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Date Sent: 2015-05-04
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, May 4, 2015 |
Pilots brace for 5-day solar-powered flight from China to Hawaii
Pilots brace for 5-day solar-powered flight from China to Hawaii -- USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty -- The Secret Mountain Our Spies Will Hide In When Washington Is Destroyed -- American Cops are Upgraded Slave Patrols -- Neil Young Announces New Album 'The Monsanto Years' Criticizing The Food Industry Giant -- Italian Army Is Growing Country's First Marijuana Crop -- US Government Lowers Fluoride Levels Without Recognizing That It Is Harmful -- Party for Richard Grove - Lisa Arbercheski Tragedy & Hope Fri May 8th 6 pm til ? @ Hancock's -- 9 Reasons Every Child Should Help Grow A Garden -- The Absolute Best Essential Oils To Stockpile For Emergencies -- Video Proves (AGAIN) That Denver Police Overreacted; -- Cop Post to Craigslist: "You DO NOT Know Your RIGHTS" -- We Learned Nothing From Vietnam..and Forget Everything -- BTC Exchange itBit Files for Banking License in New York -- Production Versus Plunder' ~ Part 5 -- A Massive Underwater Volcano Is Likely Erupting Off the Oregon Coast -- Opt Out Movement Grows in SC: Students Disciplined For Refusing Test -- Ghost Gunner: Leveling the Playing Field (Ghost Gunner Raffle) -- Arizona Cannabis Debate 2015 -- New York state police handcuff and shackle 'combative' five-year-old -- Bail for youth who broke cop-car window way higher than cop charged with murder -- Police shoot dead two gunmen at Texas exhibit of Prophet Mohammad cartoons -- Watch the New Crowdfunded Permaculture Documentary "Inhabit" -- Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception -- DESCARTES'S DEMON -- US-Dominated NATO Readying for War on Russia? -- Is Solar Energy Ready To Compete With Oil And Other Fossil Fuels? -- British comedian, activist Russell Brand backs Labour Party -- Why It's So Hard (and So Important) to Track the Trash We Leave in Space -- How Real Is Reality? It's Rather Hard to Tell --
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News Link • Energy
Pilots brace for 5-day solar-powered flight from China to Hawaii
05-04-2015
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
NANJING, China -- It takes a Boeing 747 about 10 hours and 36,000 gallons of fuel to fly from eastern China to Hawaii.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty
05-04-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Government
The Secret Mountain Our Spies Will Hide In When Washington Is Destroyed
05-03-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
America's Preparathon, yesterday's national pep rally--brought to you by the Department of Homeland Security--tipped me off to this real underground bunker north of Charlottesville, Virginia.s since 9/11 at a cost of tens of millions of dollars
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
American Cops are Upgraded Slave Patrols
05-04-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
It might sound like complete nonsense until you do a little bit of historical research. People often assume that community policing has always been around, that without police society itself would crumble. Few realize that the model of policing that
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Neil Young Announces New Album 'The Monsanto Years' Criticizing The Food Industry Giant
05-04-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Legendary music icon Neil Young might be best known for his tracks 'Harvest of Gold' and 'Rockin In The Free World,' but he is soon to gain even more attention from his latest record set for release.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Italian Army Is Growing Country's First Marijuana Crop
05-04-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Italy's military is strangely responsible for growing the country's first medical marijuana crop. Colonel Antonio Medica, the director of the facility where the marijuana is being grown, told Italian daily Corriere della Sera that the crop is "
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
US Government Lowers Fluoride Levels Without Recognizing That It Is Harmful
05-04-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Despite insisting that the prior level of fluoridation in America was totally safe, the country's government has lowered the levels of fluoride in the water supply for the first time in 50 years.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Agriculture
9 Reasons Every Child Should Help Grow A Garden
05-04-2015
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http://www.offthegridnews.com
Gardening is fun and it's all the more so if you involve your kids.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
The Absolute Best Essential Oils To Stockpile For Emergencies
05-04-2015
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http://www.offthegridnews.com
Stockpiling food and fuel may not be enough to stay healthy during disasters, natural or man-made.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Video Proves (AGAIN) That Denver Police Overreacted;
05-04-2015
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http://www.copblock.org
Eleven Arrested and Hundreds Terrorized at Peaceful Protest. On Wednesday eleven people were arrested while protesting in solidarity with folks in Baltimore over police abuse, sparked by the death of Freddie Gray
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Cop Post to Craigslist: "You DO NOT Know Your RIGHTS"
05-04-2015
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http://www.copblock.org
So check it out… I hope you all read this, and teach your kids this, and maybe even spread the word to everyone you know.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • WAR: About that War
We Learned Nothing From Vietnam..and Forget Everything
05-04-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
I was 24 years old, just out of graduate school in New York City. Cambridge University had accepted me to do a doctorate in history.
