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Date Sent: 2014-04-08
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, April 8, 2014 |
In Pakistan, giant poster of a child looks up at drone operators
Under attack: Depth of federal arms race should surprise, shock citizenry -- The Border Patrol has a big problem with excessive force -- His Goal Is Gaol - by L. Neil Smith -- "Send Him To Juvie": Student Suspended After He Twirled A Pencil -- What Libertarianism Is, and Isn't - by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. -- US Supreme Court Endorses Involuntary Servitude -- Mark T Williams on the Flaws and Opportunities of Bitcoin -- DigitalBTC Signs Bitcoin Mining Hardware Deal with BitFury -- And The Next Big Thing Is... Degrowth? -- Mortgage Originations Plunge To Lowest On Record -- Bitcoin gets easier for consumers to buy, spend -- Found Dead Inside Their Family Home This Weekend -- Meet The Google Engineer And Occupy Wall Street Organizer Who Wants Silicon Valley -- Irish Company Now Paying Employees’ Salaries in Bitcoin -- What Ron’s Reading -- Ukraine Refuses to Pay for Gas From Russia -- Al-Qaeda in Iraq Moves Into Abu Ghraib With Eyes on Baghdad -- U.S. to send F-16 jets to Romania for exercises -- Wall Street
ends lower; S&P 500 in biggest three-day drop since January --
After deal, Libya's ports prepare to load oil tankers -- Ernest
Hancock at the New York Bitcoin Conference - updates and pictures
from the event -- Navies of Iran, Pakistan to hold joint drill
in Hormuz strait -- Search Engine DuckDuckGo Integrates Bitcoin
Price Quotes -- The Altcoin Debate Continues -- Arizona DPS
on the lookout for distracted drivers -- Traficant: Total
Collapse of America by 2030 -- Traficant launches Project
Freedom -- Architect of NSA Spy Infrastructure Speaks: William
Binney -- Cheney to NSA: Spy on Supreme Court Judges -- Why I
REALLY Moved to Puerto Rico, and You Should Too -- Climate Data
Rigging -- Who should be concerned? Answer: everyone who wants
to eat -- Carrying a Cell Phone Linked to Erectile
Dysfunction -- “Flight 370 Was Remote-Hijacked” -- A St. Louis
Fed Official Made A Presentation About Bitcoin -- RON PAUL
AND CHARLES GOYETTE - THE WEEKLY PODCAST - David Stockman -- Tempe
General Plan 2040: Smart Growth in Your Town with Patrick Wood
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News Link • Drones
In Pakistan, giant poster of a child looks up at drone operators
04-07-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
In an attempt to put a face on civilian victims of U.S. drone strikes, a group of artists has installed a massive portrait of a girl facing up from a field in Pakistan. The poster, measuring 90 by 60 feet and made of vinyl, was unrolled with the help
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News Link • Police State
Under attack: Depth of federal arms race should surprise, shock citizenry
04-07-2014
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“It’s one of the untold stories about government,” said former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has been a leading critic of the operation that turned up only a few minor infractions. “People don’t grasp the size and the scope of these entities and
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News Link • Immigration
The Border Patrol has a big problem with excessive force
04-07-2014
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Manzanares, a Border Patrol agent, was on duty along the Rio Grande when he came across a Honduran woman and 2 girls who had crossed the river illegally. Instead of apprehending them, he sexually assaulted the woman and her 14-year-old daughter,
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News Link • Climate Change
His Goal Is Gaol - by L. Neil Smith
04-07-2014
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
Basically, having lost the global warming argument"thanks mostly to another pack of liars and connivers at the University of East Anglia"he now proposes that we who disagree with him must be jailed, which is the last refuge of
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
"Send Him To Juvie": Student Suspended After He Twirled A Pencil
04-07-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Ethan Chaplin was suspended for twirling a pencil in math class. He says that a student (who had been allegedly bullying him) yelled to the teacher that “He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie.” The school responded by suspending Chaplin
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
What Libertarianism Is, and Isn't - by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
04-07-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
The explosive growth in the number of converts to libertarianism since Ron Paul first ran for president is one of the most exciting developments of my lifetime. But I’d like to issue a note of caution.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
US Supreme Court Endorses Involuntary Servitude
04-07-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
A slave is somebody compelled to provide service to another. Elane Huguenin, a wedding photographer from New Mexico, was arraigned before that state’s “human rights” soviet for politely declining to provide her services to a lesbian couple planning
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News Link • Bitcoin
Mark T Williams on the Flaws and Opportunities of Bitcoin
04-07-2014
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http://www.coindesk.com, Pete Rizzo
Mark T Williams isn’t shy when mentioning his “steed” " the unassuming white bicycle parked in front of the Noodle Street cafe in Boston, Massachusetts, shining in the sun near some melting remnants of the winter’s snow.
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News Link • Bitcoin
DigitalBTC Signs Bitcoin Mining Hardware Deal with BitFury
04-07-2014
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http://www.coindesk.com,
DigitalBTC has inked a strategic hardware supply agreement with BitFury, one of the leading manufacturers of bitcoin mining equipment.
