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Date Sent: 2013-07-25
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
Analysis: How much is Fed aid to U.S. corporate profits worth?
Why Was Michael Hastings Murdered? -- 07-25-13 -- Ernest from the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference in Albuquerque, NM (MP3 LOADED) -- T. Rex Was Ferocious Predator, Not Scavenger -- Irish watchdog won't probe U.S. firms over continuing spying on its citizens -- Dramatic CCTV: Moment of Santiago high-speed train crash caught on
tape -- Nanotechnology Regulation -- LHC Discovery Maims Supersymmetry,
Again -- Who Controls The Global Economy? Do Not Underestimate The Power Of The Big Banks -- Hackers Break into Smartphones to Access Your Bank Account -- Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas -- After 226 years, a constitutional answer to a controversial question -- Debt Levels Are Skyrocketing To Extremely Dangerous Levels – How Long Can This Possibly Keep Going? -- Derailment at Port of Tampa -- At least 78 killed, 131 injured, in Spain train disaster -- Obama Plans Full-Scale War on Syria -- Daniel McGowan: Victimized by US Injustice -- What’s Really Priced into the Housing Market’s Gains
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Analysis: How much is Fed aid to U.S. corporate profits worth?
07-25-2013
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Reuters
Many on Wall Street believe the Federal Reserve's monetary policy is behind record corporate earnings and the stock market's surge to all-time highs this year.
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Robert Lee
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Reference Link • Corruption
Why Was Michael Hastings Murdered?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Part one of this series demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that Michael Hastings was murdered and his body was cremated to cover up the crime. This part tells why he was murdered.
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News Link • Science
T. Rex Was Ferocious Predator, Not Scavenger
07-25-2013
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arclein
A plant-eating dinosaur found with a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth lodged in its the tail of a plant-eating dinosaur has confirmed what scientists long suspected: T. rex was a predator.
The tooth was discovered in the tail of a hadrosaur that lived abou
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robert klein
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News Link • Surveillance
Irish watchdog won't probe U.S. firms over continuing spying on its citizens
07-25-2013
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Reuters
A watchdog in Ireland, home to the European headquarters of Apple and Facebook, says it will not investigate them for transferring personal data to a U.S. spy agency BECAUSE they have signed up to EU privacy principles. lol
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
Why Cities Are Safer Than Rural Areas: 5 Surprising Facts
07-25-2013
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news.nationalgeographic.com
A new study analyzes risk of car accidents, shootings, and other injuries.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Dramatic CCTV: Moment of Santiago high-speed train crash caught on tape
07-25-2013
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youtube
A high-speed train has derailed outside Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, leaving at least 78 people dead and 178 injured.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
BarEye App Lets You Buy And Send Drinks From Your Phone
07-25-2013
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techcrunch.com
BarEye, a social nightlife app that helps you purchase drinks at partner bars, is expanding after its pilot in Tallahassee to five major U.S. cities: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and Austin.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Google launches Chromecast low-cost TV dongle
07-25-2013
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bbc.co.uk
Google has announced a low-cost competitor to Apple TV - a "dongle" device called Chromecast.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Will Video Games Bootstrap Space Exploration of Possible Earths?
07-25-2013
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prweb.com
‘Starship Congress’ Convenes With Scientists, Researchers This August in Tx; Eve Online, Ouya, Unity3d Among Sponsors of 1st Interstellar Science Summit
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
LHC Discovery Maims Supersymmetry, Again
07-25-2013
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news.discovery.com
This is one discovery that will likely excite and disappoint physicists in equal measure. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientists have confirmed the detection of an ultra-rare subatomic decay for the first time, a decay that is predicted by the Standa
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Who Controls The Global Economy? Do Not Underestimate The Power Of The Big Banks
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Are the big banks really as powerful as some people say that they are? Do they really control the global economy? If y0u asked most people, they would tell you that governments control the global economy. But the campaigns of our politicians are f
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers Break into Smartphones to Access Your Bank Account
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Security Research Labs (SRL) states that SIM cards in smartphones could be utilized by hackers to gather online banking account information.
Indeed, an estimated 500 million subscriber identity module (SIM) cards have been identified as having vul
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas
07-25-2013
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Reason Magazine
Hanners blew the whistle on the department’s tactics and was eventually fired for refusing to comply and keep quiet. Each officer was required to make 100 contacts each month, which included tickets, arrests, field interviews, and warnings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
After 226 years, a constitutional answer to a controversial question
07-25-2013
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National Constitution Center
Who in government decides whether the U.S. will recognize the legitimacy of another nation’s government? Many have long assumed that the answer was: the President. George Washington thought that, and so have his successors.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Debt Levels Are Skyrocketing To Extremely Dangerous Levels " How Long Can This Possibly Keep Going?
