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News Link • More about Military
Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era
05-15-2008
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www.breitbart.com
But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds—that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
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News Link • More about Torture
More members of the military turn against the terror trials
5-15-2008
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Slate
Key actors are declining to play their part in a piece of theater designed to produce all convictions all the time. These refusals, affecting two trials this week, suggest that the whole apparatus—seven years and counting in the making—cannot ever be
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News Link • More about Legislative Mischief
Pelosi chokes on the big one: Iraq War Funding
5-15-2008
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Rad Geek
An unusual coalition of antiwar Democrats and angry Republicans in the House torpedoed a $162.5 billion proposal to continue funding the wars in Iraq. Instead, House members voted to demand troop withdrawals from Iraq
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News Link • More about Torture
Torture Policies Undermine 9/11 Case
5-15-2008
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Consortium News
The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged "20th hijacker" in the 9/11 attacks, underscores the consequences of the Bush administration’s descent into torture and other abusive treatment of *
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News Link • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON. THE COVER-UP CONTINUES ON THE USS LIBERTY
5-15-2008
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USSLiberty
When Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., Commander in Chief, United States Naval Forces, Europe, ordered the cover-up on the attack of the USS LIBERTY it was a sure act of treason perpetrated on the American people and the crew of the LIBERTY
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News Link • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
What's next for the Ron Paul revolution?
5-15-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
Ron Paul and his 1 million supporters aren't going away. And that's probably a good thing for America's future. While Senator McCain often sneered at Paul during their debates, many voters cheered Paul and poured $35 million into his camp
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News Link • More about Economy
Capitalist Running-dog Girl Scout In Michigan Sells 17,328 Boxes Of Poisonous Bourgeois Decadence
5-15-2008
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AP
"It's made her really confident," she said. "I remember when she first started selling, she was very shy and quiet and you had to push her out to talk to customers, but now she's right out there, first to the door."
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Editorial • More about Progressive Politics
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Shift Happens: A New Paradigm for America
5-15-2008
Frosty Wooldridge
Can the USA survive in the 20th century with its 20th century paradigm? The obvious answer bounces off most Americans heads as well as their leaders.
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News Link • More about Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul on KTSA San Antonio today
05-15-2008
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RON PAUL
Ron Paul on KTSA San Antonio today
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News Link • More about Bush Administration
Olbermann on Bush's Sacrifice of Golf for the Troops
5-15-2008
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NBC (video at bottom)
"...nobody thought a president would ever seriously mention in public ... how he expressed his empathy with the families of the dead in Iraq by giving up golf."
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News Link • More about Palestine -- Israel
Palestinians Mark 1948 Uprooting With Rallies
5-15-2008
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AP
Palestinians marked the 60th anniversary of their uprooting with rallies, sirens and black balloons Thursday — an annual ritual made even darker this year by crippling internal divisions and diminishing independence hopes.
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News Link • More about Revolution
The American Revolution Anniversary
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman
5-15-2008
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LewRockwell (h/t Minarchian)
Today is the 232nd anniversary of the inauguration of the American Revolution. On May 15, 1776 Virginia’s ruling revolutionary May Convention adopted the resolutions that Virginians understood as launching the ship of independence.
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News Link • More about Energy
JPMorgan to start physical oil trade, eyes $200 oil
5-15-08
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Reuters.com
JPMorgan will join a growing list of investment banks from Goldman Sachs to Barclays Capital seeking to boost profits on their big derivatives trading desks by gaining a foothold in physical markets.
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News Link • More about Economy
A Suckers Rally: Sales Up But Median Home Price Down 21 Percent
5-15-08
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HousingDoom.com
Both Phoenix and Las Vegas saw YOY sales increases in April. High inventory and a cooling economy however, are liable to continue to depress prices and show that this is a "sucker’s rally". "Recovery" is still a long way off.
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News Link • More about Iran
Letting Iran have nuclear arms "unforgivable": Bush
5-15-08
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Rawstory.com
"Permitting the world's leading sponsor of terror to possess the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations. For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," Bush
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News Link • More about WAR!!!
