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Date Sent: 2013-02-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 21, 2013 AM edition |
H.R. 748 would require all persons in the US 18-25 to perform 'national service'
FBI Investigates 6 Philly Cops -- Mentally ill roundup plan after train pushes --
Bulgarian government resigns amid growing protests -- Upcoming Election
– U.S. Working to Install Pro-U.S. Leaders in Mali? -- This Isn't Hard, Mr. President: Do You Think You Can Kill Us on American Soil or Not? -- Where Have All the Watchdogs Gone? -- Will Obama Confiscate Guns and Gold? - by Wendy McElroy -- Pentagon issues furlough notice as ‘sequester’ budget cuts loom -- Mexican authorities participated in civilian disappearances -- Former senator Pete Domenici kept son secret for decades -- Peter Schiff: Markets Will React Big When Reality Sets In (Video) -- ‘Recovering politician’ Kerry defends foreign aid from cuts -- Disturbing Pattern! Yet Another Military General Forced from Service -- A nifty video visit to where all that missing .22LR ammo gets made -- National Day of Resistance Set to Oppose Obama Agenda, Gun Control -- California Democrat Introduces Bill to Tax Concealed Carry -- 3D-printing Gun Site DEFCAD Now Attracting 3K Visitors An Hour, 250K Downloads Since Launch -- Who’s Living Large in Retirement? -- Judges, Justice, Public officials and Corruption in taking of property. Eviction-Unlawful Detainer.
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News Link • Drug War
FBI Investigates 6 Philly Cops
02-20-2013
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NBC News (video)
The FBI is now investigating six former Philadelphia narcotics officers, according to police. In December, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams wrote a letter to Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey stating that the testimony of the six officer
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Mentally ill roundup plan after train pushes
02-20-2013
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New York Post
The city is making a major push to sweep the streets of dangerous, mentally ill New Yorkers " and has even compiled a most-wanted list. The measure follows a pair of high-profile subway-shove fatalities from December allegedly involving mentally ill
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Bulgarian government resigns amid growing protests
02-20-2013
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Reuters
Bulgaria's government resigned on Wednesday after mass protests against high power prices and falling living standards, joining a long list of European administrations felled by austerity during four years of debt crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Upcoming Election " U.S. Working to Install Pro-U.S. Leaders in Mali?
02-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It’s a matter of time until the United States becomes more involved with the Malian occupation. However with indication from Senator Chris Cons, that involvement could come through politics. So far, the U.S. has provided logistical support, refueling
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
This Isn't Hard, Mr. President: Do You Think You Can Kill Us on American Soil or Not?
02-20-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
Does President Obama think that he has the power to kill American citizens on U.S. soil? It's an easy question. Answering it wouldn't jeopardize national security in any way. So why do Obama Administration officials keep dodging it?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Where Have All the Watchdogs Gone?
02-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
There was a day, I think back when the dinosaurs were still alive, when journalism schools taught their students about asking hard questions and the importance of being the public’s watchdog against all-too-often-corrupt government.
Woodward and B
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Will Obama Confiscate Guns and Gold? - by Wendy McElroy
02-20-2013
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If guns in America are also 'nationalized', then the 1933 gold grab may have insights on how the state could proceed and how American public may react.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon issues furlough notice as ‘sequester’ budget cuts loom
02-20-2013
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Washington Post
The Defense Department officially notified its 800,000 civilian employees on Wednesday that they are likely to be placed on periods of unpaid leave, as the Obama administration scrambled to deal with congressionally mandated budget cuts set to kick i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Mexican authorities participated in civilian disappearances, report says
02-20-2013
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Washington Post
Describing what it called “the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades,” a report with grim implications for the thousands of Mexican civilians who have gone missing in the country’s shadowy drug fight.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Former senator Pete Domenici kept son secret for decades
02-20-2013
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Washington Post
“More than 30 years ago, I fathered a child outside my marriage,” Domenici said. “I deeply regret this and am very sorry for my behavior. I hope New Mexicans will view that my accomplishments for my beloved state outweigh my personal transgression.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: Markets Will React Big When Reality Sets In (Video)
02-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Peter Schiff on Fox Business explains past and future trends, the market reaction and potential future of gold prices along with the effects of inflation here in the US and abroad.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Foreign Aid
‘Recovering politician’ Kerry defends foreign aid from cuts
02-20-2013
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The Ticket
In his first formal policy speech as the Secretary of State, John Kerry branded calls to cut foreign aid as politically easy but strategically dumb, and said his department helps create American jobs and advance American values.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Bogus flier taped to trash cans worries neighbors
02-16-2013
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http://www.kpho.com
TEMPE, AZ (CBS5) - A bogus flier from the fictional "Office of Information Awareness" is being taped to trash cans in Tempe, and it has some neighbors worried.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Disturbing Pattern! Yet Another Military General Forced from Service
02-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It’s a developing pattern of this Obama White House.
