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Date Sent: 2013-03-20
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
Senate to vote on national Internet sales tax -- Commander: Contingency Plans Under Way for Syria
Lawmakers reach deal for NYPD inspector general -- In copyright case, Supreme Court rules that goods made overseas can be resold here -- ‘Moorish American national’ charged with trying to move into homes they don’t own -- Islamic law comes to rebel-held Syria -- Bankrupt San Bernardino approves over $1 million in pay hikes -- Costs of US Wars Linger for Over 100 Years -- Making Money and Living the Lie -- Larken Rose vs. Tom Willcutts (History... Debate on "Authority" and "Government -- Nigel Farage Message To Europeans: "Get Your Money Out While You Can" -- Senate gun bill won't include assault weapons ban -- Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America (FULL) -- Ten Years
Later: When is the Reckoning? -- Cyprus Bank Panic: It Can’t Happen
Here – Can It? -- Sheesh. They sound just like Ayn Rand villains. -- All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. -- Iraq War Among World’s Worst Events -- What We Learned in Iraq -- 18 Killed, 37 in Fresh Iraq Attacks
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas -
April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction
with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
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News Link • Internet
The Senate is about to vote on a national Internet sales tax mandate...
03-19-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
...Call your Senators and tell them NO! NO INTERNET SALES TAX: 202-224-3121 National Internet Tax Mandate (known as the "Marketplace Fairness Act") S336 which would bring about a national tax on all Internet sales.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Syria
Commander: Contingency Plans Under Way for Syria
03-19-2013
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Washington Post
The top US military commander in Europe said NATO countries are working on contingency plans for military action to end the 2-year civil war in Syria as President Assad's regime accused US-backed Syrian rebels of using chemical weapons.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Lawmakers reach deal for NYPD inspector general
03-19-2013
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AP
The developments come amid a federal trial over the department’s use of stop and frisk, and they follow how city police systematically listened in on sermons, hung out at cafes and other public places, infiltrated colleges and photographed people as
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News Link • Property Rights
In copyright case, Supreme Court rules that goods made overseas can be resold here
03-19-2013
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Washington Post
The court ruled 6 to 3 the same rules apply to goods made and purchased in the United States govern those made overseas. Once the products have been legally purchased, the new owners are free to sell or lend them as they see fit, they said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
‘Moorish American national’ charged with trying to move into homes they don’t own
03-19-2013
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Washington Post
They say it is one of the most audacious local cases in what law enforcement officers called a growing national trend where self-described “sovereign” nationals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Islamic law comes to rebel-held Syria
03-19-2013
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Washington Post
The evidence was incontrovertible, captured on video and posted on YouTube for all the world to see. During a demonstration against the Syrian regime, a veteran activist had tossed aside a banner inscribed with the Muslim declaration of faith.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bankrupt San Bernardino approves over $1 million in pay hikes
03-19-2013
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Reuters
The bankrupt city of San Bernardino, California, approved over $1 million in pay increases for police and firefighters despite claims it can barely make payroll, let alone afford the salary hikes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Costs of US Wars Linger for Over 100 Years
03-19-2013
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AP
An Associated Press analysis of federal payment records found that the government is still making monthly payments to relatives of Civil War veterans " 148 years after the conflict ended.
At the 10 year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Making Money and Living the Lie
03-19-2013
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Farm Wars
Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food? Just how pitiful is it when poisons are sold next to healthy foods and we have to guess which is which, all under the banner of “choice”
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Government
Larken Rose vs. Tom Willcutts (History... Debate on "Authority" and "Government
03-19-2013
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https://www.youtube.com, .TragedyandHopeMag
History... So It Doesn't Repeat: A debate on the concepts of "authority", "government", and the "state", featuring author Larken Rose vs. attorney Tom Willcutts.
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News Link • Economy - International
Nigel Farage Message To Europeans: "Get Your Money Out While You Can"
03-19-2013
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www.zerohedge.com
In Nigel Farage's first TV appearance since the Cypriot wealth tax was announced, the Englishman pulls no punches.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senate gun bill won't include assault weapons ban
03-19-2013
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www.usatoday.com
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is disappointed that her assault weapons ban will not be part of a larger bill, but acknowledged it will likely make it easier to pass gun-related legislation through the Senate. (which is why it was there)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America (FULL)
03-19-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
Fitts documents how trillions of dollars went missing from government coffers in the 90's and how she was personally targeted for exposing the fraud.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus Parliament Refuses
03-19-2013
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http://market-ticker.org,
Watch for the kaboom...... there are now reports that a solid majority of Cypriot Parlimentarians are refusing to go along with the confiscation demand for depositor funds.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Chocolate-style bars " just what the discerning Armageddon survivor needs
03-19-2013
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http://www.fastmarkets.com, by Eddie van der Walt
Gold has a few major drawbacks as a currency, not least its tendency to cause deflation.
