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Date Sent: 2014-09-07
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, September 7, 2014 |
Minneapolis City Council Demands Answers On 'Black Helicopter' Military Drills
Ecuador to target unhealthy diets with 'junk food tax' -- Arab Spring Today: Cronyism and Green Shoots -- Europe's Malaise:
The New Normal? -- Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New
World Order -- MORGAN STANLEY: We Could See The 'Largest
Decline In Used Car Prices... -- While Uber And Lyft Have At It,
Gett Quietly Releases $10 Flat-Fee Rides In Manhattan -- Ancient Christian Amulet
Referencing The Last Supper Found In UK Library Vault -- An Asteroid
Discovered Just Days Ago Is Zipping By The Earth Today --
Alibaba To Raise $21 Billion In Historic IPO -- Argentina
Goes Full-Venezuela - Plans To Regulate Prices, Profits, &
Production -- Europe Needs A New Source Of Oil And Gas, Fast
-- Stocks Close At Record High On Worst Jobs Number Of
2014 -- No one likes
the Dalai Lama anymore -- The American Bankers Association and
the Quiet War on Students -- Ron Paul Video on ISIS - "If We
Did Less, There Would Be More Peace" -- Philadelphia Police
Seize Family Home Without Homeowners Being Charged -- Anti-Interventionism and Its Discontents
-- CNBC
Viewership Plunges To 21 Year Lows -- Top CIA officer in
Benghazi delayed response to terrorist attack, US security team
members claim -- NATO Pledges New Ukraine Military Aid,
Debates New Bases -- Army's
New Laser Cannon Blasts Drones Out of the Sky, Even in Fog --
The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer -- Ron Paul on 9/11 !!!! -- The Bureaucracy of Building a House --
Video: Man Stands Up For Constitution As Cop "Detains" Him For
Sitting Outside His Own House -- Hillary Clinton Praises
Kissinger's Upcoming Book: World Order -- Labor Participation
Rate Drops To Lowest Since 1978 -- The CIA's
Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before
Publication -- Top Universities to Offer Courses on
CryptoCurrency -- On The Brink Of A Major Crisis: "This Will Be A
Literal Collapse of the Entire Global Monetary System" -- CDC Autism
Scandal: Tsunami of Anger is Brewing and About to Explode
AZ: [Tempe] Premiere Party for ATLAS SHRUGGED lll: Who Is
John Galt? Sun Sept 14, 2014 1 p.m.
NY: Events Planned in NYC for the 13th Anniversary of 9/11
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News Link • Military
Minneapolis City Council Demands Answers On 'Black Helicopter' Military Drills
09-06-2014
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Prison Planet
"Why didn't we know?"
A member of the Minneapolis City Council is demanding answers after officials were kept in the dark over unannounced military exercises involving black helicopters that started residents of the twin cities last month.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Ecuador to target unhealthy diets with 'junk food tax'
09-06-2014
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channelnewsasia.com
Ecuador plans to impose a "junk food tax" on fast food restaurants, and will use the revenues to address the negative health effects on its citizens of diets laden with salt and fat.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
The Bureaucracy of Building a House
09-06-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
When I was a child, I got to see the house my grandfather built, by himself, in the 1950s, on a small plot of land, in a small rural town with dirt roads, for his wife and children.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How Sapphire, The Nearly Indestructible Material Now Being Used For Smartphones...
09-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
How Sapphire, The Nearly Indestructible Material Now Being Used For Smartphones, Is Made (Transparent Aluminum ala Star Trek IV)
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News Link • Transportation
While Uber And Lyft Have At It, Gett Quietly Releases $10 Flat-Fee Rides In Manhattan
09-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Uber and Lyft have been battling it out in New York City, with Uber's "Operation Slog" targeting Lyft drivers for recruitment and a brutal rivalry snowballing. But a less well-known car service app called Gett has sidestepped the rivalry with its own
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Christian Amulet Referencing The Last Supper Found In UK Library Vault
09-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
A 1,500-year-old fragment of Greek papyrus with writing that refers to the biblical Last Supper and "manna from heaven" may be one of the oldest Christian amulets, say researchers.
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina Goes Full-Venezuela - Plans To Regulate Prices, Profits, & Production
09-06-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Just weeks after defaulting (yet again) on its debt (whether technically or not), and shortly after raising the minimum wage by 31% (to $523 a month) amid runaway inflation, it appears Argentina has gone full-Venezuela.
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News Link • China
Alibaba To Raise $21 Billion In Historic IPo
09-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Myles Udland
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba is set to raise up to $21 billion in its IPO, with shares expected to be priced at between $60 and $66, according to a filing with the SEC.
