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Date Sent: 2014-01-14
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
Police officers not guilty in murder of Kelly Thomas
Aspiring Deputy Coming Under Fire for Vowing to Beat Citizens for the “Sheer Joy of It” -- 'You Should Have Shot the Son of a Bitch': Listen to Police Joke About Murdering a Black Man -- Man With Disassembled Airsoft Gun Shot In Head By Police -- Blogger’s indefinite incarceration raises First Amendment questions -- I told him I would not recite the Pledge -- Congress Defers to President on NSA Reform -- Defeat the Israel
Lobby -- Cop threatens to shoot lawful concealed carry owner, then
arrests him! ... -- Conscripted Into Obamacare, I Conscientiously Object -- Top Ten Ways Ariel Sharon Ruined Israel and the Middle East -- Big money behind war: the military-industrial complex -- NSA Surveillance Rarely Useful, Study Shows -- No Jobs For Americans -- This African Fish Can Catch and Eat Flying Birds -- When Did America Turn Into the Soviet Union? -- Well-Preserved, 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In South Florida -- Maliki: Army Won’t Attack Fallujah -- Californians Sign Petition Allowing U.S. Troops to Commandeer Their Homes -- How Putin Conquered South Africa -- Bitcoin is coming to Texas -- Another N.J. mayor faced reprisal over Christie, files suggest -- Video of the Day: Virgin Galactic's third powered flight -- Out in the Open: An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent -- Supercomputer models one second of human brain activity -- Millions at Fatal Risk as Fukushima Radiation Poisons Pacific -- I Spent Two Hours Talking With the NSA’s Bigwigs. Here’s What Has Them Mad -- The Sentencing of Adam Kokesh -- NSA’s Preference for Metadata
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014 Meetup
CA: 5th Annual Southern Calif Libertarian Regional
Conference Jan 18, 2014 Noon-5 p.m. Ontario, CA
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Live: Police officers not guilty in killing of Kelly Thomas
01-13-2014
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Los Angeles Times
An Orange County jury found 2 former Fullerton police officers accused of killing a schizophrenic homeless man, Kelly Thomas, not guilty. Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli were charged with striking Kelly Thomas with a baton and a stun gun in a beating
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Aspiring Deputy Coming Under Fire for Vowing to Beat Citizens for the “Sheer Joy of It”
01-13-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
On one hand, Darren Redding has everything it takes to become a law enforcement officer. He is aggressive, has a military background and doesn’t think too highly of citizens expressing their First Amendment rights.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
'You Should Have Shot the Son of a Bitch': Listen to Police Joke About Murdering a Black Man
01-13-2014
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Alternet
The ease of their voices shocked me: a white district attorney and a white police officer shooting the breeze, discussing how they could have killed a black arrestee whose case was causing them trouble.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man With Disassembled Airsoft Gun Shot In Head By Police
01-13-2014
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Officer Gilette observed a “suspicious” vehicle parked outside a local 24-hour car wash while on a 3 a.m. routine patrol. After surveying the situation for one hour, Gilette decided to approach the vehicle, occupied by 23-year-old Rocendo Arias.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
No Holds Barred: Bar Mitzva in Judea and Samaria
01-13-2014
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Shmuley Boteach
We’ve decided to dedicate the bar mitzva of our second son to life in the communities of Judea and Samaria, with guests and family from Hebron, Itamar, Eli, Gush Etzion, Har Bracha.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Blogger’s indefinite incarceration raises First Amendment questions
01-13-2014
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New York Times
For more than six years, Roger Shuler has hounded figures of Alabama’s legal and political establishment on his blog, Legal Schnauzer. But even those who longed for his muzzling did not see this coming: Shuler sitting in jail indefinitely.
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News Link • Activism
I told him I would not recite the Pledge...
01-13-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by turling
My pastor asked to talk to me. In an interview, he asked if I would be the Scout Master in my church for the boys in my area.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress Defers to President on NSA Reform
01-13-2014
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original.antiwar.com
Congress’s decline from the Founders’ vision as “first among equals” in government to an echo chamber of the unitary executive, has been a slow but steady process.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Cop threatens to shoot lawful concealed carry owner, then arrests him! ...
01-13-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Barracuda Trader
Cop threatens to shoot lawful concealed carry owner, then arrests him! Officer now facing a federal lawsuit! (VIDEO)
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News Link • Healthcare
Conscripted Into Obamacare, I Conscientiously Object
01-13-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Robin Koerner
I have been trying to work out why I am so upset about Obamacare.
