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Date Sent: 2013-01-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 17, 2013 PM edition |
Algeria Hostage Crisis Turns Mali Invasion Into Global Crisis -- Militants: 35 die in Algerian raid
The Age of the Siege: Nazi Military Tactics Revisited -- House GOP 'Seriously Entertaining' Debt Default Idea -- 5 children killed as African Union peacekeepers mistakenly open fire on school -- US programmer outsourced own job to China, spent workdays on Reddit and Facebook -- 01-17-13 -- Michael W. Dean - Shahid Buttar - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- All Aboard The Gold
Repatriation Train: First Germany, Next: The Netherlands? -- Crossing
Through The "X Date" - What Happens After The US "Default"? -- It Will Take The Fed Seven Years To Deliver 300 Tons Of German Gold -- Many Police and Firefighters are The Good Guys -- Marksmanship and .308 Battle Rifles -- Ron Paul warns journalists: You could be next on Obama’s ‘kill list’ -- Dennis Kucinich Joining Fox News As Paid Contributor -- Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans -- Attack On Sovereignty - by Paul Craig Roberts -- The Trillion Dollar Trick - by Peter Schiff -- US “Mulling” Drone Strikes in Mali -- Nationwide Ammo Shortages - For Police! -- Bob Schieffer Likens Obama 'Taking on the Gun Lobby' to Hunt for Bin Laden, 'Defeating terrorists' -- DHS to 'Expand and Formalize Coordination' on Gun Control Efforts --
New Bank Has No Branches, Just an App, and Thinks You’ll Volunteer to
Pay for It -- U.S. Shoots Down Secret Report That Syria Used a
Hallucinogen Weapon -- Surveillance Strategy Is ‘Privileged and Confidential,’ FBI Says --
Mississippi River May Soon Be Unnavigable, Despite Army
Geoengineers' Best Efforts -- DARPA Wants "Upward Falling" Robots That Can Hide On The
Seafloor For Years -- Curiosity Rover Gets Ready To Drill Into Mars For The First Time -- Was Aaron Swartz
Killed By An MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring? -- The III Citadel Controversy -- Aaron Swartz: Suicide or
Murder? -- Obama v. Netanyahu Round Two -- Dear Mr. President, you
missed three major causes of gun deaths -- Whistle-blower files
lawsuit against AG Horne -- Then Came the Storm - by Greg Dixon
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News Link • World News
Algeria Hostage Crisis Turns Mali Invasion Into Global Crisis
01-17-2013
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antiwar.com
41 Foreigners Held by 'Battalion of Blood' in Retaliation for Mali Invasion
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Militants: 35 hostages die in Algerian raid
01-17-2013
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Associated Press
Algerian forces raided a remote Sahara gas plant on Thursday in an attempt to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants with ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, diplomats said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
The Age of the Siege: Nazi Military Tactics Revisited
01-17-2013
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Global Research
NATO Strategies, Economic Sanctions and the "Responsibility to Protect"
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hot New Russian Rocket Fuel
01-17-2013
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arclein
According to Energomash chief executive Vladimir Solntsev, the Atsetam fuel will help increase the efficiency of rocket engines by at least one third in the future.
He said that in particular, the new fuel may be used in upper-stage rocket engines
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News Link • Activism
Syria's Christians
01-17-2013
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arclein
Posed with terrorism and killings directed at them by Islamist groups, Christians in Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Muslim world have had to seek refuge in the West. ProfessorYossi Shain, head of the Abba Eban Diplomacy Program at Tel Avi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Piers Morgan Chickens Out Of Second Debate With Alex Jones
01-17-2013
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Daily Paul.com
CNN host Piers Morgan has seemingly chickened out of a second clash with Alex Jones on gun control, refusing to respond to a challenge by Jones that would have seen the two square off in a moderated debate.
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News Link • Communications
Facebook Search a Beginning
01-17-2013
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arclein
It’s been years since such a simple task has rendered me useless. The last time I couldn’t think of anything to type was back when Napster was illegal, and my brain would shut down every time I tried to think of another low-quality song to add to my
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
5 children killed as African Union peacekeepers mistakenly open fire on school
01-17-2013
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RT.com
Five children and two adults were killed when African Union (AU) troops mistakenly shot into a religious school while pursuing militants, according to media reports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
US programmer outsourced own job to China, spent workdays on Reddit and Facebook
01-17-2013
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RT.com
A programmer at a US company outsourced his job to a Chinese contractor for a fraction of his six-figure salary. After handing over his login information, he spent his days on Facebook and perused cat videos while the Chinese firm worked in his name.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Lithium batteries central to Boeing's 787 woes
01-17-2013
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Associated Press
Lithium batteries that can leak corrosive fluid and start fires have emerged as the chief safety concern involving Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, a problem that apparently is far more serious than government or company officials acknowledged.
