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Date Sent: 2013-01-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 18, 2013 PM edition |
Seattle Restaurant Refuses to Serve TSA Workers -- Kim Dotcom Returns With Megaupload Successor
01-18-13 -- Jay Lewis (March on State Capitals Jan 19th, 2013) (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Paul Ryan Confirms GOP Thinking About A Short-Term Debt-Ceiling Hike -- The Pentagon Wants To Scatter Weapons Under The World's Oceans To Activate On Demand -- A Huge Shift Is Happening In The Currency Market, Just In Time For The Folks Going To Davos -- The Air Force Will Triple Its US Bomber Airspace To Perform More Low Level Runs -- Judge
Napolitano Reacts to NY Times Criticism "Either We Have a 2nd Amendment
or We Don't" -- The Segment In Which Glenn Beck Realizes He's Part Of
The Problem, Not The Solution -- Drama in RNC Election as Ron Paul Supporter Makes Run for Chairman -- Quebec Right to Die Legislation Likely -- Epidemic of Homicidal Violence Med Driven --
Judge Nap Nails it Again: Obama uses children as props, while killing
them with drones. -- Four Citizens Shot and Killed in Cambridge, MA --
Big goings on with Alaska GOP tonight - Trying to throw out Elected Paul
supporters UPDATE -- Drill Characterizes “Disgruntled” Second Amendment Advocates as Terrorists -- DARPA
Wants to Remake Manufacturing -- Aaron Swartz and the Two Faces of
Power -- Should We Establish National Parks On Mars? -- Startup Wants To
3-D
Print Tomorrow's Gun-Safety Tech -- US Envoy: Much-Hyped Taliban
Peace Process Stalled -- Do You Want To Scare A Baby Boomer?
-- CALL TO ACTION:
March on State Capitals, 19 Jan, 2013! -- Gun Control = More Crime
-- Are we losing our country? -- Taxpayers to Receive Credit For
Surrendering Guns to Government -- “Join Us! Tell Everyone
Your House Is Completely Unprotected!” (Video) -- To the Patriots: Arm
Yourselves, for the Hammer’s Crashing Down -- Woman hogtied by
officers gets $250,000 -- Report: Algeria hostage situation
not over -- Leonid Razvozzhayev, Russian activist, faces new
criminal case -- This Is What Happens When A Buggy Algorithm
Goes Crazy On A Stock -- Google CEO Larry Page Bought Flu Shots For
Every Child From San Jose To San Francisco -- Piers Morgan Loses
ANOTHER Gun Control Debate, Gets Angry & 'Throws' His Notes --
Mainstream Media smearing Ben Swann -- Mayor Predicts
“Waco-Style Standoff” In Response to Obama Gun Confiscation --
With Cash and Commandos, U.S. Escalates Its Battle Against the
Mexican Cartels
CALL TO ACTION:
March on State Capitals, tomorrow 19 Jan, 2013! -- Gun Control = More Crime
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News Link • Internet
Kim Dotcom Poised For Return With Megaupload Successor
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom will launch a new file-sharing site at his Auckland mansion on Sunday, exactly a year after armed police arrested him at the same venue in the world's largest online piracy case.
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News Link • Gun Rights
CALL TO ACTION: March on State Capitals, 19 Jan, 2013!
01-18-2013
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www.youtube.com
The proposed AWB seeks to criminalize millions of good Americans is a power grabbing, Marxist attempt at people control. We stand and be counted NOW, not cower in our houses hoping for the best and ranting anonymously on the internet about crap that
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Paul Ryan Confirms GOP Thinking About A Short-Term Debt-Ceiling Hike
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
In a briefing with reporters today at House Republicans' retreat in Williamsburg, Va., Rep. Paul Ryan said that the House GOP is discussing a possible "short-term debt limit extension,"
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News Link • Military
The Pentagon Wants To Scatter Weapons Under The World's Oceans To Activate On Demand
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
The U.S. Navy is attempting to develop a stealth underwater system capable of providing worldwide "operational support and situational awareness," according to a Jan. 11 release from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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News Link • Currencies
A Huge Shift Is Happening In The Currency Market, Just In Time For The Folks Going To Davos
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
As we wrote about yesterday, one of the biggest moves in currencies has been the Euro rallying against the Swiss Franc.
