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Date Sent: 2014-09-18
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, September 18, 2014 |
Ukraine DM Threatens to Restart Nuclear Weapons Program
Albany Sheriff Once Again Proves to be Solid Leader -- Things Dogs Like To Sniff -- Tucson Cop Leaves Photographer Hospitalized after Claiming he was Blinded by Flash -- Armored Vehicle, Grenade Launchers At Disposal Of LAUSD Police Force -- 43 Million People Kicked Out of Their Homes -- Property Rights and Property Taxes—and Countries That Don't Have Them -- Scottish Referendum Preview: In 170 Years, Voters Chose "Independence" 88% Of The Time -- Texas executes woman for starvation of boy, 9 -- House Whip Pushes GOP to Support Obama's War Spending Plans -- Judge blocks release of probe into shooting of unarmed CA teen by cops after phony 911 call -- The CDC, NIH & Bill Gates Own the Patents On Existing Ebola & Related Vaccines -- At least 34 Syrian children die from contaminated measles vaccine -- The Virtue of Peace, the Evil of War -- 'Bitcoin Jesus' Offers Bounties to Hunt Down Hackers and Thieves -- Revisionism and the Freedom Movement -- ISIS™ Drives Texas-made Toyota Trucks Apparently Modified for U.S. Special Forces -- Pentagon Officials Tell Senate: ISIS War Will Be Long and Difficult -- Israel's N.S.A. Scandal -- Marjorie Cohn | Obama Declares Perpetual War -- A New 'Radar Gun' May Spot Drivers Who Text Behind The Wheel -- Perfect for the Post-Snowden Era: A Shirt That Shields Your Cellphone -- NASA Taps Boeing, SpaceX to Transport Astronauts to Space Station -- Google vs The DMV: How To Test A Self-Driving Car -- Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying -- Follow the Money: War Hawks and the Military Industrial Complex
AZ: Sept. 27, Dinesh D'Souza, Jacob Hornberger, and Andrei Cherny are coming to Yuma!; PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ
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News Link • NATO
Report: Ukraine DM Threatens to Restart Nuclear Weapons Program
09-17-2014
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antiwar.com
Says Nukes Are Alternative to NATO Not Sending More Arms
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Albany Sheriff Once Again Proves to be Solid Leader
09-17-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The incident was caught on a patrol car dash cam, not only prompted Apple to suspend the deputy without pay â€" yes, without pay â€" it also prompted him to begin the termination process against Igoe, who was cleared by a grand jury
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Things Dogs Like To Sniff
09-17-2014
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Simple Justice
The dog/probable cause connection is one of the most problematic pieces of legal mythology around. It's a firmly embedded concept, and the Supreme Court has consistently refused to recognize it's as much probable cause as a coin toss,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tucson Cop Leaves Photographer Hospitalized after Claiming he was Blinded by Flash
09-17-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
With more than 2 decades of police experience, Nielsen learned to manipulate the truth to his advantage, which is what he did last week when snatching two cameras out of a man's hands after claiming he was blinded by the flash.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Armored Vehicle, Grenade Launchers At Disposal Of LAUSD Police Force
09-17-2014
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CBS News
Los Angeles Unified School District police officials are considering whether they need the armored vehicle[, submachine guns] and grenade launchers they received from the U.S. military.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
43 Million People Kicked Out of Their Homes
09-17-2014
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War, our leaders tell us, is needed to make the world a better place. Maybe not so much for the 43 million people who've been driven out of their homes and remain in a precarious state as internally displaced persons, refugees and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Property Rights and Property Taxesâ€"and Countries That Don't Have Them
09-17-2014
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Do you really own something that you are forced to perpetually make payments on and which can be seized from you if you don't pay?
I would say that you don't.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Scottish Referendum Preview: In 170 Years, Voters Chose "Independence" 88% Of The Time
09-17-2014
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zero hedge
Ahead of Thursday's critical Scottish Independence vote, we thought some context was worthwhile. As The Guardian notes, history shows that when people are asked, they almost always say yes to independence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Texas executes woman for starvation of boy, 9
09-17-2014
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Associated Press
A Texas woman convicted of the starvation and torture death of her girlfriend's 9-year-old son a decade ago was executed Wednesday evening.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
House Whip Pushes GOP to Support Obama's War Spending Plans
09-17-2014
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Washington Post
The 48-year-old Scalise (R-La.) learned on the fly as he ushered through a short-term spending bill that included authorization of President Obama's plan to train moderate Syrian forces to combat the Islamic State terrorist group.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge blocks release of probe into shooting of unarmed CA teen by cops after phony 911 call
09-17-2014
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Rawstory
A report completed by the Office of Independent Review this year has not been made public after the Pasadena Police Officers' Association sought to have it sealed arguing it contains privileged information barred from release under state law.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
The CDC, NIH & Bill Gates Own the Patents On Existing Ebola & Related Vaccines: .....
