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Date Sent: 2014-12-03
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, December 3, 2014 |
U.S. Postal Service 'Mail Imaging' Program Used For Law Enforcement, Surveillance
Liberty Dollar Founder von Nothaus Sentenced to House Arrest for Counterfeiting -- Obama: War Criminal, Tyrant, Torturer, Racist, Corporate Tool, World-Class Thug -- Prepare for the Decentralized Internet -- Total freedom on the road -- Without A Hint Of Irony, Planned Parenthood Joins #BlackLivesMatter Protest -- Judge Issues Temporary Ban on Arrests For Feeding Homeless -- Detroit power grid down: Police stations, jails without electricity -- Welcoming the Era of In-Space Manufacturing -- Practical magnetic levitating transmission gear system loses its teeth -- New drug promises to reverse the progression of Multiple Sclerosis -- 12-03-14 -- Dr. Peter N. Steinmetz - Drew Phillips -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Aquaponic urban farm puts seniors to work -- US Resorts to Illegality to Protect Failed Policies -- AMAZON CEO: 'I Want To See Millions Of People Living And Working In Space' -- Russell Brand on New Era rent row - video -- Is this proof mysterious bangs heard on both sides of Atlantic WERE caused by new hypersonic secret stealth aircraft -- How Russia and Germany May Save Europe From War -- UN Report Documents Torture, Police Violence in US -- Global Cooling Alert -- Can Racial Discrimination Explain Much? -- Why I carried an AR-15 rifle through Sky Harbor - by Dr. Peter Steinmetz -- Obama settles on Ashton Carter as Pentagon chief, sources say -- A New Gadget That Lets You Invent Your Own Internet of Things
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, THIS Saturday - Dec 6th, 2014 - Dr. Peter N. Steinmetz, man w/ AR-15 @ airport speaking -- Christmas Party 2014 @ the home of Ernest and Donna Hancock, Sat Dec 13th, 6 p.m. til?; Dec. 15: This Year's Bill of Rights Day Celebration In Phoenix
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Postal Service 'Mail Imaging' Program Used For Law Enforcement, Surveillance
12-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Police State USA
Law enforcement granted unfettered access to individuals' mail patterns without warrants.
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News Link • Currencies
Federal judge sentences Liberty Dollar creator Dec. 2 to probation for 2011 conviction
12-03-2014
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www.coinworld.com
A federal judge in North Carolina Dec. 2 sentenced Bernard von NotHaus, creator of the Liberty Dollar private voluntary barter currency, to three months probation for his 2011 conviction on charges the Liberty Dollar violates federal counterfeiting s
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • History
What the Fall of the Wall Did Not Change with George Freidman
12-03-2014
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arclein
It is difficult for us to remember how seductive Marxism was, and how frightening Soviet power was. For my generation, at the better universities, Marxism was not an exotic form of oriental despotism but a persuasive explanation of the world and how
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How Little We Know About the Brain
12-03-2014
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arclein
Research on the brain is surging. The United States and the European Union have launched new programs to better understand the brain. Scientists are mapping parts of mouse, fly and human brains at different levels of magnification. Technology for rec
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News Link • Science
Quantum Gravity
12-03-2014
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arclein
So it might be surprising to hear that the most exciting new frontier in space exploration starts a mere 2,000 km above the terrestrial surface. We aren't talking about manned missions, automatic rovers or even probes. We're talking about satelli
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News Link • Energy
As Oil Prices Plunge
12-03-2014
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arclein
The question facing investors, companies and policymakers is how low oil prices will go ?" and for how long. Every day, American motorists are saving $630 million on gasoline compared with what they paid at June prices, and they would get a $230 bi
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News Link • Internet
Prepare for the Decentralized Internet
12-03-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by WildSatchmo
Our internet, although somewhat decentralized by its very nature, has become riddled with choke points for information.
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News Link • Activism
Without A Hint Of Irony, Planned Parenthood Joins #BlackLivesMatter Protest
12-03-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, TRISTYN BLOOM
Despite its history of pioneering widespread abortions in black communities, Planned Parenthood joined the #BlackLivesMatter Twitter protest Monday afternoon, tweeting, "We are joining #Ferguson organizers and protesters in DC today -- standing in
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News Link • Events: America
Detroit power grid down: Police stations, jails without electricity
12-03-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, RT
A massive power outage in Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday morning is leaving much of the Motor City in the dark.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Welcoming the Era of In-Space Manufacturing
12-03-2014
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http://www.space.com, Mike Snyder
Human spaceflight reached an important milestone this week. An additive manufacturing device, or 3D printer, was turned on, and initiated the first official 3D print on the International Space Station (ISS).
