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Date Sent: 2015-03-06
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, March 6, 2015 |
A Group 'Hacked' the NSA's Website to Demonstrate a Widespread Bug
Harry Reid Secured Subsidies for Aides' Donors -- Opinion: It's time to consider privatized policing -- Petraeus Facing Mild Wrist Slap For Leaking 8 Books Full Of Classified Info -- United States of Fear -- If It's Wednesday, We Like the Feds (Update) -- Stop the presses: HTTPS-crippling "FREAK" bug affects Windows after all -- Hovind could get twenty years plus for appealing his case Hear live reports below -- China Gives Notice That Renminbi Is The New World Currency -- 03-05-15 -- Scott Horton - Kyrel Zantonavitch - Jacob Hornberger (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Israeli Women Wage Peace -- Rand Advisor Goes Full Neocon Bizarro World On Fox -- Nuland Lied to Congress about Phantom Russian Hoards in Ukraine -- Nemtsov Wanted Color Revolution in Russia -- Dump Biotech, Short Central Banks, Buy Gold -- Slouching Toward Extinction -- Mining The Asteroids: Who Decides? -- The Mysteries of Earth's 'Other' Moon (Op-Ed) -- FCC weighs plan to use Russian satellite network for 911 system, raising security concerns -- Wreckamovie -- Has a crime been committed? -- Rahm could actually lose -- Ancient 'lost city' home to a vanished civilization found deep in jungles of Honduras -- Brain-altering Devices have hit the Mainstream -- The Lesson of Fukushima? That Nuclear Energy is Safe -- Fossils Expand the Menagerie of Jurassic Mammals -- Population Decline and the Great Economic Reversal -- Mark One Bounty by Cody Wilson -- LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM: I'm laughing and weeping
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Saturday - March 7th, 2015 - Coco's PV Mall - 8-10 a.m. AZ TIME.; Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - Weds., 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ; BitcoinSummit.info - Sat., March 14th 2015, 9am-5pm & Evening Party
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
A Group 'Hacked' the NSA's Website to Demonstrate a Widespread Bug
03-05-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
A group of researchers only needed $104 and 8 hours of Amazon's cloud computing power to hack the NSA's website.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Harry Reid Secured Subsidies for Aides' Donors
03-05-2015
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Free Beacon
Corporate donors to a green energy nonprofit operated by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's (D., Nev.) former staffers and a current campaign operative have received billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Opinion: It's time to consider privatized policing
03-05-2015
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Guns.com
So where does that leave the citizenry who pays both the fiscal and physical price for maintaining a police force of increasingly questionable legitimacy? In short, we have an overly aggressive, militarized law enforcement community that embraces an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Petraeus Facing Mild Wrist Slap For Leaking 8 Books Full Of Classified Info
03-05-2015
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Information Liberation
The administration still wants to punish whistleblowers and leakers, but only if it can do it with logic borrowed from Animal Farm. When it comes to prosecution, some leakers are more equal than others.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
United States of Fear
03-05-2015
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The Independence Institute
These orders, all "necessary" in the face of crisis, allow the President to freeze an individual's assets, confiscate private property, and limit trade. These directives can force retired veterans into military service, and allow for unlimited,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
If It's Wednesday, We Like the Feds (Update)
03-05-2015
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Simple Justice
The Department of Justice issues two reports, one condemning the police in Ferguson, Missouri, for racism, and the other concluding that its investigation did not support bringing civil rights charges against Police Officer Darren Wilson
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Stop the presses: HTTPS-crippling "FREAK" bug affects Windows after all
03-05-2015
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ars technica
Computers running all supported versions of Windows are vulnerable to "FREAK," a bug that for a decade has made it possible for attackers to decrypt HTTPS-protected traffic passing between vulnerable end-users and millions of websites.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Fake Olive Oil: What You Need To Know
03-05-2015
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Eat Local Grown
You'd have to live in a cave to not have heard about the health benefits of olive oil. It's a monounsaturated fat that is a major component of the Mediterranean diet and is believed to be a factor why people in that area of the world are some of
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
China Gives Notice That Renminbi Is The New World Currency
03-05-2015
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Economicpolicyjournal.com
When I arrived to Bangkok the other day, coming down the motorway from the airport I saw a huge billboard - and it floored me.
It means that China is literally advertising its currency, and it's making sure that everyone landing...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Advisor Goes Full Neocon Bizarro World On Fox
03-05-2015
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Targetliberty.com
Doug Wead promoted, hook, line and sinker, the Netanyahu message. Bizarrely, he even compared Iran to the mass killers Idi Amin and Pol Pot, and found Iran failing in comparison to them. Now, that's how you sling propaganda.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Why Are Today's Diesels Only So-So Economical . . . and So Expensive?
