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Date Sent: 2011-02-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 16, 2011 AM edition |
Anthrax report casts doubt on scientific evidence in FBI case against Bruce Ivins
Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war -- The Invisible, Growing Leaderless Revolution in America -- Official: US to expand military training in Yemen -- Critics knock no-knock police raids -- Rumsfeld seeks to throw out Padilla case -- In raw video, reporters claim Israelis fired on activists before boarding ship --
Documentary warned of global warming in 1958 -- WikiLeaks, free speech
and Twitter come together in Va. court case -- South Korean "super gun"
packs hi-tech killing power -- British Anger Over Release of Man Linked
to Bombs -- From Prison, Madoff Says Banks ‘Had to Know’ of Fraud -- -- Analysis: Cuba fights latest U.S. "invasion" on the Internet -- WeAreChange Confronts Dick Cheney on 9/11 Stand Down Order -- World Bank: Food prices at "dangerous levels" -- Senate votes to extend provisions of Patriot Act
-- Computer spanks humans on Day 2 of 'Jeopardy!' -- Russian space
expert calls for emergency asteroid deflection program -- How to raise
chickens in your backyard... -- Meet Richard Holbrooke's AfPak
Successor: Marc Grossman -- Foreclosure-Gate: Is The Arizona Legislature About To Hammer The Banks? -- Internet ID: Cyber-Security Czar Defends Government Role -- A Legal Manual for an Apocalyptic New York -- Iran opposition protests, agency reports shooting -- 8 FOOT BIKE SIGN - BE THE MEDIA! -- 'Spier' education: Officials pull plug on website promoting hidden cameras
-- Top 5 silliest state tax hikes -- Michelle Obama Gets into the
Breastfeeding Game! -- Obama's "tough budget cuts" in pictures -- Boy
who saw heaven and returned from death shares his story -- The
Difference Between 'Hemp' and 'Hash' is the Difference Between Life and
Death
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News Link • TERRORISM
Anthrax report casts doubt on scientific evidence in FBI case against Bruce Ivins
02-15-2011
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Washington Post
Agents thought they had solved the puzzle last year when they pinned the 2001 attacks on a deceased Fort Detrick scientist. But yet another new wrinkle emerged Tuesday, with a panel of prominent scientists casting doubt on key FBI scientific evidence
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News Link • Iraq
Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war
02-15-2011
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Rawstory
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Invisible, Growing Leaderless Revolution in America
02-15-2011
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Common Dreams
At first glance, the “leaderless revolution” in Egypt has nothing in common with the recent closing of Allyson’s, a local deli here in our small Oregon town. Until you hear why the bank called the note. “… the balance and payments are due.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Official: US to expand military training in Yemen
02-15-2011
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AP
Faced with an increasingly alarming threat from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the U.S. military will begin a new training program with Yemen's counterterrorism unit so it can move against militants believed to be plotting attacks on America from
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Critics knock no-knock police raids
02-15-2011
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USA Today
Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, says the onus for the increase in no-knock cases is on the judges who authorize such warrants.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Rumsfeld seeks to throw out Padilla case
02-15-2011
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Christian Science Monitor
Former Defense Sec.Rumsfeld is asking a federal judge in South Carolina to throw out a lawsuit filed by former enemy combatant [US citizen] Jose Padilla, who was [prolongly tortured] subjected to harsh interrogation tactics in a military prison.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
In raw video, reporters claim Israelis fired on activists before boarding ship
02-15-2011
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Rawstory
In what could be a serious blow to Israel's narrative on the killing of humanitarian activists making their way to Gaza through international waters, raw video appears to provide evidence that the IDF opened fire on the flotilla even before boarding
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Documentary warned of global warming in 1958
02-15-2011
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Rawstory
Before Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” “The Unchained Goddess” warned millions of students in middle school classrooms across the United States of global warming for decades. This documentary produced in 1958 by F
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
WikiLeaks, free speech and Twitter come together in Va. court case
02-15-2011
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Washington Post
It all stemmed from the government's attempts to get personal information from the Twitter accounts of three people linked to the WikiLeaks probe. Their lawyers argued that the data - screen names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, credit card an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
South Korean "super gun" packs hi-tech killing power (2:28)
02-15-2011
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Reuters (video)
South Korea has developed an automated, turret-based weapon platform capable of locking onto a human target three kilometers away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
British Anger Over Release of Man Linked to Bombs
02-15-2011
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NY Times
Amid mounting outrage in Britain, the government said it would press American officials for an explanation of why an operative of Al Qaeda who admitted to aiding the plotters of the July 2005 terrorist attacks in London was released early from prison
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
From Prison, Madoff Says Banks ‘Had to Know’ of Fraud
02-15-2011
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NY Times
Mr. Madoff pointed to the “willful blindness” of many banks and hedge funds who dealt with his investment advisory business and their failure to examine discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information available to them.
