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Date Sent: 2014-05-27
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
The Future: Motorist Sues After Officer Takes Forced Urine Sample
Suspended-animation trials to begin on humans -- Extremists: "Military Veterans Who Have Fought In Foreign Wars And Are Disgruntled…" -- Tom Woods Show: Avoid Obamacare Legally, and Get Cheap Health Care -- Nigel Farage all smiles as he revels in Ukip's European election success -- RETAIL DEATH RATTLE GROWS LOUDER -- THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE -- Syrian Rebels Describe U.S.-Backed Training in Qatar -- Andreas Antonopoulos - Government not a threat to Bitcoin -- VIDEO: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/26/14: The VA Scandal .... -- SWAT team ambushes innocent man as he works on tractor in his driveway -- 'We're coming for YOU, Red Ed': -- Stark warning from Europe s voters -- Iran Judge Summons Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Court -- Swiss group to allow assisted dying for elderly who are not terminally ill -- Nigel Farage "drinks and smokes too much", says his wife Kirsten -- Greenwald's Finale: Naming Victims of Surveillance -- China to scrap millions of cars in anti-pollution push -- NY county to pay $650,000 after police shoot woman in drug raid on wrong apartment -- Cop Assaults Air Force Captain for Not Knowing His Neighbor -- Man arrested for bringing gun to movie days after Aurora shootings gets $25K from CO town -- Why Isn't Dana Rohrabacher in Prison? -- 05-27-14 -- John Whitehead -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT) -- Get Ready for the Next Terror -- The Colder War and the End of the Petrodollar -- INTRODUCING THE WORLD'S FIRST SMART RIFLES. -- Kevin Sorbo talks about his movie Alongside Night with Ed Morrissey -- Israel s Crimes Against Humanity – A History of Corruption -- US Appeals Court Rules Against Weare Police in Wiretapping Case -- Obama in Afghanistan -- Post-Ukrainian Election Violence
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Indiana: Motorist Sues After Officer Takes Forced Urine Sample
05-27-2014
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The Newspaper
Cops use catheter in invasive procedure against Indiana motorist whose blood alcohol level was below the legal limit.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Suspended-animation trials to begin on humans
05-27-2014
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cnet.com
Knife- and gunshot-wound victims will be placed in suspended animation as the first human trials begin on this emergency life-saving technique.
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News Link • Police State
Extremists: “Military Veterans Who Have Fought In Foreign Wars And Are Disgruntled…”
05-27-2014
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shtfplan.com
While President Obama lays wreaths and Congressional representatives give lip service thanking our veterans for their sacrifice, the Department of Homeland Security operating under the directives of said Executive and Legislative branch membership wa
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obamacare
Tom Woods Show: Avoid Obamacare Legally, and Get Cheap Health Care
05-27-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Tom talks to Dale Bellis of Liberty HealthShare about a flourishing but little-know alternative to traditional health insurance
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Nigel Farage all smiles as he revels in Ukip's European election success
05-27-2014
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theguardian.com
Ukip leader fails to suppress his grin on a night his party delivered a seismic shift to British politics
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
RETAIL DEATH RATTLE GROWS LOUDER
05-27-2014
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theburningplatform.com
The definition of death rattle is a sound often produced by someone who is near death when fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions accumulate in the throat and upper chest.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE
05-27-2014
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weeklyscience.com
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have discovered, for the first time, a pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another in an ordinary galaxy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syrian Rebels Describe U.S.-Backed Training in Qatar
05-27-2014
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pbs.org
With reports indicating that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad are gaining ground in that country’s brutal civil war, moderate Syrian rebels have told a visiting journalist that the United States is arranging their training in Qatar.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Andreas Antonopoulos - Government not a threat to Bitcoin
05-27-2014
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youtube
Andreas Antonopoulos - Government not a threat to Bitcoin
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News Link • Military
VIDEO: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/26/14: The VA Scandal ....
