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Date Sent: 2014-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty
Lawmakers agree on $1.1 trillion spending bill -- Microsoft tells US: The world's servers are not yours for the taking -- Westword investigation catches Colorado cops and local media in a tough spot -- Illinois--again--moves to ban recording the police -- Ex-CIA Operative Says Prison Was Punishment for Whistleblowing on Torture -- Why "Support Your Local Police" is a Formula for Despotism -- Koschman cop found soft landing with state job -- IRS seeks tax docs from Florida tribe chairman -- Pass the Sick Bag! -- The King of the World - Mr Johnson Goes to Washington -- The Quest to Hit 1,000 MPH in an Insane Rocket-Powered Car -- Super Secure Blackphone Will Have Its Own Privacy-Focused App Store -- A Russophobic Rant From Congress -- US Prepares for Blowback as CIA Torture Report Looms -- Beloit Police Ask Residents To Volunteer To Have Their Homes Searched For Guns -- NFL players show support for 'I can't breathe' protests -- NBC Buys 'Star Trek' Sci-Fi Series -- Sony Hackers Apparently Demand Studio Pull 'The Interview' -- Federal autopsy released in Ferguson shooting -- These 7 Revealing Emails Show Federal Officials Scheming to Target Legal Businesses -- Israel's Draconian Anti-Infiltration Law -- Putin's Failures Leave Russia Reeling -- 12-09-14 -- Leo Magpoc - Alma Sommer (and Neo) -- Turkey Is a Bad Ally -- Ron Paul/Charles Goyette, "The Weekly Podcast - Central Bankers Win Swiss Gold Showdown -- Arizona Targeted For Gun Owner Registration! -- Bloomberg gun-control group targets more than 12 states -- Ron Paul Joins KrisAnne Hall and Sheriff Mack In MIDNIGHT RIDE -- Ebola Cure May Have Been Developed As Early as 2011 -- HOLY SH*T: U.S. National Debt Has Officially Hit $18 Trillion -- Sad but Funny (but Sad): America Is Much Worse Than a Bad Boyfriend -- The people are hungry to hear the truth! -- NIRP Arrives In The US... -- Kiev's Phony Day of Silence -- Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Major Fraud in Supplying U.S. Troops in Afghanistan -- Hagel's Fall from Grace; Help Wanted: U.S. Defense Secretary -- Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014 -- Israel Partners with Obama's War on Syria
AZ: 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; Magpoc Homestead Tour/Christmas Party, Dec 20
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty
12-09-2014
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Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Julie Tate, W. Post
An exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA's secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishone
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lawmakers agree on $1.1 trillion spending bill
12-09-2014
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Associated Press
Time running short, Republicans and Democrats agreed on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and delay a politically-charged struggle over President Barack Obama's new immigration policy until the new year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Microsoft tells US: The world's servers are not yours for the taking
12-09-2014
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ars technica
Microsoft's fight against the US position that it may search its overseas servers with a valid US warrant is getting nasty. Microsoft, which is fighting a US warrant that it hand over e-mail to the US from its Ireland servers, wants
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Westword investigation catches Colorado cops--and local media--in a tough spot
12-09-2014
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Columbia Journalism Review
Reporter Alan Prendergast chronicled some police work in a small Colorado town that was so magnificently incompetent, so recklessly negligent, it makes the Keystone Kops look like Seal Team Six.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Illinois--again--moves to ban recording the police
12-09-2014
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ars technica
Apparently the state of Illinois didn't get the memo that recording the police is all the rage these days. That's because awaiting outgoing Gov. Pat Quinn's signature is legislation that would ban the practice in many circumstances.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ex-CIA Operative Says Prison Was Punishment for Whistleblowing on Torture
12-09-2014
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ABC News
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou is the only CIA employee connected to its interrogation program to go to prison. But he was prosecuted for providing information to reporters, not for anything connected to waterboarding or torture.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Why "Support Your Local Police" is a Formula for Despotism
12-09-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"We are extremely concerned about recent developments in this country which have imposed new and dangerous burdens on our local police," frets the "Statement of Principles" of the Support Your Local Police Committee.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Koschman cop found soft landing with state job
12-09-2014
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Chicago Sun Times
3 years after he led the botched investigation into David Koschman's death at the hands of a nephew of then-Mayor Richard Daley, Ronald E. Yawger retired from the Chicago PD and took a plum job with the Illinois Attorney General.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS seeks tax docs from Florida tribe chairman
12-09-2014
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Associated Press
The Miccosukees for years resisted IRS efforts to investigate whether it is failing to report and withhold federal income tax on money it distributes to members. The Everglades-based tribe operates a profitable casino in western Miami-Dade County.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Natural Remedies for Respiratory Infections
12-09-2014
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By Dr. Joe Alton and Nurse Amy
In certain cases, anti-viral and/or antibiotic medications may be useful to treat these conditions, but what happens in a long term survival situation when supplies of manufactured drugs run out?
