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Date Sent: 2012-07-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, July 21, 2012 |
'How hard is it to sell a hot dog?' asks 13-year-old entrepreneur shut down by Holland City
Anti-Putin feminist punks on trial in Moscow -- Israeli Protester Dies After
Self-Immolation -- Patient suffers TSA mocking,
strip-search over implanted feeding tube -- Deputies Beat Him for
'Amusement,' Man Says -- TSA
Supersedes the Courts -- Gate-Rape Recruiting
Revolutionaries! -- Congress’s debate on year-end ‘fiscal cliff’
sets stage for fall showdowns -- House to vote on Fed audit bill on Tuesday -- Profiting
from Europe's New Gold Rush
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News Link • Seriously?
'How hard is it to sell a hot dog?' asks 13-year-old entrepreneur shut down by Holland City
07-20-2012
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Garret Ellison/mlive
A 13 year old trying to help out his family who has fallen on hard times has been shut down by authorities for a zoning violation in regard to the hot dog cart he hoped to set up. After saving up, getting the proper insurance, and jumping through the
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Activism
Anti-Putin feminist punks on trial in Moscow
07-20-2012
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AP
A Moscow court on Friday launched the trial of three feminist rockers who face a possible seven years in prison for performing a "punk prayer" against Vladimir Putin from the pulpit of Russia's largest cathedral.
The case of the three members of t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli Protester Dies After Self-Immolation
07-20-2012
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New York Times
In the year since 400,000 people filled Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard last summer, setting off a national protest movement, Mr. Silman, 57, became a fixture of demonstrations. His self-immolation stunned but also galvanized the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Patient suffers TSA mocking, strip-search over implanted feeding tube
07-20-2012
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New York Daily News
Deaton was flying out of Dallas Love Field airport to reach her medical appointment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. As TSA agents patted her down, they noticed the four-inch tube hanging from her stomach.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Deputies Beat Him for 'Amusement,' Man Says
07-20-2012
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Courthouse News Service
Sheriff's deputies deactivated a device that controls a man's Tourette's syndrome and beat him as "a form of amusement" when he could no longer control his physical and verbal actions, the man claims in court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
TSA Supersedes the Courts
07-20-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
In a very rare victory for the serfs and a very tiny one, too, the judge declared Mr. Brennan’s nudity “a form of protest, which is protected speech,” not the “disruption” the TSA alleged. But things aren’t over for Brennan yet. The TSA is
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Gate-Rape Recruiting Revolutionaries!
07-20-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
B: "The America that my grandpas fought for in World War II " that’s a thing of the past, to me. I’m over it. When the revolutionaries come looking for support, they can count me in.'” “Annapolis2”: “The revolutionaries can count me in, too.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Congress’s debate on year-end ‘fiscal cliff’ sets stage for fall showdowns
07-20-2012
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Washington Post
Five and half months before the deadline for potential disaster, Congress broke into heated debate this week over a January fiscal meltdown that could lead to nearly $600 billion worth of tax hikes and automatic federal spending cuts next year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
House to vote on Fed audit bill on Tuesday
07-20-2012
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Reuters
The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Tuesday on a bill that would allow for a congressional audit of Federal Reserve monetary policy decisions, a senior House aide said on Friday.
The legislation proposed by Republican Representativ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Genetic markers for testosterone and estrogen level regulation identified
07-20-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Andrew Gould
A research study... has identified genetic markers that influence a protein involved in regulating oestrogen and testosterone levels in the bloodstream.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Communications
THE TRUTH ABOUT GOOGLE'S NEXUS 7 TABLET: It's Almost As Good As The iPad
07-20-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kevin Smith
If you read my post last week about experiencing Android for two weeks, then you'll remember that I wasn't too impressed with Samsung's new Android phone, the Galaxy S III, and went back to my iPhone.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Secret Online Weapons Store That’ll Sell Anyone Anything
07-20-2012
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www.gizmodo.com
With nothing more than money and a little online savoir faire, you can buy weapons"Glocks, Berettas, PPKs, AK-47s, Bushmaster rifles, even a grenade"in secret, shipped anywhere in the world.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Military
Modular System Quickly Converts Container Ships to Drone-Powered Humanitarian Aid Stations
07-20-2012
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http://www.popsci.com,
When disaster strikes and a humanitarian crisis unfolds, international aid generally arrives via naval ships--often the very same military vessels designed to put troops and materiel ashore during military conflicts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Shock claim " LA ‘authorities’ in Rawesome raw milk raids were impersonating public officials
07-20-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
The Rawesome Foods armed “raw milk raids” and prosecution of James Stewart and Sharon Palmer were carried out in part by law-breaking private citizens pretending to be lawful government authorities.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Mass Shooting at Colo. Movie Theater, 14 People Dead
07-20-2012
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AP
A lone gunman burst into a movie theater and opened fire during the latest Batman film, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50. The 24-year-old suspect was clad in a bullet proof vest and riot helmet when he crashed into the movie theate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Bankers Declare U.S. & Europe Conquered
07-20-2012
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prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
A recent CNBC clip in which financial analysts admit to viewers that America is under the control of a group of central bankers who are building a world government is a damning insight into how the establishment has dispensed with any pretense of try
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Report: Assad Disappears from Damascus
07-20-2012
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israelnationalnews, Chana Ya'ar and Reuters
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to have disappeared from Damascus after his top security staff was killed in a suicide bombing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
USDA partnering with Mexico to boost food stamp participation
07-20-2012
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http://dailycaller.com, By Caroline May
The Mexican government has been working with the United States Department of Agriculture to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/19/usda-partnerin
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Rising Corn Prices and Your Grocery Bill
07-20-2012
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http://blogs.smartmoney.com, By Jack Hough
Corn prices are nearing the record highs of last summer as the U.S. Midwest suffers its worst drought since 1956.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Bay Area Drivers Could Be Tracked By GPS, Taxed Per Mile Driven
07-20-2012
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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Bay Area drivers could one day be tracked using a GPS-like device in their cars and taxed per miles driven " a scenario which is part of a proposed long-range study aimed at finding ways to reduce traffic and pollution, while also raising revenues.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
War On All Fronts
07-19-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Corruption
Banks in Libor probe consider group settlement-sources
07-19-2012
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Reuters
A group of banks being investigated in an interest-rate rigging scandal are looking to pursue a group settlement with regulators rather than face a Barclays-style backlash by going it alone, people familiar with the banks' thinking said.