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News Link • Military
The Air Force Will Triple Its US Bomber Airspace To Perform More Low Level Runs
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Air Force has launched a six-year plan to more than triple the airspace used for its bombers to accommodate more training sorties of its Dakotas-based B-1 and B-52 planes.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Judge Napolitano Reacts to NY Times Criticism "Either We Have a 2nd Amendment or We Don't**
01-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Judge Napolitano Reacts to NY Times Criticism "Either We Have a 2nd Amendment or We Don't"
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Segment In Which Glenn Beck Realizes He's Part Of The Problem, Not The Solution
01-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Excerpt from Glenn Beck's special on the Federal Reserve. Lmao, I can't believe he kept a straight face!
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Drama in RNC Election as Ron Paul Supporter Makes Run for Chairman
01-18-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by sailingaway
"Some last minute drama has been injected into the race for chairman of the Republican National Committee as a national committeeman from the Ron Paul wing of the party is mounting a last minute effort to challenge Reince Priebus for chairman.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday January 18th 2013
01-18-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Vague, Confusing, and Very Scary, Seth Mason examines the the dictator's 23 gun control commandments / Germany Demands Its Gold Back / Rob This House!, Would you put a "gun-free" sign in front of your home?
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News Link • China
Bird Watching in China
01-18-2013
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arclein
Since bird is one of the most sensitive indicators of ecosystem health, both habitat range and migration route of birds could be affected by global climate change and the most direct impacts come from human activities and global warming. Nowadays the
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News Link • Activism
Quebec Right to Die Legislation Likely
01-18-2013
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arclein
A panel of legal experts in Quebec is recommending that people suffering from an incurable or degenerative illness be allowed to ask for medical assistance to help them die.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Epidemic of Homicidal Violence Med Driven
01-18-2013
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arclein
certain drugs can induce mania (a psychosis which can produce bizarre, grandiose and highly elaborated destructive plans, including mass murder);. . .and certain drugs can produce an acute psychotic reaction in an individual not previously psychotic
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News Link • History
Four Citizens Shot and Killed in Cambridge, MA
01-18-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Michael Nystrom
As you know, I am documenting some of the landmarks of the American Revolution that are common but often ignored sites around Boston. This one is new to me - I saw it for the first time this week when I stopped to get a haircut in North Cambridge.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Drill Characterizes “Disgruntled” Second Amendment Advocates as Terrorists
01-18-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Ohio exercise centers around WMD plot
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News Link • Military
DARPA Wants to Remake Manufacturing
01-18-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By David Talbot
The military research agency hopes to design and build an amphibious tank from scratch in three years.
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News Link • Internet
Aaron Swartz and the Two Faces of Power
01-18-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Singel
Aaron Swartz called me in early May 2011 " I was an editor at Wired then covering privacy, crime, and security " asking if he could give me some information under embargo.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Startup Wants To 3-D Print Tomorrow's Gun-Safety Tech
01-18-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Shaunacy Ferro
3Dlt, a 3-D printer template marketplace, has launched a firearm-safety design challenge.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control = More Crime
01-18-2013
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GunControlMoreCrime.Com
Please attend the "Guns Across America" rally on Jan. 19, 2013, at your state capital building. This event starts at "high noon" local time.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Taxpayers to Receive Credit For Surrendering Guns to Government
01-18-2013
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Prison Planet
On January 13, 2013, H.R. 226 was introduced in the House of Representatives by Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro. The bill will amend the 1986 IRS code and allow a credit if taxpayers “surrender” their guns to the government.