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News Link • Obama Administration
Pass the Sick Bag!
12-09-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Taki
I was not surprised Chuck Hagel had to go. After all, he was among the very few in governments of late who had ever seen combat, not to mention to have been wounded.
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News Link • History
The King of the World - Mr Johnson Goes to Washington
12-09-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Greg Maybury
With the possible exception of 9/11, few events in the Grand American Narrative have attracted or generated as much controversy, speculation, rumour, fevered imagination, contrived analysis, or misinformation, disinformation and counterfactual hypoth
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News Link • Transportation
The Quest to Hit 1,000 MPH in an Insane Rocket-Powered Car
12-09-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Oliver Franklin
On the morning of October 15, 1997, a dust trail streaked across Nevada's Black Rock Desert. At its apex, driver Andy Green braced himself at the wheel of Thrust SSC as the jet-powered car reached 804 kph.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Google Opens Its Cloud to Crack the Genetic Code of Autism
12-09-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen
Google has spent the past decade-and-a-half perfecting the science of recognizing patterns in the chaos of information on the web. Now it's applying that expertise to searching for clues to the genetic causes of autism in the vast sea of data conta
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News Link • 3D Printing
This Dress Is Made From 3-D Printed Plastic, But Flows Like Fabric
12-09-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
The design studio Nervous System has created a novel process that allows a 3-D printed dress to move and sway like real fabric.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
A Russophobic Rant From Congress
12-09-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com,by Patrick J. Buchanan
Hopefully, Russians realize that our House of Representatives often passes thunderous resolutions to pander to special interests, which have no bearing on the thinking or actions of the U.S. government.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Beloit Police Ask Residents To Volunteer To Have Their Homes Searched For Guns
12-09-2014
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http://www.wpr.org, By Gilman Halsted
Chief Of Police Says He Hopes Initiative Can Help Residents Begin Thinking Differently About Guns
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
NBC Buys 'Star Trek' Sci-Fi Series
12-09-2014
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http://variety.com, March 11, 1966
Desilu Productions has received a firm order from NBC-TV for "Star Trek," hour-long sci-fi series. Exec producer Gene Roddenberry will put it into production late in May.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Sony Hackers Apparently Demand Studio Pull 'The Interview'
12-09-2014
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http://variety.com, Ted Johnson
A group calling itself GOP posted a message online on Monday that warned Sony to stop "immediately showing the movie of terrorism which can break the regional peace and cause the war."
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Federal autopsy released in Ferguson shooting
12-09-2014
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Associated Press
The Justice Department autopsy found Brown died from multiple gunshot wounds and had severe head and chest injuries, though it noted that the chest injury might have been an exit wound from a shot that entered Brown's arm.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
These 7 Revealing Emails Show Federal Officials Scheming to Target Legal Businesses
12-09-2014
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The Daily Signal
Senior officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation actively sought to crack down on legal businesses that the Obama administration, or the officials themselves, deemed morally objectionable.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Confucius Doesn't Live Here Anymore
12-09-2014
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arclein
In today's China, the philosopher Confucius is back. To mark his 2,565th birthday this September, the nation's President, Xi Jinping, paid homage to the sage at an international conference convened for the occasion. "Confucianism," Xi said, i
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Sustainable Community Revolutionizes Housing for the Homeless
12-09-2014
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arclein
Although MLF has plenty of work to finalize some of the facilities, the large community garden has been producing a wide variety of vegetables, eggs and honey for quite some time. The food has been distributed by the MLF food truck, which navigates t
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Is Low Vitimin D Deadly?
