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Date Sent: 2014-11-05
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Wednesday, November 5, 2014 |
SpaceShipTwo's wings deployed prematurely before crash
No charges for Utah cops who shot man holding cosplay sword six times in back -- Jury convicts former Oregon cop accused of sexually abusing young girl with a pencil -- IRS Worker Allegedly Knocks Out Woman And Offers To "Help" Officers To Avoid Arrest -- Wisconsin police deploy armored vehicle over dog poop dispute, SWAT team executes dog -- War on marijuana unconstitutional? Federal judge reviews evidence -- How Much Is That Jurist In The Window? -- A little ingenuity renders Colorado 'high capacity' magazine ban toothless -- Town causes stink with body odor ban -- Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry -- Local student suspended from school for what appears to be a harmless mistake -- A Political Ad For Your Friend Who Doesn't Vote -- NATO Wants More Troops to Counter Nonexistent Russian Threat -- Forget the 2014 Election: Why Ron Holland Voted With His Feet -- Passing Medical Cannabis in Florida -- 200 Thousand Doctors Dump Obamacare -- Obama to Import Ebola Victims from West Africa
AZ: Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – Starts This Saturday, November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceShipTwo's wings deployed prematurely before crash
11-04-2014
SpaceShipTwo's wings changed position prematurely and seemingly without full pilot input shortly before it broke apart in flight, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The vehicle's two tail wings are supposed to be moved
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News Link • Military
Last draftee leaves U.S. military service after 42 years
11-04-2014
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www.armytimes.com
The last continuously serving Vietnam War draftee on active-duty is retiring from the Army. His first response was to consider moving to Canada, but his mother, Dorothy, wouldn't hear it.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
No charges for Utah cops who shot man holding cosplay sword six times in back
11-04-2014
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Rawstory
An autopsy revealed Hunt, who was carrying a katana sword used for cosplay, had his back turned to the officers when all 6 shots were fired. They still don't know how many shots were fired, but Schauerhamer paused to reload
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Jury convicts former Oregon cop accused of sexually abusing young girl with a pencil
11-04-2014
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Reutershttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/jury-con
Christopher Warren was found guilty Friday of first-degree child rape after the victim, now 6, testified that the former Beaverton police officer inserted a pencil in her genital area.
The girl told jurors the assault felt "kind of weird, and it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
IRS Worker Allegedly Knocks Out Woman And Offers To "Help" Officers To Avoid Arrest
11-04-2014
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Jonathan Turley
"Listen, I know how this works. How much money will it take to make this go away?" Officers told him not to try to bribe them but he then said "Look, I am an IRS agent and I can help you in other ways if you let me go home and make this go away."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Wisconsin police deploy armored vehicle over dog poop dispute, SWAT team executes dog
11-04-2014
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Rawstory
Resident Kim Polk said it all began when a neighborhood man's dog had crapped in her yard. "His dog proceeded to soil my grass and I asked him you are going to pick that up because I don't want that sitting on my grass," Polk recalled.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
War on marijuana unconstitutional? Federal judge reviews evidence
11-04-2014
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www.sfgate.com
A federal judge in California will review evidence this week as part of a defence motion to declare the government's 40 year-old war on marijuana unconstitutional.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Humor
How Much Is That Jurist In The Window?
11-04-2014
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Simple Justice
Judges will be elected today. And we will elect them, though we will not select them. Some will be smart. Some will look judgeish, though that's the closest they come to being qualified. Some will stay bought.
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News Link • Gun Rights
A little ingenuity renders Colorado 'high capacity' magazine ban toothless
11-04-2014
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According to the breathless "reporting" of CBS Denver's Brian Maass, Colorado gun shops have found a couple methods of legally providing buyers with the ability to equip themselves with 30-round magazines. One way to do it is
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News Link • Government
Town causes stink with body odor ban
11-04-2014
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The town of Burien, Washington, has banned body odor -- and that has some people raising a stink! Ordinance allows police to ban smelly people from city buildings
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry
11-04-2014
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If your car is broken into and your stuff stolen, don't bother calling the police. They won't come even if you track down the thieves yourself.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Local student suspended from school for what appears to be a harmless mistake
11-04-2014
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He had planned a demonstration for his tenth grade speech class. It had to do with eating a health breakfast. keeps the doctor away because it was first period." He intended to show how he prepares his food.
