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Date Sent: 2013-10-07
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, October 7, 2013 |
Libya condemns U.S. raid and kidnapping of one of its citizens
Ron Paul: An Opening to Iran? -- Iceland bounces back from the banking brink -- Happy birthday income tax, you're 100 years old (ouch!) -- Police probing missing Maddie case to analyze phone data -- Brazilian police accused of torturing bricklayer to death and hiding his body -- Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons begins -- Plan for Ridding Syria of Chemical Arms Includes Brute Force and Chemistry -- Families hoard cash 5 yrs after crisis -- Should Not the
Punishment Fit the Crime? -- 12 Banks of Death w/ Jim Rogers (The
Truthseeker) -- Woman stripped completely naked by male cops (NEW,
not Hope Steffey case) -- New Ron Paul
Interview: "The School Revolution" -- Glenn Greenwald Mops the Floor
-- Was police shooting of unarmed woman outside
Capitol justified?
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine October, 2013 Edition
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News Link • Libya
Libya condemns U.S. raid and kidnapping of one of its citizens
10-06-2013
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Washington Post
The Libyan government on Sunday condemned what it called the “kidnapping” of one of its citizens who was taken into custody outside his home in Tripoli in a highly unusual covert operation carried out by the U.S. military.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: An Opening to Iran?
10-06-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Last week, for the first time since the 1979 Iranian revolution, the US president spoke with his Iranian counterpart. Their 15 minute telephone call was reported to open the door to further high-level discussions. This is a very important event.
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News Link • Economy - International
Iceland bounces back from the banking brink
10-06-2013
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The Guardian
While many other politicians in Iceland had urged a policy of appeasing the enraged British and Dutch governments, Gunnlaugsson had insisted they should go hang. “Icelanders, as descendants of the Vikings, are highly individualistic
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Happy birthday income tax, you're 100 years old (ouch!)
10-06-2013
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CNBC
"But there's one thing we can take from the period of time when the tax law passed. And that is lawmakers got together and realized some permanent form of taxation was needed instead of having a political stalemate that got nowhere."
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News Link • Surveillance
Police probing missing Maddie case to analyse phone data
10-06-2013
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AFP
British police said they would conduct a “targeted attack” on mobile phone data of people who were near the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz when British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. The phone data was now being cross-referenced
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Brazilian police accused of torturing bricklayer to death and hiding his body
10-06-2013
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AFP
A local police commissioner has accused Amarildo of being involved in drugs trafficking and he was captured by CCTV cameras getting into a Police Pacification Unit vehicle. The 42-year-old father of 6 is assumed to have been taken away
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons begins
10-06-2013
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AFP
Experts destroyed missile warheads, aerial bombs and chemical mixing equipment Sunday on the first day of a campaign to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, the UN said.
The operation, performed by Syrian personnel under the supervision of internat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Plan for Ridding Syria of Chemical Arms Includes Brute Force and Chemistry
10-06-2013
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New York Times
The US are planning a series of rapid steps to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons program, a strategy intended to guard against backsliding by President al-Assad and limit the time international experts need to work in the country,
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
AP IMPACT: Families hoard cash 5 yrs after crisis
10-6-2013
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http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-families-hoard-cas
"Lehman changed everything," says Arne Holzhausen, a senior economist at global insurer Allianz, based in Munich. "It's safety, safety, safety."
The AP analyzed data showing what consumers did with their money in the five years before the Gre
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Should Not the Punishment Fit the Crime?
10-6-2013
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Free Press Publications
We often hear the phrase “the punishment should fit the crime,” and I'm quite certain that many people believe that to be a cornerstone of common law. It is certainly the primary concept of retributive justice, and is contrasted by the legal theory
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
12 Banks of Death w/ Jim Rogers (The Truthseeker)
10-06-2013
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbJnYUUiu-4
12 Banks of Death w/ Jim Rogers (The Truthseeker)
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Police State
Woman stripped completely naked by male cops (NEW, not Hope Steffey case)
10-06-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Indoctrination
Police in my old home state recently demonstrated that this is common practice in america, and has been for awhile.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Jordan Maxwell: The Inner World Of The Occult - Watch This!
