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Date Sent: 2013-06-30
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, June 30, 2013 |
NSA Spied on European Union Offices -- US taps half-billion German phone, internet links in month
NSA reportedly has secret data collection agreement with several European countries -- Is the NSA Blackmail Inc. for the military industrial complex? --
US Army blocks personnel's access to Guardian’s website -- Senators
Press Intelligence Chief To Release More Data On NSA Spying Programs -- America: Government by Terror, Torture and Tyranny -- Texas: America's State-Sponsored Execution Capital -- Checkpoint USA Back In Court On Monday -- How Did America’s Police Become A Military Force On The Streets? -- California Sheriff Strips Forest Service Agents of Law-enforcement Powers -- LBMA GOLD FLIGHT, 580 GOLD TONS PURCHASED, SILVER & MORE (with
link to audio interview) -- Congress Planning to Retrofit Electric Grid:
Fear of an EMPor CME that could Wipe Out America -- Give back flood victims’ guns,
Harper’s office tells RCMP (with video) -- British Airways To Test Electronic Bag Tags -- From
DARPA, A Virtual Tool To Revolutionize Robotics -- A Wisc.
Restaurant Gives Huge Discounts to Customers Who Pay With Silver --
Horace
Campbell: Obama Takes "Imperial Tour" of Africa As World Honors -- Wells Fargo and Chase
Quietly Prepare to Take Over BOA and Citi as They Collapse -- Washington Is Driving The
World To The Final War - by Paul Craig Roberts -- Pittsburgh police
relations meeting ends with white officer arresting black teacher -- Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for U.Va. student --
Senate
Passes Racist Immigration Bill -- More Evidence of Lawless US Spying
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club badly needs your help to continue
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices
06-29-2013
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Spiegel: Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, more
America's NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the EU with its spying activities. According to SPIEGEL, the US placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its computer network. Cyber attacks were also perpetrated against
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. taps half-billion German phone, internet links in month
06-30-2013
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Reuters
The United States taps half a billion phone calls, emails and text messages in Germany in a typical month and has classed its biggest European ally as a target similar to China, according to secret U.S. documents quoted by a German news magazine.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA reportedly has secret data collection agreement with several European countries
06-30-2013
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Salon
The NSA has been working with at least 7 European countries to collect personal communications data, according to a former NSA contractor who has come forward because he does not think the public should not be “kept in the dark.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Is the NSA Blackmail Inc. for the military industrial complex?
06-28-2013
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Jon Rappoport
The military industrial complex sells death. It’s backed up by the largest spying agency in the world, who has red-hot files on politicians’ scandalous private behavior.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Free Speech
US Army blocks personnel's access to Guardian’s website
06-28-2013
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PHILLIP MOLNAR, Monterey Herald
The U.S. Army has restricted Army personnel’s access to the news coverage of the National Security Agency’s spying programs by blocking the Guardian’s website.
The Monterey County Herald reported Thursday that U.S. Army employees at the Presidio of
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Senators Press Intelligence Chief To Release More Data On NSA Spying Programs
06-29-2013
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Reuters
More than a quarter of the Senate’s members asked the top intelligence official on Friday to release more information on the government’s bulk collection of data on Americans’ communications.
Led by Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who has long
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Leon Felkins
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Feature Article • Police State
Checkpoint USA Back In Court On Monday
Terry Bressi
(Update - charge dismissed against Checkpoint USA) On Monday July 1, 2013, I'll be back in Pima County Justice Court defending myself against a bogus traffic citation issued on March 29, 2013 at the SR-86 Milepost 146.6 CBP roadblock. The citation wa
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News Link • Police State
How Did America’s Police Become A Military Force On The Streets?
06-29-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In a 2001 article for the Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, the legal scholar and civil liberties activist Roger Roots posed just that question. Roots, a fairly radical libertarian, believes that the U.S.Constitution doesn’t allow for police as
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
California Sheriff Strips Forest Service Agents of Law-enforcement Powers
06-29-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The CBS affiliate in El Dorado County, California,expressed surprise when it reported that County Sheriff John D’Agostini stripped agents of the U.S. Forest Service of their law-enforcement powers in his county.
Wrote D’Agnostini:
I take the [s
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gold and Silver
LBMA GOLD FLIGHT, 580 GOLD TONS PURCHASED, SILVER & MORE (with link to audio interview)
06-29-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
However, by manipulating the gold price lower through the foreign exchange interventions, they’ve succeeded in forcing 600 tons of ETF redemptions, COMEX capitulation, and drawn in an unprecedented level of fresh managed money short supply. This has
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Humor
George Carlin Somehow Destroyed Rick Perry's Pro-Life War In 1996 (VIDEO)
06-29-2013
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huffingtonpost.com
Even from beyond the grave, George Carlin's message will always be relevant to current events.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Solar Flares
Congress Planning to Retrofit Electric Grid: Fear of an EMPor CME that could Wipe Out America
06-29-2013
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offgridsurvival.com
The threat of a solar flare wiping out our electric grid is probably something that most people have never even heard of, but the fact is, the threat is very real and has happened in the past.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Why do we have eyebrows?