Barack Obama cashiered yet another battle-seasoned American general Tuesday, even as the war in Afghanistan continues along with numerous other serious global threats to United States security.
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Reported by:
Chris Menke
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News Link • Activism
National Day of Resistance Set to Oppose Obama Agenda, Gun Control
02-20-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Conservatives, libertarians, Tea Party groups, and liberty-minded citizens are organizing a nationwide "Day of Resistance" on February 23 to oppose President Obama’s radical agenda " especially his "executive order" assaults on the Second Amendment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google Glass: Transhumanist Nightmare
02-20-2013
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Prison Planet
Attaching a computer to your head is not going to bring you happiness, it’s only going to make your life more synthetic, more artificial, less real, less genuine, less spontaneous.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
California Democrat Introduces Bill to Tax Concealed Carry
02-20-2013
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Prison Planet
Rep. Linda Sánchez, a California Democrat with a history of attacks on the Second Amendment, introduced H.R. 793last week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
3D-printing Gun Site DEFCAD Now Attracting 3K Visitors An Hour, 250K Downloads Since Launch
02-20-2013
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The Liberty Crier
DEFCAD is website for the 3D printing of guns born by fire and bathed in controversy. But that’s not preventing it from growing.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judges, Justice, Public officials and Corruption in taking of property. Eviction-Unlawful Detainer.
Feb 20, 2013
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http://voidmortgage.socialgo.com/
Where does one begin to understand the depth of involuntary servitude, not only in the united States of America, but throughout the world? When will the masses wake up and say *%#& YOU! Here is a outstanding, real example of courage and fearless
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Christine Fitzpatrick
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Police dog "sniff" passes Supreme Court smell test
02-19-2013
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Reuters
The US Supreme Court ruled "the sniff is up to snuff" in a Florida case on how police may use dogs to track down illegal drugs. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court gave law enforcement authorities greater authority to use dogs to uncover illeg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Ireland apologizes to women of Catholic laundries
02-19-2013
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AP
Ireland ignored the mistreatment of thousands of women who were incarcerated within Catholic nun-operated laundries and must pay the survivors compensation, the Prime Minister said in an emotional state apology for the abuses in the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
But The Cop Didn't Show
02-19-2013
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Simple Justice
Few sounds are better to a defendant's ear than a judge saying "case dismissed" because the arresting officer failed to appear for trial. Except when the defendant is a Florida Highway Patrol trooper who's conduct killed a woman, injured
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ohio Court Upholds Police Entry Into Home Over Failure To Signal Turn
02-19-2013
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The Newspaper
The Ohio Court of Appeals upheld the police use of a battering ram on the home of a suspect who failed to properly signal a turn. The court majority also took the unusual step of noting that they disagreed with their own decision and called on the st
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
By what legitimate authority?
02-19-2013
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The Price of Liberty
Not a “conspiracy.” A pogrom. “A massacre or persecution instigated by the government or by the ruling class against a minority group, particularly Jews.”
