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Date Sent: 2013-11-19
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
Coming Soon: A Biometric Fingerprint Scan Just to Leave the Airport?
Treasury Forced to Issue $1T in New Debt in First 6 Weeks of FY14 -- Review: “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” Is an “Empire Strikes Back” for 2013 -- Ben Swann announces "Just Us" jury nullification to acquit victimless crime -- As U.S. default threatened, banks took extraordinary steps -- 10-19-13 -- Jordan Page (One Hour turns into 3+ - MP3 LOADED) -- US Is the Enemy Chinese Military Documentary -- DNA Shows Irish People have Complex Origins -- Putin tells Iran's Rouhani he sees a chance to end nuclear dispute -- SF Mission Residents Angered By City College Student’s Videotaped Arrest -- The Latest Trials and Tribulations of Activist Rich Paul, Modern
Folk Hero -- The Chinese Military Will Be Knocking On Your Door -- Suicide bombings kill 23 near Iran embassy in Beirut -- Norway denies U.S. spying, said it shared intelligence with U.S. -- Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to NSA’s phone-records collection -- Vietnam banker sentenced to death for fraud -- Official releasing what appears to be original court file authorizing NSA to conduct sweeps -- Sabotaging Rapprochement with Iran -- Israeli Rabbinical Scandals -- Cheating students more likely to want government jobs
AZ: Satoshi Square - Tempe Farmers Market Offline eXchange
(TFMOX), Nov. 23; Christmas Party @ the Hancock's - Sat Dec
14th, 2013 - 5 p.m. til ??
Free Tempe - End the Food Tax - Sign the Petition
NV: Passport to Freedom - Las Vegas, NV - January 23-25,
2014
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home » News Treasury Forced to Issue $1T in New Debt in First 6 Weeks of FY14
11-19-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Terence P. Jeffrey
Between Oct. 1, 2013, the first day of fiscal 2014, and Nov. 14"which was less than a month after Congress agreed to temporarily suspend the legal limit on the federal debt"the Treasury was forced to issue more than $1 trillion in new debt.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Review: “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” Is an “Empire Strikes Back” for 2013
11-19-2013
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http://www.showbiz411.com, by Roger Friedman
Here comes “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” It clocks in at two and a half hours, covers everything you could imagine, and is so well liked it has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Ben Swann announces "Just Us" jury nullification to acquit victimless crime
11-19-2013
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Ben Swann
Ben Swann, Luke Rudowski, Tatiana Moroz, Jeff Berwick, Josh Tolley, Angela Keaton, Jordan Page, Bob Murphy and Joby Weeks talk about a new public awareness campaign they have begun to encourage jury nullification. it is called "Just Us".
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
As U.S. default threatened, banks took extraordinary steps
11-19-2013
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Reuters
As the United States threatened to default on its debt last month, major U.S. banks set up war rooms, spent many millions of dollars on contingency planning and, in some cases, even prepared to underwrite federal government benefits.
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
10-19-13 -- Jordan Page (One Hour turns into 3+ - MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
Jordan Page (r3VOLution musician) just back from 'Glat's Gulch Chile' (a project by Jeff Berwick of the Dollar Vigilante), Jordan gives an update on his trip there. Also, provides a re-cap of his 'living room tour', and what's next for him and his mu
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News Link • China
US Is the Enemy Chinese Military Documentary
11-19-2013
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arclein
The film, which runs for 92 minutes and was produced by the National Defense University, first appeared on Chinese video websites in late October, and was taken down several days later. Titled Silent Battle, it sounds a somber warning bell against wh
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
DNA Shows Irish People have Complex Origins
11-19-2013
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arclein
But where did the early Irish come from? For a long time the myth of Irish history has been that the Irish are Celts. Many people still refer to Irish, Scottish and Welsh as Celtic culture - and the assumtion has been that they were Celts who migrate
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Gettysburg Address at 150 with Rex Murphy
11-19-2013
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arclein
Its beginning phrase, “four score and seven years ago,” has become so well known that it’s almost risen to the level of folklore. These six words are a key to what Lincoln is doing with the remaining 272: He deliberately sets a formal, deliberate ton
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robert klein
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News Link • Iran
Putin tells Iran's Rouhani he sees a chance to end nuclear dispute
11-19-2013
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http://mobilebeta.reuters.com,
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday he believes there is a "real chance" to resolve the international standoff over Tehran's nuclear program, the Kremlin said.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
SF Mission Residents Angered By City College Student’s Videotaped Arrest
11-19-2013
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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
San Francisco police are being accused of brutality in a case that involved a bicyclist at the Valencia Gardens public housing complex in the city’s Mission Dolores neighborhood on Friday afternoon.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Drug War
The Latest Trials and Tribulations of Activist Rich Paul, Modern Folk Hero
11/19/2013
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Stateless Statements
The remarkable story of jailed New Hampshire marijuana activist Rich Paul has become widely shared and justifiably celebrated in the past year or so since his troubles with the state first began. His story has been diligently covered by a variety of
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Nicholas Shankin
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News Link • Iran
Suicide bombings kill 23 near Iran embassy in Beirut
11-19-2013
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Reuters
Two suicide bombings rocked Iran's embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including an Iranian cultural attaché and hurling bodies and burning wreckage across a debris-strewn street.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Free Tempe - End the Food Tax - Sign the Petition
11-19-2013
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Stop Taxing Food
I am personally unsure where anyone gets the notion that they have a right to tax food. I've started www.stoptaxingfood.us to help send a message that taxing food is not OK (Matt Papke, Tempe City Council 2014 Candidate)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Norway denies U.S. spying, said it shared intelligence with U.S.