McCain believes Iraq war can be won by 2013
05-15-2008
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May Way
Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals
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News Link • More about Iran
Lies of Aggression
by Paul Craig Roberts
5-15-2008
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LewRockwell
The White House Moron has the roles reversed. It is not Iran that is threatening war. It is Bush. It is not Bush who is appeasing. It is Iran.
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News Link • More about Revolution
No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter…
05-15-2008
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radgeek.com
Now the D.C. metropolitan police department has ordered 500 AR-15 assault rifles
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News Link • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Bob Barr's line in the sand
5-15-2008
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Thomas Knapp
There are only two reasonably likely outcomes in Iraq: An orderly withdrawal on an announced timetable, or a "last helicopter out of Saigon as the embassy is overrun" scenario. Barr has now publicly positioned himself in support of the latt
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News Link • More about World News
Venezuela Offered Aid to Colombian Rebels
5-15-2008
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Washington Post
High-ranking officials in Venezuela offered to help Colombian guerrillas obtain surface-to-air missiles meant to change the balance of power in their war with the Colombian government, according to internal rebel documents.
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News Link • More about WAR!!!
Chinook Helicopter Production Line In Pennsylvania Sabotaged!!
5-15-2008
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AP
The press (giving in to gov't pressure?) euphemistically is calling it "vandalism", but the report describes inside access to sensitive parts of the assembly line, and tinkering by someone who knows what they're doing. That's sa
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News Link • More about Revolution
Revolution March!
05-15-2008
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Revolution March
Revolution March needs your help! This march is supposed to be a grassroots effort, so please, pledge to come and spread the news! July 12, West Side of Capitol Hill! We need donations, so gear up for the Memorial Day Money Bomb! Flyers at: http://ww
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News Link • More about Police State
Cops Caught On Camera Stomping More Heads
5/15/08
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www.prisonplanet.com
Not satisfied with using pain compliance to Taser people into submission, police officers have now begun to kick the living crap out of suspects just to make sure. An incident that occurred in Indiana yesterday marks another chapter in a wave of poli
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News Link • More about Gun Rights
Pix: Cheyenne Wells Machine Gun Shoot
05-15-2008
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RidesAPaleHorse
Nothing gets the blood flowing like a good old-fashioned Machine Gun Shoot! RidesAPaleHorse provides 16 pictures from the 10th Cheyenne Wells (CO) VFD Machine Gun Shoot, May 2-4 2008.
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Feature Article • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Ruwart Disappointed by Barr's Campaign Focus
Ernest Hancock
"The Libertarian Party does not need a 'true conservative' at the head of its ticket in November, it needs a principled libertarian," said Dr. Mary Ruwart in response to Bob Barr's formal entry into the LP's presidential nom
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News Link • More about Immigration
Border Patrol Hard At Work
5-15-2008
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BoingBoing
Watch video of the highly paid, just the bestest trained officers trying to catch several men jumping out of a van. (funny) Maybe the border patrol should hire illegals to get the job done. Works for me.
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News Link • More about North American Union
Transatlantic Two-Step
5-15-2008
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New American (h/t Dennis C)
A process is underway to bring economic integration between the United States and the European Union includes an attempt to use "top down" pressure to bring about a "Common market" between the USA and the E.U.
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News Link • More about Agriculture
Build a Homemade Hydroponics Garden Cheaply and Easily (Video)
05-15-2008
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The Hydroponic Garden Book
Live in an apartment, or just want to grow herbs and veggies in a limited indoor space? Here are detailed instructions to make your own portable hydroponics system for around $50.00.
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News Link • More about World News
US Military Cuts Ties with Chalabi
5-15-2008
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MSNBC
American military and civilian officials have cut off all contact with Ahmad Chalabi, the former favorite of Washington's neoconservatives, [for] "unauthorized" contacts with Iran's government. [not a divorce, just a trial separati
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Feature Article • More about Revolution
Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority"
Stephen Lendman
Piven's book is superb with a timely message.
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