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Date Sent: 2013-05-22
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
Kerry: US, allies, ready to step up aid rebels -- Boston bombing suspect's friend killed by FBI
College is expensive. And thanks to Washington, you might soon be paying more -- Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts -- New Iceland government freezes EU talks till referendum -- 'Terrorist pair' hack 'serving soldier' to death in horrific machete attack -- 05-22-13 -- Pam White - Dan Isett - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED) -- Revenue Budget Projections -- RAND PAUL: Shame on Senate for harassing Apple -- Should the Law Governing the War on Terror Be Changed? -- Liberty-focused non-profits find a friend in Bitcoin #Bitcoin2013 -- Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance --
3 Robots That Want To Save Your Life -- Can Any Buildings Survive
Tornados? -- All-Natural 3D Printers: Salt and Wood Can Be Used -- Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares? -- NASA Funds 3D Pizza Printer -- Rule of Law No Longer Exists in America – Shahid Buttar (video) -- San Diego Mayor urges jury nullification -- Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction Are Back -- Obama's War on Free Expression
AZ: Protect Your Birth Rights AZ - Rally today 18th AVE/Adams - Downtown Phoenix - Noon-5 p.m.; Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May
25th, 8 a.m. - Noon PDT
AZ: Fundraiser raffle for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment -
36" Ferret .50 BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver
Free Adam Kokesh Legal Fund - Shield Mutual - George Donnelly
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News Link • Syria
Kerry: US, allies, ready to step up aid rebels
05-22-2013
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AP
The Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 to provide lethal assistance and military training to vetted rebel groups, and would slap sanctions on anyone " such as Iran or Russia " who sells oil or transfers arms to the Assad regime.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston bombing suspect's friend Ibragim Todashev killed in FBI shootout
05-22-2013
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CBS News
The FBI has not commented on the relationship between Ibragim Todashev and Tsarnaev but confirmed that Todashev died in the shootout and that he was being interviewed in connection with the April 15 attack.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Homeland Security
FBI Agent Kills Man After Questioning Him About the Boston Marathon Bombing
05-22-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
The FBI only said that an agent "encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased," but has not offered any other details. Update: The FBI now says that suspect became "violent" during questioning, which
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
College is expensive. And thanks to Washington, you might soon be paying more
05-22-2013
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The Ticket
But when scholarships and grants fall short of covering escalating costs, students turn to student loans. How did the federal government get involved in financing higher education in the first place?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts
05-22-2013
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AP
Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
New Iceland government freezes EU talks till referendum
05-22-2013
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Reuters
Iceland's centre-right Progressive and Independence parties agreed on a coalition government and said they would freeze talks on entering the European Union until a referendum on whether or not to continue the process.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
'Terrorist pair' hack 'serving soldier' to death in horrific machete attack
05-22-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
The black man, dressed in a grey hooded jacket and black woolly hat, apologizes to members of the public who witnessed the horrific scenes before making a number of political statements.
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
05-22-13 -- Pam White - Dan Isett - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)
Pam White (licensed midwife in AZ for almost 30 years) on home-birthing and women's right to choose - Dan Isett ( Director of Public Policy of Parents Television Council) on broadcast indecency an their push to have FCC censorship on indecency on TV
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Manuka Oil Conquers Deadly MRSA Bacteria Where Conventional Medicine Fails
05-22-2013
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wakeup-world.com
With life threatening instances of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections on the rise, many are seeking safe and effective alternatives in the realm of natural medicine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
To Spark Buyers for Electric Cars, Drop the Price to Nearly $0
05-22-2013
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online.wsj.com
This car deal sounds too good to be true: Drive a car, almost free.
To entice drivers to try electric-powered cars, auto makers are lowering the price of entry to the zero-emission lifestyle.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Revenue Budget Projections
05-22-2013
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BATR
The essential questions that persist about a stalled economy and a suffering middle class still are unanswered. In addition, the premise that raising taxes, especially on the besieged tax payer, is a productive method to close the gap on public spend
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
RAND PAUL: Shame on Senate for harassing Apple
05-22-2013
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Rare.Us
When the U.S. Senate held an investigatory hearing on “Offshore Profit Shifting and the U.S. Tax Code” recently, a subcommittee summoned an Apple corporation spokesman to appear.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Back to the Roots " Mushrooms and Aquaponics
05-22-2013
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communities.washingtontimes.com
Some of the most unusual products at Natural Products Expo West were at the Back to the Roots booth. On display were living oyster mushrooms, thriving in a specially designed recycled cardboard box filled with used coffee grounds.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Positive News
Dana Frasz wants to see a Food Shift " away from waste
05-22-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
Forty percent of all the food produced in the US is wasted. But a number of efforts in the US " such as Food Shift " and others abroad are taking on the problem.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Should the Law Governing the War on Terror Be Changed?