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Never before has the world faced such a serious debt crisis. Yes, in the past there have certainly been nations that have gotten into trouble with debt, but we have never had a situation where virtually all of the major powers around the globe were
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
In a Close Vote, Congress Shamefully Defeats Amendment That Sought to Curtail NSA Surveillance
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The US House of Representatives came within a few votes of passing a novel amendment that attempted to strike out funding for the highly contentious NSA calling records surveillance program. Under this program, the NSA acquires the records of who you
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Transportation
Derailment at Port of Tampa
07-25-2013
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cbsnews.com
Firefighters in Florida are using foam to try prevent ethanol from igniting at the scene of a freight train derailment at the Port of Tampa.
The ethanol was leaking from three cars of a CSX freight train that left the tracks early Thursday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
At least 78 killed, 131 injured, in Spain train disaster
07-25-2013
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Reuters
A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday night, on the eve of a major religious festival, killing at least 78 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business Network Freedom Summit
What’s Really Priced into the Housing Market’s Gains
07-24-2013
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http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/
Over the past couple of months, the data regarding economic growth in America has been mixed, but improving. It is important to note that many of the sectors that have improved are primarily related to lower interest rates that have been engineered b
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William Briat
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
OccupyHomes Rallies Around Homeowners Facing Foreclosure
By Claire Glass, Truthout | Report
07-23-2013
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17579-occupyhom
"The basis of the Eviction Free Zone is that it's politically impossible to carry out eviction for every family facing eviction," Gray said "In our neighborhood [there have] been 835 since 2007, and it's just three or four square miles. The vas
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Liberty Slipping: 10 Things You Could Do in 1975 That You Can't Do Now
07-23-2013
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Economic Policy Journal
In 1975:
1.You could buy an airline ticket and fly ....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
For new U.S. homes, no more mailman at the door under postal plan
07-23-2013
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Reuters
Under a cost-saving plan by the U.S. Postal Service, Americans moving into newly built homes will not have mail delivered to their doors and will instead have to trek to the curb or neighborhood cluster boxes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economics: Agorism
Keynesians vs. Austrians on The Simpsons
07-23-2013
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Economic Policy Journal
Mr. Burns is increasing energy costs and says...I've assembled a team of distinguished economists...and placed plausible rate hike percentages on their backs. We'll use unfettered free market principles to arrive at a number.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Obama, lawmakers square off over NSA authority
07-23-2013
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AP
The White House raised the alarm over a move to end the National Security Agency’s authority under the Patriot Act, preventing the secretive surveillance agency from collecting records unless an individual is under investigation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Sovereign Living: Could You Move Off the Grid?
07-23-2013
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FEE
Meet the Blush family. They represent a growing faction of libertarians that mix the rugged individualism of Spooner with the self-reliance of Thoreau. And they’re making a reality show. You might think they’re crazy. After all,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Don't mess with monks who sell coffins
07-23-2013
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NBC News
How do you get a monk, a funeral director and a libertarian into the same room? Start haggling over the price of a coffin. The Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors is considering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Far Behind Detroit Are the Finance Troubles of Chicago, Los Angeles and Baltimore?
07-23-2013
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Economic Policy Journal
Not that far behind. In fact, the cost per resident to just payoff pension liabilities is greater in Chicago, Los Angeles and Baltimore than in Detroit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Why the Only Real Way to Buy Bitcoins Is on the Streets
07-23-2013
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http://www.wired.com/
Zach Copley is looking for a buyer for his two American Eagle silver coins, worth about $27 each on eBay. Everyone is chatting and compulsively checking market updates on their mobile phones. Copley, a bearded 44-year-old “crypto currency enthusiast”
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Drew
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News Link • China
Death of Chinese Watermelon Vendor Sparks Online Outcry
07-23-2013
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Last week a Chinese farmer died as he tried to sell his watermelon. The farmer, Deng Zhengjia was fined for setting up his stall in an unpermitted location. After moving his stall, urban management officers beat him to death.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
The Biggest Oil Discovery In 50 Years?
07-23-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In a virtually uninhabitable section of South Australia, a discovery has been made which could rock the world. Some are calling it the biggest discovery of oil in 50 years. Earlier this year, a company called Linc Energy announced that tests had re
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
DC Report " Congress to Limit NSA Spying? (Video)
07-23-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Although NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden remains both in exile and in limbo, his disclosures regarding the National Security Agency’s pervasive surveillance program may lead to significant changes on Capitol Hill.
Republican Congressman Justin Am
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
07-23-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The NSA is a “supercomputing powerhouse” with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of d
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
How Does America’s Middle Class Rank Globally? #27
07-23-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
We are number 1 right? USA! USA! No one can beat our wealth creation machine, our economic dynamism, our level playing field and our bastions of higher education. We have a middle class that is the envy of the world, right?
