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Date Sent: 2015-03-16
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, March 16, 2015 |
Man Who Has Committed No Crime Has Been Held in Jail for 900 Days
More Seattle restaurants close doors as $15 minimum wage approaches -- Debt Ceiling Drama Is Back: Two Days Until US Borrowing Capacity Is Exhausted -- Officials: U.S. to keep higher troop level in Afghanistan -- DC police botch 11-year-old girl's rape case, arresting her instead of her attackers -- The Other Internet Tax -- If The TPP is Such a Great Idea, Why Keep it a Secret? -- CIA Director Describes How the U.S. Outsources Terror Interrogations -- Chicago's Untold Story of Widespread Child Abuse in State Facilities -- C.I.A. Cash Ended Up in Coffers of Al Qaeda -- You Really Don't Want The Idiots In Congress Directing The Fed -- Braving Gun Rights Haters' Nails: Lower Merion Township, PA Family Open Carry Rally (video) -- Handgun Ammunition Vending Machine Owned By A Candidate For County Sheriff -- How could trillions of dollars be laundered from the Wash DC regime to Saudi Arabia? ... -- FCC Rules Designed to Stifle Internet Political Speech -- BBC to give away a million micro computers to coders of tomorrow -- Tom Cotton Is Burning to Give You A Fascist Police State -- Irresponsible Putin Rumors -- Does Obama Plan Cuba-Style Blockade on Venezuela? -- Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters -- Rare.us: Signing Cotton's letter was a step too far for Rand Paul -- Handgun Ammunition Vending Machine Owned By A Candidate For County Sheriff... -- Wikipedia Filed Suit Against the NSA, Challenging Mass Surveillance of the Internet -- Dark Journalist: Catherine Austin Fitts Economic Crash-Up & Black Budget... -- Ron Paul predictions back in 2002….Still think he is crazy? -- Judge to Cop: "You are nothing short of a sexual predator with a badge." -- How could trillions of dollars be laundered from the Wash DC regime to Saudi Arabia? -- Video: School Cop Chokes Child Unconscious; Causes Brain Damage -- FCC to Seize Entire Internet, Cable Spectrum Under 400-Page "Rules" -- FCC Rules Designed to Stifle Internet Political Speech -- Study Finds There Are Too Many Studies -- Notice that marijuana smell around NYC? -- The glove that transmits 'touch' over the internet -- AUTONOMOUS CAR PREPARES FOR 3,500-MILE US ROAD TRIP -- BBC to give away a million micro computers to coders of tomorrow -- Saturnian moon may have deep-ocean vents that harbor life -- America v. Humanity -- Blowback For Rand Perverting The Libertarian Message -- Palestinians Suffer Horrifically Ahead of Israeli Elections -- Hyping a Nonexistent Russian Threat -- Kiev Junta War Crimes -- Thought-Controlled Drones -- Monster Black Hole Is the Largest and Brightest Ever Found
AZ: Marijuana Debate: Defense Attorney Marc Victor vs Maricopa Co. Attorney Bill Montgomery - March 23rd, Tempe, 6:30PM AZ/PST; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man Who Has Committed No Crime Has Been Held in Jail for 900 Days
03-15-2015
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The Anti-Media
Benito Vasquez-Hernandez, is being held as a material witness in a murder case. The 59-year-old lives in a tiny cinderblock encased cell. He wears an orange jumpsuit and has been granted the identical freedoms of a killer.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More Seattle restaurants close doors as $15 minimum wage approaches
03-15-2015
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Shift Washington
Seattle's $15 minimum wage law goes into effect on April 1, 2015. As that date approaches, restaurants across the city are making the financial decision to close shop. The "closings have occurred across the city, from Grub in the
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt Ceiling Drama Is Back: Two Days Until US Borrowing Capacity Is Exhausted
03-15-2015
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zero hedge
And so, a little over a year after the last debt ceiling melodrama, in which the US kicked the can on its maximum borrowing capacity to this Sunday, March 15, in the meantime raking up total US public debt to $18.149 trillion...