03-05-2015
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http://ericpetersautos.com, by eric
There's something weird and cruel about the fact that diesel engines are â€" for the most part â€" for the affluent-only. You'd think it'd be the reverse.
And it is … in Europe.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Dump Biotech, Short Central Banks, Buy Gold
03-05-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Mark Faber
Mark Faber says the biotech sector, as well as social media and chip stocks, are due for a plunge. He also thinks investors will lose confidence in central banks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Slouching Toward Extinction
03-05-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
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With all the Cheers and Jeers of C-PAC 2015 fading into Yesterday's News, let us carpe the diem to add to the growing list of oxymoronic fantasies in desperate need of extinction, a term heard ear
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mining The Asteroids: Who Decides?
03-05-2015
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http://www.space.com, by Donald Goldsmith
Our civilization--and presumably any civilization with a technological capacity at least as advanced as ours--runs on energy and raw materials.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Just For Fun!
15 Things You Didn't Know About Earth
03-05-2015
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https://www.youtube.com, Danger Dolan
From lakes that actually explode to a twin planet that crashed into Earth once upon a time, we count 15 facts about the little blue planet we like to call home
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Aquaponics
System Overview
03-05-2015
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https://www.youtube.com, Saddle Mountain Aquaponic
Saddle Mountain Aquaponics
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Communications
FCC weighs plan to use Russian satellite network for 911 system, raising security concerns
03-05-2015
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Judson Berger
If American astronauts hitching a ride from the Russians to the International Space Station didn't ruffle enough feathers, there's growing concern about a proposal to use Moscow's satellites to transmit America's 911 emergency calls.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Movies
Wreckamovie
03-05-2015
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http://en.wikipedia.org
Wreckamovie is a collaborative film production platform to allow individuals to set up a film production and find a community to collaborate with, or find others' interesting film productions and become a collaborator in a worknet. Its aim is to make
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient 'lost city' home to a vanished civilisation found deep in jungles of Honduras
03-05-2015
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Philip Sherwell
Expedition of archaeologists accompanied by ex-SAS survival experts makes stunning discovery of fabled "White City" where locals may have once worshipped a monkey god
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
Brain-altering Devices have hit the Mainstream
03-05-2015
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arclein
But there are wearables that can. Thync, a brain-shocking wearable, has been heralded as the first mood-altering device on the market. Through gentle shocks, you can use Thync to give yourself energy or calm yourself down, and the team is working on
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Lesson of Fukushima ?" Nuclear Energy is Safe
03-05-2015
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arclein
The nuclear fraternity worldwide should have celebrated after the Fukushima drama. The world watched the entire saga, second by second…and what was the outcome?
Answer: total people killed by radiation, zero. Total injured, zero. Total privat
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Fossils Expand the Menagerie of Jurassic Mammals
03-05-2015
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arclein
"We used to view docodons as a relatively homogeneous group," said Zhe-Xi Luo, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago and an author of both papers. "Now we've found a tree climber with specialized teeth and a super digger that was clea
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Population Decline and the Great Economic Reversal
03-05-2015
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arclein
There is no question but that the populations of most European countries will decline in the next generation, and in the cases of Germany and Russia, the decline will be dramatic. In fact, the entire global population explosion is ending. In virtuall
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robert klein
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Feature Article • 3D Printing
Mark One Bounty by Cody Wilson
Donna Hancock
Companies like to pile on Defense Distributed, like we don't all know how this story ends. The most recent is a company called Mark Forged in Cambridge that sells a carbon fiber 3D printer called the Mark One...I will pay $15,000 to the first person
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Feature Article • Conspiracies
Mike McNulty, Waco Hero, R.I.P.
Jim Bovard
One of the heroes of the Waco fights of the 1990s has passed away. Mike McNulty did more than any other single person to doggedly pursue the truth about Waco. And he produced or co-produced a number of superb films that vividly and compelling expla
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News Link • Agriculture
U.S. agriculture delegation visits Cuba, protests embargo
03-04-2015
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reuters.com, By Marc Frank and Daniel Trotta
The most important U.S. agricultural delegation to visit Cuba in more than a decade began three days of meetings on Monday, hoping to find potential business partners, while urging the U.S. Congress to lift the U.S. embargo on trade with the island.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu addressed the pro-Israel lobby...
03-04-2015
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http://www.jpost.com
Thank you. Wow, 16,000 people. Anyone here from California? Florida? New York? Well, these are the easy ones.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Got $1,000,000,000,000? The world's first trillionaire already in the making
03-04-2015
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Jennifer Harper
Analysts predict that the world's first trillionaire will emerge on the planet -- and it may be sooner than we think.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Our Drone Future
03-04-2015
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https://vimeo.com, from Alex Cornell
GoPro, DJI Phantom, After Effects, Premier, Logic
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
9 Months On, Koch Fears Realized After Town Raised Minimum Wage To $15
03-04-2015
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arclein
In January, the town of Seatac, Washington, put in to effect a new $15 per hour Minimum Wage. No ramp ups, no tiered implementation. One day it was the state standard, the next, the highest minimum wage in the nation. The Koch Brothers sank a fortune
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robert klein
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
3 Masked Suspects In Custody After Allegedly Firing At LAPD Officers In South LA
03-03-2015
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CBS News
Officers were patrolling the area when three men wearing black ski masks ran up and opened fire, according to police.
