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Date Sent: 2015-03-14
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, March 14, 2015 |
Mysterious spy cameras collecting data at post offices
FAA Backpedals After Sending Letter Ordering Man to Remove Drone Footage From YouTube -- Detroit councilman to report to jail in sweetheart deal -- Cops Deny Teens Access to Attorney in Investigation of Teen Killed by Police -- Even Old Shields Get Some Courtesy -- NYPD caught red-handed sanitizing police brutality Wikipedia entries -- SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, March 15, 2015 Edition -- Criminal Violence as Political Theater: Standard Operating Procedure for the FBI -- We Demand: President Putin Release Documents Vital to World Peace -- OSU researchers create fast robot modeled after birds -- After years of stalemate, Sweden seeks London date with Assange -- Thousands… Millions… of Whom the World Is Not Worthy -- UN Security Council Begins Talks on Lifting Iran Sanctions -- U.S. Warplanes Are Helping Iran Win -- The Real Story Behind the Republicans' Iran Letter -- Is Venezuela Really a Threat to US National Security? -- Welcome To The Inflatable Space Age -- CA Bill To Ban All Unlicensed Bitcoin Businesses, Without Defining What It Means -- Enjoy the Decline and Fall of American Statism! -- Kotlikoff's Annual Warning: Greece Is More Solvent Than the Federal Government -- The Law (No, Not THAT One) -- Tax Per Mile Cometh! -- The 9/11 Commission Didn't Believe the Government … So Why Should We? -- Major Currencies vs. US Dollar: 2015 Performance -- Will The Supreme Court Chain Us Down To Obama-Care? -- Americans Are Looking Up At Spain , Italy, and Ireland -- 03-13-15 -- Davi Barker - Derrick Slopey - Ernest Hancock BITCOIN (MP3 & VIDEO + BONUS LOADED) -- 5 signs Rahm Emanuel may be doomed in the Chicago mayoral race -- Armchair travelers can now explore Mount Everest on Google Street View -- The high-end housing bubble is on the brink of bursting -- Russia's Arctic pivot is a massive military undertaking -- China just subtly told Wall Street to mind its own business -- Are Alarm Bells Ringing Over Greece's Pivot To Russia? -- Judge Napolitano: What About the Thirty Thousand Emails Hillary Deleted? -- Juvenile Lifers in America Without Parole -- If you don't use a bank, where should you stash your cash? -- "Massive Headache": Rising Dollar Threatening Trade and $74 Trillion Derivative Tsunami -- ACLU Suing Sacramento County Sheriff's Department Over Stingray... -- Venezuela's President Maduro Seeks Decree Powers in Response to US Sanctions -- CONFERENCE: "STOP THE WARS ON DRUGS AND TERRORISM" -- LIBERTARIANISM: THE HOPE FOR AMERICA -- CFR: Support Al Qaeda to Defeat ISIS -- Apple Admits Siri Voice Data is Being Sent to Third Parties -- The Real Reason ATF Is Backing down from Green Tip Ammo Ban -- Video of the Day ?" Nigel Farage Blasts the Idea of a "European Army"... -- Obama Wants War Without Geographical Limitation -- Father Faces 20 Years Prison for Treating Daughter's Cancer with Cannabis Oil -- Non-invasive Alzheimer's treatment restores memory using ultrasound -- THE NATIONAL-SECURITY STATE'S ISIS RACKET -- Zombie Banking System Takes Another Leap Forward; Sugar Crisp Buybacks -- Washington and Kiev Willfully Sabotging Minsk Agreement -- Saving Obamacare with supreme hypocrisy
AZ: BitcoinSummit.info - TODAY, March 14th 2015, 9am-5pm & Evening Party; Marijuana Debate: Defense Attorney Marc Victor vs Maricopa Co. Attorney Bill Montgomery - March 23rd, Tempe, 6:30PM AZ/PST -- World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Surveillance
Mysterious spy cameras collecting data at post offices
03-13-2015
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FOX News
Within an hour of FOX31 Denver discovering a hidden camera positioned to capture and record the license plates and facial features of customers leaving a Post Office, the device was ripped from the ground and disappeared.
