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Date Sent: 2014-08-13
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, August 13, 2014 |
To Provoke and Suppress: The Military Occupation of Ferguson, Missouri
Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
-- Spy satellites fighting crime from space -- Last Week
Tonight with John Oliver: Predatory Lending (HBO) -- Why the Lights of America are Dimming - by Wendy McElroy --
Using a Taser on an 8-year-old? Mom sues police, city -- Track
who's buying politicians with "Greenhouse" browser add-on -- Police
cite threats, won't name cop who shot teen -- 08-12-14 -- Nick
Lambert (MaidSafe.Net) - Donna Hancock (MP3 & VIDEO
LOADED) -- 08-13-14 -- Marc Victor (Attorney for Freedom) and
sons Max and Braden - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM -- Boycott Israel:
Now More Than Ever -- Iraq: Party of Three -- Ukraine says may block
Russian aid convoy -- Israeli, Stanley Fischer of the Federal
Reserve: Bank Bail-In Coming -- The Ebola Breakout Coincided With UN
Vaccine Campaigns -- Ron Paul Charles Goyette #21 Hey Obama, Leave
Ukraine Alone! -- CDC Director: Ebola Outbreak Possible -- Jesse
Ventura breaks silence on defamation lawsuit
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
To Provoke and Suppress: The Military Occupation of Ferguson, Missouri
08-12-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
The officer fired a second shot at the fleeing victims, hitting Brown, who fell to the ground with his hands in the air, pleading: "I don't have a gun ? stop shooting!" The assailant fired several more shots, killing the unarmed teenager outside an a
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
08-12-2014
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http://www.ted.com
Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist ? and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Spy satellites fighting crime from space
08-12-2014
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CNN
The satellite was sensitive enough to pick up a rabbit hole under bushes, and the disturbance caused by shotgun shells used in clay pigeon shooting. By systematically eliminating possible sites of the grave, police say their eye in the sky has
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Predatory Lending (HBO)
08-12-2014
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http://youtu.be/PDylgzybWAw
Payday loans put a staggering amount of Americans in debt. They prey on the elderly and military service members. They?re awful, and nearly impossible to regulate.
We?ve recruited Sarah Silverman to help spread the word about how to avoid falling i
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Why the Lights of America are Dimming
08-12-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
You cannot create passion and talent. But you can destroy them. When people are punished for their virtues, such as the drive to excel and to work hard, then passion and talent become liabilities.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Using a Taser on an 8-year-old? Mom sues police, city
08-12-2014
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CNN
Police warned the 8-year-old they were going to tase her. "Within seconds," an officer fired darts from the electroshock weapon into the chest of the 70-pound girl,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Track who's buying politicians with "Greenhouse" browser add-on
08-12-2014
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ars technica
Nicholas Rubin, a 16-year-old programmer from Seattle, created a browser add-on that makes it incredibly easy to see the influence of money in US politics. Rubin calls the add-on Greenhouse, and it does something so brilliantly simple
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police cite threats, won't name cop who shot teen
08-12-2014
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Associated Press
The police chief in a St. Louis suburb where a police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager said he's holding off on publicly identifying the officer because of death threats.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq: Party of Three
08-11-2014
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Next News Network
Iraq is in a brutal state of civil war with Sunni extremists partnered together with former Saddam Hussein supporters on a mission to overtake the country in jihad or ?holy war.? The Islamic State challenges Iraqi government who is allied partially w
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ukraine says may block Russian aid convoy
08-12-2014
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Reuters
A Russian convoy of trucks carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its territory.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israeli, Stanley Fischer of the Federal Reserve:
Bank Bail-In Coming
08-12-2014
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zerohedge.com
Fischer headed Israel's central bank from 2005 through 2013 and is now number two at the Federal Reserve in the U.S. after Janet Yellen.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Ebola Breakout Coincided With UN Vaccine Campaigns
08-12-2014
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rense.com
The simultaneous eruptions of this filovirus virus in widely separated zones strongly suggests that the virulent Zaire ebola strain (ZEBOV) was deliberately introduced to test an antidote in secret trials on unsuspecting humans.
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News Link • Iraq
Ron Paul Charles Goyette #21 Hey Obama, Leave Ukraine Alone!