09-17-2014
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.thecommonsenseshow.com
I have previously reported that Monsanto, or Monsatan as many call them, has partnered with the Department of Defense to use a proxy third party company to develop a vaccine against Ebola.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
At least 34 Syrian children die from contaminated measles vaccine
09-17-2014
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theguardian.com
Death toll expected to rise, says rebel government, as it warns saboteurs linked to Assad regime may be responsible
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
23andMe Decides It Won't Automatically Reunite Long Lost Relatives
09-17-2014
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popsci.com
The DNA testing service reverses course in favor of users' privacy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin: Friction and Impact on Time Itself
09-17-2014
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youtube - Blake Anderson
Bitcoin has very macro implications which have not yet been discussed... until now.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
'Bitcoin Jesus' Offers Bounties to Hunt Down Hackers and Thieves
09-17-2014
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Wired.com
Roger Ver is so well known for his role in the rise of the world's most popular digital currency that some people call him "The Bitcoin Jesus."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
A Military-Grade Drone That Can Be Printed Anywhere
09-17-2014
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Wired.com
A Military-Grade Drone That Can Be Printed Anywhere
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Utopia's Producers Know Utopia Is Impossibleâ€"That's the Point
09-17-2014
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Wired.com
Utopia, like utopias, was never meant to work. The "social experiment" that premiered on Fox last week has a fascinating premiseâ€"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Airbus Patents a VR Helmet That'll Make You Forget You're on a Plane
09-17-2014
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Wired.com
In a world where economy-class seats are getting thinner and lavatories are shrinking, any flight longer than an hour can feel like a traveling prison.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Stretchable, Light-Up Surface Inspired by Squid Skin
09-17-2014
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Wired.com
Displays are becoming flatter and flexible, so why not stretchable as well? A study published today in Nature Communications describes a paper-thin, elastic film that lights up when stimulated by an electric pulse.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Revisionism and the Freedom Movement
09-17-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The King of Prussia, Frederick II ("the Great"), confessed that he had seized the province of Silesia from the Empress Maria Theresa in 1740 because, as a newcomer to the throne, he had to make a name for himself.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Bryson Andres PART 2 - AMAZING Street musician! Epic Violin
09-17-2014
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youtube
Bryson Andres violin talented instrumental best Cover (epic electric violin musician) performing in street in this video
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Kill the Messenger Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Jeremy Renner Crime Movie HD
09-17-2014
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youtube
Kill the Messenger Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Jeremy Renner Crime Movie HD
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
ISISâ„¢ Drives Texas-made Toyota Trucks Apparently Modified for U.S. Special Forces
09-17-2014
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willyloman.wordpress.com
"We've got Iraqi army battalions driving around in Toyota trucks," General McCaffrey, 2007
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel's N.S.A. Scandal
09-17-2014
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nytimes.com
IN Moscow this summer, while reporting a story for Wired magazine, I had the rare opportunity to hang out for three days with Edward J. Snowden.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Marjorie Cohn | Obama Declares Perpetual War
09-17-2014
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truth-out.org
President Barack Obama escalated the drone war he has conducted for the past five and a half years by declaring his intention to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, or ISIL.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Citing Failed War on Drugs, World Leaders Call for Widespread Decriminalization
09-15-2014
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arclein
"The international drug regime is broken," reads the report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy, whose members include former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan; former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz; former justice of
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robert klein
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News Link • Secession
What would Braveheart do?
09-16-2014
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wnd.com
Pat Buchanan: Scotland is leading secession movement 'ablaze all over the world'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Perfect for the Post-Snowden Era: A Shirt That Shields Your Cellphone
09-17-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Margaret Rhodes
If you suffer from sporadic and non-committal bouts of severe paranoia about the NSA, you can stop putting your phone in the freezer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Taps Boeing, SpaceX to Transport Astronauts to Space Station
09-17-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Marcus Woo
In the latest step toward commercial human space flight, Boeing and SpaceX have been chosen to carry the next NASA astronauts into space, the agency announced today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Google vs The DMV: How To Test A Self-Driving Car
09-17-2014
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popsci.com
See copies of the results of the Google car's driving test at a Nevada DMV
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying
09-17-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
The National Security Agency has some of the brightest minds working on its sophisticated surveillance programs, including its metadata collection efforts.