12-09-2014
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arclein
"We have conducted a major Danish study, in which we have examined the connection between genes associated with permanent low levels of vitamin D and mortality. We can see that genes associated with low vitamin D levels involve an increased mortali
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robert klein
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin's Failures Leave Russia Reeling
12-09-2014
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arclein
he New York Times characterized this as a "rare diplomatic defeat" for Putin, though I'm not sure why. Indeed, diplomatic defeats appear to be the only thing the Russian president has accomplished lately.
As Kevin Drum noted, "Ukraine is mor
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
12-09-14 -- Leo Magpoc - Alma Sommer (and Neo) (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Leo Magpoc (local activist and prepper) and Alma Sommer (Agorist Alma) come in studio to talk about being self-sufficient, prepping, learning new skills such as gardening/aquaponics, raising rabbit and quail for food, and getting off the 'system'
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Feature Article • World News
Turkey Is a Bad Ally
Ivan Eland
Being a superpower has its drawbacks. One of them is being manipulated by smaller countries that know that America wants to be "Big Man on Campus" in the world, usually giving its taxpayers only vague "influence" around the globe for all the money th
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul/Charles Goyette â€" The Weekly Podcast - Central Bankers Win Swiss Gold Showdown
12-09-2014
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Money and Markets
The central bank went on a full-tilt offensive against the recent pro-gold initiative in Switzerland and the measure was soundly defeated. But Ron Paul compares it to his efforts over the years to call attention to the Federal Reserve and believes th
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Arizona Targeted For Gun Owner Registration!
12-09-2014
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Arizona Citizens Defense League
Their strategy is simple but effective. Spend millions on a ballot measure that requires all firearm transfers, retail and private, to undergo a "background check", with that information saved in state databases. The stated purpose of these mea
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bloomberg gun-control group targets more than 12 states
12-09-2014
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USA Today
Fresh off a string of election victories, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun-control group is gearing up for a "significant" legislative push in more than a dozen states to curb gun violence, its leaders say.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ron Paul Joins KrisAnne Hall and Sheriff Mack In MIDNIGHT RIDE
12-09-2014
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Oath Keepers
This film picks up where MOLON LABE left off, and not only deals with the Second Amendment, but also exposes the four types of "martial law". Powerful, compelling, and packed with Constitutional wisdom, MIDNIGHT RIDE is going to put Oath Keeper
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Ebola Cure May Have Been Developed As Early as 2011
12-09-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, Joshua Krause
After months of daily coverage, it appears that media attention towards the Ebola outbreak has completely vanished.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
HOLY SH*T: U.S. National Debt Has Officially Hit $18 Trillion
12-09-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, Melissa Melton
According to the U.S. National Debt Clock, America's debt has now officially hit $18 trillion.
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News Link • Government
Sad but Funny (but Sad): America Is Much Worse Than a Bad Boyfriend
12-09-2014
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com,
This guy sucks!!! College Humor did the video below about how America is like a bad boyfriend. Aside from a few propaganda bits, they made a pretty good point.
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News Link • Political Parties
The people are hungry to hear the truth!
