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Date Sent: 2015-01-04
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, January 4, 2015 |
Lawsuit Claims Prince Andrew Had Sex with Underage Sex Slave
Never Forget: Ron Paul called the true terrorists out name by name -- Man-made ligament could replace ruptured ACLs -- Growing greens on the Red Planet -- Shut Up Officer -- OBAMA DONOR BACKING MCCAIN'S PURGE -- History Lesson: America Is the Same 'Ol Oligarchy It Was over a Century Ago -- Cold-War-Style Propaganda Posing as News at the New York Times -- The Gas Engine Is Going Away -- PREPPERNOMICS: HOW TO SURVIVE WHILE THE DOLLAR DIES -- Elon Musk Is Trying Something Next Week That Could Forever Change Spaceflight -- Free ebook: Swindled: How the GOP Cheated Ron Paul and Lost Themselves the Election -- Lessons on Prepping From an Afghanistan Deployment, by A.K. " Part 2 -- Congressmen to Hold Press Conference Calling on Declassification of Senate 9/11 Report -- Oliver Stone's New Movie: "Ukraine: The CIA Coup" Coming To A Theater Near You -- The Worst Government Crimes -- Mystery: Sandy Hook Victim Dies (again) In Pakistan -- Geo-Engineering Scientist 'Terrified' of Projects He Helped Create -- Web Freedom Is Seen as a Growing Global Issue -- Georgia Police Chief's Wife Heard Moaning on 911 Call After He Shot Her -- Russian Battle Robots Near Testing for Military Use -- New challenge for chefs: making pot taste good -- Disgusting Idea of the Day: Another Bush vs. Another Clinton -- LOUIS FREEH'S LATEST INVESTIGATION: BILLIONAIRE BUSINESSMAN ACCUSED OF... -- FOR THE FIRST TIME, SPACEX WILL LAND A ROCKET AFTER LAUNCH -- Is War in the Cards for 2015? -- How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis -- NORTH KOREA/SONY STORY SHOWS HOW EAGERLY U.S. MEDIA STILL REGURGITATE... -- North Korea, South Korea Back Summit For Improved Ties -- The True Cost of the Afghanistan War May Surprise You -- Obama: How Many Kids Did You Kill Today? -- No, Crazy Is Not A Capital Offense (Update) -- More US Sanctions on North Korea After Sony Case -- A NEW TACTICAL ADVANTAGE -- The Benefits of Fewer NYPD Arrests -- See invisible motion, hear silent sounds. Cool? Creepy? We can't decide -- Gold, 2nd best performing "currency" of 2014 -- Robots can now learn to cook just like you do: by watching YouTube videos -- Bombshell Revelation: CIA Director Was Targeting Journalist -- INF Infowar
AZ: AZ Legislative Forecast Luncheon featuring Governor-elect Doug Ducey 01-09-15; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Man-made ligament could replace ruptured ACLs
01-03-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com,By Ben Coxworth
If you follow sports at all, then you've probably heard about athletes rupturing their ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament. It connects the femur to the tibia, and once it breaks, it's incapable of healing.
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News Link • Agriculture
Growing greens on the Red Planet
01-03-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
When the first living visitor from Earth lands on Mars we might well expect it to be a man or a woman, but if students from the University of Southampton Spaceflight Society have their way, it could be one small step for a lettuce.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Sex Reassignment Surgery at 74: Medicare Win Opens Door for Transgender Seniors
01-03-2015
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http://www.nbcnews.com, BY MIRANDA LEITSINGER
Denee Mallon marveled at the view of Lake Michigan from her hospital bed in the Windy City, where she had just made history: the then 74-year-old transgender woman underwent a milestone sex reassignment surgery she'd sought for decades. "Here I am, f
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News Link • Inventions
From VR Gear to Quantum-Dot TVs: What to Expect at CES 2015
01-03-2015
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http://www.wired.com, CHRISTINA BONNINGTON
The International CES is the once-yearly gathering place for all things, companies, and people tech.
