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Date Sent: 2014-10-08
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, October 8, 2014 |
Hundreds Of Bluetooth Beacons Secretly Track New York City Passersby
No Criminal Charges for the Baby-Burning Stormtroopers of Habersham County -- Texas Cop Pepper Sprays and Arrests Man for Video Recording -- Cops Mistake Okra For Marijuana, Send The Big Guns To Man's House -- Body Cam Remains Missing as Orlando Cop Faces Criminal Charges -- Operation Voldemort: The War Which Must Not Be Named -- Law: Too Little, Too Late -- Adobe's e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe in plain text -- Boy Records Cops Smashing Car Window, Dragging out Father, for Seat Belt Violation -- 10-08-14 -- Allen St. Pierre - Angela Keaton - Cindy Sheehan - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon -- Revealing Look at Hours Worked and the Number of Employees Working Those Hours -- The Anglo-American Empire's War of Conquest.... -- The Real Status of Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq -- The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra and 9/11 -- Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market -- Three Wild Concepts for the Future of Money -- Feds 'Hacked' Silk Road Without a Warrant? Perfectly Legal, Prosecutors Argue -- New Military Helicopter Can Cruise At 253 MPH -- Navy Demonstrates Swarm Of Armed Robot Boats -- The Brilliant Ten: Jonathan Viventi Builds Devices That Decode Thoughts -- Chinese Autonomous Tanks: Driving Themselves to a Battlefield Near You? -- Israel's occupation is more complex than a genocide -- The Quest To Harness Wind Energy At 2,000 Feet -- Syria-to-Ukraine Wars Send U.S. Defense Stocks to Records -- The United States Empire -- Can America Fight a Thirty Years' War? -- Panetta Predicts '30-Year War' Against ISIS -- Outbreak Update: Ebola In America -- VICE - alternative news source or MSM scum? -- Obama Fails Ebola Test -- FDA Assaulting Ebola Nano Silver ... Dr. Rima Responds -- Heading for Ground War in Syria and Iraq -- Gov. Jerry Brown and the Principle of Subsidiarity -- Six Steps Short of War to Beat ISIS? -- Jim Rickards: Obama's Abandoning the Saudis for Iran and Dooming the Petrodollar -- Obama's Economy -- Even an Ozarks Coroner Gets Surplus Military Guns
AZ: PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Surveillance
Hundreds Of Bluetooth Beacons Secretly Track New York City Passersby
10-07-2014
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http://www.popsci.com
NYC has publicized its plans to modernize old public pay phones, but not this.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
No Criminal Charges for the Baby-Burning Stormtroopers of Habersham County
10-07-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
In Habersham County, Georgia, it is not a crime to mutilate children in midnight raids, assuming that the assailants are privileged purveyors of state-sanctioned violence.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas Cop Pepper Sprays and Arrests Man for Video Recording
10-07-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
With the casualness of a certain university cop whose image went viral during the Occupy protests, a Texas cop pepper sprayed a man video recording from outside his home before moving in to arrest him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Cops Mistake Okra For Marijuana, Send The Big Guns To Man's House
10-07-2014
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Associated Press
Dwayne Perry awakened by a helicopter flying low over his house and then some heavily-armed deputies and a K-9 unit showed up at his door. They were from the Governor's Task Force for drug suppression and they were
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Body Cam Remains Missing as Orlando Cop Faces Criminal Charges
10-07-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
It may surprise some people, but in the world of police work, there are a few things that can't get papered over with a slap on the wrist and a couple weeks on paid leave.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Operation Voldemort: The War Which Must Not Be Named
10-07-2014
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Jonathan Turley
After 2 months of airstrikes and statements that the campaign will likely go on for years, the Administration still have not named this war. The choice would now seem obvious: Operation Voldemort, the war which must not be named.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Law: Too Little, Too Late
10-07-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Remember how the cops shut it down by herding reporters into tiny First Amendment pens, arresting protesters who didn't keep on trucking, firing into crowds that just didn't do as they were told?
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News Link • Surveillance
Adobe's e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobeâ€"in plain text
10-07-2014
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ars technica
Adobe's Digital Editions e-book and PDF readerâ€"an application used by thousands of libraries to give patrons access to electronic lending librariesâ€"actively logs and reports every document readers add to their local "library" along with wha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Boy Records Cops Smashing Car Window, Dragging out Father, for Seat Belt Violation
10-07-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The division between police and citizens in this country continues to deepen with an incident out of Indiana caught on video showing a group of cops shattering a car window to pull out a passenger because he did not have identification.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Revealing Look at Hours Worked and the Number of Employees Working Those Hours
10-07-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis,
Inquiring minds may be interested in a set of charts that show trends in hours worked. The charts are as of the latest job numbers from Friday, October 3, 2014.
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News Link • General Opinion
The Anglo-American Empire's War of Conquest....
