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Date Sent: 2013-03-29
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, March 29, 2013 |
Arizona city mulling free shotguns in crimestopping bid -- Student loan interest rates to double
Welcome to Sulphur Springs, Where the Police Chief is a Murderer - by William Grigg -- Do You Want to Eat Horsemeat? -- AZ District 24 Freedom Caucus -- Jim
Rogers: 'Run for the Hills' Now, I'm Doing It -- One
Man Blocking Arizona Anti-NDAA Bill -- Teenage Railfan Sues Over
Unlawful Arrest (and Other Rail News, Including Metrorail Update) -- Checkmate on your “Military Type” Firearms Ban -- Obama
administration moves ahead with sweeping rules requiring cleaner
gasoline -- Preparing for Inflationary Times -- The Real
Inflation Rate and What to Do About It -- SpaceX's Dragon
Capsule 2.0 Looks Like 'Alien Spaceship,' Elon Musk Says -- US Army vet charged
with fighting with al-Qaida -- How To Take An Entire
Continent Offline -- Jon Stewart Tears Into Obama For Hypocrisy In
Not Fixing Veterans Benefits: 'That Is Criminal' -- Bitcoin Bubble
2.0: “From A Monetary Standpoint... -- 4409: United
States blatantly admits its creating Terrorism -- Why
Western Banks Are Being Destabilized -- What Is the REAL Euro
End Game? -- TIME: Inside the Partnership of Rand Paul and Mitch
McConnell -- Rand Paul Endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate Race,
Won't Back Tea Party Challenge -- When Will Deposit Haircuts
Take Place In Other European Countries? -- Marc Faber: "I Am
Sure Governments Will One Day Take Away 20-30% Of My Wealth" -- Why
the Awlakis Were Killed -- Jim Carrey Backlash on eBay for
His Anti-Gun Video Mysteriously Disappears -- WSJ: Food Stamps Swell
as Economy Improves -- Mercedes Bringing Tesla-Powered EV to
U.S. Next Year -- Doug Stanhope - Liberty -- Video: Syrian
Rebel Jury-Rigs A Remote Controlled Rifle -- End the (Obama
March) Madness!!!! -- Shotgun or Pistol in Your Home: Which Is
Better? -- The Global Elite Are Very Clearly Telling Us That
They Plan To Raid Our Bank Accounts
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student loan interest rates to double July 1
03-28-2013
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AP
"What is definitely clear, [now that we've been re-elected,] there doesn't seem to be as much outcry. We're advising our members to tell students that the interest rates are going to double on new student loans, to 6.8 percent."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Welcome to Sulphur Springs, Where the Police Chief is a Murderer
03-28-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Like many third-world countries, Arkansas is a beautiful place inhabited by lovely people who are burdened with an extravagantly corrupt ruling class. This helps explain how Sulphur Springs, Arkansas has a convicted killer as its police chief.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Do You Want to Eat Horsemeat?
03-28-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Then you should move to Oklahoma. Lawmakers there recently voted to allow horse slaughterhouses. It turns out that horse meat has been illegal since Congress ended Dept. of Agriculture funding for horse slaughterhouse inspections
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
'Run for the Hills' Now, I'm Doing It: Jim Rogers
03-28-2013
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CNBC
"I for one, am making sure I don't have too much money in any one specific bank account anywhere in the world, because now there is a precedent," he said. "The IMF has said 'sure, loot the bank accounts' the EU has said 'loot the bank accounts'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
One Man Blocking Arizona Anti-NDAA Bill
03-28-2013
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The 2012 NDAA allows any person, including American citizens, to be indefinitely detained without charge or trial, sent to a foreign country to be held, and even executed. Not a single law has eradicated more of our Constitution
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Teenage Railfan Sues Over Unlawful Arrest (and Other Rail News, Including Metrorail Update)
03-28-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Gregory Grice was 16-years-old, when he ventured to a New York train station to take some photos in 2011. But that didn’t stop police from arresting him while calling him a terrorist.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Checkmate on your “Military Type” Firearms Ban
03-28-2013
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The Price of Liberty
Progressives at the state and federal level are rushing to enact legislation that would ban firearms they claim are “military type” weapons. If they want to classify these weapons as “military type” firearms, then they have a problem,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Obama administration moves ahead with sweeping rules requiring cleaner gasoline
03-28-2013
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Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency will move ahead with rules requiring cleaner gasoline and cars nationwide, despite fierce protests from the oil industry and some conservative Democrats,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX's Dragon Capsule 2.0 Looks Like 'Alien Spaceship,' Elon Musk Says
03-28-2013
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Space
The next version of the Dragon spacecraft built by SpaceX will look like something truly out of this world, according to Elon Musk. Musk detailed some of the high points of the firm's much-anticipated Dragon Version 2
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Here Are The Craziest Ways Automakers Tried To Get Our Attention At The New York Auto Show
03-28-2013
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Business Insider
The press preview days at the 2013 New York International Auto Show are over, and we were there to see the debuts of dozens of new cars.
