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Date Sent: 2013-04-23
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
Ricin suspect released from jail -- Chinese Sue Fed For Monopoly USD Devaluation
04-23-13 - Stephen Lendman - Frosty Wooldridge - Tyger Gilbert (MP3 LOADED) -- Simple Boston Bomb Plot Hatched Without Foreign Help, Authorities Believe -- Woman unknowingly takes 30 pounds of pot across U.S.-Mexico border -- U.S. employees set to be forced to give bosses their Facebook PASSWORDS --
AP hacked, reports White House explosions, Obama injured; stocks plunge
but quickly recover -- Cannabis Treats Cancer and Epilepsy -- The Arab
Spring Began in Iraq -- Officials: Boston suspects motivated by religion
-- Stewart Rhodes Speaking In Arizona At Prepper Fest AZ Expo -- Inside the Race to Build the World’s Fastest Bitcoin Miner -- Shopping on Amazon Could Soon Get Pricier as Sales-Tax Bill Advances -- The Three Best Kinds Of Marijuana In The Country -- BitCoin, Or BetaCoin? What The Venture Capitalists Are Thinking -- There Was So Much Demand For Physical Gold In India This Past Week, Retailers Struggled To Keep Up -- China PMI Miss Slams JPY-Carry Trades -- Cindy Gallop Wants To Change The Future Of Porn -- Bill Fleckenstein: Hold Tight To Your Gold -- Nike yanks T-shirts in aftermath of bombing
AZ: INAUGURAL PREPPER FEST AZ EXPO COMING APRIL 26-28, 2013
; Language of Liberty Phoenix Seminar May 3-4, 2013
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News Link • TERRORISM
Ricin suspect released from jail
04-23-2013
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AP
The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a state judge was released from jail on Tuesday, federal official said, though the reason for the release wasn't immediately clear.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Chinese Sue Fed For Monopoly USD Devaluation
04-23-2013
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zerohedge.com
In what could to grow into a class action in US courts, a Chinese woman is suing the Federal Reserve after discovering that the real value of the USD250 she put in an account in 2006 had shrunk by 30%.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
INAUGURAL PREPPER FEST AZ EXPO COMING APRIL 26-28, 2013
04-22-2013
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PrepperFestAZ.Com
Three-day Event in North Scottsdale to Feature More Than 85 Booths, Live Demonstrations and Classes
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Simple Boston Bomb Plot Hatched Without Foreign Help, Authorities Believe
04-23-2013
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ABC News (video)
In the hours before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with the crime that could lead to the death penalty, authorities say the 19-year-old accused terrorist has started to provide his version of the events that led to the deadly bomb attacks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Woman unknowingly takes 30 pounds of pot across U.S.-Mexico border
04-23-2013
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The Sideshow
Officials want to remind people who regularly cross the border to check their car"as some people become targets by drug cartels as unwitting mules in the narcotics business. Regular border travelers may be a boon to drug smugglers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
U.S. employees set to be forced to give bosses their Facebook PASSWORDS
04-23-2013
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Daily Mail
An attempt to ban US bosses from asking employees to hand over their Facebook login details has been blocked by Congress.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
AP hacked, reports White House explosions; stocks plunge but quickly recover
04-23-2013
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Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press, sending out a false tweet about an attack at the White House. The false tweet said there had been 2 explosions at the White House and that President Obama was injured.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Humans Show Empathy for Robots
04-23-2013
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livescience.com
From R2-D2 in "Star Wars" to Furby, robots can generate surprisingly humanlike feelings. Watching a robot being abused or cuddled has a similar effect on people to seeing those things done to a human, new research shows.
