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Date Sent: 2014-04-20
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, April 20, 2014 |
Police beat up entire wedding party, ruin pro baseball player's career
Indians can now prosecute palefaces under VAWA -- If You Can’t Trust Prosecutors… -- Is Cliven Bundy the next Rosa Parks? -- Van Full Of Feds Accuse Driver Of Causing Collision . . . That They Caused -- The No-Fly Secrets Revealed -- Wildfires Burning Western US Are More Frequent And Bigger -- The mainstream media's shameful abandonment of freedom fighter Cliven Bundy --
Scientists warn the rise of AI will lead to extinction of humankind --
30 Years After Chernobyl’s Meltdown, Gripping Photos Expose the Human
Fallout -- 4409: Easter Bunny revisited -- How Silicon Valley
entrepreneurs are rushing to cash in on cannabis -- Western Lawmakers
Gather in Utah to Talk Federal Land Takeover -- The Coming Chinese
Attack Upon America -- PTSD and Mental Health: How America’s Wars Came Home With the Troops -- White Supremacist Extremist Groups -- The Ukraine Crisis and the Big Game: The Geneva Agreement Changes Nothing
AZ: Tempe General Plan 2040: Smart Growth in Your Town
with Patrick Wood, Thursday, April 24, 6PM, Tempe (Agenda
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News Link • Police State
Police beat up entire wedding party, ruin pro baseball player's career
04-19-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Police beat up entire wedding party, ruin pro baseball player's career
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Pascua Yaqui Tribe set to prosecute first non-Indian under VAWA
04-19-2014
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This time, the Yaqui police were armed with a new law that allows Indian tribes, which have their own justice system, to prosecute non-Indians. Instead of driving Lopez to the Circle K and telling him to leave the reservation, they arrested him.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
If You Can’t Trust Prosecutors…
04-19-2014
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Simple Justice
A typo, conceded by all, in the Guidelines calculations went unnoticed by all, including Cantu’s lawyer. While this is not merely inexcusable, but frankly incomprehensible, it happened. When Cantu discovered the error, he sought to correct it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Van Full Of Feds Accuse Driver Of Causing Collision . . . That They Caused
04-19-2014
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Jonathan Turley
A website has posted an extraordinary video showing not only the abusive treatment of a citizen by border and local police, but highly compelling evidence of a false police report by a driver to cover up his own illegal turn that caused an accident i
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News Link • Police State
Is Cliven Bundy the next Rosa Parks?
04/19/2014
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Next News Network
Mark Potok, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and MSNBC are using Bundy Ranch to connect Bundy to Racists and Anti-Semites… but does he have more in common with Rosa Parks?
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The No-Fly Secrets Revealed
04-19-2014
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Simple Justice
For a case that should have disappeared with a swift oops it has reached a unfortunately unsatisfying result of no one being saved and a government so utterly impotent, incompetent, and unworthy as to warrant a brief chuckle. If only it wasn’t
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Timeline: The privatization of space exploration
04-19-2014
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aljazeera.com
On Monday, SpaceX, the California-based private space exploration company started by PayPal and Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk, agreed to take over the management and maintenance of Launch Pad 39A from NASA for the next 20 years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • PC: Political Correctness
Brandeis University, Islamic Misogyny, & Leftwing Hypocrisy
04-19-2014
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Daphne Anson
Chesler & Glazov have (Naomi) Wolf for breakfast.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
An Eye for Eyes, by B.A.
04-19-2014
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survival blog
Dear Reader,
As a person who has been blessed with not needing reading glasses, I am usually happy to read lists on prepping that tell the readers to make sure that they have extra prescription glasses in case they break their everyday glasses and
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News Link • Climate Change
Wildfires Burning Western US Are More Frequent And Bigger
04-19-2014
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redorbit.com
Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years " a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, accordin
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Everest Guide: 'Climbers Are Packing Up And Calling It Quits, They Want Nothing To Do With This*
04-19-2014
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businessinsider.com
Rescuers recovered the body of one mountain guide on Saturday after an ice avalanche swept the lower slopes of Mount Everest, bringing the death toll to at least 13 in the deadliest accident on the world's highest mountain.
