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Date Sent: 2014-10-03
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, October 3, 2014 |
Federal Judge Smacks CalPERS on Sanctity of Pensions; CalPERS Liens Null and Void
Police Chief Gets Probation After Sexual Assault Of Female Prisoner and Lying To FBI -- Would You Like Fries With Those Taxes? -- The Ethics Of Disease Control -- What Happens When All The Police In A Town Are Removed -- The "Boomerang Effect": How Foreign Policy Changes Domestic Policy -- CORRUPTION! - by Chuck Baldwin -- Meet FireChat: How Hong Kong Protesters are Communicating Without the Internet -- California Cop Obtains Search Warrants Against Men Who Recorded DUI Checkpoint -- The Fake Terror Threat Used To Justify Bombing Syria -- Ailing shoplifter dies after private prison transport forces 1,000-mile trip in cramped van -- Arizona teacher fired after 25 years over defending student from racist bullying -- World Bank workers question bonuses for senior officials during cost-cutting drive -- The five biggest lies about Ebola being pushed by government and mass media -- New NATO Chief Open to Russian Rapprochement -- What if ISIS Didn't Exist? -- Moazzam Begg to be freed as prosecutors drop terror charges -- Julia Pierson, Secret Service Director, Resigns Under Pressure About Breaches -- The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose -- Clapper Under the Bus -- Is a Cancer Cure Being Suppressed? -- Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful -- Scuffles as Catalonia Erupts in Protests over Nov. 9 Referendum Ban -- How Bad Could It Get? US Government Order Of 160,000 HazMat Suits Gives A Clue -- Argentine Central Bank Chief Quits in Currency Dispute; Hyperinflation
AZ: AZ Breakfast Club, Tomorrow, Oct 4th, 2014, 8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall location); PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
er and Lying To FBI -- Would You Like Fries With Those Taxes? -- The Ethics Of Disease Control -- What Happens When All The Police In A Town Are Removed -- The "Boomerang Effect": How Foreign Policy Changes Domestic Policy -- CORRUPTION! -- Meet FireChat – How Hong Kong Protesters are Communicating Without the Internet -- California Cop Obtains Search Warrants Against Men Who Recorded DUI Checkpoint -- Argentina's Christina Fernandez de Kirchner's UN Address -- AZ Breakfast Club Saturday Oct 4th, 2014, 8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall location) -- The Fake Terror Threat Used To Justify Bombing Syria -- Ailing shoplifter dies after private prison transport forces 1,000-mile trip in cramped van -- Arizona teacher fired after 25 years over defending student from racist bullying -- World Bank workers question bonuses for senior officials during cost-cutting drive -- The five biggest lies about Ebola being pushed by government and mass media -- New NATO Chief Open to Russian Rapprochement -- Lessons for today from the Shenandoah's Civil War flames -- What if ISIS Didn't Exist? -- Moazzam Begg to be freed as prosecutors drop terror charges -- Julia Pierson, Secret Service Director, Resigns Under Pressure About Breaches -- A Spacecraft That Packs The Punch Of A Warhead -- The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose -- Lamborghini's First Hybrid Is a 900-Horsepower Rocket -- Cape Watch: Hulk and Hawkeye Will Lead the New Avengers Movie -- A Giant Charger That Juices Up Electric Buses in Three Minutes -- The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home -- Clapper Under the Bus -- Is a Cancer Cure Being Suppressed? -- Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful -- Scuffles as Catalonia Erupts in Protests over Nov. 9 Referendum Ban --
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal Judge Smacks CalPERS on Sanctity of Pensions; CalPERS Liens Null and Void
10-02-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Exceptionally good news from California today: A federal judge ruled CALpers claim of "Sanctity of Pensions" is invalid. Today's ruling went even further than the bankrupt city of Stockton originally sought in court.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Chief Gets Probation After Sexual Assault Of Female Prisoner and Lying To FBI
10-03-2014
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Jonathan Turley
Chief US District Judge Brian Jackson has sentenced Sorrento Police Chief Earl Theriot Jr. to probation with no jail time after he lied to the FBI about an alleged sexual assault of a woman under arrest. Theriot will have to pay $2,500.
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Feature Article • TAXES: Federal
Would You Like Fries With Those Taxes?