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News Link • Afghanistan
Officials: U.S. to keep higher troop level in Afghanistan
03-15-2015
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Associated Press
The Obama administration is abandoning plans to cut the number of US forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 by year's end, bowing to military leaders who want to keep more troops, including many into the 2016 fighting season, US officials say.
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News Link • Child Protective Services
DC police botch 11-year-old girl's rape case, arresting her instead of her attackers
03-15-2015
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Rawstory
Even though their 11 year old daughter showed signs of sexual assault, she was charged with filing a false report and they agreed to a poorly worded and confusing plea bargain on her behalf making her a ward of the state.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
The Other Internet Tax
03-15-2015
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Simple Justice
A call came in the other day because the caller received a letter from his state taxing authority informing him that he owed a significant amount of money in taxes based upon internet purchases. From 2008 to 2009. From an out-of-state seller who got
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News Link • Free Trade
If The TPP is Such a Great Idea, Why Keep it a Secret?
03-15-2015
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Jonathan Turley
The Obama Administration has been pressuring "embers of Congress to pass the bill that will give President Obama the "fast track" authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement without any debate in Congress.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
CIA Director Describes How the U.S. Outsources Terror Interrogations
03-15-2015
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The Intercept
"There are places throughout the world where CIA has worked with other intelligence services and has been able to bring people into custody and engage in the debriefings of these individuals…through our liaison partners, and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Child Protective Services
Chicago's Untold Story of Widespread Child Abuse in State Facilities
03-15-2015
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The Anti-Media
State treatment and residential centers for youth in Illinois are rampant with abuse â€" physical, mental, and sexual. The Chicago Tribune has done a great job exposing the story though their "Harsh Treatment" investigation. The investigation fou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
C.I.A. Cash Ended Up in Coffers of Al Qaeda
03-15-2015
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New York Times
In the spring of 2010, Afghan officials struck a deal to free an Afghan diplomat held hostage by Al Qaeda. But the price was steep -- $5 million -- and senior security officials were scrambling to come up with the money.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
You Really Don't Want The Idiots In Congress Directing The Fed
03-15-2015
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Economicpolicyjournal.com
Do we really want congressmen pandering to these clueless masses? The chances that the congressional Ouija board falls anywhere near a policy, that moves in the direction of sound money, is probably lower than the 4% of those who know who Yellen is..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Braving Gun Rights Haters' Nails: Lower Merion Township, PA Family Open Carry Rally (video)
03-15-2015
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The International Libertarian
Braving nails placed in the street by our car tires by gun rights haters (one wonders if there is no low they won't stoop to) we protested the fact that Lower Merion, PA won't repeal their local gun ordnance despite the fact that it's in violation
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News Link • Self-Defense
Handgun Ammunition Vending Machine Owned By A Candidate For County Sheriff...
03-15-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by John Paul
Handgun Ammunition Vending Machine Owned By A Candidate For County Sheriff Is Raising Eyebrows
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
How could trillions of dollars be laundered from the Wash DC regime to Saudi Arabia? ...
03-15-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com,by kevink
How could trillions of dollars be laundered from the Wash DC regime to Saudi Arabia? Why, through Citigroup, of course.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
BBC to give away a million micro computers to coders of tomorrow
03-15-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Paul Ridden
By today's standards, early 1980s home computing was a very BASIC affair (excuse the pun). But for those who lived through it, it was an enlightening period of simple wonder and creative experimentation.
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News Link • Police State
Tom Cotton Is Burning to Give You A Fascist Police State
03-14-2015
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Targetliberty.com
He wants to end the constitutional restriction on bills of attainder (Article 1, sections 9 and 10). Cotton seems to be a brazen American-style national socialist. What this means is that he will defend his positions by 100% Americanism...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters
03-15-2015
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Submitted by David Stockman
Contra Corner is not about investment advice, but its unstinting critique of the current malignant monetary regime does not merely imply that the Wall Street casino is a dangerous place for your money.
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News Link • Iran
Rare.us: Signing Cotton's letter was a step too far for Rand Paul
03-15-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Matt Purple
Consider this hypothetical scenario...