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
Spending money on experiences, rather than items, increases happiness
04-19-2014
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naturalnews.com
The glitz and glam of Hollywood as portrayed in Western culture unforgivingly showcases a standard of living that most Americans will never achieve.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The mainstream media's shameful abandonment of freedom fighter Cliven Bundy
04-19-2014
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naturalnews.com
If you know more about freedom fighters in Ukraine than you do about freedom fighters and government-caused animal atrocities at a remote ranch in Nevada, you can, once again, blame your lack of knowledge on a mainstream, corporate-owned, lockstep me
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News Link • Books
30 Years After Chernobyl’s Meltdown, Gripping Photos Expose the Human Fallout
04-19-2014
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Wired.com
Part of the mystery and terror of the Chernobyl disaster is the invisibility of the threat. The explosion at the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin nuclear power plant released more radiation than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and one might never know they were
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News Link • Transportation
Land Rover's New Concept SUV Doesn't Have Door Handles
04-19-2014
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popsci.com
The company's Discovery Vision concept is the first move toward that (maybe still faraway) future. First step: gesture controls.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Western Lawmakers Gather in Utah to Talk Federal Land Takeover
04-19-2014
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Daily Paul.com
"It’s time for Western states to take control of federal lands within their borders, lawmakers and county commissioners from Western states said at Utah’s Capitol on Friday (4-18-14).
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
8 Beers You Should Stop Drinking Immediately
04-19-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Many of us choose what we eat very carefully, or at least dedicate our minimum attention to it. But when it comes to drinks, especially alcoholic beverages, we do little to make the best decisions for our health.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Solar Flares
Solar Flare Today 2014: NASA Releases Image of Solar Flare on April 18 (+Photo)
04-19-2014
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theepochtimes.com
The sun left off a mid-level solar flare on April 18, peaking at 9:03 a.m. EDT, and NASA captured a nice image of the event.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
Built from Scratch’ Chromosome
04-19-2014
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arclein
An international team of scientists led by Jef Boeke, PhD, director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Institute for Systems Genetics, has synthesized the first functional chromosome in yeast, an important step in the emerging field of synthetic biology
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Alzheimer's Preconditions
04-19-2014
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arclein
Based on their analysis, rats with pre-existing neurodegenerative disease tend to accumulate more toxic "free copper" than healthy rats, and this free copper appears to visibly bind with amyloid plaques, making the rats' degenerative conditions ev
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News Link • Environment
Historic Problem with Mining Law
04-19-2014
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arclein
Even the conservative Fraser Institute recognizes there is a problem and is calling for change. The institute’s latest survey of global mining executives found B.C. had slipped in the rankings to 32nd place in terms of confidence as a mining jurisd
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robert klein
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Reference Link • Treason and Sedition
The Coming Chinese Attack Upon America
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The Chinese control of American solar energy is more than disturbing. This is an act of war which is being facilitated by Senator Reid's act of treason. The Chinese now have every motive to launch an EMP attack upon our power grid.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How Harmless Bacteria Quickly Turned Into a Flesh-Eating Monster
04-19-2014
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arclein
Jacqueline Roemmele was one such unlucky person. She became infected in 1994 after the cesarean section birth of her twins. "Before they found what it was, my flesh was falling off in the nurses' hands," she said. Roemmele survived and went on to
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Watch A Freaky Stop-Motion Nature Film Set On A Post-Apocalyptic World
04-19-2014
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http://io9.com,
If you want to feel transported to a truly alien world, take some time out your day to watch OMEGA.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Researchers Clone Stem Cells From Human Adults
04-19-2014
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http://io9.com, George Dvorsky
Scientists from South Korea have devised a technique for cloning adult stem cells that doesn't involve the destruction of human embryos.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Archaeology
The Second Eleven: Unusual Archaeology That Didn’t Make the A-List
04-19-2014
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By Steven Strong, Evan Strong and Andy Whiteley
In our travels we have seen a lot of unusual sites, constructions and artefacts that are interesting and often seemingly unnatural, but which don’t make the grade in comparison to other grander, more obviously examples of ancient archaeology in Austr
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
PTSD and Mental Health: How America’s Wars Came Home With the Troops
04-19-2014
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http://www.globalresearch.ca,
Up Close, Personal, and Bloody
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News Link • TERRORISM
White Supremacist Extremist Groups...