Mark Nestmann
One of the biggest fast food giants, Burger King, is now "divorcing" America and re-establishing its business in Canada. Mark analyzes the Government's reaction and possible implications for any corporation that may decide to move its headquart
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News Link • Police State
The Ethics Of Disease Control
10-03-2014
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zero hedge
Is it acceptable to use force to isolate a person with a contagious disease from society, and if so, under what circumstances? How far are we permitted to go in the invasion of another person's personal liberty in order to secure a safe environment
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
What Happens When All The Police In A Town Are Removed
10-03-2014
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Dollar Vigilante
It all started a month ago, when I commented to a good friend, "Have you noticed how much better traffic has been lately?" He responded, "Yes, traffic flow has been so much better... it's because the Transit Police went on strike."
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News Link • Police State
The "Boomerang Effect": How Foreign Policy Changes Domestic Policy
10-03-2014
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Future of Freedom Foundation
"Coercive government actions that target another country often act like a boomerang, turning around and knocking down freedoms and liberties in the 'throwing' nation." This happens when the size and scope of government increases as
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Opinion • Corruption
CORRUPTION!
10-03-2014
Chuck Baldwin
The foundation of a free republic is equal justice under the law. Take away that fundamental tenet and liberty itself will quickly collapse. Democrat or Republican; liberal or conservative; male or female; Caucasian, Negro, Hispanic, Indian, or Asian
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News Link • Communications
Meet FireChat â€" How Hong Kong Protesters are Communicating Without the Internet
10-03-2014
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The idea behind FireChat is simple. It's a chatting app. After registering with a name â€" no email address or other personal identifiers required â€" you're dropped into a fast-moving chatroom of "Everyone" using it in your country.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
California Cop Obtains Search Warrants Against Men Who Recorded DUI Checkpoint
10-03-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A California cop obtained warrants to search the phones and computers of two men who drove through a DUI checkpoint in August with a camera, refusing to provide identifications before being allowed to leave.
Napa Police Sergeant Brian Campagna, th
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News Link • Syria
The Fake Terror Threat Used To Justify Bombing Syria
10-02-2014
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As the Obama Administration prepared to bomb Syria without congressional or U.N. authorization, it faced two problems. The first was the difficulty of sustaining public support for a new years-long war against ISIS, a group that clearly
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ailing shoplifter dies after private prison transport forces 1,000-mile trip in cramped van
10-02-2014
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Rawstory
The Miami-Dade Police Department has opened an investigation into a private prison transport company after a woman who had shoplifted died in its cramped van during a grueling 1,000 mile trip.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Arizona teacher fired after 25 years over defending student from racist bullying
10-02-2014
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Rawstory
A longtime elementary school teacher in Fountain Hills, Arizona was fired on Monday despite reportedly defending a Black student from racially-charged bullying, KNXV-TV reported.
Officials with the Fountain Hills Unified School District voted to t
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News Link • Corruption
World Bank workers question bonuses for senior officials during cost-cutting drive
10-02-2014
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AFP
The World Bank has given bonuses to senior officials as it pursues a cost-cutting restructuring, raising employees' concerns about management demands on them for belt-tightening. "We question the timing of such payments
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News Link • Pandemic
The five biggest lies about Ebola being pushed by government and mass media
10-02-2014
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http://www.naturalnews.com
All the disinformation being spread about Ebola by the U.S. government and the complicit mass media will unfortunately make the Ebola pandemic far worse.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Moazzam Begg to be freed as prosecutors drop terror charges
10-02-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com
Case against former Guantánamo Bay detainee collapsed after secret intelligence material was handed to prosecutors.
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News Link • Government
Julia Pierson, Secret Service Director, Resigns Under Pressure About Breaches
10-02-2014
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http://www.nytimes.com
Julia Pierson resigned under pressure as director of the Secret Service on Wednesday after failing to quell a bipartisan political furor over repeated breaches of White House security and losing the confidence of the president her agency is charged w
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose
10-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com
It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, showing that it's possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious,
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News Link • Transportation
Lamborghini's First Hybrid Is a 900-Horsepower Rocket
10-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com
Lamborghini's rolled into the Paris Motor Show with a new concept. It's called the Asterion LPI 910-4. It has all the superlatives you expect from the brand.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Cape Watch: Hulk and Hawkeye Will Lead the New Avengers Movie
10-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com
Welcome back, my friends, to the superhero show that never ends … although, come the fall, it does tend to shut up shop just a little and head towards the small screen because it's cold outside and, well, you know how it is.