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News Link • Internet
Wikipedia Filed Suit Against the NSA, Challenging Mass Surveillance of the Internet
03-15-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Liberame
Wikimedia (The foundation affiliated with the on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia) is suing the NSA, challenging mass internet surveillance.
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Judge to Cop: "You are nothing short of a sexual predator with a badge."
03-15-2015
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by meekandmild
Former Metro police officer John Norman was in court this morning to face his punishment after pleading guilty to charges of coercing women to expose their breasts after stopping them on the road.
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News Link • Drug War
Notice that marijuana smell around NYC?
03-15-2015
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http://www.myfoxny.com, By LUKE FUNK
You might not see people smoking pot out in the open but ever since New York loosened its laws on marijuana in late 2014, but more people have been noticing a certain odor in the air.
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News Link • Inventions
The glove that transmits 'touch' over the internet
03-15-2015
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http://www.bbc.com, Lesley Evans Ogden
It's good to keep in touch â€" something that Edi Haug and Laura Schwengber know only too well. The pair have been friends since childhood. Within the first year of their friendship, nerve damage inflicted by an inherited genetic condition robbed H
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Blowback For Rand Perverting The Libertarian Message
03-14-2015
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Targetliberty.com
It should be noted that Rand's latest intensified positioning as a neocon seems to coincide quite closely with his last meeting with super money bags neocon Sheldon Adelson. After that meeting, Rand seemed awfully confident that...
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News Link • Science
Thought-Controlled Drones
03-14-2015
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arclein
The Brainflight project is led by Portuguese technology firm Tekever with the backing of several science organizations across Europe and follows in the footsteps of similar research efforts carried out around the globe. Back in 2012, researchers at Z
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News Link • Science
Monster Black Hole Is the Largest and Brightest Ever Found
03-14-2015
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arclein
Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk in the hearts of most, if not all, large galaxies. The largest black holes found so far in the nearby universe have masses more than 10 billion times that of the sun. In comparison, the black hole at the c
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Opinion • Freedom's Phoenix
Fascist Nation
It has been a fun 10 years
03-13-2015
Powell Gammill
Adios. This is goodbye from me as Senior Editor of Freedom's Phoenix.
My last newsletter will be Monday's. It has been a ten year run. But it is time for Freedom's Phoenix to have a new direction.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, March 15, 2015 Edition
03-13-2015
John Semmens
Obama Admin May Bypass Congress, Seek UN Approval of Iran Deal
This week the Obama Administration has indicated it may bypass Congress and go directly to the United Nations to obtain international approval of its pending agreement with Iran.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Real Reason ATF Is Backing down from Green Tip Ammo Ban
03-13-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Joshua Krause
After the ATF attempted to add the popular M855 green tip ammo to its list of restricted armor piercing munitions, there was widespread backlash against the move by the public.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Father Faces 20 Years Prison for Treating Daughter's Cancer with Cannabis Oil
03-13-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Christina Sarich
Adam Koessler wanted to cure his 2-year-old daughter's rare, stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a cancer of the abdomen that can be very painful.
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News Link • Propaganda
THE NATIONAL-SECURITY STATE'S ISIS RACKET
03-13-2015
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
The official enemy de jour that has everyone all riled up and scared is ISIS. If U.S. forces don't bomb ISIS, the argument goes, ISIS will take over Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon, and Europe, and Asia, and Latin America, and then the United States.
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News Link • Economy - International
US plan to drop Russia from global banking system hilariously backfires
03-13-2015
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http://www.sovereignman.com, bySimon Black
If Vladimir Putin is remotely capable of laughter (the jury is out on that one…) then he's probably doing so right now.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Zombie Banking System Takes Another Leap Forward; Sugar Crisp Buybacks
03-13-2015
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MIKE SHEDLOCK
With the stock market at all time highs, corporations are in a mad rush to buyback more shares. Corporations just cannot get enough of their own shares, no matter how mispriced they are.
