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Date Sent: 2014-04-26
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, April 26, 2014 |
No Charges Against Philly Cops Caught Shaking Down Citizens
Police Chief: Not Wanting To Talk To Police Officers Is 'Odd' -- Nevada rancher and former Shoshone chief's range war with BLM predates Bundy standoff -- Federal Court Finds Upright Driving, Acne Suspicious --
Trinity Springs Baptist Church Wins Tax Case -- North Carolina Man
Detained by Berserk Deputy Records Revealing Conversation with Sheriff
-- Ecuador orders US military group to leave -- Obama Plays with Fire in Ukraine -- Hints To Longevity Found In Blood Of 115-Year-Old Woman -- WikiLeaks releases the Carter Cables Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:00 GMT -- Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize -- 37% of Voters Fear the Federal Government -- 52 Year-Old French Banker Jumps To Her Death In Paris (After Questioning Her Superiors) -- 7.5 percent of schoolchildren take prescription psych meds -- Unedited Video Shows Bundy Making Pro-Black, Pro-Mexican Comments -- Police Recruitment Video Shows Cops in Military-Style Ghillie Suits -- The Blue Screen of Death at 30,000 Feet -- On Treating Putin as Pariah -- Ukraine: Out of Control -- Pot use may increase heart issues in young and middle-aged adults --
For Progressives, “Thoughtcrime” is Worse than Mass Murder -- Don’t
Store Your Gold and Silver in a ‘Safe’ Deposit Box -- Libertarianism: So Thick that it is
Unrecognizable -- Why Does Ron Paul Think Bitcoin Does Not Fit The
Definition Of Money? -- MN Gov. Mark Dayton, tells parents to "go
get it off the streets"... (VIDEO) --
Is choice lost? Microchips to administer drugs, replace pills --
Slavyansk Braces for Onslaught -- 04-25-14 -- Joel Ho - Marcus West
- Sean Daley +90min Bitcoin Bonus (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Dark
Wallet Alpha (Defense Distributed) -- America Is Being Conquered
Through the Corporate Control of Water -- Obama Threatens Russia and
China
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
No Charges Against Philly Cops Caught Shaking Down Citizens
04-25-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The decision from federal and local prosecutors not to criminally charge a group of Philadelphia cops accused by store owners of slicing wires to their surveillance cameras before robbing them " including a cop accused by several women for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Chief: Not Wanting To Talk To Police Officers Is 'Odd'
04-25-2014
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Jonathan Turley
A woman was walking down the street when a motorcycle cop approached her, asked her if she lived in the area and if she would talk to him. She says his approach made her feel uncomfortable, so she refused and continued on her way.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
Nevada rancher and former Shoshone chief's range war with BLM predates Bundy standoff
04-25-2014
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FOX News
Long before Cliven Bundy faced down federal agents in his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing rights, fellow Nevada rancher Raymond Yowell, an 84-year-old Shoshone chief, watched as the BLM seized his herd.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Federal Court Finds Upright Driving, Acne Suspicious
04-25-2014
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The Newspaper
Driving with good posture, with hands at the classic ten and two position on the wheel, is sufficient reason to pull over a driver with a bad complexion, according to the Tenth Circuit US Court of Appeals. A unanimous three-judge panel approved
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Bill of Rights
Words Eye View
Trinity Springs Baptist Church Wins Tax Case
04-25-2014
Greg J Dixon
Trinity Springs Baptist Church in Martin County, Indiana, a 157 year old church just won a great victory, not only for Trinity Springs, but for all of the unregistered churches of Indiana and the Biblical Law Center of Indianapolis that prepared the
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
North Carolina Man Detained by Berserk Deputy Records Revealing Conversation with Sheriff
04-25-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Onslow County Sheriff, Ed Brown “Those in the law enforcement profession have complete power of you, your life, your family, your loved ones, your rights, your freedom, your future and everything precious to life.” He doesn't mean it in a nice way.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ecuador orders US military group to leave
04-25-2014
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Washington Post
Ecuador has ordered the U.S. Embassy’s military group, about 20 Defense Department employees, to leave the country by month’s end, in a further indication of strained relations.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Plays with Fire in Ukraine
04-25-2014
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fff.org
“The U.S. is sending about 600 ground troops to Eastern Europe … to ‘reassure’ allies there as Washington resumes its campaign of pressure on Russia over the Ukraine standoff.” " POLITICO
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News Link • Government
WikiLeaks releases the Carter Cables
Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:00 GMT
04-25-2014
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wikileaks.org
Today WikiLeaks releases the Carter Cables, 367,174 US diplomatic cables and associated records coinciding with the first year of President Jimmy Carter’s administration and the appointment of Secretary of State Cyrus Roberts Vance in 1977.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bitcoin
Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize
04-25-2014
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Wired.com
The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site’s lucrative drug trade, still offered its enemies a single point of failure.
