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Date Sent: 2013-02-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 26, 2013 PM edition |
ITALIAN STOCKS PLUNGE NEARLY 5% — Borrowing Costs Surge After Upset On Election Night
02-26-13 -- Rob Hinojosa - Cody Wilson - Pasha Roberts - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- U.S. dairy industry petitions FDA to approve aspartame -- Gov’t Preparing for Soviet Style Purge of Americans --
MasterCard's New Digital Wallet Service Will Let You Skip The Checkout
Line -- The Navy Is Sick of the One-Person Subs It Uses for Deep-Sea
Diving -- Astronomers Calculate Orbit of Chelyabinsk Meteorite -- Data Espionage Sleuths Aim to Put Chinese Corporations in Court -- Experiments on Cadavers Settle 100 Year-Old Puzzle Over Human Skin
Strength -- A 72-Year-Old Man Now Has The Same Chance Of Dying As A
30-Year-Old Caveman -- Kim Dotcom's Mega To Expand Into Encrypted Email
-- Radio Jamming — Not A Thing Of The Past -- Chinese Pollution Study 'Blocked On Grounds Of State Secrecy' -- The Curious Case Of Staff Sgt. Brandon Parsons -- Ex-Wife Of 'Cannibal Cop' Allegedly Discovered Plans To Kill, Cook, And Eat More Than 100 Women -- The Draft: Forcing the Appearance of Equality -- Jury Nullification Activist Jailed 145 Days for Distributing Info -- Sequester Chicken - by Stephen Lendman -- Joe Biden Firearms Instruction Video (funny)
AZ: "No Dinosaurs in Heaven" Screening (The Objectivists
host) Thurs. 28th; Arizona Breakfast Club Sat., March 2nd.
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News Link • Economy - International
ITALIAN STOCKS PLUNGE NEARLY 5% " Borrowing Costs Surge After Upset On Election Night
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
It is a very rough start for Italian markets, following last night's shock elections, which are likely to result in a hung government.
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News Link • Government
U.S. dairy industry petitions FDA to approve aspartame
02-26-2013
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Prison Planet
You probably already know that the FDA has declared war on raw milk and even helped fund and coordinate armed government raids against raw milk farmers and distributors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Gov’t Preparing for Soviet Style Purge of Americans
02-26-2013
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Prison Planet
Alex & Paul Joseph Watson talk about DHS-funded drones targeting gun owners.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
Rosseta Stone for ProtoLanguages
02-26-2013
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arclein
The language nerd in me, was, therefore, excited to discover that scientists from UC Berkeley and the University of British Columbia have created a computer program to rapidly reconstruct vocabularies of ancient languages using only their modern lang
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Catholic Church Internal Peace?
02-26-2013
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arclein
Each side blames the errors of the other for the troubles of the church. So the sex abuse scandal is either due to authoritarian clergy and a corrupt culture of celibacy, or to liberal slackness. The fall in attendance is either due to the refusal of
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Prove You Can Think Your Way to Wellness
02-26-2013
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arclein
One very ‘accepted’ example of how thoughts can produce self-healing is when patients demonstrate improved health benefits after being given placebos. It has been found that participants often respond positively to placebos due to the expectation tha
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Transactions Tax
02-26-2013
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arclein
The essence of her piece was a suggestion to engage in a quantitative easing (or "QE") policy for households and consumers. To date, the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, has pumped more than $3 trillion directly into banks, speculators and ot
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
This Amazing 3-D Desktop Was Born at Microsoft
02-26-2013
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Wired.com
The history of computer revolutions will show a logical progression from the Mac to the iPad to something like this SpaceTop 3-D desktop, if computer genius Jinha Lee has anything to say about it.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Your Next Computer Will Live on Your Arm
02-26-2013
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Wired.com
Forget about robots rising up against humans for world domination. In the future we’re all going to be robot-human hybrids with the help of wearable computers.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
A 72-Year-Old Man Now Has The Same Chance Of Dying As A 30-Year-Old Caveman
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
Humans have extended their lives more in the past 100 years than in the previous 200,000, says a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
This $20 Phone Has 35 Days Of Battery Life
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
The Nokia 105 may not feature a multimega pixel camera or a touchscreen but its new Nokia 105 phone will cost a mere 15 euros (£13) before taxes.