05-27-2014
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Daily Paul.com
VIDEO: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/26/14: The VA Scandal is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg
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News Link • Police State
SWAT team ambushes innnocent man as he works on tractor in his driveway
05-27-2014
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policestateusa.com
"I was minding my own business, you know, and they came in for the kill."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Housing "Recovery" In Four Charts
05-27-2014
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zerohedge.com
The unintended consequences of the Fed's unprecedented interventions will rip the heart and lungs out of the housing market
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
'We're coming for YOU, Red Ed':
05-27-2014
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dailymail
'We're coming for YOU, Red Ed': Farage boasts there is no limit to UKIP's ambitions as he reveals plan to go after Miliband's Doncaster seat in the wake of Euro triumph
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Stark warning from Europe’s voters
05-27-2014
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ft.com
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran Judge Summons Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Court
05-27-2014
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breitbart.com
A judge in southern Iran has ordered Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in court to answer complaints by individuals who say Facebook-owned applications Instagram and Whatsapp violate their privacy, semiofficial news agency ISNA repor
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News Link • Death
Swiss group to allow assisted dying for elderly who are not terminally ill
05-27-2014
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theguardian.com
Exit adds 'suicide due to old age' to its statutes, giving people suffering from age-related problems the choice to end their life
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Nigel Farage "drinks and smokes too much", says his wife Kirsten
05-27-2014
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telegraph.co.uk
Exclusive: Kirsten Farage on her husband Nigel's drinking, those claims about racisim, her job as his taxpayer-funded secretary - and why he loves Dads' Army
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Greenwald's Finale: Naming Victims of Surveillance
05-27-2014
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realclearpolitics.com
The man who helped bring about the most significant leak in American intelligence history is to reveal names of US citizens targeted by their own government in what he promises will be the “biggest” revelation from nearly 2m classified files.
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News Link • China
China to scrap millions of cars in anti-pollution push
05-27-2014
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news.yahoo.com
China plans to take more than five million ageing vehicles off the roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, with 330,000 cars set to be decommissioned in Beijing alone, ...
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NY county to pay $650,000 after police shoot woman in drug raid on wrong apartment
05-27-2014
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Rawstory
A New York woman has reached a $650,000 settlement with Nassau County after a police officer accidentally shot her while mistakenly bursting into her apartment during a drug investigation.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Assaults Air Force Captain for Not Knowing His Neighbor
05-27-2014
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Reason Magazine
In December 2013, Aquino was at home when he noticed Sheriff's Deputy Ivan Rodriguez outside his property. Apparently, one of Aquino's neighbors didn't recognize him and called the Sheriff's Department to report a suspicious person. According to Aqui
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News Link • Gun Rights
Man arrested for bringing gun to movie days after Aurora shootings gets $25K from CO town
05-27-2014
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Rawstory
Police later dropped the charges, and Mapes sued the city of Thornton. “We don’t take and use the mood of the moment to take way people’s rights,” said his attorney. The city agreed to the settlement but not to wrongdoing.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bob Beck Protocol Super Charges the Immune System
05-27-2014
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arclein
The late Dr. Bob Beck, PhD, who had a PhD in physics and taught at the University of Southern California, figured out a way to get rid of all of these two pounds of microbes. His discovery was actually based on the discovery of two medical doctors wh
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News Link • Science
Eternal Curves
05-27-2014
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arclein
Her unusually small waist is only part of what makes a Playmate so curvy. The other part is having relatively normal- size hips and legs that are well endowed with fat. Even a thin woman carries an astonishing amount of fat in her legs and hips"about
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News Link • Science
First Discovery of Long Predicted Double Star that Brightens During Eclipse
05-27-2014
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arclein
It was not utitl 1973 that Swiss astronomer André Maeder predicted that some binaries should exhibit the opposite phenomenon. According to both Newton's theory of gravity and Einstein's general theory of relativity, mass bends light. Therefore, Mae
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News Link • Agriculture
Roundup Source of Dropping Male Semen Count?