05-22-2013
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Antiwar.Com/Ivan Eland
A move is afoot in Congress to change the 2001 law that kicked off what became the “war on terror” (although the Obama administration has dropped the now politically incorrect term).
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Protect Your Birth Rights AZ - Rally today 18th AVE/Adams - Downtown Phoenix - Noon-5 p.m.
05-22-2013
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Facebook
Please join us as we gather to protest the most recent meeting at AZ Department of Health Services Midwifery Scope of Practice. Please bring signs, noise makers, etc. NOON TO 5 P.M. 18th Avenue and Adams Street Downtown Phoenix
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Magnetic Graphene
05-22-2013
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arclein
Spintronics is based on the charge of the electron, as in traditional electronics, but also on its spin, which determines its magnetic moment. A material is magnetic when most of its electrons have the same spin.
As the spin can have two values,
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robert klein
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News Link • Bitcoin
Liberty-focused non-profits find a friend in Bitcoin #Bitcoin2013
05-22-2013
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Coindesk.Com
Representatives from three non-profit organizations that accept donations in bitcoins say their groups’ freedom- and peace-focused missions mesh with the Bitcoin ethos.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance
05-22-2013
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www.antiwar.com
The website’s founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today, demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Free Adam Kokesh Legal Fund - Shield Mutual - George Donnelly
05-22-2013
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www.youtube.com
This is the one and only official Adam Kokesh legal fund. Adam’s business team, his friends, other activists and his selected public relations agent Shield Mutual are operating this fund because we need funds to hire a lawyer and Adam obviously canno
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • 3D Printing
All-Natural 3D Printers: Salt and Wood Can Be Used
05-22-2013
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technewsdaily.com
The fast-growing field of 3D printing has been gaining a lot of attention. But one intriguing project coming out of the University of California Berkeley aims to use natural resources like salt and wood to reduce 3D printing costs.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Way We Think about Cancer Must Evolve
05-22-2013
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Wired.com
Right now, as you read these words, your life is in danger. Somewhere within the vast self-contained micro-universe known as you, in one and possibly more of your trillions of cells, something is going wrong.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares?
05-22-2013
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Wired.com
The Robocoin is an ATM for Bitcoins, and for a few glorious days this past weekend, on a conference center floor in San Jose, California, it dished out thousands of dollars in exchange for Bitcoins, the world’s most popular digital currency.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Russian Space Ark Returns Animal Astronauts to Earth, Some Mice & Gerbils Die
05-22-2013
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space.com
A Russian space capsule carrying lizards, mice, gerbils, fish and other creatures has safely returned to Earth, but not all of its animal passengers survived the month-long spaceflight, according to news reports.
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News Link • 3D Printing
NASA Funds 3D Pizza Printer
05-22-2013
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space.com
NASA has doled out a research grant to develop a prototype 3D printer for food, so astronauts may one day enjoy 3D-printed pizza on Mars.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Moon or Asteroid? Congress Debates Best Pit Stop to Mars
05-22-2013
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space.com
NASA's plan to lasso an asteroid for astronauts as a deep-space dry run for a future mission to Mars has some members of Congress wondering if the space agency would be better off setting its sights on the moon instead.
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News Link • Police State
Rule of Law No Longer Exists in America " Shahid Buttar (video)
05-22-2013
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Next News Network
Gari Franchi interviews Shahid Buttar on the government that rules America and what--if anything--can be done to restore our liberty. I listened to this soon after waking up this morning and was blown away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
San Diego Mayor urges jury nullification
05-22-2013
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Daily Paul.com
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is urging jury nullification in medical MJ case:
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has injected himself into a federal criminal case against the operator of a medical marijuana dispensary, intensifying his standoff with federal
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News Link • Natural Disasters
New HD Video Of Oklahoma Tornado Gives The Clearest View Yet
05-22-2013
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Business Insider
Oklahoma news station KFOR has posted an HD video showing the Moore, Okla. tornado from a distance. You can hear the roar of the winds and see the tornado getting larger and kicking up a huge cloud of debris as it makes its way across a flat.....
