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Date Sent: 2012-07-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
Obama addresses gun control since Aurora shootings -- US ran chemical experiments on military vets
07-26-12 -- Joseph Newman - Richard Grove, Tarrin Lupo - (Video Loaded)
-- Romney on NBC: Changing gun laws won't 'make all bad things go away' -- Clarifying Drought History of Pacific Northwest East of Cascades -- San Francisco Legislation to Jump Start Urban Farming -- Bar Stool Economics: A Simple Guide to the American System of Taxation and Distribution -- Citi Ups The Odds Of A Greek Exit From The Euro To 90% -- Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria bus attack -- Jeb Bush told Romney to pick Rubio -- Freedom is slavery, popular support is authoritarianism The Mainstream Media's double-speak -- US Gun Laws: Guilty by Reason of Insanity -- A Short History of Muppet Activism: Gay Marriage, Anti-Bullying and More -- Progressives Try to Purge Libertarians from Occupy New Hampshire -- Mitt Romney, Anglo-Saxon -- Is Obama’s team scraping the bottom of the barrel? -- Time for soul-searching in Anaheim -- Wife of disgraced Chinese politician 'to be charged' with murdering British businessman -- London police evacuate mall outside Olympic Park -- Scott Horton Radio Show -- Olympics: North Korean official angered by flag blunder -- Anti-Vaccine Movement Causes The Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic In 70 Years -- Russian MPs suggest allowing public use of firearms shortly after Colorado shootings -- Lawless Domestic Spying - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama addresses gun control for first time since Aurora shootings
07-26-2012
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NBC's Ali Weinberg via msn.com
Speaking to the National Urban League convention Wednesday night, President Barack Obama spoke at length about gun violence for the first time since the deadly shooting in Aurora, Colo.
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News Link • Military
US government ran chemical experiments on military veterans
07-26-2012
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J. D. Heyes Prison Planet.com
The United States, for its warts, has achieved much in its short 230-plus year history. It is a benevolent world superpower, for the most part, that serves as a beacon of hope and freedom for an increasingly oppressed world.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Romney on NBC: Changing gun laws won't 'make all bad things go away'
07-26-2012
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Garrett Haake, NBC News via msn.com
Mitt Romney said Wednesday that more restrictive gun laws would likely not have prevented last week's deadly mass shooting at a Colorado Cineplex, and argued that it would take Americans changing their hearts to prevent similar future attacks
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News Link • Climate Change
Clarifying Drought History of Pacific Northwest East of Cascades
07-26-2012
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arclein
However, tree rings are more accurate at recording this information during the spring and summer months, when the tree is growing and not lying dormant. To determine the validity of the tree-ring data, the researchers decided to undertake a study of
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News Link • Agriculture
San Francisco Legislation to Jump Start Urban Farming
07-26-2012
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arclein
City supervisors approved legislation Tuesday that will help grassroots farming groups replace barren concrete and forests of weeds on vacant land and rooftops with veggie gardens, chicken coops, and honeybee hives. And the move cements San Francisco
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Bar Stool Economics: A Simple Guide to the American System of Taxation and Distribution
07-26-2012
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Mac Slavo Prison Planet
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for a beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Citi Ups The Odds Of A Greek Exit From The Euro To 90%
07-26-2012
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Sam Ro Business Insider
Citi’s Chief Economist Willem Buiter just ramped up his odds of a Greek exit from the euro.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria bus attack
07-26-2012
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Reuters
Iran’s UN envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed.
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News Link • General Opinion
Freedom is slavery, popular support is authoritarianism
The Mainstream Media's double-speak
07-26-2012
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by Lizzie Phelan globalresearch.ca
A recent article by The Washington Post by Juan Forero entitled Latin America’s new authoritarians is just the latest example of how the imperialist’s media machine is relentlessly engaged in media warfare against sovereign nations in the South.
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News Link • Gun Rights
US Gun Laws: Guilty by Reason of Insanity
07-26-2012
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by Amy Goodman TruthDig.com
James Holmes, the alleged shooter in the massacre in Aurora, Colo., reportedly amassed his huge arsenal with relative ease. Some of these weapons were illegal as recently as eight years ago.