Such disc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
U.S. banks haunted by mortgage demons that won't go away
07-19-2012
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Reuters
Lenders like Bank of America Corp and Wells Fargo & Co say they are facing mounting pressure to buy back bad mortgages they sold to investors, signaling that banks' home-loan headaches could continue for years.
Investors like Fannie Mae and Freddi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Advertising That The Fix Is In
07-19-2012
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Simple Justice
Government is engaged in a promotional campaign that courts have forsaken their constitutional role as neutral arbiters and when it comes to drunk driving, are part of the inquisitorial system, locking arms with cops to imprison people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Video: SpaceX Releases the Dragon Flight Highlight Reel
07-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
It’s been almost two months since SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft completed its historic flight to the International Space Station. Like any successful team after a victory, the company has released a highlight video for fans and supporters.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Communications
Justice Department Sues Telecom for Challenging National Security Letter
07-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
Last year, when a telecommunications company received an ultra-secret demand letter from the FBI seeking information about a customer or customers, the telecom took an extraordinary step...
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • General Opinion
Long Term Public Employee Pension Obligations
07-19-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Bob G.
Much of the problem is the super generous retirement plans available to many state, federal and local government workers. As always, a bit of common sense would help cushion the impact of this largess.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Retail Collapse Accelerates
07-19-2012
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lewrockwell.com/Jeff Nielson
The debt-laden, fraud-saturated paper Ponzi-schemes of Western bankers are now all about to implode in a deflationary (debt-default) collapse " most notably all their fraud-bonds.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obamacare and the Revenge of the 'Secret Constitution'
07-19-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/William Norman Grigg
A constitution merely prolongs the pretense that a political government can be limited by laws that it will interpret. Eventually, every constitutional government will embrace Lenin's ruling formula " "Power without limit, resting directly on force."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Post Office Might Miss Retirees' Payment
07-19-2012
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Wall Street Journal
While lawmakers continue to fight over how to fix the ailing U.S. Postal Service, the agency's money problems are only growing worse.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Pinal County adds MORIS biometric capture to law enforcement
07-19-2012
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CBS5
Pinal Cty. patrol deputies, detectives and SWAT members now can identify criminal backgrounds and other information about suspects by their eyes, fingerprints and facial recognition with a mobile device connected to smartphones, according to a PCSO s
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Agriculture
The Largest Natural Disaster In U.S. History
07-19-2012
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http://endoftheamericandream.com
Why is the heartland of the United States experiencing such a horrific drought right now?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
4 banking giants ‘under spotlight’ in Libor scandal
07-19-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
Regulators are investigating Credit Agricole, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale over the Libor manipulation scandal that claimed the boss of British bank Barclays, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • North American Union
The End of Canada's Sovereignty as a Nation State?:
07-19-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Dana Gabriel
Over the past several months, the U.S.-Canada Beyond the Border action plan has taken significant steps forward.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US navy in troubled waters
07-19-2012
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http://blogs.aljazeera.com, Jane Ferguson
The perceived threat of a tiny fishing boat has now turned into a huge embarrassment for the US navy here in the Gulf.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
WikiLeaks data could have predicted insurgency but the military failed to use it
07-19-2012
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http://rt.com
As Bradley Manning approaches his eight-hundredth day in military jail for allegedly distributing sensitive military files to WikiLeaks, a team of researchers say that same trove of data can help determine when and where violence will erupt next.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
US wasted up to $8 bln on Iraq reconstruction
07-19-2012
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http://rt.com
Billions of taxpayer dollars are vanishing in Iraq as the government fails to properly monitor its spending.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Handcuffed man shot twice by San Francisco police - witness reports
07-19-2012
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http://rt.com
Officers with the San Francisco Police Department in Northern California shot a man believed to have a knife this morning, but preliminary reports suggest that the victim was in handcuffs while the authorities opened fire.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Chocolate Bar teams up with PaulFest for special ticket promotion!
07-18-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
When you make a purchase of Ron Paul Bars you automatically go into a drawing for a complimentary 3-day pass. We will be holding a drawing every half hour so if you don’t win the first time, try again!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Blowback 2012 - Online Telethon for PaulFest Tickets (On Sale at a Discount TODAY!)
07-18-2012
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Ron Paul Tribune.com
Big names off and on all day until 10:00 p.m. tonight - Peter Schiff spoke earlier and Scott Horton on currently.
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Ed Vallejo
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