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Robert Lee
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
09-17-14 -- Will Pangman - Blake Anderson -- (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)
Will Pangman (Chief Communications Officer at Tapeke) on bitcoin outreach, education, and communication, Paypal and eBay - Blake Anderson (Cryptographic Economist; PMP ITIL) on Paypal and eBay accepting Bitcoin; the future of cryptocurrencies and the
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News Link • Archaeology
The Other Nenderthal
09-17-2014
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arclein
But from only two teeth and a piece of finger bone smaller than a penny, we've been able to extract the rich history of a species that split off from Homo sapiens approximately 600,000 years ago. We know they're more closely related to Neandertha
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
What Caused The Unexplained Change In Europeans' DNA 4000-5000 Years Ago?
09-17-2014
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arclein
A study conducted by an international team of researchers at the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD), and their colleagues from the University of Mainz, Germany and the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Solar System Inside a Searing Gas Bubble?
09-17-2014
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arclein
They usually occur about twice a century in the Milky Way Galaxy. But about 10 million years ago, a slew of them exploded right near our solar system.
"Supernovas went off like popcorn," NASA says.
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robert klein
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Follow the Money: War Hawks and the Military Industrial Complex
09-14-2014
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Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D., New American
It would appear that expansion of the "War on Terror" is less a foreign policy trajectory and more of a marketing tactic of the immense (and every expanding) military-industrial-intelligence complex and the corps of congressmen that act as sales
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Military-industrial complex's money
09-13-2014
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Ron Misenor, Las Vegas SUN
It works like this: America is tired of war and is cutting back on defense spending. This cuts the profits of the military-industrial complex.
To pump up its bottom line, the arms industry pressures its lackeys in Congress to give grants to police d
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - International
The Advantages of Small States and the Dangers of Centralization (Hans Hoppe)
09-16-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
On 24 and 25 May 2005, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn, Alabama), visited Antwerp, where he gave a lecture on the economic surplus value of
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Deflationary Spiral Nonsense; Keynesian Theory vs. Practice; Eurozone Policymakers Concerned .......
09-16-2014
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Price Deflation Hits Italy First Time in 55 Years
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News Link • Surveillance
Court blasts US Navy for scanning civilians' computers for child porn
09-15-2014
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ars technica
A federal appeals court said the US Navy's scanning of the public's computers for images of child pornography constituted "a profound lack of regard for the important limitations on the role of the military in our civilian society."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Call the Anti-Police: Ending the State's "Security" Monopoly
09-15-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"How would things be different, if police officers were given financial rewards and commendations for resolving dangerous situations peacefully, rather than for using force in situations where it's neither justified nor effective?"
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Remembering the Criminal Conviction of the Director of the CIA - by Jacob G. Hornberger
09-15-2014
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Future of Freedom Foundation
With marks the 41st anniversary of the US-supported military coup in Chile, which resulted in the kidnapping, detention, rapes, torture, disappearances, and murders of thousands of innocent people, we would be remiss if we failed to commemorate
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Would Appointing a War Criminal as Commissioner Redeem the NFL?
09-15-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Installing Rice as NFL Commissioner would usefully demolish any pretense that the NFL is something other than a corporatist appendage of the Warfare State.
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News Link • Energy
How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World
09-15-2014
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Bulgaria had signed a five-year, $68 million deal, granting US oil giant Chevron millions of acres in shale gas concessions. Bulgarians were outraged. Shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets carrying pl
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money
09-15-2014
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Across America, law enforcement officers â€" from federal agents to state troopers right down to sheriffs in one-street backwaters â€" are operating a vast, co-ordinated scheme to grab as much of the public's cash as they can; "hand over fist,"
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The New Witnesses To Old News
09-15-2014
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Simple Justice
If this was true for all, it should be true for Wilson. But it's not true for all. If it had been you, or me, we would have been arrested immediately and the grand jury presentation would have been over in an hour or two. The rest would be flesh
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 and the Saudis and State Secrecy
09-15-2014
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Jonathan Turley
There is a 28 page section of the 9/11 Commission report that has never been released publicly and remains secret to this day. Congressmen must go through numerous security reviews before they can read the document in a secure room
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News Link • Bitcoin
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto â€" Part I & II
09-15-2014
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http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/
Several people have been "outed" as the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Most of these people are computer scientists that I've never heard of. And of course there was the Newsweek fiasco about Dorian Nakamoto. Despite all of the uncertainty,
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News Link • World News
There's Another Huge Independence Movement...
09-15-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
There's Another Huge Independence Movement That's About To Send Shockwaves Through Europe
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bob Shiller Warns Of "Parallels To 1937"
09-15-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Robert Shiller
The depression that followed the stock-market crash of 1929 took a turn for the worse eight years later, and recovery came only with the enormous economic stimulus provided by the second world war, a conflict that cost more than 60 million lives.
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