10-06-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Jawa86
This movie is important to understanding where our politics and religion come from.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
New Ron Paul Interview: "The School Revolution"
10-06-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Peace Gold Love
The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Glenn Greenwald Mops the Floor
10-06-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Michael Nystrom
BBC Newsnight exclusive interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald on Edward Snowden, the PRISM revelations and mass surveillance.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems?
10-06-2013
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http://www.ted.com, TED2013
In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Art
Don't Believe Your Eyes
10-06-2013
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altering-perspectives.com via Rense
Making clouds out of drug store cotton balls. Diorama madre from cotton, salt, cooked sugar, tin foil, feathers & canvas. (This guy is AWESOME!! - Ed)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Was police shooting of unarmed woman outside Capitol justified?
10-06-2013
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NBC News
The chase ended at the NE corner of the Capitol grounds when the Infiniti was stopped by a barrier near 2ND Street NE. The officials said she made a U-turn and became stuck on a median by a Police guard post, where she was shot dead. 17 shots were fi
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Leon Felkins
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, October 6, 2013 Edition
10-04-2013
John Semmens
Feds Spare No Expense to Close Popular Tourist Sites
Determined to put a real “sting” into the shutdown of the federal government in the absence of Congressional passage of a continuing resolution, the federal government incurred the added expense
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Reference Link • Activism
Please Don't Let the Government Reopen
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Did you miss your junk that you sold from your last garage sale? That's how I feel about the government shutdown. I'm praying that even more of the government will shutdown.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Corporate Coup d’Etat (Alternative Radio Podcast) By Chris Hedges
10-4-2013
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http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/chris-hedges-corp
Corporations constitute the most powerful force in society. Their influence has seeped into our classrooms, our newsrooms, our entertainment systems, our consciousness and crucially into our politics. Big money buys access to lawmakers. For sheer arr
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Police State
Jail time for selling raw milk is greater than jail time for raping children
10-04-2013
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naturalnews.com
The American system of justice is indeed in major need of overhaul when, in one place, you can get a month in jail for raping a child, but in another, you can get several months in jail for daring to sell milk that wasn't government approved.
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
Unintended consequences of Obamacare devastating American jobs and workers
10-04-2013
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naturalnews.com
I'm not naive enough to believe that politics is anything but a blood sport, but it would be nice to have national media organizations whose editors and reporters remembered that their responsibility, first and foremost, is not to be shills for left-
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News Link • Police State
Staged Police Violence: NWO loves it
10-04-2013
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The Local Voluntary
I have to admit. I’m getting a little tired of all the staged police violence. NWO loves Hegelian dialectic. So they amplify the problem until everyone is looking for a solution. And like clockwork, they roll in with their solution and you are still
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Michael Baysek
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News Link • Internet
Silk Road: Random is the New Normal
10-03-2013
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Simple Justice
What does come as a surprise is the government has attained the level of sophistication necessary to break Tor, to identify the users behind the curtain, to track their virtual existence back to the real world, where people have names, live in rented
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News Link • Homeland Security
Ex-NSA chief jokes about putting Snowden on a hit list, advocates “targeted killings”
10-03-2013
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ars technica
A former NSA director joked at a cybersecurity conference that NSA-leaker Edward Snowden should be put on a kill list rather than a human rights award list. He said the US does not conduct assassinations, it conducts “targeted killings.”
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Former Pennsylvania Congressman Suspended From Practicing Law Due To Criticism Of Judges
10-03-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Former Democratic congressman and Auditor General Don Bailey, 68, had his law license suspended for five years by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for allegations and criticism directed at judges in the state. Bailey denounced the ruling
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News Link • Military
American Exceptionalism!!!
10-03-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The only thing we are exceptional at spreading debt and death!