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Robert Lee
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
01-17-13 -- Michael W. Dean - Shahid Buttar (MP3 & Video LOADED)
Michael W. Deen (FreedomFeens.Com) on Obama's gun grabbing executive orders - Shahid Buttar (Executive Director Bill of Rights Defense Committee) on the "Unconstitutional Surveillance Powers" Made Law While You Where Focusing on "Fiscal Cliff"
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News Link • Gold and Silver
All Aboard The Gold Repatriation Train: First Germany, Next: The Netherlands?
01-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
While moustachioed managers, contrary to the far better insight of their superiors, and mainstream spivs are trying to talk down Germany's somewhat stunning shift in thinking - i.e. to repatriate its gold - as nothing but political pandering (or cost
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Crossing Through The "X Date" - What Happens After The US "Default"?
01-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Call it "X Date", call it "D(elinquent/efault)-Day", call it what you will: it is simply the day past which the US government will no longer be able to rely on "extraordinary measures" to delay the day of reckoning, and will be unable to pay all its
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News Link • Federal Reserve
It Will Take The Fed Seven Years To Deliver 300 Tons Of German Gold
01-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
With the market yet another algo-controlled snoozer, programmed to close the S&P just green (as otherwise confidence in central planning may fail), the key things we learned today are as follows:
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News Link • Technology: Software
11 Apps That Will Make You Wish You Had An Android Phone
01-17-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kevin Smith
With more than 700,000 available apps, the Google Play store for Android has quickly risen to match Apple's iPhone app selection.
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News Link • Government
Two Letters Re: Many Police and Firefighters are The Good Guys
01-17-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, RangerDoc
I have not yet been able to find a truly honest LEO who proclaims that they would not "confiscate" firearms, or refuse to enforce some draconian legislative measure when it comes to guns (similar to what this letter is presenting),...
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News Link • Self-Defense
Marksmanship and .308 Battle Rifles
01-17-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Ulysses in Montana
Like a lot of guys I did some shooting and hunting while growing up, only to set it aside in early adulthood as the frantic task of making it in life overcame interest in such ‘boyish’ pursuits.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul warns journalists: You could be next on Obama’s ‘kill list’
01-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Apple
At a recent luncheon at the National Press Club, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul warned journalists that they could be placed on a “kill list” should the government deem them a threat to national security.
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News Link • Government
Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans
01-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, By Spencer Ackerman
The man in charge of America’s drone wars will face Senate questioning about perhaps their most controversial aspect: when the president can target American citizens for death.
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News Link • New World Order
Attack On Sovereignty
01-17-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
Those concerned about "The New World Order" speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, about which China,
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Trillion Dollar Trick
01-17-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Peter Schiff
The birth, and the apparent death, of the trillion dollar platinum coin idea may one day be recalled as a mere footnote in the current debt crisis drama.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Inflatable Private Space Stations: Bigelow's Big Dream
01-17-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
NASA's decision to buy an inflatable new room for the International Space Station may push the module's builder "commercial spaceflight company Bigelow Aerospace " one step closer to establishing its own private stations in orbit.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Nationwide Ammo Shortages - For Police!
01-17-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.
Police departments nationwide are experiencing ammunition shortages, according to the online law enforcement resource, PoliceOne.com
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bob Schieffer Likens Obama 'Taking on the Gun Lobby' to Hunt for Bin Laden, 'Defeating t
01-17-2013
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http://newsbusters.org, By Matthew Balan
Bob Schieffer somehow topped Chris Matthews during CBS News's special coverage of President Obama's gun control press conference on Wednesday, as he became the worst caricature of a foaming-at-the-mouth cheerleader for the chief executive.
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News Link • Gun Rights
DHS to 'Expand and Formalize Coordination' on Gun Control Efforts
01-17-2013
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http://www.weeklystandard.com, By MICHAEL WARREN
Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security, released a statement Wednesday saying she is "proud to support" the Obama administration's efforts to "combat gun violence in our country."
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News Link • Energy
An Engine That Uses One-Third the Fuel
01-17-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin Bullis
Achates Power gets $5 million to build a multi-cylinder version of its diesel engine.
