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Date Sent: 2014-02-19
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters
GOP congressman caught on tape blasting leadership as ‘directed by billionaires’ --
U.K. authorities grill Edward Snowden’s lawyer at Heathrow Airport --
NJ Port Authority probing whether officer drove Chris Christie ally
through Bridgegate area -- Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Vienna -- Britain Harasses Human Rights Lawyer -- US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq to cost $6 trillion -- The Soviet
Poverty Law Center Wants to Hear From You (Or Rather ABOUT You) -- 10 Prison Security Techniques Being Implemented on the American
People -- Capital One: We Can Visit Cardholders at Home, Work -- Another Grim Reminder Why It Is Always Dangerous to Call the Cops --
Pat Caddell: The Establishment GOP wants the IRS to go after Tea
Party -- Ex-Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Family Dies -- 84 year old Nun
gets 3 years in prison for nuke protest -- The Drought In
Brazil Has Gotten So Bad That 142 Cities Are Now Rationing Water -- Dark Secrets of Artificial Sweeteners Revealed with Mike Adams
(Video) -- Does The Trail Of Dead Bankers Lead Somewhere? -- Modern Genes Reveal 100 Major
Population Shifts In Human History -- Inside Russia's Ridiculous Sochi Security Scanner
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difference between war and revolution -- Strange Dark Streaks on
Mars Get More and More Mysterious -- Dr. Kurt: Why I Will Never Choose to Vaccinate my Own
Son and Any Future Kids my Wife and I Have -- R.I.P. CAPTCHA -- We’re Going to be Hit with a Tsunami of
Inflation-Peter Schiff -- Adam Kokesh Goes #OffTheGrid | Jesse
Ventura Off The Grid -- Why Texas Will Survive the Collapse of the World Economy -- #NobodyForPresident2016 -- Civilians are dying.
Campaigners are being kidnapped. -- Ukraine's Military Releases The
Armored Vehicles And Fighter Jets -- Snowden Documents Reveal
Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics -- Former Pussy Riot
Members Briefly Held in Sochi -- US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian
Rioters and Protesters -- Rockefeller Bros, Pepsi Behind Gun Grab
Agenda -- Another JP Morgan Banker Leaps to His Death -- School
Safety Expert Threatened for Questioning Official Narrative of the
Sandy Hook Massacre -- Dead Bankers
AZ: Memorial for Jack McLamb,
Saturday February 22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ--
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News Link • Activism
US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters
02-18-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Craig Roberts
A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with our taxpayer dollars. Washington has no money for food stamps or to prevent home foreclosures, but it has plenty of money with which t
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP congressman caught on tape blasting leadership as ‘directed by billionaires’
02-19-2014
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Rawstory
A conservative Republican congressman was caught on tape in an interview charging that billionaires direct GOP immigration policies " a striking and rare attack by a sitting Republican of corporate money coming to play in the direction of legislation
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News Link • Police State
U.K. authorities grill Edward Snowden’s lawyer at Heathrow Airport
02-19-2014
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TechDirt
One of the most chilling moments so far in the Snowden saga was when Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda was held and interrogated for 9 hours at London's Heathrow airport by the UK authorities, in a series worthy of a tinpot dictatorship.
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News Link • Corruption
NJ Port Authority probing whether officer drove Chris Christie ally through Bridgegate area
02-19-2014
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Reports of Michaels, a 15-year veteran of the department and a member of its GWB unit, chauffeured former Port Authority official David Wildstein through Fort Lee's traffic-congested streets on the first of four days of closures.
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News Link • Afghanistan
US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq to cost $6 trillion
02-18-2014
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The decade-long American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would end up costing as much as $6 trillion, the equivalent of $75,000 for every American household, calculates the prestigious Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
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News Link • Police State
The Soviet Poverty Law Center Wants to Hear From You (Or Rather ABOUT You)
02-18-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
The creepy left-wing hate group known as the Southern Poverty Law Center labels anyone and everyone who disagrees with its hard-left, Marxist political agenda a “hate group” in the same moral category as Nazis, the KKK, terrorists, and much worse.
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News Link • Conspiracies
10 Prison Security Techniques Being Implemented on the American People
02-18-2014
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As I got closer to retiring from the Federal Bureau of Prisons it began to dawn on me that the security practices we used in the prison system were being implemented outside those walls. “Free worlders” is prison slang for the non-incarcerated
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Capital One: We Can Visit Cardholders at Home, Work
02-18-2014
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Capital One's new update for credit card holders contains some language that sounds pretty alarming: it "may contact you in any manner we choose""including a "personal visit" that could be "at your home and at your place of employment."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Another Grim Reminder Why It Is Always Dangerous to Call the Cops
02-18-2014
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Reason Magazine
It's about how when Peretz Partensky called 911 when he stumbled across an injured biker on a San Francisco street, it led to him being shoved, tackled, kneed in the temple, having an existing elbow injury exacerbated, cuffed face down
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Pat Caddell: The Establishment GOP wants the IRS to go after Tea Party
02-18-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Caddell says that’s why the issue is not being pressed by House leadership. My gut tells me that he’s right. The consulting crew in Washington (which hires each other for gigs for top top dollar) fear the Tea Party because they know that they are to
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Military
Ex-Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Family Dies
02-18-2014
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AP
A former soldier convicted in 2009 of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family died in an Arizona prison over the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Nun gets nearly 3 years in prison for nuke protest
02-18-2014
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AP
An 84-year-old nun was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws at the Tennessee plant.
