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Date Sent: 2014-01-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
LIBERTARIAN PARTY MOVES US AWAY FROM FREEDOM
Connecticut Cop Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison After Arresting Priest for Recording -- Angry TSA phone call to Off The Hook TV -- Sting catches rickshaw driver giving illegal tour -- Ricky Vitte, Jr.: State Trooper, Privileged Child Predator -- Town of Culpepper Settles With Family of Woman Who Was Killed by Cop -- The Best Defense Your Money Can’t Buy -- The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism -- Gates’ Memoir Illustrates How
Militaristic US Society Has Become -- Seeds of Doubt -- Recognizing
Israel as a Jewish State is like saying the US is a White State --
Bitcoin Baron Keeps a Secretive Open Source OS Alive -- Download 44
films in a second: UK researchers create fastest-ever commercial
internet -- Water Plumes Discovered on the Solar System’s Largest
Asteroid -- The Deflation Menace -- Obama Administration Picks Up Another Journalist -- Top 10 Secret
Societies -- China's princelings storing riches in Caribbean
offshore haven -- Swedes buy insurance to skip long health queues --
Robots May Replace One-Fourth Of U.S. Combat Soldiers By
2030, Says General -- Why a creepy new porn app isn't bad news for
Google Glass -- Winter Storm That Hammers Northeast Cancels 4,400
Flights -- Major Snowstorm Clobbers DC, Philly, NYC and Boston --
What 2014 Holds in Store for Us
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club Saturday Feb 1st, 2014,
8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall) with Patrick Wood speaking; Freedom Tech Workshop #1 - Saturday February 1st 2014;
Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
23-25, 2014, starts this Thursday
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
LIBERTARIAN PARTY MOVES US AWAY FROM FREEDOM
01-22-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
The civic sacrament known as voting has begun. Ballots for November are being readied now, and government-weary Americans are being asked to believe yet again that politicians bring freedom. They are asked to surrender the last, best hope that freedo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Connecticut Cop Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison After Arresting Priest for Recording
01-22-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
An East Haven cop who claimed he was in fear for his life when he arrested a priest for video recording him as he bullied an Ecuadorian immigrant in a convenience store was sentenced to 30 months in prison , indicating justice prevails
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Angry TSA phone call to Off The Hook TV
01-22-2014
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I received a call from a man named John on January 19 claiming to be from the TSA and had some questions for me. I asked him to call me back next day that I couldn't hear him well. He agreed and within an hour or two I download an app so I can record
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Sting catches rickshaw driver giving illegal tour
01-22-2014
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It was a Charleston police sting unlike any other: An undercover cop dressed casually like a tourist taking a ride on a rickshaw. The goal was to see if any of the drivers were giving illegal speaking tours of the city's numerous sight-seeing spots.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ricky Vitte, Jr.: State Trooper, Privileged Child Predator
01-22-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
If it weren’t for the costume in which Ohio resident Ricky Vitte, Jr. dresses each day, he would probably be facing felony child sex abuse charges and the prospect of being designated a violent sexual offender for life.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Town of Culpepper Settles With Family of Woman Who Was Killed by Cop
01-22-2014
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Reason Magazine
Almost two years ago in Culpeper, Virginia, Officer Daniel Harmon-Wright shot and killed Patricia Ann Cook in a parking lot outside of a private school. That now former cop is serving three years in jail after being convicted of manslaughter
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Best Defense Your Money Can’t Buy
01-22-2014
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Reason Magazine
For people facing criminal charges, freedom is not free; it is dauntingly expensive. The Kaleys' lawyers estimate a trial will cost $500,000 in fees . The Kaleys planned to cover the cost with a home equity credit-until the government took it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism
01-22-2014
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antiwar.com, by Abba A. Solomon and Norman Solomon
Since its founding six years ago, J Street has emerged as a major Jewish organization under the banner "Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Gates’ Memoir Illustrates How Militaristic US Society Has Become
01-22-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Ivan Eland
All the hoopla in the media over Bob Gates’ scathing criticism of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in his new memoir, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, has missed the mark.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Recognizing Israel as a Jewish State is like saying the US is a White State
01-22-2014
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http://www.juancole.com, By Juan Cole