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News Link • Syria
US Army vet charged with fighting with al-Qaida
03-28-2013
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AP
[Should have been working for the CIA.] A U.S. Army veteran, who boasted on Facebook of his military adventures with Syrian rebels, was charged with firing rocket propelled grenades as part of an attack led by an al-Qaida group against
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Bubble 2.0: “From A Monetary Standpoint...
03-28-2013
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http://bullmarketthinking.com
..."It’s On Par With The Stuff You Find At Chuck E. Cheese’s”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple Imagines An iPhone That's All Glass And All Screen, All The Way Around
03-28-2013
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Business Insider
Apple just published a patent that imagines what an iPhone would look like if the whole phone body were a wrapound screen.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Guys Who Do Housework Get Less Sex
03-28-2013
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www.slate.com
Couples in which men participate more in housework typically done by women report having sex less frequently. Couples in which men participate more in traditionally masculine tasks"such as yard work and auto maintenance"report higher sexual frequency
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul Endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate Race, Won't Back Tea Party Challenge
03-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The Daily Caller has learned that Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is endorsing Sen. Mitch McConnell for re-election in 2014, ending speculation that Paul would back a tea party challenge to the Senate minority leader.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - International
When Will Deposit Haircuts Take Place In Other European Countries?
03-28-2013
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zerohedge.com
When all is said and done, what happened in Cyprus over the past two weeks, is nothing but the culmination of re-marking the "assets" in the country's financial system ....
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Marc Faber: "I Am Sure Governments Will One Day Take Away 20-30% Of My Wealth"
03-28-2013
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zerohedge.com
We cautioned readers in 2011 that in a broke world in which the ridiculously named "muddle-through" has miserably failed, a global wealth tax seeking to expropriate some 30% of all financial assets is coming.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Why the Awlakis Were Killed
03-28-2013
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fff.org
While President Obama, the Pentagon, and the CIA have steadfastly refused to say why they assassinated American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, one thing remains beyond dispute:
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
The War on Jay Leno
03-28-2013
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www.hollywoodreporter.com, by Matthew Belloni
A Soho House summit, secret e-mails, brutal economics: the inside story of how TV's No. 1 late-night host ended up on the way out at NBC.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Art
Watch A Ferrofluid Sculpture Move To The Rhythm
03-28-2013
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popsci.com
And get your own, via Kickstarter.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Jim Carrey Backlash on eBay for His Anti-Gun Video Mysteriously Disappears
03-28-2013
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com, by Paul Bond
UPDATED: An eBay user who was selling an autographed photo of the actor and promising to buy a gun with the money sparked a mini-trend, though the auction site appears to have put an end to the movement.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WSJ: Food Stamps Swell as Economy Improves
03-28-2013
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http://www.weeklystandard.com, By DANIEL HALPER
In an article titled, "Use of Food Stamps Swells Even as Economy Improves," the Wall Street Journal reports that "The financial crisis is over and the recession ended in 2009.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Mercedes Bringing Tesla-Powered EV to U.S. Next Year
03-28-2013
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Wired.com
Mercedes-Benz is finally getting into the attainable electric-vehicle game with the B-Class Electric Drive, a compact Benz with a 115-mile range, a four-hour charge time and a price considerably cheaper than the awesome all-electric gullwing supercar
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Video: Syrian Rebel Jury-Rigs A Remote Controlled Rifle
03-28-2013
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Wired.com
What to do when your sniper skills start and end at video games? If you’re this Syrian rebel, you cobble together a crude laptop, hook it up to a rifle, and try to hunt Bashar Assad’s forces from a safe distance.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
End the (March) Madness!!!!
