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Date Sent: 2014-11-25
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, November 25, 2014 |
Grand jury decides Ferguson Officer will not face criminal charges in shooting, RIOTS
David Vine, A Permanent Infrastructure for Permanent War -- Congress Is Irrelevant on Mass Surveillance. Here's What Matters Instead. -- Florida man turned away at firehouse trying to report blaze, told to call 911 instead -- Violent killings by Utah police outpace deaths by gangs, drug dealers and child abusers -- NY Times Report Documents Metastasizing of the Police State of America -- 21 Facts That Prove That Dependence On The Government Is Out Of Control In America -- Reddit: Retired soldiers describe what they saw and experienced and never told anyone -- What's covered in new menu labeling rules -- Ferguson Prosecutor's Idiot Speech Blames Everyone But Darren Wilson -- MassMutual Senior Vice President Found Dead, Stabbed In Chest In Apparent Homicide -- Why Judges OK Plea Bargains That Put Innocent People In Jail -- ISIS Is Pushing To Take Another Major City In Iraq -- What Good Would It Do to Reform the NSA and the CIA? -- Israel – America's Biggest Frenemy -- Defeat of USA FREEDOM Act Is a Victory for Freedom -- Afghans Approve Troop Deal, US Already Breaking It -- Cody Wilson: Happiness is a 3-D Printed Gun -- Forget 'Fair and Balanced,' US Corporate Media Give Only the Government's Side -- Oil Company Seeks Over $1 Billion In Takings Claim Against California County -- Catalonian President Faces Prosecution For Staging Referendum On Independence -- Journalists In Turkey Sentenced To Prison For Reporting Corruption In Government -- Why Monetizing Debt Could End In Revolutions -- Student Debt By Major: What Not To Study To Avoid A Lifetime Of Debt Slavery -- 101 Reasons: Liberty Lives in New Hampshire (Full Length Film) -- Why I'm Glad to See Lower Gold Prices -- Hagel Sacking Suggests More War -- Labeling is an Essential Element in Achieving Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods -- NAFTA, CAFTA & SHAFTA -- Robot troopers: America's future military force -- From the gridiron field to the potato farm: NFL player quits to take up farming -- Deadlocked Iran Nuclear Talks -- Not Just Our Crumbling Economy: "Something's Happening to America No Amount of Money Can Fix" -- Difference Makers - The Free Keene Squad -- Police and Protesters Clashing in Ferguson -- Protests Continue in Hong Kong -- International Protests Mark the Kidnapping of 43 Mexican Students -- TGIF: Unjust Immigration Law Is Not Law -- In Great Britain, Protecting Pedophile Politicians is a Matter of "National Security" -- HOW TO AVOID BEING SENT TO A FEMA CAMP -- Hagel Submits Resignation as Defense Chief Under Pressure -- China Is Getting Ready To Cut Interest Rates Again -- Here's Where The US And EU Get Their Fuel [MAPS]
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Grand jury decides Ferguson Officer will not face criminal charges in shooting
11-24-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Police Officer Darren Wilson -- the suburban St. Louis patrolman who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in early August - will not face criminal charges in the controversial shooting death, a grand jury has decided.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ferguson erupts after officer not charged in teen's shooting
11-24-2014
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Reuters
A Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer on any charges in the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teenager unleashed a wave of violent protests Monday night similar to what engulfed Ferguson in August.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Tomgram: David Vine, A Permanent Infrastructure for Permanent War
11-24-2014
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Iraqi troops and small numbers of Syrian rebels have hardly been alone in receiving American military support. Yet few in our world have paid much attention to everything Washington has done to keep the region awash in weaponry.
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News Link • Surveillance
Congress Is Irrelevant on Mass Surveillance. Here's What Matters Instead.
11-24-2014
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The last place one should look to impose limits on the powers of the US government is . . . the US government. Governments don't walk around trying to figure out how to limit their own power, and that's particularly true of empires.