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News Link • Gun Rights
“Join Us! Tell Everyone Your House Is Completely Unprotected!” (Video)
01-18-2013
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Prison Planet
The group visits a host of key anti-gun proponents including the publishing team at theJournal News, which recently posted a public map of homeowners with registered weapons.
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News Link • Gun Rights
To the Patriots: Arm Yourselves, for the Hammer’s Crashing Down
01-18-2013
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oathkeepers.org
In this dark hour, when liberty is under such relentless assault, it is necessary for you to steel yourselves, and arm yourselves, spiritually, mentally, and physically.
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News Link • Police State
Woman hogtied by officers gets $250,000
01-18-2013
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upi.com
A pregnant woman who was hogtied after California Highway Patrol officers pulled her over for talking on her cell phone won $250,000 in damages.
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News Link • World News
Report: Algeria hostage situation not over
01-18-2013
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upi.com
Islamic militants still held hostages at a gas plant in Algeria Friday, diplomatic officials said.
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News Link • Activism
Leonid Razvozzhayev, Russian activist, faces new criminal case
01-18-2013
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upi.com
Investigators opened a new criminal case against Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev Friday while denying reports of his disappearance.
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News Link • Internet
This Is What Happens When A Buggy Algorithm Goes Crazy On A Stock
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
Algorithmic trading, the use of pre-programmed computer codes to place orders and execute trades, is supposed to be the fastest, smartest way to trade in today's stock market.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Amateur Prospector Finds $300,000 Gold Nugget With A Handheld Metal Detector
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
An amateur prospector in Australia came into a bit of a windfall yesterday while searching for hidden gold.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Google CEO Larry Page Bought Flu Shots For Every Child From San Jose To San Francisco
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
Google CEO Larry Page paid for flu shots for every child in the Bay Area, Steven Levy at Wired reports.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
REPORT: Tiger Woods Asked Ex-Wife Elin Nordegren To Re-Marry Him
01-18-2013
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Business Insider
Here's a wild report from the National Enquirer about Tiger Woods and his ex-wife Elin Nordegren.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Piers Morgan Loses ANOTHER Gun Control Debate, Gets Angry & 'Throws' His Notes
01-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I can only imagine the shock of this guest after being invited onto a CNN prime time show only to have the host lose it and start throwing things in her direction.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mayor Predicts “Waco-Style Standoff” In Response to Obama Gun Confiscation
01-18-2013
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Prison Planet
“It’s not going to end well”
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Track Curiosity Rover’s Entire Mission With This Incredible Image From Space
01-18-2013
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Wired.com
Since it landed in August, NASA’s awesome rover has traversed about half a kilometer from its landing site.
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News Link • Internet
Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter
01-18-2013
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Wired.com
Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google.
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News Link • Science
Topology Theorems Inform New Materials
01-18-2013
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arclein
The research could lead to upgrades in liquid crystal displays, like those used in laptops and television screens, to allow them to interact with light in new and different ways. One possibility is to create liquid crystal displays that are even more
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News Link • Drug War
With Cash and Commandos, U.S. Escalates Its Battle Against the Mexican Cartels
01-18-2013
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Wired.com
The U.S. military is getting ready to send its elite troops to help in the fight against Mexico’s drug lords.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
I Am Totally Cool With This Samsung Smart Fridge
01-18-2013
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Wired.com
When Samsung presented its new lineup of gear a CES 2013, it showed off a smart refrigerator with a built-in tablet that ran apps like Epicurious and Evernote. And oh, how we laughed. Evernote in a refrigerator? That’s preposterous!
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Filabot Turns Your Plastic Junk Into Material for 3-D Printers
01-18-2013
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Wired.com
Filabot promises to help turn your plastic crap into 3-D printed fanciness, alleviating one of the biggest sustainability problems for 3-D printing.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Mini Movies: Best Microscope Videos of 2012
01-18-2013
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Wired.com
Microscope photography gives us incredible views of everyday objects, exotic species and even ourselves that we would never be aware of on our own. But add movement to these images, and they come alive in amazing, beautiful and sometimes creepy ways.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Americans die while Obama...
