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Date Sent: 2013-03-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, March 18, 2013 |
Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone
Video: Florida Police Charge Man With Assaulting Them After One Beats Him, Other Tazes -- Anti-marijuana New York assemblyman busted for weed possession -- Rounding Up U.S. Citizens -- Deal likely to keep U.S. elite forces in key Afghan province: official -- "Satisfied" and "Well Pleased" With Totalitarianism -- Earthquakes Turn Water Into Gold -- Trial over NYPD stop-and-frisk tactic set to begin -- Push to Free Jonathan Pollard as Obama’s Israel Visit Nears -- Ron Paul: The Congressional Budget Debate Is Just A Sideshow -- Skyscraper concept relocates China's farms to the clouds -- The
Sensitive Robot: How Haptic Technology is Closing the Mechanical Gap -- War Is Coming In New 'Game Of Thrones' Trailers -- What Mao’s Grandson Reveals About Modern China -- JPMORGAN: Europe May Have Just 'Bazookaed Itself In The Foot' -- There's No Reason Americans Should Spend $4.7 Billion On St.
Patrick's Day -- CITI: Watch These 5 Currencies To See How The Market Is
Reacting To Cyprus -- Europe Just Broke The 'Cardinal Rule' With The Bailout Of Cyprus --
The South still lies about the Civil War -- Is Pope Francis a fraud?
-- The GOP on Foreign Policy: Rhetoric v. Reality -- Honoring Murdered
Rachel Corrie, 10 years on -- CIA begins sizing up Islamic extremists in Syria for drone strikes -- Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health -- Afghans Demand Withdrawal of US Special Forces -- Ten Years After the Invasion -- Special device keeps liver ‘alive’ outside body for up to 24 hours -- 3D-printed gun maker now has federal firearms license to manufacture, deal guns -- Border Security Is Using High-Tech Equipment Like Never Before -- Two gang-rapes in 24 hours in Madhya Pradesh -- Radioactive recliner chairs, apartment buildings and household goods -- Obama Heads to Israel
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News Link • Economy - International
Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone
03-17-2013
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New York Times
Europe’s surprising decision to force bank depositors in Cyprus to share in the cost of the latest euro zone bailout set off increasing outrage and turmoil in Cyprus and fueled fears that the trouble will spread to countries like Spain and Italy.
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News Link • Economy - International
Australian Government Set to Seize Money from Citizens Bank Accounts
03-16-2013
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wakeup-world.com
The ‘Australian Government’ is now set to ‘legally’ seize money from citizens bank accounts without their knowledge or approval.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video: Florida Police Charge Man With Assaulting Them After One Beats Him
03-17-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Officer Derek Middendorf of the Melbourne Florida Police is shown in the tape attacking Albert Flowers, 66, without provocation. As shown in the video below, he not only attacked Flowers but tried to disable his dash camera before the attack. After M
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Anti-marijuana New York assemblyman busted for weed possession
03-17-2013
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Rawstory
A Republican lawmaker in New York who has a record of voting against medical marijuana legalization has been arrested and charged with possession of marijuana.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Rounding Up U.S. Citizens
03-17-2013
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CounterPunch
Anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on Bush’s list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government’s policies could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant" and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American c
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News Link • Afghanistan
Deal likely to keep U.S. elite forces in key Afghan province: official
03-17-2013
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Reuters
Afghan and U.S. officials are working on a compromise deal to allow American special forces to stay in a strategically key province near the capital in return for full Afghan control of a controversial jail, a top Kabul official said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
"Satisfied" and "Well Pleased" With Totalitarianism
03-17-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Not content with bullying and sexually assaulting aviation's passengers, the TSA also fields "VIPR teams." These thugs invade other forms of transportation to intimidate-sorry, convince the serfs that Big Brother bosses busses and ferries, too,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Earthquakes Turn Water Into Gold
03-17-2013
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LiveScience
Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model which provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz seen in many of the world's gold deposits, said a geophysicist at the
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News Link • Police State
Trial over NYPD stop-and-frisk tactic set to begin
03-17-2013
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AP
The New York Police Department's practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is facing its biggest legal challenge this week with a federal civil rights trial on whether the tactic unfairly targets minorities.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Push to Free Jonathan Pollard as Obama’s Israel Visit Nears
03-17-2013
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New York Times
When President Obama lands here on Wednesday, he may encounter some Israelis staging a hunger strike in support of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the American serving a life term in a North Carolina prison for spying for Israel.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: The Congressional Budget Debate Is Just A Sideshow
03-17-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
While the Republican budget plan increases spending a little less than the Democrat plan, it would still spend $5 trillion in 2023, an almost two trillion dollar increase over this year’s budget.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Record Manatee Deaths, But 'Experts' Say No Harms To Humans
03-17-2013
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greenmedinfo.com
Never before in the history of tracking red tide in Florida have so many manatees died as a result of exposure. Despite this concerning fact, 'experts' are towing the party line that there are no human harms associated with long-term exposure.
