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Date Sent: 2014-08-31
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, August 31, 2014 |
Police Officer Will Not Be Charged For Killing Napster Exec While Texting And Driving
Pot Legalization In Uruguay Is Going Forward In A Big Way -- The UK Has A Plan To Cut Off Russian Businesses From The Rest Of The World -- Here's How Little You Earn On Stocks After You Pay The Man, Uncle Sam, And . . . -- Has Ukraine Shot Itself In The Foot With Gas Pipeline Deal? -- Dear Future American Generations, You Are Screwed -- Selling NATO's Killing Machine --
U.S. Senators Urge Ecuador to Restore Relations with Israel -- 9
Marijuana Policies From Around the World That Are Way Ahead of the U.S.
-- Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie -- Ferguson: Missing the Point -- The Israel Lobby Eliminates Another Critic -- Bombs Away Over Syria! Washington Has Gone Stark Raving Mad -- Curious Car Crashes: Louis Freeh, The Man With The Secrets -- Eugenics: A Reassessment -- Irresponsibly Challenging Russia -- Will the US Succeed in Breaking Russia to Maintain Dollar Hegemony? -- The Problem Isn't Islam ? It's ALL Religious Fundamentalism
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Police Officer Will Not Be Charged For Killing Napster Exec While Texting And Driving...
08-30-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jim Edwards
Police Officer Will Not Be Charged For Killing Napster Exec While Texting And Driving ? Because It's Apparently OK For Police To Do That
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News Link • Drug War
Pot Legalization In Uruguay Is Going Forward In A Big Way
08-30-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
A total of 22 companies have submitted bids to supply marijuana under a law making Uruguay the first country to legalize production, sale and distribution of the drug, the government said Thursday.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Jon Stewart's Directorial Debut 'Rosewater' Already Looks Like An Oscar Contender
08-30-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kirsten Acuna
Last year, Jon Stewart took three months off from his late-night series "The Daily Show" to work on his directorial debut.
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News Link • Economy - International
The UK Has A Plan To Cut Off Russian Businesses From The Rest Of The World
08-30-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
The United Kingdom will push the European Union this weekend to consider the most punitive sanctions yet against Russia for its involvement in escalating the crisis in Ukraine.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Meet The 16-Year-Old US Open Tennis Phenom Backed By Bill Ackman
08-30-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the CEO of $14 billion Pershing Square Capital, is sponsoring 16-year-old tennis phenom Francis Tiafoe.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Here's How Little You Earn On Stocks After You Pay The Man, Uncle Sam, And...
08-30-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Myles Udland
Here's How Little You Earn On Stocks After You Pay The Man, Uncle Sam, And The Invisible Hand
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News Link • Economy - International
Has Ukraine Shot Itself In The Foot With Gas Pipeline Deal?
08-30-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Igor Alexeev
Last week, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk pushed a bill through the Verkhovna Rada that would see his country's gas transportation system sold off to a group of international investors.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Dear Future American Generations, You Are Screwed
08-30-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Faith that the future will be better than the present is slipping, as despite President Obama's demands that Americans not be "cynics," a new report shows there is a major lack of confidence that the next generation will have it better than the last
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News Link • How To
Heading Out on Your Own: Day 26 ? 15 Maxims for Being a Reliable Man
08-30-2014
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http://www.artofmanliness.com
As we head into our last week of this "Heading Out on Your Own" series, I'd like to pause from our "harder," more practical skills to talk about a character trait, that, like self-reliance, is both an important building block in your life's foundatio
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News Link • General Opinion
Please, please, people. Let's put the 'awe' back in 'awesome'
08-30-2014
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http://www.ted.com, Jill Shargaa
Which of the following is awesome: your lunch or the Great Pyramid of Giza? Comedian Jill Shargaa sounds a hilarious call for us to save the word "awesome" for things that truly inspire awe.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. Senators Urge Ecuador to Restore Relations with Israel
08-30-2014
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telesurtv.net
Ecuador will continue supporting Palestine despite U.S. pressure to restore diplomatic relations with Israel.
