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Date Sent: 2012-08-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 21, 2012 AM edition |
Feds Are Cutting Social Security Benefits From Retirees Who Can't Pay Back Student Loans
Anarcho-Farming in Detroit -- End the Empire -- THE PAUL RYAN SELECTION -- Virginia vintners taste the police state -- Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression -- Security Rules for the GOP Convention -- Island authorities denounce attack on tax police --
Nancy Grace Points the Way to Gold Confiscation? -- BitInstant founder
says BitCoin debit card to launch within next two months -- Supreme Court ruling of Washington State (Fraud) Foreclosure victims can sue the banks -- Chinese man engineers amazing bionics to replace his arms, hands -- Banks Can Legally Steal Customer Funds From Private Checking Accounts -- New Evidence Of A Nuclear Coverup On San Francisco's Treasure Island -- Titan II Missile Site, Tucson AZ - Now Available
FL: Ron Paul Festival - August 24-26, 2012 - Florida State
Fairgrounds - Tampa
Paul Festival Commemorative Dime Cards Fundraiser - READY FOR
PURCHASE NOW!
Chip-In for Ed Vallejo-Tampa RNC Live Feed (& other purposes)
- computer banned - needs smart phone
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Feds Are Cutting Social Security Benefits From Retirees Who Can't Pay Back Student Loans
08-20-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mandi Woodruff
While most attention in the ongoing student debt crisis narrative has focused on new graduates, it turns out the federal government has been quietly targeting a different group of debtors: retirees.
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News Link • Food
Anarcho-Farming in Detroit
08-20-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Explores the explosion of urban agriculture (especially in NY, Milwaukee, and Detroit) and interviews the "food rebels" who make things happen, even if on a very small scale. The documentary looks at community gardens as an alternative to the industr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
End the Empire
08-20-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The reason for the domestic suppression is because the empire cannot expand overseas if its domestic population is not under firm control. The driving force in domestic suppression is the goal of world empire.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
THE PAUL RYAN SELECTION
08-20-2012
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David Koch played a key role in Ryan's selection and that Koch's wife Julia had been quietly lobbying for Ryan. The selection was cemented at the July 22nd fundraiser Koch held for Romney in which Koch pledged $100 million more for Ryan's selection.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Virginia vintners taste the police state
08-20-2012
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Washington Examiner
At the center of all this is the county zoning administrator, a bureaucratic czar named Kimberley Johnson, whose bullying and heavy-handed enforcement tactics have resulted in calls for her dismissal by county farmers and residents.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Security Rules for the GOP Convention
08-20-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The latest on the GOP Convention in Tampa. No whole fruits or baseballs " for throwing? No placards, banners or signs? And only "approved" media can effectively record the event? But a safe and enjoyable time will be had by all
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Island authorities denounce attack on tax police
08-20-2012
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AP
Local authorities on the Greek island of Hydra denounced an attack by a local crowd on tax police after they detained a restaurant owner who did not provide receipts to clients and happened after the inspectors wanted to transport the owner to Athens
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Nancy Grace Points the Way to Gold Confiscation?
08-20-2012
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Daily Bell
We've written in the past about how gold and silver confiscation might take place if the price becomes intolerably high from the point of view of the power elites that want to remain in control of central banking and fiat money.
The chances are sl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Wallet Voting
BitInstant founder says BitCoin debit card to launch within next two months
08-20-2012
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http://www.engadget.com
A BitCoin debit card could be in your very near future thanks to the efforts of trader-backed BitInstant. That fund transfer outfit, dedicated solely to the digital currency, has partnered with an undisclosed international bank to launch a branded de
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Drew
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Supreme Court ruling of Washington State (Fraud) Foreclosure victims can sue the banks via “Consumer
08-20-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The state Supreme Court yesterday called into question numerous foreclosures that have been done in this state, and opened the door for lawsuits by homeowners given the boot. Just how many foreclosures are we talking about? “Hundreds if not thousands
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chinese man engineers amazing bionics to replace his arms, hands
08-20-2012
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Terrence Aym
Sun Jifa, 51, is a living example of the old saying, "Where there's a will there's a way." Sun, a Chinese citizen who lives in Jilin province, northern China, lost both his hands and part of his forearms when a homemade bomb he built for fishing
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Banks Can Legally Steal Customer Funds From Private Checking Accounts
08-20-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In 2007, the Sentinel Management Group (SMG) collapsed, leaving many customer segregated funds lost after they had been used as collateral. After a plethora of lawsuits and creditor claims, a decision earlier this month in the 7th Circuit Court place
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Spot Mars in the Night Sky Before It Disappears
08-20-2012
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http://www.space.com, Staff
NASA's Curiosity rover is set to take its first drive on Mars this week, but you don't have to travel millions of miles to see the Red Planet. Earthbound observers can spot the Red Planet in the night sky, too. You just have to know where to look..
