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Date Sent: 2015-01-06
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, January 5, 2015 |
Case Dismissed Against Antonio Buehler for 2012 Filming of Undercover Cop
Is Another Euro Crisis at Hand? -- Cop Block Newsletter #005 -- Rebuilding the Obama-Putin Trust -- Apparent error in Jan. 4, 2015 Gun story in the Dayton Daily News -- France's 75% 'supertax' quietly dies with few mourners -- Shipping container home readying for Detroit debut -- The 'On-Demand Economy' Is Reshaping Companies And Careers -- Oil, Power, And Psychopaths -- Knowing It Will End Badly And Turning A Blind Eye -- Bidless Euro Crashes To Level Not Seen Since March 2006 -- 01-06-15 -- Drew Phillips - Kirsten Tynan - James Babb - George Donnelly -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM -- Russia's "Startling" Proposal To Europe: Dump The US -- Clint Eastwood on the Libertarian View -- Gee, should we just skip the 2016 Primaries! Fox News Sunday -- Thatcher confidant raped boy and police covered crime up -- D.C.-Area Schools Track Students with 30,000 Surveillance Cameras -- Competing Views: Grexit Would Be "Lehman Squared" vs. No Problem -- US Doctor Comments on Single-Payer "Medicare for All" Proposal -- Bring the Sacrificial Lambs in Korea Home Now -- A Brief History of the CIA's Unpunished Spying on the Senate -- Why Spies and Analysts Shouldn't Mingle -- Gold Was Up 73% Last Year! -- The Depression That Was Fixed by Doing Nothing -- With new federal laws proposed to ban body armor for mere civilians, AMAZON begins selling vests -- Gun Rights Versus Anecdotes -- The Delicious Solution To the Menacing Asian Carp -- Evidence Discovered that 'Ocean Acidification' Scare May be as Fraudulent as 'Global Warming'
AZ: AZ Legislative Forecast Luncheon featuring Governor-elect Doug Ducey 01-09-15; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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Feature Article • World News
Is Another Euro Crisis at Hand?
Ivan Eland
If you have any spare cash laying around and need of a vacation, Chevy Chase would probably recommend that you go to Europe. The euro currency has dipped to a nine-year low against the dollar.
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Feature Article • Police State
Cop Block Newsletter #005
Donna Hancock
Video Contest: #WhyIFilmThePolice - The Police Accountability Report is back! - The Cop Block Store is re-opened! - Cop Block is committed to the non-aggression principle.
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Opinion • World News
Ray McGovern: My Take
Rebuilding the Obama-Putin Trust
01-05-2015
Ray McGovern
The year 2015 will surely mark a watershed in relations between the United States and Russia, one way or the other. However, whether tensions increase â€" to war-by-proxy in Ukraine or an even wider war â€" or whether they subside depends mostly on P
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News Link • Economy - International
France's 75% 'supertax' quietly dies with few mourners
01-05-2015
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http://news.yahoo.com, By Eric Randolph
Once a flagship policy of French President Francois Hollande, the 75-percent "supertax" on top earners limps into its final weeks this month having sparked plenty of controversy but few economic results.
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News Link • Housing
Shipping container home readying for Detroit debut
01-05-2015
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http://www.myfoxny.com, By JEFF KAROUB
An unusual home taking shape inside General Motors' sprawling Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant is intended to be part of a movement to rebuild the city's economy and deteriorating, disappearing housing stock.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
11 Mind-Blowing Physics Discoveries Made In 2014
01-05-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jessica Orwig
With the help of highly sensitive particle detectors, some of the world's most powerful lasers, and good-old-fashioned quantum mechanics, physicists from around the world made important discoveries this year.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The 'On-Demand Economy' Is Reshaping Companies And Careers
01-05-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com
All the householder needs is a credit card and a phone equipped with Handy's app, and everything from spring cleaning to flat-pack-furniture assembly gets taken care of by "service pros" who earn an average of $18 an hour.
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News Link • World News
Oil, Power, And Psychopaths
01-05-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Submitted by Raul Ilargi
Iran has a â€" very â€" long running dispute with the US about its nuclear technology. The US wants Assad (Bashar Al-Assad) out of Syria, while Iran and Russia support Assad (Russia's sole proper base in the Middle East), who's an Alawite (a Shi-
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News Link • Economy - International
Knowing It Will End Badly And Turning A Blind Eye
01-05-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As 2014 came to an end I like many of you probably felt a brief sigh of relief that maybe, just maybe, we could move into 2015 with a little more sanity shoved back into the financial markets.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bidless Euro Crashes To Level Not Seen Since March 2006
01-05-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Having closed the Friday session less than 1 pip above the hugely important 1.2000 level below which there lay many stops, following this weekend's news onslaught...