“They ha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
"Iranium" Screening
02-23-2011
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in Feburary, Phoenix Objectivists will host a free screening of the controversial documentary "Iranium".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • World News
Analysis: Cuba fights latest U.S. "invasion" -- on the Internet
02-15-2011
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Reuters
A leaked video recently posted on the web (vimeo.com/19402730) shows a Cuban intelligence Internet expert telling interior ministry officials that the new cyber opposition is a more serious threat than the island's traditional dissidents.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
WeAreChange Confronts Dick Cheney on 9/11 Stand Down Order
02-15-2011
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prisonplanet.com/wearechangeoklahoma
“Hey Mr. Cheney, what did you do in the underground bunker on 9/11? Dick Cheney we know what you did on 9/11 with the standdown order. Norman Mineta testified against you on the 9/11 Commission report. What happened on 9/11?”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
World Bank: Food prices at "dangerous levels"
02-15-2011
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap
global food prices have jumped 29% in the past year, and are just 3% below the all-time peak hit in 2008. ...the rising prices have hit people hardest in the developing world because they spend as much as half their income on food.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Senate votes to extend provisions of Patriot Act
02-15-2011
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AP
Freshman Republican Rand Paul agreed "in the fear after 9/11 we didn't debate these things fully. Paul sent out a letter to his Senate colleagues, saying government "greatly expanded its own power, ignoring obvious answers in favor of the permanent e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
Your Hometown & the United Nations’ Agenda 21
02-15-2011
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www.thenewamerican.com
“My lawyers said it would cost more than $600,000 to fight it, so we might as well pay it. It’s like a protection racket " government out of control,” said Enger.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Computer spanks humans on Day 2 of 'Jeopardy!'
02-15-2011
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www.cnn.com/2011/TECH
Watson finished the first game of a two-game match with $35,734 in winnings, far ahead of runner-up Brad Rutter, who earned $10,000. Ken Jennings trailed with $4,800.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russian space expert calls for emergency asteroid deflection program
02-15-2011
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Terrence Aym
Ever since the the Russian news agency, Ria Novosti, reported that Russian space scientists are very concerned over the prospects of asteroid Apophis striking Earth, much talk has erupted in some European scientific circles over the likelihood of suc
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Space Exploration, The Free Frontier
02-15-2011
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Reason / Nick Gillespie
A vid from PJTV's Bill Whittle and Rand Simberg talking up the ongoing one-small-steps and giant-leaps-for-mankind that are taking place now in the world of private space exploration.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Sales NIBS in Washington State
-2-15-11
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The PPJ Gazette
Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Been laid off? Rising Health Insurance premiums got you down? Having to eye that gold heirloom necklace that Grandma left you to buy a few groceries? Thinking of seriously speaking to your De
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Housing
National Association of Realtor's 2010 Existing Home Sales Exaggerated 15% to 20%
02-15-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
CoreLogic estimates 2010 home sales totaled 3.6 million, down 12% from 4.1 million in 2009. Sales remain extremely low relative to the last decade as sales last year were more than 50% below the level in 2005 and about 33% below the level in 2000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Meet Richard Holbrooke's AfPak Successor: Marc Grossman
02-15-2011
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www.theatlanticwire.com
Grossman said, so "why not demand in a Middle East Final Act that they live up to their rhetoric by allowing insiders and outsiders to judge the distance between promises and policies"
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Is The Arizona Legislature About To Hammer The Banks?
02-15-2011
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Market-ticker.org
This bill will put an absolute stop to any foreclosure where the originator of the note did not transfer it properly and it will render void upon suit by any person who is foreclosed upon and discovers that the note was never properly conveyed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Internet ID: Cyber-Security Czar Defends Government Role
02-15-2011
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blogs.wsj.com
The new program, announced in January, has been greeted by skepticism about the role of government, the creation of new layers of bureaucracy, and possible government interference in the online activities of individual Americans.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
A Legal Manual for an Apocalyptic New York
02-15-2011
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NY Times
Major disasters like terrorist attacks and mass epidemics raise confounding issues for rescuers, doctors and government officials. They pose bewildering legal questions, including some that may be painful to consider, like how the courts would decide
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran opposition protests, agency reports shooting
02-15-2011
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Reuters
Thousands of Iranian opposition activists rallied in support of popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia on Monday and a semi-official news agency said one person was shot dead and several wounded by protesters.
