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Date Sent: 2015-03-02
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, March 2, 2015 |
Laredo Sector BP Agents Detain Trucker for 19 Days Without Charge
Americans Have Obeyed Their Last Gun Law: A cyberpamphlet by L. Neil Smith -- NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber Stamp -- Spam Uses Default Passwords to Hack Routers -- Assad or no Assad, West asks, as IS rises and conflict rages -- Pittsburgh man writes police chief after witnessing police brutality and seeing immediate coverup -- Text Messages Show Officers Who Shot 137 Rounds Into Car Knew Suspects Were Unarmed -- More Kiev Minsk Violations -- Truth in Media: The Origin of ISIS -- Virginia to compensate victims of forced sterilizations -- Michigan police confiscate $11,000, car, gun and possibly house over marijuana seedlings -- Who 'Parked' the Moon in Perfect Circular Orbit Around Earth? -- Strange Lights on Dwarf Planet Ceres have Scientists Perplexed -- South African App Helps Calculate Price Of A Bride -- Palestinian activist: boycott of Israeli products begins -- The Jeb Bush Protest You Didn't See -- Jeb Bush Caught Rigging CPAC Straw Poll -- Rand Paul wins 2015 CPAC Straw poll! -- Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike -- Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links -- Tech demo lets you visit the International Space Station in VR -- ESA offers CubeSats a deep space ride on asteroid mission -- Venezuela president claims to have captured U.S. pilot -- Putin Bashing Crowd in Overdrive Over Nemtsov Killing -- NYT Editors Support Fascist Extremism
AZ: Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - Weds., 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ; BitcoinSummit.info - Sat., March 14th 2015, 9am-5pm & Evening Party; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Gun Rights
Americans Have Obeyed Their Last Gun Law:
A cyberpamphlet by L. Neil Smith
03-02-2015
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Some 2 dozen people had just been murdered in an American public school, herded into traps where they were physically unable or illegally forbidden to defend themselves, and I knew those most fundamentally responsible would never
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber Stamp
03-02-2015
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The National Journal
A federal court again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Spam Uses Default Passwords to Hack Routers
03-02-2015
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Krebs on Security
Phishers are sending out links that, when clicked, quietly alter the settings on vulnerable routers to harvest online banking credentials and other sensitive data from victims.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Assad or no Assad, West asks, as IS rises and conflict rages
03-02-2015
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AFP
Faced with a seemingly unending bloody conflict in Syria and the rise of the Islamic State group, is President Bashar al-Assad the lesser of the country's evils and should the West re-engage with him?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pittsburgh man writes police chief after witnessing police brutality and seeing immediate coverup
03-02-2015
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Daily Kos
Pittsburgh resident Samm Hodges bore witness not only to an extreme case of police brutality, but the quick coverup and lies that police often spin to cover their tracks. So disturbed by what he saw, he wrote this letter to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Text Messages Show Officers Who Shot 137 Rounds Into Car Knew Suspects Were Unarmed
03-02-2015
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The Free Thought Proiject
Officer Michael Brelo is preparing to stand trial for a November 29, 2012 shooting in which him and 12 other officers fired 137 shots at multiple unarmed victims.
Brelo stands accused of firing 46 shots, some while on the hood of the victims' ca
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Truth in Media: The Origin of ISIS
03-02-2015
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Ben Swann
Angela Keaton, the founder of Antiwar.com, said that ISIS is "entirely a creation of the United States' behavior in Iraq."
"That's how we got to where we are, because of war, because of occupation, because of torture," Keaton said. "
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Virginia to compensate victims of forced sterilizations
03-02-2015
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Associated Press
Lewis Reynolds didn't understand what had been done to him when he was 13. Years later, after getting married, the Lynchburg man discovered he couldn't father children. The reason: He had been sterilized by the state.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Michigan police confiscate $11,000, car, gun and possibly house over marijuana seedlings
03-02-2015
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Rare
Thomas Williams, a 72-year-old cancer patient in Michigan decided to use medical marijuana to alleviate his symptoms. Patients can grow up to 12 plants at a time, so when Williams noticed a couple of his plants were dying, he
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News Link • Science
Who 'Parked' the Moon in Perfect Circular Orbit Around Earth?
03-02-2015
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arclein
The differences suggest that Earth and Moon came into being far from each other, an idea that stumbles over the inability of astrophysicists to explain how exactly the Moon became a satellite of the Earth." The Moon is extremely dry and does not ap
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Goodbye Mr Spock
03-02-2015
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arclein
Nimoy published many books of poetry and photography over his life, but his most famous works were a 1975 biography titled I Am Not Spock, and a 1995 follow-up, I Am Spock. He later said he regretted the "firestorm" of controversy the first book
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News Link • Science
Heart of Earth's Inner Core Revealed
03-02-2015
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arclein
So instead, scientists use echoes generated by earthquakes to study the core, by analysing how they change as they travel through the different layers of our planet.
