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Date Sent: 2014-03-15
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, March 15, 2014 |
Fed Custody Holdings Record Decline Fuels Russia Speculation
America Stalks the Perimeter of Another Hotspot -- World’s First 3D Printed Metal Gun is a Big Deal --
Cities Funding Newspapers? What Could Possibly Go Wrong! -- Student
Writes Story On School's "Rape Culture." Principal Censors, Takes Over
Paper. -- In sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zone -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 16, 2014 Edition -- Radar
data suggests missing Malaysia plane deliberately flown way off course
-- FBI blocked in corruption probe involving Sens. Reid, Lee -- Saudi demands Qatar shut down Al-Jazeera -- Utah Officials Call on Feds to Investigate Senators Reid, Lee -- 03-14-14 -- Drew Phillips - Michael Belfiore - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED) -- Bitcoin and Charities panel 3/6/14 Texas Bitcoin Conference -- Emotional Balance With TCM -- Does the Fourth Amendment apply to renters? The city council of Waterloo, Iowa, doesn’t think so
AZ: TODAY Tonopah Rob's Farm Stand Only - Veggie List 3/15/14 - Down and Dirty; TONIGHT Property
Six @ 'Smoke Phatties Day - Fri 03/14/14 - 7pm til?? - Last Exit Live
717 S Central AV -- PrepperFestAZ - March 21-23, 2014
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed Custody Holdings Record Decline Fuels Russia Speculation
03-14-2014
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Bloomberg
The record drop in US government securities held in custody at the Federal Reserve is fueling speculation that Russia may have shifted its holdings out of the US as it threatens sanctions. Treasuries held by foreign central banks dropped by
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
America Stalks the Perimeter of Another Hotspot
03-14-2014
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Dollar Vigilante
Japan basically recovered sovereignty on the condition of surrendering its right to react militarily on an international level. In return, the US offered Japan the shadow of its protection.
To this day, the Security Treaty and other agreements mil
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
World’s First 3D Printed Metal Gun is a Big Deal
03-14-2014
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3D printing took a huge step forward in late 2013 when the world's first 3D printed metal gun successfully fired 50 rounds of ammunition. A 3D printed metal version of the world's most popular pistol design - the Colt M1911 .45 has arrived.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Cities Funding Newspapers? What Could Possibly Go Wrong!
03-14-2014
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Reason Magazine
In Fitchburg, the city is paying $30,000 to revive and mail out free copies of a print edition that had been online-only since 2009. In Winston-Salem, the city council approved a $100,000 low-interest loan to an weekly that covers the black community
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student Writes Story On School's "Rape Culture." Principal Censors, Takes Over Paper.
03-14-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Kumar wrote an investigative piece that documents what was described as a “rape culture” at the school. The school officials immediately moved to censor and block the publication.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
In sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zone
03-14-2014
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ars technica
Brazil and other nations have fumed at revelations of American spying on its political leaders and corporations. The South American country also threatened to build its “own cloud,” as a consequence of the NSA’s spying.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 16, 2014 Edition
03-14-2014
John Semmens
President Admits Obamacare Will Block Access to Many Doctors
Despite promising that those who liked their doctors would be able to keep them under Obamacare, President Obama now admits that “in many instances this will not be possible. On balance,
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane deliberately flown way off course
03-14-2014
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Reuters
Analysis of the Malaysia data suggests the plane, with 239 people on board, diverted from its intended northeast route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and flew west instead, using airline flight corridors normally employed for routes to the Middle East
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
FBI blocked in corruption probe involving Sens. Reid, Lee
03-14-2014
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Washington Times
FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation have uncovered accusations of wrongdoing by 2 of the US Senate’s most prominent figures but the Justice Department has thwarted their
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Saudi demands Qatar shut down Al-Jazeera
03-14-2014
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AFP
Saudi Arabia demanded Qatar shut down Al-Jazeera and 2 think tanks during a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Riyadh demanded closure of the broadcaster, the Brookings Doha Center and the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Utah Officials Call on Feds to Investigate Senators Reid, Lee
03-14-2014
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ABC News
Two local prosecutors in Utah say a corruption investigation looking at state politicians and online gambling interests has yielded evidence that could implicate Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah.
