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Date Sent: 2012-03-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 9, 2012 PM edition |
DHS Mission Creep: Now Helping Arrest Prostitutes -- Iran: Arabs putting Mercs into Syria
Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers -- FITCH DOWNGRADES GREECE TO 'RESTRICTED DEFAULT' -- Israel asks U.S. for arms that could aid Iran strike -- VIDEO: Whoops ... 'Rogue' Vaccine Doc Wakefield's Partner Reinstated
-- Judge Napolitano on Robert Mueller: Can't Answer Basic Question
About Due Process -- Don't attack Iran, urges Israel's ex-spy chief -- 03-09-12 - Sam Sandmel - Richard Gage - (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Haaretz poll: Most of the public opposes an Israeli strike on Iran -- Pentagon Launches Desperate Damage Control Over Shocking Panetta Testimony -- After Megaupload Bust, Putlocker and RapidShare Pick Up Slack -- Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone -- List of 388 CONgressCritters who voted to end your First Amendment Rights.... -- TSA Tacitly Admits $1 Billion Dollar Body Scanner System Is Critically Flawed -- Pentagon Tries (Again) to Shoot Down Rockets -- MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN ACTION: Boeing is being awarded $11,399,100,000 contract -- Afghanistan, U.S. to sign prison transfer deal: officials -- NYPD docs: "Focus" scrutiny on Muslim Americans -- BofA in side deal with government on mortgage foreclosures: WSJ -- Anti-government, hate groups growing: SPLC report -- US Probes Allegations of Narcotics Trafficking by Afghan Air Force -- Marine's Facebook page tests military rules -- Is the GOP Becoming a War Party? -- Army Suicides Up 80 Percent Since Invasion of Iraq -- US electoral registration: Subject to grave errors -- 'Great weapon': Pentagon 'superbomb' Iran strike would outdo Israel -- FBI Director: I Have to Check to See If Obama Has the Right to Assassinate Americans On U.S. Soil --
The Criminalization of Protest: Say Goodbye To Free Speech in America
-- Syria activists reject Annan's call for talks -- EU-China dispute
'delaying Airbus orders' -- Haitians seek UN redress for cholera victims -- Western hostages killed in Nigeria -- Greece secures backing for debt swap deal -- Spider Silk Conducts Heat
AZ: Sat & Sun March 10th and
11th Camping Gold Trip; Richard Gage, AIA, and Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, in Phoenix March 16-18
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Mission Creep: They Are Now Helping Arrest Prostitutes
03-09-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
The Department of Homeland Security was created following the September 11, 2001, attacks with a mandate to protect the American people from terrorism.
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News Link • World News
Iran says Arabs putting mercenaries into Syria
03-09-2012
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Reuters
Arab countries are sending mercenaries to Syria to thwart any chance of a negotiated settlement to end President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on a year-long uprising against his rule, Iran's ambassador to France said on Thursday.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Richard Gage, AIA, and Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, in Phoenix March 16-18
03-09-2012
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www.ae911truth.org
"The people of New York need to see the light--that a third WTC skyscraper not hit by any plane was destroyed on September 11th. They have been deceived about what happened on that terrible day.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers
03-09-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Tim Reid
Banks are foreclosing on America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data.
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News Link • Economy - International
FITCH DOWNGRADES GREECE TO 'RESTRICTED DEFAULT'
03-09-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Simone Foxman
Fitch just downgraded Greece from "C" to "restricted default."
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News Link • Israel
Israel asks U.S. for arms that could aid Iran strike
03-09-2012
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http://www.reuters.com
Israel has asked the United States for advanced "bunker-buster" bombs and refueling planes that could improve its ability to attack Iran's underground nuclear sites, an Israeli official said on Thursday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
VIDEO: Whoops ... 'Rogue' Vaccine Doc Wakefield's Partner Reinstated
03-09-2012
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www.thedailybell.com
We are fond of writing that the Internet is a process not an episode, and that the power elite that evidently and obviously wants to run the world (formally as opposed to informally) still has no idea how to deal with its revelations.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Judge Napolitano on Robert Mueller: Can't Answer Basic Question About Due Process
03-09-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Judge Napalitano talks to Shep Smith about Mueller's testimony today.