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News Link • Israel
Top Ten Ways Ariel Sharon Ruined Israel and the Middle East
01-13-2014
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http://www.juancole.com, By Juan Cole
Arik Scheinerman, who became Ariel Sharon, was from a Russian family that emigrated to Palestine at a time when Palestinians had been deprived of the right to set immigration policy into their own country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Big money behind war: the military-industrial complex
01-13-2014
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aljazeera.com
More than 50 years after President Eisenhower's warning, Americans find themselves in perpetual war.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
No Jobs For Americans
01-13-2014
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http://www.thedailybell.com, Paul Craig Roberts
The alleged recovery took a direct hit from Friday's payroll jobs report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy created 74,000 net new jobs in December.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
This African Fish Can Catch and Eat Flying Birds
01-13-2014
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popsci.com
There were rumors that the African tigerfish could catch and eat flying birds, but it hadn't been proven until now.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
When Did America Turn Into the Soviet Union?
01-13-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Bill Binney is the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information. A 32-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency, Binney was the senior technical director within the agency
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News Link • Archaeology
Well-Preserved, 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In South Florida
01-13-2014
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popsci.com
The skeleton represents "perhaps the best-preserved remains of an ancient human uncovered in the past 40 years."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Maliki: Army Won’t Attack Fallujah
01-13-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Praises Tribal Leaders for Efforts to Oust al-Qaeda
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
CES 2014: Scanadu's Real-Life Tricorder [Video]
01-13-2014
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popsci.com
All this week, we'll be showing off the coolest, most futuristic, and strangest gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show. Here we have the Scanadu Scout. Check it out in this video to see how it is able to read your vital signs -- without ever havi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Outdoor Recreation
Drift Trike em 25KM
01-13-2014
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http://www.youtube.com, Adriano Ramos
Another great conviviality of trikes the island of Porto Santo and Madeira Organised by AFtuning (Arsidio Faria) with large drift beautiful moments and good roads to pique been going on since Encumeada up to Rosario and Encumeada until the Serra de A
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin is coming to Texas
01-13-2014
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http://texasbitcoinconference.com
Bitcoin is clearly the most exciting Internet protocol today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Another N.J. mayor faced reprisal over Christie, files suggest
01-13-2014
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New York Times
After Fulop told Christie aides on July 18 that he would not endorse the governor, the commissioners began calling to cancel. Almost all cancellations came within an hour, and the remaining ones followed close on their heels.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Sky Whale concept is a three-deck aircraft with serious moves
01-13-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
The latest aviation concept from the mind of designer Oscar Viñals, the Sky Whale looks more like something thought up for the Transformers movie franchise than a legitimate aircraft. But all those curves and extra ducts are actually precisely positi
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Could a Mix of Sand and Pee Be a Super-Green Replacement for Concrete?
01-13-2014
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Wired.com
Our built world is full of dirty secrets. So many of the things we imagine to have little impact on our environment turn out to be remarkably unsustainable.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Video of the Day: Virgin Galactic's third powered flight
01-13-2014
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http://www.dvice.com, Evan Ackerman
2014 may not seem like the future anymore, but it's going to be the very first year that humanity will have deployed a commercial sub-orbital transportation system, which is a pretty darn futuristic thing to have going on.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Out in the Open: An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent
01-13-2014
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Wired.com
When mass political protests erupted throughout Brazil in June, Miguel Freitas did what countless others did: He followed the news on Twitter. Tweets revealed information he couldn’t get anywhere else, including the mainstream media.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Supercomputer models one second of human brain activity
01-13-2014
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http://www.telegraph.co, By Matthew Sparkes
The most accurate simulation of the human brain ever has been carried out, but a single second’s worth of activity took one of the world’s largest supercomputers 40 minutes to calculate
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Pivothead video sunglasses get SMART with live streaming and modular architecture
01-13-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. Weiss
Already one of the most intriguing combinations of sunglasses and camera technology available, Pivothead glasses just got a little SMARTer. The Pivothead SMART debuted at CES 2014, combining 1080p filming with a new suite of wearable technologies. Th
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News Link • Inventions
Hands-on with the 3Doodler
01-13-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Jonathan Fincher
It's been almost a year since the 3Doodler debuted on Kickstarter, raising a whopping US$2.3 million in the process, and since then we've been curious to see just exactly what a "3D drawing pen" can do.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Millions at Fatal Risk as Fukushima Radiation Poisons Pacific
01-13-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Angela Davis
Nuclear regulators on Friday called on Japan’s plant operator TEPCO to address rising radiation levels near the crippled Fukushima reactors that have jumped to 7.8 millisieverts, causing a great deal of panic across the Pacific.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Capital Punishment for Traffic Violations
01-13-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By William Norman Grig
There are times when a jester is a prophet who uses comedy as a delivery vehicle for dangerous truths. Perhaps that’s what happened decades ago when Steve Martin, in one of his stand-up routines, suggested that the crime rate could be radically reduc
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News Link • Surveillance
I Spent Two Hours Talking With the NSA’s Bigwigs. Here’s What Has Them Mad
01-13-2014
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Wired.com
My expectations were low when I asked the National Security Agency to cooperate with my story on the impact of Edward Snowden’s leaks on the tech industry.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
“Taxes are expropriation”
01-13-2014
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lewrockwell.com
The anarcho-libertarian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues for a state-free society. Where government has, for example, no right to compel the citizens to pay taxes to finance armed forces.
