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Date Sent: 2012-03-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 15, 2012 PM edition |
Karzai orders NATO to leave villages -- Afghans fume over transfer of accused US gunman
US Army warns about the risks of geotagging photos by military personnel
-- Senators: U.S. indirectly funding Syrian military -- 03-15-12--Drew Phillips - Jan Helfeld - Jason Osborne - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- A Review: Charles Goyette's "Red and Blue and Broke All Over" (2012) -- Ron Paul Supporters Cause County Convention Chaos -- Update: Chris Hedges Sues Obama Over NDAA -- Taliban suspends peace talks with U.S. as Panetta concludes Karzai visit --
At Last, Some Decency on Wall Street -- Terror, Trauma, and the Endless
Afghan War -- Blagojevich leaves home in predawn dark for Colorado
prison -- 'Sanctions and force against Iran illogical and naive' –
British MP -- China's Giant Pool Of Dollars -- Surging Gas Prices Have
Drivers Fuming -- Israel targets Palestinian solar panels in bid for West Bank dominance -- Syrian conflict turning into ‘war of attrition’ -- KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation. -- Russia calls for probe into NATO's "massive bombings" in Libya -- U.S. OUT of Afghanistan! Money for jobs, not war and occupation! NYC March 15 Demonstration -- Exclusive: Obama, Cameron discussed tapping oil reserves -- Afghan man who crashed truck near Panetta plane dies from burns -- Israeli-Style Ceasefires -- Buried Alive Cruel and Unusual Punishment
AZ: Richard Gage, AIA, and Founder
of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, in Phoenix March
16-18; Donna Hancock - 50th Birthday Party - Saturday, March 24th,
2012 - 2 p.m. til ???
CA: Freedom Law School's 2012
Freedom Rally - Fri-Mon., March 16-19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel -
Irvine, CA
Just 3% of America CAN Save Liberty. Live WEBINAR Tonight, 7-8 pm Eastern - Here’s the Plan
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai calls for NATO to leave villages; Taliban scrap talks
03-15-2012
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Reuters
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases after the slaughter of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier, underscoring fury over the massacre and clouding U.S. exit plans.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghans fume over transfer of accused U.S. gunman
03-15-2012
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cbsnews.com
Afghanistan - Afghan lawmakers expressed anger Thursday over the U.S. move to fly an American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians out of the country to Kuwait,
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Constitution
Just 3% of America CAN Save Liberty. Live WEBINAR Tonight, 7-8 pm Eastern - Here’s the Plan:
03-15-2012
Here’s the rough calculus: 3% x 330 million = 10M REAL Americans. Each joins their state Constitution Lobby for $25. That’s $250 MILLION **per YEAR**, for full-time attorneys & staff, paid Constitutional monitors and well-funded, organized activism.
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Military
US Army warns about the risks of geotagging photos by military personnel
03-14-2012
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Sophos : Naked Security
In 2007, a fleet of US Army helicopters flew into a base in Iraq. Soldiers took pictures on the flight and then uploaded them to the internet.
