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Date Sent: 2015-01-31
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, January 31, 2015 |
This Kid Made an App That Exposes Sellout Politicians
Chief sorry cops unleashed police dogs to maul woman's leg while officers held her down -- Deputy Who Fired Gun Out of Car, Nearly Striking Other Deputies, Finally Arrested -- Black Lives Kind of Matter: Marissa Alexander free after 3 years, Civil Rights heroes clear after 53 -- A Non-Custodial Grope -- NYC's Bratton on plans for 'new patrol model' -- Silk Road trial: How the Dread Pirate Roberts embraced violence -- Middle Schoolers Arrested After 'Sex Party' Recorded on Phones -- State Takes Over Arkansas School District That Had To Make Teachers Wear Underwear -- Texas schoolchildren ordered to drop pants for poop inspection -- Deputy education minister to plead guilty to child porn charges, lawyer says -- "I have decided to run for re-election for Sheriff." -- Prosecutors Trace $13.4M in Bitcoins From the Silk Road to Ulbricht's Laptop -- The Smartest, Richest Companies Can't Crack Mobile. The Future Belongs to Anyone Who Can -- Afghans live in peril among unexploded NATO bombs that litter countryside -- New Saudi king announces major government shake-up -- Obama Wants Sequestration to End, Plans Massive Spending Hikes -- Afghan Soldier Kills Three US Contractors at Kabul Airport -- Who profits from killing Charlie? -- 199 Days of Hell -- Salaita Sues University of Illinois -- 01-30-15 -- Ron Neil - James Babb - Bitcoin Summit (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- My Thoughts On The Movie "American Sniper" -- Jeff Berwick on with James Corbett Talking Anarchapulco -- Heading for War with Russia?
AZ: Tour of Tonopah Rob's All Natural Vegetable Farm Today CANCELLED due to rain, January 31st, 2015; Superbowl Party @ the Hancock's Sunday Feb 1st, 2015 3:30 p.m. til ??
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News Link • Technology: Software
This Kid Made an App That Exposes Sellout Politicians
01-30-2015
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http://www.vice.com, By Hannah Ewens
With US politics swimming in so much corporate money that it's pretty much an oligarchy, it can be hard to keep track of which particular set of lobbyists is trying to milk more cash out of health care, fossil fuels, and other very important issues f
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Chief sorry cops unleashed police dogs to maul woman's leg while officers held her down
01-30-2015
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Rawstory
"The two other police officers approached her--- asked her to stop. They had her down on the ground when the dog came. Two of the police officers restrained her on the ground, and then they allowed the dogs to attack her."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Deputy Who Fired Gun Out of Car, Nearly Striking Other Deputies, Finally Arrested
01-30-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
It took nearly a month, but a Broward County sheriff's deputy accused of a firing gun out the window of a speeding car after a night of carousing at a bar, nearly striking a group of Palm Beach County deputies parked near
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Black Lives Kind of Matter: Marissa Alexander free after 3 years, Civil Rights heroes clear after 53
01-30-2015
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Rawstory
Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 20 years in jail for shooting a wall and harming nobody. She was attempting to scare off her abusive then-husband, Rico Gray, who had admitted to and against whom she had a restraining order.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A Non-Custodial Grope
01-30-2015
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Simple Justice
An grand jury indicted 35-year-old Kramer Aoki ona third-degree sexual assault charge, a class C felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison. On Sept. 6, Aoki, as a cop, knowingly subjected to sexual contact a person in custody.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Bratton on plans for 'new patrol model'
01-30-2015
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Capitol New York
New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton unveiled a sweeping new plan to redeploy officers in order to boost police-community relations.....350 officers will be permanently assigned to rove throughout the city, with rifles and machine guns, in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Silk Road trial: How the Dread Pirate Roberts embraced violence
01-30-2015
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ars technica
Dread Pirate Roberts didn't show any interest in giving into that demand. "I need his real world identity, so I can threaten him with violence," DPR told RealLucyDrop.