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News Link • Energy
NASA Must Pay for Plutonium Production to Fuel Deep-Space Probes
04-23-2013
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space.com
NASA will now foot the entire bill for the United States' production of plutonium-238 spacecraft fuel, which recently started up again for the first time in a quarter-century.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines
04-23-2013
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ted.com
As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it’s simply the growing pains of a radically reorganized economy.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cannabis Treats Cancer and Epilepsy
04-23-2013
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arclein
he Obama administration that has continued to resist the legalization on a federal level of medical marijuana. They still insist that there is no medical use for marijuana when all the science proves the government to be dead wrong. They hunt the wor
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Arab Spring Began in Iraq
04-23-2013
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arclein
Citizens tend to rally around their leaders when faced with external attacks. But Iraqis didn’t. Millions of Iraqis rose up against Mr. Hussein following the 1991 war, and did what was then unthinkable: they called upon the foreign forces that had be
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
2nd child of Pa. couple dies after only praying
04-23-2013
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The Associated Press
A Philadelphia couple - serving 10 years' probation for the 2009 death of their toddler after they turned to prayer instead of a doctor - has violated their probation now that another of their children has died.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • TERRORISM
Officials: Boston suspects motivated by religion
04-23-2013
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The Associated Press
Preliminary evidence suggests the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were motivated by religion but not tied to any terrorist groups, two U.S. officials say.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Archaeology
Hobbits Likely Island Dwarfs of Homo Erectus
04-23-2013
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arclein
Alternative theories are that these creatures are either a small group of modern humans, Homo sapiens, whose brains and bodies have been prevented from growing normally because of a wasting disease, or that they are descendants of tiny-brained ape-li
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News Link • Science
Shrinking Proton Conforms to New Theory
04-23-2013
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arclein
"The discrepancy is rather severe," said Randolf Pohl, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. The question, Pohl and his colleagues said, is whether the explanation is a boring one " someone messed up the measurements " or somet
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Stewart Rhodes Speaking In Arizona At Prepper Fest AZ Expo
04-23-2013
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Oathkeepers
Stewart will be the Key Note Speaker on the 27th and 28th to promote Oath Keepers and Operation Sleeping Giant.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Inside the Race to Build the World’s Fastest Bitcoin Miner
04-23-2013
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Wired.com
There’s more than one way to make money from the Bitcoin craze, which has seen the value of the digital currency increase more than six-fold over the past few months.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The Three Best Kinds Of Marijuana In The Country
04-23-2013
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Business Insider
Pot magazine High Times held its annual Cannabis Cup this past weekend in Denver.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
The 11 Hottest Cars On Display At The Shanghai Auto Show
04-23-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex Davies
The 2013 Shanghai Auto Show is now in full swing, and just about every automaker of significance is on the scene to show off its wares.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
BitCoin, Or BetaCoin? What The Venture Capitalists Are Thinking
04-23-2013
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zerohedge.com
After a disastrous few days in early April, bitcoin is back over $100 and up on the month, the year and its short lifetime.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
There Was So Much Demand For Physical Gold In India This Past Week, Retailers Struggled To Keep Up
04-23-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Amid the gold crash, retail purchasers of gold are still buying heavily.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China PMI Miss Slams JPY-Carry Trades
04-23-2013
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zerohedge.com
Thanks to a drop into contractionary territory for both New Export Orders and Employment, HSBC's Flash China Manufacturing PMI missed expectations and dropped to its equal lowest 'expansionary' print in six months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Cindy Gallop Wants To Change The Future Of Porn
04-23-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Kevin Smith
As the founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn (MLNP), Cindy Gallop is ushering in a new type of intimacy for couples that want to share their private moments and those that want to watch.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Nike yanks T-shirts in aftermath of bombing
04-23-2013
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http://bigstory.ap.org
Nike Inc. says it has pulled from the market T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Boston Massacre" in the aftermath of last week's bombing during the Boston Marathon that killed three people and left dozens injured.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Did the brothers Tsarnaev fail?
04-23-2013
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http://www.wnd.com, Patrick J. Buchanan
Pat Buchanan wonders if bombers are now inspirations for other 'sick souls within'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Welcome to Amerika: No More Truth, Justice or American Way
04-23-2013
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veteranstoday.com
“Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”"C.S. Lewis
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Was the Boston Bombing a 'Dry-Run Disaster' Gone Live?