10-07-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Larry Chin
The Anglo-American Empire's War of Conquest. The War on the Islamic State (ISIL) is a Lie
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News Link • Iraq
The Real Status of Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq
10-07-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ron Paul
After 13 years of war in Afghanistan â€" the longest in US history â€" the US government has achieved no victory. Afghanistan is in chaos and would collapse completely without regular infusions of US money. The war has been a failure, but Washington
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra and 9/11
10-07-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Dale Scott
For some time now, I have been analyzing American history in the light of what I have called structural deep events...
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News Link • Currencies
Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market
10-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
Overstock.com is building software, based on the bitcoin digital currency, that could allow the big-name etailer to issue corporate stock over the internet, sidestepping traditional stock exchanges such as the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange.
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News Link • How To
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Infographics Are Made
10-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Liz Stinson
It's been said that we're living in the golden age of data visualization. And why shouldn't we be?
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Three Wild Concepts for the Future of Money
10-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Liz Stinson
When the new iPhones hit shelves a couple weeks ago, it came with a new way to pay for stuff.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Feds 'Hacked' Silk Road Without a Warrant? Perfectly Legal, Prosecutors Argue
10-07-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg
With only a month until the scheduled trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator of the Silk Road drug site, Ulbricht's defense lawyers have zeroed in on the argument that the U.S. government illegally hacked the billion-dollar black market site t
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News Link • Military
New Military Helicopter Can Cruise At 253 MPH
10-07-2014
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http://www.popsci.com
The Raider brings speed to the battlefield, proving that helicopters can be faster.
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News Link • Israel
Israel's occupation is more complex than a genocide
10-07-2014
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http://www.jonathan-cook.net, The National
Israeli officials were caught in a revealing lie late last month as the country celebrated the Jewish New Year. Shortly after declaring the most popular boy's name in Israel to be "Yosef", the interior ministry was forced to concede that the to
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News Link • Energy
The Quest To Harness Wind Energy At 2,000 Feet
10-07-2014
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http://www.popsci.com
High-altitude wind contains enough energy to power the planet. A Boston start-up wants to be the first to bring it down to Earth.
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News Link • Syria
Syria-to-Ukraine Wars Send U.S. Defense Stocks to Records
10-07-2014
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http://www.bloomberg.com,
Led by Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), the biggest U.S. defense companies are trading at record prices as shareholders reap rewards from escalating military conflicts around the world.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Can America Fight a Thirty Years' War?
10-07-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchana
"The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature."
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News Link • TERRORISM
Panetta Predicts '30-Year War' Against ISIS
10-07-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Biden: Panetta Should Wait Until Obama Leaves Office to Say That
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Outbreak Update: Ebola In America
10-03-2014
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Next News Network
Ebola has officially hit the US and many people are wondering if they should be concerned. The Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization say its not time to sound the alarm off just yet. Ebola fortunately is not spread through
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
VICE - alternative news source or MSM scum?
10-07-2014
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BenSwann.com
the growing scandal surrounding VICE Media and accusations that VICE allows certain stories to be killed so as to not offend or upset "brand" partners.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Healthcare
Obama Fails Ebola Test
10-06-2014
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Next News Network
Dallas, Texas is Ebola Ground Zero here in the United States. While health officials struggle to keep up with the outbreak in West Africa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are monitoring upwards of 100 people in Texas, suspected wit
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
FDA Assaulting Ebola Nano Silver Dr. Rima Responds
10-06-2014
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Next News Network
The Ebola outbreak is reaching new levels. It's already the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history. Now, months after health workers and even US military forces have set up shop in West Africa, the virus is still spreading like wildfire. We
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Engineering Mosquitoes to Spread Health
10-07-2014
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arclein
Dengue fever is spread primarily by the aedes aegypti mosquito, and also by aedes albopictus, more commonly known as the asian tiger mosquito. Aedes aegypti is the culprit in nearly every dengue fever epidemic, while aedes albopictus gets credit for
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gov. Jerry Brown and the Principle of Subsidiarity
10-07-2014
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arclein
Year one of the 2013-2014 legislative term focused on budgetary goals to fund the state's business. Much of this term's second year has focused on a broad based, generalized mandated (one might say forced) change in the relationship between the sta
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Six Steps Short of War to Beat ISIS?
10-07-2014
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arclein
The bottom line is there is no immediate action that will make ISIS disappear, even if U.S. airstrikes manage to get the right target somewhere and take out an APC or a truckload of guys with RPGs or whatever.
You can't destroy an ideology â€" or
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News Link • Archaeology
Latest News From The Excavations At Gunung Padang
10-07-2014
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arclein
4 the site was thought to be a natural hill with 2500 year-old megalithic structures on top of it. But in 2010 geologist Dr Danny Hilman Natawidjaja (who earned his doctorate at Cal Tech) recognized this "hill" as a possible man-made pyramid and
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News Link • Death
29-Year-Old Woman: Why I'm Taking My Own Life
10-07-2014
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Newser.com
"I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there's not." Diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, Maynard has moved with her family to Oregon so she can legally kill herself with lethal medication.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Military
Even an Ozarks Coroner Gets Surplus Military Guns
10-07-2014
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ABC News
Doug Wortham used a Defense Department giveaway program for law enforcement to stock his office with an assault rifle, a handgun and a Humvee â€" even though the people in his custody are dead.
