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Date Sent: 2012-03-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, March 10, 2012 |
‘Pink slime’ in school lunches: Government is buying 7 million pounds worth
Israeli Airstrikes Kill Militants in Gaza -- Syria leader Bashar al-Assad firmly in control, U.S. intelligence officials say -- Pakistan prime minister names new spy agency chief -- US currency: The Gold Standard versus no standard! -- Man arrested in Portland, Ore., area in threatening letters sent to Congress -- Judge stabbed, deputy shot at Washington state courthouse -- 9/11 was an inside job an this
documentary proves it -- Revealed: How America's secret space plane
has been in orbit for over a year -- Ron Paul Responds to Comments
by Defense Secretary -- Active ‘Patriot’ Groups in the United States
in 2011 -- WMD Déjà vu: Iran Has Nukes -- A New Day: Kansas. Caucus Saturday! -- Government-subsidized green
light bulb carries costly price tag -- Pat Robertson: Pot should be
legal like alcohol --
Senate sends message to Obama on Keystone
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 • Education: Government Schools
‘Pink slime’ in school lunches: Government is buying 7 million pounds worth
03-09-2012
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Washington Post
When McDonald’s and other fast-food chains announced last month that the infamous “pink slime” was no longer being used in their burgers, some thought the ammonium hydroxide-treated beef cuts had disappeared from our food supply once and for all.
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Airstrikes Kill Militants in Gaza
03-09-2012
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New York Times
Israeli airstrikes killed up to 10 Palestinians, most of them militants, in the Gaza Strip on Friday and early Saturday, and militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israel in the worst cross-border fighting in months.
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News Link • World News
Syria leader Bashar al-Assad firmly in control, U.S. intelligence officials say
03-09-2012
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Washington Post
A year into the uprising in Syria, senior U.S. intelligence officials described the nation’s president, Bashar al-Assad, on Friday as firmly in control and increasingly willing to unleash one of the region’s most potent militaries on badly overmatche
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News Link • World News
Pakistan prime minister names new spy agency chief
03-09-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani on Friday named a successor to Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha as the head of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency, ending speculation that Pasha’s term would be extended for the third year in a row.
Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam,
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News Link • Currencies
US currency: The Gold Standard versus no standard!
03-09-2012
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The Political Commentator
Can you tell what the difference is between these two $1 bills?
If you went to spend them, each would get you a burger off of the dollar menu although there is a major difference between the two.
The bill on the top is based on the Gold Standar
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Man arrested in Portland, Ore., area in threatening letters sent to Congress
03-09-2012
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AP
A 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with threatening letters containing a suspicious powdery substance that were sent to members of Congress.
The United States Capitol Police said in a statement that Christopher Lee Carlson was arres
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge stabbed, deputy shot at Washington state courthouse
03-09-2012
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Reuters
A knife-wielding attacker stabbed a judge and shot a sheriff's deputy with her own gun in a county courthouse in Washington state on Friday, prompting a lockdown of schools and government buildings as police and SWAT teams searched for the attacker.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
March 11, 2012 Edition
03-09-2012
John Semmens
Film Biographer in Awe of Obama
Davis Guggenheim's recently completed film biography presents an unstintingly glowing portrayal of President Barack Obama. There is, to quote Guggenheim, “no downside to this man save the enmity of his enemies.”
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Feature Article • Conspiracies
The War Comes to America - Psycho Politics
Clay Douglas
Just before World War I, the sentiment in America was decidedly pro-German, and more the half of all the immigrants coming to this developing land WERE German. Nobody wanted to get involved in a European war. But the media, owned by the same people w
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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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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 • Space Travel and Exploration
Revealed: How America's secret space plane has been in orbit for over a year
03-09-2012
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By Ted Thornhill dailymail.co.uk
The U.S Air Force’s highly secret unmanned space plane was supposed to stay in space for nine months, but it’s now been there for a year and three days " and no one knows what it’s doing.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Responds to
Comments by Defense Secretary
03-09-2012
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http://us2.campaign
“The recent statements by Defense Secretary Panetta
once again illustrate the Obama administration’s
blatant disregard for the rule of law and our U.S. Constitution”
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News Link • Iran
WMD Déjà vu: Iran Has Nukes
03-09-2012
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dailypaul.com by Charles Goye
Take a step back to 2003 with me.
Then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld presented intelligence reports that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He even stated, "We know where they are.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
A New Day: Kansas. Three rallies today, caucus tomorrow!
03-09-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by hthomas
Today may be our biggest day yet. Ron Paul with three rallies in Kansas, one at noon with the Governor attending.