Congressman: "Can the President kill Americans in America?"
Mueller: "Um....I dunno."
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News Link • Israel
Israelis, like United States, wary about strike on Iran
03-09-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Karin Brulliard
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from a visit to Washington this week, much of the discussion here centered on traffic-light hues
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News Link • Israel
Don't attack Iran, urges Israel's ex-spy chief
03-09-2012
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com, AFP
The former chief of Israel's Mossad spy agency has cautioned against an attack on Iran's nuclear sites and put his trust firmly in US President Barack Obama to intervene if and when necessary.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
03-09-12 - Sam Sandmel - Richard Gage - (MP3 & Video LOADED)
Sam Sandmel, organizer with Occupy Chicago, planning for G-8 summit that was moved from Chicago to Camp David - Richard Gage, AIA, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, coming to Phoenix March 16-18. See show archive for planned events.
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News Link • Iran
World powers stress diplomacy in Iran standoff
03-09-2012
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http://hosted.ap.org, By GEORGE JAHN
Three days of protracted negotiations held under the specter of war highlighted the diplomatic difficulties ahead for nations intent on ensuring that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Haaretz poll: Most of the public opposes an Israeli strike on Iran
03-09-2012
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http://www.haaretz.com, By Yossi Verter
Support for Netanyahu's Likud party is at all-time high, but Israelis still skeptical regarding attack on Iran's nuclear facilities without U.S. backing.
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Cost-Benefit Analysis " Another Questionable Meme
03-09-2012
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www.dailybell.com
The conflation of these two concepts " regulation and analysis " adds yet more confusion to a marketplace already overwhelmed by price-fixing and distorted by efforts at restraining the Invisible Hand. The result of such massive price-fixing is inevi
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon Launches Desperate Damage Control Over Shocking Panetta Testimony
03-09-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Alex Jones: “This represents absolute 100 per cent proof that the military industrial complex which runs the United States is under the control of foreign central banks who are imposing a military dictatorship.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Internet
After Megaupload Bust, Putlocker and RapidShare Pick Up Slack
03-09-2012
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www.wired.com
The Feds shut down Megaupload two months ago, but browser-based filesharing hasn’t slowed down. It has just moved to other websites.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Legal Experts Destroy Rationale for Obama’s Assassination Policy
03-09-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by George Washington
Attorney General Eric Holder announced at Northwestern University law school that the U.S. can assassinate U.S. citizens without any without disclosure of why they are even alleged to be baddies and without any review of any nature whatsoever by any
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
The Personal Analytics of My Life
03-09-2012
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www.wired.com
One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparent
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone
03-09-2012
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http://news.yahoo.com
Yoshiko Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects, she warns her daughters: Never have children
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bill of Rights
list of 388 CONgressCritters who voted to end your First Ammendment Rights....
03-09-2012
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http://www.rumormillnews.com, Posted By: Watchman
list of 388 CONgressCritters who voted to end your First Ammendment Rights
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Tacitly Admits $1 Billion Dollar Body Scanner System Is Critically Flawed
03-09-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
The Transportation Security Administration has tacitly admitted that the critical flaws brought to light in a viral You Tube video yesterday which exposed how airport body scanners could easily be beaten are accurate, rendering the entire $1 billion
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Sensible, Creative and Sublime: Our Favorites From the 2012 Geneva Motor Show
03-09-2012
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www.wired.com
For all the outlandish supercars and concepts on the show floor, there were many quiet, thoughtful ideas for making good, efficient cars. Easing our reliance on fossil fuels is an incredibly tough nut to crack.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon Tries (Again) to Shoot Down Rockets
03-09-2012
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www.wired.com
Right now, soldiers can’t do much once a rocket careens their way besides maneuvering and hoping for the best. But the Pentagon is trying " yet again " to give them something to shoot the thing right out of the sky.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The cost of America’s police state
03-09-2012
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http://www.salon.com, By Stephan Salisbury
At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, Calif
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
When SXSW Money Crunch Hits, Kickstarter Comes to the Rescue
03-09-2012
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www.wired.com
Using Kickstarter and other crowd-funding mechanisms to wrap post-production on a film " maybe it should be called a “Kickfinisher” " or pay for travel to a massive festival like SXSW are some of the latest novel uses of these online money-raising pl
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News Link • Activism
Edwards Burke " Another Public Figure Gone Wrong
03-09-2012
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www.freekeene.com
In the video above I highlight how Edward broke the the law he swears to uphold, something he’s most likely judged someone for in the past, and was caught red handed doing so. Yet, nothing was done to him
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Lottery winner on food stamps even after $1 million jackpot, "right to welfare"
03-07-2012
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Yahoo News
Clayton downplayed her wealth, saying she took the $1 million in a lump sump, which meant about half immediately went to taxes. "I feel that it's OK because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay," she said. "I have two houses."