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News Link • Transportation
A Giant Charger That Juices Up Electric Buses in Three Minutes
10-02-2014
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http://www.wired.com
To keep its customers on the road as much as possible, Tesla has built an international network of Supercharger stations, which can charge the battery in the Model S halfway in just 20 minutes.
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News Link • Iraq
Clapper Under the Bus
10-02-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
When President Obama attributed the rise in Iraq of the Islamic State, or ISIS, to the failures of the U.S. intelligence community earlier this week, naming and blaming directly National Intelligence Director Gen. James Clapper, he was attempting to
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful
10-02-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Even though it ultimately failed at the ballot box, the recent campaign for Scottish independence should cheer supporters of the numerous secession movements springing up around the globe.
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News Link • World News
Scuffles as Catalonia Erupts in Protests over Nov. 9 Referendum Ban
10-02-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Police clashed with thousands of Catalan demonstrators as they hit the streets of Barcelona and Madrid on Tuesday, outraged at the Spanish Constitutional Court's decision to suspend Catalonia's November vote for independence.
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News Link • Pandemic
How Bad Could It Get? US Government Order Of 160,000 HazMat Suits Gives A Clue
10-02-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
Now that Ebola is officially in the US on an uncontrolled basis, the two questions on everyone's lips are i) who will get sick next and ii) how bad could it get?
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentine Central Bank Chief Quits in Currency Dispute; Hyperinflation On the...
10-02-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Argentine Central Bank Chief Quits in Currency Dispute; Hyperinflation On the Way?
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News Link • Energy
Recycled Li-ion batteries made with alfalfa seeds and pine resin
10-02-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
Thanks to their high power ratings and relative reliability, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are an efficient and reliable source of power, widely used in modern electronic equipment.
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News Link • Energy
MIT study could slash the cost of renewable osmotic power
10-02-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
A new study conducted at MIT has examined the potential of pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO), a technique that generates electricity from the difference in salinity between two pools of water separated by a membrane.
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News Link • 3D Printing
NASA Launches Student Contest for 3D-Printed Astronaut Tools
10-02-2014
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http://www.space.com
You don't have to become an astronaut to use the International Space Station's new 3D printer.
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News Link • Pandemic
What preppers are doing about Ebola
10-02-2014
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http://www.cnbc.com
The so-called prepper community has a long list of concernsâ€"and for quite some time Ebola has been near the top of it. Experts, though, are split on whether the confirmation that the disease has entered the U.S. will spur a rush in equipment sales.
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News Link • Propaganda
More Washington Lies
10-01-2014
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paulcraigroberts.org
Whatever is occurring in Hong Kong, it bears no relation to what is being reported about it in the Western print and TV media. These reports spin the protests as a conflict between the demand for democracy and a tyrannical Chinese government
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News Link • Pandemic
Will CDC Activate Emergency Measures After Ebola Confirmed in US?
10-01-2014
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Prison Planet
Provisions would allow for quarantine of "well persons" who "do not show symptoms" of virus
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News Link • Corruption
Atlas Mugged: How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart
10-01-2014
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vice.com
It was a good idea, in theory anyway. The plan was to form a sustainable community made up of people who believed in capitalism, limited government, and self-reliance.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ghost Gunner by Defense Distributed -- Pre-Order today...
10-01-2014
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Ghost Gunner
Today, Defense Distributed unveils project Ghost Gunner...Ghost Gunner is an open source CNC mill developed to enable the common man to more easily and privately manufacture critical gun components.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Caught On Tape: HFT Algo Manipulating GOOGL 1000 Times Per Second
10-01-2014
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zerohedge.com
It is very common to find examples of stock quotes changing rapidly - hundreds and sometimes thousands of times per second in a single stock.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why Do Americans Hate Beheadings But Love Drone Killings?
10-01-2014
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Coleen Rowley, Huffington Post
The answer lies in human psychology. And probably like the old observation about history, people who refuse to understand human psychology are doomed to be victims of psychological manipulation.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Defense Industry Winning In Syria And Iraq, With Long Campaign Expected
10-01-2014
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Christopher Harress, International Business Times
As the U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria continue, it remains unclear exactly how the mission against the Islamic State group will unfold. But what is evident already as strikes escalate is that U.S. defense companies are already cashing in.