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
03-14-14 -- Drew Phillips - Michael Belfiore - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)
Drew Phillips (BitcoinNotBombs.Com) on Bitcoin and the Texas Bitcoin Conference - Michael Belfiore (Author: Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space) provides and update on the private s
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Tonopah Rob's Farm Stand Only - Veggie List 3/15/14 - Down and Dirty
03-14-2014
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Tonopah Rob
Every year Tonopah Rob takes a break from the weekly markets to clean up the farm. Winter crops are nearly done and both greenhouses are bursting at the seams with thousands of transplants. It’s time to transition the farm from winter crops into su
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin and Charities panel 3/6/14 Texas Bitcoin Conference
03-13-2014
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YouTube.Com/Satoshi Nakamoto
Bitcoin and Charities, Moderated by Meghan Lords (BitcoinNotBombs.com) Jason King (SeansOutpost.com) Dmitry "Rassah" Murashchik (Bitcoin100.com) Teresa Warmke (Fr33Aid.com) Davi Barker (BitcoinNotBombs.com)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Emotional Balance With TCM
03-14-2014
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arclein
Sure, we panic every once in a while when we miss that last train or when rushing to meet a deadline, but it’s definitely unhealthy to panic over every single thing life throws our way.
Constant panic results in chronic stress, which affects the qi
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Meditation Alters Genes Rapidl
03-14-2014
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arclein
The meditation group experienced genetic changes including reduced levels of inflammatory genes like RIPK2 and COX2, indicating faster recovery from stressful situ
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Preliminary Voynich Alphabet
03-14-2014
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arclein
He selected a few words, which appear to label drawings, judging by their position or prominence. He then compared the symbols in these words with the name of the pictured item in other languages. Bax likens this to techniques used in decoding Egypti
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Mount Shoria in Southern Siberia
03-14-2014
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arclein
Russia is no stranger to ancient megalithic sites, like Arkaim or Russia’s Stonehenge, and the Manpupuner formation, just to name two, but the site at Shoria is unique in that, if it’s man-made, the blocks used are undoubtedly the largest ever worked
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robert klein
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News Link • Police State
Does the Fourth Amendment apply to renters? The city council of Waterloo, Iowa, doesn’t think so
03-13-2014
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Institute For Justice
An expanded rental inspection program, going into effect next January, ignores the Constitution’s guarantee against searches without probable cause by requiring landlords open their tenants’ doors to Waterloo’s Housing Authority. Under the city’s war
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Bitcoin
Overstock.com just emailed this article out to 41.7 million people
03-12-2014
Dear Valued Customer,
Enclosed, please find the Wired Magazine article, "Meet Patrick Byrne: Bitcoin Messiah, CEO of Overstock, Scourge of Wall Street". It concerns the decade-long battle Overstock has waged to expose Wall Street mischief.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Equal Rights vs. Special Privileges
03-12-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
One of the major evils of the welfare state in libertarian eyes is that it destroys the concept of objective law (i.e., equal rights under the law) throughout society.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Food
A Texas Town's Political War on Volunteer Community Gardens
03-12-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Last year, Mike and Sheena Marie Roberts founded Grow Your Own's Community Learning Garden in Copperas Cove. They had a vision.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
On the Jon Stewart interview of Judge Napolitano
03-12-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
As I write this, Judge Napolitano and Jon Stewart are discussing slavery. The beginning of the conversation was started with a common misconception on the part of Stewart - namely, the Declaration of Independence never said anything about slavery.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Gun Rights
Grand Island Student Suspended For Tee-Shirt
03-12-2014
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http://www.wgrz.com
Shane Kinney, 16, refused to turn his NRA shirt inside out when told to do so by teacher.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Horrific conditions described in homeless man's death at Burlington County Jail
03-12-2014
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The Trentonian
In December, a 75-year-old man who was believed to be homeless died in Burlington County Jail while strapped in a “turtle suit” and lying in a pool of urine and feces, according to a supervisor inside the facility.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Time OpEd: Sen. Rand Paul: U.S. Must Take Strong Action Against Putin’s Aggression
03-12-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation’s sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
CT Cop Who Wants to Kick in Doors & Confiscate Guns Placed on Worker's Comp Leave
03-12-2014
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Daily Paul.com
A Connecticut police officer who said he wanted to bust through one patriot's door and take his guns.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi
03-12-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Owners Prepare to Seize Senate from Harry Reid
03-12-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, bierdegarde
At GOA’s request, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has bypassed Harry Reid’s stranglehold on the Senate by bringing a pro-gun bill directly onto the Senate calendar.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mitch McConnell's Dukakis Moment
03-12-2014
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Daily Paul.com
. . .The photo op of McConnell hoisting the weapon like a defiant defender at the Alamo was supposed to rev up conservative activists. Instead, it has become a target of ridicule.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Game Changer: It Will Be Shocking for the Average American: “Your Cost of Living Will Quadruple”
03-12-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
It’s no secret that the U.S. government is in serious fiscal trouble. So much so that our Treasury Secretary recently noted that should the debt ceiling fail to be increased, the fall-out would be “catastrophic” and last for generations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
Applause lines and other nonsense
03-12-2014
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vinsuprynowicz.com
Among scores of other promises, some more and some less likely than walking on water, Barack Obama devoted a paragraph in his recent State of the Union address to the age-old Democratic promise of more gun control " vowing he’ll proceed even without
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Homeland Security Pre-Staging A Domestic Military Force
03-12-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Ken Jorgustin
During the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, the U.S. Army built 28,000 MRAPs (Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Trucks).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
There are two ‘classes,’ you see, the peasants and the elected elite
03-12-2014
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vinsuprynowicz.com
On Tuesday morning, March 4, Kermitt Waters, a Las Vegas attorney whose main job is defending Nevada property owners whose land is being seized by government agencies offering low-ball prices .......
