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Date Sent: 2012-05-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, May 3, 2012 AM edition |
Accusations That Police Tried to Spy on Wall St. Protesters
Tennessee man Arrested And Imprisoned For Using Cash -- Afghanistan: Permanent Occupation Planned -- Targeting Murdoch -- Al Qaeda attack plans found hidden in porn movie -- Chinese activist pressured to leave US embassy, says friend -- George Zimmerman Myspace page: Trayvon Martin shooter called Mexicans ‘wanna be thugs’ -- 05-03-12 -- Stephanie Murphy - Pastor Chuck Baldwin - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Court rejects torture-related case against Bush lawyer -- Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention -- Army Will Reshape Training, With Lessons From Special Forces -- A Change in Police Policy Has Immigrants Hoping for More -- J.T. Ready, Neo-Nazi and One-Time Pal of Russell Pearce, Is the Shooter in Gilbert Massacre -- Police Ban Protestor from 500 ft of sidewalk -- With tepid endorsement of Romney, Gingrich formally ends 2012 presidential campaign -- 5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People
-- Marin Katusa vs. Porter Stansberry on Oil Prices -- California
Approved Handgun Safe -- Paul supporters create delegate mischief -- New Communist Holiday is the USA’s Loyalty Day -- Turn your iPhone into a networked night vision scope
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News Link • Police State
Accusations That Police Tried to Spy on Wall St. Protesters
05-02-2012
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New York Times
On Monday, the New York Police Department sent its warrant squads after an unusual set of suspects: people who had old warrants for the lowliest of violations, misconduct too minor, usually, to draw the attention of those squads.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
Tennessee man Arrested And Imprisoned For Using Cash
05-03-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
A Tennessee man was charged and jailed by police Friday after he used an old $50 bill to pay for goods at a Quik Mart store.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Al Qaeda attack plans found hidden in porn movie
05-02-2012
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New York Daily News
German investigators discovered more than 100 Al Qaeda documents revealing brainstorming of new targets and methods of attack imbedded in a pornographic video that was confiscated from a suspected Al Qaeda operative.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • China
Chinese activist pressured to leave US embassy, says friend
05-02-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
In an exclusive interview, a trusted friend of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng told the Monitor to protect his family, the blind legal activist agreed to leave the safety of the US embassy and stay in China.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
George Zimmerman Myspace page: Trayvon Martin shooter called Mexicans ‘wanna be thugs’
05-02-2012
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The Lookout
I dont miss driving around scared to hit mexicans walkin on the side of the street, soft ass wanna be thugs messin with peoples cars when they aint around (what are you provin, that you can dent a car when no ones watchin) dont make you a man in my b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Court rejects torture-related case against Bush lawyer
05-02-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that John Yoo, a former legal counsel to the Bush administration, is immune from a lawsuit by an American citizen convicted on terrorism charges who said he was tortured at a military jail in South Carolina.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention
05-02-2012
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ABC News
In the politically-charged and likely protest-filled streets of Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention in August, water guns will be strictly prohibited. Concealed handguns, on the other hand, will be perfectly legal.
Florida Gov.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Army Will Reshape Training, With Lessons From Special Forces
05-02-2012
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New York Times
The Army is reshaping the way many soldiers are trained and deployed, with some conventional units to be placed officially under Special Operations commanders and others assigned to Africa.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
A Change in Police Policy Has Immigrants Hoping for More
05-02-2012
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New York Times
Advocacy groups complained the checkpoints unfairly targeted illegal immigrants, who cannot get driver’s licenses, and automatically impound the vehicles of drivers without licenses.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
J.T. Ready, Neo-Nazi and One-Time Pal of Russell Pearce, Is the Shooter in Gilbert Massacre
05-02-2012
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blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com
J.T. Ready, Az's most prominent neo-Nazi and the one-time political protege of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, is reportedly dead by his own hand in a multiple murder-suicide in Gilbert that left four others dead, including a 2 yr old
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Ban Protestor from 500 ft of sidewalk
05-02-2012
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CopBlock
The police approached him, informing him he was banned from 500 ft of public sidewalk, claiming it was their “operational area”. They also claim they do not have to follow a new California law concerning car impounds, because they are not sobriety ch
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
With tepid endorsement of Romney, Gingrich formally ends 2012 presidential campaign
05-02-2012
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The Ticket
At an event long past his campaign's expiration date, Newt Gingrich ended his presidential campaign: "Today I am suspending the campaign, but suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship," Gingrich said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People
05-02-2012
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay. The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase. Do you believe them this time?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Technology to Minimize Brain Injury
05-02-2012
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arclein
application of negative pressure to remove fluids. In the study, the researchers placed a bioengineered material matrix directly on the injured area of the rats’ brains, then attached a flexible tube which was run into a computer-controlled vacuum pu
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Genius of the First Peoples with Wayne Arthurson
05-02-2012
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arclein
The Great Law of Peace -- The ideals, words and symbols of the Iroquois Confederacy inspired the governments of the New World to form democracies that recognized, in their constitutions, the rights of all people
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
New Particle at CERN
05-02-2012
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arclein
The discovery of the new particle confirms the theory of how quarks bind and therefore helps to understand the strong interaction, one of the four basic forces of physics which determines the structure of matter.