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe Needs A New Source Of Oil And Gas, Fast
09-06-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Claude Salhani
Summer is over and many Europeans may have to keep warm this coming winter by thinking about their summer holidays while wrapped in blankets, praying for a short winter or for the world to come to its senses. It both cases, they may well be disappoin
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The American Bankers Association and the Quiet War on Students
09-06-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com,Devon Douglas-Bower
College students and graduates around the nation are buried in debt and trying to succeed in an extremely difficult and competitive economic environment.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CNBC Viewership Plunges To 21 Year Lows
09-06-2014
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zerohedge.com
It's over: whether due to the complete domination of centrally-planned markets by a few central banks, whether as a result of HFTs forcing out all human traders and investors....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer
09-06-2014
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Wired.com
John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using strange physics of very tiny particles such as electrons and photons.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
09-06-2014
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firstlook.org/theintercept
A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
CDC Autism Scandal: Tsunami of Anger is Brewing and About to Explode
09-06-2014
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healthimpactnews.com
As we have previously reported, CNN so far is the only mainstream media (MSM) outlet to report on the CDC whistleblower story regarding CDC senior vaccine scientist Dr. William Thompson,....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
On The Brink Of A Major Crisis: "This Will Be A Literal Collapse of the Entire Global ....
09-06-2014
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shtfplan.com
Discussions of the possible collapse of the U.S. dollar often center around how such an event will affect the domestic economy. But the dollar doesn't just operate inside of a bubble.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Arab Spring Today: Cronyism and Green Shoots
09-06-2014
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arclein
Back in the early 2000s, international institutions, like the International Monetary Fund, fell over themselves praising ?neoliberal? reform in nations like Tunisia and Egypt. It was nothing of the sort, of course. Instead, the elites were reassertin
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News Link • Science
Switzerland's new Natural Swimming Pool does away with the Chemicals
09-06-2014
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arclein
A town of around 20,000 people, Riehen sits just outside of Basel on the Swiss-German border. This section of the border wraps around Riehen in such a way that in 2006, the town's old swimming pool had to be demolished to make way for a tunnel conne
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe's Malaise: The New Normal?
09-06-2014
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arclein
Europe has been mired in an economic crisis for half a decade now. Germany is the economic engine of Europe, and it is expected that it will at some point pull Europe out of its crisis. There have been constant predictions that Europe may finally be
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order
09-06-2014
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arclein
Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan's young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relation
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation
MORGAN STANLEY: We Could See The 'Largest Decline In Used Car Prices...
09-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
MORGAN STANLEY: We Could See The 'Largest Decline In Used Car Prices In History'
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
This Chart Tells The Whole Story Of How Restaurant Industry Has Changed...
09-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
This Chart Tells The Whole Story Of How Restaurant Industry Has Changed Over The Past Decade
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News Link • Military
The Pentagon Is Rethinking Investments In Future Technology
09-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall will soon review the military services' budget proposals for fiscal year 2016. Most likely, he will challenge their funding choices.
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News Link • Food
Here's What LeBron James Is Eating To Lose Weight This Summer
09-06-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tony Manfred
LeBron James is losing a bunch of weight this summer. He lost a reported 10 pounds in the first few weeks of the summer, and shocked the NBA world when he posted of photo on Instagram looking downright skinny.
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News Link • Economy - International
Everything That's Wrong With Banking Summed Up In One Bonehead Advertisement
09-06-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Simon Black
If you're looking around right now for a new bank account that pays a reasonable rate of return, ANZ bank has a hell of a deal for you: 0%!
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News Link • China
No one likes the Dalai Lama anymore
09-06-2014
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http://www.globalpost.com, Timothy McGrath
Here's why governments around the world are unfriending the Tibetan leader.
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News Link • Police State
Philadelphia Police Seize Family Home Without Homeowners Being Charged
09-06-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Jao171
Did you know it is possible for the government (local, state, or federal) to take away your house or your car without you ever having committed a crime?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Wow this guy lays out the truth on www.presstv.com....
09-06-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by tog2476
Wow this guy lays out the truth on www.presstv.com, former Marine says what is really going on in Mideast
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News Link • TERRORISM
Top CIA officer in Benghazi delayed response to terrorist attack, US security team members claim
09-06-2014
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foxnews.com
A U.S. security team in Benghazi was held back from immediately responding to the attack on the American diplomatic mission on orders of the top CIA officer there, three of those involved told Fox News' Bret Baier.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
NATO Pledges New Ukraine Military Aid, Debates New Bases
09-06-2014
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antiwar.com
Eastern Europe Bases Expected to Be Finalized Friday
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Army's New Laser Cannon Blasts Drones Out of the Sky, Even in Fog
09-06-2014
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Wired.com
Boeing is building a laser cannon for the U.S. Army, and the new weapon has now proved it will be as capable at sea as on land.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Ron Paul on 9/11: "I Believe That If We Ever Get The Full Truth, ....