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus Bank Panic: It Can’t Happen Here " Can It?
03-19-2013
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http://blog.ourfuture.org, By Richard Eskow
There was panic in Cyprus today as ordinary citizens learned that the government was about to take nearly seven percent (6.75 percent) of the money in their bank accounts as part of a package to bail out reckless banks.
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News Link • Transportation
Auto Extremist advocates for Corvette as brand with multiple models [w/poll]
03-19-2013
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http://www.autoblog.com, by Zach Bowman
The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette really grinds Peter De Lorenzo's gears. Or, more accurately, the self-anointed Auto Extremist has an issue with what he sees as mismanagement of the legendary sports car by General Motors executives. In a new editorial on
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News Link • Inventions
SpiderSense suit delivers superhuman perception
03-19-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Jonathan Fincher
Using a collection of sensors placed all over the body, the SpiderSense suit detects objects in the environment and warns the wearer when anything gets too close
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News Link • Inventions
Wheelylift saves space and effort when parking bikes
03-19-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Antonio Pasolini
Wheelylift is a wall-mounted parking solution that saves space and effort when parking a bicycle
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Sheesh. They sound just like Ayn Rand villains.
03-19-2013
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backwoodshome.com
Not having a TV has led to complete, catastrophic cultural isolation. As an example of this savage, self-caused social disconnect: I never learned to pronounce the name “Duchovny.”
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News Link • Iraq
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
03-19-2013
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highclearing.com
I’m not exactly a cheerleader for the intelligence community, but I’m a bit confused by the assertion that Iraq was an intelligence failure.
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News Link • European Union
Cypriot Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Reject EU Demands; What's Next?
03-19-2013
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
From the library of genuine news, Reuters reports Cyprus parliament rejects deposit tax for bailout.
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News Link • Iraq
What We Learned in Iraq
03-19-2013
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reason.com
Ten years ago this week, Americans were about to be introduced to a strange new concept: "catastrophic success."
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News Link • Iraq
18 Killed, 37 in Fresh Iraq Attacks
03-19-2013
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Antiwar.com
At least 18 Iraqis were killed and 37 more were killed in attacks focused mostly near Baghdad.
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News Link • Activism
US says hunger strike grows to 21 at Guantanamo
03-19-2013
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ap.juneauempire.com
A hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison has grown and now involves at least 21 men, a U.S. military official said Monday while denying reports trickling out from prisoners through lawyers that there is a more widespread protest and lives are in
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News Link • Gun Rights
Dad: This Picture of My Son Holding a Gun Triggered a Visit from NJ Police, Family Services
03-19-2013
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www.theblaze.com
On Friday night, March 15th, two representatives from the state’s social services office (along with four local police officers) came to the Moore home and demanded to see the family’s firearms.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun control groups turn focus to ‘riders’ backed by NRA
03-18-2013
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Washington Post
Gun control advocates are hoping to reverse some of the political influence of gun rights proponents by urging the White House to strip the president’s next budget proposal of any provision that limits how federal agencies track firearms.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope Francis was often quiet on Argentine sex abuse cases as archbishop
03-18-2013
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Washington Post
Today, Grassi is a convicted sex offender who remains free on a conditional release after being sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2009 for molesting a prepubescent boy in his care.
Yet in the years after Grassi’s conviction, Bergoglio " now Pope
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Is The CIA Trying to Kill Pro-US Venezuelan Opposition?
03-18-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Even though it sounds far fetched, Maduro singles out two men he claims are behind these plans, Otto Reich and Roger Noriega, who are well known in Latin America for their decades of dirty work there on behalf of the US government.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
03-18-2013
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The Guardian
A special BBC Panorama program will reveal how British and US intelligence agencies were informed by top sources months before the invasion that Iraq had no active WMD program, and the information was not passed to subsequent inquiries.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
r3VOLution logo used at CPAC Ronald Reagan Dinner
03-18-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
Adam VS CPAC 2013 - Submitted by JO4RP on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 18:53
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Newsroom staffing hits 34-year low
03-18-2013
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http://newsosaur.blogspot.com
The number of journalists working at U.S. newspapers today is at the lowest point since the American Society of News Editors began its annual newsroom census in 1978.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
Arizona lawmakers back gold, silver as currency
03/18/2013
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abc 15
PHOENIX - Arizona Republican lawmakers say privately minted gold and silver coins should be considered legal tender.
