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Date Sent: 2012-02-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 2, 2012 PM edition |
Administration briefs Senate leaders on Taliban transfer -- Figures on government spending and debt
The Real Economic Picture -- Arggg! U.S. Court Orders The Return Of 500 Million Dollars Of Gold Coins To Spain -- AZ SB 1083 - Arizona State Guard -- Israel Vice PM: Military strike can hit all of Iran's nuclear facilities -- US 'no-fly' list of suspected terrorists doubles in 12 months --
Full Body Scanners At Super Bowl 2012 -- Ron Paul Interview on "Face to
Face with Jon Ralston" - Local Nevada News (February 1, 2012) --
Report: Newt Gingrich to challenge Florida primary -- Glacier thief arrested in Chile -- Taco Bell Linked To Salmonella Probe after 68 People Fall Ill in 10 States, Report Says -- Bad Economy Forces Welfare Agency Hiring Spree -- AA to Cut 13,000 Jobs, Close Alliance Facility -- $3 million in gold nuggets stolen from Yreka courthouse -- For G.O.P., Pipeline Is Central to Agenda -- San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closed After Radiation Leak -- How the Swiss Opted Out of War -- Ron Paul wins Tennessee straw poll, but Santorum wins endorsement -- "I'm Bill Gross And I Endorse Ron Paul For President" VIDEO -- Gary Johnson Braves the ACLU -- Paul campaign: Newt must pay medical bills for broken foot -- Brain cells killed by solar power and TV news -- February 2nd, 2012 - Warren Severin, AZ Libertarian Party State Chair - Listen Live LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon --
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday, Feb. 4, Phranq Tamburri on
the AZ GOP State Convention -- Do You Know a Homeless Veteran?
Arizona Stand-down Can Help! Feb 3rd-5th at AVMC -- Feb 22 – ARIZONA REPUBLICAN 2012
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. 6 pm, Mesa Arts Center (BUY TICKETS
NOW!)
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News Link • World News
Administration briefs Senate leaders on Taliban transfer
02-02-2012
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www.thecable.foreignpolicy.com
Top Obama administration officials briefed eight senior Senate leaders Tuesday on a pending deal to transfer as many as five Taliban prisoners from the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Qatar.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Real Economic Picture
02-02-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams shadowstats.com.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Arggg! U.S. Court Orders The Return Of 500 Million Dollars Of Gold Coins To Spain
02-02-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
An appellate court has upheld a lower court decision that ordered American treasure-hunter Odyssey Marine Exploration to return to Spain some 594,000 gold and silver coin valued at roughly $500 million recovered on the ocean floor from a sunken Spani
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
AZ SB 1083 - Arizona State Guard
02-02-2012
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www.azleg.gov
May sieze property and sell it to anyone - with no accountability. Why am I not shocked??
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Israel Vice PM: Military strike can hit all of Iran's nuclear facilities
02-02-2012
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www.haaretz.com
Speaking at Herzliya Conference, Moshe Ya’alon calls the possibility of a nuclear Iran a 'nightmare to the free world,' says explosion at Iranian missile base targeted missile system that would have threatened the U.S.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
US 'no-fly' list of suspected terrorists doubles in 12 months
02-02-2012
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www.guardian.co.uk
Classified log of individuals banned from flying into or within America as they are considered a threat stands at 21,000
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Full Body Scanners At Super Bowl 2012
02-02-2012
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www.infowars.com
First time devices linked with cancer risk used for public sports event
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
Panetta: U.S., NATO will seek to end Afghan combat mission next year
02-02-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
The United States hopes to end its combat mission in Afghanistan by the middle of next year, more than a year earlier than scheduled, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Wednesday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Interview on "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" - Local Nevada News (February 1, 201
02-02-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Over 20 minute interview with Ron Paul in Nevada for "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" - February 1st, 2012 - Aired on several local NV news stations.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Report: Newt Gingrich to challenge Florida primary
02-02-2012
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www.clickorlando.com
The RNC's rules state that no winner-take-all primary may be held before April 1 and Florida happens to be a winner-take-all state.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Glacier thief arrested in Chile
02-02-2012
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www.guardian.co.uk
Police hold man on suspicion of stealing five tonnes of ice from a glacier in Patagonia to sell as designer ice cubes for cocktails
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Will Facebook Really Create 1,000 Millionaires?