09-06-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Background: Overwhelming evidence shows that 9/11 was foreseeable. Indeed, Al Qaeda crashing planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was itself foreseeable. And see this.
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News Link • Architecture
H2OME ? Your house at the bottom of the ocean
09-06-2014
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gizmag.com
Living on the bottom of the ocean is not a new concept. It's a theme that has been visited in literature, cinema, games, and even a few hotels have capitalized by offering underwater rooms.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
GE's next-generation composite turbine blades to improve aircraft fuel efficiency
09-06-2014
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gizmag.com
GE is looking to a new generation of carbon-fiber composites to make the fan blades for its GE9X jet engine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Video: Man Stands Up For Constitution As Cop "Detains" Him For Sitting Outside His Own Hou
09-06-2014
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Prison Planet
"He'll probably leave now, because this is America"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New World Order
Hillary Clinton Praises Kissinger's Upcoming Book: World Order
09-06-2014
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Prison Planet
"Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state"
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Labor Participation Rate Drops To Lowest Since 1978; ...
09-06-2014
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Prison Planet
It is almost as if the Fed warned us this would happen. In a note released yesterday, a Fed working paper titled ....
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News Link • Police State
Fowl Play: Police Chief Responds To Failure Of Family To Remove Chickens ....
09-05-2014
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jonathanturley.org
In a case that has some disturbing comparisons to the Bolger case out of Baltimore, a police chief in Atwater, Minnesota is accused of killing a boy's pet chicken and then leaving the hen's decapitated head near the chicken coop.
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News Link • Gun Rights
If your gun is too accurate, you are a terrorist, says legislation-seeking nit-wit
09-04-2014
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HeraldTribune.com
Is it possible to create a rifle that's too good, too accurate, too easy to use, leaving only terrorists and other outlaw groups as potential buyers? "No legitimate civilian use", says twit.
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News Link • World News
Who's Telling the 'Big Lie' on Ukraine?
09-04-2014
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http://consortiumnews.com, By Robert Parry
Official Washington draws the Ukraine crisis in black-and-white colors with Russian President Putin the bad guy and the U.S.-backed leaders in Kiev the good guys. But the reality is much more nuanced, with the American people consistently misled on k
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News Link • World News
NATO Plans 'Joint Military Exercises' in War-Torn Ukraine
09-04-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
200 US Combat Troops Heading to Western Ukraine for Operations
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News Link • Iraq
Are American Troops Already Fighting on the Front Lines in Iraq?
09-04-2014
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http://www.thedailybeast.com,
The Pentagon is denying that U.S. troops are fighting ISIS on the ground in Iraq?but eyewitness accounts and Kurdish officials tell a different story.
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News Link • Drones
Texas Police Detain Man for Aerial Photography at College Football Game
09-04-2014
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Texas cops arrested a man for taking pictures with an unmanned aerial vehicle over the Texas Memorial Stadium during the first football game of the season. Texas is one of a number of states ? that have criminalized aerial photography.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
High School Thinks Dumpster Diving is a Needed Life Skill for Special Education Students
09-04-2014
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Apparently dumpster diving is an important life skill for special education students, at least according to some officials at Jurupa Unified School District in Riverside County.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Brutality: Stop Trying to Cure the Symptoms!
09-04-2014
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Let's look at the picture of the proud "warrior" to the right. If you were to strip this guy of his armored vest, M4 rifle, drop-leg holster, grenades, helmet, etc. what would we be left with? A saint?
No. He'd still be the same, lumbering thug, a
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Speaking Ill of the Police is a "Hate Crime"
09-04-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
The NYPD has now added its name to the roster of Officially Protected Victims by filing "hate crimes" charges against 36-year-old Rosella Best, who had tagged police vehicles and a public school with anti-NYPD graffiti.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security ? A 240,000 Person Cancer on the American Soul
09-04-2014
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Long before it became obvious to millions of people, I wrote about how the DHS was never intended to prevent terrorist attacks, rather it had always been intended to suppress the American citizenry.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Same As It Ever Was: Slavery and the State - by Bill Buppert
09-04-2014
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zerogov
It could be that the main difference is the plantation dwellers get to apparently vote for selected plantation owners every four years at the highest level and sub-plantation owners at different intervals across the vast tax jurisdiction.
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News Link • Military
A Principled Parent Deflects a Military Flesh-Peddler
09-04-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
I held the phone and yelled across the room, clearly, so the sergeant could hear: `Hey, Junior, there is some guy on the phone. Wants you to go to Iraq and kill brown people until you run over a mine in your jeep and blow your balls off!'
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