"I don't know how I feel about that solution," said RealLucyDrop. In a later me
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Report: Middle Schoolers Arrested After 'Sex Party' Recorded on Phones
01-30-2015
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Breitbart
Four middle school students in Wisconsin have been arrested and are facing sexual assault charges after a report that they recorded their "sex party" on their phones.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
State Takes Over Arkansas School District That Had To Make Teachers Wear Underwear
01-30-2015
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The Daily Caller
In August 2013, the district announced a dress code that would require teachers to wear underwear. Every single day. Female teachers would have to wear bras, too. And the very worst of all: No spandex.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Texas schoolchildren ordered to drop pants for poop inspection
01-30-2015
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Rawstory
School officials in central Texas rounded up about two-dozen elementary students Monday and ordered them to pull down their pants for a poop inspection.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Deputy education minister to plead guilty to child porn charges, lawyer says
01-30-2015
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National Post
He was charged with making and distributing child pornography, counseling another to commit an indictable offense and agreeing to or arranging for a sexual offense against a child. He has been free on bail since July 2013.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Microsoft to Invest in Android Startup Cyanogen, Says Report
01-30-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Davey Alba
If you hadn't noticed: Microsoft is an open source company.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors Trace $13.4M in Bitcoins From the Silk Road to Ulbricht's Laptop
01-30-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg
If anyone still believes that bitcoin is magically anonymous internet money, the US government just offered what may be the clearest demonstration yet that it's not.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
A Nissan Juke on Tank Treads Is as Glorious and Ridiculous as You'd Imagine
01-30-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Jordan Golson
I love the cute and capable Nissan Juke.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The Smartest, Richest Companies Can't Crack Mobile. The Future Belongs to Anyone Who Can
01-30-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen
The world's smartest and richest tech companies posted their quarterly earnings this week, and if you had to draw one lesson from the results, it's this: mobile matters--more than anything.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Get Ready For The Next Generation Fighter Jet
01-30-2015
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
The Pentagon imagines a post-F35 future
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghans live in peril among unexploded Nato bombs that litter countryside
01-30-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com, Sune Engel Rasmussen
Ordnance left by parting international troops kills or injures about 40 people a month â€" the vast majority children
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
New Saudi king announces major government shake-up
01-30-2015
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com,
Saudi Arabia's new King Salman has announced a cabinet reshuffle, as well as bonuses for civil servants, students and pensioners.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Wants Sequestration to End, Plans Massive Spending Hikes
01-30-2015
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Record Military Budget Just the Beginning
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Soldier Kills Three US Contractors at Kabul Airport
01-30-2015
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Three US military contractors were killed today in a shooting at the Kabul Airport, when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them. The soldier was also killed in the incident.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Some are red. Some are blue. All are green.
01-30-2015
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http://allaregreen.us
A free browser extension for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox that exposes the role money plays in Congress and highlights key election races.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conferences
Jeff Berwick on with James Corbett Talking Anarchapulco
01-30-2015
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The Corbett Report
This week we were on the Corbett Report with James Corbett talking about Anarchapulco and the Change Media University workshop that will happen there along with Luke Rudkowski and Dan Dicks.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Silk Road trial: Prosecutors compare Ulbricht's e-mail with DPR's online life
01-28-2015
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ars technica
Prosecutors weren't able to show any direct mentions of Silk Road on Ulbricht's Gmail or Facebook. Instead, they associated e-mails from Ulbricht's personal life and receipts for travel and electronics with the data found on his laptop,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man Honks Horn at Cops Blocking Driveway, So They Brutally Beat Him
01-28-2015
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The Free Thought Proiject
Rialto police are seen repeatedly tasering a man on the ground, and viciously beating him with an asp, as the woman filming the attack pleads with them to stop. The man does not appear to be violent or threatening in any way as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Grandmother's Skull Fractured by Cop, Cop Claims She Caused It Herself by "Disobeying"
01-28-2015
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Filming Cops
A 56-old-woman was left with a fractured skull after a police officer got into an argument with her over a lottery ticket, according to reports. Martha Winkler states that the officer used excessive violence against her
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Aircraft Carrier Stennis Has Biggest Ordnance Onload Since 2010
01-28-2015
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Infowars
We were surprised to read on the Navy's prize aircraft carrier, John C. Stennis just underwent not only its first ordnance onload since 2010, but, "the biggest ordnance onload we've seen."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
The Man Who Set Up His Own Toll Road, Without Permission
01-28-2015
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youtube
Welcome to the Kelston Toll Road: Fed up with a 14-mile diversion caused by a landslip, businessman Mike Watts has taken a £300,000 risk and set up his own private toll road. It costs £2 for cars to travel the 400 metres -- which is slightly less t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Dash Cam Video Shows Cop Falsified Charge Against Elderly Man Walking
01-28-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Seattle police officer Cynthia Whitlatch was cruising in her patrol car when she came across an elderly man standing on the corner using a golf club as a cane, prompting her to stop her car and order him to place the club down,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
No, Department of Justice, 80 Percent of Tor Traffic Is Not Child Porn
01-28-2015
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Wired.com
The debate over online anonymity, and all the whistleblowers, trolls, anarchists, journalists and political dissidents it enables, is messy enough. It doesn't need the US government making up bogus statistics about how much that anonymity facilitat
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The FTC Wants All Your Internet-Connected Things To be Secure
01-28-2015
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popsci.com
Data should be protected and not used in ways consumers don't want
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Watch A Drone Bombard Volunteers With Roman Candles
01-28-2015
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popsci.com
Fireworks away!