Only instead of “Jews,” this time it is independent thinkers, productive people who would rath
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
TSA’s Grip on Internal Travel is Tightening
02-19-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is tightening its grip on domestic travel. I don’t mean the random, unpredictable security checks at bus, subway and train stations which already exist. I mean a coordinated and systematic police cont
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Screeners Continue to Lie to Passengers About Legality of Recording at Checkpoints
02-19-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
a mother begins recording as TSA screeners attempt to frisk her daughter who is in a wheelchair. The girl who appears to be around 3 is crying and saying she doesn’t want to go to Disney World, so you can imagine how scared she must have been.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
Young Ugandan chess-prodigy: lessons in the slum take her to the world stage
02-19-2013
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She heard about a Western-based religious charity that mentored slum kids and served food near her alleyway, and also taught the kids some odd game called chess.
“I was hungry,” Mutesi says, “I’d never heard of chess, and I’d never seen it. So… I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The premises and purposes of American exceptionalism - by Glenn Greenwald
02-19-2013
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The Guardian
What interests me here is that highlighted claim: that the US "is the greatest country in world history", and therefore is entitled to do that which other countries are not. This declaration always genuinely fascinates me.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.N. Maps Show U.S. High in Gun Ownership, Low in Homicides
02-19-2013
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Breitbart
Maps made by the U.N. office on Drugs and Crime (circa 2007) clearly show that where gun ownership is highest in the world, crime is lowest on a per capita basis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Evil GI Joe
02-19-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
After-school Fed Indoctrination from the 80s. The evil Cobra organization tries to replace fiat money with a privately coined gold currency, but is shut down by the heroic G.I. Joe special forces team.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Online Sales Tax May Become Part of Tax "Reform"
02-19-2013
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Economic Policy Journal
Given the partisan differences on Capitol Hill, lawmakers backing the bill say that attaching the online sales tax bill to a broader measure may be the proposal’s best shot. Though some think that even if tax "reform" gets bog down, an online sales t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Control Draws Closer for Detroit After Fiscal Review
02-19-2013
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New York Times
A review team appointed by the State of Michigan has concluded that Detroit is mired in serious financial problems, a step that draws the city ever closer to emergency oversight by a state-assigned financial manager.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
The Virtues of Being Unreasonable on Keystone
02-19-2013
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Common Dreams
I know Andy Revkin writes posts like this in part to bait people like me.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea threatens South with “final destruction”
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after a nuclear test last week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mexico Asks US for List of Gun Owners
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
The Mexican government is asking the U.S. government to hand over a list of all gun owned by residents in Border States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sheriff Warns Of “Second American Revolution” If Gun Grabbers Get Their Way
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
Milwaukee County law enforcer urged his citizens to arm themselves
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
WWE Creates Racist Wrestler To Demonize Tea Party
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
WWE Creates Racist Wrestler To Demonize Tea Party, Commentators Say Limbaugh and Alex Jones Receive Tons of Fan Mail
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ben Swann Reality Check: Did Law Enforcement Intentionally Burn Chris Dorner Alive Waco Style?
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ben Swann Reality Check: Did Law Enforcement Intentionally Burn Chris Dorner Alive Waco Style?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Ron Paul is calling school to order
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ron Paul isn’t wasting any time in retirement.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Is Your Local Police Department Using Pictures of Pregnant Women and Children for Target Practice?
02-19-2013
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reason.com
What if I told you police in your town could desensitize themselves to the idea of shooting an (armed) child, pregnant woman, or young mother, for just a couple of bucks? The "No More Hesitation" series from Law Enforcement Targets Inc. offers exactl
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Marc Victor
Marc Victor Already Planning to Run Against Kyrsten Sinema
02-19-2013
Marc Victor Already Planning to Run Against Kyrsten Sinema, Expects Help From Ron Paul
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Gold and Silver
DEUTSCHE BANK: Tomorrow Will Be A Big Day For Gold Investors
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
Gold continues to tumble today after a brutal Friday session took the shiny yellow metal below $1600 per ounce. Over the past four months, it's fallen more than 10 percent from its October 4 high of $1798.10.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan Gets Safer for Civilians as U.N. Warns Taliban of ‘War Crimes’
02-19-2013
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Wired.com
Civilians are safer from harm in Afghanistan’s decade-long conflict than at any time since before the U.S. troop surge, according to new United Nations statistics.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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