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News Link • Government
Florida man turned away at firehouse trying to report blaze, told to call 911 instead
11-24-2014
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Rawstory
A Florida man attempting to get local firefighters to save his home -- which was ablaze four houses away -- was rebuffed at the firehouse door and told to call 911 instead, even though he told them he did not have a cell phone.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Violent killings by Utah police outpace deaths by gangs, drug dealers and child abusers
11-24-2014
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Rawstory
If you live in Utah, you are more likely to be killed by police than gangs, drug dealers or child abusers. Deaths from police violence were the second most common type of killing after intimate partner violence in Utah.
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News Link • Police State
NY Times Report Documents Metastasizing of the Police State of America
11-24-2014
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The latest news on the burgeoning police state disclosing at least 40 agencies of the US government from the Dept of Health and Human Services to the Supreme Court are using undercover agents to spy on and to entrap Americans
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News Link • Police State
21 Facts That Prove That Dependence On The Government Is Out Of Control In America
11-24-2014
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Today, the American people collectively receive more money from the government than they pay in taxes. And remember, the federal government uses our money to build roads, inspect our food and fund the military as well.
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News Link • Military
Reddit: Retired soldiers describe what they saw and experienced and never told anyone
11-24-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Just a warning. This is absolutely heartbreaking.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
What's covered in new menu labeling rules
11-24-2014
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Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration plans new rules requiring chain restaurants, movie theaters and other retailers that sell prepared foods to put calorie labels on menus and menu boards. The rules will apply to establishments that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Ferguson Prosecutor's Idiot Speech Blames Everyone But Darren Wilson
11-24-2014
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http://gawker.com
Ferguson prosecutor Robert McCulloch delivered a long-winded, smirking speech blaming social media, the media, journalists, neighborhood residents, and everyone else who isn't Darren Wilson, for Darren Wilson shooting and killing 18-year-old Michael
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News Link • Death
MassMutual Senior Vice President Found Dead, Stabbed In Chest In Apparent Homicide
11-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
A week after stunned Tribeca woke up to news of a grizzly death in which a Citigroup managing director living on Greenwich Street was found dead in his bathtub with a slashed throat and the lack of a suicide weapon on the scene suggesting there was f
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News Link • World News
Russian Crew Boards 1st Mistral Carrier As France Quietly Completes Construction...
11-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Russian Crew Boards 1st Mistral Carrier As France Quietly Completes Construction Of 2nd Ship.
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News Link • Energy
GUNDLACH: Tesla Could Change Society
11-24-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
DoubleLine Funds' Jeff Gundlach just spoke with CNBC's Sara Eisen, and in a wide-ranging interview, Gundlach discussed, among other things, Tesla.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Why I Don't Post Any Photos Of My Kid Online -- And You Shouldn't, Either
11-24-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
I vividly remember the Facebook post. It was my friend's 5-year-old daughter "Kate," (a pseudonym) standing outside of her house in a bright yellow bikini, the street address clearly visible behind her on the front door.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Why Judges OK Plea Bargains That Put Innocent People In Jail
11-24-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
One of America's most respected judges recently wrote an insightful and unsettling essay about the many problems with plea bargains, and we spoke to him about why judges almost always sign off on these agreements.
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News Link • TERRORISM
ISIS Is Pushing To Take Another Major City In Iraq
11-24-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
A humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Iraq's beleaguered Anbar Province, as Islamic State militants launched a fresh push to capture the regional council in the provincial capital of Ramadi.
