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Date Sent: 2012-02-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, February 26, 2012 |
US Spies See No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
NKorea's Kim issues threat before SKorea-US drills -- New light on drone war's death toll -- Seven Americans wounded in attack on NATO base in Afghanistan -- G20 moves to line up huge Greece rescue deal for April -- Checkpoint USA Is Going To Trial! -- Koran Burning: Dehumanizing Muslims -- Brutal Bahraini State Terror -- BitTorrent for Live Video -- Myth of Eight Hours of
Sleep -- Ron Paul Signwave
Tucson Az 02/25/2012! -- SPECIAL EDITION BROADCAST - ERNEST HANCOCK
LIVE ON RevolutionPAC's LIVE STREAM -- Ranchers' Land Becomes Ground
Zero In Energy Fight -- Gingrich wants Afghans to apologize to America -- Diving for
delegates: Ron Paul’s not-so-secret strategy -- US pressures India
to give up Iranian oil -- Nord Gold increased its net profit 89% in
2011 -- One Man's Terrorist Episode 1 -- The Death Star Is a
Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System -- Welcome to the Nuclear
Heartland -- Why Does the Military Love Ron Paul? -- Sweden Moves to
End Forced Sterilization of Transgender People -- Russian Secret Services: U.S., NATO, GCC Arm
Syrian Rebels Through Iraq, Lebanon And Turkey -- A Real Job for the
Vice President: Leading Congress -- Kosovo Serbs Caught in Crossfire
from Three Points -- Teachers: How Are You Teaching US War Crimes,
Destruction of US Constitution? -- Cuba Sets a Global Example for
the Achievements of Socialism -- India-EU FTA: Where is the Europe’s
Trade Agenda Headed? -- Outlawing Solidarity in Tucson --
'Anonymous' Targets Private Prison System in Latest Hack -- Bradley
Manning's Quest for Justice -- Fukushima – Worse Than Chernobyl -- Second NY Judge Rules: Towns Can Block Fracking -- Global Day of
Action: Occupy Our Food Supply -- Tucker Carlson Calls For
Annihilation Of Iran
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News Link • Iran
US Spies See No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
02-25-2012
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Common Dreams staff
US intelligence agencies believe there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb
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News Link • Foreign Policy
NKorea's Kim issues threat before SKorea-US drills
02-26-2012
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AP
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to launch a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked, state media said Sunday, a day before the start of annual South Korean-U.S. military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
New light on drone war's death toll
02-26-2012
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AP
Excluding that strike, which inflicted one of the worst civilian death tolls since the drone program started in Pakistan, nearly 90 percent of the people killed were militants, villagers said.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Seven Americans wounded in attack on NATO base in Afghanistan
02-26-2012
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Reuters
Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when protesters in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan threw a grenade at their base, provincial police chief Samihullah Qatra told reporters.
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News Link • Economy - International
G20 moves to line up huge Greece rescue deal for April
02-26-2012
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Reuters
The world's leading economies worked on Sunday to line up a deal in April on a second global rescue package worth nearly $2 trillion to stop the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis from spreading and putting at risk the tentative recovery.
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Feature Article • Arizona's Top News
Checkpoint USA Is Going To Trial!
Terry Bressi
After more than eight long years, hundreds of legal documents later and several court challenges (including a reversal by the 9th circuit court of appeals), Checkpoint USA's lawsuit is finally being scheduled for trial after being launched in Decembe
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News Link • Internet
BitTorrent for Live Video
02-25-2012
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Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.com
The inventor of the world's most popular file-sharing protocol now wants to stream live video or TV over the Internet.
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News Link • Energy
Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal
02-25-2012
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
A study identifies early-stage technologies that could be combined to cut the cost of solar panels in half.
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News Link • Energy
Solar-Panel Giant Poised to Get Even Bigger
02-25-2012
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
Solar Frontier, which opened the world's largest CIGS solar-panel plant, makes plans for more factories.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Get Ready for the Ron Paul Powercast!
02-24-2012
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www.revolutionpac.com
The 12-hour webcast, preceding Tuesday's Michigan and Arizona primaries, runs from noon to midnight February 25 in conjunction with a 24-hour, $1 million fundraiser to support the committee's Super Tuesday ad campaign, GOTV efforts and election integ
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News Link • Science
Swedish Man Survives Two Months Snowed in in Car
02-25-2012
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arclein
We would not make something like this up. The rescue services were on site too and saw the same as us," he told Vasterbottens-Kuriren.