Prof Xiaodong Song, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said: "The
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News Link • Science
Strange Lights on Dwarf Planet Ceres have Scientists Perplexed
03-02-2015
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arclein
According to Chris Russell, principal investigator for the Dawn mission, the positioning of the bright spots within the same area may indicate "a volcano-like origin of the spots," but scientists will have to wait for higher resolution images befor
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robert klein
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News Link • Technology: Software
South African App Helps Calculate Price Of A Bride
03-01-2015
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Jonathan Turley
If you have wondered how many cows your hand in marriage is worth, a new app may provide you with some important information?"and more importantly, can you command More Cow (wedding) Bell.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Palestinian activist: boycott of Israeli products begins
03-01-2015
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Associated Press
Most West Bank shops no longer carry the products of six major Israeli food companies, as a boycott triggered by rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions is taking hold, a boycott leader said Sunday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
The Jeb Bush Protest You Didn't See
03-01-2015
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Daily Paul.com
Heckled, Booed and The Walk Out..
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Jeb Bush Caught Rigging CPAC Straw Poll
03-01-2015
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Daily Paul.com
The Jeb Bush campaign bused in supporters, who were not attending CPAC, to cheers on Jeb Bush and vote for him in the annual CPAC straw poll, Breitbart News reported today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike
03-01-2015
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israelnationalnews.com
Kuwaiti paper claims unnamed Israeli minister with good ties with the US administration 'revealed the attack plan to John Kerry.'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links
03-01-2015
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newscientist.com
THE internet is stuffed with garbage. Anti-vaccination websites make the front page of Google, and fact-free "news" stories spread like wildfire.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
HTC joins the party, makes a virtual reality headset (with Valve's help)
03-01-2015
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gizmag.com
It's becoming clearer that the entire tech world is trying to get in on virtual reality on the ground floor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Tech demo lets you visit the International Space Station in VR
03-01-2015
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gizmag.com
Wondrous as today's technology is, there remains no feasible way to put ordinary people in space.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Modular biobattery plant turns a wide range of biomass into energy
03-01-2015
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gizmag.com
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Energy and Safety Technology have developed a "biobattery" in the form of a highly efficient biogas plant that can turn raw materials like straw, scrap wood and sludge into a variety of usefu
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
BREAKING NEWS: Venezuela president claims to have captured U.S. pilot.....
03-01-2015
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dailymail.co.uk
Venezuela president claims to have captured U.S. pilot accused of 'recruiting citizens to stage a coup'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX ABS/Eutelsat-1 Mission
03-01-2015
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spacex.com
In this mission, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the ABS 3A and EUTELSAT 115 West B satellites to a supersynchronous transfer orbit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Ukraine To Halt Currency Trading Again Any Minute
02-28-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
With Prime Minister Yatsenyuk putting his foot down and squeezing the central bank to lift capital controls, Ukraine's currency is totally collapsing this morning.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession is On the Way: Questioning One's Sanity; Beat the Crowd, Panic Now!
02-28-2015
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
In 2006-2007 I called for a recession. We got a big one. I called for another one in 2011, as did the ECRI. That recession never happened.
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News Link • NeoCons
The Neoconservative Threat To International Relations
02-28-2015
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paulcraigroberts.org
This week I was invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Prominent Politician And Putin Critic Shot To Death In Moscow; "Shocked" John Kerry..
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
Update: John Kerry has decided to comment:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The Economic Consequences Of Greece
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
The first sentence of the 1957 Treaty of Rome â€" the founding document of what would eventually become the European Union â€"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Puerto Rico's 3rd Largest Bank Fails
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
Based on Bloomberg data, Doral Bank is the 3rd largest (by assets) bank in Puerto Rico...or rather was.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Senate Passes One-Week DHS-Funding Stop-Gap Bill, House Expected To Pass
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
UPDATE: In late night negotiations, the Senate has managed to buy themselves a week before this whole farce is played over again:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict
02-28-2015
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zerohedge.com
When it comes to the Ukraine proxy war, which started in earnest just about one year ago with the violent coup that overthrew then president Yanukovich and replaced him with a local pro-US oligarch,...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Exclusive: Chicago nears fiscal free fall with latest downgrade
02-28-2015
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Reuters
Chicago drew closer to a fiscal free fall with a rating downgrade from Moody's that could trigger the immediate termination of 4 interest-rate swap agreements, costing the city about $58 million and raising the prospect of more
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News Link • European Union
Germany Emerges
02-28-2015
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arclein
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, accompanied by French President Francois Hollande, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 6. Then she met with U.S. President Barack Obama on Feb. 9. The primary subject was Ukraine, but the first issue dis
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, March 1, 2015 Edition
02-27-2015
John Semmens
FCC Issues Secret Regulations for Internet
Anxious to rescue the Internet from what Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler called a "regime of anarchy," the FCC approved over 300 pages of new rules designed "to bring order to this disor
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Stephen Hawking and the Meaning of Non-Aggression
02-27-2015
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Ron Paul dissects famous physicist Stephen Hawking's latest pronouncement that aggression is the most serious human failing.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Internet, RIP?