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News Link • Police State
37% of Voters Fear the Federal Government
04-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Likely U.S. Voters now fear the federal government, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Forty-seven percent (47%) do not, but another 17% are not sure.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
52 Year-Old French Banker Jumps To Her Death In Paris (After Questioning Her Superiors)
04-25-2014
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zerohedge.com
There have been 13 senior financial services executives deaths around the world this year, but the most notable thing about the sad suicide of the 14th, a 52-year-old banker at France's Bred-Banque-Populaire, is she is the first female.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
7.5 percent of schoolchildren take prescription psych meds
04-25-2014
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upi.com
“Over the past two decades, the use of medication to treat mental health problems has increased substantially among all school-aged children and in most subgroups of children,” report authors explained.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
John McCain to host Hillary Clinton in Sedona, Ariz.
04-25-2014
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Washington Post
Since leaving the State Department last year, Hillary Rodham Clinton has racked up scores of accolades and appeared on many a big stage.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Racism
Unedited Video Shows Bundy Making Pro-Black, Pro-Mexican Comments
04-25-2014
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Prison Planet
Media censors footage to spin remarks as racist
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Police Recruitment Video Shows Cops in Military-Style Ghillie Suits
04-25-2014
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Prison Planet
Disturbing sign of militarization of domestic law enforcement
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
If War Was Funded Like College Tuition
04-25-2014
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globalresearch.ca
Are you as tired as I am of news stories about college tuition costs rising? I’ve been out of college for many years, and you’d have to pay me to go back, but this is ridiculous.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The Blue Screen of Death at 30,000 Feet
04-25-2014
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foreignpolicy.com
The government has new plan to ensure that your seat belts are fastened, seats are in the upright position -- and no one is hacking your plane.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Burning Ice and the Future of Energy
04-25-2014
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foreignpolicy.com
The race to discover the game-changing clean fuel of tomorrow is heating up. Too bad it's deep beneath Asia's contested waters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
On Treating Putin as Pariah
04-25-2014
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antiwar.com
“Mr. Obama is focused on isolating President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia by cutting off its economic and political ties to the outside world … and effectively making it a pariah state.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Pot use may increase heart issues in young and middle-aged adults
04-25-2014
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sciencerecorder.com
The researchers analyzed severe cardiovascular-related complications following marijuana use, reported to the French Addictovigilance Network from 2006 to 2010.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
Brazil's internet gets groundbreaking bill of rights
04-25-2014
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newscientist.com
Brazil's internet now has its own bill of rights. On 23 April, the country's president, Dima Rousseff, signed the Marco Civil da Internet, a bill that sets out new guidelines for freedom of expression, net neutrality and data privacy for the country'
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News Link • 3D Printing
Microscale 3-D Printing
04-25-2014
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Technologyreview.com
Inks made from different types of materials, precisely applied, are greatly expanding the kinds of things that can be printed.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
Poorer Countries Stand to Miss Out on the Big Data Boom
04-25-2014
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Technologyreview.com
Ranking countries by their “networked readiness” reveals a major geopolitical digital divide.
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News Link • Energy
Storing Greenhouse Gases by Petrifying Them
04-25-2014
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Technologyreview.com
Carbon dioxide injected into a geothermal reservoir would be stored permanently by turning into rock.
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News Link • Energy
Small but Mighty Charger Juices Tablets and Jump-Starts Cars
04-25-2014
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Wired.com
Like Bluetooth speakers, a flood of portable gadget chargers gets released into the world every week. But with the exception of their color schemes and current specs"1-amp chargers for phones, 2-amp chargers for iPads and other tablets"they all do pr
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment
04-25-2014
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Wired.com
When Scott Erven was given free rein to roam through all of the medical equipment used at a large chain of Midwest health care facilities, he knew he would find security problems"but he wasn’t prepared for just how bad it would be.
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News Link • Transportation
Yamaha’s Exquisite Electric Motorcycles Will Soon Hit the Streets
04-25-2014
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Wired.com
Tesla Motors proved electric cars can be sexy, and Yamaha is out to show electric motorcycles can be, too.
