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Date Sent: 2012-03-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 27, 2012 PM edition |
MEDICARE IN AMERICA: Real Health Care Requires the Repeal of the Insurance Mandate
Terrorizing Palestinian Youths -- OK House approves income tax phase-out -- Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color -- TSA Blocks Security Expert From Testifying To Congress -- The Pesky Details of Prospectus Disclosure -- Lincoln Mortally Wounded the Constitution -- New York City Department of Education Bans References To Dinosaurs To Avoid Insulting Creationists -- 03-27-12 -- Cecile Pineda - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Retired military officers cash in as well-paid consultants -- How to Handle the Coming Dividend Tax Hike --
Gas Prices Expected To Continue Rising This Spring -- We Have One Last
Chance To Restore The Bill Of Rights -- Support in U.S. for Afghan War
Drops Sharply, Poll Finds -- Paul on Bloomberg TV...Drop out? No way! -- Dr. Paul on Piers Morgan 3/26: Ron Paul "A National Treasure" -- UN Warns Against 'Land Grabbing' -- Top 5 Banks Hold 95.7%, Or $221 Trillion, Of Outstanding Derivatives -- Ron Paul Upsets Santorum in Missouri Caucuses Buoyed By Huge Youth Turnout -- DHS Raids Home To Seize Deadly Hair Straighteners -- Ron Paul: ‘I Am Trailing but the Race Isn’t Over’ --
Gas Leak Forces Evacuation of Oil Rig in North Sea -- 'A Test You Need
to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students -- Students
Protest Debt as Student Loan Debt Collectors Make a Billion -- ‘Russia is Public Enemy No. 1’ – Mitt Romney -- US missile shield branches into Asia, Middle East -- US’ plugging up of WikiLeaks axes free press -- Syrian troops battle rebels as clashes spill into Lebanon -- Human Rights Violations: America versus China
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News Link • Healthcare
MEDICARE IN AMERICA: Real Health Care Requires the Repeal of the Insurance Mandate
03-27-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Kevin Zeese
It’s Our Economy, the organization I co-direct with Margaret Flowers, MD, Single Payer Action and 50 doctors filed an amicus brief in HHS v. Florida
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: State
House approves income tax phase-out
03-27-2012
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Pryor Daily Times
HB 3038 would repeal Oklahoma ’s personal income tax without increasing other tax rates or cuts in funding to core government services resulting in the state having the lowest overall tax burden in the continental United States.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Government
Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color
03-27-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
The state of Michigan is only days away from engaging in what can only be called true “animal genocide” " the mass murder of ranch animals based on the color of their hair.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Blocks Security Expert From Testifying To Congress
03-27-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Lawmakers slam agency for treating Americans like “prisoners” and “cattle”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
Lincoln Mortally Wounded the Constitution
03-27-2012
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, by Michael S. Rozeff
Wilson observed that the War Between the States established the federal government as the final judge of its powers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
New York City Department of Education Bans References To Dinosaurs To Avoid Insulting Creationists
03-27-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org
This story is so bizarre that I had to check it twice to make sure it was not an early April Fool’s joke.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolving Door
Retired military officers cash in as well-paid consultants
11-18-2009
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Tom Vanden Brook, Ken Dilanian and Ray Locker, USA
Most of the 158 retired officers have been paid hundreds of dollars an hour by the military even as they worked for companies seeking Defense Department contracts. That's in addition to pensions of $100,000 to $200,000 a year for officers with 30 or
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tebow: ‘This Is Where I Want To Be’
03-27-2012
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http://newyork.cbslocal.com
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) " Tim Tebow made his first appearance as a New York Jet on Monday at a news conference at the team’s training facility in Florham Park.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China unveils new legislation on police powers of detention
03-27-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Tania Branigan
Experts warned that original draft legislation would have legalised disappearances, allowing police to hold suspects without informing families
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
How to Handle the Coming Dividend Tax Hike
03-27-2012
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http://www.smartmoney.com, By JACK HOUGH
Unless Congress takes action, the top tax rate for the highest earners on most dividends, currently 15%, is set to jump to a whopping 43.4% next year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Gas Prices Expected To Continue Rising This Spring
03-27-2012
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http://baltimore.cbslocal.com
BALTIMORE (WJZ)"Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, gas prices are up again this week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bill of Rights
We Have One Last Chance To Restore The Bill Of Rights
03-26-2012
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Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds , Business Inside
Can Congress legalize tyranny by passing a law that says it can? Can Congress shred the Bill of Rights by passing a law that says it can?
