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Date Sent: 2015-01-08
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, January 8, 2015 |
ATF Reverses 50 Years Of Agency Practice to Go After Home Made Gun Makers
Bitcoin investor who renounced US citizenship now can't get back in -- Oklahoma Bill Would Ban Alcohol Purchases For Drivers Convicted Of DUI -- The Year of the Truth Camps -- This Map Shows You Just How Many Prisoners Are In Each US State -- 11 Predictions Of Economic Disaster In 2015 From Top Experts All Over The Globe -- 9 Reasons Libertarians Should Love Switzerland -- Iowa Cop Shoots at Dog, but Misses, Killing Woman Instead -- Treasury Yield Plunge Approaches Flash Crash Pace -- Bill Gross' 2015 Outlook: "The Good Times Are Over, The Time For Risk Taking Has Passed" -- TrackingPoint shows off the "Mile Maker," a rifle with 1,800-yard range -- Alabama Police Officers Recorded Mocking Special Needs Children At A Local Learning Center -- Oil Falls Below 50 As Global Financial Markets Begin To Unravel -- The Other Tor -- Is The Fourteenth Amendment Good? -- Dershowitz Threatens To Sue Attorneys For Defamation, They Sue Him First -- Murderous Son, Who Killed His Hedge Fund Father Over $200 Allowance -- Extreme cold closes Duluth ski resort; wicked windchills in Twin Cities -- Prince Andrew's 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts 'is writing a tell-all memoir -- WAT Takes Down Your House With "The Internet of Things" -- "Failure to Obey" Documentary on Checkpoint Refusal (full movie)
AZ: Tomorrow, AZ Legislative Forecast Luncheon featuring Governor-elect Doug Ducey 01-09-15; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF Reverses 50 Years Of Agency Practice to Go After Home Made Gun Makers
01-07-2015
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ammoland
ATF reverses its longstanding position that persons who machine unfinished receivers on behalf of a customer are not required to have manufacturer's licenses.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Emmigration
Bitcoin investor who renounced US citizenship now can't get back in
01-07-2015
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ars technica
A well-known entrepreneur, often dubbed "Bitcoin Jesus"--who famously renounced his American citizenship last year--was denied a visa on Tuesday to re-enter the United States to attend an upcoming Bitcoin conference in Miami.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Oklahoma Bill Would Ban Alcohol Purchases For Drivers Convicted Of DUI
01-07-2015
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GovtSlaves
Senator Patrick Anderson's bill asks the state to develop a system that would block people arrested for drunk driving from purchasing alcohol during a time period to be determined by a judge.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
The Year of the Truth Camps
01-07-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-Taki
Welcome to 2015, the year that speaking and writing freely had to stop. Anything that might cause trauma to anyone of any race except the white one will be expunged, and the perpetrators of politically incorrect speech or written words will be airbru
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
This Map Shows You Just How Many Prisoners Are In Each US State
01-07-2015
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http://www.mintpressnews.com-Simran Khosla
Four of the states in the US have a higher prison population per 100,000 than any nation abroad.
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News Link • Economy - International
11 Predictions Of Economic Disaster In 2015 From Top Experts All Over The Globe
01-07-2015
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com-Michael Snyder
Will 2015 be a year of financial crashes, economic chaos and the start of the next great worldwide depression?
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Iowa Cop Shoots at Dog, but Misses, Killing Woman Instead
01-07-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A woman in Burlington, Iowa, was reportedly shot and killed by a police officer outside of her home right in front of her four-year-old son.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bill Gross' 2015 Outlook: "The Good Times Are Over, The Time For Risk Taking Has Passed"
01-07-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
A January Investment Outlook should normally be filled with recommended "do's and don'ts," "picks and pans" and December 31, 2015, forecasts for interest rates and risk assets.
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News Link • Gun Rights
TrackingPoint shows off the "Mile Maker," a rifle with 1,800-yard range
01-07-2015
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ars technica
What was new in the world of "Precision Guided Firearms"--the term used to refer to its Linux-powered rifles. A weapon that can accurately put rounds on targets up to a mile away--targets that can be moving up to 30 miles per hour.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Alabama Police Officers Recorded Mocking Special Needs Children At A Local Learning Center
01-07-2015
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Inquistr
A handful of Alabama police are in trouble over an audio recording made of them mocking special needs children at a local learning center. It's the reason why Dustin Chandler, a Pelham police officer, says he just turned in his resignation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Oil Falls Below 50 As Global Financial Markets Begin To Unravel
01-07-2015
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com-Michael Snyder
On Monday, the price of oil fell below $50 for the first time since April 2009, and the Dow dropped 331 points.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Other Tor
01-07-2015
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Simple Justice
As for Tor Ekeland, Weev Auernheimer offers his highest praise. Tor, he says, "is a very competent legal scholar and theorist [and] also a relentless motherfucker that takes no bullshit and can hold his own in a street fight."
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Is The Fourteenth Amendment Good?
01-07-2015
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http://mises.org-Allen Mendenhall
Few issues divide libertarians the way the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution does. Gene Healy has observed that "[c]lassical liberals of good faith have found themselves on either side of the issue."