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul supporters create delegate mischief
05-02-2012
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www.washingtontimes.com
Mitt Romney may be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is quietly racking up some organizational victories that could complicate Mr. Romney’s anticipated coronation at the Republican National Convention in Tamp
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Treason and Sedition
New Communist Holiday is the USA’s Loyalty Day
05/02/2012
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Tom Rhodes
C. E. Ruthenberg wrote in the 1923 May Day edition of the Weekly Worker,: “May Day " the day which inspires fear in the hearts of the capitalists and hope in the workers " the workers the world over " will find the Communist movement this year strong
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Matt Schnackenberg
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News Link • Police State
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday May 2nd 2012
05-02-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com
Want an AR-15 in Your Arsenal? / Questioning College / Dominate. Intimidate. Control... the US's metastasizing police state / The Truth About the Public 'Schools'
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Turn your iPhone into a networked night vision scope
05-02-2012
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www.gizmag.com
Imagine if you could turn your iPhone into an advanced night vision recording device, tuned to your every espionage whim. No, there's not an app for that ... but there is the USNV Night Vision iPhone Adapter.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
The Entire Global Economy Depends On Collateral That Doesn't Exist
05-02-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
A sound system of credit is built on collateral. A doomed system of debt sits precariously on phantom collateral.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
BUT, WHAT ABOUT JUSTICE FOR ZIMMERMAN?
05-02-2012
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http://www.newswithviews.com, By Lloyd Marcus
I keep thinking of an episode of the 1973 TV show, “Kojak: The Marcus-Nelson Murders.” Homicide detective Kojak suspects that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Girl allegedly punished for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance
05-02-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
The Brownsville Area School District announced on Monday it would not discipline students who refused to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance, according to the Associated Press.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Seriously?
A beating at Church and Brambleton
05-02-2012
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http://hamptonroads.com, Michelle Washington
Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
To Joliet jail for NATO offenders?
05-02-2012
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http://www.suntimes.com, BY FRAN SPIELMAN
Mothballed for a decade, the Joliet Correctional Center could be temporarily reopened to serve as a detention facility for those arrested for serious offenses during the May 20-21 NATO summit.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • World News
Bolivian Soldiers Walked Into This Spanish Power Company, Hung A Flag And Seized Control
05-02-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) " President Evo Morales announced Tuesday that his government is completing the nationalization of Bolivia's electricity sector by seizing control of its main power grid from a Spanish-owned company.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene
05-02-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Silicene could be the material of the future. Or at least the material of the near future, until graphene-based semiconductors become more efficient.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - International
UPDATE: SPAIN AND ITALY ARE GETTING DESTROYED
05-02-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
UPDATE: The IBEX 35 extended losses right after today's dismal U.S. ADP jobs report, and is now off a full 3 percent. - UPDATE II: Italy is catching up to Spain on losses, as rumors about an imminent downgrade of its banks fuels a sell-off.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Illinois Borrowing Costs Rise By 22.5% And It's Just Going To Get Worse
05-02-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Illinois borrowing costs are poised to rise about 22.5%. The nominal increase is about .34 percentage points as reported by Bloomberg.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alex Jones calls for Occupy Bilderberg
05-02-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
On May 31, the annual Bilderberg conference will take place in Chantilly, Virgina. Every year the world’s elites meet to make decisions that could potentially have an affect on millions around the world.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Bioterrorism
DHS To Release Bacteria In Boston Subway System
05-02-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
U.S. government has a history of dangerous biological testing on the American public
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News Link • Drug War
Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive
05-02-2012
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Rawstory
Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for 5 days without food or water. “They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” he sai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Sec. Clinton tosses Chinese dissident to the wolves before talks
05-02-2012
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Reuters
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday "of his own volition" after six days, the Foreign Ministry said, and a senior U.S. official said he planned to stay put in China.
China's Foreign Ministry denounced th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Is US in a perpetual state of war?
