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Date Sent: 2013-11-09
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, November 9, 2013 |
JFK Assassination: CIA and New York Times are Still Lying to us
Missouri's Culture Of Conviction -- What They Owe - by Jim Davies -- US, Israel lose UNESCO voting rights after missing deadline over debt linked to Palestinians -- Bernanke: Fed has greater power to combat crises -- Local vigilante fight with Mexican cartel a small victory -- Pakistan creates its own Patriot Act to deal with terrorists; by denying habeus corpus -- Bank of England must lay out plans for 'help to buy' oversight -- The American Death Squad -- Call the cops, they kill your son -- How To Bend Over and Please A Cop -- An Attempted Entrapment -- Rules to Require Equal Coverage for Mental Ills -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, November 10, 2013 Edition -- Bernanke Explains It All To The IMF -- Is America Being Deliberately Pushed Toward Civil War? --
Alan Grayon inquires w/DOJ whether Glenn Greenwald would be arrested
upon return to U.S. -- The Internet Prepares for the Silk Road 2.0 -- Feds Subjected Innocent Woman to Finger Probe of Vagina & Anus -- Ex-MSNBC Host’s Health Plan Soars 350% Thanks to Obamacare -- The Vaccine Mafia and its Jury of Thugs: Your Rulers -- Legal Experts: Even TOTALLY INNOCENT People Should Avoid Talking to Law Enforcement -- Welcome to the United Police States of America -- Peter Schiff: Gold Hold It or Fold It? -- Guantánamo's Sham Trials, Now Unraveling -- Sex Crimes Investigator Pleads Guilty To Sex Crime Involving Underage Girl -- The secret diaries of Gitmo detainee Abu Zubaydah -- Deutsche Bank: "Yellen May Actually Have To Increase QE" -- How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar And The Entire U.S. Financial System
AZ: AZ NORML
HARVEST FEST today, NOVEMBER 9th; Bitcoin
Workshop @ Hancock's w/ Davi Barker-bring your Smartphones/Tablets
Nov 14, 2013, 3-9 p.m.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
JFK Assassination: CIA and New York Times are Still Lying to us
11-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By David Talbot
Fifty years later, a complicit media still covers up for the security state. We need to reclaim our history
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Missouri's Culture Of Conviction
11-08-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
The only evidence was the testimony of a friend, who later recanted, and testimony from an eyewitness who also later recanted. Police found hair, fingerprints, and bloody footprints around the body body, but none implicated him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
What They Owe - by Jim Davies
11-08-2013
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Strike The Root
There was a lot of fuss recently about something they call the “debt ceiling.” Supposedly, it's a kind of limit to what the FedGov can borrow. It's all a load of horsefeathers because whenever they find the limit inconvenient, they will raise it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
US, Israel lose UNESCO voting rights after missing deadline over debt linked to Palestinians
11-08-2013
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Washington Post
American influence in culture, science and education around the world took a high-profile blow Friday when the U.S. automatically lost voting rights at UNESCO by missing a deadline to repay its debt to the world’s cultural agency.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke: Fed has greater power to combat crises
11-08-2013
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AP
Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the Federal Reserve is drafting rules to close large insolvent banks without bringing down the broader financial system, one of many steps regulators must take to prevent another financial crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Local fight with Mexican cartel a small victory
11-08-2013
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AP
8 months after locals formed self-defense groups, they are free of the cartel in 6 municipalities whose name came to signify criminal activity. What's more, the self-defense leaders, who are clearly breaking Mexican law by picking up military-style a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Stop and Go
11-08-2013
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Simple Justice
In a remarkably brief reversal that didn’t draw a lot of attention, the Supreme Court swiftly disposed of a 9th Circuit ruling in Stanton v. Sims. Apparently, it doesn’t take the Court long to come up with very cool trick for circumventing the 4th A
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Pakistan creates its own Patriot Act to deal with terrorists; by denying habeus corpus
11-08-2013
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Washington Post
“People are already being detained, people are already being kept in internment camps, people are already involuntarily disappeared. The only thing they want to do with this is give even more special powers to security forces to detain.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank of England must lay out plans for 'help to buy' oversight
11-08-2013
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Reuters
The Bank of England must explain exactly how it will police Britain's flagship 'help to buy' housing stimulus program, the head of an influential parliamentary committee said, amid concerns the scheme could inflate a property bubble.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