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News Link • Transportation
New Hover Vehicle Recalls 'Star Wars' Bike
08-20-2012
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http://www.space.com, Jeremy Hsu
A resurrected hover vehicle won't fly through dense forests as effortlessly as the "Star Wars" speeder bikes from "Return of the Jedi," but its intuitive controls could someday allow anyone to fly it without pilot training.
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News Link • Environment
New Evidence Of A Nuclear Coverup On San Francisco's Treasure Island
08-20-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Wolf Richter
“That amount of radium found to date cannot be explained by gauges, deck markers, and decontamination activities,” wrote Stephen Woods, an environmental cleanup manager at the California Department of Public Health.
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News Link • Humor
Titan II Missile Site, Tucson AZ - Now Available
08-20-2012
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ww.missilebases.com
14 acres secluded desert setting with mountain views surrounded by state land, Paved driveway, 15 gallon/minute water well, Security Cameras, Missile Silo imploded and filled, 3 floors in launch-control module in good condition, etc...Price $540,000.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Chip-In for Ed Vallejo-Tampa RNC Live Feed (& other purposes) - computer banned - needs smart phone
08-20-2012
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Psychictaxi2012.Com
Ed will be leaving Phoenix, AZ on Wednesday Aug 22nd with 4 other people on his way to Paul Festival in Tampa Aug 24-26h, 2012 - please help Ed raise the funds for the trip and smart phone by donating to the chip-in (they are banning Ed's laptop)...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Seriously?
Pregnant teen dies of cancer
08-20-2012
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http://www.upi.com
A 16-year-old girl who was at the center of the Dominican Republic's abortion debate died of complications from cancer, hospital officials said.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Why isn't anyone talking about Afghanistan?
08-20-2012
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http://walt.foreignpolicy.com, By Stephen M. Walt
Remember the war in Afghanistan? You know: It was the "good war," fought in response to Al Qaeda's attack on 9/11 and the Taliban's refusal to turn them in....
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News Link • Military
Study Finds US Troop Morale Plummeting
08-20-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
The latest version of an annual survey of senior enlisted men in the US military find troop morale plummeting and only about 1 in 4 believing that the military is actually heading in the right direction.
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News Link • Military
US 'should hand over footage of drone strikes or face UN inquiry'
08-20-2012
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http://www.independent.co, Terri Judd
The UN special rapporteur on human rights to urge establishing a mechanism to investigate such killings
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News Link • Communications
First Demonstration of A Quantum Router
08-20-2012
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www.technologyreview.com
Chinese physicists unveil a router that uses a quantum control signal to determine the path of a quantum data signal
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
The Return of the General Warrant?
08-19-2012
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The Agitator
Murray County Chief Magistrate Judge Bryant Cochran has resigned, ending a judicial ethics investigation that included the judge’s practice of distributing pre-signed, blank arrest and search warrants to local law enforcement officers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israeli citizens grow concerned over price tag on war with Iran
08-19-2012
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Rawstory
Lia Tarachansky of The Real News reports that many Israelis are growing concerned over the potential costs of a war with Iran " not in terms of lives or national prestige, but as measured in their taxes and in the prices they pay for basic goods.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Researchers: Infant drug tests for marijuana are unreliable
08-19-2012
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Rawstory
The most commonly used drug testing methods for detecting marijuana exposure are unreliable when used on infant babies and “should not be reported.” Even the more targeted THC assay show a “significantly higher” false-positive results
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
So You’re Going to Mine Asteroids? Oh, Really.
08-19-2012
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Slate
Our telescopes are cubes half-a-meter on a side and will cost around $1 million each. When they are developed to a high level of performance, we want to print them en masse on an assembly line. They will have mind-blowing imaging capability.