The bill advanced in a 4-2 vote by a House committee Monday states that gold and silver is money and therefore shouldn't be subje
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mark Kelly's 'AR-15 Stunt' Provokes Giffords Photo Leak
03-18-2013
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www.breitbart.com
Here are two photos of me that a conservative blog has dug up. I remember both of these days fondly.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Cyprus savers to be compensated by shares, guarantee
03-18-2013
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Reuters
Cyprus's president said on Sunday that savers made to pay a tax on bank deposits as part of a sovereign bailout deal will be compensated by shares in banks guaranteed by future natural gas revenues.
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO chief says Karzai accusation "absolutely ridiculous"
03-18-2013
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Reuters
The head of NATO said it was "absolutely ridiculous" for Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accuse the United States of colluding with the Taliban and said Kabul should recognize sacrifices made by other countries on Afghanistan's behalf.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Former federal prosecutor guilty of murder, drug trafficking and racketeering
03-18-2013
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Reuters
A prominent New Jersey defense attorney was convicted by a federal jury on Monday of facilitating a laundry list of crimes through his law firm, including the murder of an FBI informant, drug trafficking and prostitution.
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia Sees Cyprus Plan as 'Unfair' Plot to Seize Money of Its Citizens
03-18-2013
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www.nytimes.com
Russians from President Vladimir V. Putin on down expressed fury on Monday over the European Union’s proposal to bail out the banking system in Cyprus in a manner seen in Moscow as specifically designed to extract money from Russian depositors
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game
03-18-2013
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Farm Wars
Whole Foods said out loud what just about every grocery store, supermarket, and big box health food store is really doing " selling GMOs disguised as “healthy” food. You can do it, just don’t talk about it.
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Semi-Auto and Private Sales Bans
03-18-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
On March 12 and 14, the Senate Judiciary committee held two working sessions to deal with gun-related bills.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
My Experience With the Police
03-18-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I came back home this weekend to visit family. Every time I'm in town, I have to meet up with my old friends. I still keep in touch with a lot of them back home which always makes the visit so much sweeterr.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Driver’s Taxes and Other Money-Grabbing Schemes Throughout History
03-18-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
I think "Driver’s Taxes" is a pretty good and descriptive name for this topic and article.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Imperialism
U.S., Peru to hold military, political talks next week [The Camel gets its nose in another tent]
03-18-2013
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Washington Times
The State Department on Friday announced that it will host extensive military and political talks with a delegation from Peru in Washington next week.
The talks, building on a 2011 dialogue begun in Lima, will focus on implementing the non-binding m
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Chickens and Turkeys
Government Prosecutes Homeowner For Backyard Chickens That Produce Organic Eggs
03-18-2013
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govtslaves.info
An ongoing debate over the rights of homeowners to raise and keep their own chickens may soon gain an audience in the Virgina Supreme Court.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
6 Tough Lessons That Germany Just Taught The Rest Of Europe
03-18-2013
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Business Insider
One of the most disturbing angles to the Cyprus bailout -- wherein the government is being forced to tax bank depositors -- is this idea that Berlin is calling the shots in Europe.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Growing Number of States to Defy Federal Gun Laws
03-18-2013
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patriotupdate.com
Shortly after voters in Colorado and Washington State approved measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana, President Obama told Barbara Walters that his Justice Department would not prosecute pot users in these states.
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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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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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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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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama Seeks Global Rules on Drones
03-18-2013
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arclein
That stance is just now beginning to change, in part under pressure from growing public and Congressional discomfort with the drone program. U.S. lawmakers have demanded to see White House legal justifications for targeting U.S. citizens abroad, and
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mail "Right to Bear Arms" Super Brochures across the country now!!!
03-09-2013
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SuperBrochure.Com
Creator of the Ron Paul Super Brochure now has a 'Right to Bear Arms' Super Brochure available to order - The media and politicians want the American public to believe their lies that we don't want our guns. Nothing could be farther from reality.
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Opinion • Iraq
Ray McGovern: My Take
A Last-Second Appeal for Sanity
03-18-2013
Ray McGovern
Ten years ago, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was only hours away, but the case for this unprovoked war was already falling apart with exposure of hyperbole, half-truths and even a forgery. On March 18, 2003, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans pleaded
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News Link • Iraq
I Tried to Make the Intelligence Behind the Iraq War Less Bogus
03-18-2013
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Wired.com
Ten years ago this week, the U.S. invaded Iraq, citing intelligence that turned out to be bogus.
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