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Date Sent: 2013-08-02
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, August 2, 2013 |
Court Rules Business Records Are Not Protected By The Fourth Amendment
Rialto, CA Police Made to Wear Cameras, Use of Force Drops by Over Two-Thirds -- McClatchy Wants to Know If the NSA Helped New Zealand Spy on its Reporter -- Ex-Goldman Banker Found Liable in $1 Billion Fraud Case -- FBI Report: Agency Couldn't Prevent the Boston Bombings -- The CIA Has Been Polygraphing Operatives to Stop Benghazi Leaks -- Italy supreme court upholds Berlusconi jail sentence -- Feds give laid-off Boeing workers a big (GIANT) helping hand (It pays to be a crony) -- Tempe votes to save
developers money! -- Attorney For Freedom Show with guest Dr. T. Colin Campbell -- NSA
Chief Says U.S. Phone, Web Surveillance Sets “Standard for Other
Countries” -- Videos: Greenwald on Piers Morgan /Amash on
Anderson Cooper - July 31 -- NSA's Gen. Keith Alexander shouted down
w/ "BS!" "You LIED!" "Read the -- Judge Napolitano - Reaction To
Bradley Manning Verdict -- 10 Mind-Boggling Facts About China's
Massive Manufacturing Sector -- Furious White House Blasts Russian
Asylum For Snowden -- Boehner Prepares To Kick The Can Again: "It's
In The Nation's Interest" -- Playboy, Penthouse Dropped from Military Stores -- Were Kids Smarter A Century Ago? -- Friends of
Adam Kokesh Speak out: Adam is a Peaceful Man, not Dangerous --
08-01-13 -- Bob Anderson - Mike Martin - Lauren McNamara (MP3 &
VIDEO LOADED) -- Standing With #MyFriendAdam Kokesh
THERE WILL BE NO ARIZONA BREAKFAST CLUB THIS WEEKEND SATURDAY AUGUST
3RD, 2013
AZ: The Jackalope Freedom Festival starts tomorrow!
Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona; Pool party at the Hancock's -
Saturday August 10th, 2013 - 2 p.m. til ???
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Court Rules Business Records Are Not Protected By The Fourth Amendment
08-01-2013
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The Fifth Circuit Court ruled the state can collect all of the location history data from your cellular phone without a warrant, and they can compel service providers, through the threat of force, to hand over data without any probable cause.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Rialto, CA Police Made to Wear Cameras, Use of Force Drops by Over Two-Thirds
08-01-2013
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When cops in a Rialto, California were forced to wear cameras, their use of force dropped by over two-thirds. Additionally, the officers who were not made to wear the cameras used force twice as much as those who did. This strongly suggests
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
McClatchy Wants to Know If the NSA Helped New Zealand Spy on its Reporter
08-01-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
Publishing giant McClatchy sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, demanding that he clarify whether or not the National Security Agency helped the government of New Zealand spy on one of McClatchy's reporters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Ex-Goldman Banker Found Liable in $1 Billion Fraud Case
08-01-2013
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Businessweek
A jury found former Goldman Sachs banker Fabrice Tourre liable for his role in a mortgage deal that lost some investors $1 billion during the subprime crisis. The ruling is a major victory for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI Report: Agency Couldn't Prevent the Boston Bombings
08-01-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
The FBI's internal investigation into the lead-up to the Boston Marathon Bombings concluded that the agency couldn't have done very much to prevent the attacks. That's despite a security review of Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 years before the bombings.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The CIA Has Been Polygraphing Operatives to Stop Benghazi Leaks
08-01-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
The CIA is subjecting operatives working in Libya to polygraphs as much as once a month to stop them from leaking to the press or Congress about Benghazi. Usually, CIA operatives are polygraphed only once every 3 or 4 years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Italy supreme court upholds Berlusconi jail sentence
08-01-2013
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Reuters
Italy's supreme court on Thursday upheld a jail sentence against Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud in a devastating blow to the four-times prime minister that could throw the country's fragile coalition government into crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Feds give laid-off Boeing workers a big (GIANT) helping hand (It pays to be a crony)
08-01-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Department of Labor has approved a lavish unemployment benefit for laid off Boeing workers. They will receive unemployment benefits 5 times longer than other workers, taxpayers will pay 90% of any expenses related to interviewing for another job
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Self-Defense
Don’t Get Sucker Pumped At Gas Pump Skim Scan " Pay Cash at the Pump
08-01-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Gas pump skimmers are getting craftier. A new scam out of Oklahoma that netted thieves $400,000 before they were caught is a reminder of why it’s usually best to pay with credit versus debit cards when filling up the tank.
The U.S. Attorney’s offi
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is right around the corner! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona
07-19-2013
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The Jackalpe Freedom Festival
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is where liberty loving individuals come to be left alone to connect with each other. (BTW - $300 fine for not having both a License Registration for Off Road Vehicle (ORV) AND a new ORV from the State of Arizona.)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Tempe votes to save developers money!
