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Date Sent: 2013-05-10
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, May 10, 2013 |
Pentagon Demands Defense Distributed "Go Dark" Immediately...DefDist claims to have complied
Academic Cesspools - by Walter E. Williams -- 12-Year-Old Boy
Who Questioned Cop on Camera Posts Follow-Up Video -- Gyft
Opens Bitcoin Acceptance to 50,000 Merchant Locations -- Why Your
Dog’s Knee Surgery Is So Much Cheaper than Yours -- A
Gold-Price Rule as a Middle-Ground Path to a Genuine Gold Standard
-- What Anarchists Should Learn From Chairman Mao -- In the
Fight for Freedom, Technology Gives Individuals an Edge Over
Governments -- U.S. citizens ditch passports in record numbers --
Kevyn Orr: Detroit Is In Worse Shape Than I Thought -- Feds in
NYC: Hackers stole $45M in ATM card breach -- California Sues
JPMorgan Chase Over Credit Card Cases -- I Confronted A Drone
Pilot -- FLASHBACK: CIA Heart Attack Gun (1975) -- Generation
J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor
Studying -- A California State Senator Is Trying To Outlaw 3-D
Printed Guns -- Christian Pastor’s Home Raided – Guns Taken
-- Can The Philosophy Of Freedom Save Guns? - Alan Korwin
(www.americanhandgunner.com) -- Why Are So Many Seniors
Still Working? -- Porsche Puts Two More Nails in the Manual
Transmission’s Coffin -- DARPA To Scientists: Find A Better Way
To Study Chemical Weapons -- LinkedIn Leveraged to Lend New
Life to Old Scam -- Once a Smelly Nuisance, Mexicali’s
Wastewater Now Brings Life to the Colorado Delta -- Delta Six
Looks Like Real Weapon – Gun Controllers Will Wet Their Pants
AZ: Freedom's Phoenix Workshop... Doing Some WORK!
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News Link • 3D Printing
Pentagon Demands Defense Distributed "Go Dark" Immediately,...DefDist claims to have compl
05-09-2013
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Forbes.com
The Defense Department is pioneering the idea that posting a file on the internet is "exporting" and subject to all government regulatory authority over "trade".
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Academic Cesspools - by Walter E. Williams
05-09-2013
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Lew Rockwell
Because Klingenstein wouldn't help finance the college's diversity craze, Mills insinuated, in remarks to the student body, that Klingenstein is a racist. Mills also told students: "We must be willing to entertain diverse perspectives throughout our
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
12-Year-Old Boy Who Questioned Cop on Camera Posts Follow-Up Video
05-09-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
His name is Jeremy Drew and he looks like any shaggy haired kid his age but his message in his second video shows he is wise beyond his years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Gyft Opens Bitcoin Acceptance to 50,000 Merchant Locations
05-09-2013
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Through a partnership with Bitcoin payment processor BitPay Inc., Gyft now accepts bitcoins for its mobile gift card product. This extends the virtual currency's reach to more than 50,000 retail locations.
"The biggest issue with Bitcoin to date i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Why Your Dog’s Knee Surgery Is So Much Cheaper than Yours
05-09-2013
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The only explanations I can come up with for why human knees cost so much more are (1) government regulations, (2) malpractice liability, and (3) the inefficiencies created by the third-party payment system. It looks like these three factors are doub
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
A Gold-Price Rule as a Middle-Ground Path to a Genuine Gold Standard
05-09-2013
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central banking and gold-based money are incompatible; in logic and history alike they don’t go together, at least not for long. “If you want the gold standard in durable form,” he writes, “you can’t have central banking,” and “if you want central ba
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
What Anarchists Should Learn From Chairman Mao
05-09-2013
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Dollar Vigilante
Beyond those frustrations lives an almost universal belief that one day an event, or a series of events, will occur setting into motion the elimination of government which will be replaced by a society based solely on voluntary connections.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
In the Fight for Freedom, Technology Gives Individuals an Edge Over Governments
05-09-2013
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Reason Magazine
.... this growing divergence between what we can do and what our rulers want us to do may be a portent of an accelerating technology-fueled cold civil war....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. citizens ditch passports in record numbers
05-09-2013
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CNN
Americans are ditching their U.S. passports in record numbers, a sign of growing frustration with a system that taxes U.S. citizens on their global wealth whether they live in Montana or Mongolia.
