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Date Sent: 2012-07-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, July 10, 2012 AM edition |
U.S. offers $1 million reward over killing of border agent Brian Terry
European Finance Ministers Agree to Speed Up Bailout of Spanish Banks -- Some Lose Homes Over as Little as $400 -- Lance Armstrong’s hours old suit against USADA dismissed -- Woman Held in UK Terror Probe Freed Without Charge -- Terror Suspect Tagged, Tracked, Nabbed Near Olympic Park -- Obama frames tax breaks as key election issue -- 2012-07-06 Liberty Underground with Gary Johnson -- Florida closes only tuberculosis hospital amid worst outbreak in 20 years -- Founders Without Whom America Would Not Exist - by Chuck Baldwin -- How Iran Might See the Threats - by Ray McGovern -- Fractional Reserve Banking, Government, and Moral Hazard - by Ron Paul
AZ: Party at Hancock's - Come meet Glenn Jacobs, aka
Citizen X, aka Kane (WWF) - Friday,
July 13th - 5 p.m. til ?
Ed Vallejo
Tampa Chip-In; Libertopia Early Bird Special Ends In Two Days
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. offers $1 million reward over killing of border agent Brian Terry
07-09-2012
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The Raw Story.com
US authorities offered a $1 million reward Monday for information about four suspects wanted over the killing of a border agent in December 2010.
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News Link • Economy - International
European Finance Ministers Agree to Speed Up Bailout of Spanish Banks
07-09-2012
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New York Times
With Spain’s borrowing costs climbing again to critical levels, European finance ministers decided to speed up their promised bailout for the country’s troubled banks, while also giving the cash-tight government more time to rein in its budget defici
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News Link • Housing
Some Lose Homes Over as Little as $400
07-09-2012
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AP
Outdated state laws allow big banks and other investors to reap windfall profits by buying the houses for a pittance and reselling them, the National Consumer Law Center said in a report being released Tuesday.
Local governments can seize and sell
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Lance Armstrong’s suit against USADA dismissed
07-09-2012
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Washington Post
Lance Armstrong’s lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency was dismissed hours after it had been filed Monday, with the judge resoundingly chastising his legal team for failing to properly write the complaint.
In a tersely worded three-page res
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Feature Article • Libertopia
Libertopia Early Bird Special Ends In Two Days
Drew
Annual membership at Libertopia 2012 gives you access to all speeches, panels, concerts, exhibitors’ areas, parties, and networking activities, and also includes discounts on Libertopia merchandise. The early bird special of $225 for an adult members
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News Link • TERRORISM
Woman Held in UK Terror Probe Freed Without Charge
07-09-2012
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AP
One of 7 people arrested over an alleged plot to launch a terrorist attack in Britain has been released without charge, police said, as detectives continued to question more than 12 other people over 2 alleged plots.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terror Suspect Tagged, Tracked, Nabbed Near Olympic Park
07-09-2012
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ABC News
An accused terrorist was re-arrested for repeatedly getting too close to London’s Olympic Park thanks to a GPS monitoring device authorities used in special cases to track terror suspects who cannot be prosecuted,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama frames tax breaks as key election issue
07-09-2012
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The Raw Story.com
President Barack Obama drew sharp election battle lines between himself and rival Republicans on Monday by pressing Congress to maintain tax breaks for most US families but end them for the wealthy.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
2012-07-06 Liberty Underground with Gary Johnson
07-09-2012
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Liberty Underground
Libertarian Presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson joins us in-studio for a full two hours question-and-answer session with Alex Snitker, Adrian Wyllie, Loring Smith and Danielle Alexandre, and takes questions from visitors and callers.
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Matt Schnackenberg
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Sitting less may extend American lives: study
07-09-2012
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The Raw Story.com
American adults may boost their life expectancy by two years by sitting for fewer than three hours a day, researchers said Tuesday, while admitting this was a tough task.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Florida closes only tuberculosis hospital amid worst outbreak in 20 years
07-09-2012
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Richard Luscombe, The Guardian
Health officials in Florida hastened their closure of the nation’s only dedicated tuberculosis hospital on cost-cutting grounds as one of the worst outbreaks of the deadly disease in 20 years was taking a grip on the state, it has been revealed.
