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Date Sent: 2013-07-03
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, July 3, 2013 |
Austrian search President's plane for Snowden enrages Bolivia -- Prosecution rests in Manning trial
07-03-13 -- Matt Papke - Jeff Kennedy (of Elliott Wave) (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Obligatory Independence Day Post - by Meghan Kellison -- Soapbox Idol Rant at Porcupine Freedom Festival X 2013 - by Meghan Kellison -- The Future Of Flight: Planes That Never Need To Land -- Worse than
meth: Facebook is altering your mind and turning you into a slave -- BOVARD: The voting rights mirage --
Mars Rover Curiosity Captures Video of Martian Moonrise -- Think the
Anti-GMO Movement is Unscientific? Think Again! -- Startrek actor
Burton: I put hands outside car when pulled over -- Violence in Cairo as the president defies army ultimatum -- Sorry folks, but Portugal shows euro crisis far from over -- Woman Settles Suit After Losing Her Infant Over Drug Test Failure Caused By Poppy Seed Bagel -- Nukes are useless because nobody dare use them: Ahmadinejad -- Barack Obama says the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 'is transparent' -- Restore the Fourth Campaign Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance -- America’s Continuity of Government Plan: The Cronyism of the Revolving Door -- 6 Unbelievable Ways the Big Banks Are Scamming You -- Wall Street Banks Extract Enormous Fees From The Paychecks Of Millions Of American Workers -- Obama's New Climate Plan -- For the Record... - by Larken Rose
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club badly needs your help to continue
NY: Restore The Fourth NYC - July 4th, 2013 - 12:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Austrian search of President's plane for leaker Snowden enrages Bolivia
07-03-2013
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Reuters
"We're talking about the president on an official trip after an official summit being kidnapped," Bolivia's ambassador to the UN said. The Bolivian plane, which was bringing Morales home from an conference in Moscow, was stranded at Vienna airport
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Prosecution rests in Manning's WikiLeaks trial
07-03-2013
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AP
Prosecutors rested their case against Pfc. Bradley Manning after presenting evidence from 80 witnesses, trying to prove the former US Army intelligence analyst let military secrets fall into the hands of al-Qaida and its leader Osama bin Laden.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: America
Restore The Fourth NYC - July 4th, 2013 - 12:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
07-03-2013
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Restore the Fourth
Join us for a march to Federal Hall, the birthplace of the Bill of Rights. We refuse to give up our liberties in exchange for false security!
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Donna Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
07-03-13 -- Matt Papke - Jeff Kennedy (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Matt Papke (r3VOLutinary) filed to run for Tempe City Council - Jeff Kennedy (Chief Commodity Analyst at Elliott Wave International) provides a market update ElliottWave predicted $20 Silver in Feb. and now predicts $15... and lower!!!
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Opinion • Surveillance
Obligatory Independence Day Post
07-03-2013
Bob Ross
Every year America steals my thunder. You see, my birthday is on the fourth of July, known to many as Independence Day, and it couldn’t be more ironic. I’m not a hater of freedom by any means, in fact I love being free so much that when a federal hol
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Opinion • Poetry
Soapbox Idol Rant at Porcupine Freedom Festival X 2013
07-03-2013
Bob Ross
This video is of my spoken word rant for Soapbox Idol. I used to write a lot of political poetry, but had to throw a lot of it out once I reassessed my political beliefs. The contest had me super nervous as I had to follow some amazing ranters that I
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News Link • Climate Change
Ignoring Inconvenient Arctic Data
07-03-2013
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arclein
This makes for scary graphs showing disappearing Arctic ice, which are highly misleading.
The 1990 IPCC report had satellite data going back much earlier than 1979, which showed that Arctic peaked in that year, and was much lower in 1974.
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News Link • Agriculture
GMOs: Feeding or Fooling?
07-03-2013
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arclein
the entire area planted to GE crops consists of soybeans, corn, canola, and cotton. The first three of these are used almost exclusively to make cattle feed, car fuel, and industrial oils for the United States and Europe, while cotton goes into cloth
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News Link • Geology
Massive Earthquakes Make Volcanoes Sink
07-03-2013
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arclein
Researchers as far back as Charles Darwin have noticed that volcanoes sometimes blow their top after earthquakes. And colossal earthquakes, such as the magnitude-9.0 2011 Japan earthquake and the magnitude-8.8 2010 Chile temblor, can trigger small tr
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robert klein
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Tree-loving orang-utans hang out on the forest floor
07-03-2013
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newscientist.com
Orang-utans may be perfectly adapted for swinging through trees, but new observations suggest they also spend a surprising amount of time hanging out on the ground.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bone-marrow transplants 'cure' men with HIV
07-03-2013
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newscientist.com
Two men known only as the "Boston patients" have both stopped taking their anti-HIV medications following transplants of bone-marrow stem cells that appear to have banished the virus from their bodies.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fluorescent Polymer Detects Crime Scene Fingerprints
07-03-2013
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technewsdaily.com
The latest in high-tech crime-scene investigation is a "fluorescent tag" that can help identify fingerprints on bullets, knives and other metal surfaces by creating images that are accurate to the nanoscale.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Joel Selanikio: The surprising seeds of a big-data revolution in healthcare
07-03-2013
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ted.com
Collecting global health data was an imperfect science: Workers tramped through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, wrote the answers on paper forms, then input the data -- and from this gappy information, countries would make huge decision
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News Link • Internet
Worse than meth: Facebook is altering your mind and turning you into a slave
07-03-2013
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naturalnews.com
Are online social media sites like Facebook, Google+ and others as addictive as some drugs like meth?