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News Link • Humor
A Political Ad For Your Friend Who Doesn't Vote
11-04-2014
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Because "it's all like, bullshit dude." [Warning: Inappropriate and Offensive Content!!!!]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Passing Medical Cannabis in Florida
11-01-14
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Next News Network
Next Tuesday is election day around the US. While many states are voting for their next elected officials, Florida voters are also deciding whether or not to legalize medical marijuana. Amendment Two would allow doctors to prescribe cannabis to patie
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News Link • Obamacare
BREAKING: 200 Thousand Doctors Dump Obamacare
11-01-2014
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Next News Network
The election season is one full of all kinds of debate. Taxes, medicare, foreign policy, the economy. All of these old topics get repeated every November, painted up fresh with new buzz words from political speech writers.
But one buzz word or ni
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News Link • Obama Administration
BREAKING: Obama to Import Ebola Victims from West Africa
11/01/2014
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Next News Network
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is sparking fears of a disastrous epidemic all over the world. Australia and North Korea are both banning flights into their countries that have any foreigners from West Africa. China is launching a massive campaign
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News Link • Government
With a Government this Vile and This Secretive We Need to Ask Questions
11-03-2014
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http://thiscantbehappening.net
A few days ago, I published a short story linking to a PRN.fm radio interview I did with noted international law attorney Francis Boyle...
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News Link • Currencies
When Money Dies: Germany and Paper Money After 1910
11-03-2014
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by Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna
The story of the destruction of the German mark during the hyper-inflation of Weimar Germany from 1919 to its horrific peak in November 1923 is usually dismissed as a bizarre anomaly in the economic history of the twentieth century. But no episode be
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News Link • General Opinion
The American Dream: "You Have To Be Asleep To Believe It"
11-03-2014
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zerohedge.com
"It's never gonna get any better, be happy with what you got... because the 'owners' of this country don't want that. The 'real' owners of America - the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions - got you
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Antonio Buehler Found Not Guilty After Almost 3 Years! Civil Suit Will Move Forward!
11-03-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Antonio Buehler Found NOT GUILTY After Almost 3 Years! Civil Suit Will Move Forward!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Man charged with breaking a trooper's fist with his face
11-03-2014
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policestateusa.com
"You've got a long f***ing night ahead," the officer menaced. "Do ya hear me?? Do ya f***ing hear me?!"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Bundy Family Treated as Terror Suspects by TSA
11-03-2014
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Prison Planet
This morning my twelve year old daughter and I tried to fly to Salt Lake City from Phoenix for a special event of a loved one.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Branson on Virgin Galactic crash: 'Space flight is hard -- but worth it'
11-03-2014
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.cnet.com
As the National Transportation Safety Board takes the lead role in investigating the crash of SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson says the space-tourism venture would still "love to finish what we started."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
China's Gold Strategy
11-03-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
China first delegated the management of gold policy to the People's Bank by regulations in 1983.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Christmas Shopping Season Starts Today: Walmart Leads the Way ..
11-03-2014
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
In the past few years the Christmas shopping season moved from the "Black Friday" the day after Thanksgiving, to earlier and earlier starts on Thanksgiving, then to the day before Thanksgiving.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolving Door
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Revolving door between companies, Army on display in intelligence program
10-27-2014
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KEN DILANIAN , Associated Press
"The Defense Department and the Army are not going with companies that have proven solutions, What they are going with are people who know government and the government acquisition process."
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Asteroid-Mining Tech Among Casualties of Antares Rocket Explosion
11-03-2014
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http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
The rocket explosion that destroyed a cargo vessel bound for the International Space Station Tuesday (Oct. 28) also took out an asteroid-mining company's first spacecraft.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
It Will Take 6.25 BILLION "Man Years" To Pay Off Federal Government Liabilities
11-02-2014
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Puts a different spin on it, huh? Now, you really want your mind blown? Do that same calculation with the debt (now $18 trillion). Now do it with the unfunded liabilities of the FEDGOV (conservatively $250 trillion).