12-09-2014
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http://charlesgoyette.com,
Thanks to Chris Rossini for posting these first two photos at TargetLiberty.com. Starting with Hillary Clinton's appearance at Georgetown.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Major Fraud in Supplying U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
12-09-2014
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Justice Department
Supreme Foodservice GmbH and Supreme Foodservice FZE pleaded guilty today to major fraud against the United States in connection with a contract to provide food and water to the U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced tod
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Hagel's Fall from Grace; Help Wanted: U.S. Defense Secretary
12-08-2014
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American Free Press
Whether he was fired or only encouraged to resign from his position as secretary of defense, "Chuck" Hagel's departure was seen by many as inevitable. It underscored the disturbing reality of chaos, which has plagued the White House's foreign
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014
12-09-2014
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Rich Juzwiak and Aleksander Chan, Gawker.com
The NAACP's Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted a series of tweets naming 76 men and women who were killed in police custody since the 1999 death of Amadou Diallo in New York. What follows are more detailed accounts of many of those included in the Leg
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Nebraska school district scans student fingerprints for lunch program
12-05-2014
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Westside Community Schools have begun collecting student fingerprints for its school lunch program. The school district has moved to a biometric identification program, saying students will no longer have to use an ID card to buy lunch.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Child Protective Services
When CPS Kidnaps Children for Money
12-07-2014
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"If I have it my way, you'll never see your mommy and daddy again." These cruel words were reportedly uttered to eight-year-old Jaxon Adams by a Missouri doctor working closely with Child Protective Services.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Those Who Would Rule Humanity
12-07-2014
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Bribery, Extortion and Murder are their tools and mechanisms of manipulation. We are not talking about your local bank here, we are talking about the banking powers that tell them when where and how high to jump,
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News Link • History
December 7, 1941: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy
12-07-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
[VIDEO] The noble task of Revisionism is to de-bamboozle: to penetrate the fog of lies and deception of the State and its Court Intellectuals, and present to the public the true history of motivation, nature, and consequences of State activity.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
America on a "Hot War Footing": House Legislation Paves the Way for War with Russia?
12-07-2014
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Legislation by the US House would provide (pending a vote in the Senate) a de facto green light to the US president and commander in chief to initiate--without congressional approval--military confrontation with Russia.
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News Link • Activism
Berkeley cops use rubber bullets, tear gas to disperse protests against police brutality
12-07-2014
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Rawstory
Police claim that the tear gas and rubber bullets were necessary, as protesters had hurled bricks, pipes, smoke grenades and, in one case, "a large sandbag" at officers.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Gladio B and the Battle for Eurasia
12-07-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
'Operation Gladio B', "the continuation of the old NATO Gladio program", covers a tangled web of covert operatives, billionaire Imams, drug running, prison breaks and terror strikes. Its goal: the destabilization of Central Asia and
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Worthy of Execution
12-07-2014
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Simple Justice
Every law, from those proscribing the most dangerous, morally culpable conduct, to those prohibiting the use of a truck with the wrong sort of bond to remove cargo from a restricted port, carries the potential for death.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
WATCH: Arizona cop punches 15-year-old girl in face as mother begs her to stop
12-07-2014
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Rawstory
As a witness filmed, the officer walked up to the girl and punched her, knocking her down. She then put the girl in a chokehold -- even after the teen's mother begged her and a second officer to stop, saying the girl is asthmatic and
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News Link • Police State
Have We Reached "Peak Jackboot"?
12-07-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
London tried to preserve the pretense the troops sent to police the colonies were deployed to maintain public order. There was "a general conviction" within the population the Redcoats had been dispatched as tax collectors,
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News Link • Police State
Watch: NYPD uses military-grade sonic weapon on Eric Garner protesters
12-07-2014
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alternet
Thursday night in Manhattan--a populated area about four blocks from Columbus Circle--the NYPD used a Long Range Acoustic Device to disperse about 100 protesters who were on the streets.
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News Link • Martial Law
Camp Pendleton Marines To Conduct Training In Downtown LA
12-07-2014
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CBS News
Residents in and around downtown Los Angeles could hear helicopters or other military aircraft over the coming days as Marines and sailors from Camp Pendleton train in preparation for a deployment.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Orion: a last-ditch effort by a fading empire that will never strike back
12-07-2014
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The Guardian
When a space startup has twice the force for a fraction of the cost, you know the US government has a problem.
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. to keep more troops in Afghanistan as violence spikes
12-07-2014
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http://www.reuters.com, By Phil Stewart
The United States will keep up to 1,000 more soldiers than previously planned in Afghanistan into next year, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday, in a recognition of the still formidable challenge from Taliban insurgents.
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