After a brief search, all three suspects were taken into custody.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Florida moving to unmask anonymous websites to combat online piracy
03-03-2015
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ars technica
Florida lawmakers are considering legislation to make it unlawful to run a website anonymously if it offers "commercial" recordings and videos. The aim is to close or disrupt websites that don't comply--all in the name of protecting intellectual pro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
The "censorious thuggery" of Ohio Judge Tim Grendell
03-03-2015
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Washington Post
If you were a judge, would you threaten to hold people in contempt of court because of things they said about you in private conversations? As a VC reader, I am sure you wouldn't. Alas, the same cannot be said of Ohio judge Tim Grendell
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
To locate bank robber, FBI unusually asked for warrant to use stingray
03-03-2015
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ars technica
Court documents in a federal armed New Jersey bank robbery case that went to trial reveal an unusual back-and-forth between authorities and judges--ultimately resulting in the FBI seeking and getting a warrant to use a stingray.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Mississippi AG's investigation of Google halted by federal judge
03-03-2015
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ars technica
Hood's investigation came under fire after it was revealed it was encouraged, and partly funded, by the Motion Picture Association of America. MPAA lawyers even wrote drafts of subpoenas intended to be used by the AGs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
15 Ridiculous Ways to get on the FBI Terrorist Watchlist
03-03-2015
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Shades of Thomas Paine
In hopes of catching more terrorists, the FBI released 25 instructional pamphlets intended for everyone from hobby store owners to karate instructors. The idea being businesses will turn in their customers to the FBI as terrorists.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Democratization of Cyberattack
03-03-2015
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Schneier on Security
When I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose was QUANTUM. This is the NSA's program that allows the agency to hack into computers.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas Town Sees 61% Drop in Crime After Kicking Out Cops
03-03-2015
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Sputnik News
Rather than degenerate into a lawless land where criminals rule the streets, a Texas town that fired its entire police department has seen a 61% decrease is crime.
In 2012, Sharpstown, a community of 66,000 located just southwest of Houston, decli
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video proof isn't always what it seems, ex-cop's acquittal shows
03-03-2015
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Journal Sentinel
Interrogation room video seems to show a Milwaukee police detective repeatedly beating and kicking an unresisting suspect who is handcuffed to the wall. Prosecutors thought it so clearly showed an abuse of authority they charged Rodolfo Gomez Jr.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Netanyahu Marched Into Congress Like He Owned It
03-03-2015
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Targetliberty.com
All you need to know about Netanyahu's speech is that he provided a "history" of Iran, and its current regime hostile to the US, without mentioning that the current regime emerged out of the overthrow of the brutal US puppet regime of the Shah.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • NeoCons
Rand Paul Is Now On the Neocon Enemies List With An Arrow
03-03-2015
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Targetliberty.com
Rand Paul's enthusiastic endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress is far from enough for the neocons. You see, he wasn't clapping hard enough during the speech according to the neocons...
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Group: We'll Pay $15K for Your Carbon Fiber 3-D Printer
03-03-2015
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http://www.wired.com
The age of 3-D printing in carbon fiber has hardly arrived. But the controversy over 3-D printing carbon fiber guns is well under way.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Greek Pensioners To Fund Ukraine's Government: Syriza Will Tap Pension...
03-03-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Greek Pensioners To Fund Ukraine's Government: Syriza Will Tap Pension Funds To Pay IMF
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
FBI's 'Smoking Gun' Video of Boston Marathon Bombing Doesn't Exist
03-03-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by kevink
What do former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, an appeals court justice, several potential members of the Boston Marathon bombing jury and thousands of regular Americans have in common?
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News Link • Conspiracies
Former L A F B I Director Warns Of Illuminati World Control
03-03-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fishyculture
Start at 12:50 for clip mentioned in title, although the whole video is pretty good.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Noam Chomsky's Take on 'American Sniper'
03-03-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Diamond Dog
During a public conversation prompted by the beginning of the Tsarnaev trial in Boston, Noam Chomsky discussed the larger issue of society's growing tolerance for violence and willingness to overlook questionable acts carried out by government agenci
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Crime, Punishment, and Russia's Original Social Network
03-03-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com, BY CASEY JOHNSTON
Pavel Durov, founder of the Russian social network VKontakte, was home alone in his apartment in St. Petersburg on a weekend when a contingent of men in camouflage uniforms knocked violently on his door.
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