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Clint Eastwood on the Libertarian View
01-05-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Allegory
"I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live."
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Thatcher confidant raped boy and police covered crime up
01-05-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Bill Gardner
One of Margaret Thatcher's closest confidantes raped a teenage boy 30 years ago but escaped justice when Scotland Yard covered up the crime, it has been alleged.
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News Link • Healthcare
US Doctor Comments on Single-Payer "Medicare for All" Proposal
01-05-2015
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Mike Shedlock
I received many interesting comments from readers on Single-Payer "Medicare for All" Proposal; Live and Let Die; Why Does Single-Payer "Work" in Europe?
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News Link • World News
Bring the Sacrificial Lambs in Korea Home Now
01-05-2015
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
During the Christmas holiday, I had the opportunity to visit with high-school and a college-age nephew, nieces, and their friends in Texas.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
A Brief History of the CIA's Unpunished Spying on the Senate
01-05-2015
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http://www.theatlantic.com, Conor Friedersdorf
President Obama's choice to lead the intelligence agency has undermined core checks and balances with impunity.
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News Link • Geology
Expanding Earth and Pangaea Theory
01-05-2015
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https://www.youtube.com,
Is the Earth Expanding, Or drifting apart as held by the Pangaea Theory?Neal Adams proposes that there was a Pangaea "super-continent" in the past, but that the change to is due to the Earth expanding, not continental drift and tectonic plate movemen
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Synchronous Rotation of the Moon
01-05-2015
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https://www.youtube.com, astrogirlwest
Why does the same side of the Moon always face the Earth? The Moon has synchronous rotation: it's rotation period is the same as its period of revolution.
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News Link • Inventions
CATERHAM:Carbon E-Bike 2014 Review
01-05-2015
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https://www.youtube.com, The Blue Compass
British sports car manufacturer Caterham have announced that they'll be branching into the world of motorcycles, with two e-bikes being introduced for 2014.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Part 3: Impregnating America with Muslims: onslaught on our ethos, language and culture
01-05-2015
Remember one aspect of Islam: it cannot and does not tolerate its followers to assimilate into any host country. That mandate cannot be broken for any Muslim under threat of death.
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Frosty Wooldridge
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News Link • Self-Defense
With new federal laws proposed to ban body armor for mere civilians, AMAZON begins selling vests
01-04-2015
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Amazon.com
Nothing is more American than cashing in on the panic.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Rights Versus Anecdotes
01-05-2015
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The International Libertarian
Which side wins depends on whether one can reason or simply react emotionally.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Archaeology
Why Roman Concrete Has Endured
01-05-2015
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arclein
Researchers looked at Trajan's Market and several other Imperial Roman structures to analyze the remarkable resilience of the concrete. They then reproduced a standard Imperial-age mortar?"a simple mix of lime, water, and a specific kind of volcani
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Magnetic Clean up an Oil Spill
01-05-2015
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arclein
Years later, the residue from massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon and the Exxon Valdez continues to harm wildlife. The methods that we currently use to clean up oil spills are wildly inadequate: Physical barriers that attempt to keep oil aw
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News Link • Agriculture
The Delicious Solution To the Menacing Asian Carp
01-05-2015
The name "Asian carp" is actually an umbrella title for four different species: bighead carp, black carp, grass carp and silver carp. Some of the larger species can weigh up to 100 pounds and have an uncanny ability to jump out of the water. Female
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Evidence Discovered that 'Ocean Acidification' Scare May be as Fraudulent as 'Global War
01-05-2015
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arclein
"Ocean acidification" (OA) is receiving growing attention. While someone who doesn't follow climate change science might think OA is a stomach condition resulting from eating bad seafood, OA is claimed to be a phenomenon that will destroy ocean
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News Link • Mercenaries
Blackwater's Back And They Might Reignite The Civil War In Ukraine
12-31-2014
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Andrew Korybko
Academi, formerly and more popularly known as Blackwater, is back in the news as reports are trickling in that they'll train an "experimental battalion" of 550 Ukrainian soldiers in urban warfare next month.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Is War in the Cards for 2015?
01-03-2015
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http://original.antiwar.com-Patrick J. Buchanan
"If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you," said Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait hung in the Cabinet Room of the Reagan White House.
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News Link • Israel
How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
01-03-2015
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http://www.alternet.org-Max Blumenthal
AlterNet has learned that an amendment to the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have forbidden US assistance, training and weapons to neo-Nazis and other extremists in Ukraine was kept out of the final bill by the Republican-l
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News Link • World News
NORTH KOREA/SONY STORY SHOWS HOW EAGERLY U.S. MEDIA STILL REGURGITATE...
01-03-2015
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https://firstlook.org-Glenn Greenwald
NORTH KOREA/SONY STORY SHOWS HOW EAGERLY U.S. MEDIA STILL REGURGITATE GOVERNMENT CLAIMS.