02-02-2012
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www.blog.wsj.com
It’s the “best investment ever!” It’s the biggest liquidity event ever! It’s about to unleash a new wealth wave in America! It’s a boon to wealth managers and Palo Alto realtors. It’s going to solve California’s budget problems, help fix our educati
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food
Taco Bell Linked To Salmonella Probe after 68 People Fall Ill in 10 States, Report Says
02-02-2012
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www.myfoxdc.com
Yum Brands Inc.'s Taco Bell chain was investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for involvement in a salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states, Food Safety News reported Wednesday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Flesh-eating bug spread by sneezes and coughs
02-02-2012
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www.metro.co.uk
Coughing and sneezing on crowded trains and buses can spread deadly flesh-eating superbugs, commuters are being warned.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Pa. groundhog 'predicts' 6 more weeks of winter
02-02-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his lair to "see" his shadow on Thursday, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bad Economy Forces Welfare Agency Hiring Spree
02-02-2012
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www.nbcneyyork.com
The city’s Human Resources Administration has already hired 100 new employees and plans to hire another 100.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
AA to Cut 13,000 Jobs, Close Alliance Facility
02-02-2012
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www.nbcdfw.com
American Airlines parent company AMR Corp. said Wednesday it would cut 13,000 jobs and close its Fort Worth Alliance Airport maintenance hub as part of a five-year plan to save $3 billion per year.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
$3 million in gold nuggets stolen from Yreka courthouse
02-02-2012
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LA Times
Thieves in Yreka, Calif., made off with $3 million in gold nuggets Wednesday after breaking into the Siskiyou County Courthouse and smashing a glass case that contained a display on the area's mining history, officials said.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
More Than 70 Die In Egyptian Football Riot
02-02-2012
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www.news.sky.com
Doctors treating the victims said some had been stabbed to death. One player caught up in the rioting described it as "a war".
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sources: Trump to endorse Newt...or Mitt?
02-02-2012
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www.politico.com
Gingrich is the longer-shot choice in a field in which Mitt Romney has re-established himself as the frontrunner after a commanding win in Florida. And Trump has always made clear he likes to be with a winner.
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News Link • Events: America
For G.O.P., Pipeline Is Central to Agenda
02-02-2012
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www.nytimes.com
Just six months ago, Keystone for many Americans was the state nickname for Pennsylvania. But now Keystone, the Canadian pipeline, has become a centerpiece of the Republican economic and political agenda, and the party’s preferred truncheon against P
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closed After Radiation Leak
02-02-2012
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www.abcnews.go.com
A small quantity of radioactive gas leaked inside one of the buildings at San Onofre nuclear power plant north of San Diego, according to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How the Swiss Opted Out of War
02-02-2012
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antiwar.com
Switzerland has not been in a foreign war of any kind since 1815. This would be astounding, even miraculous, for any nation. But Switzerland borders Germany. And France. And Italy. And Austria. And Liechtenstein.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul wins Tennessee straw poll, but Santorum wins endorsement
01-31-2012
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thestatecolumn.com
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul won the Tennessee Republican Assembly straw poll Saturday. The Texas congressman garnered 200 votes in the straw poll, besting his fellow Republican presidential candidates by more than 100 votes each.
Fo
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Daily Paul Radio Interviews Charles Goyette: 'Iran and India Oil for Gold'
02-02-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Charles Goyette of American Breaking Point and international bestselling author of The Dollar Meltdown joins Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace for ‘Iran and India Oil for Gold’ to discuss the impact of a direct exchange between India and Iran bypass
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
"I'm Bill Gross And I Endorse Ron Paul For President" VIDEO
02-02-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
The bond king endorses Ron Paul for president, apparently on the realization that very soon he will have to pay Tim Geithner for the privilege of holding hundreds of billions in US paper. And now we've heard it all."
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Gary Johnson Braves the ACLU
02-02-2012
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www.reason.com
On January 29 the Miami Herald ran a full-page ad excoriating Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for their “abysmal” constitutional records. The ad wasn’t paid for by Ron Paul or his supporters, but by the American Civil Liberties Union
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul campaign: Newt must pay medical bills for broken foot
02-02-2012
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www.dailycaller.com
The Ron Paul campaign is demanding that Newt Gingrich pay the medical bills for Eddie Dillard, a Paul supporter whose foot was broken Tuesday after Gingrich staffers intentionally stomped on it.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Champis the Herding Rabbit
02-02-2012
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www.cuteanimals4u.com
Champis, the Swedish herding rabbit is now world’s famous as his video has been seen around the world this weekend. Forget sheep herding dogs and keep your eye out for sheep herding rabbits.