08-12-2014
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Ron Paul, Charles Goyette
Will a trade war over Ukraine erupt into a hot war? The face-off between the Russia and the U.S. along with its European followers continues to grow.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
CDC Director: Ebola Outbreak Possible
08-08-2014
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Next News Network
The fear of Ebola is spreading worldwide today as the Director of the World Health Organization declares the virus a public health emergency. Margaret Chan says that several more countries will eventually see the Ebola virus. The main question now, i
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News Link • Communications
Jesse Ventura breaks silence on defamation lawsuit
08-07-2014
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Next News Network
Two years ago, former Minnesota governor and pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura filed a defamation lawsuit against a highly decorated Navy Seal. Chris Kyle?s book, ?American Sniper? tells a story of Kyle punching Ventura in the face and knocking him to the g
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The War Photo No One Would Publish
08-8-2014
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Torie Rose DeGhett, The Atlantic
When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn't run the picture.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Corruption
FL woman caught trying to board a flight with more than $20,000 stuffed in her bra and girdle
08-10-2014
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Reuters
Victoria Faren, 78, is being asked to forfeit about $40,000 in cash she hid in her clothing and carry-on baggage while trying to board a flight from Detroit to the Philippines in April. She had sold her house for $120,000.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Homeland Security Official Arrested in Craigslist Child Pornography Sting
08-10-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Homeland Security employee under charges that he solicited sex with a mother and her underage daughter via Craigslist.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Northern California Cops Beat Mentally Ill Man, Seize Phones, Claim it's their Right
08-10-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Police in Northern California beat and tased a mentally ill man before siccing a dog on him, then turning on citizens who recorded the incident, confiscating cell phones and in one case, ordering a witness to delete his footage.
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News Link • Political Theory
Bees are libertarians; hornets are socialists
08-10-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by jay0718
This theory is somewhat tongue and cheek, so please don't think I'm crazy. If you think I have too much time on my hands, you're probably right.
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News Link • Government
Who Owns the Future?
08-10-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama famously wrote that our world may be at the "end of history" where "Western liberal democracy" becomes "the final form of human government."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Outernet goes live on August 11, help us tell the world
08-08-2014
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Outernet.is
Information for All from Outer Space - Unrestricted, globally accessible, broadcast data.Quality content from all over the Internet. Available to all of humanity. For free.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stockman: The Train Wreck Is Coming, All Hell Will Break Loose
08-10-2014
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zerohedge.com
The answer to that question is it's not very far down the road, and I can promise you that is when all hell is going to break loose."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Scathing Anti-West Editorial in German Handelsblatt...
08-10-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Yesterday, a reader told me about a must-read article in the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
James Brady: Collateral Damage
08-10-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Many, including author Roger Stone in his LRC podcast interview with Lew Rockwell today, believe that James Brady was the unfortunate collateral damage of the Bush-engineered assassination attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
But For Video: The Best Spot For Jail Beatings
08-10-2014
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Simple Justice
Medical privacy is the law. That's why there are no video cameras in the clinic at Rikers Island. Makes perfect sense, except when guards order the staff out of a treatment room in the clinic and beat a prisoner. That makes perfect sense too,
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News Link • Activism
Tel Aviv anti-war rally held despite police order
08-10-2014
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http://www.jpost.com, By LAHAV HARKOV
Earlier Saturday, police banned the demonstration due to fears for public safety in light of renewed rocket fire in south.
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News Link • Drug War
In Sweden, Big Muscles Constituted Reasonable Suspicion To Investigate Steroid Use
08-10-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Police arrested a man after they approached him, suspecting that his physique constituted reasonable suspicion of steroid use. During a field interview their suspicion grew after the man allegedly was reluctant to answer questions.
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News Link • Gun Rights
GUN Linux: On the range with TrackingPoint's new AR-15s
08-10-2014
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ars technica
Last trip out, the highlight was hitting targets at 1,000 yards; this time, we'd be aiming at targets a bit closer in? but aiming through a tiny wearable screen while looking backward, over the shoulder.