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News Link • Surveillance
How a telecom helped the government spy on me
10-03-2013
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ars technica
In 2004, my telephone records, as well as those of another New York Times reporter and two reporters from the Washington Post, were obtained by federal agents assigned to investigate a leak of classified information. What happened next
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News Link • Activism
US indicts suspected Anonymous members for leading 2010 “Operation Payback”
10-03-2013
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ars technica
13 men were indicted on one count of Conspiracy to Intentionally Cause Damage to a Protected Computer. They are accused of DDoS attacks on the Recording Industry Association of America, the Motion Picture Association of America,
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Glowing plant project on Kickstarter sparks debate about regulation of DNA modification
10-03-2013
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Washington Post
Hunkered down in a converted shipping container stationed in a San Francisco parking lot, three young entrepreneurs are tinkering with the DNA of ordinary plants in the hopes of being able to mass produce a variety that glows in the dark.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Driver killed after chase from White House to Capitol
10-03-2013
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Washington Post
A car chase that began when a woman driver struck a White House security barrier ended across downtown Washington, when police shot and killed the unarmed driver on a street near the U.S. Capitol. All shots were fired by police.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Worldwide derivatives market could be over $1.2 quadrillion in notional value
10-03-2013
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http://americablog.com/2013/03/the-worldwide-deriv
You read that headine right. By at least one estimate, in 2010 there was a total of $12 trillion in cash tied up (at risk) in derivatives as defined above, all of which controlled contracts connected to assets valued at $1.2 quadrillion
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News Link • Drug War
Attorney For Freedom Show - Bryan Tann
10-03-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
Bryan Tann joins Marc Victor, Mike Wasdin and Ed Vanderlee on The Attorney For Freedom Show Today.
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • MEDIA GOVERNMENT REFERENCES
SENATOR McCAIN SENDS LETTER URGING THE GOVERNMENT TO HOLD INDIVIDUALS ACCOUNTABLE IN “LONDON WHALE”
10-03-2013
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http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuse
Washington, D.C. " U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today sent a letter to the Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mary Jo White, urging the government to hold individuals accountable for their role in JPMorgan Chase’s $6 bill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Bush And The JFK Hit, Part 3: Where Was Poppy November 22, 1963?
10-03-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
What possible connection could there have been between George H.W. Bush and the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
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News Link • General Opinion
Can There Be a 'Just Tax'?
10-03-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
This article is excerpted from Power & Market (now included in the Scholar’s Edition of Man, Economy, and State) where it was originally titled “Canons of ‘Justice’ in Taxation.”
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Obama meets with Goldman Sachs for New Line of Credit " in Violation of US Law
10-03-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-meets-with-gold
URGENT MEMO: The current U.S. President has chosen to meet outside of government law, possibly selling off additional parts of the nation’s sovereignty " to men in suits who are more than ready to capitalize on the current US budget crisis.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Values Plummet $500M, Then Recover, After Silk Road Bust
10-03-2013
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Wired.com
Bitcoin, world’s most popular digital currency, had a roller coaster ride today after the federal government shut down the Silk Road, an online marketplace where millions of bitcoins were swapped for drugs and black market products over the past two
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Edward Snowden’s E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show
10-03-2013
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Wired.com
The U.S. government in July obtained a search warrant demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site, according to to newly unsealed documents.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant operator says another tank leaked toxic water
10-03-2013
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Reuters
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday another tank holding highly contaminated water overflowed, probably sending the liquid into the Pacific Ocean, in the second such breach in less than two months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS targeted Dr. Ben Carson after Prayer Breakfast speech
10-03-2013
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washingtontimes.com
Just months after he gave a speech earlier this year that challenged America’s leadership in President Obama’s presence, Dr. Ben Carson was targeted by IRS agents who requested to review his real estate holdings and then conducted a full audit withou
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Crafty! Arizona unveils plan to fool parents by changing Common Core name, nothing else
10-03-2013
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The Daily Caller
On Tuesday, Huppenthal announced a plan to change the name “Common Core” to “Arizona College and Career Ready Standards.” This superficial change will be the ONLY change to Arizona’s implementation of the Common Core.
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News Link • Propaganda
The Pat Tillman Story on Intellectual Revolution TV
10-03-2013
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Intellectual Revolution TV
The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev's riveting and enraging documentary.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
The FBI busted Silk Road, but not the 'dark web' behind it
10-03-2013
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The Verge
'Dread Pirate Roberts' wasn't as smart as he " and everyone else " assumed he was
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News Link • Gun Rights
MOLON LABE! Movie Is All Done: Will Premiere In October!
10-03-2013
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Oath Keepers
Elias Alias here with some notes for all Oath Keepers who are keeping tabs on MOLON LABE. I want to say a few words, then will share with you some communications from James Jaeger, where you'll learn the current stage of the movie's development as we
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