The A-Team Killings
11-08-2013
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Rolling Stone
Last spring, the remains of 10 missing Afghan villagers were dug up outside a U.S. Special Forces base " was it a war crime or just another episode in a very dirty war?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Call the cops, they kill your son
11-08-2013
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James Comstock refused to buy a pack of cigarettes for his 19-year-old son, Tyler, and now he’s planning his son’s funeral. “He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him,” James Comstock said. “It was over a damn pack of cigarettes
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
How To Bend Over and Please A Cop
11-08-2013
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Simple Justice
Ever wonder how to avoid being arrested? Some would suggest not do anything wrong, but that’s an iffy proposition. The advice of former “FBI field agent, a SWAT sniper, an instructor at the FBI academy, and a Miami police officer who
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
An Attempted Entrapment
11-08-2013
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In May 2013, I was the target of an attempted entrapment. Whether it was a federal agent attempting to entrap me on a contrived material support for terrorism charge or simply an individual’s attempt to embarrass me and discredit AntiPolygraph.org
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Rules to Require Equal Coverage for Mental Ills
11-08-2013
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New York Times
In issuing the regulations, the administration will have acted on all 23 executive actions the president announced to reduce gun crimes after the Newtown, Conn., school massacre. In planning those actions, the administration anticipated
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Explains It All To The IMF - Live Webcast
11-08-2013
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zerohedge.com
Ben Bernanke is participating in an IMF panel with Larry Summers, Ken Rogoff, and former Bank of Israel chief Stan Fischer... full speech below...The Crisis as a Classic Financial Panic
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Guest Post: Is America Being Deliberately Pushed Toward Civil War?
11-08-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Brandon Smith
In 2009, Jim Rickards, a lawyer, investment banker and adviser on capital markets to the Director of National Intelligence and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, participated in a secret war game sponsored by the Pentagon at the Applied Physics
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Alan Grayon inquires w/DOJ whether Glenn Greenwald would be arrested upon return to U.S.;
11-08-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, LapHog
See the PDF of his letter sent to Holder nearly a month ago now
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Prepping
Rookie Preppers: 8 Mistakes To Avoid
11-08-2013
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Tess Pennington
As some of you know, I’ve been prepping for a several years now. Believe me when I say that I have probably made every prepping mistake in the book.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
The Internet Prepares for the Silk Road 2.0
11-08-2013
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http://thelibertybeat.com, Derrick Broze
Just weeks after the closing of the original Silk Road, a new, improved version of the anonymous, online marketplace has appeared.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Feds Subjected Innocent Woman to Finger Probe of Vagina & Anus
11-08-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
THIRD victim of sexual molestation at hands of New Mexico authorities comes forward
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran’s Nukes? What About Saudi Arabia?
11-08-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is upset over Secretary of State John Kerry and the United States working on a deal with Iran over that country’s nuclear program.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Ex-MSNBC Host’s Health Plan Soars 350% Thanks to Obamacare
11-08-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
ACA supporters say Ratigan should be thankful
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Nutrition
Natural Immune Boosters
11-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Margaret Durst
Now is a good time to start building your immune system for flu season.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
The Vaccine Mafia and its Jury of Thugs: Your Rulers
11-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Jon Rappoport
I’ve written several articles on this subject. As vaccine supporters, enthusiasts, liars, and poisoners keep showing up, I’m sure I’ll write several more.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Legal Experts: Even TOTALLY INNOCENT People Should Avoid Talking to Law Enforcement
11-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Washington's Blog
A law school professor and former criminal defense attorney explains why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Welcome to the United Police States of America
11-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W Whitehead
No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Peter Schiff: Gold Hold It or Fold It?