05-02-2012
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Philip Fernando , Asian Tribune
In the last 20 years, there have only been three or four in which the U.S. military wasn’t at war. Now it seemed easier to take the plunge as technology has made it cheaper and easier to project conventional military force, and therefore presidents d
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Afghanistan
Obama Signs Pact in Kabul, Turning Page in Afghan War
05-01-2012
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New York Times
President Obama, speaking from Bagram Air Base, declared that he had traveled here to herald a new era in the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan, “a future in which war ends, and a new chapter begins.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Heckuva Job, DEA
05-01-2012
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The Agitator
A man taken into custody during a drug raid was left in a holding cell for 5 days, possibly without food or water. The DEA says the suspect was accidentally left in one of the cells. During that time, he somehow gained access to methamphetamine.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
NYPD Celebrates May Day
05-01-2012
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The Agitator
In anticipation [of May Day protests], the FBI and NYPD raided the homes of protesters. “There were a number of visits in the morning and at other points in the day that targeted Occupy protesters,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Skylon Sabre Engine
05-01-2012
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arclein
REL managing director Alan Bond told the BBC: 'We can reduce the world to four hours - the maximum time it would take to go anywhere. And that it also gives us an aircraft that can go into space, replacing all the expendable rockets we use today.'
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robert klein
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News Link • Precious Metals
Dutch Central Banker's Memoirs confirm Gold Price Suppression
05-01-2012
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GATA
With his new study,Final Settlement: Gold as the Monetary Cosmos' Sun," appended here, our good friend the Netherlands economist Jaco Schipper of MarketUpdate.nl today adds substantially to the growing documentation of the Western central bank gold
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Precious Metals
Details Of This Morning's Massive $1.24 Billion 'Gold Finger' Trade
05-01-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Manipulative Gold ‘Fat Finger’ Or Algo Trade Worth $1.24 Billion
The gold market was briefly shaken by an unusually large early morning sell order, which triggered a brief trading halt in gold futures
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
JIM ROGERS: The One Thing Investors Need To Consider Before Diving Into Commodities
05-01-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
...become a Chinese farmer. He stopped by the Business Insider office to tell us why agricultural commodities are his top picks and what investors need to consider before diving into commodities.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Fully Armed U.S. Troops Patrol Minnesota Neighborhood
05-01-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Guard troops from the local Crookston Armory routinely take part in off-base exercises which train the local population to accept the sight of armed soldiers patrolling their neighborhoods as normal.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul VS Paul Krugman 4-30-12 FULL VIDEO Bloomberg
04-30-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
LIKE Ron Paul U.S.A. on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/RonPaulUSA
Ron Paul educates Paul Krugman on why we cannot inflate our way out of the economic crisis!
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News Link • Internet
CISPA Passes The House With Tea Party Support
04-30-2012
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Forbes
CISPA is full of problematic intrusions into individual privacy and online liberty, and yet those members of the House who associate themselves with limited government were largely responsible for its passage.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Entire Silver Circle Comic is now Published!
05-01-2012
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Silver Circle Online Comic
We've been working for months to provide you with the Silver Circle story in the form of an exciting comic and today marks the publication of the final page. Spoilers are included, so those of you waiting to see the movie this Fall - BEWARE!
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News Link • Conspiracies
Five arrested in U.S. plot to blow up bridge
05-01-2012
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Reuters
U.S. authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge over a national park, but had no ties to foreign terrorism, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Th
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News Link • World News
Maid's NY suit vs. Strauss-Kahn can proceed
05-01-2012
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AP
A hotel maid's sexual assault lawsuit against Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her can go forward to trial, a judge ruled, rebuffing the former International Monetary Fund leader's diplomatic-immunity claim.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
QArt Codes - QR codes with pictures embedded in the code. Generate your own
04-12-2012
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research.swtch.com
QArt Codes
QR codes are 2-dimensional bar codes that encode arbitrary text strings. A common use of QR codes is to encode URLs so that people can scan a QR code (for example, on an advertising poster, building roof, volleyball bikini, belt buckle,
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Empire Strikes Back: Attack of the Drones
05-01-2012
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Right Side News
Politicians stand to make money off the implementation of drones in America. 53 members of the House are part of the drone caucus which works to expand the use of drones domestically. 15 members of the caucus have received a total of $68,500 from Gen
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vows to Fix Following Public Pressure
05-01-2012
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http://www.wired.com, Threat Level
After ignoring a serious security vulnerability in its product for at least a year, a Canadian company that makes equipment and software for critical industrial control systems announced quietly on Friday that it would eliminate a backdoor login acco
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