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News Link • World News
France Just Agreed A Deadline To Deliver That Warship To Russia
11-24-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
French industrial group DCNS charged with delivering two Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Russia has agreed a new deadline of November 27th to hand over the first ship, according to Russian media reports.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Swiss Gold Referendum: What It Really Means
11-24-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
In a few days the Swiss people will go to the polls to decide whether the Swiss central bank is to be required to hold 20% of its reserves in the form of gold.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Second American Revolution
11-24-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
The Revolution of 2019 began, curiously enough, in fall of 2019 when Mary Lou Johnson, the nine-year-old daughter of a ranching family outside of Casper, Wyoming, came home from her sex-ed class at Martin Luther King Elementary with a banana, a packe
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Opening the Gates to World War III
11-24-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
According to news reports, Washington has decided to arm Ukraine for renewed military assault on Russian ethnics in Donetsk and Luhansk.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
UK, US behind Regin malware, attacked European Union networks
11-24-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Two governments working together are said to have developed the state-sponsored malware that attacked the European Union. Guess what? One of the makers was an EU country.
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News Link • Government
Researchers Uncover Government Spy Tool Used to Hack Telecoms and Belgian...
11-24-2014
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http://www.wired.com
Researchers Uncover Government Spy Tool Used to Hack Telecoms and Belgian Cryptographer.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police: Video of officer shooting boy is 'clear'
11-24-2014
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Associated Press
A Cleveland officer was less than 10 feet away when he fatally shot a 12-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun near a playground, and video of the shooting is clear about what happened, police said Monday.
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News Link • Iran
Muslim clerics meet in Iran to counter extremists
11-24-2014
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http://www.fresnobee.com
Shiite and Sunni clerics from about 80 countries gathered in Iran's holy city of Qom on Sunday to develop a strategy to combat extremists, including the Islamic State group that has captured large parts of Iraq and Syria.
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D printing technique will put electronics into just about everything
11-24-2014
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http://upriser.com
You can use 3D printing to make a handful of electronics, such as antennas and batteries, but LEDs and semiconductors have been elusive; you usually need some other manufacturing technique to make them work, which limits what they can do and where th
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Forget 'Fair and Balanced,' US Corporate Media Give Only the Government's Side
11-24-2014
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http://thiscantbehappening.net
One searches almost in vain for honest reporting on the Ukraine conflict in the US corporate media, which is simply parroting the US government position, which is that the rebels in eastern Ukraine are simply tools of Russian aggression against Ukrai
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are You Better Off This Thanksgiving Than You Were Last Thanksgiving?
11-24-2014
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Are you in better shape financially than you were last Thanksgiving? If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate because most Americans are not.
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News Link • Energy
Oil Company Seeks Over $1 Billion In Takings Claim Against California County...
11-24-2014
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http://jonathanturley.org
There is an interesting out of California where Citadel Exploration, an oil company, has sued the San Benito County for $1.2 billion for banning fracking and oil extraction on land within its jurisdiction.
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News Link • World News
Catalonian President Faces Prosecution For Staging Referendum On Independence
11-24-2014
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http://jonathanturley.org
President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas i Gavarró, his deputy, and his education minister face prosecution by the Spanish Government for alleged civil disobedience, abuse of power, usurpation of duties, and embezzlement of public funds
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News Link • World News
Journalists In Turkey Sentenced To Prison For Reporting Corruption In Government
11-24-2014
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http://jonathanturley.org
In another example of the diminishing freedom of the press in Turkey, Yurt newspaper reporter Meriç ?enyüz and Ulusal Kanal reporter Özer Sürmeli received sentences of six and five months respectively for their reporting of a December seventeent
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News Link • Economy - International
Guest Post: Why Monetizing Debt Could End In Revolutions
11-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Much has been made of the decision by the Japanese government to inject another $700 billion into their ailing economy. While some may see this as an earnest attempt to save Japan from further stagnation and deflation, even some of the mainstream med
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student Debt By Major: What Not To Study To Avoid A Lifetime Of Debt Slavery
11-24-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
As recently reported by the Project On Student Debt, 7 in 10 seniors who graduated from public and nonprofit colleges in 2013 had student loans, with an average debt load of $28,400 per borrower. This represents a two percent increase from the averag
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Bill Passed: EPA Must Take Advice from Industry Shills, NOT from Independent...