03-28-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, NextNewsNetwork
While President Obama picks his NCAA brackets - he is also picking targets for his kill list - and the Tree of Liberty withers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Global Elite Are Very Clearly Telling Us That They Plan To Raid Our Bank Accounts
03-28-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Don't be surprised when the global elite confiscate money from your bank account one day.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Silver Circle Movie Tickets available now for the April 11th, 2013 showing at Pollack Tempe Cinemas
03-21-2013
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Silver Circle Movie
Why are gas prices are so high? Why is it getting harder to put food on the table? Some seek answers from government, but those who control the money control everything. Silver Circle is the story of our world after the worst economic collapse in US
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Stimulus Trap
03-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
For years we have been warned by Keynesian economists to fear the so-called "liquidity trap," an economic cul-de-sac that can suck down an economy like a tar pit swallowing a mastodon.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Are You a Good Candidate for Expatriation?
03-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Over the last few years, I’ve helped dozens of U.S. citizens and permanent residents (“green card” holders) give up their U.S. nationality or residence status. This is called Expatriation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
This Is How A Country Ends: Not With A Bang, But A Bailout
03-27-2013
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zerohedge.com
Curious how in the New Normal a nation is brought to its untimely end without a single shot being fired?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Chastened but defiant, Brooklyn prosecutor seeks seventh term
03-27-2013
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Reuters
The Ranta case may weigh on Hynes, 77, as he prepares to seek a seventh term in office. Hynes suddenly appears vulnerable to younger challengers after a series of wrongful convictions by his office were overturned.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
FBI attempts to explain UFO memo in vault
03-27-2013
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The Sideshow
"An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico," Hottel writes. "They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
BREAKING Huge DHS Military Equipment Movement on Train in AZ March 201.3
03-27-2013
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www.youtube.com
Look what we found out in the middle of the desert between Hackberry and Peach Springs, AZ - Remember those Civilian Assault Vehicles FEMA ordered to keep order among American Citizens... they ordered 2700 of them according to official reports.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security seeks student hackers to help counter cyberthreats
03-27-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
This will be “hackers for good,” and the DHS currently has a need for about 600 of them, Secretary Napolitano added in remarks Tuesday at a Monitor Breakfast.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea says it has cut last military hotline
03-27-2013
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Associated Press
Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea cut its last military hotline with Seoul on Wednesday, saying there was no need to continue military communications between the countries in a situation "where a war may break out at any moment
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Officer who oversaw destruction of CIA torture evidence might get major promotion
03-27-2013
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RT.com
The woman who signed off on the destruction of evidence proving the CIA’s implementation of torture has been promoted within the agency.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama
03-27-2013
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Farm Wars
Read it and weep. The CEO of corporate America, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, signed into law, the Monsanto Protection Act, which is section 735 of H.R. 933.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Guccifer Emails Link Tony Blair to Top-Secret Bohemian Grove Gathering
03-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Attending the elusive Bohemian Grove retreat should be a priority for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, News Corp executive Andrew Knight allegedly writes in an email to US Gen. Colin Powell obtained by RT.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secession
U.S. Out of Vermont!
03-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Move over, Texas: In the Green Mountain State, it’s leftists who want to secede
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Four children killed in Afghan-coalition operation: police
03-27-2013
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trust.org
Afghan and international special forces staged a night raid in the country's restive east, with police on Wednesday saying five civilians died in the operation, four of them children.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Gun Stores Resorting To Bullet “Rationing”
03-27-2013
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Prison Planet
Owners blame mass DHS Orders, have “never seen ammo shortages this bad”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Court Ruling Threatens Internet First Amendment Freedom
03-27-2013
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Prison Planet
Copyright troll endangers right to freedom of speech.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Checkpoint Content Contest " Win HD Videocamera!
03-27-2013
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Copblock and Checkpoint USA
A Veho Muvi Gumball 3000 Special Edition MUVI HD Camcorder will be awarded to the creator of the content that best demystifies roadblocks *** Deadline is midnight EST, Sunday, April 8th, 2013
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013
03-27-2013
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Salon
Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Biggest Cyber Attack In History Is Taking Place Right Now
03-27-2013
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Business Insider
Internet speeds around the world have noticeably slowed down due to a massive "distributed denial of service" attack, reports the BBC.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix gun buyback funded by anonymous $100,000 donation
03-27-2013
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cronkitenewsonline.com
Residents of the nation’s sixth-largest city can get $100 gift cards for turning in handguns, rifles and shotguns and $200 for turning in assault weapons under an upcoming buyback program funded by an anonymous $100,000 donation.
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News Link • Drones
Who Are The Casualties Of America's Drone Strikes? [Infographic]
03-27-2013
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popsci.com
More than 3,000 people in Pakistan have been killed by drone strikes. Were they enemies? That's where it gets tricky.
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