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News Link • Racism
For Progressives, “Thoughtcrime” is Worse than Mass Murder
04-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
As any reasonably well-informed attorney knows, if a police officer follows a driver long enough he will witness a violation that supposedly justifies a traffic stop.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Don’t Store Your Gold and Silver in a ‘Safe’ Deposit Box
04-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Many silver and gold buyers forget one of the main reasons to buy physical silver and gold bullion today is due to the world’s current fragile financial system.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Libertarianism: So Thick that it is Unrecognizable
04-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Thanks to Robert Wenzel, today I came across this dandy of a post, entitled “Six Reasons Libertarians Should Reject the Non-Aggression Principle, by Matt Zwolinski.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cancer Genetics: What The Researchers Aren’t Telling You
04-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Geneticists have made a stunning breakthrough, at least in their own minds. Though not quite ready for human application, they have “edited” DNA to cure a disease in an adult animal.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MaidSafe.net & SAFEcoin
MaidSafe Sells $6 Million Safecoin in Five Hours of Crowd-Sale
04-25-2014
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coinreport.net
MaidSafe announced the great sale of $6 million of its software token, Safecoin, in just five hours of opening. MaidSafe are the makers of block-chain like technologies aimed at decentralizing just about every aspect of the Internet. This includes al
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Why Does Ron Paul Think Bitcoin Does Not Fit The Definition Of Money?
04-25-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Bitcoin is a very interesting subject because for many years in Congress, I was a champion of legalizing competition in currencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
MN Gov. Mark Dayton, tells parents to "go get it off the streets"... (VIDEO)
04-25-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Very responsible sir... Oooooor you could just allow passage of the bill to legalize Medical Marijuana in the state of Minnesota...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Psychiatrists now say non-conformity is a mental illness: only the sheeple are 'sane'
04-25-2014
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naturalnews.com
Modern psychiatry has become a hotbed of corruption, particularly the kind that seeks to demonize and declare mentally ill anyone who deviates from what is regarded as the norm.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Is choice lost? Microchips to administer drugs, replace pills
04-25-2014
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naturalnews.com
According to reports from CNN, people who use pharmaceutical drugs, but who don't like having to remember, think, exercise their personal agency, or make their own proactive choices throughout their day, may soon be able to get their medications auto
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Fresh produce prices skyrocketing in 2014
04-25-2014
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naturalnews.com
The embattled American consumer can't seem to catch a break. Gas prices remain high, electric rates are rising, clothing is becoming more expensive, school debt is piling up, taxes are climbing, healthcare costs have not come down and food prices --
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
U.S. power grid could be too big, on the verge of collapsing like pile of sand
04-25-2014
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naturalnews.com
In a March 2014 report, The Wall Street Journal issued a dire warning about the nation's electric power grid.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Why Pakistan Is Not Changing
04-25-2014
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arclein
Pakistan has highly peculiar and complex traits of class formation, evolution and transformation, which have no match in the rest of the world in terms of social engineering by the state and its omni-powerful security establishment. During the period
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News Link • Economy - International
Revolution in Money?
04-25-2014
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arclein
For all the promise of new currencies and transaction systems, there is a long trail of failed efforts. In 1998, a virtual currency called Beenz was introduced. Customers earned Beenz when they visited certain websites and shopped at certain online s
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News Link • China
China’s Monumental Ponzi: Here’s How It Unravels
04-25-2014
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arclein
Just in the nick of time, as China reeled from the Great Leap Forward, the famine death of 40 million and the mass psychosis of the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Deng learned that power could be maintained and extended from the end of a printing press. An
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News Link • Science
Simplest Scenario for MH370
04-25-2014
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arclein
The search initially focused on the eastern coast of Malaysian and Vietnam, where the plane was last tracked by aviation authorities. As more information came to light, the search centered on the southern Indian Ocean. Despite turning up any debris,
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Photos of the Day: Hong Kong man wearing $580,000 money pants caught at customs
04-25-2014
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shanghaiist.com
A Hong Kong man who taped wads of cash totaling around $580,000 USD (3.62 million yuan) to his legs and body was caught while entering the mainland at customs in Shenzhen, Guangdong province on April 23.
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News Link • World News
Which passports are most accepted around the world?
04-25-2014
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straitstimes.com
The Singapore passport remains one of the most welcomed by countries around in the world. As of last year, holders of the passport got visa-free access to 167 of 219 countries surveyed for the latest Visa Restrictions Index.
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