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Date Sent: 2013-01-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, January 16, 2013 AM edition |
Bank of America not authorizing guns or ammo purchases with their cards?!
How a feisty Chinese newspaper stood up
for press freedom -- Record Taxpayer Cost Is Seen for Crop Insurance --
Pittsburgh Police Caught on Video Shooting into Car of Unarmed Suspects
-- Sheriff makes policy changes after man shot 16 times in bed -- Citizen-Based Taxation: Thank War for It - by Wendy McElroy -- Floating home is not vessel,
Supreme Court says -- Private Pilot Nearly Shot Down for Violating
"Secret No-Fly Zone" -- Georgia Man Acquitted of Obstructing Charge for
Recording Cop … but Barely -- House passes $50.5 billion in Sandy aid,
Republicans trim items -- Obama: Money Power's Point Man - by Stephen Lendman -- From Undercover Narco-Creeper to Police
Chief - by William Grigg -- TSA Screener Assaults and Detains Passenger for “Offensive”
Shirt and for Video Recording -- Has Adam Lanza Even Been Alive The Last 3 Years? -- 01-16-13 -- Cody
Wilson (Defense Distributed/3D Printable Gun) LISTEN LIVE LRN.FM,
M-F, 9-Noon EST -- Printable 30-Round AR Magazines Now
Available for Download -- Rand Paul Just Spent Week In Israel, There's A Reason He Nicknamed
His Trip 'THE PLAGUE TOUR -- Wyden asks Obama’s terrorism chief
for rules governing assassination of U.S. citizens -- Coburn: Debt
ceiling breach is ‘a wonderful experiment’ to shut down ‘stupid
things’ -- Savage Attacks: Flu Debunkery Hits the Conservative
Mainstream
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bank of America not authorizing guns or ammo purchases with their cards?!
01-16-2013
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YouTube
Now maybe someone is just playing a prank. But BofA does already have a track record of f**king with gun companies themselves.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Honi Soit Qui 'Mali' Pense
01-16-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
The United States, incapable of allowing a military intervention to pass by without jumping on board, dutifully followed France in the Libya debacle, blowback from which was responsible for the re-igniting of the Touareg rebellion in Mali. France, wi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
How a feisty Chinese newspaper stood up for press freedom
01-16-2013
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Reuters
Journalists at the Beijing News were at home late one night when their mobile phones started ringing. Colleagues in the newsroom were telling them of a showdown between the newspaper's management and propaganda department officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
Record Taxpayer Cost Is Seen for Crop Insurance
01-16-2013
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New York Times
The worst drought in 50 years could leave taxpayers with a record bill of nearly $16 billion in crop insurance costs because of poor yields.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pittsburgh Police Caught on Video Shooting into Car of Unarmed Suspects
01-16-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A group of off-duty cops in a popular nightlife area were keeping up with the chase on their radios, so when the suspects ended up in their area, they ended up shooting several rounds of gunfire into the car " even though there was never
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sheriff makes policy changes after man shot 16 times in bed
01-16-2013
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Relations between the King County Sheriff's Office and the state Department of Corrections have been strained by the shooting of Dustin Theoharis, who last winter was shot multiple times, survived and plans to bring a civil suit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Citizen-Based Taxation: Thank War for It
01-16-2013
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Only 2 nations in the world have citizenship-based taxation: the United States and Eritrea in northeastern Africa. Citizenship-based taxation means payment of taxes is determined by citizenship rather than residency or source of income.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eminent Domain
Floating home is not vessel, Supreme Court says
01-16-2013
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Washington Post
The city of Riviera Beach, Fla., trying to evict Lozman, declared it a “vessel” and used maritime law to win a judgment against the former Marine. The city bought the floating home when it was being auctioned to satisfy the judgment and destroyed it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Private Pilot Nearly Shot Down for Violating "Secret No-Fly Zone"
01-16-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
After Fleming passed over the power plant, he was ordered to land his glider, which he did as soon as prevailing wind currents permitted. Once he was down on the ground, Fleming was swarmed by law enforcement.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Georgia Man Acquitted of Obstructing Charge for Recording Cop … but Barely
01-16-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Georgia man arrested after video recording a traffic stop, was found not guilty of an obstruction charge, but the judge could have easily gone the other way, despite the video evidence that showed he didn’t come close to obstructing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Political
House passes $50.5 billion in Sandy aid, Republicans trim items
01-16-2013
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Reuters
The House approved $17 billion in funds to cover immediate disaster relief and $33.5 billion in longer-term reconstruction funds which drew more opposition from House Republicans who saw it as loaded with unnecessary spending
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
From Undercover Narco-Creeper to Police Chief
01-15-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
As a 23-year-old who “looked about 15,” Kingsbury would change into “school-type clothes” and “hang out at the Maverick across from Nampa High School and attempt to purchase narcotics from kids,” the chief proudly recalls
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Screener Assaults and Detains Passenger for “Offensive” Shirt and for Video Recording
01-15-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Offended by a passenger’s t-shirt that read, “Fuck TSA Security Theater, ” a Transportation Security Administration screener assaulted the passenger who was video recording before detaining him, claiming photography is prohibited
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Has Adam Lanza Even Been Alive The Last 3 Years?
