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Date Sent: 2014-02-12
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
Obama Threatens Sanctions on France Over Iran Trade -- Death Sentence for a $96 ticket
Liberty Accelerator -- Truman's Doubts on Zionist Palestinian
Arrangements -- UK's car smoking ban may cut passive smoking
by a third -- Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to
rethink environmental folklore -- This Robot Cop Could Bring Disabled Officers
Into The Field -- How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a
Paperwork Error -- The Next Big Thing You Missed: A Would-Be Dropbox Meant to Thwart
the NSA -- Exchange Halts Payouts as DDoS Attack Pummels
Bitcoin -- End of the Line for the Welfare State? -- First 'Cubesats' in
Record-Breaking Fleet Launched from Space Station -- 02-12-14 -- Tarrin Lupo - Adam Kokesh - In Studio - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F,
9-Noon (EST) -- BBC Propaganda: “Why I Want A Microchip Implant” -- Bitcoin Update: "Your
Money May Be 'Tied Up' In Unconfirmed Transactions" -- Stocks rally
on Yellen; best four days for S&P 500 in more than a year -- There Is "No Evidence" We Encouraged Forex Manipulation, Bank of
England Says -- DoD Gave Order to “Destroy” Bin Laden Death
Photos Hours After FOIA Request -- Socialists and
Soros Fight FOR Article V Convention -- The
Phenomenon of the Positive Libertarian -- Elon Musk on state of U.S.
space exploration: Being at Putin's mercy "not a good thing" -- Why
a Convention of States is a DANGER to Our Republic -- Will SpaceX
Super Rocket Kill NASA's 'Rocket to Nowhere'? (Op-Ed) -- NYT Syria
Bashing -- US Intelligence Community Worldwide Threat Assessment
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014, starts
this Friday Feb. 14-16; Memorial for Jack
McLamb, Saturday February 22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine February 2014 Edition
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News Link • Death Penalty
Death Sentence for a $96 ticket. Please share this video.
02-12-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Death Sentence for a $96 ticket. Please share this video.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Liberty Accelerator
02-12-2014
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Liberty Accelerator
We accelerate start-ups with a liberty-oriented message or cause. Sign up to be notified of our first call for applications or other important updates.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Truman's Doubts on Zionist Palestinian Arrangements
02-12-2014
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arclein
To be sure, Truman had no regrets about Israel after he left office. Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion recounted how when, during a meeting in New York in 1961, he praised the former president for his “constant sympathy with our aims in Israel … tear
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robert klein
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore
02-12-2014
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ted.com
Most of us want to do the right thing when it comes to the environment. But things aren’t as simple as opting for the paper bag, says sustainability strategist Leyla Acaroglu. A bold call for us to let go of tightly-held green myths and think bigger
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News Link • TERRORISM
How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error
02-12-2014
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Wired.com
After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Crowdsourced RoboCop Remake Is Not Even Remotely SFW
02-12-2014
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Wired.com
José Padilha’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop opens in theaters tomorrow, but a very different kind of RoboCop has been making the rounds online. Our RoboCop Remake is a crowdsourced remake of the 1987 original, combining the work of more than ..
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News Link • OLYMPICS Sochi Russia Winter 2014
Forget Dystopian Fiction. Sochi Is Pure Dystopian Reality
02-12-2014
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Wired.com
If you’re exhausted by the glut of dystopian literature that has dominated the entertainment world over the last few years, take heart: We’re almost free of its chokehold, but it’s not just because the stories are all starting to look the same.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Next Big Thing You Missed: A Would-Be Dropbox Meant to Thwart the NSA
02-12-2014
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Wired.com
BitTorrent was best known as an internet protocol that let people swap pirated movies and music at the expense of big Hollywood studios and record labels.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bitcoin
Exchange Halts Payouts as DDoS Attack Pummels Bitcoin
02-12-2014
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Wired.com
A second major bitcoin exchange suspended withdrawals on Tuesday, amidst widespread attacks on the vast software system that drives the digital currency.
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News Link • Obamacare
End of the Line for the Welfare State?
02-12-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The Congressional Budget Office did not exactly say Obamacare would cost the nation 2.5 million jobs.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Review: EntroSys BikeAir motorcycle A/C system
02-12-2014
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gizmag.com
As someone who likes to have my skin wrapped around my body rather than smeared up and down the highway, I cringe every time I see a motorcyclist cruise past without suitable protective gear on.
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News Link • Drones
UAE plans to use unmanned drones for document delivery
02-12-2014
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gizmag.com
The United Arab Emirates is set to deploy unmanned drones to deliver official government documents such as driving licenses and identity cards within a year, according to a report from Reuters.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
First 'Cubesats' in Record-Breaking Fleet Launched from Space Station
02-12-2014
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space.com
The world's largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites began taking shape today, as four tiny spacecraft were ejected from the International Space Station.