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News Link • Surveillance
Drones
08-19-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
When his plane was finally shot down, Dad used the .45 for its intended purpose, and then tossed it out into the slipstream with the broken bombsight. He knew that one man, armed with a single handgun, wasn't about to open up another front in the Ger
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News Link • Homeland Security
Rumors of War
08-19-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
Unless you've been doing wall paintings in a Spanish cave, you'll be aware that earlier this year, the federal Department of Homeland Security has ordered 450,000,000 rounds of hollowpoint .40 S&W pistol ammunition. Look at that number again: four hu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Lemonade and Raw Milk Rebels (Video)
08-18-2012
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The International Libertarian
They came to Washington DC from cities and small towns, from near and far, to break the law. Their crime? Selling raw milk and lemonade without permits nor licenses. Fortunately, the civil disobedience went well. Unlike last year the police didn't i
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Syria
Jordan says 4 Syrian rockets fall on Jordanian border town, wounding 4-year-old girl
08-19-2012
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AP
Jordan’s information minister says 4 Syrian rockets have fallen on a northern Jordanian border town, slightly wounding a 4-year-old girl. Sameeh Maaytah says the Jordanian girl was treated for shrapnel wounds and then released from the hospital.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt'
08-19-2012
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BBC News
"The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful." The USA was facing a choice between re-affirming the "revolutionary values it was founded on" or
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Judge Napolitano Teaches the Constitution
08-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A 4 part video series shared by my friend Keith Broaders from http://constitutionalsheriffs.ning.com.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study finds microbes manipulate your mind
08-19-2012
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Mo Costandi, The Guardian
“The thought of parasites preying on your body or brain very likely sends shivers down your spine. Perhaps you imagine insectoid creatures bursting from stomachs or a malevolent force controlling your actions.
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News Link • Free Speech
We Will Watch the Watcher
8-19-2012
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Free Press Publications
On August 13 Ademo Freeman was convicted by a jury on 3 counts of felony wiretapping because he recorded phone conversations with pubic officials without the consent of said officials. While Ademo did violate the NH wiretapping law, the NH law violat
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News Link • Government
Somalis attempt to install first stable central government in 21 years
08-19-2012
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The RawStoyry.com
Somalia’s newly appointed legislature will elect the country’s next president Monday, in a fresh bid to end two decades of unstable central government in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban: We infiltrated Afghan security forces
08-19-2012
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http://rt.com
The spiritual leader of the Taliban said the group's insurgents have succeeded in foisting the ranks of the Afghan security forces, allowing them to attack their fellow NATO service members.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Americas bloc takes UK threats to Ecuador for international discussion
08-19-2012
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http://rt.com
British threats to invade Ecuador’s embassy will be discussed at international-level talks between the foreign ministers of the Organization of American States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Blue Sky Project Will Use Drones to Deliver 3-D Portraits
08-18-2012
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WIRED.com
A nonprofit called ReAllocate is developing an art project " called Blue Sky " for Burning Man that will scan people and 3-D-print a model of them before delivering it by drone using GPS tracking.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nikola Tesla museum campaign raises over $500,000 online in first two days
08-18-2012
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Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian
The development of a museum dedicated to the life and works Nikola Tesla has moved one step closer after an online campaign raised more than $500,000 in 48 hours.
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News Link • Activism
South Africa seeks answers after mine shootings
08-18-2012
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The RawStory.com
Families of workers missing from a mine where 34 people were shot dead in the worst police violence since apartheid on Saturday struggled to discover the fate of their loved ones as the nation sought answers.
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News Link • Surveillance
At America's Biggest Drone Show, The Focus Shifts Toward Domestic Skies
08-18-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
How a defense-based industry is preparing to fill the home skies with robots
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Pensacola cop fired, arrested after video shows violent encounter with suspect
08-18-2012
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Pensacola News Journal
A Pensacola police K-9 officer was fired and arrested Friday after an investigation stemming from a police video that showed him slamming a woman whom he was arresting into the side of her car.
Christopher Geraci, 33, who had been with the departm
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Tim Frey
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Marine Veteran Arrested for Facebook Posts
08-18-2012
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targetfreedom.com via John Perna e-mail
Marine Veteran Raub Brandon has been arrested for his Facebook Posts. Why? ...nobody knows.
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