An opposition website said dozens wer
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
8 FOOT BIKE SIGN - BE THE MEDIA!
07-01-09
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Real News Tucson
Chris Haskell from Real News Tucson shows you how to build your own portable billboard!
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
'Spier' education: Officials pull plug on website promoting hidden cameras
02-15-2011
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NY Daily News
School principals-turned-Inspector Gadgets had their online spy-gear store shuttered after being exposed. The Education Dept. pulled the plug on its website portal to an I-Spy-type arsenal where principals browsed for hidden cameras to trick out thei
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Michelle Obama Gets into the Breastfeeding Game!
02152011
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www.drscoundrels.com
She is insidious. She is pervasive. She slithers into every aspect of our lives and takes over; all the while making her proclamations sound innocent and perky. She is like a 1950′s grade B horror flick baddie; The Blob, or Invasion of the B
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Spirituality
Boy who saw heaven and returned from death shares his story
02-15-2011
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Terrence Aym
Alex Marlarkey has seen heaven. Some embrace his story"presented in detail in the New York Times bestselling book, "The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven." Others shrug off the boy's experience off as simply the traumatized, imagined recollections of
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Drug War
The Difference Between 'Hemp' and 'Hash' is the Difference Between Life and Death
02-15-2011
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Reason / Jacob Sullum
One of the prisoners freed during the recent unrest in Egypt was Mostafa Soliman, a dual American/Egyptian citizen who was arrested on drug trafficking charges and faces a death sentence because there is no Arabic word for hemp.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Spy Games: Inside the Convoluted Plot to Bring Down WikiLeaks
02-15-2011
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Wired / Nate Anderson
Barr was now suggesting that a major U.S. corporation find ways to lean on a civil liberties lawyer who held a particular view of WikiLeaks, pressuring him into silence on the topic. [must-read expose of SOP at government contractors]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Gun Rights
Live Talk: Alan Korwin, gun laws
02-15-2011
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azcentral.com
Alan Korwin, a Phoenix-based expert on gun laws and author of "The Arizona Gun Owner's Guide," talks about gun issues.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Looptaggr
02-15-2011
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graffitiprinter.com
Expressing your opinion in public just became 10 times easier. Looptaggr drive-by stenciling technology is infinite fun. Create your own Looptaggr today! Spin it!
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters
02-15-2011
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Salon / Glenn Greenwald
The real issue highlighted by this episode is just how lawless and unrestrained is the unified axis of government and corporate power.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul on Morning Joe (video)
02-15-2011
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YouTube via CampaignForLiberty Tweet
Ron says yes, and anti-war candidate does have a chance to unseat Obama.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Disrespectful Libertarians Hijack CPAC Poll -- And Its Mission
02-15-2011
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Fox News
Libertarians are the worst form of political affiliation in the nation. Combining economic greed, with the amoral desire to promote any behavior regardless of its cost to our culture is a stark departure from the intent of the Founding Fathers
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Politics
Public Pension Transparency Legislation Introduced " No More Bailouts
02152011
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www.drscoundrels.com
During a press conference in the Capitol last week, Congressman Nunes and Senator Burr were joined by the bill’s principal co-authors, including Senator John Thune (SD), Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (WI-1), and Government Reform and Oversight
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
Raging Grannies say 'I Do'
02-15-2011
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Brenna Goth
Local women’s groups host mock-marriage to protest corporation rights. Several Tucson women's organizations celebrated Valentine's Day by performing a mock wedding between brides and corporations on the UA Mall.
About 15 women and a single man pa
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Conspiracies
The U.S. Corporation and the Maritime Flag
02-15-2011
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Zen Gardner
Gerald Celente has an excellent piece on the Superbowl entitled Are Americans Sure Their Flag Is Still There? Good stuff. But I'm wondering, not just if there's a flag still there, but which one? And who notices?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Issa Pursuing Waste, Fraud And Abuse In Spending
02152011
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www.drscoundrels.com
With the upcoming GAO report that we wrote about in yesterday’s article being released on the 16th, Chairman Issa of the Oversight committee appears to be wasting no time in pursuing a course of action regarding Waste, Fraud and Abuse in government s
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