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Date Sent: 2013-07-01
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, July 1, 2013 |
US feds make their first-ever Bitcoin seizure -- Is Every American A Potential Terrorist?
Half of Yarnell, AZ Burned: Wildfire grows to more than 2,000 acres, 19 firefighters killed -- Another Black Man up on "Terrorist" Charges -- Teenager Commits Suicide After Police Launch Social Media Campaign Against Him --
The All-Time Whistleblower: Philip Agee -- From the Rust Belt to the
Asteroid Belt: a GUT (Grand Unified Theory of Freeholding) -- Judge Puts Unprecedented Gag Order on Sidewalk Chalk Protestor Trial --
How did America’s police become a military force on the streets? -- Ayn
Rand's Vision of Galt's Gulch Has Become Reality As Of Today -- Podunk prosecutors seek gag order against 8th-grader arrested over NRA shirt -- Hundreds of thousands march in Egypt, pushing for Morsi removal -- The Origins of the U.S. Intelligence Community & Why It Spies on Americans -- Public School Is Brainwashing / Richard Grove interviewed by Rob Dew on the InfoWars Nightly News -- Seeing Through Walls With Wi-Fi... er... Wi-Vi --
False Advertising? You Tell Me… -- Agroforestry: The Future of Food
Production -- Big Brother’s power is building, warns George Orwell
biographer -- Jon Stewart Skypes Into 'Daily Show,' Says It's 'Too
Weird' To Watch While Away -- The Cost Of Mining An Ounce Of Gold -- The US Is Giving Afghans $553 Million In Russian Helicopters They Can't Even Use -- A 15 Year-Old Girl From Canada Has Built A Flashlight Powered By The Heat Of A Hand -- It's Official: Student Loan Rates Will Double Monday -- Full
Disclosure: What the Media Isn't Telling You About War in Syria
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News Link • Bitcoin
U.S. feds make their first-ever Bitcoin seizure
06-30-2013
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It may be the currency of the future, but it now appears that Bitcoin is not immune to the U.S. government's prying eyes and hands " especially when it's being used to fuel black market activities.
A few days ago, the federal Drug Enforcement Agen
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News Link • TERRORISM
Is Every American A Potential Terrorist?
06-30-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Many people have dismissed concern over the recently revelation that the NSA has been keeping tabs on them, proclaiming they have nothing to hide.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Half of Yarnell Burned: Wildfire grows to more than 2,000 acres, 19 firefighters killed
06-30-2013
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ABC 15 News
Nineteen firefighters have died fighting a wildfire in northern Arizona, according to officials. The Daily Courier says the Prescott Fire Department lost nearly its entire crew on Sunday while battling the Yarnell Hill fire.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Another Black Man up on "Terrorist" Charges
06-30-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
This is in Dubuque, Iowa. Michael C. Lewis, 25, is charged with discharging a firearm into a car and building. The result? He's charged with "one count of going armed with intent and two counts of terrorism."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Teenager Commits Suicide After Police Launch Social Media Campaign Against Him
06-30-2013
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Smith, Cain's sister, says the officer also harassed the teenager with private Facebook messages. Meanwhile, false rumors about Cain began circulating across social media, all sparked by the Sheriff's Office initial posts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The All-Time Whistleblower: Philip Agee
06-30-2013
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Under CIA manipulation, direction and, usually, their payroll, were past and present presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, and Costa Rica, “our minister of labor”, “our vice-president”, “my police”, journalists, labor leaders, student leaders,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
From the Rust Belt to the Asteroid Belt:
a GUT (Grand Unified Theory of Freeholding)
06-30-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
We concluded that much of what has transpired in the headlines over the last several years boils down to a battle between two Americas and two separate and mutually exclusive visions for the future.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge Puts Unprecedented Gag Order on Sidewalk Chalk Protestor Trial
06-30-2013
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An update to the chilling San Diego city attorney prosecution of Jeff Olson, an SD Judge placed an unprecedented gag order on a misdemeanor trial -- in particular muzzling Olson. But it also apparently included witnesses, the jury and others.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
How did America’s police become a military force on the streets?