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Why A Christian Should Not Vote
11/02/2014
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C. Smith's Blog
As one who believes in freedom, in non-aggression, in love, in God, I reject voting. Voting is the antithesis of Jesus' teaching of love, peace, and faith.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Court Rules Police Can Force Users to Unlock iPhones With Fingerprints, But Not Passcodes
11-02-2014
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Judge Steven C. Frucci ruled this week that giving police a fingerprint is akin to providing a DNA or handwriting sample or an actual key, which the law permits. A pass code, though, requires the defendant to divulge knowledge,
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
I Will Never Vote for Jeb Bush - by L. Neil Smith
11-02-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Attention Republicans! You're about to make an historic mistakeâ€"you're about to make the usual historical mistake that has given Democrats the upper hand too many times over the past eighty years or so.
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News Link • Corruption
Prosecutors Seem Surprised that Banksters May Still Be Breaking the Law
11-02-2014
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Jonathan Turley
It would be the Wall Street equivalent of a parole violation: Just two years after avoiding prosecution for a variety of crimes, some of the world's biggest banks are suspected of having broken their promises to behave.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
North Carolina voters report voting machines switching their votes to GOP candidate
11-02-2014
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Rawstory
A voter in Guilfrord County, attempting to take advantage of early voting in North Carolina, told the News-Record that the voting machine he used repeatedly switched his vote for a Democrat to a vote for her Republican opponent.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Sensitivity Training For Crazy Joe Arpaio
11-02-2014
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Simple Justice
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered a controversial Arizona sheriff to undergo the same training as his deputies to prevent racial profiling and unlawful detention in the wake of the lawman's recent comments.
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News Link • Police State
Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media
11-02-2014
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Associated Press
The US government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, Missouri, for 12 days in August to keep away news helicopters during violent street protests.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden could face criminal charges for Fox interview
11-02-2014
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Despite objections from the Pentagon, Fox News Channel plans to air a 2-day documentary featuring an interview with the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden. The move could result in criminal charges for the SEAL,
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Marine veteran out of Mexico jail, home in Florida
11-02-2014
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Associated Press
Tahmooressi, 26, has said he took a wrong turn on a California freeway that funneled him into a Tijuana port of entry with no way to turn back, and that he had no intention of illegally bringing guns into Mexico.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Sharyl Attkisson releases video of apparent computer hack
11-02-2014
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http://www.politico.com, By DYLAN BYERS
Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News correspondent who claims that her computers were hacked by the government while she was reporting on the Benghazi scandal, has released a video she took with her cellphone of one apparent hack...
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Former Israeli soldier describes how IDF troops do not view Palestinians...
11-02-2014
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http://www.independent.co, Rose Troup Buchanan
Former Israeli soldier describes how IDF troops do not view Palestinians as 'human beings'
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli Matrix of Control: Use of Palestinian Civillians as Human Shields
11-02-2014
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http://www.euromid.org, Euromid Observer
This report presents documented cases of Palestinian civilians used as human shields by Israeli military forces during the 51-day conflict in the Gaza Strip, 8 July-26 August, 2014. It also discusses Israeli claims that Palestinian armed factions use
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Vatican calls for worldwide government via a world bank even more powerful than the U.N.
11-01-2014
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www.worldtruth.tv
"Of course, this transformation will be made at the cost of a gradual, balanced transfer of a part of each nation's powers to a world authority and to regional authorities, but this is necessary,...."
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News Link • Police State
Bundy clan now flagged as terrorists by TSA & Senator Harry Ried
11-01-2014
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bundyranch.blogspot.com
I asked the agent why we were being treated so differently and why we were selected out. He told me it was because my boarding pass was tagged with the bold letters "SSSS". He also told me that this will happen every time you fly because you are mark
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News Link • Internet
The Dark Net Is Thriving
11-01-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The first ever e-commerce transaction, conducted by students from Stanford and MIT in the early 1970s, involved the sale of a small quantity of marijuana.
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News Link • Surveillance
Prostrate Yourselves! The Crypto Wars Are Back, and This Time Big Brother Aims to Win
11-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Rosenberg
Control over information is far more important than most people know. It always has been, but in an information-rich environment like our Internet age, the power of information has skyrocketed. Unfortunately, it has taken some time for people to unde
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News Link • Drug War
Government Drug Dealing: from "Kill the Messenger" to "Pinocchio"
11-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Nathan Kleffman
"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intellige
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The Olympics: The Biggest Corporatist Sports Scam of All
11-01-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ryan McMaken
The 2022 Olympics (i.e., the Winter Games) is now down to only two applicant nations: China and Kazakhstan. This follows the withdrawal of Norway after the taxpayers of Norway balked on ponying up the cash necessary to make the Olympics a playground
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