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News Link • Drug War
9 Marijuana Policies From Around the World That Are Way Ahead of the U.S.
08-30-2014
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arclein
While the US has made some great strides toward better drug policy?in the form of medical marijuana and the socio-economic miracle that is Colorado and Washington?s pot legalization?it?s we are far behind much of the rest of the world when it comes t
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Mystery Monsters of the Deep Dark Sea
08-30-2014
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arclein
We live on a planet mostly plunged into cold darkness. Most people know that two-thirds of the Earth?s surface is covered with water, but have you ever stopped to think about how most of that area lies in the deep dark where no sunlight ever penetr
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News Link • Agriculture
Sulfate, Sleep and Sunlight: The Disruptive and Destructive Effects of Heavy Metals and Glyphosate
08-30-2014
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arclein
Stephanie Seneff is one of the all-too-rare scientists who is trying to ask the questions and connect the dots. Dr. Seneff4 is a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with an illustrious career a
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
40 Percent of Restaurant Workers Live in Near-Poverty
08-30-2014
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arclein
? The industry's wages have stagnated at an extremely low level. Restaurant workers' median wage stands at $10 per hour, tips included?and hasn't budged, in inflation-adjusted terms, since 2000. For nonrestaurant US workers, the median hourly wage
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News Link • NATO
Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie
08-30-2014
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paulcraigroberts.org
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Ferguson ? Missing the Point
08-30-2014
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armstrongeconomics.com, by Martin Armstrong
A few people have sent emails justifying the killing of Brown saying they will prove he was dangerous and on drugs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
The Israel Lobby Eliminates Another Critic
08-30-2014
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paulcraigroberts.org
The United States, wallowing in arrogance and hubris, pretends to be "the world's sole superpower," the "exceptional and indispensable nation" chosen by history to exercise hegemony over the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Bombs Away Over Syria! Washington Has Gone Stark Raving Mad
08-30-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By David Stockman
America's spanker-in-chief is at it again?threatening to bomb Syria owing to the uncivilized actions of its inhabitants.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
DeepFlight Dragon set to usher in the era of the personal submarine
08-30-2014
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gizmag.com
No one with red blood in their veins buys a sports car and hands the keys to a chauffeur, so one of the barriers to truly personal submarining has long been the need for a trained pilot,......
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Curious Car Crashes: Louis Freeh, The Man With The Secrets
08-30-2014
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http://whowhatwhy.com, By Russ Baker
Any serious student of history is on alert for "interesting accidents."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
How to Detoxify Aluminum
08-30-2014
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http://www.globalhealingcenter.com
Aluminum pervades our natural environment, making it practically impossible to avoid this element completely.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Eugenics
Eugenics: A Reassessment
08-30-2014
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JoePlummer.com
In his book "Eugenics: A Reassessment," Lynn argues that governments have the authority to sterilize their citizens if they consider those citizens "undesirable." He uses words like "retarded, psychopathic, and criminal" to describe the prime t
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News Link • Obama Administration
Will the US Succeed in Breaking Russia to Maintain Dollar Hegemony?...
08-30-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Clive Maund
In Why they are making an enemy of Russia?
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News Link • Transportation
Yamaha's Exquisite Electric Motorcycles Will Soon Hit the Streets
08-30-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Jordan Golson
Tesla Motors proved electric cars can be sexy, and Yamaha is out to show electric motorcycles can be, too.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
Man 3-D Prints A Concrete Castle In His Backyard
08-30-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, Francie Diep
Some Minnesotan suburbanites have got a handy neighbor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
A Space Game Gets Real
08-30-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Mathew Jancer
A crowdfunded video game aims for the most realistic spaceflight we've seen yet.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Supersize Your DIY Computing With Tiny Titan
08-30-2014
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http://www.popsci.com
Tiny Titan runs a particle simulator. Each Raspberry Pi chip calculates the motion of one set of objects, communicating with its neighbors about the other particles' locations.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Big Pic: Stunning Images From The World's Sharpest Commercial Satellite
08-30-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Sarah Fecht
I can see my house from here! And my dog. And the tomato plants in the garden.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: We Don't Have a Strategy for Iraq-Syria War Yet
08-30-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Sending Kerry to Assemble Coalition for Conflict
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
The Problem Isn't Islam ? It's ALL Religious Fundamentalism
08-30-2014
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com,
While the Koran Calls for Violence, The Bible Is Even Worse ? Calling for Genocide
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
America's Corrupt Institutions
08-28-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.
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News Link • Secession
Secession Tales Revisited by Bill Buppert
08-28-2014
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http://zerogov.com
Yesterday, 24 August was both my birthday and fortuitously, the day the British burned down the White House and other government edifices through the DC swamp area in 1814.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How the US, its allies, and its enemies all made ISIS possible
08-25-2014
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Zack Beauchamp, VOX
Who is to blame for the rise of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)? The truth, as usual, isn't simple. The Iraqi and Syrian governments played a major role, but so did the United States, Iran, and Gulf monarchies like Saudi Arabia.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
BOMBSHELL: Ron Paul Inc. Operatives May Have Been Secretly Recorded Since 2009
08-28-2014
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economicpolicyjournal.com
If Kesari has indeed been recording for years, and if he has maintained the recordings, this is going to be an entirely new level of concern for Ron Paul Inc.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
America's Middle East Scorecard: Many Interventions, Few Successes
08-25-2014
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Greg Myre, NPR
The U.S. has opposed Islamists in all eight of the turbulent lands stretching from Libya to Pakistan, yet has not managed to forge a solution in any of them. Are U.S. policies the problem, or is the region's upheaval beyond the reach of any outside p
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News Link • Economy - International
Swiss will vote on Nov. 30 for gold backed Franc
08-27-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
If the voters of Switzerland do choose to back their currency with gold I promise you that there will be MUCH more interest in the Swiss franc.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed Vice Chairman Warns: Your Bank May Seize Your Money to Recapitalize Itself
08-27-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com
At the height of the financial crisis in 2008 the U.S. government forced some of the countries largest banks to take "bailout" funds amounting to billions of dollars in order to keep them from going bankrupt.
