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Date Sent: 2011-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, December 10, 2011 |
Indefinite military detention for U.S. citizens now discussed in secret committee
On the job Hill staffers tweet of partying, 'idiot boss' -- $5,000 Kit to Send Your Own Rocket to the Moon -- Syria conflict threatens Iraq consensus -- TSA agents become rapists -- Lobbyists Have Wrote US Laws That Have Set Up The Biggest Robbery In
World History, And It Could Happen -- Ron Paul Interview Today With
Megyn Kelly 12/09/11 -- Mercs May Run Air Missions on Afghan-Pakistan Border --
Corzine 'stunned' that MF Global couldn't find missing funds -- Startup
Turns Your Cell-Phone Number into a Location Fix -- Wary European CEOs
Move Cash to Germany -- Pay Close Attention To The WARNINGS -- The $1.4 Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Crisis; & Growing -- FL Supreme Court: We Decide When The Case Has Concluded -- Hail! NATO Expands, Again! -- Stewart Rhodes: Feds Demand Customer Lists From Storable Food Facility
AZ: FreedomWorks Arizona Tea Party Workshop; Christmas Party at
the Hancock's today, December 10th, 2011, 6 p.m. til ???; Bill of Rights Day Event, Thursday,
12/15/11 - Phoenix
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News Link • Police State
Indefinite military detention for U.S. citizens now discussed in secret committee
12-09-2011
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Open Secrets
With the House having voted 406-17 to “close” portions of the meetings and avoid public scrutiny, members from both chambers and both parties are meeting in a secretive conference committee to work on reconciling the differences between the House and
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
On the job Hill staffers tweet of partying, 'idiot boss'
12-09-2011
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Washington Times
Staffers of Rep. Rick Larsen boasted over Twitter that they were drinking and otherwise goofing off on the job, according to a story in the NW Daily Marker.
The website said the tweets gave off the impression of "a staffers-gone-wild bash" in the
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
$5,000 Kit to Send Your Own Rocket to the Moon
12-09-2011
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Space
When father-and-son backyard experiments have reached the point of sending smartphones up on weather balloons to snap pictures at the edge of space, DIY space enthusiasts will want to take things up a notch. A crowd-funded project to create a $5,000-
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Syria conflict threatens Iraq consensus
12-09-2011
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Washington Post
As the Syrian conflict takes on increasingly sectarian dimensions, the crisscrossing rivalries that had been held somewhat in check in recent years among Iraq’s Shiite majority and its Kurdish and Sunni minorities also risk being inflamed. Syria’s se
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA agents become rapists
12-09-2011
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Russia Today
The next time you board a flight in the US, be prepared to hand over your luggage to government-hired rapists. Under the FBI’s updated definition of rape, agents with the TSA are as good as guilty of the crime.
A recent meeting of the Federal Bure
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News Link • Events: Arizona
FreedomWorks Arizona Tea Party Workshop
12-10-2011
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connect.freedomworks.org/
Join FreedomWorks campaign team for a day of grassroots and GOTV training in Florence Arizona on Saturday, December 10th. FreedomWorks has teamed up with local tea party groups to host a morning training consisting of such topics as: Get out the vot
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News Link • United Nations
WHAT was ICLEI up to at the Durban Climate Conference! It's UnCONSTITUTIONAL
120911
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www.varight.com
ICLEI was very busy at the Waste of Time called the Durban Climate Conference. What they were doing was unconstitutional for US cities to be involved in. Do you know where YOUR mayor is?
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News Link • Military
URGENT MESSAGE From the Troops
12-09-2011
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YouTube.com
The troops have an urgent message that requires your immediate attention. Find out who U.S. military veterans and active duty soldiers overwhelmingly support for President in 2012.