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News Link • Architecture
Skyscraper concept relocates China's farms to the clouds
03-17-2013
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dvice.com
China's population of 1.3 billion people ranks as the largest on the planet, continuing to grow steadily, well ahead of India and the U.S.
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News Link • European Union
JPMORGAN: Europe May Have Just 'Bazookaed Itself In The Foot'
03-17-2013
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Business Insider
One of the biggest problems presented by the euro crisis has been the financial connection between the banks and their governments.
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe Just Broke The 'Cardinal Rule' With The Bailout Of Cyprus
03-17-2013
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Business Insider
The talk everywhere right now is about Cyprus, and the controversial bailout package that was agreed to in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The South still lies about the Civil War
03-17-2013
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http://www.salon.com, By Tracy Thompson
In an ongoing revisionist history effort, Southern schools and churches still pretend the war wasn't about slavery
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Is Pope Francis a fraud?
03-17-2013
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http://www.salon.com, By Andrew O'Hehir
After a right-wing coup crushed the reforms of Vatican II, one scholar says the last two popes are illegitimate
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Growing food to survive
03-17-2013
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http://www.off-grid.net,
How much land do you need to survive? This is not a theoretical question if, like Carol Deppe, you bellieve the zombie apocalypse is just around the corner.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
The GOP on Foreign Policy: Rhetoric v. Reality
03-17-2013
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com,
As thousands of young true believers gather this weekend for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement continue to operate on a fundamental contradiction.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Honouring Rachel Corrie, 10 years on
03-17-2013
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Andy Beale
US peace activist was killed by Israeli bulldozer in Gaza as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA begins sizing up Islamic extremists in Syria for drone strikes
03-17-2013
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Ken Dilanian and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times
The strategy is part of the agency's secret contingency planning to protect the U.S. and its allies as the violence there grows. Some militants in Syria are seen as closely linked to Al Qaeda.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Chemtrails
Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health
03-17-2013
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http://wakeup-world.com, Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingi
For decades, we have known that heavy metals and chemicals can cause grave physical harm.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Fertility Destroying Chemical Added To Tap, Milk, Salt
03-17-2013
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Sayer Ji
Fluoride is promoted above good nutrition as a ‘therapeutic’ chemical necessary to prevent cavities, but it lowers IQ, calcifies the pineal gland and harms fertility, among a wide range of other adverse health effects.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghans Demand Withdrawal of US Special Forces
03-17-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Lauren McCauley
Protesters marching on Kabul call for the release of 'disappeared' civilians
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Ten Years After the Invasion:
03-17-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Nicolas J.S. Davi
The evil unleashed on the people of Iraq has been painstakingly obscured behind a tapestry of lies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung Galaxy S4 vs. Galaxy S III: Spec Showdown
03-17-2013
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http://www.pcmag.com, By Jamie Lendino
The Samsung Galaxy S4, now that it's finally been unveiled, looks to be as impressive as we had hoped.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Special device keeps liver ‘alive’ outside body for up to 24 hours
03-17-2013
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http://natmonitor.com, Lance Tillson
More than 6,000 liver transplants are performed each year in the United States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
3D-printed gun maker now has federal firearms license to manufacture, deal guns
03/17/2013
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arstechnica
On Saturday, Defense Distributed"America’s best-known group of 3D gunsmiths"announced on Facebook that its founder, Cody Wilson, now has a federal license to be a gun manufacturer and dealer. The group published a picture of the Type 7 federal firear
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Drones
Border Security Is Using High-Tech Equipment Like Never Before
03-17-2013
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Business Insider
Someplace else, the trio of compact aircraft hanging in mid-air might have been mistaken for shiny, remote-controlled toys.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Students Rewarded With iPads for 'Space Invaders' Billboard Hack
03-17-2013
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mashable.com
A hack by two Serbian computer science students, though arguably harmless and fun, could have easily ended in severe punishment. Surprisingly, it didn't.