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Opinion • Energy
Brain cells killed by solar power and TV news
02-02-2012
Menckens Ghost
In one of the rare times that I have risked brain damage by watching television news, I recently watched a chirpy segment on the local Fox affiliate about a high school in Buckeye, Ariz. that has installed acres of solar panels to generate its own el
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News Link • Police State
Family of federal agent slain by guns provided to criminals by feds now suing DOJ/ATF
02-02-2012
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CBS5az.com
They are also suing the gun store that followed ATF's orders to conduct the sales.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide Driving Fish Crazy
02-02-2012
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arclein
"For several years our team have been testing the performance of baby coral fishes in sea water containing higher levels of dissolved CO2 - and it is now pretty clear that they sustain significant disruption to their central nervous system, which is
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Stone Age Orkney Temple Predates Stonehenge
02-02-2012
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arclein
"Orkney is one of the keys to understanding the development of Neolithic religion," said site director Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology.
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robert klein
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News Link • Iran
The Coming Drone War on the Mullahs
02-02-2012
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arclein
it has continually instigated violence elsewhere and pursued indirect war through the use of terrorism throughout the Middle East, Africa, and both North and South America.
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican Establishment Excludes Ron Paul From 2012 CPAC Event
02-02-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Exclusion of Paul is likely by GOP insiders to re-align CPAC, the biggest annual conservative confab, with the Republican establishment and prevent an embarrassing straw poll defeat for likely presidential pick Mitt Romney, who Paul beat in 2010 and
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Champis - The Herding Rabbit
02-02-2012
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cuteanimals4you.com
Champis, the Swedish herding rabbit is now world’s famous as his video has been seen around the world this weekend. Forget sheep herding dogs and keep your eye out for sheep herding rabbits.
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Veljko Rauski
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Porter Robinson: The Libertarian Dubstep Guy
02-01-2012
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blogs.laweekly.com
It's fair to say that most political nerds don't know what dubstep is. But last month libertarian sites like The Daily Paul and Lew Rockwell got geeked up about Porter Robinson's track "The State."
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Massive U.S. Military Buildup Reported Around Iran; Up to 100k Troops Ready By March
02-01-2012
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shtfplan.com via rense.com
The comment thread was the best part of this article! I recommend wading through the usual bs and you'll find some real issues being discussed intelligently.
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News Link • Government
FDA’s New Claim: “Your Body Is a Drug and We Have the Authority to Regulate It!”
2-1-12
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http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/fda%E2%80%99s-new
In another outrageous power-grab, FDA says your own stem cells are drugs"and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA-approved drugs in other states!
We wish this were a joke, but it’s the US Food and Drug
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News Link • Military
The Haditha Massacre: No Justice for Iraqis
02-01-2012
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www.marjoriecohn.com
Last week, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich was sentenced to a reduction in rank but no jail time for leading his squad in a rampage known as “The Haditha Massacre.” Wuterich, who was charged with nine counts of manslaughter, pled guilty to dereliction of d
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News Link • Police State
252. Police State USA
02-01-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com
Lew Rockwell talks to Will Grigg on the militarist de-civilization of America.
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
Free Money for Banks Does NOT Stimulate the Economy!
02-01-2012
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www.infowars.com
The Fed wants to keep the price of money at essentially zero " in other words “free” " to boost the economy. But the boost they are attempting won’t get here for another three years. That’s not a recovery. And we’ve already tried this tactic.
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Gingrich Ballot Fraud: Virginia Election Officials Confirm Criminal Investigation
02-01-2012
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www.infowars.com
Gingrich is being charged so far with 1,500 alleged cases of ballot petition fraud
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News Link • China
Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?
02-01-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Gordon G. Chang
The People’s Bank of China, the central bank, has been hinting that it is purchasing. “No asset is safe now,” said the PBOC’s Zhang Jianhua at the end of last month. “The only choice to hedge risks is to hold hard currency " gold.”
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News Link • Police State
19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
02-01-2012
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www.endoftheamericandream.com
With each passing year, the difference between America's prisons and America's public schools becomes smaller and smaller. As you read the rest of this article, you will be absolutely amazed at some of the crazy things that school children in Americ
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News Link • Police State
Teaching Citizens to Heel: Park Ranger Reportedly Tasers Man Walking Small Dogs Off Leash
02-01-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
He was then arrested on suspicion of failing to obey a lawful order, having dogs off-leash and knowingly providing false information. The park service spokesperson reportedly said it is all part of teaching citizens about the new leash law in the are
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Jon Corzine Raised $500,000 for Obama
02-01-2012
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www.weeklystandard.com
Corzine, of course, has most recently been in the news for being on the wrong side of a $6.3 billion bet as head of MF Global. "MF Global filed for bankruptcy on October 31, after $6.3 billion in risky bets on European sovereign debt spooked investor
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