06-29-2013
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howstuffworks.com
Eyebrows are a very significant aspect of our appearance. They are one of the most distinctive features that make up our faces, and we pay a lot of attention to them.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
The 10 Biggest Nuclear Reactors
06-29-2013
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howstuffworks.com
In December of 1942, an experiment that would change the world was taking place at the University of Chicago. After years of research and a month of construction, the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, was ready for testing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese wine heads to Europe
06-29-2013
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arclein
That has led to frustration at how the sector has become caught up in a trade spat in which China appears to be seeking to punish France for its high-profile support for a move by the EU to impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels.
"We
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robert klein
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News Link • Property Rights
Give back flood victims’ guns, Harper’s office tells RCMP (with video)
06-09-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office is urging the RCMP in High River, Alta., to focus on “more important” tasks and to return the guns officers took from homes while searching for victims in the evacuated flood zone.
Harper’s office issued a st
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Common Virus linked to Alzheimer's
06-29-2013
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arclein
The study did not show a cause-and-effect link between CMV and Alzheimer's. It is possible that other stimulants of inflammation, including other viral infections, might also lead to the brain changes seen in the study, which could cause a decline i
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
British Airways To Test Electronic Bag Tags
06-29-2013
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popsci.com
British Airways wants to finally replace paper tags, and maybe save you some time at the check-in counter.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
5 Simple Tips to Help You Start Juicing Like a Pro
06-29-2013
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wakeup-world.com
Juicing can be an intimidating practice, even for the most seasoned natural health enthusiast. It not only takes time and effort, but an ambitious pallet to experiment with different flavor profiles among fruits and vegetables.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
21 Home Remedies for a Toothache Emergency
06-29-2013
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wakeup-world.com
Most of us have made some provision for first aid care in the event of a disaster or other emergency. But how many of us have prepared for a dental emergency?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
A Wisc. Restaurant Gives Huge Discounts to Customers Who Pay With Silver
06-29-2013
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The Blaze
Ask anyone in town where the best burger is, and Late’s will likely top the list. And both the manager and the owner seem to understand the economic landscape " and the government’s “quantitative easing” polices, or money-printing.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Simple Survival Model Earthship
06-29-2013
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youtube
Can be replicated to create larger buildings. Aimed at being the cheapest and most affordable Earthship possible.A very simple set of details to put together.Radically Sustainable Buildings.The Most Versatile and Economical building design .....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
Senate Bill Creates Path for Undocumented Immigrants, But at Cost of Radically
06-29-2013
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youtube
The Senate has approved a long-awaited immigration reform bill that creates a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants while imposing unprecedented new measures for border security.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Horace Campbell: Obama Takes "Imperial Tour" of Africa As World Honors
06-29-2013
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youtube
President Obama's three-nation tour of Africa moves from Senegal to South Africa today before wrapping up in Tanzania. Obama's stated goals are to raise investment opportunities for U.S. businesses, address development issues such as food security, a
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Rodney Brooks: Why we will rely on robots
06-29-2013
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ted.com
Scaremongers play on the idea that robots will simply replace people on the job. In fact, they can become our essential collaborators, freeing us up to spend time on less mundane and mechanical challenges.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Wells Fargo and Chase Quietly Prepare to Take Over BOA and Citi as They Collapse
Posted on June
06-29-2013
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http://livinglies.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/wells-f
What is interesting is that two banks submitted a proposal for resolution of a bank that had been too big to fail. The two banks that submitted the proposal were Wells Fargo and Chase. Notably absent was Bank of America and Citibank. I take that to m
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The best documentary site ever! (Publisher Recommended)
06-29-2013
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http://www.trueworldhistory.info
Here are a couple hundred freedom oriented documentaries that I have come across over the years of being an activist. Watch one a night starting now! Enjoy and pass along!
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Joby Weeks
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Washington Is Driving The World To The Final War " Paul Craig Roberts
06-29-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Whether the desire for liberty exists in America remains to be seen. If Americans can overcome their gullibility, their lifelong brainwashing, their propensity to believe every lie that “their” government tells them, and if Americans can escape the M
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pittsburgh police relations meeting ends with white officer arresting black teacher
06-29-2013
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Rawstory
Henderson said Gromek did a U-turn after apparently hearing him exclaim “Wow!” at the officer’s driving. A criminal complaint indicated Gromek had seen Henderson shouting in his rearview mirror. Gromek asked him if he wanted to file a complaint.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for U.Va. student
06-29-2013
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When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked. That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in jail. Her initial offense?
