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Date Sent: 2014-08-04
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, August 4, 2014 |
Sovereign citizen movement seen by US law enforcement as top terrorist threat: study
What happened to the cease fire in Gaza? U.S. veto paralyzes U.N. -- Media Blackout of stock market crashing (420 points in 2 days) -- Should it be ok to quarantine a person with a highly contagious... -- Watch what you tweet: Caution thrown to wind as WikiLeaks breaks gag order -- The Anti-Pot Lobby's Big Bankroll: The Real Reason Pot Is Still Illegal -- Chris Hedges speech about Gaza --
Preserving and Storing Food Safely ? An Overview ? Part I, by N.M. --
Ebola Infected U.S. Aid Workers Due To Arrive At Emory University
Hospital Atlanta -- Israel's 155mm Cure for 'Terrorism' --
European Stocks Plunge Into Red For 2014, Portugal Down 10% This Week --
Ebola Discoverer Says He Would 'Sit Next To Someone' With The Virus -- Tape Emerges Of Clinton Discussing Bin Laden Day Before 9/11 Attack -- As Ebola Fear Increases, Here's A Map Of America's Quarantine Stations -- Eric Cantor Is Resigning From Congress Early -- Meet The Whistleblower Claiming A Little-Known Executive Order 'Threatens Our Democracy' -- Fly a Drone Over A Gated Police Parking Area: Is That Trespassing? -- FBI Scandal: Flawed Forensics Rampant, Impacted Many Cases -- Seeds of Coercion -- Ecuador Bans Bitcoin in Favor of National CryptoCurrency --
U.S. GMO Crop Companies Double Down on Anti-labeling Efforts -- Ebola
Exposed West African Drug Traffickers Are Streaming Across the U.S.
Southern Border -- VIDEO: NYPD drags naked woman, 48, from her apartment as neighbors tape her arrest -- 'A lot of people die out here' and 'all this blood...is on Obama's hands' -- Conservative KY judge says black defendant in Obama t-shirt 'lucky to get out of here alive' -- Not just Argentina: 11 countries near bankruptcy -- Revealed: Arizona injected death row inmate Joseph Wood 15 times in botched execution -- Don't drink the water, says 4th-largest Ohio city -- Department of Agriculture cracks down on seed libraries -- Colorado officials propose tightening rules for marijuana edibles -- The UN Is Planning to Forcibly Migrate Americans from California -- Wheat Madness ? Is This Popular Grain Provoking Mental Illness?
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News Link • Police State
Sovereign citizen movement seen by US law enforcement as top terrorist threat: study
08-03-2014
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Rawstory
In a new study by researchers tasked with studying the root causes and consequences of terrorism in the US and abroad, the sovereign citizen movement was perceived to be the gravest terrorist threat, rivaling Islamist extremists
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
What happened to the cease fire in Gaza? U.S. veto paralyzes U.N.
08-04-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Apparently not only is our D.C. politicians financing this genocide in Palestine but they have now vetoed the U.N.'s security council's call for a "ceasefire agreement", effectively paralyzing the process.
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News Link • Police State
Should it be ok to quarantine a person with a highly contagious...
08-04-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Should it be ok to quarantine a person with a highly contagious / deadly virus or force them into treatment?
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Panasonic and Tesla Sign Agreement for the Gigafactory
08-04-2014
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http://ir.teslamotors.com
OSAKA, JAPAN and PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/31/14 -- Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) have signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in th
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The Anti-Pot Lobby's Big Bankroll: The Real Reason Pot Is Still Illegal
08-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
People in the United States, a country in which painkillers are routinely overprescribed, now consume more than 84 percent of the entire worldwide supply of oxycodone and almost 100 percent of hydrocodone opioids.
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News Link • Prepping
Preserving and Storing Food Safely ? An Overview ? Part I, by N.M.
08-03-2014
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http://survivalblog.com
Preserving food has become an important focus of many families.
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News Link • Pandemic
Ebola Infected U.S. Aid Workers Due To Arrive At Emory University Hospital Atlanta
08-03-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com
At least one, but possibly two U.S. citizens with Ebola is due to fly from West Africa to Atlanta during the next few days.
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News Link • Israel
Israel's 155mm Cure for 'Terrorism'
08-03-2014
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http://www.unz.com, Eric Margolis
NEW YORK ? In 1956, Britain and France were convinced that Egypt's charismatic nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was threatening what was left of their Mideast and African colonial empires.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla Surges After Announcing A Massive Expansion
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile And Reute
Tesla shares were up as much as 4% in early Friday trading after reporting adjusted earnings and revenue that beat expectations Wednesday afternoon.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
After Using A Startup Called Bellhops, I'm Never Going Back To Traditional Movers
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rebecca Borison
Moving can be a huge pain ? and this was my third move in just 14 months. So you might say I'm a bit of a moving veteran.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Elon Musk Gave The Geekiest Critique of 'Vertical Integration' We've Ever Heard
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew DeBord
Tesla announced second-quarter earnings yesterday and beat Wall Street's expectations.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
A Russian Leader Just Started A Ridiculous Twitter Beef With Obama
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Colin Campbell
A Russian deputy prime minister took to Twitter to compare the respective manliness of President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to The Telegraph.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Thor 3: Ragnarok' And 'The Avengers Civil War': The Future Of Marvel Leaked?