01-15-2013
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http://www.youtube.com
Published on Jan 5, 2013 - There is ZERO online fingerprint of him, there is ZERO video evidence, there is ZERO car insurance, tax information, phone history. There is ZERO proof this guy has even been alive for the last 3 years.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Sorry we missed you! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
10-04-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix/events
It's time to familiarize yourself with this activist tool again... It's about to get a SAFE upgrade www.SAFEgunowners.org
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Breaking: Printable 30-Round AR Magazines Now Available for Download, Seriously
01-15-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Defense Distributed’s goal is to provide a website that anyone in the world could visit to download the files needed to literally print out a working firearm, aptly dubbed a “wiki weapon,” using a 3D printer
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday January 15th 2013
01-15-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Are Guns the Problem? by Walter Williams / Guns Protect Honest, Hard-Working People / Is Earth About To Cool? / Americans No Longer Welcome / Whites and Blacks Together " on Guns
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
01-15-13 -- Phranq Tamburri - Dana Cody - (Video & MP3 Loaded)
Dr. Phranq Tamburri (Naturopathic Physician and r3VOLutionary) in studio to talk about surviving socialized medicine - Dana Cody (Executive Director, Life Legal Defense Foundation) provides a summary on the presentation of socialized medicine and Oba
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Lance Armstrong 'Whistleblower' Suit Could Blow Up The Day His Oprah Interview Airs
01-15-2013
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Business Insider
The New York Times reports today that one person will be watching Lance Armstrong's Thursday interview on Oprah interview very closely: Thomas Weisel, co-owner of the disgraced cyclist's U.S. Postal Service Team.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Kid Sends Brilliantly Blunt Cover Letter For Wall Street Internship
01-15-2013
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Business Insider
Sometimes we get forwarded applications for for summer internships on Wall Street that are extremely embarrassing because the applicant is totally full of themselves or completely clueless.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama Will Announce His New Gun Control Proposals Wednesday
01-15-2013
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Business Insider
Politico's Reid Epstein reports that President Barack Obama will announce Wednesday his new plan to reduce gun violence, including proposals to ban high-capacity magazines, universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Woman Steals Train And Crashes It Into An Apartment Building
01-15-2013
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Business Insider
A cleaner stole an empty commuter train from a train depot and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed into an apartment building.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul Just Spent Week In Israel, There's A Reason He Nicknamed His Trip 'THE PLAGUE TOUR
01-15-2013
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Business Insider
It was hour seven of what was supposed to be a two-hour trip, and things were starting to get a little punchy on board the Rand Paul bus tour through Israel.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
Facebook's Big Announcement
01-15-2013
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Business Insider
We're at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., where the company has invited us to "see what we're building," according to the invitation we got last week.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Wyden asks Obama’s terrorism chief for rules governing assassination of U.S. citizens
01-15-2013
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Raw Story
Before he votes to confirm Obama terrorism czar John Brennan as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has a few rather touchy questions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Coburn: Debt ceiling breach is ‘a wonderful experiment’ to shut down ‘stupid things’
01-15-2013
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Raw Story
Economists like Nobel prize-winner Paul Krugman have warned that Republicans could “blow up the world economy” if they refuse to raise the nation’s debt ceiling but Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) disagrees,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Savage Attacks: Flu Debunkery Hits the Conservative Mainstream
01-15-2013
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The Daily Bell
Michael Savage: Don't trust feds on flu shot ... 'Not everything your government tells you is true' ...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The Deification of Draghi
01-15-2013
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The Daily Bell
Mario Draghi: the closest thing the Eurozone has to a leader? Who leads the Eurozone?