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
BBC Propaganda: “Why I Want A Microchip Implant”
02-12-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Would you like to have an RFID microchip implanted under your skin? If you are anything like me, you would never allow such a thing to be done. But many others, especially among the younger generations, see things very differently. RFID microchip
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Update: "Your Money May Be 'Tied Up' In Unconfirmed Transactions"
02-12-2014
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zerohedge.com
As the torch of responsibility is rapidly handed off from exchange to exchange to the Bitcoin source code, Gavin Andersen (one of Bitcoin's protocol core developers) explains just what is going on -
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks rally on Yellen; best four days for S&P 500 in more than a year
02-12-2014
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http://www.cnbc.com, By: Kate Gibson
U.S. stocks surged on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising triple digits and the Nasdaq Composite turning positive for the year, as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reassured Wall Street that the Fed would continue the central bank
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
There Is "No Evidence" We Encouraged Forex Manipulation, Bank of England Says
02-12-2014
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zerohedge.com
In what has to be the most disappointing denial of central bank manipulation of a market in recent history, and probably never, the Bank of England today announced that it "has seen no evidence to back media allegations that it condoned or was aware
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
DoD Gave Order to “Destroy” Bin Laden Death Photos Hours After FOIA Request
02-12-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Cover-up: Pentagon desperate to keep images out of public domain
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Socialists and Soros Fight FOR Article V Convention
02-12-2014
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Daily Paul.com
That’s right. George Soros " the financier of global fascism " is pumping millions of dollars into the same Article V campaign that is being promoted by Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and other popular conservative spokesmen.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
The Phenomenon of the Positive Libertarian
02-12-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Alex Jones punched me right in the jaw. I deserved it. I was angry, I was sad, I was pessimistic, and I was miserable. I was a negative libertarian.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk on state of U.S. space exploration: Being at Putin's mercy "not a good thing"
02-12-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, CBSNews.com Web Extras
SpaceX CEO and chief designer Elon Musk says that the U.S. must regain its ability to launch humans into space in order to effectively further its space exploration prospects.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Why a Convention of States is a DANGER to Our Republic
02-12-2014
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Daily Paul.com
The statists who have been ignoring the Constitution are now promoting a Convention of States, which seems to appeal to those looking for an easy way out.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Will SpaceX Super Rocket Kill NASA's 'Rocket to Nowhere'? (Op-Ed)
02-12-2014
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http://www.space.com, R.D. Boozer
The private spaceflight company Space X plans to build a rocket so big it would "make the Apollo moon rocket look small,"the company's CEO, Elon Musk, announced on "CBS This Morning"on Feb. 3.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House Members Renew Call For The Capture Of Snowden As “Traitor” and Spy
02-10-2014
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jonathanturley.org
Members of Congress are shocked, shocked this week. No this Claude Rains moment was not over the hundreds of billions spent on unpopular wars or the creeping economy or the evisceration of civil liberties in America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
A "War Process" Not a "Peace Process": On US Military Aid to Israel
02-10-2014
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http://www.commondreams.org
We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israeli PM meets top ministers over boycott threat
02-10-2014
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AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with three of his top(1/8)ministers to discuss ways to deal with the threat of economic boycotts against Israel, media reported Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Catfish, radios, Christmas tree tax: Meet the pork-filled $956 BILLION Farm Bill
02-10-2014
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Daily Mail
The federal government pays for a $15 million 'wool trust fund,' runs a $170 million program to protect catfish growers from overseas competition, sets aside $3 million to promote Christmas trees, funds another $2 million to help farmers sell
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Civil Rights Lawsuit Alleges Deputies Burned Man's Genitals With Taser Over Littering
02-10-2014
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NBC News
A Southern California man is accusing Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in a federal civil rights lawsuit of attacking him and using a Taser on his genitals while his mother watched. Daniel Johnson, 26, filed the lawsuit in January against
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
“He’s Wearing a Diaper!”: TSA Agent Humiliates Cancer Victim
02-10-2014
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Infowars
A cancer victim who suffers from incontinence was humiliated during an incident last week when a TSA agent loudly announced “he’s wearing a diaper” to waiting travelers, before laughing and subjecting the man to a strip search.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun control activist swears he forgot he was carrying gun while visiting school
02-10-2014
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The Daily Caller
A N.Y. community activist well known for pushing for a highly restrictive 2013 gun control law has been arrested for " wait for it " carrying a gun illegally at a public elementary school. The arrested gun-control advocate caused quite a scene
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News Link • Drones
US suspect possibly targeted for drone attack
02-10-2014
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Breitbart
An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its
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News Link • Bitcoin
Florida seeks to ‘strangle the lifeblood’ of Bitcoin by targeting anonymous transactions
02-10-2014
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Rawstory
In an unprecedented move, authorities in Florida are targeting bitcoin traders simply for purchasing the currency. Unlike previous prosecutions in which Bitcoin users were suspected of participating in other illegal activities, the Miami Beach PD
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News Link • 3D Printing
Meet Cody Wilson " creator of the 3D-gun, anarchist and poster boy for the free web
02-10-2014
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Rawstory
Having lunch with the 14th Most Dangerous Person in the World is less scary than you might think. Unless you happen to have a morbid fear of hipster beards, Cody Wilson, a good-looking 26-year-old who blends with the crowd in the east
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student intervenes as bully beats gay teen, then suspended for 10 days
02-10-2014
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Rawstory
A Florida high school student under suspension for 10 days after breaking up a lunch room assault on a gay teen says he’d do it again.