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News Link • Economy - International
Lobbyists Have Wrote US Laws That Have Set Up The Biggest Robbery In World History, And It Could Hap
12-09-2011
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Jim March
You read a lot about the enormous transnational casino called "derivatives" on FreedomsPhoenix, but did you know that the banks invented a special "Chapter 15" bankruptcy process in 2005 that is only for "international financial institutions",
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News Link • Afghanistan
Mercs May Run Air Missions on Afghan-Pakistan Border
12-09-2011
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www.wired.com
Barely two weeks after a NATO helicopter disaster killed 24 Pakistani troops, the skies above the Afghanistan-Pakistan border may get even more dangerous.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Christmas Party Saturday, December 10th, 2011 6 p.m. til ??? (Update)
11-08-2011
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Meetup.com/Hancock
We will have all of the workshop and activist stations open for newbies to take a tour and see our projects on display.. This year's Christmas Party will be at the home of Ernest and Donna Hancock in Glendale, AZ. Dugger will DJ and have Karaoke :
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Corzine 'stunned' that MF Global couldn't find missing funds
12-09-2011
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latimes.com
As the first former U.S. senator to be subpoenaed by Congress in more than a century, Jon Corzine testified Thursday about the “last chaotic days” of MF Global, the trading firm that declared bankruptcy under his watch.
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News Link • China
Why Boston Power Went to China
12-09-2011
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www.technologyreview.com
Christina Lampe-Onnerud, founder of the battery startup, discusses the advantages of moving the company's manufacturing and research to China.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China's Solar Industry
12-09-2011
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www.technologyreview.com
Behind the scenes at Suntech Power, the world’s largest solar manufacturer.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Startup Turns Your Cell-Phone Number into a Location Fix
12-09-2011
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www.technologyreview.com
Loc-Aid can track almost any cellular device in North America.
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News Link • Activism
Websense Joins Goohoosoft’s Fight For Human Rights
12-09-2011
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www.wired.com
When large enterprises like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft join forces, you can be fairly certain politics are involved. Typically, this translates to some sort of lobbying effort, but if we’re lucky, the issue is human rights.
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News Link • Iran
Iran US RQ-170 spy plane
12-09-2011
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www.youtube.com
Iran: shot down advanced RQ-170 unmanned US spy plane,
exclusive video
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News Link • Media: Internet
What Moore’s Law Means for the Future of the Cloud
12-09-2011
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www.wired.com
So what’s going on here? Is renting transistors in the cloud cheaper than owning them, or is it more expensive? And if cloud is cheaper for some users and not for others, then why is that the case?
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Matzorian Candidate
12-09-2011
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www.thedailyshow.com
At the Republican Jewish Coalition forum, Jews commemorate the miracle of incredibly religious Christian presidential candidates fighting over who loves Jews more.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Wary European CEOs Move Cash to Germany
12-09-2011
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www.bloomberg.com
Grupo Gowex (GOW), a Spanish provider of Wi-Fi wireless services, is moving funds to Germany because it expects Spain to exit the euro. German machinery maker GEA Group AG is setting maximum amounts held at any one bank.
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News Link • European Union
Pay Close Attention To The WARNINGS
12-09-2011
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market-ticker.org
The EU summit "deal" is noise; we knew going in there would be no "grand bargain" and there isn't. Britain said "stuff it" (rightly so) along with a few others; those who went along did so pretty much at gunpoint.
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News Link • Economy - International
The $1.4 Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Crisis; & Growing
12-09-2011
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www.youtube.com
Richard Nixon took the USA off the gold standard in 1973. Bill Clinton got rid of Glass Steagull in 1999, which took down the separation between the activities of Investment Banks (non-secured) and activities of Commercial Banks (FDIC Secured - tax p
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Buy Silver…Now!
12-09-2011
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dailyreckoning.com
12/08/11 Silver is an amazing metal…which is why it’s likely to soar over the coming years… You see, silver has more than 10,000 uses. It’s one of the world’s best conductors of heat and electricity.
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News Link • Economy - International
Deleverage the World
12-09-2011
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whiskeyandgunpowder.com
Capitalism is supposed to be a system of profit and loss, but in recent years, central bankers and central planners seem to have forgotten the part about losses. The strategy cannot work over the long term. Economic law, eventually, prevails.
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News Link • Housing
FL Supreme Court: We Decide When The Case Has Concluded
12-09-2011
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market-ticker.org
The bank appears to have tried to settle with the consumer to moot the case. That settlement may have mooted the underlying legal controversy but whether a fraud was committed upon the court is and should be an entirely separate matter.