06-30-2013
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Are cops constitutional? In a 2001 article for the Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, Roger Roots posed just that question. Roots, a fairly radical libertarian, believes that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t allow for police as they exist today.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Ayn Rand's Vision of Galt's Gulch Has Become Reality As Of Today
06-30-2013
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Dollar Vigilante
After months of hard work by the entire staff at Galt's Gulch Chile I am extremely pleased to announce to the world that Ayn Rand's vision in her iconic book, Atlas Shrugged, has become a reality.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Podunk prosecutors seek gag order against eighth-grader arrested over NRA shirt
06-30-2013
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The Daily Caller
The case of the 8th-grader suspended and arrested after he refused to remove a t-shirt supporting the NRA just keeps getting weirder. The 14-year-old student was back at the courthouse because prosecutors were seeking an emergency gag order.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Egypt
Hundreds of thousands march in Egypt, pushing for Morsi removal
06-30-2013
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Hundreds of thousands of opponents of Egypt's Islamist president poured onto the streets in Cairo and across much of the nation Sunday, launching an all-out push to force Mohammed Morsi from office on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
History… The Origins of the U.S. Intelligence Community & Why It Spies on Americans
06-30-2013
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TragedyandHope.com
Tonight, on History So it doesn’t Repeat: We ask the question: Is America safer, now that we’re openly being spied on? We’ll discover how to check our premises, and peer into the origins, form, and function of the intelligence Community...
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Cody Hall
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News Link • History
Public School Is Brainwashing / Richard Grove interviewed by Rob Dew on the InfoWars Nightly News
06-30-2013
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TragedyandHope.com
On The June 27, 2013 Broadcast of The Infowars Nightly News, Rob Dew speaks with State of Mind Writer Richard Grove about the mass manipulation of humanity by the global elite’s eugenicist propaganda machine.
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Cody Hall
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Seeing Through Walls With Wi-Fi... er... Wi-Vi
06-30-2013
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PC Magazine
And here you thought that the main benefit a wireless connection was just for making sure that you didn't have to drag a super-long Ethernet cord wherever you went.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Misinformation
False Advertising? You Tell Me…
06-30-2013
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Farm Wars
Green Polkadot Box sells kid's toothpaste with ingredient causing gastrointestinal inflammation, ulcerations, lesions and colon cancer in laboratory animals.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Agriculture
Agroforestry: The Future of Food Production
06-30-2013
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Farm Wars
Agroforestry is the integration of trees with productive farming. Last year, many smallscale Midwestern farmers reported poor yields and, in some cases, a complete lack of yields due to the severe drought. Agroforestry can prevent losses.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Chemtrails
GeoEngineering, Global Climate Disruptions, Chemtrails: “Our Atmosphere is a Massive Physics Lab”
06-25-13
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Dane Wigington
In this video, Dane Wigington gives a presentation in Northern California on the harmful effects of Geoengineering, declaring that this is among the most important issues affecting humanity.
The very essentials needed to sustain life on earth are be
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Wk Child
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Disabled Duck Buttercup Gets A New Foot Thanks To 3D Printing Technology
06-30-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
After living one year with a backward foot, disabled duck, Buttercup, will finally get a viable foot due to 3D printing technology. Buttercup was born in a high school biology lab last November and at first appeared like any normal yellow and fluffy
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother’s power is building, warns George Orwell biographer
06-30-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
‘Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning. He felt that if someone didn’t sound the alarm loudly enough, eventually a lot of the freedoms he cherished would be lost.’
Earlier this month, the most talked about novelist in the English language wasn’t Dan Brow
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Afghanistan
The US Is Giving Afghans $553 Million In Russian Helicopters They Can't Even Use
06-30-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brian Jones
The U.S. government is giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a Russian arms company to buy helicopters that the Afghan military cannot maintain or operate, according to a scathing new report from the inspector general for Afghan reconstruction.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Inventions
A 15 Year-Old Girl From Canada Has Built A Flashlight Powered By The Heat Of A Hand
06-30-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
There's almost no real reason to own a flashlight now that all smartphones have bright flashes that work as flashlights.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
It's Official: Student Loan Rates Will Double Monday
06-30-2013
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Business Insider
More than 7 million students will see interest rates on their student loans double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent on Monday, after the failure of Congress to pass legislation to prevent the automatic rate hike that they successfully deferred for a year last
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Full Disclosure: What the Media Isn't Telling You About War in Syria
06-30-2013
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youtube
Back the truth in media project
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • Police State
Checkpoint USA Back In Court On Monday
Terry Bressi
(Update - charge dismissed against Checkpoint USA) On Monday July 1, 2013, I'll be back in Pima County Justice Court defending myself against a bogus traffic citation issued on March 29, 2013 at the SR-86 Milepost 146.6 CBP roadblock. The citation wa
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, June 30, 2013 Edition
06-28-2013
John Semmens
More Government Spying Uncovered
The massive invasion of Americans' privacy by the federal government isn't the exclusive turf of the National Security Agency (NSA). Information released in response to a Freedom of Information Act filing indicates
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News Link • Activism
PANDA and OATH KEEPERS Under Fire In Oregon (People Against the NDAA)
06-28-2013
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Oath Keepers
A Coos County paper, The World, not only leveled personal attacks against the people of PANDA and Oath Keepers, but also denounced local action against the 2012 NDAA, saying “county officials obviously have no authority over federal law”.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother, Not Snowden And Greenwald, Is The Story
06-27-2013
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Sheldon Richman, NJ Today
“Instead of being adversaries to government power … [the media of Washington, D.C., are] … servants to it and mouthpieces for it.”