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News Link • Military
Michael Medved evades, contradicts himself and suffers.
03-09-2012
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Submitted by Jan Helfeld http://www.dailypaul.com/
Radio Host Michael Medved cannot explain why other countries like China can be perfectly safe without bases around the world but the United States must have them in order to be safe.
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News Link • Government
Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag
03-09-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Peter Whoriskey
The U.S. government last year announced a $10 million award, dubbed the “L Prize,” for any manufacturer that could create a “green” but affordable light bulb.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Pat Robertson: Pot should be legal like alcohol
03-09-2012
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http://hosted.ap.org, By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs has failed.
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News Link • Political Parties
Republicans pan HBO Palin movie
03-09-2012
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http://www.usatoday.com, By David Jackson, USA TOD
The book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime raced to the top of best-seller lists in 2010 because it provided behind-the-scenes details of the compelling 2008 presidential election.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Daily Paul Featured on MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show in Santorum Ballot Story
03-09-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Rachel Maddow "Rick Santorum has failed to collect enough signatures to make it onto the ballot "
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Senate sends message to Obama on Keystone
03-09-2012
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http://www.politico.com, By ERICA MARTINSON and DA
Thursday’s squeaker of a Senate vote on the Keystone XL pipeline serves both as a warning to President Barack Obama that a majority of both houses of Congress supports the pipeline and as encouragement to Republicans to keep pushing the issue.
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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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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 • 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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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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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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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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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 • 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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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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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 • 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 • 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 • 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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News Link • Drug War
U.S. paid $30 million in last 3 years to drug informants
03-08-2012
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AFP
The United States paid $10 million in each of the past three years to informants in an effort to capture major druglords, a senior government official told lawmakers Thursday.
The program, sponsored by the State Department, has paid out $71 millio
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News Link • Food
Whistleblowers: 70 percent of U.S. ground beef contains ‘pink slime’
03-08-2012
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Rawstory
Let’s hope you didn’t eat a hamburger before clicking on this story. A former U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist has come forward with a startling tale of how a substance known as “pink slime” has been embedded in about 70 percent of ground bee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Attorney General Spitzer Tipped Off Escort Madam to Investigation
03-08-2012
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The Manhattan-based madam, Anna Gristina, arrested last week for running a high-end escort service was warned of an impending crackdown on escort services by her client Attorney General Elliot Spitzer in 2005.
Kristin Davis, who ran a Manhattan ca
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News Link • Internet
Hacker "Sabu" worked full nights online for FBI
03-08-2012
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Reuters
One late-night visit by the FBI was all it took for the notorious hacker known as "Sabu" to switch sides and become a valued snitch.
Hector Xavier Monsegur cooperated immediately in June, helping investigators close a net around five other leaders
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News Link • Eugenics
Australian children to be sterilized without parental consent under new eugenics law
03-08-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by Ethan A. Huff, sta
(NaturalNews) If you have ever seen the famous 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, you likely recall several disturbing scenes in which mental health patients are given frontal-lobe lobotomies
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News Link • Police State
Shutter, then shudder. Spy-app sends smartphone pics to police
03-08-2012
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rt.com
Snitching has eventually entered the digital age thanks to a new smartphone app that lets anyone, anywhere tell the police: “Hey! That’s kind of weird!”
Authorities in the state of West Virginia are encouraging residents to install an Android and iP
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News Link • Israel
US Offers Israel Advanced Weapons In Exchange For Not Attacking Iran
03-08-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
The U.S. has allegedly offered Israel advanced weapons such as bunker-busting bombs and refueling planes in exchange for an agreement to postpone an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities until 2013
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News Link • Police State
The Great Gibson Guitar Raid: Months Later, Still No Charges Filed
03-08-2012
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YouTube.com
"They...come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything," says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz
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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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News Link • World News
Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal special ops in Syria
03-08-2012
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rt.com
Undercover NATO troops are already in Syria despite denials from their parent governments, according to a leaked brief from a highly-placed analyst.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Bill would create partnership between NSA and U.S. corporations
03-08-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Stephen C. Webster
Speaking at a policy debate Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation, a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warned that a bill currently being considered by the House Select Committee on Intelligence would intertwine the Nati
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Mossad, CIA and Blackwater operate in Syria - report
03-08-2012
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http://rt.com
A security operation in Homs reveals Mossad, CIA and Blackwater are involved in the military violence in this part of Syria, as over 700 Arab and Western gunmen and Israeli, American and European-made weapons were detained in Baba Amr district.
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