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News Link • Emmigration
What's The Best Country In The World For Americans To Relocate
12-09-2011
As the economy continues to crumble and as our society slowly falls apart, millions of others are thinking about it. But moving to another country is not something to be done lightly.
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News Link • NATO
Hail! NATO Expands, Again!
12-09-2011
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www.boilingfrogspost.com
What the heck is NATO? What’s it about? What’s it for? Not many people bother to ask any more. As with many New World organizations originally created under the guise of a temporary measure (think IMF, think World Bank)
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News Link • Police State
Stewart Rhodes: Feds Demand Customer Lists From Storable Food Facility
12-09-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
“A fellow veteran contacted me concerning a new and disturbing development. He had been utilizing a Mormon cannery near his home to purchase bulk food supplies.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Building an Armed Response Kit
12-09-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
Nearly everyone into prepping have a bug out bag (BOB) the contents vary from person to person, but mainly they allow the carrier to have what they think they will need to survive at least 72 hours. If needed they will provide...
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Foment OWS Terror, Open Camps?
12-09-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
The conspiracy to run the world seems to emanate from a small group of banking families that control central banks along with their associates and enablers. This group creates war and chaos in order to build their longed-for new world order.
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News Link • Science
Cannonballs: Size Matters
12-09-2011
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www.wired.com
The fence and the dirt from the cannon picture sure seem to look like the spot marked on the map. So, from Google Maps the distance from the cannon shot to the first house is about 800 meters.
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News Link • New World Order
Rothschilds Give Formal Support to US Direct Democracy?
12-09-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
It's the "people versus the elites," as it always is. And the elites, as they always do, are attempting to provide tools that seemingly empower middle classes but actually only build up bigger and bigger government. Elites LOVE big government because
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Dragon Capsule-Falcon 9 schedules its first flight to ISS space station
12-09-2011
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Space
NASA gave SpaceX the go-ahead to launch its robotic Dragon spacecraft atop its Falcon 9 rocket to the space station on Feb. 7, so long as a series of final safety reviews, testing and verification is successfully completed.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Criminal And Civil Law In Free-Market Justice
12-09-2011
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dailyanarchist.com
Natural rights begin with the idea that a human being is a form of property. The question becomes “who is the owner?” There are three possible alternatives: each person is a self-owner; someone else owns him (slavery); or he is an unclaimed good.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Bane Lets It Rip in Dark Knight Rises’ Menacing Prologue
12-09-2011
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www.wired.com
Heath Ledger’s Joker blasted through the opening heist sequence of The Dark Knight with chilling conviction three years ago. Smart, scary and utterly riveting, Ledger’s character set the tone for the rest of the picture by blending ice-cold humor wit
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
In Praise of Parallel Institutions
12-09-2011
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www.fff.org by by Wendy McElroy, December 8, 2011
As long as the association is voluntary, social harmony is preserved and rights are promoted. Moreover, in a desire to compete, institutions become more efficient at satisfying customers' needs. In short, choice promotes both social harmony and a hig
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News Link • Economy - International
Art Cashin Explains Why Obama Is "Terrified" By A European Collapse
12-09-2011
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www.zerohedge.com
Confused why Tim Geithner has seemingly booked a weekly round trip ticket to Brussels to give the Eurocrats their weekly pep talk (much to his endless humiliation as Europe Tells Geithner To Take His Advice And Shove It reminds us)?
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News Link • European Union
Euro Countries Reach a Deal, but Britain Stands Apart
12-09-2011
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www.nytimes.com
European leaders, meeting until the early hours of Friday, agreed to sign an intergovernmental treaty that would require them to enforce stricter fiscal and financial discipline in their future budgets.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Letter Re: How to Drain an Abscess
12-09-2011
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Survivalblog.com
The letter from Lonestar Doc about skin abscesses is both appropriate and essential. I would like to add a few points that may not have been clear.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
MythBusters’ ‘Cannonball Run’ Gets Taiwanese Animation Treatment (video added)
12-09-2011
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www.wired.com
Taiwanese studio Next Media Animation has blasted its re-creation of the MythBusters cannonball misfire onto the web, with a blow-by-blow video account of Tuesday’s bizarre incident.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Letter Re: Western Nebraska as a Retreat Locale
12-09-2011
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Survivalblog.com
The main things I find appealing, inexpensive fertile crop land, good plentiful clean water, a plethora of wildlife (Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, and Turkey) great fishing holes everywhere, and few people per square mile.