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jonah Crandall
Ever since Comic Con 2014 came and went, a strange image has been seen floating around the internet.
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News Link • Pandemic
Ebola Discoverer Says He Would 'Sit Next To Someone' With The Virus
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kevin Loria
The ongoing Ebola outbreak is the worst in history, but one of the two researchers who first discovered the disease in 1976 says he thinks it's unlikely that the current outbreak could spread beyond West Africa, even if someone carrying the disease w
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Tape Emerges Of Clinton Discussing Bin Laden Day Before 9/11 Attack
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jonathan Allen
Former President Bill Clinton said he "could have killed" Osama bin Laden in remarks to an audience in Australia the day before al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on the United States, according to an audio tape that emerged this week.
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News Link • Government
As Ebola Fear Increases, Here's A Map Of America's Quarantine Stations
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Lauren F Friedman
As the largest-ever outbreak of Ebola rages on in a cluster of West African nations, the planned evacuation of at least one infected American to the United States raises the question: Are we equipped to deal with the disease here?
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Game-Changing Call Shows The Absurdity Of MLB's New Rule Banning Catchers From Blocking The Plat
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Cork Gaines
Prior to the season, Major League Baseball added a new rule designed to minimize collisions and injuries at home plate.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Elon Musk: 'There Are Things You Don't Know About'
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
The most important piece of information from Tesla's second-quarter earnings call Thursday night might have been ... the absence of information.
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News Link • Transportation
How Tesla Went From Near Failure To Stunning Profitability In Just A Few Years
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Tesla shares were up 2% Friday morning after the electric car manufacturer reported adjusted earnings and revenue ahead of expectations.
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News Link • Activism
South Korea Is Airlifting Choco Pies To The North To Troll Kim Jong-Un
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Polly Mosendz
Thousands of delicious Choco Pies floated over the North Korean border this week as both a gift and a protest from their southern neighbors.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Google Will Dismantle Its Floating Barge That Was Going To Be Used To Sell Google Glass
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Last year, the press discovered a floating barge in the San Francisco bay owned by Google.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Eric Cantor Is Resigning From Congress Early
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Colin Campbell
Just hours after stepping down as House majority leader, the once-powerful Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) announced he won't even complete his term as a rank-and-file lawmaker.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Meet The Whistleblower Claiming A Little-Known Executive Order 'Threatens Our Democracy'
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jason Leopold
Before his interview with VICE News, former State Department employee and newly minted whistleblower John Napier Tye tells us he needs to find someone else to sit in on our scheduled phone call.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Technologies To Make You 'Superhuman' Are No Longer Science Fiction
08-03-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Diane Galligan
It's no longer a distant dream or a sci-fi fantasy. The bionic age is here.
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News Link • Drones
Fly a Drone Over A Gated Police Parking Area: Is That Trespassing?
08-03-2014
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PC Mag
Members of the Los Angeles Police Department are talking to the city attorney's office to figure out if they're allowed to take legal action against those who fly over restricted areas of their police stations with drone aircraft.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FBI Scandal: Flawed Forensics Rampant, Impacted Many Cases
08-03-2014
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The Daily Sheeple
Last August, the FBI cut the review short because the agency wasn't happy with the results, which are quite damning ? nearly EVERY criminal case reviewed included flawed forensic testimony.
But the agency claims it had other reasons for stopping t
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Seeds of Coercion
08-03-2014
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Farm Wars
While we are all looking the other way at this pending disaster and that looming crisis, the march towards food domination by the U.S. biotech juggernaut is rolling along, right on course.
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News Link • Currencies
Ecuador Bans Bitcoin in Favor of National CryptoCurrency
08-03-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com
Ecuador recently passed an economic reform bill which will create a new state-run crytpocurrency.
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News Link • Food
U.S. GMO Crop Companies Double Down on Anti-labeling Efforts
08-03-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com
Biotech companies Monsanto, Dow Chemical, DuPont and others, have spent more than $80 million since 2012 towards fighting mandatory labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods, according to a report issued by the Environmental Working Group on Tuesda
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
VIDEO: NYPD drags naked woman, 48, from her apartment as neighbors tape her arrest
08-03-2014
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Rawstory
Denise Stewart, 48, said she was showering when police pounded on her door. She answered the door wearing only a towel and underpants. Police were responding a 911 call and had a building address but not an apartment number.