Umea University Hospital, where the man is recovering after being rescued by police and a rescue team, said in
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Digital Technology Preserving Living Languages
02-25-2012
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arclein
Now schools and area universities are using digital technology to promote Anishinaabemowin, with a web site, http://www.umich.edu/~ojibwe/ that includes traditional poems put to music, the informal anthem of the American Indian movement, and a transl
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Myth of Eight Hours of Sleep
02-25-2012
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arclein
It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Clinical Trials for Whip Worm Therapy
02-25-2012
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arclein
Based on this hygiene hypothesis, researchers at the University of Iowa wanted to find a safe parasite"one that wasn't known to cause infection or illness in humans"for therapeutic purposes. This type of treatment is known as helminthic treatment, o
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News Link • Activism
Ron Paul Signwave Tucson Az 02/25/2012!
02-25-2012
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Chris Haskell Reporter Real News Tucson
Ron Paul Signwave Tucson Az 02/25/2012! Today was quite an incredible day when it comes to supporters!!!! (Notice the Ron Paul 2012 car is parkd up on the banks corner of Brdy & Wilmot!) I don't think i've ever heard that many people that were hon
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News Link • Energy
Ranchers' Land Becomes Ground Zero In Energy Fight
02-25-2012
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Guy Raz and Brent Baughman
Gas prices are spiking once again; the cost of a gallon of regular unleaded is about 12 percent higher than it was a year ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Expert: Look outside the eurozone
02-25-2012
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RT
After the global crisis of 2008 and disturbances of 2011, investors around the world are puzzling over the best places to put their money.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gingrich wants Afghans to apologize to America
02-25-2012
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RT
Thousands of protesters in Afghanistan rallied against the US this week after discovering that Americans had charred and purged copies of the Koran. President Obama was quick to extend an apology, but some of the GOP want things the other way around.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Diving for delegates: Ron Paul’s not-so-secret strategy
02-25-2012
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RT
As his Republican Party rivals dump millions on ads across the country, Texas Representative Ron Paul is taking a different route to try to secure the GOP nomination.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US pressures India to give up Iranian oil
02-25-2012
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RT
“Anyone but Iran,” is what the United States is telling India, as America attempts to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its oil needs.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Nord Gold increased its net profit 89% in 2011
02-25-2012
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RT
Gold mining operator Nordgold, a former subsidiary of Russia’s second largest steel-maker Severstal, saw its net results skyrocketed by 89% in 2011.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
One Man's Terrorist Episode 1
02-22-2012
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Buck The System
Short film on how Americans might react if occupied by a UN 'peacekeeping' force. Set in the State Of Jefferson in Oregon. Very well made.
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News Link • Military
The Death Star Is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System
02-25-2012
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By Kevin Drum
There's been a lot of loose talk about the Death Star lately. I want to put it into a bit of perspective.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Welcome to the Nuclear Heartland
02-25-2012
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Robin Nelson
The first US nuclear power plant to gain a license in over a decade is scheduled to go online this year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Why Does the Military Love Ron Paul?
02-25-2012
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By Adam Weinstein
Servicemembers are giving way more cash to the anti-war GOP candidate than any other"but not for the reason you might think.
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News Link • Environment
How Factory Farms Are Killing Seals
02-25-2012
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By Tom Philpott
The meat industry defends its reliance on routine antibiotic use by flatly denying the practice poses any public health problem.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Russian Secret Services: U.S., NATO, GCC Arm Syrian Rebels Through Iraq, Lebanon And Turkey
02-25-2012
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Itar-Tass
Armed groups of Syria’s opposition from the rebel force known as the Syrian Liberation Army get more and more weapons from abroad
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
A Real Job for the Vice President: Leading Congress
02-25-2012
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by William John Cox
The vice presidency has been a joke for most of the nation’s history.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Teachers: How Are You Teaching US War Crimes, Destruction of US Constitution?
02-25-2012
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by Carl Herman
We teach limited government under a constitution that secures unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This first right means that one’s life cannot be taken by tyrannical government.
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Cuba Sets a Global Example for the Achievements of Socialism
02-25-2012
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by Prof. Peter Phillips
In an all day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro.
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News Link • World News
India-EU FTA: Where is the Europe’s Trade Agenda Headed?
02-25-2012
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by Kavaljit Singh
The internal documents of the European Commission reveal the disgraceful attempts to push for higher levels of commitments in trade in industrial goods and agricultural products, services and investment liberalisation
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Outlawing Solidarity in Tucson
02-25-2012
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by Rethinking Schools Editorial
As many Rethinking Schools readers know, in January Tucson school officials ordered our book Rethinking Columbus removed from Mexican American Studies classes, as part of their move to shut down the program.
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News Link • Anonymous
'Anonymous' Targets Private Prison System in Latest Hack
02-25-2012
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Common Dreams staff
The international private prison corporation, GEO Group, Inc., was targeted today by the hacktivist group Anonymous.