But no. In a burst of youthful patriotism, I concluded it was every citizen's duty to join the armed forces
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
BTC Exchange itBit Files for Banking License in New York
05-04-2015
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forexminute.com
The State Banking Authority of New York says that Bitcoin exchange itBit has filed for a banking license; however, approval for the license may come in the next couple of weeks.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Production Versus Plunder' ~ Part 5
05-04-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
Surveillance is nothing new. In fact, it goes back some seven thousand years. Then, as now, it quietly destroyed productive modes of life.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Natural Disasters
A Massive Underwater Volcano Is Likely Erupting Off the Oregon Coast
05-03-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
This past week has seen the steady rumble of thousands of tiny earthquakes radiating from off the coast of Oregon. Coupled with a sudden 8 foot drop in the seafloor--indicative of magma being withdrawn from reservoirs deep underneath the seabed
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Opt Out Movement Grows in SC: Students Disciplined For Refusing Test
05-03-2015
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http://benswann.com
A school district in South Carolina disciplined at least 12 students who, at their parents' requests, refused to take new standardized ACT tests.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Cannabis Debate 2015
05-04-2015
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attorneyforfreedom.net
12 News' Brahm Resnik moderated an hourlong debate Wednesday night on legalizing marijuana. This is unedited video of the debate at ASU's downtown campus. (4/29/2015) KPNX
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
New York state police handcuff and shackle 'combative' five-year-old
05-04-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
The idea that police officers should use handcuffs and leg shackles to control an unruly individual is hardly unusual in the US, where fondness for the use of metal restraints runs through the criminal justice system.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Bail for youth who broke cop-car window way higher than cop charged with murder
05-04-2015
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City Paper
Allen Bullock, the young man who helped smash the windows out of a police car last Saturday, is being held on $500,000 bail for one count of riot,.... Bullock, who is 18 years old, turned himself into police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Police shoot dead two gunmen at Texas exhibit of Prophet Mohammad cartoons
05-04-2015
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Reuters
Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire on Sunday outside an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that was organized by a group described as anti-Islamic and billed as a free-speech event.
Citing a senior FBI official, ABC News
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Watch the New Crowdfunded Permaculture Documentary "Inhabit"
05-04-2015
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growyourowngroceries.org
"All we need to live a good life surrounds us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds, and plants. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos."
â€" Bill Mollison, Co-Founder of Perma
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception
05-04-2015
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youtube
At age 18, Barack Obama admittedly arrived at Occidental College a committed revolutionary Marxist. What was the source of Obama's foundation in Marxism?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
DESCARTES'S DEMON
05-04-2015
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freemansperspective.com
"To every thing there is a season," wrote Solomon in Ecclesiastes; and
that includes warnings.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics
British comedian, activist Russell Brand backs Labour Party
05-04-2015
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http://hosted.ap.org
LONDON (AP) -- British comedian-turned-political activist Russell Brand has changed his mind and is no longer urging people not to vote in Thursday's general election - now he wants them to vote for Labour.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Why It's So Hard (and So Important) to Track the Trash We Leave in Space
05-04-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
Just take a moment to consider: we could be trapped on Earth by our trash in space.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
How Real Is Reality? It's Rather Hard to Tell
05-04-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
I'd like to think that in the old man bars of SimCity the old timers chatter about just how time flies.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Price Advances Above Chart Resistance
05-04-2015
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https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com
Bitcoin price has been rearing to go all weekend. Conflicting technical signals had both advance and decline as likely outcomes of the price consolidation on Saturday. By Sunday morning (UTC) the buy signals were unmistakable.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Crypto Poker Tokens Prove a Big Hit For This Entrepreneur
05-04-2015
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https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com
Ken McGrail, a software engineer for a Seattle, Wash. area enterprise software company, has turned a hobby making crypto-logoed poker chips into a business.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
London Photographer Embarks on Bitcoin-Only Challenge
05-04-2015
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http://www.coindesk.com
London photographer Abby Scarlet has embarked on a six month challenge during which she will only accept work from clients willing to pay her in bitcoin.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Why Everything You've Heard About Cancer Is Wrong (And Right)
05-04-2015
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http://www.offthegridnews.com
A study looking at 31 types of cancer has found that the majority of those cancers about two-thirds are due to little more than bad luck.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung and Samsonite team up to create satellite-tracked suitcases
05-04-2015
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http://www.theverge.com
Samsung and Samsonite are reportedly creating a new generation of "smart luggage" that relays its location to owners' smartphones and checks itself in at the airport.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Peak Debt and the Looming Crash
05-04-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
The phrase, "more bang for the buck," is usually associated with the Vietnam War. It is associated with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's focus on statistics: military expenditures vs. enemy deaths.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Environment
Current carbon pledges won't stop dangerous global warming, says Lord Stern
05-04-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Commitments already made by world governments to cut carbon emissions aren't enough to keep global warming below the crucial 2C target but a strong deal is still possible in Paris, says economist .
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Events: America
Two gunmen shot dead at 'draw the prophet Muhammad' contest in Texas
05-04-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Gunmen open fire on security guard outside the contest in Dallas suburb of Garland held to find the best cartoon of the prophet
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • China
How to Say 'Epic Fail' in Chinese
05-04-2015
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arclein
The idiom became a staple of Chinese literary expression. "Military tactics on paper" is a concise, vivid, and often painfully accurate statement to describe epic failures, ancient to present. Here we give some examples from recent history before
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The Politics of Cannabis - What the Marijuana Industry May Be Scared Of
05-03-2015
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http://popularliberty.com
All industries are latent with politics. The agriculture, food, and medicine industries, along with the associated policies and government agencies, are no different.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Michael Nystrom: Kitchen of Soul and Electric Boogie Joint
05-03-2015
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http://popularliberty.com
Michael Nystrom fans know all about his penchant for weirdness--his subject matter often verges on being eccentric and other times outright bizarre--but even long time listeners well acquainted with his conceptual approach to music will find his la
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Chewie, they're home': Vanity Fair cover to feature new Star Wars cast
05-03-2015
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The Guardian
Acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz shot The Force Awakens-themed cover photo for June issue, magazine has announced
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Dr. Ron Paul Coming To TruthInMedia.com
05-03-2015
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http://benswann.com
Ben Swann's Truth In Media Project will soon be offering Ron Paul's Liberty Report video series at TruthInMedia.com. In addition to videos, the Truth In Media Project plans to collaborate with Dr. Paul on a variety of topics and issues.
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