04-19-2014
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Ajamu Baraka
Overland Park, a city of fewer than 200,000 in the heartland of the U.S. just south of Kansas City, is an unlikely setting for a terrorist attack. But on April 13, Frazier Glenn Cross, aka Frazier Glenn Miller, brought terror to Overland Park. With t
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
The Ukraine Crisis and the Big Game: The Geneva Agreement Changes Nothing
04-19-2014
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Lionel Reynolds
On Wednesday night the crisis in the Ukraine became deadly, with 3 anti-coup rebels killed by National Guards in the Black Sea port city of Mariupol. The next day, in Geneva, the USA, Russia, EU and Ukraine reached an ‘agreement’ after just a few hou
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 20, 2014 Edition
04-18-2014
John Semmens
Dems Advised to Avoid Talking about the Economy
Top Democratic strategist, James Carville, advised Democrats seeking reelection to avoid discussing the economy.
“The whole notion of an economic recovery is pure poison to any Democrat hoping to
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News Link • Drones
Death From Above: How American Drone Strikes Are Devastating Yemen
04-17-2014
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Rolling Stone
The people of Yemen can hear destruction before it arrives. In cities, towns and villages across this country, which hangs off the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, the air buzzes with the sound of American drones flying overhead.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers
04-17-2014
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CNS News
86,429,000.
That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work " in the private sector " and did it week after week after week.
These are the people who built America,
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News Link • Police State
ACLU Demands Border Patrol Respect Citizens’ Right to Record Checkpoints
04-17-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
It started with what the Border Patrol called a “temporary checkpoint” in a small border town in southern Arizona. Then came the surveillance towers that began monitoring the activities of the residents of Arivaca, a town of less than 1,000 people
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News Link • Death
John Judge, RIP
04-17-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
The great John Judge has died. John was one of the most dedicated and tenacious researchers of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and of the fascistic implications of the coup d’état by Lyndon Baines Johnson and the top tier of th
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News Link • Surveillance
Canadians' mental-health info routinely shared with FBI, U.S. customs
04-17-2014
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Ontario police services routinely uploaded attempted suicide calls to the Canadian Police Information Center, to which US border guards and the FBI have access. Cavoukian began investigating how US law enforcement had access to
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Merck’s Former Doctor Predicts that Gardasil will Become the Greatest Medical Scandal of All Time
04-17-2014
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Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal of all times because the evidence will add up to prove this vaccine, technical and scientific feat it may be, has absolutely no effect on cervical cancer and that all of the very many adverse effects
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News Link • Government
Homeless Lose a Longtime Last Resort: Living in a Car
04-17-2014
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Wall Street Journal
For months now, Mr. Smith has feared he might lose his current "home", which is parked on a street near a quiet Palo Alto park. An ordinance would punish people cited for living in a vehicle with as much as a $1,000 fine or six months in jail.
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News Link • Police State
FBI Visiting SC Gun Shops to Investigate “People Talking About Big Government”
04-17-2014
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The agent was quite forthcoming with the worker and told him he was tasked with visiting firearms outlets in the local area to check on “suspicious purchases” for “counter-terrorism purposes.” The agent then began discussing what is
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judicial Incentives: Why Judges Won’t Condemn Cops (Update)
04-17-2014
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Simple Justice
But in a “Perry Mason” moment rarely seen inside an actual courtroom, the inquiry took a surprising turn when the suspect’s lawyer played a police video that contradicted the sworn testimony of the five officers a furious judge found.
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News Link • Free Speech
Twitter parody account holder sought in police raid
04-17-2014
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ars technica
Don't mock the Mayor Jim Ardis of Peoria as you just might be jailed and fined. Illinois police seized computers and mobile phones while raiding a house whose owner was suspected of parodying the town mayor on Twitter. In all, 5 people were seized
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News Link • Police State
Bundy Ranch: Stewart Rhodes and the Statesman Vigil
04/17/14
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Next News Network
In this story from the Bundy Ranch Standoff Stewart Rhodes is joined by Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore discussing the Statesman Round the Clock Vigil.
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News Link • Police State
Bundy Ranch: The Nevada Constitution and Neo-Slavery
04/17/14
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Next News Network
Former Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Michael Badnarik joins Gary Franchi to discuss the Bundy Ranch Federal Standoff and analyze the Nevada Constitution's wording that may surprise you.
