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Date Sent: 2013-02-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 20, 2013 AM edition |
Police dog sniff passes Supreme Court smell test -- Online Sales Tax May Become Part of Tax Reform
Ireland apologizes to slave women of Catholic laundries -- But The Cop Didn't Show -- Ohio Court Upholds Police Entry Into Home Over Failure To Signal Turn --
China increasing Saudi Arabia oil imports by 11% in 2013. Joint 10
Billion venture in Saudi Red Sea -- Rethinking Facebook -- By what legitimate authority? -- GMO fail: Monsanto foiled by feds, Supreme Court, and science -- TSA’s Grip on Internal Travel is Tightening -- TSA Screeners Continue to Lie to Passengers About Legality of Recording at Checkpoints -- The premises and purposes of American exceptionalism - by Glenn Greenwald -- U.N. Maps Show U.S. High in Gun Ownership, Low in Homicides -- The Evil GI Joe -- State Control Draws Closer for Detroit After Fiscal Review -- Neglected Facts About Hunger-Striking Prisoner -- Will Obama
Confiscate Guns And Gold? -- The Virtues of Being Unreasonable
on Keystone -- Horsemeat Scandal Goes Global -- North Korea
threatens South with “final destruction” -- Mexico Asks US for
List of Gun Owners -- Sheriff Warns Of “Second American
Revolution” If Gun Grabbers Get Their Way -- Five Types Of Looters
You Must Prepare For -- WWE Creates Racist Wrestler To Demonize Tea
Party -- Ben Swann Reality Check: Did Law Enforcement
Intentionally Burn Chris Dorner Alive Waco Style? -- Ron Paul
is calling school to order -- Is Your Local Police Department
Using Pictures of Pregnant Women and Children for Target Practice? -- Embrace Silver's Volatility All the Way to the Bank -- Marc
Victor Already Planning to Run Against Kyrsten Sinema --
02-19-13 -- Michael W Dean - Charlie Miller - Tony Tangalos - (MP3
& Video Loaded) -- Jeep's Twitter Just Got Hacked -- DEUTSCHE
BANK: Tomorrow Will Be A Big Day For Gold Investors
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Police dog "sniff" passes Supreme Court smell test
02-19-2013
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Reuters
The US Supreme Court ruled "the sniff is up to snuff" in a Florida case on how police may use dogs to track down illegal drugs. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court gave law enforcement authorities greater authority to use dogs to uncover illeg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Online Sales Tax May Become Part of Tax "Reform"
02-19-2013
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Economic Policy Journal
Given the partisan differences on Capitol Hill, lawmakers backing the bill say that attaching the online sales tax bill to a broader measure may be the proposal’s best shot. Though some think that even if tax "reform" gets bog down, an online sales t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Ireland apologizes to women of Catholic laundries
02-19-2013
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AP
Ireland ignored the mistreatment of thousands of women who were incarcerated within Catholic nun-operated laundries and must pay the survivors compensation, the Prime Minister said in an emotional state apology for the abuses in the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
But The Cop Didn't Show
02-19-2013
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Simple Justice
Few sounds are better to a defendant's ear than a judge saying "case dismissed" because the arresting officer failed to appear for trial. Except when the defendant is a Florida Highway Patrol trooper who's conduct killed a woman, injured
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ohio Court Upholds Police Entry Into Home Over Failure To Signal Turn
02-19-2013
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The Newspaper
The Ohio Court of Appeals upheld the police use of a battering ram on the home of a suspect who failed to properly signal a turn. The court majority also took the unusual step of noting that they disagreed with their own decision and called on the st
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
China increasing Saudi Arabia oil imports by 11% in 2013. Joint 10 Billion venture in Saudi Red Sea
02-19-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
I have been keeping my eyes on China. I believe watching what is happening there will give us a clue when the dollar will be dropped for the Yuan as the Global Reserve Currency. I also believe it is due to Saudi Arabia staying with the dollar as oi
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Rethinking Facebook
02-19-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Many of us in print and broadcast media are rethinking our association with Facebook. Several of our journalistic brothers and sisters have been censored and/or otherwise treated unprofessionally by this entity. Facebook has become replete with troll
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
By what legitimate authority?
02-19-2013
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The Price of Liberty
Not a “conspiracy.” A pogrom. “A massacre or persecution instigated by the government or by the ruling class against a minority group, particularly Jews.”