01-18-2013
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The Political Commentator
Obama administration reaction to the killing of Americans in Algeria has been eerily similar to the reaction when Americans were killed and U.S. sovereign territory was attacked in Benghazi.
Inaction, empty rhetoric and the ceding any action to t
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Relationship Between Liberty, Power, and Guns (video)
01-16-2013
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The Relationship Between Liberty, Power, and Guns
At the Citizens for Liberty meeting on January 16, 2013 Darren Wolfe talked about how the loss of liberty has created an unstable society.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
All Aboard The Gold Repatriation Train: First Germany, Next: The Netherlands?
01-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
While moustachioed managers, contrary to the far better insight of their superiors, and mainstream spivs are trying to talk down Germany's somewhat stunning shift in thinking - i.e. to repatriate its gold - as nothing but political pandering (or cost
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Crossing Through The "X Date" - What Happens After The US "Default"?
01-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Call it "X Date", call it "D(elinquent/efault)-Day", call it what you will: it is simply the day past which the US government will no longer be able to rely on "extraordinary measures" to delay the day of reckoning, and will be unable to pay all its
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News Link • Federal Reserve
It Will Take The Fed Seven Years To Deliver 300 Tons Of German Gold
01-17-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
With the market yet another algo-controlled snoozer, programmed to close the S&P just green (as otherwise confidence in central planning may fail), the key things we learned today are as follows:
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News Link • Self-Defense
Marksmanship and .308 Battle Rifles
01-17-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Ulysses in Montana
Like a lot of guys I did some shooting and hunting while growing up, only to set it aside in early adulthood as the frantic task of making it in life overcame interest in such ‘boyish’ pursuits.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul warns journalists: You could be next on Obama’s ‘kill list’
01-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Apple
At a recent luncheon at the National Press Club, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul warned journalists that they could be placed on a “kill list” should the government deem them a threat to national security.
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News Link • Government
Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans
01-17-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, By Spencer Ackerman
The man in charge of America’s drone wars will face Senate questioning about perhaps their most controversial aspect: when the president can target American citizens for death.
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News Link • New World Order
Attack On Sovereignty
01-17-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
Those concerned about "The New World Order" speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, about which China,
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Trillion Dollar Trick
01-17-2013
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http://www.thedailybell.com, By Peter Schiff
The birth, and the apparent death, of the trillion dollar platinum coin idea may one day be recalled as a mere footnote in the current debt crisis drama.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Nationwide Ammo Shortages - For Police!
01-17-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.
Police departments nationwide are experiencing ammunition shortages, according to the online law enforcement resource, PoliceOne.com
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News Link • Gun Rights
Bob Schieffer Likens Obama 'Taking on the Gun Lobby' to Hunt for Bin Laden, 'Defeating t
01-17-2013
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http://newsbusters.org, By Matthew Balan
Bob Schieffer somehow topped Chris Matthews during CBS News's special coverage of President Obama's gun control press conference on Wednesday, as he became the worst caricature of a foaming-at-the-mouth cheerleader for the chief executive.
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News Link • Gun Rights
DHS to 'Expand and Formalize Coordination' on Gun Control Efforts
01-17-2013
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http://www.weeklystandard.com, By MICHAEL WARREN
Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security, released a statement Wednesday saying she is "proud to support" the Obama administration's efforts to "combat gun violence in our country."
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News Link • Energy
An Engine That Uses One-Third the Fuel
01-17-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin Bullis
Achates Power gets $5 million to build a multi-cylinder version of its diesel engine.
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News Link • Internet
New Bank Has No Branches, Just an App " And Thinks You’ll Volunteer to Pay for It
01-17-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Wohlsen
The company that made prepaid debit cards for the “unbanked” ubiquitous has a new venture: a bank. But Green Dot (GDOT) isn’t planning on opening any branches. To visit this bank, you have to open up the app.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
01-17-2013
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www.wired.com
A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip throug
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