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Dershowitz Threatens To Sue Attorneys For Defamation , They Sue Him First
01-07-2015
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Jonathan Turley
The lawyers sought unsuccessfully to depose Dershowitz who has been accused of being one of the men who were given underaged girls to sleep with by Epstein. At the time, I wrote that Dershowitz's statements themselves could be viewed as defamatory
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Murderous Son, Who Killed His Hedge Fund Father Over $200 Allowance, Was A...
01-07-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
Murderous Son, Who Killed His Hedge Fund Father Over $200 Allowance, Was A Mentally-Disturbed Princeton Economics Grad.
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D-printed mower keeps lawn in trim
01-07-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com-Nick Lavars
It might not offer the same durability as your trusty ol' Husqvarna, but a 3D-printed lawnmower has shown it is up to the task of keeping your lawn in shape.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Extreme cold closes Duluth ski resort; wicked windchills in Twin Cities
01-07-2015
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http://www.startribune.com-PAUL WALSH
Windchill readings ranging from 25 to 35 below zero "will continue today and tonight" for the Twin Cities area, and much of central and southeastern Minnesota, according to the National Weather Service.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
What mattered on Day 1 at CES 2015
01-07-2015
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CNET.Com
The crowds have hit the ground running at CES in search of the novel and interesting technology that wasn't covered on Press Day. Here's everything you need to know from Day 1.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
CES 2015: all the latest from the biggest tech show of the year
01-07-2015
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TechTrader
The tech fest to end all tech fests is here
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
CES 2015 - Canon's Connect Station keeps your snaps neatly organised
01-07-2015
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TechTrader
Hub for up to 1TB of content available with the new Connect Station CS100
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Prince Andrew's 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts 'is writing a tell-all memoir about the
01-07-2015
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk-RICHARD SHEARS
Prince Andrew's 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts 'is writing a tell-all memoir about their alleged trysts at home of US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein'.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Qualcomm looks to recreate smartphone success with wearables
01-07-2015
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TechTrader
As seen at the CES 2015 - Qualcomm is hoping to do for wearables what it did for smartphones as it looks to dominate the connected devices market.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung promises to improve Ultra High Definition with SUHD TVs at CES 2015
01-07-2015
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TechTrader
Nano-crystal technology arriving with Tizen
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
1st Full Look at Ant-Man - Marvel's Ant-Man Teaser
01-07-2015
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Marvel Entertainment
The wait's over! Get your first full, official look at Marvel's "Ant-Man," first seen during "Marvel's Agent Carter"! Watch now and see the movie in theaters July 17!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
SWAT Takes Down Your House With "The Internet of Things"
01-07-2015
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informationclearinghouse.info
By 2022, there will be 1.1 billion smart meters installed in homes, reporting real-time usage to utility companies and other interested parties, like your local Fusion Center or SWAT Team.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
"Failure to Obey" Documentary on Checkpoint Refusal (full movie)
01-07-2015
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Pastor Steven Anderson
This film documents the story of Pastor Steven Anderson being being beaten, tasered, and jailed for refusing a warrant-less search of his vehicle. The film also covers his trial and subsequent border patrol encounters.
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News Link • American History
How Bad Slavery Was
01-06-2015
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arclein
Second, African people were placed in "slave dungeons" for weeks and sometimes months until the slave ships came. They were often underfed, terribly beaten, raped and stuffed together so tightly they could hardly move. African people were packed
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Australia, Italy, UK: Speed Cameras Blocked, Burned, Blown Up
01-05-2015
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The Newspaper
Drivers pretend their cars are broken down so that they can park them with the hood open behind photo radar vans. This obscures the camera's view, preventing citations from being generated. Officials in New South Wales are furious.
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News Link • History
Bryan Fischer and the Gospel of Genocide
01-05-2015
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"The superstition, savagery and sexual immorality of native Americans" left them "morally disqualified from sovereign control of American soil" â€" which is now properly the possession of Euro-Americans by right of "conquest."
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Children, Naked, Because Rules
01-05-2015
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Simple Justice
Anywhere else, a requirement that would allow grownups to force innocent children to remove their clothing would be cause for a swift prosecution and, likely, a long prison sentence followed by a living under a bridge. Anywhere but a prison visiting
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Harvard Law Professor Dershowitz Threatens Utah Law Professor Cassell With Disbarment Action
01-05-2015
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Jonathan Turley
Former federal judge and University of Utah law professor Paul Cassell is facing a rare threat of a bar complaint over his representation of a client in the notorious case of billionaire and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Even more rare is the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Fully Informed Jury
Jury rights activists rally in NYC around Silk Road trial
01-05-2015
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Libertarian News Examiner
Jury rights activist James Babb issued a press release Friday announcing a month-long jury nullification campaign in the area around the US courthouse in Manhattan to coincide with the Ulbricht trial. The protest will feature large phone kiosk advert
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man holds up hands and lies down -- and cops still kick him in the face and Taser him
01-05-2015
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Rawstory
A drug task force video of an arrest differs markedly from the police reports written by the plainclothes detectives . The video -- available below -- begins with the final moments of a car chase between Timothy Whittle and
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops break woman's ribs for disrespect after asking about a crime
01-05-2015
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Rawstory
A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against three police officers in Victoria, claiming that they brutally beat her and broke her ribs without a good reason.
