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Date Sent: 2014-02-11
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
Straight-Faced Man Makes Epic Mockery of City Council Over Gun Ban
Christie’s deals as a prosecutor raised eyebrows -- Peter Schiff: Get Ready for Gold's Moonshot! -- Freedom Summit Phoenix and Texas Bitcoin Conference: building momentum for Generation Next -- Manufacturers Change Look of AR-15; Rifle Is Now Legal in New York State -- White House delays health insurance mandate for medium-sized employers until 2016 -- Lockheed Martin Is Aiming To Fulfill The Navy's Dream Of A Portable Laser Weapon -- Bill Gates Says Digital Currencies Could Be Huge -- The Final Swindle Of Private American Wealth Has Begun -- Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London -- Rand Paul Expresses Support for Article V Convention of States -- Meet Patrick Byrne: Bitcoin Messiah, CEO of Overstock, Scourge of Wall Street -- This Miracle Karaoke Machine Will Fix Your Terrible Voice -- Why a Railroad Merger May Get the Supreme Court to Rule on NSA Spying -- The Truth about the Criminal Bloodbath in Iraq Can't Be 'Countered' Indefinitely -- Not All Lives are Equal-According to the Inhabitants of the Barbarically Civilized Nation -- New Bill Would Mandate ‘Kill Switch’ For Smartphones -- House Members Renew Call For The Capture Of Snowden As “Traitor” and Spy -- Proud to Be: A Native American Ad That Wasn’t Aired During the 2014 Super Bowl -- US trade protest over India solar energy program
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014, starts
this Friday Feb. 14-16; Memorial for Jack
McLamb, Saturday February 22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine February 2014 Edition
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News Link • Gun Rights
Straight-Faced Man Makes Epic Mockery of City Council Over Gun Ban
02-10-2014
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Daily Paul.com
An Ashland, Ore., resident on Monday used satire to point out the idiocy of the proposed ordinance to City Council members.
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News Link • Corruption
Christie’s deals as a prosecutor raised eyebrows
02-10-2014
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Washington Post
As the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Chris Christie struck an unusual deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb.
In exchange for not charging the drugmaking giant with securities fraud, Christie’s office would require it to fund a professorship at Se
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Hypocrisy and Hope: How the media fools itself about Iran
02/09/2014
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Matthias Kuntzel at The Times of Israel
Iran only has to lie. The western media and politicians are very willing to do the rest of the propaganda work for them.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Secular Palestinian Leader Denounces John Kerry's Peace Plan.
02/08/2014
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The Glazov Gang, via You Tube
Mudar Zahran (Leader of Palestinians in Jordan)
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Media: Internet
Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill Launch "The Intercept"
02-10-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Today Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras launched their new investigative journalism site, "The Intercept" with two new stories regarding the out of control National Security State.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Freedom Summit Phoenix and Texas Bitcoin Conference: building momentum for Generation Next
02-10-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Freedom Summit in Phoenix is always a great event with amazing teachers and instructors. Amid the more traditional figures such as John Buttrick and Will Grigg, both of whom are simply mesmerizing speakers, are all these rebel upstart bitcoiners. It'
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News Link • Gun Rights
Manufacturers Change Look of AR-15; Rifle Is Now Legal in New York State
02-10-2014
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nationalreview.com
Pass a stupid law, get a stupid result. This, Clash Daily reports, is a remodeled AR-15, and it is legal in New York despite the state’s “assault weapons” ban:
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News Link • Obamacare
White House delays health insurance mandate for medium-sized employers until 2016
02-10-2014
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Washington Post
The Obama administration announced Monday it would give medium-sized employers an extra year, until 2016, before they must offer health insurance to their full-time workers.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Skin gun offers new hope for burn victims
02-10-2014
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dvice.com
This might seem like a scene from Star Trek, because it is: some hapless redshirt gets burned by radiation or a phaser or something, and the doctor on board the ship sprays the burns with a high-tech gun of some sort, which immediately heals them.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
22 Facts About The Coming Demographic Tsunami That Could Destroy Our Economy All By Itself
02-10-2014
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Today, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will retire. This is going to happen day after day, month after month, year after year until 2030.
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News Link • OLYMPICS Sochi Russia Winter 2014
Insane GoPro Video Of The Olympic Downhill Skiing Course That Bode Miller Says 'Could Kill You**
02-10-2014
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Business Insider
Graham Bell, a former Olympic skier who now works for the BBC, went down the Olympic downhill skiing course in Sochi and took a crazy first-person video.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
These Smart Glasses Can Read Any Text And Even Hand-Written Notes Out Loud
02-10-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
OrCam are smart glasses that can read any text out loud " from newspaper articles to product labels, and even hand-written notes " with the help of a camera that can decipher letters and a microphone that attach to the glass frame.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
The Final Swindle Of Private American Wealth Has Begun
02-10-2014
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shtfplan.com
I began writing analysis on the macro-economic situation of the American financial structure back in 2006, and in the eight years since, I have seen an undeniably steady trend of fiscal decline.