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News Link • Economy - International
Key Events In The Coming Week
04-07-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
There is a reasonably quiet start to the week before we head into the highlights of the week including the start of US reporting season tomorrow, FOMC minutes on Wednesday and IMF meetings in Washington on Friday.
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News Link • Future Predictions
And The Next Big Thing Is... Degrowth?
04-07-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Charles Hugh-Smith
The Grand Narrative of the past few centuries goes something like this: from religious authority to secular authority, from agriculture to industrial, from rural to urban, from local to global, from periphery to center, from decentralized to centrali
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Originations Plunge To Lowest On Record
04-07-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
New mortgage originations fell over 23% month-over-month and a stunning 47% year-to-date according to Black Knight (formerly LPS).
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For What You Should Do With All Of Your Money
04-07-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
In the history of capitalism, this is the hardest time ever to invest. People are going broke, losing their jobs, and fear more than greed rules the news and tries to rule thoughts.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin gets easier for consumers to buy, spend
04-07-2014
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http://www.mercurynews.com, By Heather Somerville
It's getting easier for consumers to buy and spend bitcoin, the cybercurrency that has captured much of the tech world.
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News Link • How To
This Counterintuitive Pattern Tells You Everything You Need To Know...
04-07-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
This Counterintuitive Pattern Tells You Everything You Need To Know About Investing In Stocks
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News Link • Internet
Meet The Google Engineer And Occupy Wall Street Organizer Who Wants Silicon Valley...
04-07-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kyle Russell
Meet The Google Engineer And Occupy Wall Street Organizer Who Wants Silicon Valley To Run The Country
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News Link • Bitcoin
Irish Company Now Paying Employees’ Salaries in Bitcoin
04-07-2014
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http://thebitcoinnews.co,
An Irish company has begun paying its employees’ salaries in bitcoin.
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News Link • History
Teaching History: Legends and Facts
04-07-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Gary North
There is a famous line at the end of the movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962). The man who did not shoot him got the credit: James Stewart’s character. Toward the end of his political career, he finally tells the true story to a reporter, w
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News Link • Iraq
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Moves Into Abu Ghraib With Eyes on Baghdad
04-07-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Iraqi Capital in Reach for Islamist Fighters
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. to send F-16 jets to Romania for exercises
04-07-2014
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Reuters
The United States will deploy F-16 fighter jets to Romania this month as part of planned joint exercises, the NATO member's defense minister was quoted as saying, amid rising tensions in neighboring Ukraine after Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street ends lower; S&P 500 in biggest three-day drop since January
04-07-2014
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Reuters
U.S. stocks fell on Monday with the S&P 500 posting its biggest three-day drop in two months, as investors bid down Internet stocks and rotated into defensive names to protect against further declines.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
After deal, Libya's ports prepare to load oil tankers
04-07-2014
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Reuters
Libya's Zueitina oil port prepared on Monday to load crude into tankers after the government reached a deal with rebels to reopen four terminals that insurgents have occupied since the summer.
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News Link • Iraq
Navies of Iran, Pakistan to hold joint drill in Hormuz strait
04-07-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, Reuters
The navies of Iran and Pakistan plan to hold joint military exercises in the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, Iran's state news agency said on Sunday.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Mickey Rooney, Legendary Actor, Dies at 93
04-07-2014
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http://variety.com,Carmel Dagan
Mickey Rooney, the pint-sized actor who was one of MGM’s giant box office attractions in the late ’30s and early ’40s, died on Sunday at his home in North Hollywood. He was 93.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Search Engine DuckDuckGo Integrates Bitcoin Price Quotes
04-07-2014
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http://thebitcoinnews.co
Privacy-loving search engine DuckDuckGo has started displaying price quotes on bitcoin-related search queries.
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News Link • Bitcoin
The Altcoin Debate Continues
04-07-2014
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http://thebitcoinnews.co
Altcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies such as , Primecoin and Dogecoin, have always been a popular and controversial topic in the Bitcoin space.
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News Link • Police State
Arizona DPS on the lookout for distracted drivers
04-07-2014
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AZFamily.Com
"It’s not just cellphone use," Baum said. "You could be eating a hamburger, putting on makeup, just talking to the people that are in the car, and not paying attention to the roadway."
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
“Power of Prayer” resurects dead newborn
04/07/2014
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Next News Network
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - A newborn baby who was pronounced dead on the delivery table miraculously returned to life 28 minutes later. 34 year old Robin Cyr gave birth to her fourth child in Halifax Nova Scotia but was told the baby girl had died from b
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Traficant: Total Collapse of America by 2030
04/07/2014
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Next News Network
Former Congressman James Traficant sits down with Gary Franchi and reveals his prediction of America's total collapse by 2030... And a plan to stop it.