Her s
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN ACTION: Boeing is being awarded $11,399,100,000 contract
03-08-2012
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HuntingtonNews.Net
The Boeing Co., Mo., is being awarded $11,399,100,000 firm-fixed-price contract to fulfill the Foreign Military Sales requirement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to procure 84 new F-15 Saudi advanced aircraft with systems and munitions.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Is insolvency coming soon to a town (city, county, state) near you?
03-09-2012
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The Political Commentator
It can't happen here? That's what Suffolk County, New York used to think!
Wealthy enclaves and some of the greatest beaches in the world are just not enough!!
The sad fact is that the $500 million budget deficit hitting this county can happen
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Media: Television
Piers Morgan Mocks Davis Guggenheim for Obama Documentary
03-09-2012
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By DANIEL HALPER weeklystandard.com
CNN's Piers Morgan mocked filmmaker Davis Guggenheim last night for not including a single criticism of President Obama in his campaign documentary.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
LSD could help treat alcoholism
03-09-2012
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timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Taking hallucinogenic druglysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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News Link • Environment
Amazing video captures moment sunbathers rescue 30 beached dolphins in Brazil
03-09-2012
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By Simon Tomlinson http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Dragging them desperately by their tails, this is the dramatic moment beachgoers leapt into the sea to save around 30 dolphins from certain death.
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News Link • World News
Prosecutors: Prominent wine collector sold $1.3 million worth of counterfeit bottles
03-09-2012
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By NBC News, msnbc.com staff
An Indonesian millionaire who was once known as one of the world's up-and-coming collectors and dealers of rare wines was arrested on Thursday and accused of trying to bamboozle other wealthy buyers.
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece averts immediate default, markets skeptical
03-09-2012
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Reuters By George Georgiopoulos and Lefteris Pap
Greece averted the immediate risk of an uncontrolled default on Friday, winning strong acceptance from its private creditors for a bond swap deal which will eat into its mountainous public debt and clear the way for a new international bailout.
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News Link • Corruption
FDA scientist sentenced to five years in prison for insider trading on drug approval knowledge
03-09-2012
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Natural News Jonathan Benson, staff writer
A drug evaluator at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research for more than a decade, Cheng Yi Liang, 58, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan, U.S. to sign prison transfer deal: officials
03-09-2012
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Reuters
The US and Afghanistan are expected to sign a deal on the transfer of US.-run detention centers to Afghan authorities, improving the prospects of a strategic partnership allowing long-term U.S. involvement in the country.
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News Link • Surveillance
NYPD docs: "Focus" scrutiny on Muslim Americans
03-09-2012
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AP
Bloomberg and the NYPD said the programs are legal. On Thursday, the mayor said: "Let me tell you this, New York City will continue, consistent with the Constitution of the United States, federal, state and city laws to protect the people from our re
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News Link • Bailouts
BofA in side deal with government on mortgage foreclosures: WSJ
03-09-2012
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Reuters
Bank of America, one of five banks in $25 billion settlement with the government over foreclosure practices, has struck a side deal that will allow it to reduce penalties in return for bigger cuts to borrowers' mortgage balances, the Wall Street Jour
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News Link • Homeland Security
Anti-government, hate groups growing: SPLC report
03-09-2012
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Reuters
The number of hate and anti-government groups in the United States continued to rise last year, fueled by racial tensions, conspiracy theories and anger over economic inequality, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The most e
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Probes Allegations of Narcotics Trafficking by Afghan Air Force
03-09-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser, March 08,
An Afghan Air Force colonel who killed eight U.S. Air Force officers in April may have been involved in the drug running
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Marine's Facebook page tests military rules
03-09-2012
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AP
Marine Sgt. Gary Stein first started a Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots to encourage service members to exercise their free speech rights. Then he declared that he wouldn't follow orders from the commander in chief, President Bara
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News Link • Afghanistan
Green on Blue
03-09-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, Ann Jones and Tom Eng
Dead Americans, Dead Goats, and Half a Million Gunmen on the Loose
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News Link • Political Parties
Is the GOP Becoming a War Party?