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
The Sentencing of Adam Kokesh
01-13-2014
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Facebook Events
I have to go back to court in Washington, DC on January 17th and could be sentenced to up to 7.5 years. It would really mean a lot to me to have you standing behind me on this most important day.
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA’s Preference for Metadata
01-13-2014
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Consortium News
The hidden ball in the debate over the NSA’s collection of phone and e-mail metadata (vs. tapping into actual conversations with a court order) is that the NSA actually prefers the metadata approach because it strips away privacy more efficiently, sa
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News Link • Family
Swearing toddler seen in Nebraska ‘thug’ video taken into protective custody
01-10-2014
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Rawstory
A diapered toddler seen repeating profanities in an online video has been taken into protective custody by authorities in Nebraska, police said. The video was posted by the Omaha Police Officers Association under a title, “The Thug Cycle,” that
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ark. Lt. Gov. Says He'll Resign Over Ethics Case
01-10-2014
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AP
Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mark Darr said Friday he would leave office Feb. 1, giving in to pressure from Democrats and fellow Republicans who said his impeachment was inevitable over ethics violations tied to his campaign and office spending.
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News Link • TERRORISM
From Syria to Stateside: New Al Qaeda Threat to US Homeland
01-10-2014
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ABC News
Dozens of people from the US who fought in Syria [with US permission] have returned home and are under FBI surveillance, but American officials fear that they haven't identified all of them, several senior officials told ABC News.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Killing of boy, 4, by US troops frays Afghan ties further
01-10-2014
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AFP
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned US troops for killing a four-year-old boy in the southern province of Helmand, in a fresh strain to troubled relations between Washington and Kabul.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 12, 2014 Edition
01-10-2014
John Semmens
GOP Bill on Obamacare ID Theft Irks White House
A Republican bill that would require the Department of Health and Human Services to inform persons whose identities may have been stolen via the Obamacare website was roundly criticized as “defamator
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Indian diplomat leaves U.S. amid grand jury indictment for visa fraud
01-10-2014
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AFP
An Indian diplomat, whose arrest in New York sparked a bitter row, left the United States Thursday as she was hit with charges over treatment of her servant, prosecutors said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Air Force nuclear officers investigated for drug possession
01-10-2014
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AFP
Two US Air Force officers in charge of launching nuclear missiles are under investigation for possessing illegal drugs, officials said Thursday, in the latest setback for the country’s nuclear force. The two officers, assigned to Malmstrom Air Force
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News Link • Torture
Chicago man sues after cops allegedly tortured him and raped him with a gun
01-10-2014
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Rawstory
A 32-year-old documentary filmmaker alleges that Chicago police beat him and sodomized him with the barrel of a gun in order to intimidate him into acting as an informant. The purported police brutality survivor said that he wants to keep what happen
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News Link • Free Trade
After 20 Years of NAFTA Poverty, Lawmakers Move to Fast-Track TPP
01-10-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org
'The Trans-Pacific Partnership would be an unmitigated disaster for everything from the environment to internet freedom and working families'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery'
01-10-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org
Cuts to food stamps and jobless benefits predictable result of 'neoliberal assault' on American people
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