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News Link • Surveillance
Judge Bates Is Just Protecting Us From Ourselves
08-10-2014
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Simple Justice
Nobody gets too hot and bothered by the FISA Court anymore, as absurd and outrageous an idea as it was when it was first created, or first disclosed, Once something flagrantly wrong has been around for a while, it just becomes another piece of the l
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News Link • Property Rights
City Evicts Elderly Man from Tent in the Woods Ruthlessly Demolishing in Front of Him
08-10-2014
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The Daily Sheeple
Last month, the camp, which housed 80-120 people over the last ten years or so, was closed by local authorities. Housing structures in the camp were demolished.
Police State USA reported that Sam was one of the unfortunate souls who lost his home
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Oakland officer reinstated with back pay after throwing grenade at unconscious man, bystanders
08-10-2014
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An officer who violently attacked a group of civilians ? including an incapacitated man bleeding from a head injury and the people who tried to help him ? has been reinstated to the department with back pay for the nearly 3 years of missed work.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Calls for blood after police kill black teen in Missouri
08-10-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Hundreds of residents of a predominantly black suburb in Missouri took to the streets after a fatal shooting by the police of an 18-year-old black man on Saturday. Angry protesters were chanting 'kill the police!' at the scene.
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Video:Iron Dome Fake - A Massive Hoax - Missiles Blowing Up in the Air
08-10-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by krp.nc
After over one billion FRNs donated to Israel, by US taxpayers, this possibility very concerning. And, after the 9-11 charade, anything is possible.
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News Link • Economy - International
Everything Is Coming Apart In Europe
08-10-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, By John O'Donn
Investors will gauge the strength of the euro zone's fragile economy this week as escalating conflicts in Ukraine and Iraq darken the mood globally.
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News Link • Economy - International
Retail Investors About To Get Fleeced Again
08-10-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Pater Tenebrarum
As a small addendum to our previous post on the market situation, here is a chart recently posted by the "Short Side of Long". It shows the cash allocation reported by AAII, which surveys retail investors.
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News Link • Iraq
U.S. "Humanitarian" Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual
08-10-2014
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https://firstlook.org, By Glenn Greenwald
U.S. "Humanitarian" Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
The Collapse of America's Great African Experiment
08-10-2014
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Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt
On return from his recent reporting trip to Africa, Nick Turse told me the following tale, which catches something of the nature of our battered world.
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News Link • Books
Goliath: The Book That May Delegitimize Israel's Apartheid State
08-10-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Justin Raimondo
A call to conscience ? and the discovery of a heretofore unknown libertarian thinker
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Gary Johnson Sues Over Non-Inclusion in Presidential Debates
08-10-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, By: Kevin Derby
Two years after he was the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate, former Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico is launching a legal challenge to the Commission on Presidential Debates for excluding him from the debates.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
"Absolute Immunity": The Deadliest Weapon in the Prosecutor's Arsenal
08-10-2014
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http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com,
"Prosecutors are rewarded for winning at all costs, they have no incentive to seek the truth rather than a conviction, and they are entirely unaccountable when they pervert justice in pursuit of victory," observes Idaho resident John T. Bujak.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: US 'hiding truth' on downed Malaysian plane
08-10-2014
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http://thehill.com, By Jesse Byrnes
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) accused the U.S. government of "hiding" the truth behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine last month.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Small-Town Praetorianism: Barry Township Rejects Victor Pierce's Authoritarian "Vision"
08-10-2014
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http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com,
Victor Pierce bears a resemblance to notorious death-cult leader Jim Jones, which is a tragic accident of nature.
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News Link • World News
What if There's a Real War in Ukraine?
08-10-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Margolis
Russia and the West are at war ? over fruits, veggies, pork, and bank loans.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
This Is The Longest Streak Of High-Yield Outflows On Record (And Why It May Get Worse)
08-10-2014
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zerohedge.com
When we first brought the market's attention to high-yield credit's flashing red warning, it was shrugged off as unimportant by most -
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News Link • Obama Administration
Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furies
08-10-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By David Stockman
The late, great critic of the American Imperium, Chalmers Johnson, popularized the salient concept of "blowback".
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News Link • Currencies
De-Dollarization Accelerates - China/Russia Complete Currency Swap Agreement
08-10-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The last 3 months have seen Russia's "de-dollarization" plans accelerate.
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