The latest bold-faced names to relinquish their U.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Kevyn Orr: Detroit Is In Worse Shape Than I Thought
05-09-2013
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CBS News
Detroit’s emergency manager says the city is bleeding much more red ink than originally thought. “The situation is severe,” Orr said. “It’s worse that we originally thought. It ain’t good.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Feds in NYC: Hackers stole $45M in ATM card breach
05-09-2013
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AP
A worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe and outmoded U.S. card technology may be partly to blame.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Sues JPMorgan Chase Over Credit Card Cases
05-09-2013
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New York Times
California’s top law enforcement official accused JPMorgan of flooding the state’s courts with questionable lawsuits to collect overdue credit card debt. JPMorgan “committed debt collection abuses against tens of thousands of California consumers.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Dear Schools: Stop Treating Science-Curious Kids Like Criminals - 16 yr old Kiera Wilmot
05-07-2013
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popsci.com
On April 22, Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year-old public school student in Bartow, Florida did what any kid with an ounce of curiosity does: She performed an experiment. Like many acts of science, however, it didn’t go as planned.
Wilmot allegedly mixed a fe
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • How to Help
ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
05-09-2013
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http://www.ted.com, TED2013
For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
“Natural Rights vs The Patriot Act” by Judge Andrew Napolitano
05-09-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Judge Napolitano discusses Natural Rights and why The Patriot Act is exactly the type of legislation the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution to PREVENT!
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Drones
I Confronted A Drone Pilot
05-09-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Aaron Dykes
Who flies the drones America uses to take out military targets in foreign locales all over the globe?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
FLASHBACK: CIA Heart Attack Gun (1975)
05-09-2013
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http://govtslaves.info
(You Tube) CIA whistleblower talks about a gun that shoots a frozen dart of poison that mimicks a heart attack in the victim.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Generation J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor Studying
05-09-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
We recently discussed the 'dead-weight' problem of youth unemployment in developed economies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
A California State Senator Is Trying To Outlaw 3-D Printed Guns
05-09-2013
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popsci.com
How do you ban the coupling of a digital file and a legal technology?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Christian Pastor’s Home Raided " Guns Taken
05-09-2013
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freedomoutpost.com
I spoke with Tim Manning, a popular Southern Nationalist and Christian pastor from Greensboro, North Carolina, over the weekend. Mr. Manning’s home was raided late Wednesday evening into early Thursday morning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bioterrorism
GMOs " The Walking Dead of the Food Industry Infographic
05-09-2013
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Farm Wars
Some informed people in the nursing industry did some GMO research and came up with this infographic.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Transportation
Porsche Puts Two More Nails in the Manual Transmission’s Coffin
05-09-2013
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Wired.com
Some things in this world are assured. The sun rises in the east. Birds head south for the winter. Donald Trump always will be a tool. And you can get a Porsche with a stick shift.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
LinkedIn Leveraged to Lend New Life to Old Scam
05-09-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Scammers are using LinkedIn to give their garden-variety cons an added air of legitimacy as they attempt to part gullible Internet users from their cash.
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News Link • Positive News
Once a Smelly Nuisance, Mexicali’s Wastewater Now Brings Life to the Colorado Delta
05-09-2013
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newswatch.nationalgeographic.com
If there is one place that transforms wastewater from trouble-maker to life-saver it’s the site of Las Arenitas sewage treatment plant in the Mexican state of Baja California.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Delta Six Looks Like Real Weapon " Gun Controllers Will Wet Their Pants
06-09-2013
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Beforeitsnews.com
The new Delta Six FPS Controller for video game consoles for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 has been released, and it might be the ultimate FPS controller to date.
I’m sure if this gets popular enough that you will start to hear cries from the wet blank
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Adam Rodriguez
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News Link • Activism
There's a New Armed March on D.C.