03-09-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2012/03/08/
Denouncing Republican "bluster" about war with Iran, President Obama went on the offensive Tuesday
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News Link • Military
Army Suicides Up 80 Percent Since Invasion of Iraq
03-09-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser, March 08,
The number of suicides in the U.S. Army rose by 80 percent after the United States launched the war on Iraq, according to an analysis published in the British journal Injury Prevention by American military doctors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
US electoral registration: Subject to grave errors
03-09-2012
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http://rt.com,
With Americans heading to the polls in 2012, determined to take part in homespun democracy, millions of votes may end up rejected or thrown away when election night comes " all because of the specific voting registration system.
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News Link • Iran
'Great weapon': Pentagon 'superbomb' Iran strike would outdo Israel
03-09-2012
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http://rt.com
The US may use a 13,600-kilogram bunker-buster bomb that is currently being developed for a strike on countries like Iran.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
FBI Director: I Have to Check to See If Obama Has the Right to Assassinate Americans On U.S. Soil
03-09-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Washingtons Blog
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday said he would have to go back and check with the Department of Justice whether Attorney General Eric Holder’s “[criteria] for the targeted killing of Americans also applied to Americans inside the U.S.
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News Link • Free Speech
The Criminalization of Protest: Say Goodbye To Free Speech in America
03-09-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Devon DB
A new bill, HR 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, also known as the “Trespassing Bill,” is soon to be signed into law by President Obama. This bill effectively criminalizes protest and will hurt protest groups
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News Link • World News
Syria activists reject Annan's call for talks
03-09-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Opposition members say ex-UN chief's emphasis on political settlement encourages Assad to "crush the revolution".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
EU-China dispute 'delaying Airbus orders'
03-09-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
The chief executive of the Airbus parent company, EADS, has accused European Union officials of sparking a fight with China over aircraft emissions that threatens to cost the jet manufacturer $12bn in orders.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Haitians seek UN redress for cholera victims
03-09-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Protesters blaming global body's peacekeepers for cholera outbreak stage march in Port-au-Prince demanding justice.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Western hostages killed in Nigeria
03-09-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Nigerian president blames deaths on radical Islamist group, after failed British-Nigerian rescue attempt.
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News Link • European Union
Greece secures backing for debt swap deal
03-09-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Restructuring plan aimed at reducing national debt by $140bn will see private investors take huge losses on their loans.
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News Link • Science
Spider Silk Conducts Heat
03-09-2012
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arclein
But spider silk has some interesting properties: it's very strong, very stretchy, only 4 microns thick (human hair is about 60 microns) and, according to some speculation, could be a good conductor of heat. But nobody had actually tested spider silk
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News Link • Agriculture
Canadian Farmers Trust Supply Management
03-09-2012
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arclein
Canada's response to the "milk wars" in the United States in the 1970s was to establish a supply management system that both protects and restricts the income of its dairy farmers. A University of Illinois study examined how the government regulat
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Osteoporosis and Salt Intake
03-09-2012
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arclein
So, high salt intake increases acidity in the body, which can accelerate bone loss.
The European Space Agency's, or ESA's, recent SOdium LOad in microgravity, or SOLO, study zoomed in on this question. Nine crew members, including ESA's Frank
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Kony 2012
03-09-2012
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arclein
n October, President Obama sent 100 troops to Uganda to help regional forces battle the LRA and capture or kill Kony.
During that announcement, he said that for more than two decades the LRA had been responsible for having "murdered, raped, and k
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Opinion • Philosophy: Political
Status Quo Has To Go
03-08-2012
Chuck Baldwin
A few weeks ago, I said in this column, “It is far more important who is elected as your governor than who is elected President. It is far more important who is elected as your State attorney general than who is appointed US attorney general...
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