Only instead of “Jews,” this time it is independent thinkers, productive people who would rath
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
GMO fail: Monsanto foiled by feds, Supreme Court, and science
02-19-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It’s been a good week if you enjoy a little GMO schadenfreude. The FDA has reportedly bowed to public pressure to extend the comment period on its approval of genetically engineered salmon, and Illinois, Maryland, and Iowa are the latest states to bu
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
TSA’s Grip on Internal Travel is Tightening
02-19-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is tightening its grip on domestic travel. I don’t mean the random, unpredictable security checks at bus, subway and train stations which already exist. I mean a coordinated and systematic police cont
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Screeners Continue to Lie to Passengers About Legality of Recording at Checkpoints
02-19-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
a mother begins recording as TSA screeners attempt to frisk her daughter who is in a wheelchair. The girl who appears to be around 3 is crying and saying she doesn’t want to go to Disney World, so you can imagine how scared she must have been.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
Young Ugandan chess-prodigy: lessons in the slum take her to the world stage
02-19-2013
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She heard about a Western-based religious charity that mentored slum kids and served food near her alleyway, and also taught the kids some odd game called chess.
“I was hungry,” Mutesi says, “I’d never heard of chess, and I’d never seen it. So… I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The premises and purposes of American exceptionalism - by Glenn Greenwald
02-19-2013
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The Guardian
What interests me here is that highlighted claim: that the US "is the greatest country in world history", and therefore is entitled to do that which other countries are not. This declaration always genuinely fascinates me.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.N. Maps Show U.S. High in Gun Ownership, Low in Homicides
02-19-2013
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Breitbart
Maps made by the U.N. office on Drugs and Crime (circa 2007) clearly show that where gun ownership is highest in the world, crime is lowest on a per capita basis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Evil GI Joe
02-19-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
After-school Fed Indoctrination from the 80s. The evil Cobra organization tries to replace fiat money with a privately coined gold currency, but is shut down by the heroic G.I. Joe special forces team.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Control Draws Closer for Detroit After Fiscal Review
02-19-2013
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New York Times
A review team appointed by the State of Michigan has concluded that Detroit is mired in serious financial problems, a step that draws the city ever closer to emergency oversight by a state-assigned financial manager.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Neglected Facts About Hunger-Striking Prisoner
02-19-2013
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Camera
As Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi has allegedly exceeded more than 200 days of a hunger strike, Palestinian demonstrations and NGO activity on his behalf have intensified, and so too has media coverage. Though some media outlets have demonstrated
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Obama Administration
Will Obama Confiscate Guns And Gold?
02-19-2013
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govtslaves.info
Barack Obama often compares himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt. When he does, gold owners reach for a gun, of which they usually have several.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
The Virtues of Being Unreasonable on Keystone
02-19-2013
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Common Dreams
I know Andy Revkin writes posts like this in part to bait people like me.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Horsemeat Scandal Goes Global
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
First it was Ireland, then the entire UK, then Germany, and gradually it spread to all of Europe (except for France of course, where it was always a delicacy).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea threatens South with “final destruction”
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after a nuclear test last week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mexico Asks US for List of Gun Owners
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
The Mexican government is asking the U.S. government to hand over a list of all gun owned by residents in Border States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sheriff Warns Of “Second American Revolution” If Gun Grabbers Get Their Way
02-19-2013
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Prison Planet
Milwaukee County law enforcer urged his citizens to arm themselves
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Five Types Of Looters You Must Prepare For
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
To come out on the other side of a wide-spread crisis in one piece, even when you’re prepared, takes getting into the head of the majority of the population...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
WWE Creates Racist Wrestler To Demonize Tea Party
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
WWE Creates Racist Wrestler To Demonize Tea Party, Commentators Say Limbaugh and Alex Jones Receive Tons of Fan Mail
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ben Swann Reality Check: Did Law Enforcement Intentionally Burn Chris Dorner Alive Waco Style?
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ben Swann Reality Check: Did Law Enforcement Intentionally Burn Chris Dorner Alive Waco Style?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Ron Paul is calling school to order
02-19-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ron Paul isn’t wasting any time in retirement.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Is Your Local Police Department Using Pictures of Pregnant Women and Children for Target Practice?
