewish boys were abducted by Palestinian terrorists while trying to catch a ride home from school Thursday night. And as far as the foreign press is concerned, it's their own damned fault.
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Feature Article • Counter-Economics
Why You Shouldn't Gamble With Uncle Sam
Mark Nestmann
If you think June 30, 2014, is just another lazy, hazy summer day, think again. If you're a US citizen or permanent resident, this may be a date to remember. It's the deadline to report signatory or "other" authority over, or financial interest in, a
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk: I'm Worried About A 'Terminator'-Like Scenario Erupting From Artificial Intel
06-18-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
Elon Musk believes it's feasible a "Terminator"-like scenario could erupt out of an artificial intelligence.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
YouTube to block indie labels as it launches paid music service
06-18-2014
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ft.com
The Google-owned company will start blocking videos "in a matter of days" to ensure that all content on the new platform is governed by its new contractual terms, said Robert Kyncl, YouTube's head of content and business operations.
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News Link • Iraq
Exxon carries out major evacuation from Iraq: Oil official
06-18-2014
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http://www.cnbc.com, Reuters
ExxonMobil has carried out a "major evacuation,'' and BP had evacuated 20 percent of its staff, the head of Iraq's state-run South Oil Company said Wednesday.
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News Link • Free Speech
Web Filtering Company Launches Purge of Libertarian, Conservative Media
06-18-2014
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infowars.com
Billion dollar software company places Infowars.com in same category as KKK
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student Accuses High School Of Blocking Conservative Websites
06-18-2014
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http://connecticut.cbslocal.com,
A high school student claims that a firewall is blocking conservative websites at his school.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
DARPA Brain Chips to Implant False Memories
06-18-2014
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http://www.infowars.com, by Paul Joseph Watson
Technology has the potential to create "fearless monsters"
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Opinion • Iraq
Yes, the Iraq War Was All for Nothing
06-18-2014
Paul Rosenberg
As stories circulated of Iraqi cities falling to Sunni militia groups, I was struck by the words of Former Marine Staff Sgt. Keith Widaman, who spent a tour in Iraq: "When I left in April 2009, I said, 'In five years there'll be a civil war.'"
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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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News Link • Conspiracies
SIXTEEN QUESTIONS THAT DEMAND THE TRUTH
06-18-2014
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http://www.sandyhookjustice.com, Nathan M. Bickel
1. Who directed the New Haven Federal Bureau of Investigation field office to classify the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (SHES)?
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News Link • Iraq
US warship with 550 Marines enters Persian Gulf
06-18-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
By Julie Wilson: Monday, the USS Mesa Verde equipped with 550 Marines entered into the Persian Gulf in preparation for a possible operation in Iraq.
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News Link • 3D Printing
A Taste of How 3-D Printing Could Transform High-Tech Architecture
06-18-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
Global engineering firm Arup usually tackles massively complex projects like designing tracks for the Second Avenue subway in Manhattan or turning Zaha Hadid's soaring sketches into reality.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Over 500 Killed in Iraq Carnage
06-18-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
As in recent days, there is a lot of news to cover.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
June Snow: Winter Storm in Montana, Utah, Wyoming As Summer Approaches
06-18-2014
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http://www.weather.com, By Linda Lam
Winter just won't quit, even as summer is right around the corner. Cool, huh?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Supreme Court Agrees to Rule On Limiting First Amendment
06-18-2014
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Prison Planet
The Supreme Court will soon decide if threatening speech posted on the internet is protected by the First Amendment.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Caveat Emptor
06-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The head of Euro Pacific Capital and Euro Pacific Gold Fund (EPGFX) says the latest stimulus by the ECB, which resulted with a negative benchmark rate (-0.10%), is inflationary and bullish for gold.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Build a Bug Out Kindle: A Digital Survival Library at Your Fingertips
06-18-2014
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http://www.artofmanliness.com
A "bug out situation" is the phrase used to describe a survival scenario which makes staying at home more dangerous than leaving.
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Reference Link • Activism
Modern Psychiatry and Its Tools of Enslavement
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Gerald Celente recently told me that America will never mount any resistance to the encroaching tyranny because we are over medicated on psychotropic medication. The evidence supports his belief.
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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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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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Economy - Economics USA
Fourth Turning Accelerating: "No Escaping the Dire, Deadly and Dangerous Times Directly Ahead
06-17-2014
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shtfplan.com
Editor's Note: Do you see the signs? James Quinn of The Burning Platform does and he provides a highly detailed and insightful analysis in the article below.
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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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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Game of Thrones Gets the Nastiness of Politics and War Right
06-17-2014
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AntiWar.Com
All of the dirty DC dealings in Netflix's House of Cards arguably make it the most cynical of the current crop of highly-acclaimed and talked over television shows. However, the epic Game of Thrones â€" in spite of its fantastical elements â€" paints an
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News Link • Energy
Largest Gas Pipeline Serving Europe Through Ukraine Blows Up
06-17-2014
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Prison Planet
The Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod or "Brotherhood" natural gas pipeline in the Poltava region of central Ukraine has gone up in flames.
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News Link • Military
US Marines, Warships Head Toward Iraq
06-17-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
US Adds 275 Marines to Defense of Embassy
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Poised to Send Special Forces to Iraq
06-17-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
White House Insists They Won't Count as 'Combat Troops'
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS is on the Ground in Kalispell, Montana
06-17-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, James White
As many who study the "war on terror" will agree, the apparatus implemented by the Federal Government to fight the phony war has been turned around on the American populace.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
More Than Half Of The Town Is Gone': Deadly Dual Tornadoes Level Neb. Town
06-17-2014
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stlouis.cbslocal.com
A storm packing rare dual tornadoes tore through a tiny farming town in northeast Nebraska, killing a motorist and a 5-year-old girl, leaving grain bins crumpled like discarded soda cans and flattening dozens of homes.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Blowback! U.S. trained ISIS at secret Jordan base
06-17-2014
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http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/officials-u-s-trained-i
Described as covert aid to insurgents targeting al-Assad
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'Miserable' Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus spreads to 15 states
06-17-2014
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CBS News
First there was West Nile virus. Now health experts are warning about another virus carried by mosquitoes. The chikungunya virus has sickened tens of thousands of people throughout the Caribbean with high fever and severe pain.
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News Link • Food
Why Are Food Prices So High?
06-17-2014
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arclein
hus what we are watching and suffering through is a huge energy price distortion brought about too much capital causing a massive shift into new methods which precipitates a collapse of the old economic regime. The real global bubble will be known a
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