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Shut Up Officer
01-03-2015
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http://www.theburningplatform.com
"With the increasing number of ambush-style attacks against our officers, I am deeply concerned that a growing anti-government sentiment in America is influencing weak-minded individuals to launch violent assaults against the men and women working
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News Link • Corruption
WHO IS WOLFGANG HALBIG?
01-03-2015
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http://www.sandyhookjustice.com
Wolfgang Halbig has lived a life of serving the public as law enforcement officer, school official, safety expert.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
OBAMA DONOR BACKING MCCAIN'S PURGE
01-03-2015
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http://www.eastvalleynewsnet.com,by Daniel Greenfi
McCain is busy with two wars. He's fighting to help Muslim terrorists in Syria and to hurt conservatives in Arizona. And he's using some dubious methods to do it.
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News Link • American History
History Lesson: America Is the Same 'Ol Oligarchy It Was over a Century Ago
01-03-2015
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com-
When Americans see charts like this one which illustrate that virtually all the food on grocery store shelves basically comes from no more than 10 megacompanies, or hear statements like this one from our own Attorney General Eric Holder who told the
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News Link • Propaganda
Cold-War-Style Propaganda Posing as News at the New York Times
01-03-2015
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http://thiscantbehappening.net- Dave Lindorff
As shameful a propagandist for Washington's war machine as the New York Times has been over the years, sometimes I still cannot believe the brazenness of its abandonment of even a pretext of dispassionate journalistic standards.
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News Link • Transportation
The Gas Engine Is Going Away
01-03-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com-RICHARD READ
If we've learned anything from the rosy, sci-fi predictions that emerged from the Space Race of the mid-20th-century, it's that human beings can be very optimistic when thinking about their future.
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News Link • Prepping
PREPPERNOMICS: HOW TO SURVIVE WHILE THE DOLLAR DIES
01-03-2015
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http://www.theorganicprepper.ca-Daisy Luther
I really don't like to make predictions. I'm not Zoltan, the fortune-telling dude in the machine - you know, the one with the turban who waves his mechanical hands dramatically over a crystal ball and tells you of your future in a heavily accent
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News Link • Prepping
Lessons on Prepping From an Afghanistan Deployment, by A.K. " Part 2
01-03-2015
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http://survivalblog.com
We are continuing this article, from a Marine Sergeant, about lessons learned while living in a remote region of Afghanistan, Marjeh district, which seem similar to a possible TEOTWAWKI environment.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Congressmen to Hold Press Conference Calling on Declassification of Senate 9/11...
01-03-2015
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http://thelibertybeat.com-Derrick Broze
On Wednesday, January 7, Representatives Walter B. Jones, Stephen Lynch, and Senator Bob Graham will hold a bipartisan press conference in support of House Resolution 428, an effort to declassify 28 pages of a Senate report into the attacks of Septem
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Oliver Stone's New Movie: "Ukraine: The CIA Coup" Coming To A Theater Near You
01-03-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com-Tyler Durden
US filmmaker Oliver Stone is currently engaged in production of a documentary about Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who fled the country following the February coup last year.
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News Link • History
The Worst Government Crimes
01-03-2015
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http://fff.org-Anthony Gregory
We can locate the deadliest place and time in world history, certainly for the modern West, in the stretch of land between Berlin and Moscow in the 1930s and 1940s.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Mystery: Sandy Hook Victim Dies (again) In Pakistan
01-03-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com-Adan Salazar
Photo of child killed at Sandy Hook shows up following school shooting in Pakistan.
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News Link • Environment
Geo-Engineering Scientist 'Terrified' of Projects He Helped Create
01-03-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com-Christina Sarich
Dr. Matthew Watson from Bristol University in the UK told the media recently that he's "terrified" by many of the geoengineering projects currently in the works to thwart man-made climate change, a phenomenon being hawked as an excuse for weath
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News Link • Internet
Web Freedom Is Seen as a Growing Global Issue
01-03-2015
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http://www.nytimes.com-VINDU GOEL and ANDREW E.
