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Date Sent: 2013-10-10
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, October 10, 2013 |
Libya's premier abducted in sign of chaos -- Obama brings chilling effect on journalism
Texas: Federal Judge Scolds Cop For Bogus Left Lane Stop -- Illinois Police Throw
Woman Face First Into Concrete Bench Then Charge Her With Resisting
Arrest -- Officials Declare Azerbaijan President Winner The Day Before
The Election -- Judge: Only The “Foolish” Calls ANY Drug Crime “Nonviolent” -- 10-10-13 -- Jacob Hornberger - Carla Gericke - Max Kane (MP3 &
VIDEO LOADED) -- You do NOT have to comply with
Obamascam! SCOTUS Decision: media blackout! -- Arkansas Legalizes Sale
of Raw Milk Directly From Farms -- The
Future is Organic and Local -- Taliban Mocks Shutdown: Lawmakers ‘Sucking The Blood
Of Their Own People’ -- Uncomfortable Thoughts on Dread Pirate
Roberts -- We’re
not gonna take it! Americans use 1st Amendment to storm shutdown
barriers -- Former Detroit Mayor Braces for Long Sentence -- How the
FBI Manipulates Grand Juries to Intimidate Political Dissidents and
Radicals -- Unholy Alliance -- The United States of Inequality
AZ: Grand Canyon Clean Up October Sundays 13th
& 20th -- Freedom Under the Stars! Jordan Page playing in
Tempe, AZ - Oct 18th, 2013; FREEDOM SUMMIT 2014
REGISTRATION Announcement
Upcoming March Against Monsanto to take place October 12
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News Link • Libya
Libya premier briefly abducted in sign of chaos
10-10-2013
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AP
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan was kidnapped by gunmen who snatched him from his hotel and held him for several hours Thursday in apparent retaliation for a U.S. special forces raid that captured an al-Qaida suspect in the capital last weekend.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Report: Obama brings chilling effect on journalism
10-10-2013
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AP
The U.S. government's aggressive prosecution of leaks and efforts to control information are having a chilling effect on journalists and government whistle-blowers, according to a report released Thursday on U.S. press freedoms under the Obama admini
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Freedom Under the Stars! Jordan Page playing in Tempe, AZ - Oct 18th, 2013
09-24-2013
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Free Tempe
My friends, I am thrilled to announce that the one and only Mr. Jordan Page is on his way to Tempe Arizona to help my campaign! (Matt Papke, Candidate for Tempe City Council)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Texas: Federal Judge Scolds Cop For Bogus Left Lane Stop
10-10-2013
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The Newspaper
A federal judge on Monday ruled that a Texas state trooper violated the law when he pulled over a motorist for driving too slowly in the fast lane. After reviewing the facts, Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded this had been an unlawful stop.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Illinois Police Throw Woman Face First Into Concrete Bench Then Charge Her With Resisting Arrest
10-10-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Feuerstein asks to call her husband and kids. Officer Michael Hart calls her out of the cell, and less than 20 seconds later, the video shows Hart throwing the 110-pound woman back into the cell " face-first into a cement bench.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Officials Declare Azerbaijan President Winner The Day Before The Election
10-10-2013
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Jonathan Turley
“Victory first, votes second.” The authoritarian regime was slightly embarrassed when the state media released the results of the election showing Aliyev winning with 72.76 percent of the vote. The problem is that the polls had not opened yet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Only The “Foolish” Call Drug Crimes “Nonviolent”
10-10-2013
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Simple Justice
A post by United States District Judge Richard Kopf in which he says, "The drug crimes prosecuted in the federal courts are always violent, and I mean that literally. When you distribute a substance that you know is poison to another person
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
You do NOT have to comply with Obamascam! SCOTUS Decision: media blackout!
10/10/2013
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http://godlikedproductions.com
You do NOT have to comply with obamascam! 2 near the bottom!
Page 2 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS v. SEBELIUS
Syllabus-------Held: The judgment is affirmed in part and reversed in part.
2. Chief justice Roberts concluded in part III
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Agriculture
Arkansas Legalizes Sale of Raw Milk Directly From Farms
10-10-2013
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arclein
The bill will allow for the incidental sale of locally-produced raw milk directly from the farm, given that the farmer posts a sign at the entrance to the farm indicating that its milk products are not pasteurized or regulated by the state.