So said the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story of Snowden’s disclosure of NSA spying, after Greenwald’s
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Police State
Federal Prosecutors Seize Creamery’s Accounts Under Terror Financing Law
06-28-2013
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www.jonathanturley.org
Randy and Karen Sowers are not your typical terrorists or mob financiers. They run the popular South Mountain Creamery and sell their produces at farmer’s markets and local events. The Somers however were confronted recently by FBI agents who informe
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Secret flower planter threatened with arrest if he doesn't stop planting flowers
06-28-2013
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Natural News
The real estate department from Washington's Metro Transit system has recently become aware of unauthorized flowers springing up in planter boxes on public property.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Pennsylvania Man Charged With Writing On Public Sidewalk In Front Of Governor’s Mansion
06-28-2013
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www.jonathanturley.org
It appears there is a thin chalk line between us and anarchy. Police in various states are cracking down on a criminal epidemic sweeping the nation: sidewalk chalk protesters.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
FBI Document - "[Deleted]" Plots to Kill Occupy Leaders "If Deemed Necessary"
06-28-2013
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WhoWhatWhy.Com
Would you be shocked to learn that the FBI apparently knew that some organization, perhaps even a law enforcement agency or private security outfit, had contingency plans to assassinate peaceful protestors in a major American city " and did nothing t
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
The 441 TRILLION Dollar Interest Rate Derivatives Time Bomb
06-28-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Do you want to know the primary reason why rapidly rising interest rates could take down the entire global financial system?
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-FBI agent faces tough questions in Bulger trial
06-28-2013
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AP
Former FBI Agent John Morris appeared sheepish when he admitted under questioning he accepted $7,000 in cash and 2 cases of wine from James "Whitey" Bulger at a time when Bulger was a feared gangster and a FBI informant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Albert Edwards: "Marc Faber Is Right. QE99 Here We Come"
06-28-2013
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zerohedge.com
The bloodbath in the bond markets has led some 'greatly rotating' commentators to see this as the end of the long bull market (and the beginning of a lost decade for Treasuries);
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News Link • Constitution
Trashing the Bill of Rights: Where America Stands Now
06-28-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
Whatever our opinion of the US Constitution, it has clearly been the standard of reference in America and the trashing of this document matters for the future of the American people.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
‘Hell to pay:’ Residents angry as RCMP seize guns from High River homes (with video)
06-28-2013
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calgaryherald.com
‘It’s just like Nazi Germany,’ says resident
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Europe strikes deal to push cost of bank failure on investors
06-28-2013
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Reuters
The European Union agreed on Thursday to force investors and wealthy savers to share the costs of future bank failures, moving closer to drawing a line under years of taxpayer-funded bailouts that have prompted public outrage.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
The personal side of taking on the NSA: emerging smears
06-28-2013
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The Guardian
Distractions about my past and personal life have emerged " an inevitable side effect for those who challenge the US government
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Hilsenrath: White House Preparing Bernanke's Replacement
06-28-2013
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zerohedge.com
It's been a long time since Hilsenrath actually reported news instead of serve as a leak dissemination service for the New York Fed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Dubai Gold Demand Off the Charts as Price Plunges
06-28-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Only in the gold market does huge demand equal a price collapse! I suppose the problem is they don’t buy Comex contracts in Dubai and India. As I mentioned on Twitter earlier today, the pile-on from gold bears is reaching extreme proportions, somet
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
New EU Plan Will Make Every Bank Account In Europe Vulnerable To Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation
06-28-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Did you actually believe that they were not going to use the precedent that they set in Cyprus? On Thursday, EU finance ministers agreed to a shocking new plan that will make every bank account in Europe vulnerable to Cyprus-style bail-ins. In othe
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Chris Menke
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
OCC looked the other way at the blatant independence conflict when JP Morgan engaged Deloitte
06-28-2013
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/francinemckenna/2013/0
One of the fundamental tenets of the “independent” foreclosure reviews of mortgage servicers ordered by the OCC and Federal Reserve Board was the independence and objectivity of the consultants. The ICs for the IFRs were supposed to determine how muc
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