Based on the automatic geotagging applied to photos by almost every smartphone on the market, the enemy
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Syria
Senators: U.S. indirectly funding Syrian military
03-14-2012
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Jill Dougherty, CNN
Angered by Russia's refusal to stop selling arms to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. lawmakers are urging the Defense Department to halt U.S. purchases of Russian helicopters and parts for the Afghan air force
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Leon Felkins
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Feature Article • Wallet Voting
Moneylith
Ernest Hancock
WalletVoting.com - DontTreadOnMeme.com - Silver Calculator - Roberts&Roberts - FreedomsPhoenixEzine.com - Shire Society - Anti-War.com - SilverCircleMovie.com - RTR.org -
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News Link • Propaganda
Make THIS go Viral: Kony 2012 Propaganda 2.0 Explained
03-15-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Let’s see if we can make this go viral and prove that in addition to being deceitful, Invisible Children also misappropriated millions of dollars when simply telling the truth would have sold better, and with lower overhead.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Update: Chris Hedges Sues Obama Over NDAA
03-15-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges gives a status update on his lawsuit against President Obama for signing the National Defense Authorization Act
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban suspends peace talks with U.S. as Panetta concludes Karzai visit
03-15-2012
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washingtonpost.com, by Greg Jaffe
The Afghan Taliban has suspended preliminary peace talks with the United States and will forgo opening a political office in Doha due to Washington’s “alternating and ever changing position,” the group said in a statement on Thursday.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Whistleblowers
At Last, Some Decency on Wall Street
03-15-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Robert Scheer
By the time you read this, the PR hacks of Goldman Sachs will be vigorously pressing their efforts to destroy the reputation of whistle-blower Greg Smith
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
03-15-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, By Amy Goodman
We may never know what drove a U.S. Army staff sergeant to head out into the Afghan night and allegedly murder at least 16 civilians in their homes, among them nine children and three women.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Blagojevich leaves home in predawn dark for Colorado prison
03-15-2012
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chicagotribune.com
Amid a crush of media and well-wishers, ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich left his Ravenswood Manor home on the North Side home early this morning for a prison cell in Colorado.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Iran
'Sanctions and force against Iran illogical and naive' " British MP
03-15-2012
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http://rt.com
The West should accept Iran as a legitimate ‘regional superpower’ and drop ‘yesterdays’ rehashed policies of sanctions and military force
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Campaign Videos: A Time-Tested Election Tactic
03-15-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Don Gonyea
President Obama's re-election campaign is releasing a video Thursday that looks back on the accomplishments of his first term.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's Giant Pool Of Dollars
03-15-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by David Kestenbaum and Jacob
China's central bank is sitting on a giant pool of U.S. dollars. It's the world's biggest holder of foreign reserves, worth over $3 trillion at last count.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Fish And Spices Top List of Imported Foods That Make Us Sick
03-15-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Nancy Shute
Disease outbreaks with imported foods are on the rise, and fish and spices are the foods most likely to cause problems.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Surging Gas Prices Have Drivers Fuming
03-15-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Jeff Brady
Gasoline prices are up almost 80 cents a gallon since January. The national average for regular gas stands at just above $3.80 per gallon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel targets Palestinian solar panels in bid for West Bank dominance
03-15-2012
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http://rt.com
Hundreds of Palestinians will be left without electricity should Israel’s order for the demolition of 8 solar panels in the West Bank go ahead, in what many say is an attempt to drive Palestinians out of the Israeli-controlled part of the territory.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Syrian conflict turning into ‘war of attrition’
03-15-2012
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http://rt.com
Syrian forces have captured the rebel stronghold of Idlib, while President Bashar Assad has set parliamentary elections for May 7. Political analyst Chris Bambery, however, believes the conflict is far from over.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation.
03-15-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Vigilant Citizen
The overnight viral sensation KONY 2012 brought worldwide awareness to the African war criminal Joseph Kony. Beneath this commendable cause, lies however an elaborate agenda that is presented in the video in a very manipulative way.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
Russia calls for probe into NATO's "massive bombings" in Libya
03-15-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Monday called for an investigation into the "massive bombings" by NATO during last year's Libya conflict.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
U.S. OUT of Afghanistan! Money for jobs, not war and occupation! NYC March 15 Demonstration
03-15-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
The blood-curdling action of a U.S. sergeant who stormed into the homes of Afghan civilians and blew away 16 people, including children, is not an isolated one as the Pentagon war makers are projecting.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Exclusive: Obama, Cameron discussed tapping oil reserves
03-15-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Matt Falloon and Jeff M
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the possibility of releasing emergency oil reserves during a meeting on Wednesday
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan man who crashed truck near Panetta plane dies from burns
03-15-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Greg Jaffe
KABUL " The Afghan man involved in the Wednesday attack that occurred during Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visit to Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan died from burns, said Lt. Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, the number two American commander in Afg
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Geography
Ngorongoro Crater
03-15-2012
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arclein
The biggest lions I’ve ever seen. They looked markedly bigger than any I’d seen in a zoo. Especially this one male we saw. And there was a young male that was also just huge; big-boned, bulky... stocky.