05-27-2014
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arclein
The research showed that glyphosate residues, found in most processed foods in the Western diet courtesy of GE sugar beets, corn, and soy, “enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt no
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News Link • NeoCons
Why Isn't Dana Rohrabacher in Prison?
05-27-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
For decades, Rohrabacher has been a prominent supporter of radical Islamist terrorist organizations allied with the CIA " from elements of the Afghan Mujahadeen in the 1980s to the bizarre Iranian Islamo-Leninist cult called
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
05-27-14 -- John Whitehead -- (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)
John Whitehead (President and Founder of the Rutherford Institute) provides us an update on the status of civil liberties and human rights in America today, and what he feels is in store for us going forward.
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Opinion • TERRORISM
Get Ready for the Next Terror
05-27-2014
Paul Rosenberg
If I had to bet, I think I’d put my money on some type of “cyberwar” event coming in the not-too-distant future. But whether it’s that or something else, a new terror will be coming. That much is more or less inevitable.
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Feature Article • Energy
The Colder War and the End of the Petrodollar
Marin Katusa
The mainstream media are falling over themselves talking about Russia’s just-signed “Holy Grail” gas deal with China, which is expected to be worth more than $400 billion. But here’s what I think the real news is… and nobody’s talking about it"until
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News Link • Gun Rights
INTRODUCING THE WORLD'S FIRST SMART RIFLES.
05-27-2014
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Tracking-Point.Com
THE MOST ACCURATE LONG RANGE SHOOTING SYSTEMS, EVER.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Kevin Sorbo talks about his movie Alongside Night with Ed Morrissey
05-27-2014
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J Neil Schulman
“This is a movie that hopefully will wake up a few people. Once again I hope it’s not just preaching to the choir. I hope people go there and try to have an open mind and look at it and have a discussion open up after they do it.”
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News Link • Israel
Israel s Crimes Against Humanity " A History of Corruption
05-27-2014
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RINF - Rebellious Investigative News & Film
A great deal of Israel’s brazen behaviour has been at the very least abetted, if not out rightly supported by the United States of America " ironically the world’s self appointed moral police man of the “free” world. Cough cough.
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News Link • Activism
US Appeals Court Rules Against Weare Police in Wiretapping Case
05-27-2014
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Free Keene - Ian Freeman
Free State Project President Carla Gericke's suit is allowed to move ahead - officers involved have no "qualified immunity".
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hack is Wack
05-26-2014
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Simple Justice
When Hammond left his sentencing courtroom, he held his fist in the air and proclaimed;
“Long Live Anonymous!”
“Hurrah for anarchy!”
Some people are cut out for a life of anarchy. Others, not so much. Monsegur may have had the chops
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News Link • Iraq
A Million People Killed Iraq: The Biggest Petroleum Heist in History?
05-25-2014
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Information Clearinghouse
These are the ‘best of times’ for the oil giants in Iraq. Production is up, profits are soaring, and big oil is rolling in dough.
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News Link • Libya
Coups and terror are the fruit of NATO's war in Libya
05-25-2014
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The Guardian
Iraq was a blood-drenched disaster and Afghanistan a grinding military and political failure. But Libya was supposed to have been different. NATO's war to overthrow Gaddafi was hailed as the liberal intervention that worked.
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News Link • World News
Thailand: Coup Ousts US-Backed Dictator
05-25-2014
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Life goes on as normal in Thailand's capital of Bangkok the day after the Royal Thai Army declared it was taking power from the diminished, ineffectual "caretaker government." Businesses and offices were open as usual
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News Link • China
The Arrogance Of Charging China With Cyberspying
05-25-2014
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Information Clearinghouse
The cyberwarfare issue, as Holder and DOJ have presented it, is a farce. He and the Justice Department are carrying water for the military, edging ever closer to limited armed conflict, with the growing risk of going nuclear.
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News Link • Economy - International
Putin Post-Mortem: "Unipolar Model Of World Is Over... Give Us Our Money"
05-25-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Vladimir Putin has concluded his lengthy interview having covered everything from "the end of the unipolar model of the world" - i.e. de-dollarization - to US and Europe's responsibility for Ukraine's "full-scale civil war."