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Ariane 6 - Europe's Next-Gen Rocket | Animation
12-03-2014
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http://www.space.com, ESA
In the afterglow of their successful Rosetta comet mission, ministers of the European Space Agency Council meeting in Luxembourg on Dec. 2nd, 2014 approved funding for a new 3-stage launcher. The modular Ariane 6 can launch with two or four boosters
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News Link • Inventions
Graphene could find use in lightweight ballistic body armor
12-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
While graphene is already known for being the world's strongest material, most studies have focused on its tensile strength ??" that's the maximum stress that it can withstand while being pulled or stretched, before failing.
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News Link • Inventions
Practical magnetic levitating transmission gear system loses its teeth
12-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Colin Jeffrey
A new transmission device that uses magnetic levitation to almost completely eliminate friction and wear has been developed as part of the MAGDRIVE research project, a collaboration of seven European nations we looked at back in 2010.
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News Link • Transportation
BMW announces plans to electrify its entire core range
12-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com,
BMW is doubling down on its electric eDrive technology by announcing that it plans to eventually produce plug-in hybrid versions of all its core-brand models.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
New drug promises to reverse the progression of Multiple Sclerosis
12-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Loz Blain
Researchers are zeroing in on what looks like an effective treatment for the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.
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News Link • Aquaponics
Aquaponic urban farm puts seniors to work
12-03-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Stu Robarts
Among the oft-cited benefits of urban farming are improved food security and production sustainability.
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News Link • General Opinion
Russell Brand on New Era rent row - video
12-03-2014
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http://www.channel4.com
Comedian Russell Brand tells Channel 4 News why he is supporting tenants at the New Era estate who fear their rent could be increased after a takeover by a US property company.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Is this proof mysterious bangs heard on both sides of Atlantic WERE caused...
12-03-2014
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By Victoria Woollaston and Dan Bloom and Stephanie
Is this proof mysterious bangs heard on both sides of Atlantic WERE caused by a top-secret US jet? Footage of hypersonic engine in action reveals it sounds almost identical to unexplained noises
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News Link • World News
How Russia and Germany May Save Europe From War
12-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Pepe Escobar
Are the US, NATO and Russia on a mad spiral leading to war in Europe? Is it inevitable? Far from it.
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News Link • United Nations
UN Report Documents Torture, Police Violence in US
12-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick Martin
The United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a lengthy report today assessing the performance of the 156 countries whose governments have ratified the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, wh
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News Link • World News
Global Cooling Alert...
12-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Tyler Durden
Global Cooling Alert: Thanksgiving Sales Plunge, Germany Contracts, Japan Downgraded, Copper Tumbles, WTI Lowest Since 2009, Gold Up
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News Link • Racism
Can Racial Discrimination Explain Much?
12-03-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Walter E. Williams
In the medical profession, there is the admonition primum non nocere, the Latin expression for "first, do no harm." In order not to do harm, at the minimum, requires accurate diagnostics.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Why I carried an AR-15 rifle through Sky Harbor - by Dr. Peter Steinmetz
12-03-2014
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the arizona republic
Since I peacefully, legally and openly carried an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle through the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport last July, many people have wondered, both privately and publicly, why I would do such a thing.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Obama settles on Ashton Carter as Pentagon chief, sources say
12-03-2014
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Reuters
Can a career Washington technocrat break into US President Obama's tight-knit inner circle and oversee the world's most powerful military? It looks like former Pentagon official Ashton Carter is about to find out.
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News Link • Internet
A New Gadget That Lets You Invent Your Own Internet of Things
12-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Margaret Rhodes
It's a familiar adage in the tech world that hardware is hard. After all, a single coder can ship an app, armed with just a computer.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
2014 Physics Gift Guide
12-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Rhett Allain
It's that time of the year when people start buying gifts. But what if you need to come up with a physics-based gift?
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Jurassic World - Official Trailer (HD)
12-02-2014
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https://www.youtube.com,
Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World.
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News Link • Economy - International
Simple Man's Macro View of the World
12-01-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com-Mike S.
I received an interesting email the Wednesday before Thanksgiving from Steen Jakobsen, chief economist for Saxo bank, regarding his macro picture of the world.
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News Link • Economy - International
Podemos "Economic Manifesto" Calls for Debt Restructuring, Spain to Abandon...
12-01-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com-
Podemos "Economic Manifesto" Calls for Debt Restructuring, Spain to Abandon the "Euro Trap".
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
An Open Letter to RINOS - by L. Neil Smith
12-01-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
A perfect example is the absolute cretin you nominated for governor, Bob Beauprez, Another is your typical attitude toward "liberalized" laws on marijuana. Colorado RINOs sipping their double martinis at the country club,
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Firefly Space Systems charges full-speed toward low Earth orbit
12-01-2014
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ars technica
But to get to Mars we've first got to make it easy for people and equipment to claw their way up out of Earth's gravity. "When you're in low Earth orbit, you're halfway to everywhere." Making that first hundred miles easy and affordable
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Anti-Gold Propaganda Prevails In Swiss Vote!