And they’re very well fed there. They looked
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Protein Pathway for Cardiovascular Disease
03-15-2012
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arclein
We knew if PXR played similar protective roles in blood vessels to those in the liver, it could protect the vessels from damage caused by harmful substances in the blood."
The researchers used human tissue and blood vessel cells in culture and fo
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robert klein
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News Link • Geography
Prince Edward Island Polders?
03-15-2012
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arclein
The Gulf is a semi-enclosed sea, opened to the Atlantic Ocean through the Cabot Strait and the Strait of Belle Isle. The Laurentian Channel is a long, continuous trough over 300 metres deep that runs 1,500 kilometres from the continental shelf in the
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robert klein
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Khan Academy on 60 Minutes
03-15-2012
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arclein
Take a moment and remember your favorite teacher - now imagine that teacher could reach, not 30 kids in a classroom, but millions of students all over the world. That's exactly what Sal Khan is doing on his website Khan Academy. With its digital les
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?
03-14-2012
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The Nation
Unlike most journalists covering Al Qaeda, Shaye risked his life to travel to areas controlled by Al Qaeda and to interview its leaders. He also conducted several interviews with the radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. Shaye did the last known interview
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Anarchy, Murder and Mayhem for Fun and Profit - by Joe Collins
03-14-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
What would be the best way to start a revolution, and not get caught? One day, this came to me in a moment of inspiration: What if a piece of software was directing the assassination of certain people? That story premise eventually became my first pu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Death-Dealing "Divinity" in the White House
03-14-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Barack Obama rarely indulges in public displays of dictatorial arrogance. He leaves it to underlings like Eric Holder, Leon Panetta, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In testimony before separate congressional commit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Special Forces "in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives as well as India"
03-14-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The source of this news: US Pacific Commander Admiral Robert Willard at a Congressional hearing a few weeks ago.
A sample of reaction within those countries is this thoughtful Bangladesh perspective that raises many legal and political questions t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
No Child Left Behind's 10th Anniversary....it FAILS
01-01-2012
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www.fairtest.org
Ten years have passed since President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind (NCLB), making it the educational law of the land. A review of a decade of evidence demonstrates that NCLB has failed badly both in terms of its own goals and more broad
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Michele Power
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News Link • Israel
Zooey Greif Interviews Sheldon Richman
03-14-2012
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Zooey Greif, antiwar.com
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his article “No to AIPAC, No to Israel, and No to War;”
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News Link • Environment
Professor Wants Population to be Chemically Castrated of Free Will
03-14-2012
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Prisonplanet.com
A new paper to be published in Ethics, Policy & Environment argues that serious consideration should be given to mass drugging the population to make them more environmentally conscious.
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News Link • Gun Rights
2 arrested after fight, shooting at Hendersonville apartment
03-14-2012
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Reported by Forrest Sanders, wsmv.com
A neighbor armed with a shotgun who rushed in to stop a fight inside a Hendersonville apartment is facing his own set of charges.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. official critical of Manning detention
03-14-2012
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news.blogs.cnn.com
U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of aiding the enemy by passing reams of classified military documents to WikiLeaks, may have been treated inhumanely by the U.S. military since his arrest in 2010, according to a report from the United Nations'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Latest strikes in U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan kill 15 suspected militants
03-14-2012
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Reuters, news.nationalpost.com By Saud Mehsud
U.S. drone aircraft struck twice in Pakistan’s unruly tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 15 suspected militants, including two senior commanders of the Pakistan Taliban, security and intelligence officials said.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Smoother transition when dollar collapses: That's the big goal of this little card
03-14-2012
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YouTube.com
You tube video of dime cards and how important this is for our future...
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability
03-14-2012
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www.commondreams.org
“Who has given the license to kill and in what court? Who has declared that they can hit anyone they like?”
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Donna Hancock
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