Government censorship of the Internet is a cat-and-mouse game. And despite more aggressive tactics in recent months, the cats have been largely frustrated while the mice wriggle away.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Georgia Police Chief's Wife Heard Moaning on 911 Call After He Shot Her
01-03-2015
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http://abcnews.go.com-MEGHAN KENEALLY
The dramatic 911 call made by a Georgia police chief after he shot his wife has been released -- and she can be heard moaning in the background as he calmly explains what happened.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Russian Battle Robots Near Testing for Military Use
01-03-2015
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http://www.themoscowtimes.com-The Moscow Times
Machine-gun wielding battle robots are going to be tested in Russia's Astrakhan region for use by the country's Strategic Missile Forces, the Interfax news agency reported Friday.
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News Link • Healthcare
Scientific team sounds the alarm on sugar as a source of disease
01-03-2015
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http://medicalxpress.com-Barbara Sadick
Is sugar making us sick? A team of scientists at the University of California in San Francisco believes so, and they're doing something about it.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
New challenge for chefs: making pot taste good
01-03-2015
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http://seattletimes.com-Kim Severson
Cooking with pot faces two big problems: It's hard to control how high people get when they eat marijuana, and it really doesn't taste that good.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung Gear VR vs. Oculus Rift DK2
01-03-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com-Will Shanklin
In our product comparisons, we line up consumer gear and do our best to help you make up your mind ... but this one is a little different.
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News Link • Government
Mario Cuomo, former New York governor, dead at 82
01-03-2015
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http://www.nydailynews.com-KENNETH LOVETT
Ever-eloquent Mario Cuomo, a son of Queens who rode his rhetorical gifts to three terms as New York governor and tantalized Democrats by flirting with a run for President, died Thursday. He was 82.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Americans on the move want warmth, affordability: reports
01-03-2015
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http://www.reuters.com-MARK GUARINO
Americans moving out of state in 2014 were most likely to head to places that were warmer and more affordable, such as the South and Southwest, according to studies by two major moving companies.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Here's How the Military Wasted Your Money in 2014: New year, old problems
01-03-2015
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War is Boring
This was a banner year for waste. Not just because the Pentagon flushed so much cash down the toilet, but also because the public learned about so many of the failures. All this while the Defense Department warned that sequestration would harm Americ
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News Link • Mercenaries
Blackwater's Back And They Might Reignite The Civil War In Ukraine
12-31-2014
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Andrew Korybko
Academi, formerly and more popularly known as Blackwater, is back in the news as reports are trickling in that they'll train an "experimental battalion" of 550 Ukrainian soldiers in urban warfare next month.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Saturday January 3rd 2015
01-03-2015
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www.LewRockwell.com
Plan as If Your Life Depends on It / Remembering Mario Cuomo / Being a cop is not very dangerous, says Karl Denninger / My New Film on the CIA Coup, Oliver Stone on imperial expansion / Propaganda Comes of Age / AirAsia: a Pilot Weighs In
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News Link • Science
Link Between Mushrooms, Bees, and Mass Extinction
01-03-2015
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arclein
"Paul demonstrates how Mycelium is the Earth's natural Internet allowing for communication between plant species. In fact, it acts as the neural network of the planet, as a sentient organism with the consciousness to respond to natural disasters
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Is String Theory About to Unravel?
01-03-2015
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arclein
Then, just a couple of months later, the prestigious (if tamely titled) journal Physics Letters B published an article that ignited the first superstring revolution, a sweeping movement that inspired thousands of physicists worldwide to drop their re
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News Link • Economy - International
Income Inequality Author Turns Down Prestigious Award; Can you Solve a Problem...
01-03-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com-Mike S.