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News Link • Environment
The Drought In Brazil Has Gotten So Bad That 142 Cities Are Now Rationing Water
02-18-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Did you know that the drought in Brazil is so bad that some neighborhoods are only being allowed to get water once every three days? At this point, 142 Brazilian cities are rationing water and there does not appear to be much hope that this cripplin
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Food
Dark Secrets of Artificial Sweeteners Revealed with Mike Adams (Video)
02-18-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Could dangerous chemicals be hiding in the foods Americans eat and drink every day? They just may be more common than you think. For thousands of years, people have sweetened food and drinks with honey and sugar. Some people, concerned with calories,
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News Link • Economy - International
Does The Trail Of Dead Bankers Lead Somewhere?
02-18-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
What are we to make of this sudden rash of banker suicides? Does this trail of dead bankers lead somewhere? Or could it be just a coincidence that so many bankers have died in such close proximity? I will be perfectly honest and admit that I do no
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Modern Genes Reveal 100 Major Population Shifts In Human History
02-18-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
Wherever conquerors go, they leave a little bit of their genetics. Gene analyses of modern people are able to reveal those influences.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
The Drone That Will Sail Itself Around the World
02-18-2014
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Wired.com
An Orange Pixel flickers on the horizon, sandwiched between the inky azure of the mid-Pacific and the robin’s-egg pale of the Hawaiian sky.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Electrify Any Bike For Extra Pedal Power
02-18-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Terrance Russell
Upgrade your old two-wheeler.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Dr. Kurt: Why I Will Never Choose to Vaccinate my Own Son and Any Future Kids my Wife and I Have
02-18-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Scott Gray
Recently, I asked for feedback with a survey that went out in my email newsletter. If you did it, thank you for your feedback. I want to keep health care about health and your feedback helps me do that.
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News Link • Internet
Google Developing Internet That’s Over 1,000 Times Faster Than Yours
02-18-2014
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Wired.com
Most of the country is still waiting for the sort of super-fast gigabit internet connections available in places like Kansas City, Kansas and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS has plans for a national data base for vehicle license plates numbers
02-18-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fonzdrew
The Department of Homeland Security is now seeking a vendor to build and operate a smartphone-based national database of vehicle license plate information that would be shared with law enforcement.
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News Link • Internet
R.I.P. CAPTCHA
02-18-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kate Baggaley
Say hello to two-step verification and more.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
We’re Going to be Hit with a Tsunami of Inflation-Peter Schiff
02-18-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Money manager Peter Schiff has a read on gold short sellers. Schiff says, “Of course the short sellers never had the gold to begin with.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
Three Letters Re: Keeping Warm in an LP/OP
02-18-2014
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http://www.survivalblog.com
Regarding Heating Concern in LP/OP, as a long-time member of the military with extensive deployment, outdoor, and survival experience, here is my humble response to the reader's query on keeping warm in an LP/OP.
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News Link • Transportation
Brammo releases details and pricing for 2014 Empulse
02-18-2014
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gizmag.com
Brammo has updated its Empulse and Empulse R for 2014 with a 4.5 kg weight reduction, new instruments and a set of continuous-compound Continental SportAttack2 tires.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
Cold Weather Survival
02-18-2014
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by S.F.
I was born and raised in Québec City, Canada. For those who don't remember their geography class, Québec City is located about 160 miles northeast from Montréal. Considering the latitude and the very special climate (mainly caused by the sudden widen
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News Link • Afghanistan
Civilians are dying. Campaigners are being kidnapped.
02-18-2014
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http://www.independent.co.uk, Robert Fisk
Why was Karim Khan prevented from speaking out against drone warfare?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
World’s largest solar thermal plant now fully operational
02-18-2014
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gizmag.com
After three years of construction, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) is now operational.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Ukraine's Military Releases The Armored Vehicles And Fighter Jets...
02-18-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Ukraine's Military Releases The Armored Vehicles And Fighter Jets; Independence Square Is In Flames - Live Feed
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics...