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News Link • Immigration
'A lot of people die out here' and 'all this blood...is on Obama's hands'
08-03-2014
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The Guardian
The dead bodies of illegal immigrants are turning up in south Texas as Central Americans pour across the U.S.-Mexico border, and a veterinarian who ranches cattle 70 miles from ground zero has the photos to prove it.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Conservative KY judge says black defendant in Obama t-shirt 'lucky to get out of here alive'
08-03-2014
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Rawstory
McLaughlin is the lowest-rated judge in Jefferson County "by a wide margin," according to the Louisville Bar Association for her apparent belief that the all African-Americans in her court room are unrepentant drug dealers.
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News Link • Economy - International
Not just Argentina: 11 countries near bankruptcy
08-03-2014
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USA Today
Alongside Argentina, Moody's currently lists 10 other countries with a rating of Caa1 or worse. A Caa1 rating is several notches below Ba1, which still carries substantial credit risk. These are the 11 countries at risk of default:
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News Link • Death Penalty
Revealed: Arizona injected death row inmate Joseph Wood 15 times in botched execution
08-03-2014
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Reuters
Officials in Arizona injected a death row inmate last month with doses 15 times higher than the amount of drugs called for in the state's protocol for executions by lethal injection, authorities said on Friday.
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News Link • Food
Don't drink the water, says 4th-largest Ohio city
08-03-2014
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Associated Press
Ohio's governor has ordered the state's National Guard to help deliver water and food to residents in Toledo, where some 400,000 are being told not to drink from the city's water system.
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News Link • Food
Department of Agriculture cracks down on seed libraries
08-03-2014
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Until, the library system received a letter from the state Department of Agriculture telling them they were in violation of the Seed Act of 2004. "We did talk to the county extension office before establishing the seed library,"
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News Link • Drug War
Colorado officials propose tightening rules for marijuana edibles
08-03-2014
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Reuters
A Colorado task force charged with tightening controls on marijuana edibles unveiled proposed rules on Friday to limit potency levels, require clearer labeling and assure that children cannot get their hands on pot-infused confections.
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News Link • Food
Wheat Madness ? Is This Popular Grain Provoking Mental Illness?
08-02-2014
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arclein
, lectins can accumulate within the body and wreak havoc on physical and mental well-being. WGA is neurotoxic, crossing the blood brain barrier and attaching to the myelin sheath, consequentially inhibiting nerve growth ? a serious consideration for
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News Link • Food
Kimchi Packs Proven Health Benefits
08-02-2014
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arclein
Koreans have been enjoying salted and fermented vegetables known as kimchi for about 2000 years. It’s typically served with steamed rice at every Korean meal. But this spicy dish is much more than a condiment.
Researchers in Korea just published
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Court Censures Poland Over C.I.A. Renditions
08-01-2014
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http://www.nytimes.com, By DAN BILEFSKY
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Poland had violated the rights of two terrorism suspects by allowing their transfer to a secret detention center run by the C.I.A. in Poland, where the two men were tortured.
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News Link • Drug War
One Cop In Seattle Has Issued 80% Of The Citations For Marijuana
08-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The Seattle Police Department has reassigned an officer who single-handedly issued about 80 percent of the marijuana tickets handed out in the city during the first half of this year, authorities said on Wednesday.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks Says Russia May Trade Snowden for Better Relations with U.S.
08-01-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com., Kurt Nimmo
WikiLeaks is speculating the Russian government will trade NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for better relations with the United States.
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News Link • Torture
Jeremy Scahill: White House Censoring What US Public Can Know...
08-01-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org, Andrea Germanos
Jeremy Scahill: White House Censoring What US Public Can Know About Torture Program
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News Link • Military
US Senators Push for Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine
08-01-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
As World Pushes for Ukraine Ceasefire, US Looks to Escalate War.
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News Link • Israel
US Sending Israel More Offensive Weapons to Continue Gaza Attacks
08-01-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
US Tapped 'Emergency' Stockpile to Keep Israeli Shells Falling
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff and Doug Casey on the REAL State of the Economy
08-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Doug Casey
Peter Schiff: Joining our program now is Doug Casey, and if you don't know Doug, he is a libertarian economist.
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News Link • Drug War
"It's Strictly Business": Inside the Prohibition Racket
08-01-2014
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By William Norman Grigg
In addition to being an engine of misery, corruption, and bloodshed, the War on Drugs should be seen as a multi-tiered criminal enterprise.
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News Link • Climate Change
IMF urges higher energy taxes to fight climate change
08-01-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, Reuters
Energy taxes in much of the world are far below what they should be to reflect the harmful environmental and health impact of fossil fuels use, the International Monetary Fund said in a new book on Thursday.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Explosive! Ex-IDF Soldier Speaks Out About the Occupation in Gaza
08-01-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Please watch! Of course, he could be lying, but it's worth looking into. Better hurry though, because his facebook page is 'no longer available'.
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