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Summer pests wrecking havoc on outdoor fun?
07-03-2013
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naturalnews.com
With summer in full swing and open-air activities beckoning, don't sacrifice health and well-being for toxic insect repellents.
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News Link • Agriculture
Think the Anti-GMO Movement is Unscientific? Think Again!
07-03-2013
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wakeup-world.com
“Anyone that says, ’Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe,’ I say is either unbelievably stupid, or deliberately lying.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Future sustainable development
07-03-2013
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youtube
Centre director Johan Rockström explains why we must redefine sustainable development and develop Sustainable Development Goals that link poverty eradication to the protection of Earth's life support.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Killer whales survive beaching off Australian coast - video
07-03-2013
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The Guardian
A pod of killer whales off Australia's coast swam back out to sea after they were stranded near Fraser Island, Queensland. Four adult whales and one calf survived the ordeal but two died despite attempts by rangers to keep them hydrated.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Racism
Burton: I put hands outside car when pulled over
07-03-2013
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youtube
Actor LeVar Burton and author Tim Wise explain the differences in their interactions with police.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Violence in Cairo as the president defies army ultimatum
07-03-2013
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youtube
Violence has erupted in Cairo as the clock ticked down on an army ultimatum for President Mohammed...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Startup Uses Novel Materials Based on Plasmonic Effects
07-03-2013
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Technologyreview.com
An early-stage company aims to commercialize new optical materials for denser data storage and better cancer treatments.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Flexible Glass Could Make Tablets Lighter and Solar Power Cheaper
07-03-2013
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Technologyreview.com
NREL shows that Corning’s Willow glass can be used to make flexible solar cells that could be installed in place of roofing shingles
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Sorry folks, but Portugal shows euro crisis far from over
07-03-2013
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Reuters
We're told the euro crisis is over. But Portugal's coalition government is on the brink of collapse, and markets are once again on the slide. The crisis, it would seem, is far from over.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Woman Settles Suit After Losing Her Infant Over Drug Test Failure Caused By Poppy Seed Bagel
07-03-2013
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AP
A woman who had her newborn taken away because she failed a hospital drug test after she ate a poppy seed bagel has settled a lawsuit over the case.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Nukes are useless because nobody dare use them " Ahmadinejad to RT
07-03-2013
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RT.com
Nuclear arms " as “the most inhumane weapon” " cannot be ever deployed and therefore they are useless for Iran, said outgoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an exclusive interview with RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barack Obama says the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 'is transparent'
07-03-2013
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Obama, Politifact.com
Obama: "It is transparent, that’s why we set up the FISA court. The whole point of my concern before I was president -- because some people say well, Obama was this raving liberal before, now he’s Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney sometimes says, 'Yes, you kn
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Activism
Restore the Fourth Campaign Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance
07-01-2013
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Rainey Reitman, EFF
Restore the Fourth aims to end all forms of unconstitutional surveillance of digital communications by the US government. The campaign calls particular attention to PRISM. The Restore the Fourth movement has an active reddit community that is working
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Revolving Door
America’s Continuity of Government Plan: The Cronyism of the Revolving Door
07-01-2013
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John Stanton, Scoop
The Cronyism of the Revolving Door is a shitty form of government. And it is not confined to US government leaders. It is the same story in academia, media, industry, and finance. America’s slogan these days is, Who Gives a Shit?
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
6 Unbelievable Ways the Big Banks Are Scamming You
Five years since the crash, the big b
07-03-2013
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http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-a
It is going on five years since the financial crash and three years since President Obama signed the meager Dodd"Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the big banks are still scamming and conning and ripping off their customers. W
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Wall Street Banks Extract Enormous Fees From The Paychecks Of Millions Of American Workers
07-03-2013
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http://intellihub.com/2013/07/02/wall-street-banks
Would you be angry if you had to pay a big Wall Street bank a fee before you could get the money that you worked so hard to earn? Unfortunately, that is exactly the situation that millions of American workers find themselves in today
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Mike Brosnahan
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Reference Link • r3VOLution Continues
America's Coming Guerrilla War
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
How many of you believe that a planned currency collapse coupled with the implementation of a brutal martial law and gun confiscation will be the trigger events which will incite the coming revolution?