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is adding a fifth demand to his negotiations with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas: That the Palestinians recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Baron Keeps a Secretive Open Source OS Alive
01-22-2014
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Wired.com
One of the world’s longest-running open source software projects will live on, thanks to a Romanian bitcoin baron.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Download 44 films in a second: UK researchers create fastest-ever commercial internet
01-22-2014
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http://www.independent.co.uk, James Vincent
Scientists in the UK have created the fastest ever real-world internet connection, using commercial-grade fibre optic lines to clock up speeds of 1.4 terabits per second.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Water Plumes Discovered on the Solar System’s Largest Asteroid
01-22-2014
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Wired.com
The largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres, is shooting out wisps of water at a prodigious rate. This unexpected finding allows Ceres to join other small bodies in the solar system, including Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa, as
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Quentin Tarantino Shelves ‘The Hateful Eight’ After Betrayal Results In Script Leak
01-22-2014
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http://www.deadline.com, By MIKE FLEMING JR
Learning today that his script The Hateful Eight leaked after he gave it to a small circle of actors, Quentin Tarantino tells me that he’s so upset that he has decided that he will not direct that film next.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Extraordinary Video of Pyroclastic Flows From the Eruption of Sinabung
01-22-2014
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Wired.com
In terms of the destruction they wreak upon the landscape, few volcanic hazards can top pyroclastic flows (or more precisely calling pyroclastic density currents).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
The Deflation Menace
01-22-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Dedicated readers of The Wall Street Journal have recently been offered many dire warnings about a clear and present danger that is stalking the global economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Picks Up Another Journalist
01-22-2014
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http://www.weeklystandard.com, By DANIEL HALPER
This one, from Roll Call, is headed to the Department of Justice.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Societies
Top 10 Secret Societies
01-22-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
No matter what their supposed purpose, there’s something inherently sinister about a secret society.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CNN Hits Lowest Rated Week In Demo Since Jeff Zucker Took Over
01-22-2014
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http://www.deadline.com, By DOMINIC PATTEN
After a week at the Sundance Film Festival, this probably wasn’t the first anniversary present Jeff Zucker was looking for.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
DinghyGo 2 inflatable 3-in-1 sailboat swims via wind, rowing or motor
01-22-2014
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gizmag.com
There's a reason that they say the two good days of boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's princelings storing riches in Caribbean offshore haven
01-22-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, By James Ball
Relatives of political leaders including China's current president and former premier named in trove of leaked documents from the British Virgin Islands
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Swedes buy insurance to skip long health queues
01-22-2014
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http://www.thelocal.se
One in ten Swedes now has private health insurance, often through their employers, with some recipients stating it makes business sense to be seen quickly rather than languish in national health care queues.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
UPDATE: Florida Teen Expelled For Performing In Porn Allowed Back To School
01-22-2014
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http://tampa.cbslocal.com,
A student who turned to porn to help pay the bills had been kicked out of school.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Robots May Replace One-Fourth Of U.S. Combat Soldiers By 2030, Says General
01-22-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey Atherton
Be all the cyberman you can be.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Why a creepy new porn app isn't bad news for Google Glass
01-22-2014
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http://theweek.com, By John Aziz
The porn industry has a pretty good track record as an early adopter
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Winter Storm That Hammers Northeast Cancels 4,400 Flights
01-22-2014
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http://connecticut.cbslocal.com, AP
Northeasterners scraped and shoveled Wednesday after a snowstorm grounded flights, shuttered schools and buried roads with a surprising amount of snow, leaving biting cold in its wake.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Major Snowstorm Clobbers DC, Philly, NYC and Boston
01-22-2014
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http://www.accuweather.com, Kristina Pydynowski
Along the leading edge of an advancing deep freeze, heavy snow caused major travel delays up and down the East Coast on Tuesday.