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News Link • Internet
Kim Dotcom's Mega To Expand Into Encrypted Email
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
Kim Dotcom, the German-born internet entrepreneur fighting extradition from New Zealand over US claims of "criminal" copyright infringement, says he plans to launch an end-to-end encrypted email service to go with his Mega encrypted file storage offe
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
See The 5 Most Viral Cell Phone Ads Of All Time
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
This week, the Mobile World Congress is taking place in Barcelona. The annual four-day event brings together more than 70,000 people from the cell phone industry to showcase new products and talk about the future.
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News Link • China
Radio Jamming " Not A Thing Of The Past
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
AMID all the fevered talk and high-tech details surrounding the “cyber cold war” that China seems to be waging"and perhaps winning"against America and many other nations,
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
This Is 'Apple's Biggest Challenge' Making An iWatch
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
It's looking more and more likely these days that Apple will indeed make its own smartwatch, unofficially dubbed the "iWatch."
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News Link • China
Chinese Pollution Study 'Blocked On Grounds Of State Secrecy'
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
China's leading environmental watchdog has refused to disclose the results of a major national soil pollution study on grounds of state secrecy, according to a lawyer who requested the report's disclosure.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Ex-Wife Of 'Cannibal Cop' Allegedly Discovered Plans To Kill, Cook, And Eat More Than 100 Wo
02-26-2013
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Business Insider
Former New York police officer Gilberto Valle is accused of conspiracy to kidnap and using police databases to make a list of targets.
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News Link • Draft
The Draft: Forcing the Appearance of Equality
02-26-2013
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globalwealthprotection.com
The draft takes the perceived iniquity of targeting the poor, and evens the playing field so everyone has an equal chance at dying on a battle field… as opposed to the equal chance not to.
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News Link • Activism
Jury Nullification Activist Jailed 145 Days for Distributing Info
02-26-2013
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Activist Post
Vietnam Era Veteran, peaceful freedom activist, and local small businessman, Mark Schimdter, has been jailed for 145 days by Judge Belvin Perry. Schmidter's sentence began Thursday after he was found guilty for distributing jury nullification info ou
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James Babb
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News Link • Obama Administration
Joe Biden Firearms Instruction Video (funny)
01-25-2013
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dailypaul.com
Vice President Joe Biden explains the simplicity of home protection, and how there is always one solution to fit all needs of the American People.
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Jack Spratt
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Autopsy: Palestinian Prisoner Died of 'Extreme Torture' in Israeli Custody
02-25-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Craig Brown
An autopsy on the body of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two, showed that he died of "extreme torture" in Israeli custody and did not have a cardiac arrest, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Detainee Affairs said Sunday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
“I Begged for Them to Stop”: Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture
02-25-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Nick Turse
Try to remain calm -- even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Hollywood History: CIA Sponsored “Zero Dark Thirty”, Oscar for “Best Propaganda Picture”
02-25-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Patrick Henningse
‘Hollywood history’ is all the rage these days, but it comes at a huge cost
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
Fed's Big Ag Policy is Anything But "Green"
02-24-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
So why would farmers plow up such risky land? Simple: Federal policy has made it a high-reward, tiny-risk proposition. Prices for corn and soy doubled in real terms, driven up by federal corn-ethanol mandates and relentless Wall Street speculation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Are Suspects Just Too Tough?
02-24-2013
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Simple Justice
No clue what happened or why this individual became the focus of police attention, but the visuals are pretty clear. It raises a question, however. Are all perps so darn tough that they require so many police officers to beat them at once?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Maryland Cop Arrests Man for Recording Despite Previous Case Law Allowing it
02-24-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
As we’ve seen so many times before, the Montgomery County police officer whose last name is Johnson wasn’t interested in hearing about the actual law once he announced that recording police in public was illegal.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama's Washington Monument Syndrome
02-24-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Faced with the threat of federal government spending increasing by "only" 7% instead of some higher, pie-in-the-sky amount, the Obammunists are busy crying "BUDGET CUTS!!!!!" knowing that no one has proposed "cutting" a red cent from the federal budg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
The Most Dangerous Prevalent Virus
02-24-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
There is a virus far more prevalent than any of the biological viruses often discussed present in society today, one that has withstood thousands of years of some men’s fight against it, and is passed from generation to generation.