11-19-2013
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Reuters
Norway's intelligence services said it - and not the U.S. National Security Agency, as reported in a Norwegian newspaper - kept records on more than 33 million phone conversations over the space of one month last winter, Oslo said on Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to NSA’s phone-records collection
11-18-2013
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Robert Barnes, Washington Post
The Supreme Court refused an unusual petition Monday from a privacy group that sought to stop the National Security Agency from collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Vietnam banker sentenced to death for fraud
11-19-2013
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infowars.com
A Vietnamese former banker and his business associate have been sentenced to death for their part in the embezzlement of $25 million, state media has reported.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Official releasing what appears to be original court file authorizing NSA to conduct sweeps
11-19-2013
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Washington Post
The director of national intelligence on Monday night released what appeared to be the original court document authorizing the National Security Agency to conduct sweeping collections of Americans’ communications records for counterterrorism purposes
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Cheating students more likely to want government jobs, study finds
11-18-2013
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L.A. Times
College students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want government jobs, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania found in a study of hundreds of students
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul: Federal Reserve Steals From the Poor and Gives to the Rich
11-17-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Ms. Yellen indicated that she would continue the Fed’s “quantitative easing” (QE) polices, despite QE’s failure to improve the economy. Coincidentally, two days before the Yellen hearings, Andrew Huszar, an ex-Fed official, publicly apologized
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bill Gates Backs Washington Initiative That Would End Private Gun Sales
11-17-2013
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Breitbart
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have "each contributed $25,000" to Washington's Initiative 594, which would effectively ban private gun sales in the state.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Change to Obamacare Scapegoats Insurers, Not Restore Canceled Insurance Policies
11-17-2013
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If aliens from outer space read today’s newspapers, they would assume that America is a dictatorship, not a republic, and that President Obama has the authority to pass and repeal laws all by himself, though executive decree.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Bulgarian students demand end to govt corruption
11-17-2013
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AP
Ivaylo Dinev believes the time has come to change his world. To do so, he's chosen a tactic straight from the 1960s the sit-in. The 24-year-old anthropology student is the informal leader of a group that has occupied Sofia University's main building
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Televangelists 'defrauded tens of million of dollars from Christian network'
11-17-2013
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UK Daily Mail
Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch, are accused of misappropriating Trinity Broadcast Network's 'charitable assets' toward a $50 million jet, 13 mansions and a $100,000-mobile home for Mrs Crouch's dogs.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Attempt to Murder Kids When Mother Flees Arrest
11-17-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Police do not exist to protect persons and property. Their primary mission is revenue collection at gunpoint on behalf of the political class. In Occupied America, refusal to submit to such extortion is an offense worthy of summary execution
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Turkey's Kemalists see secularist legacy under threat
11-17-2013
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Reuters
For decades his picture dominated Turkey, piercing blue eyes staring from hoardings, keeping watch over city streets and army barracks. Schoolyards echoed every morning to his oath: "Happy is he who can say 'I am a Turk!'"
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Counter-Insurgency Warfare in Boise?