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robert klein
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News Link • History
The War on the Cathars
10-10-2013
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arclein
Catharism, endorsed by the local nobility, became a popular alternative to the Catholic Church. The likes of the Count of Toulouse " one of the most important rulers of Southern France " supported Catha
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
The Future is Organic and Local
10-10-2013
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arclein
In June, researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand concluded that the GM strategy used in North American staple crop production is limiting yields and increasing pesticide use compared to non-GM farming in Western Europe. Led by Prof
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Supervolcanoes on Mars
10-10-2013
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arclein
Billions of years ago, Martian supervolcanoes could have discharged hundreds of cubic miles' worth of magma until the surface around the volcanoes collapsed, leaving deep, irregular craters behind, Michalski and Bleacher suggested.
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robert klein
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Quadski
10-03-2013
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Translogic
The Gibbs Quadski goes where no personal off-road vehicle has gone before: the water. With the push of a button, the Quadski can transform from a land-loving ATV to a water-going jet ski.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Taliban Mocks Shutdown: Lawmakers ‘Sucking The Blood Of Their Own People’
10-10-2013
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CBS News
“The American people should realize that their politicians play with their destinies as well as the destinies of other oppressed nations for the sake of their personal vested interests,” the Taliban said in a statement.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
We’re not gonna take it! Americans use 1st Amendment to storm shutdown barriers
10-10-2013
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Washington Times
Taking their lead from veterans who pushed through the barricades to visit the World War II Memorial, Americans nationwide are defying the federal government shutdown, tossing aside traffic cones and toppling wooden fences to get to national parks
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Former Detroit Mayor Braces for Long Sentence
10-10-2013
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AP
While the city's finances foundered, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was shaking down contractors, ensuring that a pal got millions in city work and turning a nonprofit fund to help struggling Detroiters into a personal slush fund,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
How the FBI Manipulates Grand Juries to Intimidate Political Dissidents and Radicals
10-10-2013
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Alternet
Koch's partner, Amanda Clarke, will tell you that all prisoners are political prisoners. Koch, however, fits a more traditional definition of the term. He has not been charged with or convicted of any crime. Legally, his incarceration is not consider
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Activism
Obama Is Trying to Provoke a Revolution
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The Government shutdown has revealed a very ugly side of Obama as he is attacking America's most vulnerable citizens. It is like he is trying to provoke a revolution, so he can assume total control.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance
10-08-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
These days, it is far too easy to rattle off the outrageous examples of zero tolerance policy run amok in our nation’s schools.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Dollar Era Drawing to its End
10-08-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
At the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg the discussion of U.S. aggression against Syria overshadowed the economic issues.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
‘Big Lender’ China Urges US to Avoid Bankruptcy
10-08-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
As the Government shutdown in the US enters its second week, the country is just 10-days away from default, and the country’s main creditor China has urged Washington to take decisive steps to avoid bankruptcy and ensure safety of Chinese investments
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA GOVERNMENT REFERENCES
Senate Report: Judges, Doctors Run Disability Scam
10-8-2013
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/10/senate-r
A group of corrupt judges, doctors and lawyers for years operated a scheme that approved bogus U.S. government disability benefits worth billions of dollars, according to an astonishing new report made public this week by Congress
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Supreme Owner Made a Billionaire Feeding U.S. War Machine
10-08-2013
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bloomberg.com
Chemical warfare and car bombings are just a few of the hazards working in war-torn countries such as Iraq and Syria. For Supreme Group BV, it’s the cost of doing business.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
'Gestapo' tactics meet senior citizens at Yellowstone
10-08-2013
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“We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. “It was like they brought out the armed forces. Nobody was saying, ‘we’re sorry,’ it was all like " ” as she clenched her fist and banged it against her f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
CMU Researchers Claim To Have Created Messaging App Even NSA Can’t Crack
10-08-2013
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CBS News
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a smartphone messaging app with security that not even the NSA can break. The app is called SafeSlinger, and is free on the iTunes store, and Google play store for Android phones.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drones
Why America Wants Drones That Can Kill Without Humans
10-08-2013
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Drones may have the technical ability to make lethal decisions autonomously: to respond to a programmed set of inputs, select a target and fire their weapons without a human reviewing or checking the result. Yet the idea is sparking controversy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Remember Obama’s 2006 thoughts on raising the Debt Ceiling?