Mary Frances Jones told the Victoria Advocate that the three police officers woke her up ea
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Kansas family calls police for help with 'belligerent' son -- and now he's dead
01-05-2015
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Rawstory
John Paul Quintero, 23, was shot and killed by Wichita Police after the family called 911 following an incident in their home involving a knife. When police arrived, Quintero was seated in an SUV parked in front of home with his father.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Grand juror in Missouri police shooting case sues prosecutor
01-05-2015
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Reuters
A member of the grand jury that declined to indict the white Missouri police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old sued the prosecutor in the case criticizing the way evidence was presented to grand jurors and
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police union pushes for crimes against cops to be a federal hate crime
01-05-2015
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Yahoo! News blog
Violence against police officers that is motivated by anti-police bias should be prosecuted as a hate crime, the nation's largest police union is arguing in a letter to President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders this week.
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Feature Article • World News
Is Another Euro Crisis at Hand?
Ivan Eland
If you have any spare cash laying around and need of a vacation, Chevy Chase would probably recommend that you go to Europe. The euro currency has dipped to a nine-year low against the dollar.
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Feature Article • Police State
Cop Block Newsletter #005
Donna Hancock
Video Contest: #WhyIFilmThePolice - The Police Accountability Report is back! - The Cop Block Store is re-opened! - Cop Block is committed to the non-aggression principle.
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Opinion • World News
Ray McGovern: My Take
Rebuilding the Obama-Putin Trust
01-05-2015
Ray McGovern
The year 2015 will surely mark a watershed in relations between the United States and Russia, one way or the other. However, whether tensions increase â€" to war-by-proxy in Ukraine or an even wider war â€" or whether they subside depends mostly on P
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News Link • Economy - International
France's 75% 'supertax' quietly dies with few mourners
01-05-2015
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http://news.yahoo.com, By Eric Randolph
Once a flagship policy of French President Francois Hollande, the 75-percent "supertax" on top earners limps into its final weeks this month having sparked plenty of controversy but few economic results.
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News Link • Housing
Shipping container home readying for Detroit debut
01-05-2015
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http://www.myfoxny.com, By JEFF KAROUB
An unusual home taking shape inside General Motors' sprawling Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant is intended to be part of a movement to rebuild the city's economy and deteriorating, disappearing housing stock.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The 'On-Demand Economy' Is Reshaping Companies And Careers
01-05-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com
All the householder needs is a credit card and a phone equipped with Handy's app, and everything from spring cleaning to flat-pack-furniture assembly gets taken care of by "service pros" who earn an average of $18 an hour.
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News Link • World News
Oil, Power, And Psychopaths
01-05-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Submitted by Raul Ilargi
Iran has a â€" very â€" long running dispute with the US about its nuclear technology. The US wants Assad (Bashar Al-Assad) out of Syria, while Iran and Russia support Assad (Russia's sole proper base in the Middle East), who's an Alawite (a Shi-
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News Link • Economy - International
Knowing It Will End Badly And Turning A Blind Eye
01-05-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As 2014 came to an end I like many of you probably felt a brief sigh of relief that maybe, just maybe, we could move into 2015 with a little more sanity shoved back into the financial markets.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bidless Euro Crashes To Level Not Seen Since March 2006
01-05-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Having closed the Friday session less than 1 pip above the hugely important 1.2000 level below which there lay many stops, following this weekend's news onslaught...
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Clint Eastwood on the Libertarian View
01-05-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Allegory
"I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live."
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News Link • Healthcare
US Doctor Comments on Single-Payer "Medicare for All" Proposal
01-05-2015
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Mike Shedlock
I received many interesting comments from readers on Single-Payer "Medicare for All" Proposal; Live and Let Die; Why Does Single-Payer "Work" in Europe?
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News Link • World News
Bring the Sacrificial Lambs in Korea Home Now
01-05-2015
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
During the Christmas holiday, I had the opportunity to visit with high-school and a college-age nephew, nieces, and their friends in Texas.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
A Brief History of the CIA's Unpunished Spying on the Senate
01-05-2015
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http://www.theatlantic.com, Conor Friedersdorf
President Obama's choice to lead the intelligence agency has undermined core checks and balances with impunity.
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News Link • Self-Defense
With new federal laws proposed to ban body armor for mere civilians, AMAZON begins selling vests
01-04-2015
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Amazon.com
Nothing is more American than cashing in on the panic.
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News Link • Drug War
Group Forms Spontaneous 'Human Shield' To Block Cops Arresting Man For Pot
01-04-2015
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The Free Thought Proiject
20 people spontaneously formed a "human shield" to protect a Florida man from police who wanted to arrest him for smoking marijuana. Police say they witnessed a man smoking what they smelled was marijuana.
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
SWAT Teams in Mass. Are "Private Companies" So Won't Share Records
01-04-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by McWilly
We often express our desire for police forces to be privatized, but in Massachusetts (and presumably other states as well) privatization has taken a darker turn concerning law enforcement.
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