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Date Sent: 2014-04-13
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, April 13, 2014 |
Feds Back Down From Bundy Siege After Infowars Exposé of Chinese Land Grab
BLM releases cattle to Bundy -- Wild horses targeted for roundup in Utah rangeland clash -- Ukrainians Denied Democracy -- US Anti-Iranian Arrogance -- Hydraulic Fracking and Roundup Are Poisoning Ground Water -- Marco
Rubio Eyes Indentured Servitude for College Students -- Sharyl Attkisson:
When I’d Begin Getting Under Surface of an Obama Scandal ... -- Breaking:
Sen. Harry Reid Behind BLM Land Grab of Bundy Ranch --
This Is the End of Facebook as We Know
It -- Inside the FBI’s secret
relationship with the military’s special operations --
Afghanistan Newspeak: 10 ways the US skews the narrative -- RON PAUL
AND CHARLES GOYETTE - THE WEEKLY PODCAST with Jim Rickards --
Heartbleed: Don't Rush to Update Passwords, Security Experts Warn
-- NATO Is An Albatross -- The U.S. Dollar: Currency Masquerading
as Money -- Internet Revolt Begins as Condi Rice Joins Dropbox
Board -- Has the NSA Been Using the Heartbleed Bug as an
Internet Peephole? -- Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Is Seriously
Serious About Drone Deliveries -- How Heartbleed Broke the Internet
— And Why It Can Happen Again -- Using the 'Top Secret' Stamp to
Hide Lies and War Crimes -- Why Free Jonathan Pollard Now? -- Escalating War on Syria
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News Link • Property Rights
Feds Back Down From Bundy Siege After Infowars Exposé of Chinese Land Grab
04-13-2014
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Infowars
The federal government backed down and ended their siege against Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy less than 24 hours after an Infowars exposé connecting the land grab to Harry Reid and a Chinese-backed solar farm went viral,
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News Link • Activism
BLM releases cattle to Bundy
04-13-2014
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CBS News
At one point, I-15 was closed in both directions because protesters had blocked the freeway. Police officers and a SWAT unit were at the scene to keep the peace and assist the BLM enforcement officers to safely leave the area.
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News Link • Property Rights
Wild horses targeted for roundup in Utah rangeland clash
04-13-2014
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Reuters
A Utah county, angry over the destruction of federal rangeland that ranchers use to graze cattle, has started a bid to round up federally protected wild horses it blames for the problem in the latest dustup over land management in the U.S. West.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Spirituality
Third Eye Review
04-12-2014
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arclein
By hacking what pinealophiles call our mind's third eye with an always-on technoculture transmitting globally at light-speed, we may have disadvantaged our genetic ability to ward off all manner of complicated nightmares. No wonder the pineal gland
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News Link • Science
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site Oddity
04-12-2014
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arclein
cientists have recently found, however, that things in the exclusion zones aren’t as peaceful as they appear from afar. In fact, from a certain perspective, the hardest hit areas surrounding Chernobyl are a ticking time bomb, capable of renewing the
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News Link • Geology
Ring of Fire Releases Energy
04-12-2014
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arclein
Most Americans don’t realize this, but there are some very powerful volcanoes in Russia as well. On the Kamchatka peninsula, which is located on the east coast of Russia, a large volcano has belched a column of ash 6 km into the air…
Volcano Shiv
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News Link • Prepping
Hydraulic Fracking and Roundup Are Poisoning Ground Water
04-12-2014
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youtube.com
Clean drinking water is systematically being destroyed in the US, Canada, Great Britain and areas around the globe so you will be unable to secure clean water in the very near future.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Marco Rubio Eyes Indentured Servitude for College Students
04-12-2014
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market-ticker.org
Markets only work when they're allowed to. When we pass special laws allowing certain people to evade the market's discipline on bad behavior then we got more bad behavior.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Hybrid electric flying car concept promises everything
04-12-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
It's past time that we actually buckle down and unlock the door to the flying cars sci-fi has been promising us for decades.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Sharyl Attkisson: When I’d Begin Getting Under Surface of an Obama Scandal...
04-12-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Jeff Dunetz
Sharyl Attkisson: When I’d Begin Getting Under Surface of an Obama Scandal, CBS Would Pull Me Off
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News Link • Government
Breaking: Sen. Harry Reid Behind BLM Land Grab of Bundy Ranch
04-12-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kit Daniels
BLM attempted cover-up of Sen. Reid/Chinese gov’t takeover of ranch for solar farm
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Guardians of the Galaxy' Clip Shows Quick New Looks at Marvel's Space Team (Video)
04-12-2014
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http://www.space.com, By Lucas Seigel
Is this the official start of the Guardians of the Galaxy media blitz, a full four months before the movie hits theaters?