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News Link • Activism
A Short History of Muppet Activism: Gay Marriage, Anti-Bullying and More
07-26-2012
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Kevin Fallon
After the CEO of Chick-fil-A took a stance against gay marriage, the Jim Henson Company cut ties with the fast-food chain. But it was hardly the first time the Muppets have gone activist.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Progressives Try to Purge Libertarians from Occupy New Hampshire
07-26-2012
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reason.com
As Free Staters and Occupy NH clash, the Occupy segment has taken an ironic stance to purge libertarians from their group. By declaring Occupy NH a corporation, they are trying to prevent gun owners from participating.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Mitt Romney, Anglo-Saxon
07-26-2012
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by David Frum The Daily Beast
Jim Geraghty sums up the "Anglo-Saxon" controversy best. Not only do Romney's most important foreign-policy advisers come from a huge range of backgrounds, many distinctly non-WASP, but …
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Is Obama’s team scraping the bottom of the barrel?
07-26-2012
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By Jennifer Rubin Washington Post
Consider the following sequence of events: Mitt Romney announces a trip overseas that includes Israel, where the president has declined to go.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Time for soul-searching in Anaheim
07-26-2012
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Editorial latimes.com
The fatal police shooting of an unarmed, fleeing suspect has roiled the city's Latino population. Officials need to look closely at the root causes of the anger.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Big Eureka: Lightning and Thunder Tamed! Production Ready!
07-26-2012
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www.youtube.com
This video contains affidavits supporting Mr. Newman's theories and technology by Dr. Alvin Swimmer, PhD and William Craig a retired engineer who worked 35 years for a large public utility company.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
Piranha Tank: Financial Crime Rules the World
07-26-12
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Silver Underground
Financial markets have exploded with financial crime since 2009 as an unintended consequence of the moral hazard engendered by the “too big to fail” doctrine of Western governments and monetary authorities. Since “too big to fail” became the norm, t
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News Link • World News
Wife of disgraced Chinese politician 'to be charged' with murdering British businessman
07-26-2012
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By Sam Adams Daily Mail
Chinese prosecutors are charging the wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai and a family aide with the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood
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News Link • World News
London police evacuate mall outside Olympic Park
07-26-2012
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Associated Press
Police say a fire alarm forced authorities to briefly clear the sprawling mall beside the Olympic Park.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
OS:Tesla Switch - Geovoltaic Energy Pump (GVEP)
07-26-2012
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Pure Energy Systems Wiki
This is an open source project to prove, replicate, characterize, optimize, and advance this possible overunity primary energy generation system.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Media: Radio
Scott Horton Radio Show
07-26-2012
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ScottHortonShow.Com
I’ll still be doing the radio show for the Liberty Radio Network Monday-Friday from 12-3 eastern time, KPFK Friday nights in L.A. and KUCR in Riverside on Sundays. All the archives will still run at ScottHortonShow.com until the new site is up and ru
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News Link • World News
WRAPUP 1-Olympics-North Korean official angered by flag blunder
07-26-2012
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Reuters By John Mehaffey
North Korea's Olympic representative Um Chang expressed outrage on Thursday at a diplomatic blunder which resulted in his country's women's soccer team leaving the field after the South Korea flag had been displayed by mistake.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Anti-Vaccine Movement Causes The Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic In 70 Years
07-26-2012
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Forbes Magazine
The great northwest is a high tech region known for its natural beauty with a highly educated public - not exactly the kind of place one would expect to fall for the anti-science rhetoric of the anti-vaccine movement. But it has.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Congressman Ron Paul’s Floor Speech on Audit the Fed July 24, 2012
07-26-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Video of Congressman Ron Paul’s Floor Speech on Audit the Fed July 24, 2012
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News Link • Gun Rights
Russian MPs suggest allowing public use of firearms shortly after Colorado shootings
07-26-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Following the shooting spree in a Colorado cinema, Russian legislators have drafted a bill which would allow public use of firearms. The law’s sponsors hope to curb crime rates, while opponents say legal air-guns already cause enough damage.
The
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News Link • Energy
The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman
07-25-2012
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http://www.josephnewman.com/
Nikola Tesla - "The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is,
will chronicle an event probably greater than any other
recorded in the human race."
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Opinion • Whistleblowers
Ray McGovern: My Take
Harassing the Whistleblowers
07-25-2012
Ray McGovern
Controversy generated by recent reporting by Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane of the New York Times about Food and Drug Administration spying on its doctors and scientists focuses on the blatant invasions of privacy, with Sen. Charles Grassley, R- Iowa
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Will Downing St. Memo Recur on Iran?