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News Link • How To
7 YouTube Tutorials for the Perfect St. Patrick's Day Party
03-17-2013
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mashable.com
If you've celebrated St. Patrick's Day before " annual day of Irish pride and general bacchanalia for the masses " you know it can get pretty crazy. Bars are overcrowded, strangers are disorderly and your wallet thins out before you know it.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Google St. Patrick's Day 2013 Logo Gets Animated With Irish Step Dancing
03-17-2013
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searchenginewatch.com
Google is wishing users a happy St. Patrick's Day today with a cute animated Google Doodle featuring a group of six Irish step dancers (five girls and a boy) all dressed in green, with each bearing one of the letters making up Google's name.
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News Link • World News
Two gang-rapes in 24 hours in Madhya Pradesh
03-17-2013
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youtube
A Swiss woman is gang-raped in Madhya Pradesh; she and her husband are beaten and robbed. Another woman is gang-raped on a bus in Indore.
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News Link • Architecture
Wired’s Weekly Picks of Stunning Architecture
03-17-2013
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Wired.com
Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world's cityscapes interesting.
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
10-Foot-Tall Double-Sided Touchscreen Wins NYC’s Pay Phone Redesign Challenge
03-17-2013
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Wired.com
The service contracts for New York City's 11,186 payphones ends in 2014, prompting Mayor Bloomberg to send an emergency call to New York's creative community to help design a better solution through the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Startup: Don't Pay Full Price For A Movie Ticket Anymore
03-17-2013
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Business Insider
With the cost of U.S. movie tickets rising, one startup is looking to revolutionize the market by allowing theatergoers to buy tickets for 30 to 60 percent off.
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News Link • Government
Radioactive recliner chairs, apartment buildings and household goods
03-17-2013
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naturalnews.com
The American government has developed a solution for all the excess radioactive metal from the medical industry and military: Make it into belt buckles.
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News Link • Misinformation
eBay insurance scam exposed:
03-17-2013
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naturalnews.com
Lawyers will tell you there is no such thing as an open-and-shut case, but when a company's insurance doesn't cover the very items the company is selling, it sure seems like open-and-shut to us.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Did the NRA Make a Backdoor Deal To Not Oppose Universal Background Checks?
03-15-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by S.H. Blannelberry
On Tuesday, NBC News alleged that the National Rifle Association would not fight a federal universal background check bill provided that the UBC bill omits language that calls for a national gun registry. Kaise Hunt, a political reporter for NBC News
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
Making life worse for those in pain
03-15-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
During the Christmas season, 1994, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration put Las Vegas medical doctor Dietrich Stoermer, who had treated our troops in Vietnam, on trial here for writing “too many” painkiller prescriptions.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 10, 2013 Edition
03-15-2013
John Semmens
Egypt's Ruling Party Rejects UN Declaration of Human Rights
Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood vehemently denounced a United Nations' declaration on women's rights saying it could destroy society by allowing women to travel, work, and use contracep
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News Link • Inventions
How the America Invents Act Will Change Patenting Forever
03-15-2013
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Wired.com
On Saturday, around 18 months after President Obama signed it into law, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act will take effect.
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News Link • Drones
U.N. Drone Inquisitor Says It’s Time to End Robot War in Pakistan
03-15-2013
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Wired.com
After days of meeting with Pakistani officials, the United Nations official investigating Washington’s global campaign of drone strikes attacked the legal and strategic basis for the robotic war in its biggest battlefield.
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News Link • Agriculture
Farm Subsidies Must Die
03-15-2013
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reason.com
How agriculture subsidies waste money, distort the economy, and steal from the poor to give to the rich.
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News Link • Government
Leviathan’s A Green-Eyed Monster
03-15-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
It seems the Old Glory crowd at city hall doesn't like rival flags being flown.” The nationalists in “Atlantic Beach, northeast Florida” have ordered the “owners of Culhane's Irish Pub” there to remove the Irish flag they’ve flown for 8 years “becaus
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Calls For 'Total' Liberty; Disparages Buy And Hold
03-15-2013
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The focus should be on total individual liberty that allows people to do what they want as long as they don't hurt others, Paul noted, adding that social and economic liberty are connected.
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