Well, like so much of t
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Ron Paul: Why I'm holding my gold
07-23-2013
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video.cnbc.com
Former Congressman Ron Paul (TX) explains why gold has bottomed. He also weighs in on the Fed Chairman, with CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders, Jeff Kilburg at the CME and Anthony Grisanti at the Nymex.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Art
A Message from your Government
07-23-2013
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Daily Paul.com
A Message from your Government
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
The Drone That Killed My Grandson By Nasser al-Awlaki Published: July 17, 2013
07-23-2013
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Daily Paul.com
"My grandson was killed by his own government. The Obama administration must answer for its actions and be held accountable.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
NSA's Keith Alexander Calls Emergency Private Briefing
07-23-2013
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Huffington Post
The National Security Agency called for a "top secret" meeting with members of the House on Tuesday to lobby against the first House amendment to challenge the agency's authority to cull broad swaths of communications data........
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Italy To Ban GMO Corn With 80% Public Support
07-23-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Italy To Ban GMO Corn With 80% Public Support
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Florida Nurse Terrorized by US Marshals in Warrantless Raid
07-23-2013
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infowars.com
It was a typical evening after work when Sarasota, Fl., resident Louise Goldsberry finished dinner and began to clean up.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Mom Fined for Letting 6-y.o. Walk 2 Blocks with a Friend
07-23-2013
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Free Range Kids
This just happened to me. My six year old daughter and her friend went for a walk on their own and now we are getting a fine. The cop wasn’t at all interested in what we had to say just said we were getting a fine in the MAIL. In PA there are no laws
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How to Fix Detroit in 6 Easy Steps
07-23-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
I have a plan that would cost the state of Michigan nothing " not a cent. It wouldn’t cost DC anything either, and it would turn Detroit into the most thriving city in North America. As a bonus, it would give the remaining property owners in Detroit
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
#2 Homeland Security official probed
07-23-2013
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AP
President Barack Obama's choice to be the No. 2 official at the Homeland Security Department is under investigation for his role in helping a company run by a brother of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Al Qaeda says it freed 500 inmates in Iraq jail-break
07-23-2013
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Reuters
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation, one of its most brazen in Iraq.
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News Link • Corruption
Witness bolsters SEC case against Fabrice Tourre
07-23-2013
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Reuters
A key witness in the fraud trial of former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre said Tuesday she believed hedge fund Paulson & Co Inc planned to invest in a 2007 mortgage deal at the center of the trial.
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Feature Article • Food
Labeling non-GMO food; why it’s a bad idea
Goshe King
It is a criminal offense to label one’s products organic without prior approval of the USDA/FDA. Rumor has it that it costs ten thousand dollars in application fees to apply for a license in order to label food items organic, commonly seen as USDA Ce
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
A Legal Bane of Wall Street Switches Sides
By BEN PROTESS and PETER LATTMAN
07-23-2013
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http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/a-legal-ban
Six months later, lawyers briefed on the matter say, Mr. Khuzami has accepted a job that pays more than $5 million a year at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the nation’s biggest corporate law firms. In doing so, he is following the quintessential Washington
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Mike Brosnahan
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Opinion • Entertainment: Movies
The Libertarian Enterprise
Alongside Night: The Motion Picture
07-23-2013
L. Neil Smith
A great deal of Alongside Night's effect rests on Kevin Sorbo's Herculean shoulders. He brings to the work a look and feel of style and grace, of warmth and strength, of gravitas and dignity that it might otherwise have lacked. He's the real thing.
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News Link • Activism
Tucson's GLOBAL MARCH AGAINST CHEMTRAILS info
07-23-2013
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Chris Haskell
In todays video of Geo-Engineering over Tucson, (07/23/2013) I am talking about the first Tucson Chemtrail Activist meeting on July 28th 2013 at 3:00pm at DeAnza Park (SE Corner of Speedway blvd. and Stone) So if you live in Tucson or surrounding are
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Energy
Spain Privatizes The Sun: Multi Millon Dollar Penalties For Collecting Sunlight
07-23-2013
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Govt Slaves
If you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use you can drop a fine not exceeding 30 million.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Syria
U.S. and European weapons in the hands of Assad supporters
07-23-2013
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YouTube.Com
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern: "There is an interest to keep the pot boiling, to keep sunni and shia at each other's throats not only within Syria but within the whole area. There are enough weapons now to go around".
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Hyperloop and Friends: Why Don't We Have Super-High-Speed Rail Already?
07-23-2013
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popularmechanics.com
Engineers for decades have dreamed of transit systems that can go faster than ordinary MagLev and approach speeds of many hundreds of miles per hour, like Elon Musk has proposed with this forthcoming Hyperloop proposal. So why don't we have them yet?
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