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Senate Bill 1151
02-10-2014
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phoenixpermaculture.org
Has anyone seen that there is a proposal in the state legislature to make backyard chickens a constitutional right for the entire state of Az?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London
02-10-2014
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wallstreetonparade.com
London Police have confirmed that an official investigation is underway into the death of a 39-year old JPMorgan Vice President whose body was found on the 9th floor rooftop of a JPMorgan building in Canary Wharf two weeks ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Sunset Limited (Cormac McCarthy, Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson) film recommendation
02-10-2014
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Christine Smith's Blog
I highly recommend the film The Sunset Limited to all those of thought, pondering, about the insane world most choose to live in...Be you of a faith, agnostic, or an atheist…if you are thoughtful…this film will be appreciated. I really liked it.
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News Link • General Opinion
Rand Paul Expresses Support for Article V Convention of States
02-10-2014
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Sen. Rand Paul expresses his support for Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments, as well as an Article V Amendments Convention for the purpose of a Balanced Budget Amendment and Congressional term limits.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Meet Patrick Byrne: Bitcoin Messiah, CEO of Overstock, Scourge of Wall Street
02-10-2014
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Wired.com
Patrick Byrne says the zombie apocalypse is coming, and there’s one thing that can save us: bitcoin.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
This Miracle Karaoke Machine Will Fix Your Terrible Voice
02-10-2014
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Wired.com
Karaoke is fun. Whether you’re doing the singing or watching your friends butcher Journey songs, only a bonafide curmudgeon could pass up a night of “empty orchestra.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Why a Railroad Merger May Get the Supreme Court to Rule on NSA Spying
02-10-2014
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Wired.com
There are some events that bookies won’t accept wagers on, because the outcome is considered all but certain.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Supreme Court Justice Predicts Internment Camps in America’s Future
02-10-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
"You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," said Justice Scalia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
The Truth about the Criminal Bloodbath in Iraq Can't Be 'Countered' Indefinitely
02-10-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Not All Lives are Equal-According to the Inhabitants of the Barbarically Civilized Nation
02-10-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
I rarely accept invitations for speaking arrangements. It is not my cup of tea. When I rarely do I insist in dividing my allocated time into 1/3 for speaking and 2/3 for Q & A.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House Members Renew Call For The Capture Of Snowden As “Traitor” and Spy
02-10-2014
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jonathanturley.org
Members of Congress are shocked, shocked this week. No this Claude Rains moment was not over the hundreds of billions spent on unpopular wars or the creeping economy or the evisceration of civil liberties in America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • PC: Political Correctness
Proud to Be: A Native American Ad That Wasn’t Aired During the 2014 Super Bowl
02-10-2014
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jonathanturley.org
Here is one ad that never aired during this year’s Super Bowl:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Hedonistic UFO cult ‘the Raelians’ behind Africa’s first clitoral restoration hospital
02-10-2014
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rawstory.com
A UFO cult is behind Africa’s first clitoral restoration hospital in Burkina Faso, set to open in March, which will offer a controversial surgery to victims of female genital mutilation.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
US trade protest over India solar energy program
02-10-2014
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Associated Press
The U.S. brought a trade complaint against India Monday over a solar energy program it says discriminates against American manufacturers, adding another wrinkle to a bilateral relationship strained by the recent arrest and strip-search of an Indian d
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
A rush to evacuate as truce extended in Syria city
02-10-2014
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Associated Press
Aid officials rushed to evacuate more women, children and elderly from rebel-held areas that have been blockaded by government troops for more than a year in Syria's third-largest city, Homs, after a U.N.-brokered cease-fire in the city was renewed f
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obamacare
Health law's employer requirement will phase in
02-10-2014
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Associated Press
The Obama administration is giving another delay to business groups concerned about the health care law's requirement that larger firms cover their workers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
A March In North Carolina For The Soul Of America
02-10-2014
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commondreams.org
The scene was Raleigh, N.C., but for many of the people who were there the message and its impact was intended to be national:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
A "War Process" Not a "Peace Process": On US Military Aid to Israel
02-10-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org
We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
Superhuman Energy Cultivated by Meditators: It’s Science
02-10-2014
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arclein
t was also shown that meditation could result in the redistribution of gray matter in the brain and prevent its loss. The loss of gray matter has an impact on many mental functions, such as the control of emotions, impulses, thoughts, and movements.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
A Psychiatrist’s Perspective on Drugs Therapy
02-10-2014
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arclein
Perhaps they are a reflection of the 49% of requests for drugs prompted by “direct-to-consumer” (DCA) advertising by pharmaceutical companies.1 Fully 7 out of 10 times, doctors prescribe based on these requests made by patients who learned from adver
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sugar Battery Energy Density Increased Ten Fold
02-10-2014
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arclein