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
The Troops Are Destroying Our Country
01-28-2015
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fff.org
The mindset that is common to U.S. troops serving overseas is that they are all doing it for America, for us, for our rights and freedoms, for our safety and security. They'll all tell you that they are doing it because they love their country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
What Do They Know? Why Are So Many Of The Super Wealthy Preparing Bug Out Locations?
01-28-2015
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Prison Planet
A lot of ultra-rich people are quietly preparing to "bug out" when the time comes. They are buying survival properties, they are buying farms in far away countries and they are buying deep underground bunkers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Judge Orders NYPD To Release Mobile Naked Body Scanner Documents
01-28-2015
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thelibertybeat.com
After a three year court battle, New York State Supreme Court Judge Doris Ling-Cohan has ordered the New York City Police Department to release records on a secretive program that uses unmarked vans equipped with back scatter "naked body" X-ray m
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul: The Fed is Destroying the US - Beware the Two Percent!
01-28-2015
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Daily Paul.com
This video was just released by The Ron Paul Institute today (1/28/15). Ron Paul's history lesson on the Federal Reserve, including the Fed's absurd mandate to ensure a two percent inflation rate. The Fed is the primary driver of the warfare/welfare
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Bureaucrats Have Been Corrupt Since the Start
01-28-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Martin Armstrong
The greatest problem with government is how it consumes capital until it kills the private sector.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
01-28-2015
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digitaljournal.com
Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a "propagandist," an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
500 US Blackwater Mercenaries in Ukraine?
01-28-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com,
US Special Forces in Ukraine?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Mayor Calls 911 To Report A Robbery, Police Show Up, Beat and Arrest Her
01-28-2015
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Daily Paul.com
Kinloch, Missouri â€" Theda Wilson, the former mayor of a Missouri town says that she was assaulted by police after she called 911 to report a burglary in her apartment complex.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Greek Payback Math at 0% Interest
01-28-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com,
Greece has something like €315 billion of public debt.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
SURPRISE! Boehner-McConnell retreat in Obama amnesty fight, panics conservatives
01-28-2015
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Daily Paul.com
Conservatives saw it as raising a white flag when Republican congressional leaders pledged not to withhold funding for the Department of Homeland Security in the fight over President Obama's deportation amnesty,.....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Exclusive Interview: Gray State Co-Creator Speaks About David Crowley's Sudden Death..
01-28-2015
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Daily Paul.com
We ask that if anyone has any questions about what happened to David and his family, rather than speculating, that you point them to this interview.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Imagine an Occupied America
01-28-2015
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Daily Paul.com
Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
QE Is Not A Solution: "It's A Marker Of All That Is Wrong"
01-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
There may be something to December after all. It was credit markets that shifted downward (bearish yield curves and credit spreads) dramatically around the end of November and the first few days of December.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The American Sniper Was No Hero
01-28-2015
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http://fff.org,by Sheldon Richman
Despite what some people think, hero is not a synonym for competent government-hired killer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
DEA chief: US abandoned plan to track cars near gun shows
01-28-2015
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Associated Press
The Drug Enforcement Administration abandoned an internal proposal to use surveillance cameras for photographing vehicle license plates near gun shows in the United States to investigate gun-trafficking, the agency's chief said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Paul Craig Roberts: Russia In The Cross Hairs
01-28-2015
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informationclearinghouse.info
According to the debt clocks available online, the Russian national debt as a percentage of Russian GDP is 11 percent. The American national debt as a percentage of US GDP is 105 percent, about ten times higher.
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