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News Link • Drones
FAA Backpedals After Sending Letter Ordering Man to Remove Drone Footage From YouTube
03-13-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
After an aviation safety inspector in the FAA's Tampa office sent a legal notice to a man regarding his "use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (aka drone) for commercial purposes" earlier this week for posting drone footage to YouTube
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News Link • Corruption
Detroit councilman to report to jail in sweetheart deal
03-13-2015
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Detroit News
Benson had originally been facing up to 180 days in jail and a license suspension on a "super drunk" charge after he was found slumped behind the wheel of his city-issued 2008 Ford Crown Victoria at a traffic signal on the southbound Southfield s
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops Deny Teens Access to Attorney in Investigation of Teen Killed by Police
03-13-2015
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The Free Thought Proiject
Video footage shows family members and attorneys being denied access to the two roommates of Tony Robinson, by a Madison police officer and a Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation agent after they were taken into police custody.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Even Old Shields Get Some Courtesy
03-13-2015
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Simple Justice
The short answer is that 69-year-old William Groomes may still be arrested, may still be prosecuted, for murdering Gilbert Drogheo. But no, had it been someone without a shield, even one that said "retired" on it, and the right to carry
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD caught red-handed sanitizing police brutality Wikipedia entries
03-13-2015
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ars technica
85 IP addresses connected to 1 Police Plaza altered entries for some of the most high-profile police abuse cases, including those for victims Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo. Edits have also been made
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, March 15, 2015 Edition
03-13-2015
John Semmens
Obama Admin May Bypass Congress, Seek UN Approval of Iran Deal
This week the Obama Administration has indicated it may bypass Congress and go directly to the United Nations to obtain international approval of its pending agreement with Iran.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Criminal Violence as Political Theater: Standard Operating Procedure for the FBI
03-13-2015
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"The Investigations Division of the Office of the Inspector General has thoroughly reviewed your allegations and concluded that the issues raised do not warrant an investigation by this office," insisted the unsigned DOJ letter.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
After years of stalemate, Sweden seeks London date with Assange
03-13-2015
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ca.news.yahoo.com
Swedish prosecutors want to question Julian Assange in London over allegations of sexual assault, potentially ending an impasse that left the WikiLeaks founder holed up for almost three years in Ecuador's embassy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
Thousands… Millions… of Whom the World Is Not Worthy
03-13-2015
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caseyresearch.com
All of us have partial views of the world. We can only see and hear so much. At our best, we take in only a slice of the whole. Still, I've been noticing something that seems widespread and worthy of comment. Here it is:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
UN Security Council Begins Talks on Lifting Iran Sanctions
03-13-2015
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antiwar.com
Officials Intend to Move Quickly If Agreement Reached
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Warplanes Are Helping Iran Win
03-13-2015
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thedailybeast.com
Iran and America are still enemies, technically. But U.S. airpower has ISIS pinned down in Iraq. And that's helping Iran move in.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
The Real Story Behind the Republicans' Iran Letter
03-13-2015
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antiwar.com
The "open letter" from Senator Tom Cotton and 46 other Republican Senators to the leadership of Iran, which even Republicans themselves admit was aimed at encouraging Iranian opponents of the nuclear negotiations to argue that ...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
CA Bill To Ban All Unlicensed Bitcoin Businesses, Without Defining What It Means
03-13-2015
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tech dirt
California, the state that prides itself as the birthplace of modern technology and whose policies such as the unenforceability of non-competes contributed substantially to the innovation ecosystem, recently proposed
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News Link • Transportation
The Retro Electric Moped That's Taking Over Europe
03-13-2015
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Wired.com
A moped spews more filth into the atmosphere than an 8-cylinder SUV. You didn't know that?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
This Woman Wants to Take Common Folk to Space--In a Balloon
03-13-2015
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Wired.com
Jane Poynter has a mesmerizing way of describing what it will be like to be shuttled to the ends of the Earth in the souped-up space balloon being developed by her company, World View.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Facebook's Drones Will Make the Internet Better for Us All
03-13-2015
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Wired.com
Though Facebook is building drones and satellites that can stream the internet from the skies, Mark Zuckerberg says his company is not threatening the livelihoods of the big telecom companies that deliver the internet in more prosaic ways.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Enjoy the Decline and Fall of American Statism!
03-13-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
The headlines at Drudge are an excellent barometer of what's up with government and culture.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Kotlikoff's Annual Warning: Greece Is More Solvent Than the Federal Government
03-13-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
Professor Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University testified before the Senate Budget Committee. As usual, his testimony is shocking
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News Link • Surveillance
Tax Per Mile Cometh!
03-13-2015
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Lewrockwell.com
Oregon â€" home of things uber trendy â€" has become the first state to begin dunning motorists by the mile rather than by the gallon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Major Currencies vs. US Dollar: 2015 Performance
03-13-2015
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
One self-explanatory chart from Bloomberg conveys the overwhelming strength of the the US dollar this year.
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News Link • Architecture
Giancarlo Zema makes a splash with his eco-friendly solar-powered floating home
03-13-2015
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gizmag.com
Italian architect Giancarlo Zema has designed a new eco-friendly floating home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Machine automatically assembles complex molecules at the microscopic level
03-13-2015
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gizmag.com
The synthesis of complex small molecules in the laboratory is specialized and intricate work that is both difficult and time-consuming.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obamacare
Will The Supreme Court Chain Us Down To Obama-Care?