Zhang and his team constructed a non-natural synthetic enzymatic pathway that strip all charge potentials from the sugar to generate electricity in an enzymatic fuel cell. Then, low-cost biocatalyst enzymes are used as catalyst instead of costly plat
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News Link • History
The Legendary Pot Growers and Moonshiners of Appalachia
02-10-2014
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arclein
Generations of Mistrust of the Government
This event had an extremely damaging effect on how the moonshiners viewed authority: they never trusted the government again, and passed down this sentiment to their progeny. Even to this day that sprit of s
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News Link • Obama Administration
Read the Memo Explaining Why the U.S. Can Totally Kill Its Own Citizens Without Trial
02-09-2014
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http://www.slate.com, By David Weigel
Obtained by NBC News. As Glenn Greenwald explains, "This is not the primary OLC memo justifying Obama's kill list -- that is still concealed -- but it appears to track the reasoning of that memo as anonymously described to the New York Times in Octob
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Achieve Olympic Glory - Now Pay the IRS
02-09-2014
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http://www.atr.org,
U.S. Olympic gold medal winners could owe almost $10,000 to the IRS
Read more: http://atr.org/achieve-olympic-glory-pay-irs-a8135#ixzz2spZRLRoa
Follow us: @taxreformer on Twitter
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Obama signs a "Swiss Army Knife" farm bill
02-09-2014
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Free Press Publications
On February 7, President Obama signed a farm bill that has an estimated cost of $954.6 billion. The President and other supporters claim the bill will reduce the deficit by $23 billion over the next ten years, though the National Taxpayers Union poin
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News Link • Internet
Internet Companies Begin Disclosing U.S. Government Requests for Data
02-09-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, By: Derrick Broze
Internet and technology based companies have begun releasing details on U.S. government requests for customer data.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Market Manipulations Become More Extreme, More Desperate
02-09-2014
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Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler
In two recent articles we explained the hows and whys of gold price manipulation. The manipulations are becoming more and more blatant. On February 6 the prices of gold and stock market futures were simultaneously manipulated.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s Oldest Exchange, Now in Shambles, Suspends Payouts
02-09-2014
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Wired.com
It was once the only serious bitcoin exchange on the internet. But now, just a year later, Japan’s Mt. Gox is in shambles.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
'F**k the EU': Tape Reveals US Runs Ukraine Opposition
02-09-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
In the latest debacle for the US State Department and the Obama Administration, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was caught on tape micro-managing Ukraine opposition party strategies with US Ambassador to Ukraine.......
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Staying Out of Other People's Wars
02-09-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
“If these negotiations [with Iran] fail, there are two grim alternatives,” said Sen. Richard Durbin, “a nuclear Iran, or war, or perhaps both.”
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News Link • Economy - International
Coming Global Collapse Will Eclipse The Terror Of 2008
02-09-2014
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kingworldnews.com
Today the man who has been one of the most accurate in the world at calling movements in gold warned King World News that the coming collapse will be far worse than the terror that engulfed the world 5 or 6 years ago.
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News Link • Iran
Iran Says Warships Headed Close to US Borders
02-09-2014
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http://abcnews.go.com, AP
Iranian warships dispatched to the Atlantic Ocean will travel close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time, a senior Iranian naval commander said Saturday.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s Political Problem
02-09-2014
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Technologyreview.com
If cryptocurrency is to succeed, its proponents need to acknowledge that it’s hard to divorce money from politics.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Attack on electric grid raises alarm
02-09-2014
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latimes.com, By Evan Halper and Marc Lifsher
Damage to power station in shooting last year prompts worries over terrorism.
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Agents Interrogate Jewish Author For Reading Conservative Newspaper
02-09-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Federal goons assume role of political thought police
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News Link • Drones
Anti-drone activists sent to jail in US
02-09-2014
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Voice of Russia
A US court has sentenced 12 Americans to jail for an anti-drone protest staged at the Hancock Air National Guard Base at Syracuse, NY, in October 2012. DeWitt Town judge David Gideon found the defendants guilty of disorderly conduct and gave them a $
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima Cesium-137 and West Coast Fishery: B.C. First Nations call for Radiation Tests
02-08-2014
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By John Gleeson
B.C.’s grand chief and First Nation leaders on the Sunshine Coast are supporting a call for Ottawa to “systematically and properly” study the full impact of Fukushima radiation on the West Coast fishery.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Who Owns The Federal Reserve?
02-08-2014
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Ellen Brown
The Fed is privately owned. Its shareholders are private banks
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News Link • TERRORISM
War on Error
02-08-2014
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foreignpolicy.com
We're fighting al Qaeda like a terrorist group. They're fighting us as an army.
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News Link • China
Chinese Credit Bubble
02-08-2014
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arclein
The ratio of credit to GDP has jumped by 75 percentage points to 200pc of GDP, compared to roughly 40 points in the US over five years leading up to the subprime bubble, or in Japan before the Nikkei bubble burst in 1990. "This is beyond anything we
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