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Robert Lee
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
01-14-13 -- John Bush, Catherine Bleish (MP3 & Video LOADED)
John Bush and Catherine Bleish provide an update on what they will be doing in 2013 and beyond - John's show (Rise Up Radio) is now on LRN.FM; Sovereign Living encourages people to invest in their sovereignty by learning to live self sufficiently...
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News Link • Police State
Camden, NJ Agrees to Pay $3.5M to Victims of Police Corruption
01-14-2013
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The Liberty Crier
ACLU filed suit against police department in 2010 for planting drugs on a Camden resident
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Government Control Not Gun Control by Bill Buppert
01-14-2013
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ZeroGov.Com
Gun owners are second-class citizens in America viewed with severe derision and contempt by the elites in both the halls of political and media power in the US.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
North Korea Enlists German Help to Prepare Economic Opening
01-14-2013
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arclein
According to an article to be published on Saturday by the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the communist regime in Pyongyang is preparing to open up the country's economy to foreign investors. Moreover, it has enlisted the assistance of German
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robert klein
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Tribal Elders to Decide on US Troop Immunity
01-14-2013
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antiwar.com
A failure to secure legal immunity for troops in Iraq led to Obama pulling out completely
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Sovereign Living (SovereignLiving.TV) brought to you by John Bush and Catherine Belish
01-14-2013
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SovereignLiving.TV
Illuminating the Path to Self Sufficiency -
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Syria
Syria war envelops region in "staggering" crisis: aid agency
01-14-2013
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Reuters
Syria's civil war is unleashing a "staggering humanitarian crisis" on the Middle East as hundreds of thousands of refugees flee violence including gang rape, an international aid agency said on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Even Goldman Says China Is Cooking The Books
01-14-2013
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Prison Planet
That China openly manipulates its economic data, especially around key political phase shifts, such as one communist regime taking over for another, is no secret.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Drones Over New York City?
01-14-2013
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Prison Planet
In a world in which the NSA has access to everything, including " soon "
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cuba
Lines at Cuba travel agencies on day 1 of new law
01-14-2013
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Associated Press
Long lines are forming outside travel agencies, migration offices and the U.S. Interests Section in Havana on the first day of a new law easing travel restrictions on Cubans.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
The Five-Step Process to Cheat the Middle Class Worker
01-14-2013
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Common Dreams
It's so artfully done, and so diabolical, that one can picture secret seminars in subterranean Wall Street meeting rooms, guiding young business recruits in the proven process of taking an extra share of wealth from the middle class.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Activists Start Campaign To Destroy Surveillance Cameras
01-14-2013
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govtslaves.info
German activists are attempting to destroy security cameras in anticipation of the European Police Congress in Berlin in February, according to Michael Ebeling, an opponent of public surveillance writing for France 24′s The Observers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
There Will Be No Economic Recovery Prepare Yourself Accordingly
01-14-2013
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govtslaves.info
Everything you need to know that the media is not telling you.
Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio " and winner of the 2012 Liberty Inspiration Award " breaks down the unspoken facts about the end of freedom
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The Real Boss Is
01-14-2013
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govtslaves.info
Barack Obama has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency during his time in the White House, but there is one institution that he simply will not mess with.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
Sandy Hook AR-15 Hoax? Still No School Surveillance Footage Released
01-14-2013
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govtslaves.info
Here at Natural News, we have a reputation for asking intelligent questions about things that don’t add up.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Quietly Launches New FEMA Youth Corps Division With 240 Inductees
01-14-2013
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govtslaves.info
Obama promised that he would create a civilian army in 2008 (see video below) that would eventually be as strong and as aggressive as the United States military.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Eye-Tracking Will Replace Your Computer Mouse
01-14-2013
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govtslaves.info
The world is hurtling towards singularity between man and computer.
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Robert Lee
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