03-13-2015
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Targetliberty.com
The Supreme Court will likely rule on the Obamacare case in June. Does the court believe that unlimited coercion of citizens is OK but that any pressuring of state governments is a cardinal sin? If the court saves Obamacare to avoid...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Americans Are Looking Up At Spain , Italy, and Ireland
03-13-2015
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Zerohedge.com
We have become nothing but a host to a group of political parasites that have thrived on our wealth and our strength. And they've watched us slowly die over time growing weaker and weaker. Less able to find the strength to uphold...
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News Link • Voting and Elections
5 signs Rahm Emanuel may be doomed in the Chicago mayoral race
03-13-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, TOM BEVAN
Four weeks from now, voters in Chicago will go to the polls to officially decide whether they want to re-elect Rahm Emanuel.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Armchair travelers can now explore Mount Everest on Google Street View
03-13-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, MEGAN WILLETT
Google Maps announced in a blog post Thursday that it has officially made it to Mount Everest.
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News Link • Housing
The high-end housing bubble is on the brink of bursting
03-13-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, WOLF RICHTER
High-end American homes are hot among foreign investors.
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News Link • Military
Russia's Arctic pivot is a massive military undertaking
03-13-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com,JEREMY BENDER
Russia knows that the Arctic ice is melting, and Moscow is doing all it can to claim the spoils of the Arctic for its own as the physical and strategic environment changes.
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News Link • China
China just subtly told Wall Street to mind its own business
03-13-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, LINETTE LOPEZ
The word has finally come down from inside the ever-so-restrained People's Bank of China: One member of the bank's monetary policy team told Reuters that no major intervention would be taken to pump more cash into the slowing Chinese economy unless i
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News Link • Economy - International
Are Alarm Bells Ringing Over Greece's Pivot To Russia?
03-13-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
With German media asking "who is more dangerous for us? Greece or Russia," recent actions by both 'antagonists' in that question suggest they may become one and the same sooner than many expected.
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News Link • Corruption
Judge Napolitano: What About the Thirty Thousand Emails Hillary Deleted?
03-13-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Allegory
Judge Napolitano: What About the Thirty Thousand Emails Hillary Deleted?
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News Link • Surveillance
ACLU Suing Sacramento County Sheriff's Department Over Stingray...
03-13-2015
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http://sacramento.cbslocal.com
ACLU Suing Sacramento County Sheriff's Department Over Stingray Phone-Tracking Records
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News Link • World News
Venezuela's President Maduro Seeks Decree Powers in Response to US Sanctions
03-13-2015
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http://thelibertybeat.com, By Derrick Broze
Following President Obama's new sanctions on Venezuelan officials, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has asked for additional decree powers. Critics of President Maduro accuse him of attempting a power grab by asking for the extra powers.
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News Link • Drug War
CONFERENCE: "STOP THE WARS ON DRUGS AND TERRORISM"
03-13-2015
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by Future of Freedom Foundation
The Future of Freedom Foundation and Young Americans for Liberty present a one-day conference on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin at the LBJ Auditorium in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library on Saturday, April 11, 2015, that will address the
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News Link • TERRORISM
CFR: Support Al Qaeda to Defeat ISIS
03-13-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mikael Thalen
U.S. "would be better served by keeping the terrorist organization afloat…"
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Real Reason ATF Is Backing down from Green Tip Ammo Ban
03-13-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Joshua Krause
After the ATF attempted to add the popular M855 green tip ammo to its list of restricted armor piercing munitions, there was widespread backlash against the move by the public.
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News Link • General Opinion
Video of the Day â€" Nigel Farage Blasts the Idea of a "European Army"...
03-13-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Krieger
Earlier today, the leader of Britain's UKIP, an eloquent wordsmith and member of the EU Parliament, Nigel Farage, unleashed one of his most memorable and finest diatribes in recent years.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Father Faces 20 Years Prison for Treating Daughter's Cancer with Cannabis Oil
03-13-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Christina Sarich
Adam Koessler wanted to cure his 2-year-old daughter's rare, stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a cancer of the abdomen that can be very painful.
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News Link • Propaganda
THE NATIONAL-SECURITY STATE'S ISIS RACKET
03-13-2015
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
The official enemy de jour that has everyone all riled up and scared is ISIS. If U.S. forces don't bomb ISIS, the argument goes, ISIS will take over Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon, and Europe, and Asia, and Latin America, and then the United States.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Zombie Banking System Takes Another Leap Forward; Sugar Crisp Buybacks
03-13-2015
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MIKE SHEDLOCK
With the stock market at all time highs, corporations are in a mad rush to buyback more shares. Corporations just cannot get enough of their own shares, no matter how mispriced they are.
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Opinion • Freedom's Phoenix
Fascist Nation
It has been a fun 10 years
03-13-2015
Powell Gammill
Adios. This is goodbye from me as Senior Editor of Freedom's Phoenix.
My last newsletter will be Monday's. It has been a ten year run. But it is time for Freedom's Phoenix to have a new direction.
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