07-25-2012
Ray McGovern
Recent remarks by Sir John Sawers, who heads Britain’s MI6 (the Secret Intelligence Service that is Britain’s CIA counterpart), leave us wondering if Sawers is preparing to “fix” intelligence on Iran, as his immediate predecessor, Sir John Scarlett,
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Opinion • Corruption
“The Fear Of God Is Not In This Place”
07-25-2012
Chuck Baldwin
What in the world has happened to America? How has it come to this? The America that we currently see is unrecognizable from the America many of us grew up in. The America that many oppressed people risked their lives to escape to now more resembles
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News Link • Police State
N.J. Terrorist Hideout Actually NYPD Operation Outside Their Jurisdiction
07/25/2012
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AP
On June 2, 2009, an apartment superintendent in New Brunswick, N.J., stumbled upon what he thought was a terrorist hideout and called 911. It was really an NYPD operation to conduct surveillance well outside its jurisdiction. (July 25)
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News Link • Gun Rights
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: Police Officers Should Go On Strike If There Are No Gun Reforms
07-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been renewing his push for more restrictive measures on gun ownership in the wake of the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting last Friday, and last night he questioned why police officers wouldn't go on s
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News Link • Economy - International
The Moment When Everyone Realizes The Money Isn't There In Europe
07-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, James Kunstler
Europe is giving new meaning to the term "bootstrapping," the age-old (virtuous) idea of picking oneself up off the floor after some blow or reversal of fortune has laid you low.
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News Link • European Union
The Sovereign Default Dominos Are Falling In Europe
07-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, David Kotok
Europe appears to be dismembering. We see Spanish yields breaking well above 7%. The Spanish government bond market is essentially closed to private investors.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Micro Drones on the Hunt
07-25-2012
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arclein
icro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) with uncanny navigation and real-time mapping capabilities could soon be zipping through indoor and outdoor spaces, running reconnaissance missions that others cannot. They would allow soldiers to look over hills, inside b
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News Link • Books
Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude MP3 CD
07-25-2012
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Mises.Org
States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant"when consent is withdrawn. This is the thesis of this thrilling book. Murray Rothbard writes a classic introduction to one of the great political essays in the history of i
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News Link • Obama Administration
Megaupload boss raps Obama in musical protest
07-25-2012
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http://www.myfoxdc.com, By AFP
Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom has launched an online song attacking US President Barack Obama and urging supporters not to vote for the US leader, who he accuses of trampling on Internet freedom.
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News Link • Gun Rights
How to legally bring a gun to the Republican National Convention
07-25-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Megan Carpentier
The tragic deaths of 12 people last week in Aurora, Colorado as part of a mass shooting that injured another 59 reignited the national debate about gun control....
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News Link • Whistleblowers
NSA whistle blowers allege data being collected on every American
07-25-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
Three National Security Agency whistle blowers told Viewpoint host Eliot Spitzer on Monday that the agency was gathering information on every person in the United States.
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News Link • Death
Dark Knight Shooting: Earmarks of a Sophisticated Black Ops
07-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex covers new details emerge in the Aurora shooting.
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News Link • Corruption
“Mr Libor” Leaves The British Bankers’ Association, Goes To Reuters
07-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
There was a time when regulators caught red-handed abusing their privileges, aka, doing nothing in the face of glaring malfeasance
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News Link • Military
Marine Corps Law Enforcement Battalions To “Control Civil Disturbances”
07-25-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
Troops to “assist local authorities” in criminal investigations
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Axel Merk on Inflation, Currencies and the Likelihood of a Greater Depression
07-25-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, with Anthony Wile
Tell us about Merk Funds. How much does it manage and in what capacities?
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News Link • Obama Administration
Audacious Stroke of Political Genius? Why Obama May Have Released Obviously Faked Docs ...
07-25-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Sheriff Arpaio throws his credibility out the birther window ...
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Security and Self-Governance
07-25-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Ron Paul
The senseless and horrific killings last week at a movie theater in Colorado reminded Americans that life is fragile and beautiful
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
U.S. News: "Ron Paul Still Not Endorsing Mitt Romney, Refusing to Withdraw From Race"
07-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, P.Au.L
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says he still hasn't made up his mind whether to endorse presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Another Colorado Mass Killing Prevented in April by Man with a Gun
07-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalvini
On April 22nd of this year, members of the New Destiny Church were heading toward a massacre.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Virtually Every Major News Organization Allows The News To Be Censored By Government Officials
07-25-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, emalvini
In one of the most shocking articles that the New York Times has ever put out, a New York Times reporter has openly admitted that virtually every major mainstream news organization allows government bureaucrats and campaign officials to censor their
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News Link • Housing
The Bug Out Trailer
07-25-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Allen A.
If things go bad do you bug in or do you bug out.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
LIBOR EXPERT: The Fed Has Destroyed LIBOR
07-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
Intentional distortions of one of the world's most important financial benchmarks has sparked a worldwide scandal.
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