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, June 30, 2013 Edition
06-28-2013
John Semmens
More Government Spying Uncovered
The massive invasion of Americans' privacy by the federal government isn't the exclusive turf of the National Security Agency (NSA). Information released in response to a Freedom of Information Act filing indicates
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News Link • Constitution
Trashing the Bill of Rights: Where America Stands Now
06-28-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
Whatever our opinion of the US Constitution, it has clearly been the standard of reference in America and the trashing of this document matters for the future of the American people.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
The personal side of taking on the NSA: emerging smears
06-28-2013
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The Guardian
Distractions about my past and personal life have emerged " an inevitable side effect for those who challenge the US government
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Dubai Gold Demand Off the Charts as Price Plunges
06-28-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Only in the gold market does huge demand equal a price collapse! I suppose the problem is they don’t buy Comex contracts in Dubai and India. As I mentioned on Twitter earlier today, the pile-on from gold bears is reaching extreme proportions, somet
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
New EU Plan Will Make Every Bank Account In Europe Vulnerable To Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation
06-28-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Did you actually believe that they were not going to use the precedent that they set in Cyprus? On Thursday, EU finance ministers agreed to a shocking new plan that will make every bank account in Europe vulnerable to Cyprus-style bail-ins. In othe
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
OCC looked the other way at the blatant independence conflict when JP Morgan engaged Deloitte
06-28-2013
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/francinemckenna/2013/0
One of the fundamental tenets of the “independent” foreclosure reviews of mortgage servicers ordered by the OCC and Federal Reserve Board was the independence and objectivity of the consultants. The ICs for the IFRs were supposed to determine how muc
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Premiums Double in India as Demand Outstrips Supply
06-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
MUMBAI (Reuters) " Gold premiums doubled in India on Wednesday as suppliers struggled to meet surging demand after a ban on consignment imports, but futures prices fell to their lowest in more than a month as international gold prices fell due to a s
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Incoming police chief shoots woman while trying to kill her dog
06-27-2013
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Rawstory
A woman in North Carolina says that the incoming police chief in one town did not react to provide immediate assistance after accidentally shooting her while trying to kill her allegedly aggressive dog.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
George Zimmerman Witness Can't Say Who Threw First Punch
06-27-2013
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ABC News
In a painfully embarrassing moment, Jeantel was forced to admit she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with Martin moments before he was shot. West asked her to read
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Treasury: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups, just 6 progressive groups
06-27-2013
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Washington Times
Refuting Democratic suggestions that progressive groups were also swept up in the IRS probe of the tax status of Tea Party organizations, the Treasury Department's inspector general has revealed that just 6 progressive groups
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Park Police lost track of thousands of weapons, inspector general’s report says
06-27-2013
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Washington Post
The US Park Police lost track of thousands of handguns, rifles and machine guns in the latest example of mismanagement on a police force trusted to protect millions of visitors to the city’s iconic monuments.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Justice Dept. targets general in leak probe
06-27-2013
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Washington Post
A retired four-star Marine Corps general who served as the nation’s second-ranking military officer is a target of a Justice Department investigation into a leak of information about a covert U.S.-Israeli cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear program.
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News Link • NeoCons
Jeb Presents Hillary Neo Con of the Year Award
06-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Neo conservatism does not just cross party lines, it is the party line. Both major US parties share the same foreign policy, which is “humanitarian interventionism,” pushing “democracy” at the barrel of a gun, militarized diplomacy, covert and overt
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Stockman Takes On the Fed’s Easy-Money Policies"and the World
06-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A great in-depth article on David Stockman, gadfly, revolutionary, Washington insider/outsider, and friend of Against Crony Capitalism.
The entire establishment hates Mr. Stockman because for the most part he is right, and that means bad things fo
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News Link • Surveillance
License Plate Readers Are Photographing You Everywhere
06-27-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
What are police departments doing with all that data?
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
California Man Cleared After Contaminated Paramedic Equipment Found...
06-27-2013
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http://jonathanturley.org, JONATHAN TURLEY
There is an interesting story out of San Jose where a man was falsely accused of being an accomplice to murder despite being in a hospital at the time of the crime.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Michael Hastings Told He Would Be Hunted Down and Killed over McChrystal Story
06-27-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kit Daniels
Friends and family call for independent investigation into journalist’s obvious murder.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Recall of Second Anti-Gun Senator in Colorado Certified to Proceed
06-27-2013
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http://www.ammoland.com
Pueblo Grass Roots Group Makes More State History* With Successful Recall Effort
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
06-27-2013
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Wired.com
On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing.....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower
06-27-2013
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Wired.com
Today’s revelations that the National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans provides startling evidence for the first time to support a whistleblower’s .......
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