12-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-
This morning the final votes were cast on the Swiss Gold Initiative (most votes were submitted via post). As we speak the final votes are still being counted however we already know: The initiative has been rejected!
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Is Disarming a Cop a Capital Offense?
12-01-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
San Diego resident Sagon Penn was 22 years old when he was detained and assaulted by Officers Donovan Jacobs and Thomas Riggs. He was 2 weeks away from starting a job as a "community service officer" with the police department
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News Link • World News
Malaysia Becomes Angry About Exclusion from MH17 Investigation
12-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-
Now nearly five months after the Malaysian Airlines MH17 passenger plane got shot down in Ukraine (killing all 298 aboard), Malaysians are going public with their anger about having been excluded from the investigation-team that is to write the offic
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News Link • TERRORISM
Those Ungovernable Colonists
12-01-2014
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The American colonies must have been an unruly place, full as they were of religious fanatics and slave traders, second sons and fortune hunters, criminals and former political prisoners, and all manner of people in between.
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News Link • Police State
How to increase public approval for the police state
12-01-2014
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If someone were to design an event to bolster public support for a militarized police state, what would that event look like? Let us imagine:
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News Link • Economy - International
Keynesian Hit Men On The Road--â€"Krugman And Rogoff Peddling Toxic Advice
12-01-2014
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http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com-David S.
Here are a couple of reasons why Keynesian economists are truly a menace in today's bubble ridden and debt-impaled world. It seems that both Harvard's Kenneth Rogoff and Princeton's Paul Krugman are on the global advice circuit, peddling what a
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
DNA survives a ride into space--on the exterior of a rocket
12-01-2014
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ars technica
The ability of biomolecules to survive space has implications for a number of questions: whether molecules from space could have seeded life on Earth, or whether life could spread among the inner planets following impacts.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'The Time Has Come' - by Sean N. Gruber
12-01-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Last night, while the Ferguson Police were protecting their gangs clubhouse AKA as the FPD station, the cops let the rest of the town burn. This isn't surprising, the Supreme Court ruled police have 'no duty to protect anyone'
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News Link • Afghanistan
Bird Bomb? Afghan Police Kill Bird Bearing Antenna, Explosives
12-01-2014
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NBC News
Afghan police said they are investigating how a wild bird came to bear an antenna, electronic devices and explosives. Police came across the strange sight around 8 a.m. in the northern Faryab province, a volatile region ravaged by Taliban violence. W
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News Link • Afghanistan
The Failure of Counterinsurgency: Afghanistan
12-01-2014
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com-Ivan Eland
The current power-sharing government among factions in Afghanistan will likely be as successful the one in Iraq during the Nouri al-Maliki period: not very.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Cashing in on the ISIS Crisis
12-01-2014
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http://truth-out.org-Emily S. and William C.
Maybe you think the US air war on the Islamic State is a fine plan. Maybe you don't. Either way, have you considered how little Washington's latest military foray in the Middle East has to do with America's welfare?
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News Link • Iran
Nuclear Chicken in the Mideast
12-01-2014
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http://www.unz.com-Eric Margolis
To no surprise, nuclear talks between Iran and major world powers have become stalemated.
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News Link • Drones
FAA Wins Legal Battle as Drones Re-Classified as Aircraft Subject to FAA Regulations
12-01-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Aerial photographers beware. The National Transportation Safety Board declared "drones" are aircraft subject to regulation by the Federal Aviation Administration, overturning their decision that effectively made commercial drones legal.
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News Link • American History
Katharine Gun's Risky Truth-Telling
12-01-2014
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http://truth-out.org- Sam Husseini
"I felt it was explosive, it really made me angry when I read it. ... I genuinely hoped that the information would strengthen the people's voice. ... It could derail the entire process for war." So said Katharine Gun recently when asked about informa
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News Link • General Opinion
Seeing the Reality of the Vietnam War, 50 Years Late
12-01-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com-Jonathan S. and Tom E.
Introduction, Sunday, November 24, 2014: When I scanned the front page of the New York Times one recent morning and spotted this headline, "In a Shift, Obama Extends U.S. Role in Afghan Combat," I instantly wanted to pick up the phone. It was an
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News Link • Currencies
Gold, Swiss franc fall after Swiss referendum
12-01-2014
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Reuters
Gold prices fell the most in more than three weeks and the Swiss franc dipped slightly on Monday after Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected proposals to boost gold reserves in a referendum.
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