10-08-2013
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The Blaze
As debates in D.C. continue to rage over the debt ceiling, and the continuing resolution to fund the government…we are reminded of the words of one Democratic Senator when a similar argument was taking place back in 2006.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
US adults are dumber than the average human
10-08-2013
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AP
It’s long been known that America’s school kids haven’t measured well compared with international peers. Now, there’s a new twist: Adults don’t either.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Obamacare Faces Union Revolt
10-08-2013
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arclein
"If the 'Affordable Care Act' is not fixed, and it destroys the health and welfare funds that we have all fought for and stand for, then I believe it needs to be repealed," emphasized O'Sullivan during a firm rebuke of the crafty and malicious g
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate Report Scientists Told to Cover Up
10-08-2013
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arclein
The report is the result of six years’ work by UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is seen as the world authority on the extent of climate change and what is causing it " on which governments including Britain’s base their gr
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani girl shot by Taliban, under new death threat
10-08-2013
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Fox News
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who inspired the world after surviving a Taliban bullet to the head, has again been targeted for death by the militant group.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Carter: Middle class today resembles past's poor
10-08-2013
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AP
Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that the income gap in the United States has increased to the point where members of the middle class resemble the Americans who lived in poverty when he occupied the White House.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Did Obama swap 'black' detention sites for ships?
10-08-2013
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AP
If a terrorist was sent directly to court, the government might never know what intelligence he had. With the black sites closed and Obama refusing to send more people to Guantanamo, it wasn't obvious where to hold people for interrogation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Buffett reaps $10 billion from crisis-era investments
10-07-2013
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CNBC
When most panicked during the financial crisis, Warren Buffett invested, reaping more than $10 billion. Tightening credit markets in 2008 caused 6 major companies to take $26 billion in loans from Buffett and his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drones
Aerospace Company Develops Drone That Can Fly Continuously For 5 Years
10-07-2013
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CBS News
An aerospace company has presented its design “atmospheric satellites” that fly at 65,000 feet and provide drone-like services such as live-mapping and monitoring narcotics trafficking. Such drones: which can fly continuously for nearly 5 years,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Leaked Snowden docs show Canada spied on Brazil’s Mining and Energy Ministry
10-07-2013
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AFP
Canada spied on communications at Brazil’s Mining and Energy Ministry, according to Canadian intelligence documents revealed Sunday by Globo television.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
News That Amazes Me
10-07-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Today and every day, there is news that amazes me. It doesn’t amaze me compared with what I expect of today’s crazy America or of the American Empire. It amazes me compared with what I used to expect some years back, when America
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
It's A Pip!
10-07-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
The vote to try to take our guns away failed, 53 to 46: good news, except it means 46 Senators were willing to sacrifice American sovereignty to the New World Order, and sell 300 million Americans into chattel slavery to a pack of thugs and gangsters
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
What Law Will Be Named After Christian Adamek?
10-07-2013
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Simple Justice
Christian Adamek, 15, hanged himself and died this morning from his injuries, Madison County Coroner said. Adamek’s death came less than a week after he was arrested for streaking across the Sparkman High football field during a football game
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News Link • Healthcare
Obamacare's Bottom Line
10-07-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
There's a time-honored saying that probably goes back to ancient Sumeria: "Everything government touches turns to shit." Nowhere is it truer than with the notion that government ought to own and control medicine.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Job Description: Prosecutor
10-07-2013
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Simple Justice
When Rick Horowitz and Jeff Gamso ripped the decision of Sam D’Aquilla, District Attorney of Lousisiana’s 20th Judicial District and the brains behind reindicting Herman Wallace in the hours before his death from cancer, they noted
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News Link • Eminent Domain
Rampant Eminent Domain Abuse In Philadelphia Neighborhood
10/7/2013
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Stateless Statements
In the city of Philadelphia, a group of property owners are rightfully outraged by the local government’s attempts to forcibly confiscate their rightfully-owned land through the use of eminent domain laws. These property seizures are being conducted
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Nicholas Shankin
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Medical Tourism Could Be The Overseas Alternative To Obamacare
10-07-2013
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Business Insider
Open enrollment for federal health insurance exchanges for the Affordable Care Act is now in effect, and has already seen enough web traffic from Americans trying to compare plans that servers have experienced glitches in areas like Pennsylvania and
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade...
10-07-2013
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS-x5SlcPPM#t=138
As the federal government shutdown continues, Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Asia for secret talks on a sweeping new trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is often referred to by critics as "NAFTA on steroids," and would establ
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Pension-Fund Looters Get Tax Breaks, Too
By Matt Taibbi
10-7-2013
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblo
A few weeks ago, I wrote a feature on pension reform in states like Rhode Island for Rolling Stone. Since the piece was sharply critical of alternative investments like hedge funds, I expected a heated response, and got one right away. In fact, a ser
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Two Washington police officers taken off street in wake of shooting death
10-07-2013
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The Guardian
Two police officers involved in the shooting of unarmed mother Miriam Carey have been removed from street duty, Capitol police said on Monday.
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Leon Felkins
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