11-24-2014
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http://www.theorganicprepper.ca
The Environmental Protection Agency is a federal agency that is charged with the responsibility of writing and enforcing legislation to protect human health and the environment.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Why I'm Glad to See Lower Gold Prices
11-24-2014
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http://charlesgoyette.com
It's probably Milton Friedman's most famous saying: "Put government in charge of the Sahara desert and in five years you'll have a shortage of sand."
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Labeling is an Essential Element in Achieving Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods
11-24-2014
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Farm Wars
From importation and labeling to acceptance and cultivation, leading to increased contamination and subsequent threshold increases. That is the way it is being played out in the UK.
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News Link • Free Trade
NAFTA, CAFTA & SHAFTA
11-24-2014
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Farm Wars
The TTIP, or as it should be termed, the "eat, breathe and drink our poison or we will sue for loss of profits" deal.
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News Link • Military
Robot troopers: America's future military force
04-08-2011
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Terrence Aym (From 2011)
The United States military has seen the future of warfare and that future is filled with robots. The growth curve of bots swelling the ranks of military ranks is nothing short of astonishing. From a few dozen autonomous robot aircraft ten years ago,
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News Link • Motivation
From the gridiron field to the potato farm: NFL player quits to take up farming
11-24-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Joseph.Ngo
At one point number 60, Jason Brown, was one of the best centers in the NFL. At one point he had a five-year, $37 million contract with the St. Louis Rams. And at one point he decided it was all meaningless - and just walked away from football.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Not Just Our Crumbling Economy: "Something's Happening to America No Amount of Money Can Fi
11-24-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Michael Snyder
10 Examples Of The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like Cancer
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News Link • Activism
Police and Protesters Clashing in Ferguson
11-24-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
Supporters of Michael Brown and police officers in riot gear clashed on Wednesday and Thursday night as Ferguson awaits a decision from the grand jury.
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News Link • Activism
Protests Continue in Hong Kong
11-24-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
Protesters with the Occupy Central movement have been occupying major roads in Hong Kong for eight weeks now despite an apparent drop in support.
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News Link • Activism
International Protests Mark the Kidnapping of 43 Mexican Students
11-24-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
On Thursday thousands of demonstrators across Mexico and the United States participated in strikes and protests to raise awareness on the kidnapping of 43 students from Iguala, in the southern state of Guerrero.
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News Link • Immigration
TGIF: Unjust Immigration Law Is Not Law
11-24-2014
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http://fff.org, by Sheldon Richman
So President Obama is going to defer deportation of five million people without government papers, mostly parents of children whom the government deems citizens or legal permanent residents.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
In Great Britain, Protecting Pedophile Politicians is a Matter of "National Security"
11-24-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Krieger
I've long written about how the percentage of sociopaths within a group of humans becomes increasingly concentrated the higher you climb within the positions of power in a society, with it being most chronic amongst those who crave political power
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Hagel Submits Resignation as Defense Chief Under Pressure
11-24-2014
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New York Times
Mr. Hagel, a Republican and a combat veteran who was skeptical about the Iraq War, came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestrations.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
This Smartphone Breathalyzer Will Keep You From Embarrassing Yourself At The...
11-24-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
This Smartphone Breathalyzer Will Keep You From Embarrassing Yourself At The Company Party [14% Off].
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News Link • China
China Is Getting Ready To Cut Interest Rates Again
11-24-2014
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http://static1.businessinsider.com
China's leadership and central bank are ready to cut interest rates again and also loosen lending restrictions, concerned that falling prices could trigger a surge in debt defaults, business failures and job losses, said sources involved in policy-ma
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Here's Where The US And EU Get Their Fuel [MAPS]
11-24-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Using data from the World Trade Organization we created these maps to show which foreign nations the United States and European Union get most of their fuel imports from.
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