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News Link • Mexico
Charred bodies found in 'the land of the wicked' may be missing Mexican students
10-06-2014
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Washington Post
On Saturday, 28 charred bodies were found in a mass grave on the outskirts of a town in southern Mexico where a group of student protesters went missing after police opened fire on them in late September.
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Feature Article • WAR: About that War
Presidents and the War Power
Ivan Eland
President Barack Obama's claim that he doesn't need congressional authorization for his current war in Iraq and Syria is troubling. The country's founders would pass out upon hearing his claim that the post-9/11 congressional approval of force in 200
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
BOSTON UPDATE: FBI War on Marathon Bombing Witnesses Continues
10-06-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The Boston Marathon bombing is much more important than has been acknowledged, principally because it is the major domestic national security event since 9-11 and has played a major role in expanding the power of the security state.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Shifting Debts: The Gold Standard: Both Good and Necessary
10-06-2014
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
In response to Reader Question on a Credit-Based Society: Can Interest Ever Be Repaid? I received an email from reader Keith Weiner at Monetary Metals.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Warns of Ebola 'Overreaction'
10-06-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) warned that it was "very dangerous" for the U.S. to overreact to Ebola and urged "common sense" to contain the deadly virus.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Next Big Bailout May Go To ObamaCare Health Insurers
10-05-2014
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It didn't get much attention outside Capitol Hill, but late last week House Republican leaders scuttled a vote to repeal an ObamaCare bailout plan for major heath insurance companies if they lose money on new Affordable Care Act policies.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Alternatives to Revolution - by Tyrone Johnson
10-05-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Revolution is just and often justified. It is a type of warfare to overthrow a government which has become tyrannical. As an anarchist, I approve of overthrowing, or throwing down, governments, all of which are more or less forms of tyranny
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Heat- and booze-tolerant yeast make more biofuels
10-05-2014
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ars technica
At some level, the ethanol the yeast produce becomes toxic. And brewer's yeast tends to grow best at moderate temperatures (30 degrees Celsius), while biofuel production works best at temperatures around 40 degrees Celsius.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Banks Have the Federal Prison System Handcuffed
10-05-2014
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Jonathan Turley
The bank's monopoly extends across the federal Bureau of Prisons systemâ€"121 institutions housing 214,365 inmates. Since 2000, Bank of America has collected at least $76.3 million for its work on the program."
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News Link • Drones
Man Shoots Down Drone, Lawyers Scratch Their Heads
10-05-2014
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Shooting down a small drone is hard. But determining whether people should be allowed to do so may prove more difficult still. A man in New Jersey fired a shotgun at his neighbor's drone, and as the quadcopter crashed to the ground,
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News Link • Government
What IS The Bare Minimum...? - by Dennis Lee Wilson
10-05-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Do YOU trust ANY of the multiple governments (parrish, precinct, school district, city, county, state, national and international) that TAX you and claim to rule YOUR ONE AND ONLY life? Do you really think ANY of those governments employees
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News Link • Government
The Laws Of Everett, Washington: The Unconstitutional And The Bizarre
10-05-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Today we feature the City of Everett, Washington, a city with a few rather interesting municipal codes. Several ordinances on the book should serve as both lessons in unconstitutionality and comic relief.
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News Link • Transportation
Feet-on with RocketSkates, which are exactly what they sound like
10-05-2014
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ars technica
Some words just make other words seem cooler. Add "rocket" to just about anythingâ€"car, backpack, toastâ€"and suddenly you've made those words way more interesting. Rocket car! Rocket backpack! Rocket toast!
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News Link • Activism
Violence Erupts As Hong Kong's Leader Threatens To Use "All Necessary Measures....
10-05-2014
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zerohedge.com
Having tried (unsuccessfully) to break up the pro-democracy protesters in the heart of Hong Kong using local triad gangs (as opposed to the optics of actual police),.....
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
More Bad News From The Jobs Front
10-05-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Craig Roberts
The Bureau of Labor Statistics headline this morning reads: "Payroll employment increases by 248,000 in September; unemployment rate declines to 5.9%."
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Government Is A Bigger Threat To Our Liberties Than ISIS
10-05-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex Jones speaks with former Congressman Ron Paul about liberty and where America has failed in keeping them.
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News Link • Syria
International Syrian Correspondent: America Has Made The Middle East Perfect For ...
10-05-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
International Syrian Correspondent: America Has Made The Middle East Perfect For Radical Islam
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News Link • Pandemic
More U.S. troops being sent to battle Ebola
10-05-2014
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Tom Vanden Brook and David Jackson
As Obama administration officials sought to reassure Americans about efforts to contain Ebola in the wake of the first U.S. case, the military announced Friday that an additional 1,000 troops could be sent to West Africa to help fight the virus.
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