05-08-2013
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Meghan Kellison
In response to Adam Kokesh's July 4th armed march on Washington D.C., other activists have organized another march the day before, but the terms are slightly different.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
BORG Agent: We Will Arrest Adam Kokesh and Open Carry Protesters
05-08-2013
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Morpheus
BORG AGENT Threatens ARREST, BORG Agent (District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department Chief) Cathy Lanier says she will arrest Adam Kokesh and any other protesters who violate the district’s gun laws. Actually she probably won’t be the one do
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Leviathan's Heel - by John Taylor
05-07-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
On the 20th anniversary of the government's sadistic and excessive slaughter of men, women, and children at their home in Waco, TX, the people of Boston awakened to find an army of occupation had seized and paralyzed their city.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Cutting the Root of Tyranny
05-07-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
A Florida county sheriff is being given a million dollars to violate the rights of the people who were stupid enough to put him in office. A new "violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Connecticut and Aurora, Co
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Job Openings in the U.S. Drop From Almost Five-Year High
05-07-2013
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Alex Kowalski via Bloomberg.com
Job openings in the U.S. eased in March from the highest level in almost five years, indicating employers are waiting to see how the economy performs as federal budget cuts take effect.
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News Link • Military
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’
05-07-2013
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
An Air Force brochure on sexual assault advises potential victims not to fight off their attackers.
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News Link • Military
Air Force sex-assault chief arrested on sexual battery charges
05-07-2013
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Matt Pearce via LA Times
The man leading a U.S. Air Force program responsible for preventing sexual assault has been arrested on suspicion of drunkenly groping a woman in an Arlington, Va., parking lot, officials said Monday.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Crisis, Policing, And Militarism After Boston: Why We Need To Establish Fire Lines
05-07-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
By April 19th, about 9,000 cops, SWAT teams and National Guardsmen had descended on Boston to find the remaining suspect in the marathon bombing. In the Watertown neighborhood, they went door to door, in some cases forcing people
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News Link • Drones
Drone Strikes Are Winning War in Yemen -- for Al-Qaeda
05-07-2013
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Bloomberg.com
It was a contradiction that perfectly captured the essence of the U.S. drone war against Islamic terrorists: Just as we learned that strikes in Yemen had resumed after a three-month hiatus
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News Link • Bitcoin
The US Regulatory Vice Closes On Bitcoin
05-07-2013
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Zero Hedge
CFTC's Bart Chilton notes "it's not monopoly money - real people have real risk in these instruments," and regulating the controversial cyber-currency "is sure something [CFTC] needs to explore." Chilton's remit to regulate this "shadow currency"
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Senators discuss revising 9/11 resolution
05-07-2013
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Politico
Top senators in both parties have begun talks to revise the congressional resolution authorizing the use of military force following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to lawmakers
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News Link • Military
Obama delivers blunt message on sexual assaults in military
05-07-2013
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Washington Post
The estimated number of military personnel victimized by sexual assault and related crimes has surged by about 35 percent over the past two years, the Pentagon reported Tuesday, as the White House and lawmakers expressed anger with the military’s han
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First Ender’s Game Trailer Has Kids, Alien War, Ben Kingsley
05-07-2013
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Angela Watercutter via WIRED.com
In case Iron Man 3 didn’t have enough Ben Kingsley for you (and really, there’s never too much Kingsley), Summit has released the first trailer for Ender’s Game
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
'Space Hackers' Take On Citizen Science for Suborbital Spaceflight
05-07-2013
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Douglas Messier via Space.com
The increasing demand for flying experiments in space was clearly in evidence over the weekend as a standing room only crowd of 100 people packed into a room here at the Hacker Dojo to hear about a new era of citizen science.
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News Link • Internet
Syria Traffic Goes "Dark" As Country Disappears From Internet
05-07-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com
While there have been no new military attacks on Syria since Sunday morning, something more peculiar happened in the past few hours, when according to Akamai and various other Internet traffic trackers, Syria has literally gone "dark"
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News Link • European Union
Federal Europe will be 'a reality in a few years', says Jose Manuel Barroso
05-07-2013
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By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels
A fully fledged federal Europe may seem like "political science fiction" today but will soon become reality for all European Union countries whether inside or outside the euro, Jose Manuel Barroso has said.
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News Link • Political Parties
Merkel Is Losing Ground, And We're Getting 'Ominous Long-Term Vibes' Out Of Germany
05-07-2013
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Business Insider
Germany's September national elections are rapidly approaching, and there are signs that it could start to get interesting.
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News Link • Corruption
Stop Granting Special Privileges to the Police
05-07-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, by Steven Greenhut
The horrific Boston bombings already have led to irrational calls for more security cameras and more police officers, with some Democrats absurdly using this tragedy as a reason to stop the slight sequester-mandated cuts in federal spending growth.
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News Link • Food
European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government
05-07-2013
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by Mike Adams
BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government
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