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News Link • Inventions
Land Rover reveals "invisible" bonnet for Discovery Vision concept
04-12-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Land Rover teased its new Discovery Vision concept last week in the run-up to its début at 2014 New York International Auto Show on April 16, and now the car maker reveals a bit more about the Vision â€" or rather, less.
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News Link • Internet
This Is the End of Facebook as We Know It
04-12-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Tate
Facebook, the company that makes billions from connecting people to each other, is about to make it harder to have a conversation. In the coming weeks, Facebook’s mobile app will be losing its chat feature, a move that will no doubt annoy many regula
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News Link • Government
Inside the FBI’s secret relationship with the military’s special operations
04-12-2014
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By Adam Goldman and Julie Tate
When U.S. Special Operations forces raided several houses in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in March 2006, two Army Rangers were killed when gunfire erupted on the ground floor of one home.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
RON PAUL AND CHARLES GOYETTE - THE WEEKLY PODCAST with Jim Rickards
04-12-2014
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Ron Paul, Charles Goyette
From the CIA's efforts to spy on U.S. Senate staffers it was apparent that the Senate's findings about the CIA would be something the American people would find profoundly disturbing.This week, a conversation with Ron Paul about the CIA, torture, and
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Standoff in the Desert
04-12-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By James Nye
Last rancher in south Nevada takes on 200 armed federal agents and snipers trying to confiscate cattle from his ancestral land in constitutional dispute over a rare TORTOISE
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Heartbleed: Don't Rush to Update Passwords, Security Experts Warn
04-12-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Alex Hern
The severity of the Heartbleed bug means that rushing to change passwords could backfire
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
NATO Is An Albatross
04-12-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Michael S. Rozeff
Empires over-expand, over-reach and fail.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
The U.S. Dollar: Currency Masquerading as Money
04-12-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Donald W. Miller
People consider Federal Reserve notes, U.S. dollars, to be real money.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Internet Revolt Begins as Condi Rice Joins Dropbox Board
04-12-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen
Amid the shiny, happy announcements of new features and new apps this week, file-sharing startup Dropbox quietly revealed another piece of news.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Has the NSA Been Using the Heartbleed Bug as an Internet Peephole?
04-12-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
When ex-government contractor Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s widespread efforts to eavesdrop on the internet, encryption was the one thing that gave us comfort.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Is Seriously Serious About Drone Deliveries
04-12-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen
In the beginning, Amazon was a lot like any other startup. Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos did a little bit of everything for the company.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
How Heartbleed Broke the Internet â€" And Why It Can Happen Again
04-12-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
Stephen Henson is responsible for the tiny piece of software code that rocked the internet earlier this week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Australia Declares Homeopathy "Useless"
04-12-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Douglas Main
Then again, Australia still thinks it's a good idea to cull sharks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Using the 'Top Secret' Stamp to Hide Lies and War Crimes
04-12-2014
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http://www.theatlantic.com, Conor Friedersdorf
By letting the CIA vet the torture report, the White House and Congress are giving Americans a new reason to have contempt for an illegitimate classification system.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Why Free Jonathan Pollard Now?
04-12-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Justin Raimondo
Forget the Israeli-Palestinian talks â€" it’s all about American politics
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News Link • World News
Understanding Russian Hearts and Minds
04-12-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Guy Somerset
Russia is the place both invading armies and preconceived notions come to die. Although generally included in the figurative West by its legalities and customs it is in many ways a unique entity. Never has this proved truer than during the ongoing co
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras Returning To U.S. For First Time Since Snowden Revelations
04-12-2014
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, Michael Calderone
Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, two American journalists who have been at the forefront of reporting on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, will return to the United States on Friday for the first time si
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News Link • Events: America
Stefan Molyneux ~ The Truth About the Nevada Ranchers Standoff
04-11-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by go213mph
Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy is locked in a standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over illegal cattle grazing, endangered tortoises and property rights...
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 13, 2014 Edition
04-11-2014
John Semmens
State Department Priorities Debated
Prior to 2012's attack on Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens there were numerous rejected requests from the Ambassador for more security. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the repeated rejection of the
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
L.A. county deputies shoot and kill unarmed man helping neighbors during hostage standoff
04-11-2014
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Rawstory
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department admitted on Thursday that deputies mistakenly shot and killed a 30-year-old man after mistaking him for the suspect in a hostage situation earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA bars mute stroke victim from flight, forces 8-hour bus ride
04-11-2014
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New York Post
A woman claims an airport security agent refused to let her disabled sister on board a plane because she couldn’t say her own name. Sherry Wright says she was shocked at the treatment they received at Los Angeles International Airport, where her sist
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News Link • Activism
Woman throws shoe at Hillary Clinton during speech at Las Vegas casino
04-11-2014
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The Guardian
A woman was taken into custody after throwing what she described as a shoe at Hillary Clinton during a Las Vegas speech. The incident happened moments after Clinton took the stage at an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting
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News Link • Activism
Trial of Occupy activist struggles to find jurors impartial to protest movement
04-11-2014
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The Guardian
It is the most important question being asked of dozens of New Yorkers lined up as potential jurors for the trial of Cecily McMillan, an Occupy Wall Street activist accused of assaulting a police officer: what do you think of her protest movement?