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Robert Lee
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
01-22-14 -- John Whitehead - Karen Hudes (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED)
John Whitehead (President and Founder of the Rutherford Institute) provides us an update on the status of civil liberties and human rights in America today - Karen Hudes (World Bank Whistleblower) talks about the IMF laying the groundwork for global
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Feature Article • Activism
Babes of Bitcoin
Agorist Alma
A financier, an agorist, a blogger and a vlogger on cryptocurrency's power to liberate finance, create alternative markets, improve consumer goods and usher in a stateless society.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Fed Banker Tries Criticizing Bitcoin, Ends Up Perfectly Describing The Fed
01-20-2014
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BitCoin Magazine
In an article for Fox News, senior economist Francois Velde of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago describes Bitcoin. “Although some of the enthusiasm for Bitcoin is driven by a distrust of state-issued currency, it is hard to imagine a world where t
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Syria
Cynical New PR Stunt Greases Skids For “Humanitarian” Invasion of Syria
01-21-2014
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Prison Planet
Dubious defector’s claims emerge after think tank called for “realpolitik” ploy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Lies, NSA Spies, and the Sons of Liberty
01-21-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by John W. Whitehead
Will You Choose Dangerous Freedom or Peaceful Slavery?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What Did Our Wars Win?
01-21-2014
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original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchanan
“He ended one war and kept us out of any other,” is the tribute paid President Eisenhower.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Federal Budget, Per Person
01-21-2014
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nytimes, By Wilson Andrews and Alicia Parlapiano
The House and Senate last week passed a hefty spending bill that included $1.1 trillion in discretionary spending for 2014 and provided funds for some mandatory programs (though the bill does not control the levels of that spending).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Texas Health Clinic Accepting Bitcoin
01-21-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
A North Texas health clinic has begun to accept bitcoin as payment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
US: Syria Talks Must Focus on Regime Change
01-21-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com,
Assad Wants to Talk al-Qaeda, But US Driving the Process
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Facing US Complaints, UN Uninvites Iran to Syria Talks
01-21-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
UN Officials Feign Anger at Iran After Giving in to US Pressure
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
On Borrowed Time: “They’re Going to Turn the Blame Directly on You”
01-21-2014
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shtfplan.com
If you regularly follow establishment media and you’ve fallen for the notion that the stock market is the primary measure for economic health in this country, then you probably also believe that the recovery has taken hold,.....
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News Link • Transportation
Track N Go system adds tracks to trucks
01-21-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
You may think that your 4 x 4 with its lugged tires is pretty good in the snow, but it's never going to match the traction and flotation offered by a tracked vehicle.
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News Link • Family
Child-Tracking Wristbands Edge us Closer to a Dystopian Future
01-21-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Rory Carroll
Parents will soon be able to track, log and judge the every movement of their offspring. God help those children
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Proof that the Bible is Anti-Government
01-21-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Rosenberg
Judaism and Christianity are, at their cores, subversive, anti-government religions. This is strongly reflected in the holy books of these religions, a.k.a. the Bible.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Lies, NSA Spies, and the Sons of Liberty:
01-21-2014
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https://www.rutherford.org, By John W. Whitehead
“All governments are run by liars.”"Independent journalist I.F. “Izzy” Stone
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
How To Kill a Law Enforcement Career: Criticize Revenue Farming
01-21-2014
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http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com,
The arrival of a 450-ton, 380-foot-long “megaload” of oil refinery equipment near Marsing, Idaho last Christmas attracted the attention of protesters, spectators, and revenue farmers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran sends warships to Atlantic Ocean in historic first
01-21-2014
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Prison Planet
Iran’s state-run media said on Tuesday that its navy has sent warships to the Atlantic Ocean " a historic first for the Islamic Republic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Florida student kicked out of school for performing in porn
01-21-2014
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clickorlando.com
18-year-old says his work was legal, did not disrupt school
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Random Acts of Revolution for the Everyday Revolutionary
01-21-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery. This means that if you are a slave today, it’s either illegal, or you have voluntarily accepted your servitude.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
Vietnamese hackers target EFF staffers, journalist in phishing attack
01-20-2014
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ars technica
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published details of an attempted malware attack on two of its employees by a group of hackers associated with the Vietnamese government. The hacker group, known as Sinh Tử Lệnh, has targeted Vietnam
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