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News Link • Oklahoma City Bombing 1995
Oklahoma City Bombing Centre Stage in Brother's Court Battle
08-27-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Jesse Trentadue wants FBI to release video of fatal attack in case of brother Kenneth's death in custody 19 years ago
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News Link • Government
National Progressives Want A "Federal Czar" To Oversee Local Police Forces
08-27-2014
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buzzfeed.com
"The proliferation of machine guns, silencers, armored vehicles and aircraft, and camouflage in local law enforcement units does not bode well for police-community relations, the future of our cities, or our country."
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
WHITE HOUSE: We Don't Want 'Dysfunction In Congress' To Kill The UN Climate Deal
08-27-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The New York Times reported Tuesday night that President Barack Obama's administration is pursuing a "sweeping" international climate change deal that bypasses the Senate.
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News Link • Iraq
The Evil of U.S. Aggression against Iraq
08-27-2014
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fff.org
What better confirmation of the manifest failure of the philosophy of foreign interventionism than the renewed U.S. bombing of Iraq?
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
IRS ethics lawyer facing possible disbarment, accused of lying
08-27-2014
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washingtontimes.com
A lawyer in the IRS ethics office is facing the possibility of being disbarred, according to records that accuse her of lying to a court-appointed board and hiding what she'd done with money from...
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls
08-27-2014
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popsci.com
Every smart phone has a secondary OS, which can be hijacked by high-tech hackers
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News Link • Food
Did You Know: California Legalized Selling Food Made From Home & 1001 Local...
08-27-2014
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http://naturalsociety.com
Did You Know: California Legalized Selling Food Made From Home & 1001 Local Businesses Sprung Up.
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News Link • World News
The Nail In The Petrodollar Coffin: Gazprom Begins Accepting Payment For Oil...
08-27-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
The Nail In The Petrodollar Coffin: Gazprom Begins Accepting Payment For Oil In Ruble, Yuan.
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News Link • Government
Joe Rogan Exclusive: The Police State, Geoengineering, and Why...
08-27-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Joe Rogan Exclusive: The Police State, Geoengineering, and Why He Became a Comic.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Orwell Rolls in his Grave (Full 3HR Documentary)
08-27-2014
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3 Hour Documentary explaining a portion of the information about media censorship, consolidation and propaganda. Please check links for more information.
Walter Lippmann (Public Opinion) - Full Book Link @ http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper2/CD...
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News Link • Corruption
The Fate Of Galt's Gulch Chile
08-27-2014
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dollarvigilante.com
Many have wondered about the status of Galt's Gulch Chile (GGC), the libertarian community that was planned and sold in lots as a liberty oasis for those who wished to live freedom before they died.
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News Link • Currencies
Argentine Peso Slides as Officials Say Currency Is Under Attack
08-27-2014
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bloomberg.com
Argentina's peso slumped to a record low in the parallel market, deepening its slide since last month's default and prompting government officials to say holdout creditors are behind a speculative attack.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Man Facing Years In Jail Cleared After Dash Cam Video Shows Scary Police Behavior
08-27-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
In June 2012, police were called to the residence of Marcus Jeter and his girlfriend for a domestic violence incident.
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News Link • Police State
5 reasons the police brutality in Ferguson is just the tip of the iceberg
08-27-2014
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rare.us
As the police use of tear gas and First Amendment limitations continue in Ferguson, Missouri?
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News Link • World News
Libya To UN: Civil War Is About To Break Out
08-27-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Libya warned the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the chaotic North African state could descend into full-scale civil war if heavily armed warring factions are not disarmed.
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News Link • World News
REPORT: The FBI Is Probing Whether Russia Hacked US Banks In Retaliation For Sanctions
08-27-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Bloomberg's Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson report the FBI is probing whether Russia may be tied to hacking and theft of data at JP Morgan and another U.S. bank in retaliation for sanctions against its incursions in Ukraine.
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Jokes About Spying on the Press: 'We Are Always Watching'
08-27-2014
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breitbart.com
Wednesday at the press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest joked with Fox News White House correspondent Ed Henry that the administration is "always watching,"....
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Pursuing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty
08-27-2014
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nytimes.com
The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.
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