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News Link • European Union
Britain’s ruling Conservative and Liberal Democrats were braced for a difficult Sunday night,..
05-25-2014
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ft.com
Britain’s ruling Conservative and Liberal Democrats were braced for a difficult Sunday night, amid expectations of a historic tally of votes for the UK Independence party in the European elections.
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News Link • Obamacare
EXPERT: Obamacare In Place For American Bio-Surveillance
05-25-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex is joined by president and co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, Twila Brase. Ms. Brase talks with Alex about the threat of biometrics and the unmitigated failure of Obamacare.
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News Link • Political Parties
Bankers exhale as Tea Party power fizzles
05-25-2014
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thehill.com
Banks are breathing a sigh of relief after established GOP incumbents bested a handful of Tea Party challengers at the polls recently.
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News Link • Iran
05/15/14 Gareth Porter
05-25-2014
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scotthorton.org
Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare,...
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News Link • Israel
05/15/14 Philip Giraldi
05-25-2014
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scotthorton.org
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses why Israel is serious about spying but not about peace:
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News Link • European Union
National Front's Marine Le Pen of France Leads Anti-EU Drive
05-25-2014
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online.wsj.com
In European Parliament Voting, French Far-Right Leader Seeks to Unite Nationalists Who Want to Abolish EU
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News Link • China
China And Russia Hold "Massive" Joint Naval Drill: This Is What It Looked Like
05-25-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
A month ago, when the fate of the historic (and now concluded) gas deal between Russia and China was still unknown we wrote that "Isolated Russia Makes Friends: To Hold Military Drill With China"....
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Study: New Technology Development Pushed by Feds Allows for Data Collection on Every Child
05-25-2014
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http://www.breitbart.com, by Dr. Susan Berry
A new study released by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute finds that new technology development that has been encouraged through the use of federal grants has served to threaten children’s privacy by allowing the collection of data on every child.
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News Link • World News
Britain’s Discontent Lifts Populist Party to Even Stronger Vote Tally Than Expected
05-25-2014
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By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLEMAY
Voters in Britain sent a forceful message of discontent to established political parties on Friday, as returns from local elections showed an even stronger following than expected for the anti-European Union, anti-immigration United Kingdom Independe
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News Link • Healthcare
America: First In Health Care Spending, Last In Life Expectancy
05-25-2014
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www.lewrockwell.com, By Dr. David Brownstein
I was in Harrisburg, PA lecturing this weekend. I received the USA Today newspaper on Friday May 16, 2014 and on page 5A there was an article titled, “Life Expectancy Up; Japanese Females Living Longest of All.”
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News Link • Military
The War on America s Military Veterans, Waged with SWAT Teams, Surveillance and Neglect
05-25-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead
Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians and corporations eager to go on record as being supportive of our veterans.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
See No Evil
05-25-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Schiff
In this week’s release of the minutes from its April 29-30 meeting, Federal Reserve policymakers made clear that they see little chance of inflation moving past their 2% target for years to come.
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News Link • Mexico
Meet the Ragtag Vigilantes at War With Mexico’s Cartels
05-25-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Pete Brook
At first glance, Ross McDonnell’s ambrotypes resemble 19th century portraits of desperados.
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News Link • Internet
Demand For Privacy Will Kill The Free Internet. Thank Goodness.
05-25-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Scott Alexan
Paying for privacy in today's digital age
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News Link • Obama Administration
This Map Shows All the Countries in Africa Where the U.S. Has Active Military Operations
05-25-2014
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http://www.policymic.com, By Zak Cheney Rice
President Barack Obama made headlines Wednesday when he deployed 80 American troops to Chad.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Barclays Fined For Manipulating Price Of Gold For A Decade...
05-25-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Barclays Fined For Manipulating Price Of Gold For A Decade; Sending "Bursts" Of Sell Orders
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