East Lee County High School senior Mark Betterson stepped in as another student, James Griffin, began striking s
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News Link • Healthcare
Obamacare: The Final Payment
02-10-2014
Since writing “Obamacare: Devils in the Details” posted on this site on February 3, 2013, I have investigated in detail other aspects of the insurance industry’s program to bring health care to Americans. In this article I explain estate recovery to
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Teen charged with distributing child porn for Tweeting nudes of herself
02-09-2014
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Rawstory
A Virginia 16-year-old will face child pornography charges after police allegedly found nude cell phone self-portraits posted to her Twitter account. The James City County Police Department received an anonymous tip about nude selfies on the
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News Link • Mexico
Vigilantes enter ‘crown jewel’ of Mexican drug cartel’s key bastion in Apatzingan
02-09-2014
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AFP
The civilian self-defense forces had their eye on Apatzingan for months, saying it was the "crown jewel" of the Knights Templar gang and a vital trade hub for the region's lime and avocado farmers. Vigilante leader Estanislao Beltran said that hundre
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
221 Percent Increase In One Year? Why Are So Many People Renouncing American Citizenship?
02-09-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The number of Americans that renounced their citizenship was 221 percent higher in 2013 than it was in 2012. That is a staggering figure, and it is symptomatic of a larger trend. In recent years, a lot of really good people with very deep roots in
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News Link • Drug War
Timeline - by A.X. Perez
02-09-2014
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Ca. 2006 or earlier: Mexican Government begins crackdown on drug cartels at behest of US government. Same time period to present: DEA begins various "stings" in which it helps Sinaloa cartel smuggle drugs and money. However, while smuggling
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ain’t that Amerika?
02-09-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
"If you’re 21, male, living in one of these neighborhoods, and you’re not in our computer, then there’s definitely something wrong," insisted VCSU officer Boyer. This isn’t because such people are unjustly abused innocent people, but rather particula
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News Link • Justice and Judges
"In times of war, the laws fall silent."
02-09-2014
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Simple Justice
In a recent speech in Hawaii, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made some interesting predictions about two of the Supreme Court’s most notorious decisions: Kelo v. City of New London and Korematsu v. United States (1944), which upheld
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Think You Can Rely On Your Local Crime Lab For The Unvarnished Truth? Think Again
02-09-2014
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Jonathan Turley
According to the report, nearly every analytical technique, from hair-sampling methods to those used in arson investigation, is unreliable, with too much variability in test results. Only DNA evidence escaped condemnation.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Want to See "Alongside Night" at a Movie Theater Near You?
02-09-2014
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
Alongside Night has just been released into U.S. movie theaters via TUGG.com, a revolutionary distribution model where movie lovers get to put a movie they love into a neighborhood movie theater and make money (for themselves or their cause)
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Family Wants to Know . . .
02-09-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
. . . why a gang of Palm Beach County, Florida cops had to shoot their unarmed and naked son three times, killing him, in order to “apprehend” him after an apparent drug-induced rampage.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Anti-War Goes AWOL: Divide and Conquer in Action
02-09-2014
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
After the election of Obama in 2008, the driving impetus of the anti-war movement evaporated. No longer did it matter that the wars, covert operations, military tribunals and prison torture camps were continuing.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Will No One Challenge Obama’s Executive Orders?
02-09-2014
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
President Obama’s state of the union pledge to “act with or without Congress” marks a milestone in presidential usurpation of Congressional authority. Most modern presidents have used executive orders to change and even create laws without Congressi
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News Link • Food
Mountain Man Arrested for Trying to Feed Himself, owns judge.
11-20-2013
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LiveLeak
In a packed courtroom, 52-year-old Ernie Tertelgte told the judge “I am a living man protected by natural law and I have the right to forage for food when I am hungry… You are trying to create a fictitious, fraudulent action.”
Charged with fishing
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