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News Link • Military
Bradley Manning's Quest for Justice
02-25-2012
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by Logan Price
Whatever the outcome of the WikiLeaks suspect's trial, many of us believe he holds to a higher standard of truth than this court's
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima " Worse Than Chernobyl
02-25-2012
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by Janette Sherman and Joseph J. Mangano
There is good news and bad news: The good news is that 11 months after the Fukushima meltdown, thousands of Japanese marched in the streets to protest the continuing operation of nuclear power plants in their country, and urged a shift to renewable e
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News Link • Energy
Second NY Judge Rules: Towns Can Block Fracking
02-25-2012
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Common Dreams staff report
For the second time this week, New York state judges have rules that towns have the power to ban fracking despite a state regulation asserting they cannot.
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News Link • Food
Global Day of Action: Occupy Our Food Supply
02-25-2012
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Common Dreams staff
Food justice advocates rise up to confront corporate control of our food system
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News Link • World News
Privatization Derailed Argentina’s Rail System
02-25-2012
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by Marcela Valente
Increasingly frequent and tragic railway accidents in Argentina, like this week’s crash, show that the rail system, run by private companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies from the state, constantly ignores warnings from in
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. condemns deadly attack on Americans in Afghanistan
02-25-2012
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USA Today
A gunman killed two American military advisers with shots to the back of the head Saturday inside a heavily guarded ministry building
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News Link • Food
RAW MILK FREEDOM RIDERS
02-25-2012
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rawmilkfreedomriders.wordpress.com
As the state of Wisconsin continues persecuting dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger, activists and supporters rally to his defense!
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News Link • Gun Rights
Madness after girl, 4, draws gun pic at school
02-25-2012
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www.wnd.com
A father has been arrested, strip-searched and hauled in for questioning " all because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Screwed Unemployed Workers and Rising Concentrated Poverty
02-25-2012
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by Greg Kaufmann
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, co-chair of the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus, voted against the recent extension of unemployment benefits because it shortened the maximum number of weeks a jobless worker could qualify.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Video: Fox Focus Group Praise Ron Paul, Criticize Santorum
02-25-2012
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America Live With Megyn Kelly
America Live With Megyn Kelly - Title: Is it make or break for Santorum? - Focus group reacts to Arizona debate and its impact on 2012 race
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Wow just heard this on local Detroit radio
02-25-2012
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by fedup48009
Romney, in his home state, speaks at Ford Field (Detroit Lions Stadium) which can seat 70,000, speaks to a crowd of less than 300 people on the field. The radio guy then said "The fieldhouse was as empty as his words".
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News Link • Iran
Bomb Iran.org - New Freeway Billboard Causing a Stir
02-25-2012
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by monticello
The folks in Utah have some cajones! Check out this billboard causing a ruckus that just went up.
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News Link • Iran
Tucker Carlson Calls For Annihilation Of Iran
02-25-2012
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think progress
Carlson tells Red Eye panel that Iran "deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics, I think they're evil."
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Rep. Sullivan apologizes for comment about ‘killing’ senators
02-24-2012
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Rawstory
“Now I live with some senators, I yell at them all the time, I grabbed one of them the other day and shook him...You know but other than me going over there with a gun and holding it to their head and maybe killing a couple of them, I don’t think the
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News Link • Surveillance
Secret documents reveal DHS lied to CONgress about tracking Americans on social media
02-24-2012
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Rawstory
One of the nation’s leading electronic privacy groups claimed this week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) misled members of Congress during a recent hearing on whether the Department is paying a defense contractor $11.4 million to keep t
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News Link • Gun Rights
Michigan banning guns . . . toy guns
02-24-2012
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Jonathan Turley
Michigan legislators are moving to make possession of toy guns a crime. The legislation by members is based on the growing practice of criminals cutting off the orange tips and using the toy guns in crime. This way, presumably, they will go and get r
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News Link • World News
Syria has made a curious transition from US ally to violator of human rights
02-24-2012
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The Guardian
In recent weeks, US officials have been falling over one another to denounce the brutality of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. President Obama has accused it of committing "outrageous bloodshed" and called for Assad to stand down; Hillary Clinton
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News Link • Energy
Minister praises plan to heat swimming pool from fires of crematorium
02-24-2012
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Daily Telegraph
A money-saving plan to heat a swimming pool with energy from the cremation of dead bodies has been backed by a senior Government minister.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Military planes take off for Spain carrying 17 tons of stolen silver recovered from 1804 shipwreck
02-24-2012
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AP
Two military planes carrying 17 tons of silver coins recovered from a Spanish ship sunk in 1804 have taken off from Florida. The treasure is being flown back to Spain after a nearly five-year legal struggle with the U.S.-based explorers who found and
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News Link • Afghanistan
Secret U.S. cable warned about Pakistani havens
02-24-2012
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Washington Post
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan sent a top-secret cable to Washington last month warning that the persistence of enemy havens in Pakistan was placing the success of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan in jeopardy, U.S. officials said.
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