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Fear of U.S. Cuts Grows in States Where Aid Flows
02-24-2013
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New York Times
States are increasingly alarmed at Washington’s latest fiscal battle, fearing that the impasse could saddle them with across-the-board spending cuts that threaten to slow their fragile recoveries or thrust them back into recession.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Libor scandal no threat to Deutsche Bank co-chief Jain
02-24-2013
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Reuters
Deutsche Bank co-chief executive Anshu Jain will likely not be sacked as a result of the investigations into the bank for manipulating Libor interbank rates, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
United Airlines Kicks Travel Writer Off Flight for Photographing Video Monitor in Front of Him
02-24-2013
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A travel writer was kicked off a United Airlines flight for taking a picture of the video monitor in front of him, forcing him to dish out an additional $225 to find another cross Atlantic flight from Newark to Istanbul.The flight attendant who had h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Officials Debate Bank’s Losses Once Economy Mends
02-24-2013
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New York Times
The Federal Reserve’s plans for the eventual wind-down of its economic stimulus campaign could provoke a political reaction that will make it more difficult to control inflation, a current Fed official and a former Fed governor said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Regulators examine if big banks evade payday loan laws: NYT
02-24-2013
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Reuters
Federal and state regulators are examining whether some of the largest U.S. banks are helping Internet-based lenders evade state laws that cap interest rates on payday loans, The New York Times said on Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Connecticut Cop Assaults Woman for Video Recording him
02-24-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A cop in Connecticut assaulted a woman for video recording him on a public street after repeatedly telling her, "put the camera away." Not much information is available, but there is enough evidence to show the cop abused her rights.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai orders US out of Afghan province
02-24-2013
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BBC News
The Afghan president ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within 2 weeks. The decision was taken due to allegations of disappearances and torture by Afghans considered to be part of US special forces
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
The Myths and Realities of "The Marketplace Fairness Act"
02-24-2013
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Free Press Publications
The Marketplace Fairness Act is being bounced around once again, this is the proposal to allow States to require businesses to collect sales tax on all items sold via internet and catalog. The National Taxpayers Union reports several myths have cropp
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News Link • Self-Defense
Purim Guide for the Perplexed 2013
02/24/2013
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Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger - Arutz Sheva
Interesting facts and tid-bits for the holiday. Happy Purim!!
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Gun Rights
Darren Wolfe at the Montgomery County Day of Resistance (video)
02-23-2013
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The International Libertarian
As part of the nationwide series of rallies standing up for gun rights the liberty minded people of Montgomery County, PA came together. I had the honor of addressing them. In this speech I bring up the fact that in February of 2010 students in Venez
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News Link • Heroes
Today Is Bradley Manning's 1,000th Day Without a Trial
02-23-2013
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D.B. Grady, The Atlantic
The actions of Bradley Manning offer a moment to reflect on the meaning of secrecy in the information age. Regardless of one's opinion of the young private (traitor or hero, disturbed or determined, ideological or idiotic), he put the entire secrecy
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Activism
How To Nullify Police Checkpoints for $50 (UPDATED) Cops Arrest Sign Wavers
02-24-2013
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Daily Paul.com
This past weekend (Jun 2012) in the Philadelphia suburb of Willow Grove, eight courageous liberty activists nullified a suspicionless sobriety checkpoint.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Is The News Scripted?
02-24-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Yeah, I know, that's like asking if fire is hot.
Well for those who've never been burned, here's proof that the news burns us all the time. This video is a great wake up tool for those who still incomprehensibly believe in the MSM.
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News Link • Homeland Security
The Department Of Homeland Security Stole My Boat Today
02-24-2013
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uncrunched.com
I live a fairly simple life and that didn’t change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn’t buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Video: I got pulled over in NH ...The right way to deal with police stops
02-23-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I got pulled over a month ago. This is how you are to deal with cops. This guy turned out to be cool so I reached out to him but it will not always end so well.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Open Carry, law student owns cop who is ignorant to the law
02-23-2013
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www.youtube.com
Law student is stopped by police because he is carrying a firearm in public. The officer asks to see ID and questions the student but apparently the officer does not know that you cannot demand ID or detain somebody unless there exists reasonable sus
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Disarming of Our Vets!
02-22-2013
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Minute Men News
Veterans Receive Letters from Dept. of Vet. Affairs Prohibiting Possession of Firearms or Ammunition
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