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Revealed: Senate report contains new details on CIA black sites
04-11-2014
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http://america.aljazeera.com, by Jason Leopold
Sources tell Al Jazeera the Intelligence Committee report accuses spy agency of lying about detention and interrogation
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News Link • Government
High School Slasher Chased Students Down Hall with Kitchen Knives
04-11-2014
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http://www.breitbart.com, by Breitbart News
It was just before the start of class and the hallways were packed with students at their lockers or chatting with friends.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WSJ: "Markets Are In Thrall To Central Banks Rather Than Caring About The Health Of The Economy
04-11-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
It was about 5 years ago, roughly the same time we launched our crusade against HFT, that we also first made the accusation that as a result of QE and the Fed's central planning, the forward-looking, discounting mechanism formerly known as the "marke
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News Link • Transportation
Missouri Department of Transportation to use LRAD Sound Cannons on Speeding Drivers
04-11-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mikael Thalen
System will shoot warning messages through drivers’ windshields
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News Link • Homeland Security
Cell Phone Cameras Weapons of Choice for Activists Making Stand Against Armed Feds
04-10-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A battle over cattle and land rights erupted in a stand-off between armed federal agents pointing tasers and citizens holding cell phone cameras in a compelling video posted to Youtube Wednesday.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Death of Down Syndrome Man in Police Custody Ruled ‘Homocide’ No Charges Filed
04-10-2014
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A man with down syndrome was killed while in police custody, his death ruled a homicide, and no charges were brought against the officers involved.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Students say cops entered residence, handcuffed occupants without cause
04-10-2014
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FOX News
2 University of Utah students say police officers had no business handcuffing them in their apartment. They said they were treated like criminals in their own home. Police entered the residence a week ago because the front door was open.
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo forever
04-10-2014
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Al Jazerra
What does it take to get out of Guantanamo? Half the remaining detainees - 75 of the remaining 154 men - were led to believe they would be heading home soon when, in January 2010, the Guantanamo Review Task Force approved their release.
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News Link • Police State
The Cliven Bundy Standoff: Wounded Knee Revisited?
04-10-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Following the War Between the States, as the formerly independent South was being re-assimilated into the Soyuz, the US military took up the task of driving the Plains Indians off of land that had been promised to them through solemn treaty obligatio
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News Link • Activism
Swedish Passengers Block Extradition of Man To Iran By Refusing To Fasten Their Seat Belts
04-10-2014
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Jonathan Turley
There was an extraordinary moment on a Swedish flight taking off. The government was deporting a man back to his native Iran. A man on the flight stood up to tell the passengers about the deportation and told them not to fasten their seat belts
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Iowa Appeals Court Endorses Remote Pacing For Speeding Tickets
04-10-2014
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The Newspaper
Police officers in Iowa can now issue speeding tickets to motorists driving on a different street more than a block away. The state Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Michael Querry based solely on the testimony of an officer who performed rem
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Opinion • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Is a Revolution, Not an Investment
04-10-2014
Paul Rosenberg
It has been interesting to see large numbers of people pay attention to Bitcoin in the past year or so. The reason for that attention was the exchange price of Bitcoin, which made a lot of early adopters wealthy. (One of the few times when the right
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club - April 5, 2014
04-10-2014
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Terry Major
Monthly meeting of the Arizona Breakfast Club. Video clip of Ernest Hancock interviewing Ron Paul was played at the beginning. The guest speaker was Dave Hodges - The Common Sense Show - speaking about Ukraine and world situation.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Households To Withdraw $430 Billion From Stocks In 2014 - Most Since Last Bubble
04-10-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
When it comes to the conventional wisdom of who owns the bulk of corporate stock in the US equity market, the consensus is simple: at 36% of total, the answer is the US household. This is shown in the chart below.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Richard Branson 90 Percent Confident Space Travel Will Happen in 2014
04-10-2014
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http://fusion.net
Richard Branson is one of the world's most high profile billionaires. His 40 year career spreads across air travel, mobile, financial services, hospitality and space travel.
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