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
How Iran Might See the Threats
07-09-2012
Ray McGovern
In CIA jargon, “Aardwolf” is a label for a special genre of intelligence report from field stations abroad to headquarters in Washington. An Aardwolf conveys the Chief of Station’s formal assessment regarding the direction events are taking in his or
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico condemns fatal shooting over border by U.S. agent
07-09-2012
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Reuters
The shot was fired by a US Border Patrol agent, the ministry said. "The Mexican government has reiterated that the disproportionate use of lethal force in immigration control is unacceptable under any circumstances,"
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
07-09-12 -- Crosby Peck - (MP3 & Video Loaded)
Crosby Peck, owner or Rogers Campground in Lancaster, NH (site of Porcfest 2012). Ernest is back home and will be broadcasting live from his home studio in Phoenix, AZ - Jeff Flake for POTUS... well US Senate first... will there be an "L" cand.
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News Link • Activism
Ed Vallejo Tampa Chip-In
07-09-2012
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Ed Vallejo/Daily Paul
As the 2012 RNC looms large on the horizon, preparations are being made...
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Ed Vallejo
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Opinion • Whistleblowers
Ray McGovern: My Take
Julian Assange’s Artful Dodge
07-09-2012
Ray McGovern
Barring a CIA drone strike on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s sudden appeal for asylum there may spare him a prison stay in Sweden or possibly the United States. Assange’s freedom now depends largely on Ecuadorian
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Rhode Island Cop Still Employed Despite Conviction of Kicking Woman to Head
07-09-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Rhode Island cop who was convicted of a felony after he was caught on video kicking a handcuffed woman to the head is still employed as a police officer.
Lincoln police officer Edward Krawetz kicked the woman in the head in 2009 claiming self-de
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israeli General: Populated Areas Will Be Targeted in Next Lebanon Invasion
07-09-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Predicts New Lebanon Invasion After Collapse of Syria
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Collapsing US Economy and the End of the World
07-09-2012
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by Paul Craig Roberts
In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washington in its pursuit of world hegemony brings us into military confrontation with Russia and China.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Army Course Manual Trains Soldiers to Confiscate Constitutionally-protected Firearms
07-09-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
In addition to revealing how the federal government and the Pentagon will respond to civil disturbances " in violation of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act " the United States Army Military Police School’s Civil Disturbance Operations document instructs t
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News Link • Iran
Why This Obsession With Iran?
07-09-2012
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by Patrick J. Buchanan
“Iran is not seeking to have the atomic bomb, possession of which is pointless, dangerous, and is a great sin from an intellectual and a religious point of view.”
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Family slugged with ‘carbon tax fee’ for funeral
07-09-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Joshua Corn
The great American novelist Normal Mailer once said, “I sometimes think that there is a malign force loose in the universe that is the social equivalent of cancer, and it’s plastic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists say NASA’s 2010 ‘new form of life’ claim was untrue
07-09-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Agence France-Presse
Two scientific papers appear to have disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that could thrive on arsenic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
GAMING AN IRAN WAR: How Washington Plans For Aggression as Part of a Reelection Campaign
07-09-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Danny Schechter
Pentagon Official Joins President’s Reelection Campaign
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
War on Syria and Imperial Hubris: Clinton Demands Russia And China to “Pay The Price”
07-09-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca,
At the third meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria in Paris on July 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proved once again that diplomacy is to the United States what refined dining etiquette is to a jackal.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
US "Proxy Democracy": The Libyan Election Farce
07-09-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Tony Cartalucci
All candidates are neo-imperial candidates - Wall Street proxy Jibril of "National Forces Alliance" presumed winner.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
West Nile Virus ‘Larvicide’ To Be Sprayed By Helicopter Over New York
07-09-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Amelia Pang
West Nile virus prevention sprays will be sprinkled in parts of Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx by the city’s Department of Health (DOH) Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Big Pharma criminality no longer a conspiracy theory:
07-09-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by Mike Adams
Those of us who have long been describing the pharmaceutical industry as a "criminal racket" over the last few years have been wholly vindicated by recent news.