04-22-2013
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Lucas Bowser via LewRockwell.com
Because the mainstream media outlets continue to treat questions concerning the possibility of false flag terrorism in the Boston bombing as absurd, the alternative media is left with the job of investigating this angle.
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News Link • Surveillance
Bush aide leverages Boston explosion to boost Big Brother
04-22-2013
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http://www.salon.com, By Andrew Leonard
A conservative warhorse exploits the Boston bombings to argue for more government surveillance. He's wrong
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Martial Law
security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you've ever heard
04-22-2013
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http://www.popehat.com, By Clark
First, just in case it's not utterly obvious, I'm glad that the two murderous cowards who attacked civilians in Boston recently are off the streets. One dead and one in custody is a great outcome.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens They Take Even More Freedom From Us
04-22-2013
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
What in the world is happening to America? Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
The Real Story About Marijuana Legalization According To A Top Insider In The Movement
04-22-2013
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Business Insider
We recently had the chance to chat with Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization that has been at the forefront of the country's marijuana legalization and decriminalization efforts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
How Studying Extremist Psychology Can Help Prevent Another Bombing
04-22-2013
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Rober Beckhusen via WIRED.com
Put aside, for a moment, whatever you might suspect about anyone’s motives for bombing the Boston Marathon, since no one actually knows yet.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hacking Trial Devoid of Hacking Awaits Jury Verdict
04-22-2013
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The same hacking statute internet sensation Aaron Swartz was being prosecuted under until his January suicide is quietly being tested in a San Francisco federal courtroom " to little fanfare in a case devoid of hacking in the traditional sense.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Letter Re: A Privacy Lesson From the Boston Bombing Investigation
04-22-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, O.H.
Jim.
I learned something from the recent Boston terrorist incident....though it passed very quickly in a reporter's interview - and even though the reporter was interrupted and didn't get to finish her thought.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Smoking Pot And Popping THC Pills Combat Pain, Study Finds
04-22-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
This is the first study to compare smoking marijuana and pills that contain the psychoactive chemical in the plant.
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News Link • How To
If a Cop Tells You to Stop Recording Them, OBEY!
04-22-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Doug Eberhardt
Of course the title got you here. That's what a good journalist does. But this article is not about giving in to an officer who is trying to bully you into submission, infringing on your rights to record freely. It is about fooling them into thinking
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
WSJ Editors: "Boston bombings should Moderate Rand Paul"
04-22-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by bobbyw24
The Boston bombing also ought to chasten Senators Rand Paul, Mike Lee and other libertarians who keep insisting that the U.S. homeland is not part of the terror battlefield.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Veteran Arrested for 'Rudely Displaying' Gun
04-22-2013
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Townhall
Grisham and his son were on a 10-mile hike in a rural area populated by wild boars and cougars. He was carrying an AR-15 rifle and a .45 caliber pistol. He was charged with resisting arrest - even though video his son filmed of the incident
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News Link • New World Order
Nestle CEO seeks to control the world's water supply
04-22-2013
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Natural News
Gun control may be a hot topic, but what about water control? Recent comments from Nestle CEO Peter Brabeck imply that the world's water will soon come under the control of corporations like his.
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News Link • Internet
Protect the Internet from the Congress
04-22-2013
On April 18, while the media was following the story of the Boston Bombing, the U.S. House of Representatives passed CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. This is actually the second time that CISPA has passed the House.
Kurt O
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News Link • Afghanistan
Reporter Asks White House if U.S. Airstrikes That Kill Afghan Civilians Qualify as ‘Terrorism’
04-22-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by 4ronpaulonly
Reporter Asks White House if U.S. Airstrikes That Kill Afghan Civilians Qualify as ‘Terrorism’
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News Link • Conspiracies
CBS Oct. 28, 1993: World Trade Ctr. Bombing was a FBI Inside Job! Yes, You read correctly: CBS!
04-22-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by AnCapMercenary
Rare TV NEWS report about WTC bombing FBI Foreknowledge
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