08-01-2013
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http://freetempe.com/full-speed-ahead-for-tempe-to
Tuesday night the Tempe City Council voted to restructure the way Tempe Town Lake is paid for. The Developers got a discount and the people, well they may have to pick up the extra costs.
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show with guest Dr. T. Colin Campbell
08-01-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Author of The China Study joins Attorney Marc J. Victor on The Attorney for Freedom Show to talk about why a whole food diet can save your life!
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Chief Says U.S. Phone, Web Surveillance Sets “Standard for Other Countries”
08-01-2013
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Technologyreview.com
There are tight controls on the NSA’s access to U.S. phone records and data from U.S. Internet companies, the agency’s director says.
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News Link • Propaganda
Videos: Greenwald on Piers Morgan /Amash on Anderson Cooper - July 31
08-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Glen destroys Toobin AGAIN (after exposing him for the pathetic govt propagandist he is earlier today). And Justin Amash shines as well.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • General Opinion
NSA's Gen. Keith Alexander shouted down w/ "BS!" "You LIED!" "Read the
08-01-2013
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Daily Paul.com
** WTF?? Whatever happened to anti-authoritarian hackers?? Note the sociopathic-nerd enablers of tyranny lick the boots of a scum by CHEERING & CLAPPING LOUDER, when Alexander replies "I have, you should, too!" back to a heckler shouting "read the Co
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News Link • China
10 Mind-Boggling Facts About China's Massive Manufacturing Sector
08-01-2013
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Business Insider
China is slowing significantly as its policymakers try to rebalance the economy as one driven by consumption rather than exports.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Furious White House Blasts Russian Asylum For Snowden
08-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
The U.S. is "extremely disappointed" in the move by Russia to grant 'temporary asylum' to Edward Snowden, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters this morning.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Boehner Prepares To Kick The Can Again: "It's In The Nation's Interest"
08-01-2013
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zerohedge.com
While vainly attempting to look like he is still in the driver's seat, it would appear that John Boehner has once again folded on fiscal conservancy.
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News Link • Environment
ARES system to put energy storage on the right track
08-01-2013
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gizmag.com
We’ve recently looked at ocean-based energy storage system concepts from MIT and Subhydro AS that are designed to overcome the intermittency problems of renewable energy....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Boycotts
Russia grants Snowden a year's asylum, summit in doubt
08-01-2013
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Reuters
Russia granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year's asylum on Thursday, allowing the former U.S. spy agency contractor to slip quietly out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after more than five weeks in limbo but angering the United States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Playboy, Penthouse Dropped from Military Stores
08-01-2013
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breitbart.com
Playboy, Penthouse and other sex-themed magazines will no longer be sold at Army and Air Force exchanges _
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
You Can Finally Buy an Electric Airplane, and It’s Just $40K
08-01-2013
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Wired.com
GreenWing International is finally taking orders for the eSpyder electric airplane. The new eSpyder is an evolved version of the electric plane we flew back in 2010.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Were Kids Smarter A Century Ago?
08-01-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
A general examination to test eighth grade students in Kentucky’s Bullitt County school system in 1912 has stumped some adults and ignited a debate over the intelligence of children today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Friends of Adam Kokesh Speak out: Adam is a Peaceful Man, not Dangerous
08-01-2013
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My Friend Adam
Make a Video for Adam - Adam Kokesh is a peaceful man. Tell that to the Judge in a quick video now so Adam can get bail!
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News Link • Adam vs The Man
Standing With #MyFriendAdam Kokesh
08-01-2013
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The International Libertarian
Help get Adam Kokesh out of jail!
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Darren Wolfe
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Feature Article • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Not Bombs T-shirt Update
Donna Hancock
Since we do have about 25 shirts left over we wanted to give you all a chance to pick up one or two of the remaining shirts... We will NOT be printing the two designs again and they are one of a kind so please act fast!
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News Link • Archaeology
Neanderthals House Proud
08-01-2013
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arclein
Neanderthals were a house-proud race who liked to return to a comfortable home after a long day of hunting, excavations of caves in Gibraltar have revealed.
The new research found that our ancestors used a network of small caves for occasional hun
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News Link • Archaeology
Manure Cycle is 6000 Years Old
08-01-2013
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arclein
While scientists had long assumed manure wasn't used as a fertilizer until Iron Age and Roman times, new research found enriched levels of nitrogen-15, a stable isotope abundant in manure, in the charred cereal grains and seeds taken from 13 Neolith
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Raw Honey and Adulteration
08-01-2013
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arclein
Ultra filtering is a high-tech procedure where honey is heated, sometimes watered down and then forced at high pressure through extremely small filters to remove pollen, which is the only foolproof sign identifying the source of the honey. It is a sp
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News Link • Native American
Meditations on the Land
08-01-2013
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arclein
Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to all the world.
Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
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robert klein
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News Link • Death
Right-to-die battle: court of appeal rejects paralysed man's case
07-31-2013
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The Guardian
Judges reject Paul Lamb's request for help from doctors to die but allow another man to get help to travel to Swiss clinic
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Obama to discuss homeownership Tuesday in Phoenix
07-31-2013
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CBS News
President Obama has chosen Arizona for the next stop on his middle-class speech tour. The White House says Obama will visit Phoenix next Tuesday to lay out ideas for helping homeowners and others who want to own a home.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Obama removes promise to 'protect whistleblowers' from propaganga website Change.gov
07-31-2013
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naturalnews.com
Before and after his first campaign for the White House, Barack Obama promised the American people that his administration would be the most open and transparent in the nation's history.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Gay Scandal in Vatican?
07-31-2013
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arclein
When Bergoglio became Pope, and decided to remain in the Domus Santa Marta, he turned to Ricca, with whom he often took his meals at the great central table in the dining room, to help him in his work of cleaning up and reforming the Roman Curia, one
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News Link • TERRORISM
Al-Qaeda Backers Found With U.S. Contracts in Afghanistan
07-29-2013
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Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg
Supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending.
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Senator says NSA spying violations ‘more serious’ than admitted
07-30-2013
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Adam Serwer, MSNBC
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Tuesday that NSA violations of court orders placing limits on surveillance had been “more serious” than the federal government has admitted.
Last Friday, Director of National Inte
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Iran
Obama's Moment -- A Deal With Iran!
07-31-2013
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lewrockwell.com
In his second term, Richard Nixon had Watergate, but also the rescue of Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
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News Link • Military
Video Truthseeker: America's Next Colonies, RT Really Hits The Nail On the Head
07-31-2013
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Daily Paul.com
RT really shines the spotlight on American covert operations to overthrow and control other nations in this report.
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News Link • Police State
NH Police View Peaceful Libertarian and Occupy Activists as Terrorists
07-31-2013
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activistpost.com
Police in Concord, New Hampshire have applied for a grant to acquire a $258,000 armored vehicle from the DHS to combat domestic terrorism.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke ordered to testify in AIG case
07-31-2013
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ft.com
A judge has ordered Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, to testify about the bailout of AIG in a case where the government is accused of illegally appropriating the insurer and using it “to covertly funnel billions of dollars to foreign entit
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News Link • Media: Internet
Third Place Winner ($5000) from Alex Jones Film Festival Announced
07-31-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Finalists for the $115,000 Film Festival sponsored by Alex Jones' Inforwars are being announced. The finalists are all worth checking out and can be viewed here .
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News Link • Police State
UCSD Student "Forgotten by DEA" to Get Millions
07-31-2013
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nbcsandiego.com
Daniel Chong was hospitalized in April 2012 after spending five days in a DEA holding cell without food or water
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News Link • Eminent Domain
The New Bailout Begins: Eminent Domain Is Upon Us
07-31-2013
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zerohedge.com
While one can have sympathy for the over-levered, underwater homeowners that took free-money with both hands and feet as house prices surged in the mid-2000s (just like they are now) but the latest moves to 'save' people from themselves in the city o
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
44 Facts About The Death Of The Middle Class That Every American Should Know
07-31-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
What is America going to look like when the middle class is dead? Once upon a time, the United States has the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world. When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was “middle class
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul on U.S. Dictatorships, Foreign and Domestic (Video)
07-31-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Ron Paul interview discussing foreign policy and the foreign aid associated with it.
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Bank Forecloses on Wrong Home & Steals Owner’s Belongings
07-31-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Katie Barnett, a resident of McArthur, Ohio has had her home foreclosed on by First National Bank in Weilston (FNBW). The problem is that her home was not scheduled for foreclosure.
Barnett said: “GPS had led them to my house, the president of the
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News Link • Bitcoin
Paul Kemp-Robertson: Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.
07-31-2013
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ted.com
Currency -- the bills and coins you carry in your wallet and in your bank account -- is founded on marketing, on the belief that banks and governments are trustworthy.
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News Link • Gun Rights
A Mathematical Model Of Gun Control Means We Can Finally Argue Over Data
07-31-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Shaunacy Ferro
UC Irvine researchers have published a model to predict how gun control affects homicide rates.
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News Link • Housing
American Dream Slipping as Homeownership at 18-Year Low
07-31-2013
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bloomberg.com,By Prashant Gopal & Clea Benson
The U.S. homeownership rate, which soared to a record high 69.2 percent in 2004, is back where it was two decades ago, before the housing bubble inflated, busted and ripped more than 7 million Americans from their homes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man, 34, Claims LAPD Officers Used Excessive Force During Bike Stop
07-31-2013
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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com
A 34-year-old man is recovering Monday from several injuries he said he sustained from a violent encounter with Los Angeles Police Department officers late last week.
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