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
E-Bomb: The Electronic Weapon That Can Make a Plane “Disappear” *Videos*
03-12-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Over a dozen nations have now mobilized search teams for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Halts NSA Record Destruction
03-12-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, By: Brian Hagen
A federal judge has temporarily ended the destruction of millions of data records collected by the NSA more than five years ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Kennedy Assassination Info Request Advanced
03-12-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, KEVIN LESSMILLER
The CIA must face claims over withheld records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Sen. Robert Kennedy, a federal judge ruled.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Snipers Terrorize Confused Residents During Raid
03-12-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
DHS agents train weapons on innocent neighbors
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ruling Class Continues to Play Both Sides of Political Conflicts
03-12-2014
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thedailysheeple.com
By now, it should be clear to all informed observers that there are only two options regarding the true motivation behind the decisions being taken by the American ruling class, particularly in terms of foreign policy "
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama NSA Nominee Defends Mass Surveillance Of Americans
03-12-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
“I believe that we need to maintain an ability to make queries of phone records”
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News Link • Surveillance
Rep. Amash to Sen. Feinstein: ‘Hypocrites Like You Are Why the Public Doesn’t Trust Congress’
03-12-2014
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thedailysheeple.com
We’ve entered Mel Brooks level government comedy. Can someone play a sad song on the world’s smallest violin for this woman?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Richard Branson: Global warming deniers ‘get out of our way’
03-12-2014
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http://dailycaller.com, Michael Bastasch
Virgin CEO Richard Branson said that those who are skeptical of man-made global warming should “get out of our way,” joining the ranks of CEOs lashing out against those opposed to business investments in “sustainability.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Labor Force Participation Hits Record Low for Americans in Their 20s
03-12-2014
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http://www.cnsnews.com, By Ali Meyer
The labor force participation rate in 2013 for Americans in their twenties hit the lowest level recorded since 1981, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics started releasing employment data on people in the full age bracket of 20 through 29.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers
03-12-2014
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By Greg Miller, Ed OKeefe and Adam Goldman
A behind-the-scenes battle between the CIA and Congress erupted in public Tuesday as the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the agency of breaking laws and breaching constitutional principles in an alleged effort to undermine the panel
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
OBAMA WARNED IN CONGRESS of AMERICAN'S RIGHT TO REVOLUTION for HIS DISREGARDING CONSTITUTION !!!
3/10/2014
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youtube
Live on c-span2, Michael Cannon warns if the government ignores the laws, then overthrow of the government is our right.
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William Poole
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News Link • Internet
United States Ranks 31st in the World on Internet Speed
03-11-2014
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http://jonathanturley.org
What is fascinating about the utter failure of our duopoly of two parties is how they have failed to even do the little things rights. You would hope that, while wasting hundreds of billions, the two parties could at least offer a modicum of help for
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News Link • Currencies
Native American tribes adopt Bitcoin-like currency, prepare to battle US government
03-11-2014
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http://breakingdeception.com
The programmer and Native American activist Payu Harris raised a gavel Monday night and vigorously banged the bell to open trading at The Bitcoin Center, a meeting space for virtual currency geeks that looks like an empty art gallery in the middle of
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News Link • Surveillance
Big Brother: Down The Rabbit Hole
03-11-2014
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Xander BloodWillow.com
Persistence, once again, has paid off. Thanks to all of our supporters, sharers, friends, neighbors, and family, we are forcing the hand of Goliath. I would like to give a major shout-out to all my fellow Redditors for raising awareness. You people a
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