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News Link • Internet
New Bank Has No Branches, Just an App " And Thinks You’ll Volunteer to Pay for It
01-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen
The company that made prepaid debit cards for the “unbanked” ubiquitous has a new venture: a bank. But Green Dot (GDOT) isn’t planning on opening any branches. To visit this bank, you have to open up the app.
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News Link • World News
Extremists Take Americans Hostage in Algeria
01-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman
U.S. citizens have been taken hostage by an extremist group out to avenge the French offensive against Islamist fighters in Mali, an unforeseen consequence of the operation that could get the U.S. involved directly in the conflict.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
01-17-2013
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www.wired.com
A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip throug
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
House GOP 'Seriously Entertaining' Debt Default Idea
01-17-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Now that the magic coin is no longer on the table, Politico is kicking off the next stage of the debt ceiling fight with a report that House Republicans are "seriously entertaining dramatic steps,"
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News Link • Environment
Strong Case for Childhood Lead Impairment
01-17-2013
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arclein
The correlation is across different states and countries who stopped using leaded gasoline at different times. Violent crime peaks around 20 years after lead pollution peaks. The crime rates in big and small cities in the US, once wildly different, h
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News Link • Syria
U.S. Shoots Down Secret Report That Syria Used a Hallucinogen Weapon
01-17-2013
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Wired.com
The State Department is publicly discounting claims made by its own diplomats about a chemical weapons attack in Syria.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Surveillance Strategy Is ‘Privileged and Confidential,’ FBI Says
01-17-2013
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Wired.com
The President Barack Obama administration’s surveillance strategy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision that the installation of a GPS tracker on a vehicle amounted to a search under the Fourth Amendment remains “privileged and confidential,”
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Mississippi River May Soon Be Unnavigable, Despite Army Geoengineers' Best Efforts
01-17-2013
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popsci.com
The Army Corps of Engineers is nearly out of options for keeping a section of the upper Mississippi River flowing.
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News Link • Humor
A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman
01-17-2013
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popsci.com
Corn is a grain, knucklehead.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
DARPA Wants "Upward Falling" Robots That Can Hide On The Seafloor For Years
01-17-2013
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popsci.com
The Navy's 'Upward Falling Payloads' could hide in the ocean depths until needed, then launch to quickly create a distributed presence across a maritime region.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Public university to offer course on ‘sibling incest’
01-17-2013
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campusreform.org
A public university plans to offer a course this spring on “sibling incest in theory and literature,” Campus Reform learned on Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
How to Hide and Recover Your Survival Cache
01-17-2013
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shtfplan.com
OK, pause the mouse clicker thing for a moment. This is a long article, but I guarantee it’s well worth your time. Get a cup of coffee and settle in.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An
MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?
01-17-2013
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rense.com
Was Aaron Swartz Killed By An
MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?
By Yoichi Shimatsu
Exclusive to Rense.com
1-15-12
Let us start by dismissing the prosecution’s ludicrous charge that any programmer as talented as Aaron Swartz would dedicat
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News Link • How To
Stronghold Haywire Klamper
01-17-2013
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pantryparatus.com
We plan on rolling out a lot of new products in 2012. This is a review of the Stronghold Haywire Klamper.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
The III Citadel Controversy
01-17-2013
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Survivalblog.com
The name "III Citadel" came into the limelight last weekend, when The Drudge Report posted a prominent link to a CNS article by Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Whistle-blower files lawsuit against AG Horne
01-16-2013
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Arizona Republic
The state criminal investigator who informed the FBI that Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne may have acted illegally and unethically, as a candidate for the office and in his duties as the state’s top prosecutor, has filed a lawsuit against Horne
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News Link • Gun Rights
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday January 17th 2013
01-16-2013
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LewRockwell.com
States Rights and Guns, We need them, thanks to the vicious power lust of the feds. Article by Andrew Napolitano / Content To Be a Slave?, Then you don't need a gun / With the Stroke of a Pen
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News Link • Corruption
Interior Secretary's $222,000 Bathroom
01-16-2013
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ABC News
The personal [taxpayer funded] bathroom used by the secretary of the Interior is so swanky that its renovation cost $222,000. No detail was overlooked: It has a $3,500 sub-zero refrigerator and a $689 faucet. At least the “vintage tissue holder” was
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News Link • Military
The Pentagon's New 30,000-lb MOP Bomb Is Ready To Go
01-16-2013
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Business Insider
Senior Pentagon officials told Congress the nation's largest conventional bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), is ready for action.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bank of America not authorizing guns or ammo purchases with their cards?!
01-16-2013
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YouTube
Now maybe someone is just playing a prank. But BofA does already have a track record of f**king with gun companies themselves.
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