11-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Schiff
It’s starting to feel like we are part of a giant poker game against the US government, whose hand is the true condition of the American economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
How America Was Lost
11-08-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
“No legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its power, position, and prestige.” Dean Acheson , 1962, speaking to the American Society of International Law.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Deutsche Bank: "Yellen May Actually Have To Increase QE" - Here's Why
11-08-2013
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zerohedge.com
With what few vacuum tube-based trading algos are left and reacting with rabid kneejerkiness to every flashing red headline, one would get the impression that what matters to the Fed's decision on how to adjust its balance sheet flow depends on the U
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
A Smartphone App That Detects Radiation In A Disaster
11-08-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
GammaPix just got a test run at the catastrophe simulation site Disaster City.
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News Link • Housing
October Housing Traffic Weakest In Two Years On "Broad-Based" Housing Market Slowdown
11-08-2013
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zerohedge.com
In case the world needed any additional proof that the latest housing bubble (not our words, Fitch's) was on its last legs, it came earlier today from Credit Suisse' Dan Oppenheim who .....
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News Link • Iran
Interim Iran Nuclear Deal Could Be Signed Friday
11-08-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Kerry Heads to Geneva as Talks Gain Momentum
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
New Karaoke System From Guitar Hero Creators....
11-08-2013
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Business Insider
Some people can belt out their favorite songs (whether or not they're in the shower) and still sound good.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Guantánamo's Sham Trials, Now Unraveling
11-08-2013
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com,
Guantánamo's military tribunals were not created to try crimes, but to hide them.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sex Crimes Investigator Pleads Guilty To Sex Crime Involving Underage Girl
11-08-2013
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Business Insider
A San Jose police detective who investigated sex crimes has pleaded guilty to exchanging sexually explicit photos with a girl he believed to be 17 years old, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Exclusive: The secret diaries of Gitmo detainee Abu Zubaydah
11-08-2013
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http://america.aljazeera.com, by Jason Leopold
Al Jazeera has obtained the personal diaries of one of the highest-value detainees at Guantanamo
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News Link • Books
The 6 Types Of Prostitutes And Where They Work
11-08-2013
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Business Insider
Business Insider's Dylan Love recently had his expectations shattered when he visited a Nevada brothel, but he was actually only getting a glimpse into one type of prostitution.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CBS Correspondent Apologizes for Report on Benghazi Attack
11-08-2013
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nytimes.com, By BILL CARTER and MICHAEL S SCHMIDT
The correspondent for a disputed “60 Minutes'’ segment about the attack last year on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, apologized on the air Friday morning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Could Go To $1 Million
11-08-2013
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Business Insider
The value of the electronic currency Bitcoin has hit a new high of $340.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
18-Year-Old Reports $1 Million Bitcoin Theft From 'Bank' He Controlled...
11-08-2013
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Business Insider
An 18-year-old Australian says that he has had $1 million in Bitcoin stolen from the Bitcoin "bank" he was running, but he cannot go to the police because he worries that giving authorities.....
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News Link • Bitcoin
Sean’s Outpost Announces Satoshi Forest, Nine-Acre Sanctuary for the Homeless
11-08-2013
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http://bitcoinmagazine.com, by Vitalik Buterin
Over the past five months, Sean’s Outpost has come to be perhaps the most well-known charity in the Bitcoin community.