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News Link • Afghanistan
The True Cost of the Afghanistan War May Surprise You
01-03-2015
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http://time.com-Mark Thompson
Calculating the cost of a war is a little like finding the true cost of a car.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
No, Crazy Is Not A Capital Offense (Update)
01-03-2015
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http://blog.simplejustice.us,SCOTT H. GREENFIELD
Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. Robert Earl Lawrence was, well, nuts. He was a sovereign citizen, and by definition, that places him squarely in the nutjob category. But that doesn't mean he should die for it.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
More Sanctions on North Korea After Sony Case
01-03-2015
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New York Times
The Obama administration doubled down on its allegation that North Korea's leadership was behind the hacking of Sony Pictures, announcing new, if largely symbolic, economic sanctions against 10 senior North Korean officials
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robots can now learn to cook just like you do: by watching YouTube videos
01-03-2015
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Venture Beat
Deep learning entails training systems called artificial neural networks on lots of information derived from audio, images, and other inputs, and then presenting the systems with new information and receiving inferences about it in response.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi general warns of military woes in fighting extremists
01-03-2015
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Associated Press
al-Saadi is deeply pessimistic saying Iraq's military lacks weapons, equipment and battle-ready troops and complained that U.S. air support was erratic. Both the military and the government remain riddled with corruption, he said.
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News Link • Surveillance
Smart grid powers up privacy worries
01-03-2015
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Politico
The next Big Data threat to our privacy may come from the electricity we consume in our homes. "Smart" online power meters are tracking energy use -- and that data may soon be worth more than the electricity they distribute.
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News Link • Internet
Digital Tax Increase to Take Effect in Europe
01-03-2015
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New York Times
Under the new rules the tax rate on digital services like cloud storage and movie streaming will be determined by where consumers live, and not where the company selling the product has its European headquarters.
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News Link • Libya
Libyan on trial for US embassy bombings dies at 50
01-03-2015
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Associated Press
U.S. special forces raided Libya in 2013 and seized him in the streets of the capital, Tripoli, bringing him back to America to stand trial, where the FBI had placed a $5 million bounty out for his capture. He had pleaded not guilty
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News Link • Surveillance
GCHQ's 'spook first' program to train Britain's most talented tech entrepreneurs
01-03-2015
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The Independent
Whitehall officials are now examining whether recruitment to the secretive listening agency could be opened up to graduates who would ultimately like to set up their own companies or work in the commercial IT sector.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Happy New Year From Our Rulers!
01-02-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
The thugs at the TSA -- the ones who persecute little girls with spina bifida so cruelly that their victims scream they don't wanna go to Disney World after all; who drench survivors of bladder cancer in their own urine; who force crippled boys to
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Beavercreek Police Arrested Me and Took My Phone, Not Realizing it Was Still Recording
01-02-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The video showed Crawford holding his cell phone to his ear while holding the BB gun pointed into the floor. Officer Sean Williams suddenly came from around the corner, and shot Crawford twice with his automatic AR 15,
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News Link • Corruption
Texas: Mayor Has Police Chief Dismiss Camera Ticket Issued To His Employer
01-02-2015
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The Newspaper
The former police chief found himself in the unemployment line after he told the city council he thought the red light cameras were there to "bilk money" from citizens and that "the program was a scam to make money,
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
When a Cartoonist Landed in L.A. County Jail, She Drew What She Saw
01-02-2015
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LA Weekly
Needless to say, none of it is fun. In fact, it's such a tiresome and draining process that those who can't afford bail often end up pleading "no contest" instead of fighting their cases -- just to avoid having to repeat the experience.
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News Link • Gun Rights
$5 homemade shotguns handed in at $100 gun 'give back'
01-02-2015
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The Firearm Blog
It seems someone was inspired to make a quick $400 for charity at a local police gun 'give back' in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
'If you do not have a reasonable doubt … then you will enter a verdict of guilty'
01-02-2015
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Washington Post
The [jury] instruction read: "If you do not have a reasonable doubt from all the evidence that the State has proven murder in the first degree on either or both theories, then you will enter a verdict of guilty."
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Imaging at a trillion frames per second (Publisher Recommended)
01-02-2015
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TEDtalk
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look "around"
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, January 4, 2015 Edition
01-02-2015
John Semmens
Obama Calls for Truce in Fight Against ISIL
Citing reports that troops fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may have come down with Ebola, US President Obama called for a halt in all military action against them.
"For
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News Link • Food
Lists Of NON-GMO Food Companies and of GMO Foods And Companies
01-02-2015
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DailyPaul
Remember: one of the best ways to raise awareness among the food corporations is to voice your concerns directly to them and boycott companies who continue to source ingredients from genetically modified sources.
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