Income Inequality Author Turns Down Prestigious Award; Can you Solve a Problem When You Don't Know the Cause?
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Disgusting Idea of the Day: Another Bush vs. Another Clinton
01-03-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com-Mike S.
Bush took first place with 23% in a new nationwide poll, putting him 10 points ahead of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who tallied 13%. Physician Ben Carson comes in third, with 7% support, and Sen. Rand Paul and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee a
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News Link • Transportation
Musk hints at robotic charging arm for all Model S cars
01-03-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com-David Szondy
Showing his penchant for dropping bombshells on Twitter, Tesla Motors founder and CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company is working on a robotic arm for recharging its Model S electric cars.
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News Link • Corruption
LOUIS FREEH'S LATEST INVESTIGATION: BILLIONAIRE BUSINESSMAN ACCUSED OF...
01-03-2015
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https://firstlook.org-Ken Silverstein
LOUIS FREEH'S LATEST INVESTIGATION: BILLIONAIRE BUSINESSMAN ACCUSED OF BRIBING AFRICAN GOVERNMENT.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Is War in the Cards for 2015?
01-03-2015
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http://original.antiwar.com-Patrick J. Buchanan
"If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you," said Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait hung in the Cabinet Room of the Reagan White House.
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News Link • Israel
How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
01-03-2015
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http://www.alternet.org-Max Blumenthal
AlterNet has learned that an amendment to the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have forbidden US assistance, training and weapons to neo-Nazis and other extremists in Ukraine was kept out of the final bill by the Republican-l
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News Link • World News
NORTH KOREA/SONY STORY SHOWS HOW EAGERLY U.S. MEDIA STILL REGURGITATE...
01-03-2015
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https://firstlook.org-Glenn Greenwald
NORTH KOREA/SONY STORY SHOWS HOW EAGERLY U.S. MEDIA STILL REGURGITATE GOVERNMENT CLAIMS.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
No, Crazy Is Not A Capital Offense (Update)
01-03-2015
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http://blog.simplejustice.us,SCOTT H. GREENFIELD
Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. Robert Earl Lawrence was, well, nuts. He was a sovereign citizen, and by definition, that places him squarely in the nutjob category. But that doesn't mean he should die for it.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
More Sanctions on North Korea After Sony Case
01-03-2015
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New York Times
The Obama administration doubled down on its allegation that North Korea's leadership was behind the hacking of Sony Pictures, announcing new, if largely symbolic, economic sanctions against 10 senior North Korean officials
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News Link • Transportation
A NEW TACTICAL ADVANTAGE
01-03-2015
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http://www.zeromotorcycles.com
No exhaust and exceptionally stealthy, the Zero MMX holds unique tactical advantages over traditional internal combustion alternatives.
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News Link • Inventions
See invisible motion, hear silent sounds. Cool? Creepy? We can't decide
01-03-2015
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Michael Rubinstein
Meet the "motion microscope," a video-processing tool that plays up tiny changes in motion and color impossible to see with the naked eye.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robots can now learn to cook just like you do: by watching YouTube videos
01-03-2015
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Venture Beat
Deep learning entails training systems called artificial neural networks on lots of information derived from audio, images, and other inputs, and then presenting the systems with new information and receiving inferences about it in response.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, January 4, 2015 Edition
01-02-2015
John Semmens
Obama Calls for Truce in Fight Against ISIL
Citing reports that troops fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may have come down with Ebola, US President Obama called for a halt in all military action against them.
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News Link • Police State
'You're Either a Cop or Little People': The American Police State in 2014
01-01-2015
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https://www.rutherford.org, By John W. Whitehead
For those of us who have managed to survive 2014 with our lives intact and our freedoms hanging by a thread...
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News Link • NeoCons
The Neocon Menace
01-01-2015
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By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The ideological movement that calls itself neoconservative is small, potent, and extremely dangerous. Oh, and its members don't like lewrockwell.com, either.
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