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News Link • Activism
Traficant launches Project Freedom
04/07/2014
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Next News Network
Former Congressman James Traficant announces the program to end the IRS, Federal Reserve, trade deficit and repudiate the debt to the international Banksters. Gary Franchi sits down with him to hear the plan.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Architect of NSA Spy Infrastructure Speaks: William Binney
04/07/2014
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Next News Network
Meet William Binney, he worked for the NSA for 32 years. He designed the algorithms and logic to run the data analysis programs to sort out the information harvested by NSA computers. This is just the tip of the iceberg. He worked on the "upstream c
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Cheney to NSA: Spy on Supreme Court Judges
04/07/2014
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Next News Network
Before Edward Snowden there was Russell Tice, a former NSA employee. During the Bush Administration, Tice turned whistle blower after he discovered that the NSA was directly spying on members of congress, the Supreme Court, and journalists under dire
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate Data Rigging
04-07-2014
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arclein
A newly-uncovered and monumental calculating error in official US government climate data shows beyond doubt that climate scientists unjustifiably added on a whopping one degree of phantom warming to the official "raw" temperature record. S
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News Link • Healthcare
Carrying a Cell Phone Linked to Erectile Dysfunction
04-07-2014
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LastResistance.Com
Uh-oh. Apparently a recent study yet to be expanded on indicates that men who carry cell phones in their pockets for a good portion of the day have a higher risk of getting erectile dysfunction
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News Link • Conspiracies
“Flight 370 Was Remote-Hijacked”
04-07-2014
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Veterans Today
A high-level Malaysian source has confirmed that missing Flight MH370 must have been hijacked by remote control.
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News Link • Bitcoin
A St. Louis Fed Official Made A Presentation About Bitcoin...
04-02-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
A St. Louis Fed Official Made A Presentation About Bitcoin That Bitcoin Fans Are Going To Love
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
RON PAUL AND CHARLES GOYETTE - THE WEEKLY PODCAST - David Stockman
04-07-2014
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Ron Paul, Charles Goyette
Ron Paul says the Ukraine bailout bill is a bad deal for the American people. But it passed the Congress by a landslide. On the issues that determine our freedom and prosperity, the Washington parties are more alike than different.
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Feature Article • Bitcoin
Gold vs Bitcoin: Intrinsic Value vs Honesty
Paul Snow
Honesty in money occurs when every exchange of value for value in an economic system is a true exchange of value. When the money exchanged between parties truly represents a noted economic value, not a promise to provide an economic value.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man pays $1,100 to have stolen car returned, car towed from his home 15 minutes later
04-04-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Detroit resident Arthur Williams has been presented with a real puzzler. Why, after paying $1,100 to have his stolen car returned to him from an impound lot, did police come and take it away only 15 minutes later?
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 6, 2014 Edition
04-04-2014
John Semmens
EPA Justifies Experiments
Revelations that the US Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting deadly experiments on unwitting volunteers have surfaced. According to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the EPA’s experiments exposed i
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video of white cop arresting black man in his friend’s home for not showing ID sparks furor
04-04-2014
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Rawstory
Video of a River Ridge, Louisiana man being arrested for resisting arrest shows a deputy for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff taking Donrell Breaux into custody after, the deputy alleged, Breaux refused to provide the officer with proper identification
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
USAID duped 40,000 Cubans with fake ‘Twitter’ to undermine communist government
04-04-2014
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Reuters
A US agency created a “Cuban Twitter” to undermine Cuba’s communist government and get around its strict Internet prohibitions, using secret shell companies financed through foreign banks. The two-year project drew 40,000 users who
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
California's senator Yee indicted on gun, corruption charges
04-04-2014
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Reuters
A prominent Democratic California state senator and gun-control advocate was indicted by a San Francisco grand jury on charges of corruption and conspiracy to traffic in firearms, according to court documents released on Friday.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's NSA overhaul may require phone carriers to store more data
04-04-2014
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reuters.com, By Mark Hosenball and Alina Selyukh
President Barack Obama's plan for overhauling the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program could force carriers to collect and store customer data that they are not now legally obliged to keep, according to U.S. officials.
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News Link • Iraq
102 Killed, 62 Wounded As Militants Attack Iraq Army Base
04-04-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, Margaret Griffis
As many as 102 people were killed and 62 more were wounded today. Dozens of people were killed during an attack on an army base in Yusufiya. The Interior Ministry and local officials gave inconsistent casualty figures.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier"...
04-04-2014
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Asawin Suebsaeng
There are currently no plans to screen Captain America: The Winter Soldier at the White House, as far as the film's directors have heard.
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News Link • Government Waste
$6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department
04-04-2014
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http://www.thefiscaltimes.com, Brianna Ehley
The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.
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News Link • Government
This Is How the EPA Finds People for Pollution Exposure Experiments
04-04-2014
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Breitbart
“Are you over weight and out of shape?” asked one ad.
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking Older Adults With Asthma,” said another.
The federal government wasn't selling diet pills, and it wasn't seeking victims for a class acti
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11: A Conspiracy Theory
04-04-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, corbettreport
Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New revelations about mom killed by Capitol cops
04-04-2014
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WND
First they called her a terrorist threat. When she turned out to be an unarmed suburban mother, they said she was on drugs. Now that was wrong, too. Miriam Carey was shot in the back of the head by US Capitol Police and uniformed Secret Service
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News Link • Constitution
Could U.S. Constitution Be Changed to Eliminate Second Amendment?
04-04-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Entire founding document may be up for review after Michigan vote
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