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News Link • Police State
#OccupyTheRanch: Rotating Shifts Have Commenced at Bundy Ranch
04/17/14
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Next News Network
Ranch update from Michael Doyle: We need 30-50 men to man posts for guard duty and rotate shifts. We have a Field Kitchen and 3 meals a day if homeless Vets want to help We are occupying the Ranch for 3+ months.
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News Link • Police State
Bundy Ranch: The Land and its Masters Revealed
04/17/14
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Next News Network
Since the Bundy Ranch story broke last week and culminated in a tense standoff with Federal agents on Saturday resulting in the release of the Bundy Ranch cattle we have been following the money. On the 10th we reported the Militia arrived in the are
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News Link • Police State
BLM Whistleblower: Reid Bunkerville and the Military Industrial Complex at Bundy Ranch
04/17/14
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Next News Network
BUNDY RANCH | You saw his proof. Now meet BLM Whistleblower Rusty Hill who uncovered the corporations and shady land deals connected to Reid Bunkerville LLC, Zion Bank Corp, and BLM lands surrounding the Bundy properties.
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News Link • World News
In Devious Diplomatic Counterattack, Russia Wants The WTO To Punish America
04-17-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Reuters
Russia is looking at the possibility of filing a lawsuit against the United States in the World Trade Organisation over sanctions hitting Russian banks, Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said on Wednesday, according to Russian news agencies.
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News Link • Events: America
Why One Man Traveled Almost 3,000 Miles To Take On The Federal Government...
04-17-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
Why One Man Traveled Almost 3,000 Miles To Take On The Federal Government At A Ranch In Nevada
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FDIC is Suing
04-17-2014
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arclein
he FDIC filed suit for LIBOR-rigging against sixteen of the world’s largest banks " including the three largest USbanks (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup), the three largest UKbanks, the largest German bank, the largest Japanese bank, a
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News Link • European Union
The Case Against the European Union
04-17-2014
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therawreport.org
This May the citizens of the European Union will be given the opportunity to choose their new overlords, in the only directly elected EU body known as the European Parliament. Voter turnout has consistently been on the decline since elections started
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Lecture on Immigration
04-17-2014
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last April meeting on Thursday, the 24th, Phoenix Objectivists will be joined by Attorney Clint Bolick who will discuss his book "Immigration Wars" and give an overview of U.S. immigration policy.
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News Link • Property Rights
A Tale of the Tortoise and the Sucker " a Water Rights Issue
04-17-2014
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Farm Wars
Whoever owns the water rights owns the right to decide who lives and who dies. Who gets to eat and who doesn’t. What if the answer as to why the BLM wants to get Bundy’s cattle off the land in Nevada is really about the water?
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News Link • Gun Rights
Heroic armed nurse saves man from angry mob
04-17-2014
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The Libertarian Republic
Steve Utashwas driving when 10-year-old David Harris stepped off the curb in front of his car. Surveillance footage shows Utash had no time to stop, and he accidentally hit Harris, breaking the boy’s leg. Utash, a 54-year-old father of three, immedia
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News Link • Economy - International
REPORT: MtGox To Liquidate
04-17-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
MtGox has asked to liquidate its holdings after a Japanese court dismissed its plan for reorganization, the Wall Street Journal's Takashi Mochizuki and Katy Stech report.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge Declares Mistrial After Prosecutor Claims Defendant Tried To Run Her Down
04-16-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Ahlstrom lied to the court that the defendant, William Payne, 48, had tried to kill her by running her over in the street. Johnson denounced the attack as an effort to intimidate the prosecutors who were in the jury selection process for the rape
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News Link • Syria
Chemical Weapons Use In Syria: More Propaganda?
04-16-2014
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More reports of the use of chemical weapons inside Syria have come to light over the weekend, this time in the rural village of Kfar Zeita. The use of chemical weapons is not really in question since both sides of the conflict " the Syrian government
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News Link • Corruption
Congress Investigates “Slush Fund” At USAID Used To Get Lawmakers To Pass Reforms
04-16-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Our government has long seemed to be descending into a type of Orwellian universe of double speak. The Libyan War was not a war but a “time-limited, scope-limited military action” under Obama.
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