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News Link • Currencies
How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar And The Entire U.S. Financial System
11-08-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The death of the dollar is coming, and it will probably be China that pulls the trigger.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
If Publicized, this Study Would be a Vaccination Schedule Bombshell
11-08-2013
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naturalsociety.com
Several epidemiological surveys show vaccinated children suffer from poorer chronic health more then unvaccinated kids, but it means little to vaccine pushers and advocates.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Confidant cardinal tells new tales about Pope John Paul's role in scandal
11-08-2013
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globalpost.com
Analysis: In a new book, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz absolves John Paul of blame for praising a priest accused of pedophilia, claiming that the pope was unaware of the accusations at the time.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Bitcoin Workshop @ Hancock's w/ Davi Barker-bring your Smatphones/Tablets Nov 14, 2013, 3-9 p.m.
11-07-2013
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
If you are interested in getting a Bitcoin account and have no idea how to do it, or are not that familiar with it and want to learn more about it, bring your tablets and/or smartphones to this workshop and we will have people here to help you get it
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Second Anal Probe Lawsuit Being Filed Against N.M. Police
11-07-2013
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US News
A second man is alleging Hidalgo County, N.M., police violated his rights and escalated a minor traffic stop into an anal-probing nightmare as they searched in vain for drugs. Timothy Young was stopped for allegedly turning without a signal,
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News Link • World News
Saudi nuclear weapons 'on order' from Pakistan
11-07-2013
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BBC News
Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will. While the kingdom's quest has often been set in the context of countering Iran's atomic program, it is now possible that the Saudis
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Fla. teacher suspended for forcing 4th-grader to participate in Pledge of Allegiance
11-06-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
Daigle-McDonald admonished the class the following day. "In my classroom, everyone will do the pledge; no religion says that you can't do the pledge," she said. "If you can't put your hand on your heart, then you need to move out of the country."
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News Link • China
China Faces Security Crisis As Pollution Shields Citizens From Police Surveillance
11-06-2013
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Jonathan Turley
China: expanding pollution and shrinking civil liberties. Now, the two have collided where Chinese officials are struggling with the loss of surveillance from its thousands of surveillance cameras spying on citizens. Pollution is now making it diffic
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman claims police officer tasered her because she refused to show him her breasts
11-06-2013
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Daily Mail
'That, upon her refusal, Carter drew his City of Haskell-issued electroshock Taser weapon from his utility belt, pointed the weapon at plaintiff, and threatened to deploy the same against her if she would not expose her breasts to him.
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News Link • Obama Administration
What’s Driving Mr. Kerry? Clearly It Is Not Human Rights
11-06-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Abdullah to deal with increasing tensions with the Kingdom. What I thought was the most interesting moment came when a female reporter asked Kerry about the continued bar on women driving
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News Link • Drug War
Today's Drug War Outrage: Man Dies In Jail Cell After Misdemeanor Pot Offense
11-06-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
Saffioti failed to make a court date on a misdemeanor charge for pot possession. In July of last year, he surrendered himself to Snohomish County, Washington authorities, who promptly jailed him.
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News Link • TAXES: State
Colorado voters approve 25 percent taxes on recreational marijuana
11-06-2013
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ca.news.yahoo.com
A Colorado measure to impose sales and excise taxes of 25 percent on newly legalized recreational marijuana and earmark the first $40 million in revenue for public schools was approved by voters on Tuesday, Governor John Hickenlooper said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Army veteran banned from daughter’s school for photo of concealed weapons permit
11-06-2013
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Jessica Chasmar
An Army veteran in Georgia is outraged after her daughter’s school banned her from campus because she posted a photo of her concealed weapons license on Facebook.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Comes Under Senate Scrutiny
11-06-2013
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blogs.wsj.com/washwire
Bitcoin is about to get some time in the Capitol Hill spotlight.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Past as Prelude: Nazi Disarmament and the U.S. Gun Grab
11-06-2013
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http://thenewamerican.com, by Joe Wolverton
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past."
" Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Secret Service Agent: “It’s Worse Than People Know… and I’m Not Trying to Scare You Either”
11-06-2013
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shtfplan.com
But according to one of President Obama’s former body guards it’s much worse than we can even imagine.
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