11-17-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Boise Police Chief Masterson defended the acquisition of a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected combat vehicle. Among the reasons why it is necessary is because “guns made exclusively for the military are available in society for general use.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
For First Time, E.P.A. Proposes Reducing Ethanol Requirement for Gas Mix
11-17-2013
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New York Times
It was also unwelcome news to farmers, who noted that the decision came at a time when a record corn crop is expected, and the price of a bushel has fallen almost to the cost of production.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Could Hammond In Good Conscience Do Any Less?
11-17-2013
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Simple Justice
Hammond told his sentencing judge, whose husband’s email was included among the hacked but still remained on the case, appearance of partiality not being a concern apparently, that his hacking was “acts of civil disobedience.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Internet Kill Switch Plan is Killed…For Now.
11-17-2013
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Jonathan Turley
The Electronic Privacy Information Center won a court action asking Homeland Security be required to disclose its plans to pull the plug on regional or national mobile telephone and internet systems pursuant its Standard Operating Procedure 303.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
United Hatzalah's "Ambucycles"
11/14/2013
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youtube
"This is an ambulance on two wheels," said the driver of what appeared to be a very well-equipped delivery motorbike. "An ambucycle."
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Food
Ethanol to blame for higher grocery bills
11-17-2013
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Free Press Publications
The supposed leaders of the United States have claimed to seek “energy independence” for the past 40 years, yet the nation is no closer to energy independence now that it was in the 1970's. In recent years many supporters of energy independence, and
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
March Against Mainstream Media Philadelphia (video)
11-16-2013
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The International Libertarian
MARCH AGAINST MAINSTREAM MEDIA is more than just a protest. It is an attack against the credibility of the mainstream media in an attempt to steer its viewers away from its lies and towards alternative media sources. There are too many important thin
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Surveillance
New Mesh Network Documents Confirm Police Vehicle's Real-Time Access To DHS Spy Cameras
11-17-2013
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Infowars
Following last weeks revelation of Seattle’s expansive $2.6 million Homeland Security funded mesh network surveillance grid, new documents now reveal greater detail into the government’s ability to track and database virtually any person.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
The Demise of Pax Americana
11-14-2013
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Caroline B. Glick for The Jerusalem Post
The US remains the most powerful actor in the world. But last week, American credibility was shattered.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Apocalyptic Film ‘Dragon Day’ Explores US Default on Debt to China
11-16-2013
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silverunderground.com
A new film just released that Silver Circle fans will likely appreciate. The post-apocalyptic movie Dragon Day recently debuted on November 1st. American Thinker referred to it as “Red Dawn for intellectuals.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Feds Reveal What They Really Think About Bitcoin
11-16-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
First, the feds shutdown Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rican digital currency service.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Nazis, Princesses, And Billion-Dollar Deals "
11-16-2013
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Business Insider
Here's What You Should Know About The Firm Tim Geithner's Headed To
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Man plans to bring free shotgun project to Indy
11-16-2013
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fox59.com
An Indiana native wants to arm law-abiding citizens in high crime areas throughout Indianapolis with free shotguns in an effort to help people protect their homes and families.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Big Pharma Eyes Michigan Medical Marijuana Market
11-16-2013
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mintpressnews.com
Pharmacies could fill medical marijuana prescriptions if Michigan bill passes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve Is Monetizing A Staggering Amount Of U.S. Government Debt
11-16-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael Snyder
The Federal Reserve is creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air and using that money to buy U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities and take them out of circulation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Justice for Rosie the Dog
11-16-2013
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dailypaul.com
Des Moines WA - Cops Shoot and Taze Dog for their own Thrill and Laugh About It. Dash Cam Video
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Total Healthcare "Enrollment" As A Result Of Obamacare: -3.9 Million
11-16-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
"We fumbled the rollout on this health-care law," could be President Obama's understatement of the century.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Is a Snowden effect stalking US telecom sales?
11-16-2013
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http://www.cnbc.com, By Eamon Javers
Is there a Snowden effect on American business?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
EPA scales back ethanol mandate to avert ‘blendwall’
11-16-2013
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http://dailycaller.com, Michael Bastasch
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it is scaling back its ethanol blending requirement for 2014.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
UnitedHealth drops thousands of doctors from insurance plans: WSJ
11-16-2013
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http://news.yahoo.com, Reuters
UnitedHealth Group dropped thousands of doctors from its networks in recent weeks, leaving many elderly patients unsure whether they need to switch plans to continue seeing their doctors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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