02-19-2013
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reason.com
What if I told you police in your town could desensitize themselves to the idea of shooting an (armed) child, pregnant woman, or young mother, for just a couple of bucks? The "No More Hesitation" series from Law Enforcement Targets Inc. offers exactl
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Marc Victor
Marc Victor Already Planning to Run Against Kyrsten Sinema
02-19-2013
Marc Victor Already Planning to Run Against Kyrsten Sinema, Expects Help From Ron Paul
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Anonymous
Jeep's Twitter Just Got Hacked
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
Like the Burger King hacking yesterday, the hackers included some McDonald's images. The avatar photo has been changed to the Cadillac symbol.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gold and Silver
DEUTSCHE BANK: Tomorrow Will Be A Big Day For Gold Investors
02-19-2013
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Business Insider
Gold continues to tumble today after a brutal Friday session took the shiny yellow metal below $1600 per ounce. Over the past four months, it's fallen more than 10 percent from its October 4 high of $1798.10.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Navigate Beck’s Performance of ‘Sound and Vision’ as a 360-Degree Interactive Video
02-19-2013
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Wired.com
Beck’s astonishing 10-minute recreation of David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” racked up more than 300 thousand Youtube views in the last week, and now Beck and music video director Chris Milk are releasing an all-new way to experience the performance.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Energy
Government Not to Blame for Coal Industry Ills
02-19-2013
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Wired.com
During the presidential campaign last fall, a single message was repeated endlessly in Appalachian coal country:
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • How To
Stop Squinting at Your Screen Thanks to This Responsive Type Experiment
02-19-2013
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Wired.com
Responsive design typically focuses on screen sizes, but that’s just the practical application of the larger goal " making a website function well no matter how or where you are viewing it. The emphasis ultimately is on you, not your device.
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News Link • Transportation
Chevy Puts a Safe in Your Dash to Stash Your Stuff
02-19-2013
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Wired.com
Chevy’s new Impala has a place in your dash to stash your stuff. Or anything else you want to keep out prying eyes.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The ‘One’ Is a Huge Step Forward for HTC
02-19-2013
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Wired.com
HTC’s new flagship smartphone, the One, is an impressive bit of hardware and a big step forward for the company in three significant ways.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Drone Wrath for a Compliant Society
02-18-2013
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batr.org
American citizens want someone who will make the big, bad world disappear. Problems only exist if we have to confront them. Obama has made warfare more convenient for us " and less emotionally taxing."
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News Link • Military
Restricted U.S. Army Training for Reconnaissance Troop and Below in Urban Operations
02-18-2013
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blacklistednews.com
Because the operational environment (OE) requires Army forces to operate in urban areas, commanders must have accurate information on the complex human elements, infrastructure, and physical terrain that make up the urban environment.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Congress Could Fix Its Budget Woes, Permanently with Ellen Brown
02-18-2013
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arclein
But it has been artificially constrained from using that power by misguided economic dogma, dogma generated by the interests it serves. We have bought into the idea that there is not enough money to feed and house our population, rebuild our roads an
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The Drone Threat - by Ron Paul
02-18-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Last week, Senators threatened to put a “hold” on the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director over his refusal to answer questions about the use of drones to kill Americans on US soil. How did we get to this point?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Registering for Confiscation (Canada)
02-18-2013
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sunnewsnetwork.ca via libertycrier
"I have a warning for my American friends; registration leads to confiscation."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gun Rights
Americans Prepare for Civil Unrest with Record Ammo Sales
02-18-2013
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Prison Planet
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes joins Alex to consider the long train of abuses we now face, and that the founders also faced in the lead up to 1776. Could history repeat, and will globalists back off from their attack against humanity?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
There Is A Winner In The Currency War
02-18-2013
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Prison Planet
With the G-20 (and G-7) concluding with what appears to be a slap on the wrist and a wink-and-a-nod to Japan, it seems the game of competitive devaluation will continue.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
If the Leader of the Free World Can Lie With Such Impunity We Are Doomed
02-18-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
"….And every child will have a cute puppy, about yay big…."
Earlier this week in his State of the Union address President Obama made some observations on climate change so brimming with falsehoods I'm surprised his nose didn't fall off.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Truth About the Invasion of Panama
02-18-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Just yesterday, I became aware of a documentary on the 1989 US invasion of Panama. Although I had some familiarity with the details of the invasion, it all came from MSM.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control and Japan
02-18-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
When it comes to gun control in the USA the logic of the progressives works in a very curious way.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Most Terrorist Plots In The US Aren’t Invented By Al Qaeda " They’re Manufactured By The FBI
02-18-2013
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govtslaves.info
In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Advances Plan For “Public Safety” Drones
02-18-2013
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govtslaves.info
The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its plan to use surveillance drones for “public safety” applications, announcing last week that it had received a deluge of “excellent” responses from potential vendors and was set to carry out more t
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Well Done, Washington! Your Stupid New Rules Have Made Banks Refuse To Serve Poor People
02-18-2013
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Business Insider
ONLY one thing is worse than the financial industry dangling inappropriate products in front of poor customers, and that is not providing them with financial services at all.
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