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
25 statist propaganda phrases and how to rebut them
03-13-2015
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Liberty.me
In the discourse of statists, there is a group of phrases of which tend to be present in every argument. While this is not an exhaustive listing, it does contain 25 of the most common phrases that statists use in their arguments.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Scalia's Embarrassing Question: Is Innocence Enough To Get You Out Of Prison?
03-13-2015
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Salon
The Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to hold the Constitution allows for freestanding claims of innocence, that is, the right to be let out of prison simply because you didn't do it, without any other "technical" violation to back up your
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Barred from Church
03-13-2015
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The Marshall Project
Last month, a North Carolina sheriff announced that people on the state's sex-offender registry could not attend church services in the community. Instead, Sheriff Danny Millsaps said, they could go to church at the county jail.
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News Link • Government
Government No. 1 problem in the country, Americans say (different survey)
03-13-2015
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Washington Times
Eighteen percent of Americans named dissatisfaction with government the most important problem facing the country, followed by the economy at 11 percent and jobs at 10 percent.
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News Link • Government
Major survey finds record low confidence in government
03-13-2015
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Associated Press
Americans' confidence in all three branches of government is at or near record lows, according to a major survey that has measured attitudes on the subject for 40 years.
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Reference Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Killed By Police
Killed by Police
Corporate news reports of people killed by nonmilitary law enforcement officers, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The post merely documents the occurrence of a death in a database..
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Ars tests ExoNet, the personal VPN that takes you home
03-13-2015
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ars technica
ExoNet and ExoKey create an encrypted personal virtual private network back to the user's home network to evade eavesdropping on untrusted Wi-Fi networks and secure traffic all the way back to a trusted exit for $100.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
A Patient Fed Considers Losing Patience
03-12-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Schiff
I have always argued that quantitative easing and zero percent interest rates were misguided policies to combat economic weakness.
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News Link • Constitution
Constitution of Unlimited Authority
03-12-2015
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lewrockwell.com, By Michael S. Rozeff
12One of the paradoxes of political power in America is that the Constitution has no authority (see Lysander Spooner), but at the same time the Constitution confers almost unlimited authority on Congress.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama and the Clinton Emails
03-12-2015
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lewrockwell.com, By Andrew P. Napolitano
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady, U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state, used a private email server for all of her emails when she was President Obama's secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
A $210 Trillion Fiscal Gap: The US Aspires To Be Greece
03-12-2015
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economicpolicyjournal.com
The fiscal gap is "16 times larger than official U.S. debt, which indicates precisely how useless official debt is for understanding our nation's true fiscal position," said Kotlikoff, a former senior economist on President Ronald Reagan's...
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia Joins Board of SWIFT, Not Dropped As Neocons Wished
03-12-2015
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zerohedge.com
On Monday afternoon, not only did SWIFT not kick Russia out… but they announced that they were actually giving a BOARD SEAT to Russia.
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News Link • Secession
The Libertarian Principle of Secession
03-12-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
For a century and a half, the idea of secession has been systematically demonized among the American public.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand The Nation Builder: Kurdistan To Rise For Israel
03-12-2015
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Targetliberty.com
Knowing where his bread is buttered, Rand seeks to build a nation for a chief ally of the Israeli's, Kurdistan. To build this nascent nation he wants to carve up Iraq, Syria, and in the process kill untold numbers of christians and muslims.
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News Link • Government
Major survey finds record low confidence in government
03-12-2015
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http://hosted.ap.org, By EMILY SWANSON
Americans' confidence in all three branches of government is at or near record lows, according to a major survey that has measured attitudes on the subject for 40 years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Police swarm home in St Louis suburb after 'ambush' of two officers
03-12-2015
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http://www.reuters.com, By Kate Munsch
The shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, during a protest rally sparked an intense manhunt for suspects on Thursday and ratcheted up tensions in a city at the center of a national debate over race and policing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Soon You'll Be Able To Buy A Tiltrotor Aircraft
03-12-2015
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http://www.popsci.com,
Takes off like a helicopter, flies like an airplane, comes in colors other than camouflage
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