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Surveillance
German Prosecutors May File Charges Over US, British Surveillance
07-02-2013
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antiwar.com
Justice Minister: US Using 'Cold War' Methods
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
L.Neil Smith Receives the Freedom Book Club Book of the Year Award
07-02-2013
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YouTube.Com
L.Neil Smith, Author of "Down With Power, Libertarian Policy in a Time of Crisis" was awarded the Freedom Book Club, Book of the Year Award in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
'The Extremists Are Coming; The Extremists Are Coming!'
07-02-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
A recent discussion on the Fox Business channel, amongst John Stossel, Stuart Varney, and Judge Andrew Napolitano, has raised, once again, the empty charge directed at libertarians: "you are being an extremist!"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D Printer Company Aims to Block Printing of Guns
07-02-2013
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Prison Planet
Starts by blocking Defense Distributed’s gun files
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Banks NOT To Lend 1.8 Trillion Dollars To The American People
07-02-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Did you know that U.S. banks have more than 1.8 trillion dollars parked at the Federal Reserve and that the Fed is actually paying them not to lend that money to us?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Car Window Smashed, Driver Assaulted, Illegal Search at CBP checkpoint on I-8
07-01-2013
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From his photo gallery above, I've snagged the portraits (ugly as they are) and the name tags of the thugs involved. If you can further identify or dox any of these goons, feel free ... would love for their neighbors & family to learn just what they
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA can obtain 1bn cell phone calls a day, store them and listen
07-01-2013
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Russia Today
The NSA has a “brand new” technology that enables one billion cell phone calls a day to be redirected into its data hoards and stored, according to Glenn Greenwald, who said that a new leak of Snowden's documents was ‘coming soon.’
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News Link • Egypt
Obama Sending U.S. Troops to Egypt
07-01-2013
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New American
As Egyptians prepare for massive protests against the U.S. government-backed Muslim Brotherhood regime of Mohamed Morsi, the Obama administration is set to deploy hundreds of American troops to Egypt.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA's Plan to Crush Leaks Gets Leaked
07-01-2013
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Common Dreams
The Associated Press reported it had "obtained" a memo written by CIA director John Brennan"a man tied to leaks of his own"describing a new campaign to keep CIA officials from leaking information to the media.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Once Again Mistake Cell Phone for Gun " But This Time, They Open Fire
07-01-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Las Vegas police responded to a call of a suicidal man who pulled out a cell phone and pointed it at them, perhaps to record them, prompting an officer to shoot at him.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Not guilty verdict for San Diego chalk protester
07-01-2013
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Los Angeles Times
Prosecutor Goldsmith said he respected the jury's verdict but noted that the case went to trial ONLY because Olson refused an offer to have the charges reduced to an infraction by doing community service cleaning up graffiti.
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News Link • Police State
Man Shoots Video of Police: Police Shoot His Dog
07-01-2013
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The Local Voluntary
Police SHOOT a man’s DOG after ARRESTING him for doing NOTHING WRONG.
The situation escalates at about 2 minutes into the video. Notice the military-style rifles being carried by the police at about 2:55 while they illegally arrest the citizen.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Az Attorney General Gets It! Precisely Wrong
07-01-2013
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http://livinglies.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/az-atto
It is ok to steal, it is ok to lie, It is ok to fabricate documents.it is ok to drain the money from our economy and blow up world commerce. You know, on second thought I don’t agree with the Arizona Attorney General. I think he is a paid stooge and
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Drug War
Smoke Down Prohibition 6: The Police State Escalates (video and pictures)
06-30-2013
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The International Libertarian
The sixth Smoke Down Prohibition happened on June 30, 2013. The police state turned out in greater strength than ever. They put on an overwhelming show of force. There were several arrests but fortunately no one was hurt.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Police State
The ABCs Of The Surveillance State
07-01-2013
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www.jonathanturley.org
Six Gun Toting Alcohol Agents Pounce On College Kid Buying Bottled Water [Corrected]
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News Link • Israel
Smearing Alice Walker
07-01-2013
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Gilad.Co.UK
In the comments section of a recent online article in the right wing New York Jewish publication, Algemeiner, not to be confused with the Frankfurter Allgemeine but conceivably with Der Sturmer, there was an argument over whether or not the “Mossad s
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News Link • Surveillance
Who Were the Patriots and Traitors in Nazi Germany?
07-01-2013
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FFF Jacob Hornberger
For the statist, the national-security state is everything. It is god. It is daddy. It is big brother. Everything else, including conscience, must be subordinated to “national security” and to the national-security state’s oaths, laws, rules, and reg
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Ron Paul - If You Like The Surveillance State, You'll Love E-Verify
07-01-2013
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Ron Paul, Market Oracle
It seems every day we learn of another assault on our privacy. Sadly, this week the Senate took another significant, if little-noticed, step toward creating an authoritarian surveillance state. Buried in the immigration bill is a national identificat
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US defends intelligence sweep as same as allies & Putin: Snowden must stop leaking secrets to stay
07-01-2013
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Associated Press
French President Hollande demanded on Monday that the United States immediately stop its eavesdropping on EU diplomats and suggested that the widening surveillance scandal could derail negotiations for a free-trade deal potentially worth billions.
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