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News Link • European Union
Analysis: Sarkozy, Draghi winners in EU rift, Cameron loses
12-09-2011
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www.reuters.com
Napoleon dreamed of it, De Gaulle fought for it, but Nicolas Sarkozy may have achieved it -- a Europe of Nations with France in the cockpit and Britain on the sidelines.
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News Link • American History
Shocking Charts And Statistics That Prove That America Is No Longer A Wealthy Nation
12-09-2011
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
How do you decide whether you are wealthy or not? Do you determine that by how much money you spend at the stores? Of course not.
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News Link • European Union
EU Leaders Forge Fiscal Pact
12-09-2011
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Wall Street Journal
European Union leaders Friday agreed to forge ahead with a new deal on economic governance without the support of the U.K., but they again balked at marshaling the large sums experts believe will be necessary to ensure financing for Italy and Spain a
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News Link • Police State
Drones Are Coming to a Theater Near You
12-09-2011
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counterpunch.org
“The UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, are coming.” So says Candice Miller, the Republican congresswoman from northern Michigan borderlands.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump might cancel GOP debate after Bachmann snub
12-09-2011
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www.rawstory.com
A pouting Donald Trump said Friday that he may cancel his Republican presidential debate altogether after all but two candidates refused to participate.
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News Link • Activism
Occupy Wall Street, Re-energized: A Leaderless Movement Plots a Comeback
12-09-2011
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time.com
In a society in which we're used to taking direction from Presidents and CEOs, captains and quarterbacks, Occupy Wall Street's leaderless structure seems like a formula for chaos.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Arab Spring Chooses Freedom Over US Aid
12-09-2011
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news.antiwar.com
The Arab Spring has begun ousting regimes in places like Egypt, the revolutionaries are seeing the US trying to shift funding to various political groups, and are expressing concern that the lack of transparency in where US money goes
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Washington’s Secret Wars
12-09-2011
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antiwar.com
Following the widely reported Iranian government plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington and alarming new reports of civilian deaths in Syria, the White House has issued several findings to the intelligence community authorizing steppe
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News Link • European Union
New Treaty to Save the Euro May Also Divide Europe
12-09-2011
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www.nytimes.com
BRUSSELS " European leaders, meeting until the early hours of Friday, agreed to sign an intergovernmental treaty that would require them to enforce stricter fiscal and financial discipline in their future budgets.
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News Link • Politics
STOCK Act halted in its tracks WITH bipartisan support!
12-09-2011
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The Political Commentator
What's that you say? Bipartisan support for something in Congress? That's great news for the American people right?
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) is stopped!
Now that Congressional Republicans and Democrats are working i
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistani Editorial Says Nuclear War with India “Inevitable” as Water Dispute Continues
12-09-2011
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Oilprice.com
Nawa-e Waqt bluntly commented on India’s Kashmiri water polices and Islamabad’s failure up to now to stop New Delhi’s efforts to construct hydroelectric dams in Kashmir, “India should be forcibly prevented from constructing these dams. If it fails to
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday December 9th 2011
12-09-2011
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LewRockwell.com
What If the Real Target of the War on Terror Is You?, - Andrew Napolitano / Banks, Wars, Nightsticks / Worshipping the Prince of War / Give the Gift of Preparedness / Want to Escape America? / What Question Is the Trumpster Dying To Ask Ron Paul?
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News Link • Energy
Could War Flare Again Between Iraq and Kuwait?
12-09-2011
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Oilprice.com
While Iraq and Kuwait are now at peace, many of the border issues that led to conflict two decades ago remain, which no amount of diplomatic bonhomie can completely paper over.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Ron Paul: Bush administration reacted with ‘glee’ after 9/11
12-09-2011
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www.rawstory.com
“Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat,” Paul told the crowd, “That’s exactly what they’re doing now with Iran.”
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