02-18-2014
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By Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher
Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google Glass too expensive? Half-price Epson version coming soon
02-18-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Michael Trei
Epson has been making augmented reality glasses for some time, but now they have a new model that gives Google Glass a run for its money.
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News Link • Food
15 Reasons Why Your Food Bill Is Going To Start SOARING
02-18-2014
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By Michael Snyder
Did you know that the U.S. state that produces the most vegetables is going through the worst drought it has ever experienced and that the size of the total U.S. cattle herd is now the smallest that it has been since 1951?
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News Link • World News
Former Pussy Riot Members Briefly Held in Sochi
02-18-2014
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By Gregory L. White And Olga Razumovskaya
Police Say Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina Questioned Regarding Alleged Theft
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Expert Warns of Hyperinflation: “The American Way Of Life Will Be Destroyed”
02-18-2014
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shtfplan.com
If there’s one thing that’s certain about what’s happening in the world right now it’s that uncertainty is pervading every aspect of the global economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Sold Second-Largest Amount Ever Of US Treasurys In December: And Guess Who Comes To The Rescue
02-18-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
While we will have more to say about the disastrous December TIC data shortly, which was released early today, and which showed a dramatic plunge in foreign purchases of US securities in December - the month when the S&P soared to all time highs and
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News Link • Conspiracies
Following the Bodies: “We Are at the Precipice of Something So Big, It Will Shake the Financial ...
02-18-2014
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shtfplan.com
Editor’s Note: In the investigative report below, Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network delves deep into a world that most only believe exists in the realm of cinematic thrillers. It’s one of intrigue, corruption and murder, and it in
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Icis: It's like Google Glass, but classy
02-18-2014
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http://news.cnet.com, by Chris Matyszczyk
The makers of a new nose-perched wearable device say it's far sexier than Google Glass and has a more human-friendly interface.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
It Has Begun: Wise Up and Stock up as Food Shortages and Price Hikes Are Coming Before Year’s End
02-18-2014
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shtfplan.com
Editor’s Note: One of the key trends we’ve seen over the last ten years is an unabated rise in prices for essential goods that include food, energy and other commodities.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Stuck on Death Row in Iran? Memorize the Quran and Earn Your Freedom
02-18-2014
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http://www.vocativ.com, Eric Eyges
Iran just let 15 death row prisoners go free because they were able to memorize the Quran
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News Link • Activism
Controversial Nordic farms flourish on fur comeback
02-18-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, By Pierre-Henry Deshayes
Fur has made a comeback on the world's most important catwalks, fostering a thriving industry in the Nordic region to the dismay of animal rights activists.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Snowden: NSA can track hidden online presence
02-18-2014
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thehill.com
Edward Snowden warns in a new TV interview that the National Security Agency can track people no matter how well they hide their online presence.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Rockefeller Bros, Pepsi Behind Gun Grab Agenda
02-18-2014
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Prison Planet
More evidence the global elite want to whittle down the Second Amendment and eventually kill it
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News Link • Economy - International
Dead Bankers
02-18-2014
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arclein
Although the trail of mysterious and bizarre deaths detailed below begin in late January, 2014, there are others. Not only that, there will be more, according to sources within the financial world. Based on my findings, these are not mere random, tra
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Opinion • Bitcoin
Two Ways the Bitcoin “Crackdown” Could End
02-18-2014
Paul Rosenberg
I read a story recently about a group of dandies who want to “help regulate Bitcoin, for its own good.” The thing about these guys is that they don’t really care about Bitcoin as a beautiful, disruptive technology or even for the great benefit it bri
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News Link • Humor
Canaanites Deny Being Forebears Of Palestinians
02-17-2014
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Pre-Occupied Territory
After several prominent Palestinians asserted that they were descended from the ancient Canaanites, leaders of the Canaanite city-states emphatically ruled out the notion that their descendants were modern-day Palestinians.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Micro Laser Sintering
02-18-2014
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arclein
The two companies have been developing MLS technology since 2006, but not without encountering some challenges. Similar to the direct metal laser sintering process used to print the Tri-D rocket engine, micro laser sintering uses a laser to melt meta
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News Link • Archaeology
A Glimpse of Sappho
02-18-2014
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arclein
One of the poems is remarkably well preserved and adds greatly to what is known about Sappho and her poetic technique. The two poems came to light when the owner of an ancient papyrus, dating to the 3rd century A.D., consulted an Oxford classicist, D
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Erasing Death
02-18-2014
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arclein
As a result of these advances, we can now study what these people experience in that period after their heart stops and before they are brought back to life, which includes seeing a warm light, a beautiful compassionate being, or the sensation of sep
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
The Lay of the Land
Dennis Miller
It’s murky times for income investors, or retirees struggling to live off of their nest eggs. The inability to place money in CDs has left many feeling lost. When “father always said…” advice no longer applies, and the old ways to grow robust portfol
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