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News Link • Gun Rights
California Governor Jerry Brown Vetoes "Ghost Gun" Ban, Signs Three Other Gun Control Bill
09-30-2014
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CAL-FFL
Gun rights group CAL-FFL applauds today's veto of SB 808 but calls Brown's actions a "mixed bag"
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Sometimes, Video Doesn't Matter
09-30-2014
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Simple Justice
Judge Woodard "has now thrown the verdict out and closed the case." What exactly that means, what was the basis for the action, is unexplained. Maybe that's because no one knows? The judge offered no explanation for her actions,
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News Link • Syria
White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths
09-30-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
The White House has acknowledged for the first time that strict standards President Obama imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes will not apply to U.S. military operations in Syria and Iraq.
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News Link • Surveillance
New documents show legal basis for NSA surveillance programs
09-30-2014
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Reuters
Documents released by the U.S. government show it views an executive order issued in 1981 as the basis of most of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man Proves he can Video Record Courtroom as he Beats Citation Wearing "Fuck the Police"
09-30-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Wearing a "Fuck the Police" t-shirt, Michael Burns entered a Broward courtroom with a videographer in tow, preparing to fight the obstructed license plate citation he received earlier this year after he was pulled over for video recording deputi
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Ninth Circuit Outlaws Random Motorist Searches Over Fish
09-30-2014
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The Newspaper
Fishermen may not be randomly stopped while driving and searched by game wardens, the US Court of Appeals ruled. Since 2000, brothers Matthew and Alex Tarabochia have been targeted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Emails Show That Feds Instructed Police To Lie About Using Stingray Mobile Phone Snooping
09-30-2014
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Police are claiming they need these devices to stop "weapons of mass destruction," though they just use them to spy on people suspected of everyday crimes. US Marshals have been instructing police to lie to courts
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News Link • European Union
Vaclav Klaus: the West's lies about Russia are monstrous
09-30-2014
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'A few days ago I studied the names of the EU commissioners under Mr Juncker, and their portfolios. We in my country say that 16 is already too high for having meaningful portfolios. But the EU now has 28, more than in any country
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
LAPD officer screamed 'shoot him' before gunning down man with special needs
09-30-2014
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"They laid him out and for whatever reason, they shot him in the back, knowing, mentally, he has complications. Every officer in this area, from the Newton Division, knows that â€" that this child has mental problems," he told KTLA.
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News Link • Economics: Agorism
Cigarettes and the Emergence of Commodity Money
09-30-2014
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Money is a concept that most people have a solid intuitive grasp of. The majority of people understand that they use money to exchange for goods and services, and the utility they gain from money is derived from its use in trade.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Fence-jumper ran through much of main floor of White House
09-30-2014
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Reason Magazine
The man who breached security at the White House this month raced through several rooms on the main floor, penetrating farther into the building than previously disclosed, a Republican congressman said on Monday.
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News Link • Gun Rights
SB-808 Firearms: identifying information - California Legislative Information
09-30-2014
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California Legislative Information
This bill would, commencing July 1, 2016, require a person who manufactures or assembles a firearm to first apply to the department for a unique serial number or other identifying mark, as provided. The bill would, by January 1, 2017, require any per
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News Link • Government
A Conversation: Paul Craig Roberts and Noam Chomsky
09-30-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
Rob Kall of OpEdNews arranged a conversation between myself and Noam Chomsky.
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Bombed Wrong Refineries in Syria...
09-30-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com,
Oil is in the news in many countries in many ways. Let's take a look starting with a couple of paragraphs buried in the Financial Times report Barack Obama Admits US Underestimated Isis.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
McCain: Ground troops needed to fight ISIL
09-30-2014
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Prison Planet
Americans would support sending more U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State if U.S. strategy in the region were clearer, Sen. John McCain, a longtime critic of President Obama's foreign policy, said Monday. And without more specialized troops, he s
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Huge Plunge in Kindergartener's Vaccination Rates: Officials Stumped
09-30-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Christina Sarich
The number of parents deciding not to vaccinate their children is growing at an alarming rate â€" at least according to officials who are now nonplussed at the waking of humanity.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's 'We Underestimated Isis' Comments Blown Away By US Intel Officials
09-30-2014
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Prison Planet
House Intelligence Committee Chairman: We warned President 'for over a year'; Obama has missed over half of intel briefings
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