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News Link • Police State
Police arresting marginal terror suspects to clear decks for Olympics says judge
07-09-2012
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Daily Telegraph
Police may be targeting “marginal” terror suspects in a bid to “clear the decks” ahead of the Olympics, the terrorism watchdog said on Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Quit smoking with a shot? New vaccine might cure addiction
07-09-2012
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http://rt.com
Scientists are saying they could be closer to curing cigarette addiction than ever before: researchers at a New York lab have developed a vaccine that they think curbs the need for a fix and so far their tests are being considered a success.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Florida vies to be America's drone capital
07-09-2012
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http://rt.com
Move over, Disney World. The demand for drones is expected to be so high during the next few years that the state of Florida is devoting a large chunk of funding in hopes of someday being the country’s hub for unmanned aerial vehicles.
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News Link • Activism
Boston Police: Occupy protesters are tofu-eating stupid morons that can’t raise kids
07-09-2012
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http://rt.com
The editor of the Boston Police Department’s union newspaper has a message for Occupy Wall Street: you’re a bunch of ignorant idiots " and your kids are stupid too.
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News Link • Police State
Obama To Control Communications During Crisis
07-09-2012
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White House
The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions. Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan a New U.S. Protectorate
07-08-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the special status of Afghanistan as a "major non-NATO ally" of the U.S. government. It joins such other governments as Israel, the Philippines, Japan, Bahrain, and Pakistan.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors: Kim Dotcom has no right to see evidence against him
07-08-2012
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Rawstory
A New Zealand prosecutor working with U.S. authorities hoping to extradite MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom said a judge and defense attorneys do not have the right to see the prosecution’s evidence against Dotcom because he’s not facing trial in the co
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News Link • Drug War
Roll-your-own cigarette operations to be snuffed out
07-08-2012
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
A tiny amendment buried in the federal transportation bill to be signed today by President Barack Obama will put operators of roll-your-own cigarette operations in Las Vegas and nationwide out of business at midnight.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
US Drones Target US Passenger Cars for Practice
07-08-2012
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New York Times
When I visited the base earlier this year with a small group of reporters, we were taken into a command post where a large flat-screen television was broadcasting a video feed from a drone flying overhead. It took a few seconds to figure out exactly
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Corruption and the Supreme Court"But I Repeat Myself
07-08-2012
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
Coming, as it did, in the shadow of United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' low, craven, belly-crawling, despicable and disgusting betrayal of his oath of office and everything else that the man ever lived by or held sacred
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Dancing Couple Arrested by NYPD After Pulling Out Camera
07-08-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
It was bad enough that police officers felt the need to harass a couple who began dancing on a subway platform after a nearby musician began playing the drums. But when the dancing man pulled out a camera to record the harassment, it landed the coupl
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
New TSA Policy: Ordering Travelers To “Freeze” On Command?
07-08-2012
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InfoWars
We heard a “freeze, freeze” “It turns out they were doing a new drill. They want all passengers to freeze on command. My wife told me later that she didn’t follow this order fast enough, so the subsequent barks were directed at her.”
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News Link • History
At Internment Camp, Exploring Choices of the Past
07-08-2012
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New York Times
Of the 10 internment camps in which about 120,000 Japanese-Americans were confined during the war, it was Tule Lake that held those branded “disloyal,” the ones who answered “no” to 2 critical questions in a loyalty test
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News Link • Police State
Wireless Firms Are Flooded by Requests to Aid Surveillance
07-08-2012
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New York Times
Cellphone carriers reported they responded to 1.3 million demands for subscriber information last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages, caller locations and other information in the course of investigations.
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News Link • Food
Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?
07-08-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The ‘Monsanto Rider’: Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?
A so-called “Monsanto rider,” quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require " not just allow, but require
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Information of Foreclosure Defense!
07-08-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
But it is a very valid defense and everyone should look at using it. Besides that defense there is something that is so simple to understand, in my opinion.
That defense is also on Matt Weidner’s site. It is about the “Pooling and Service” agre
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Questioning the Validity of the National Debt*
7-8-2012
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Free Patriot Press
In violation of Section 4 of the 14th Amendment
On July 9, 1868 the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution was officially ratified. Hidden within this amendment is wording that enshrined the federal government with perpetual debt.
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Activism
Army Manual Outlines Plan To Kill Rioters, Demonstrators In America
07-08-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
“Warning shots will not be fired”
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