02-27-2015
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Lew Rockwell blog
Today the Federal Communications Commission, a non-elected federal government agency, voted 3-to-2 to reclassify broadband Internet as a common carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act. This means that
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Nevada Cops Pull Women From Car After Driver Refuses to Roll Window Fully Down
02-27-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A Nevada cop who pulled a woman over for speeding ended up dragging her out of the car after she refused to roll her window down all the way, even though she had already rolled it down halfway and already handed him her driver license.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYCLU Victory in NYPD Quota Case Protects Speech of Officers, Public Employees
02-27-2015
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ACLU
"Quotas lead to illegal arrests, criminal summonses and ruined lives. They undermine the trust between the police and the people they are supposed to be protecting and serving," said NYCLU Associate Legal Director
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
I-Team: Collector car owners experience daylight nightmare
02-27-2015
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CBS News
A Washington couple says they were falsely arrested by the Nevada Highway Patrol for stealing a collector car they actually owned.
The highway patrol admitted two errors that led to Robin and Beverly Bruins being removed from their car at gunpoint
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News Link • New World Order
Loretta Lynch Is A Dubious Nominee For Attorney General
02-27-2015
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Empty Wheel
But, all the above ignores the Swiss Alps sized mountains of evidence that we know Lynch was aware of and blithely swept under the rug by her HSBC DPA. So, we are basically left to decide whether Lynch is a bankster loving toady that is her own woman
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Death row inmate gets hearing to review claims of prosecutor misconduct
02-27-2015
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Houston Chronicle
In affidavits supplied to Carty's current defense team last year, in 2014, a DEA agent and two of Carty's co-defendants allege that Harris County prosecutors crossed ethical boundaries and threatened them to ensure Carty's conviction.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
We Came, We Saw, He Died: The Evisceration of Libya
02-27-2015
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zerohedge.com
American leadership is ruthlessly pursuing immoral wars all over the world with the intent of creating outside enemies to focus public anger on, as a conscious diversion away from the criminality happening domestically.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State
02-27-2015
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Free Beacon
Cellphone, Internet, and telephone services across half of Arizona went dark after vandals sliced a sensitive fiber optic cable. The incident is raising concerns about the safety of U.S. infrastructure.
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News Link • World News
Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow
02-27-2015
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Reuters
Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition politician and former deputy prime minister, has been shot dead in central Moscow, the Interior Ministry said early on Saturday. Nemtsov, 55, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin,
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of 'Star Trek,' Dies at 83
02-27-2015
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http://www.nytimes.com
Mr. Nimoy announced that he had end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease last year, attributing it to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Washington Identifies Commies For The 21st Century
02-27-2015
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Targetliberty.com
"I recall noticing a distinct lack of jubilance on the part of the ruling class when it woke up one day and found its reliable enemy (Soviet Union) had ceased to exist. Since then, the ruling class has engaged in a series of attempts to find...
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News Link • Transportation
Hyperloop Construction Starts Next Year With the First Full-Scale Track
02-27-2015
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http://www.wired.com, BY ALEX DAVIES
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, the company that wants to move the revolutionary transit system out of Elon Musk's brain into the real world, plans to start construction on an actual hyperloop next year.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
What is Junk Silver?
02-27-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Lisa Bedford
Do you have a coin jug at home? Perhaps it isn't a jug, per se, but a coffee can, glass jar, or maybe even an old fashioned piggy bank? It might be holding far more money than you realize!
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News Link • Future Predictions
Washington Has Resurrected The Threat Of Nuclear War
02-27-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com,By Paul Craig Roberts
I assumed I was reading a clever parody of Washington's anti-Putin propaganda. Absurd statement followed absurd statement. It was better than Colbert. I couldn't stop laughing.
To my dismay I discovered that the absolute gibberish wasn't a par
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News Link • Secession
Secession Begins at Home
02-27-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Jeff Deist
he growing number of secession movements around the world gives rise to our topic...
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News Link • General Opinion
College indoctrination on steroids: Capitalism must be overthrown for sake of humanity
02-27-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Nicole Haas
American universities are pumping out loyal socialist soldiers and a reading assignment that excoriates capitalism at the University of Michigan is being used as propaganda tool to further fuel socialist ambitions.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Trillions of Dollars Created A Grand Illusion: The War on Terror
02-27-2015
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informationclearinghouse.info
The War on Terror has to be the greatest misdirection of resources in all of human history. So why are we spending countless billions of dollars fighting terror, an almost insignificant threat to our well-being?
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