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News Link • Energy
Tesla's Supercharger Announcement Could Be Its Most Important One Yet
05-22-2013
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Business Insider
Tesla Motors is delaying an update on its Supercharger network until next week, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Monday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction Are Back
05-22-2013
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Business Insider
What Warren Buffett once called "financial weapons of mass destruction" are firing again, with securitization and shadow banking at post-financial crisis highs.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Mindblowing Aerial Photos Reveal The Utter Destruction In Moore, Oklahoma
05-22-2013
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Business Insider
The deadly tornado struck Moore County in Oklahoma Monday has killed at least 24 people, as it left a mighty wake of destruction across the suburban landscape.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers
05-21-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Erica Klarreich
On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds...
05-21-2013
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by Mike Adams
A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Illegal Detention (video)
05-20-2013
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Live Leak
Five members of The Panic Hour were followed into the City Hall rail station in Center City Philadelphia. Kyle Prouty was illegally searched and detained by SEPTA police officer Nicole Lawson at 3:20pm on 5/20/13. Kyle was charged with "disorderly c
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Spied On Peaceful Protestors; Worried Protests Getting News Coverage
05-20-2013
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techdirt
The documents show a Department of Homeland Security obsessed with whether any protests being surveilled receive media attention and coverage. Why media coverage of peaceful demonstrations concerns “homeland security” in any way
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Owners: Freedom Lovers or Cry Babies? - by Paul Bonneau
05-20-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Well, what about a "legitimate" traffic stop, where the officer wants to "temporarily" control your weapon? I say sure, go ahead and give him a warning you won't be disarmed. Point out that if "officer safety" were really his concern,
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond
05-20-2013
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AP
A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond.
Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at the airport in Romulus, Mic
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News Link • Agriculture
Marijuana waste helps turn pot-eating pigs into tasty pork roast
05-20-2013
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Reuters
With Washington state about to embark on a first-of-its-kind legal market for recreational marijuana, the budding ranks of new cannabis growers face a quandary over what to do with the excess stems, roots and leaves from their plants.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Justice Department’s scrutiny of Fox News reporter James Rosen in leak case draws fire
05-20-2013
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FOX News
Journalists, First Amendment watchdogs and government transparency advocates reacted with outrage to the revelation that the Justice Department had investigated the newsgathering activities of a Fox News reporter as a potential crime
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
White House senior aides knew details of IRS probe but didn’t tell Obama, spokesman says
05-20-2013
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Washington Post
Senior White House officials, including Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, learned last month about a review by the Treasury Department’s inspector general into the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups but did not inform Obama,
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul's TX Straight Talk... The IRS's Job, IS to violate Our Civil Liberties!
05-20-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by AnCapMercenary
Ron Paul's TX Straight Talk, May 20, 2013 - Reality Check: The IRS's Job, IS to violate Our Civil Liberties!
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Justice IG criticizes former U.S. attorney for leak to Fox News in ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal
05-20-2013
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Washington Post
The Justice Dept inspector general said the former US attorney in Phoenix retaliated against the main whistleblower in a botched federal gun operation by leaking information to a TV producer meant to harm the whistleblower’s credibility.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Marc Faber: The US Can 'Artificially Depress' Prices And Confiscate Your Gold
05-20-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Gold prices continue to take a beating with futures at $1,354 an ounce.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
United States Is Fighting 74 Wars (Video)
05-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Researchers Linda J. Bilmes and Michael D. Intriligator have documented that the Pentagon is presently involved in 74 conflicts world-wide, either in an active combat role, or by supplying military “advisers” to friendly governments.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Adam Kokesh Accused of Felony Assault on Federal Officer " No Bail Yet
05-20-2013
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FreeAdam.Net
Thanks to the below video report from Josie Harris and Christopher Cantwell, direct from the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, we know that Adam is being held under 18 USC 11, felony assault on a federal officer. He was not released today but he ha
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News Link • European Union
Europe's 'Status Quo Pandering' Risks "Radicalization Of An Entire Generation"
05-20-2013
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zerohedge.com
It will come as no surprise to ZH readers that the topic of youth unemployment is critical in Europe but as Der Speigel reports, while the German government's efforts remain largely symbolic, Southern European leaders pander to older voters by ......
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Gold Shorts Continue To Pile On
05-20-2013
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Business Insider
Gold prices are up modestly today, but continue to be near their lows of the year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The Terror Cartel Strikes in Idaho
05-20-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, William Norman Grigg
During a May 15 visit to Stockholm, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad that if he doesn’t begin preparations to abdicate his office, "the opposition will be receiving additional support … and unfortunately the violence
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