Advise Congress to do the correct thing for once in their sordid little careers and vote for the Due Process Gu
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Afghanistan
Support in U.S. for Afghan War Drops Sharply, Poll Finds
03-27-2012
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nytimes.com, By ELISABETH BUMILLER and ALLISON KOP
WASHINGTON " After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul on Bloomberg TV...Drop out? No way!
03-27-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Dmart
It saddens me that they start the interview with "you should drop out"..But they do give him a chance to teach them a bit of economics.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
UN Warns Against 'Land Grabbing'
03-27-2012
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http://thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Foreign buying of farms explosive ... Paris " Is it investment? Or a land grab?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
TBTF Get TBTFer: Top 5 Banks Hold 95.7%, Or $221 Trillion, Of Outstanding Derivatives
03-27-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Every quarter the Office of the Currency Comptroller releases its report on Bank Derivative Activities, and every quarter we find that the Too Big To Fail get Too Bigger To Fail.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Hunger Games Movie: First in an Exciting Trilogy
03-27-2012
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http://www.thenewamerican.com, by Raven Clabough
Imagine a dark world in which most of North America is destroyed and what remains is ruled by a totalitarian regime
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Upsets Santorum in Missouri Caucuses Buoyed By Huge Youth Turnout
03-27-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Hamdan Azhar
The final outcome of Missouri’s lengthy caucus process may not be known for months. Early results, however, indicate that Ron Paul may well walk away from the state with the most delegates.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Democracy and Violence
03-27-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Butler Shaffer
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Raids Home To Seize Deadly Hair Straighteners
03-27-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
The Department of Homeland Security, a federal agency created in the aftermath of 9/11 to fight terrorism, has continued its war on potentially deadly grooming appliances by raiding a home in the affluent Orange County city of Laguna Niguel to seize
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Chocolate eaters are slimmer, says study
03-27-2012
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http://www.mnn.com, By Rachael Rettner
Too good to be true? New findings suggest something in chocolate may make the calories you eat less likely to be deposited as fat.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: ‘I Am Trailing but the Race Isn’t Over’
03-27-2012
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http://abcnews.go.com, By Jason M. Volack
Not an interview goes by where Ron Paul isn’t asked about the viability of his campaign, and although the Texas congressman usually brushes off the questions by reiterating that he’s in it for the long run
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
Gas Leak Forces Evacuation of Oil Rig in North Sea
03-27-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
French-owned platform is abandoned with no answers yet on how to avert further calamity
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
03-27-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Ruth Ann Dandrea
I spent last night perusing the 150-plus pages of grading materials provided by the state in anticipation of reading and evaluating your English Language Arts Exams this morning
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Students Protest Debt as Student Loan Debt Collectors Make a Billion
03-27-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
36 students arrested at headquarters of student loan provider Sallie Mae
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
‘Russia is Public Enemy No. 1’ " Mitt Romney
03-27-2012
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http://rt.com
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has branded Russia as America’s number one geopolitical enemy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US missile shield branches into Asia, Middle East
03-27-2012
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http://rt.com
The Pentagon has revealed plans to deploy elements of its global antiballistic missile defense system in Asia and Middle East.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
US’ plugging up of WikiLeaks axes free press
03-27-2012
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http://rt.com
Washington's relentless pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and alleged whistle-blower Bradley Manning, is no secret. But the fate of the two men has got US journalists worried, that they too could soon find themselves behind bars.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syrian troops battle rebels as clashes spill into Lebanon
03-27-2012
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http://rt.com
Syrian troops crossed into Lebanese territory and clashed with opposition forces there, according to eye witness reports. Other sources say there was no actual incursion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Human Rights Violations: America versus China
03-27-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Eric Sommer
US media and political figures constantly attack China for alleged human rights violations, while conveniently turning a blind eye to human rights violations perpetrated by the United States in the name of its war on terror
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
FUTURE OF THE EUROZONE: The Consequences of the EU Bank Rescue. A Safety Net for the Creditor Banks
03-27-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Hugo Radice
Through the second half of 2011 there were persistent signs of financial stress in many banks right across Europe " not only in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy, but in France and even Germany too.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up
03-27-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. James Petra
After the cold-blooded murder of the 17 Afghan villagers in Kandahar Province the US military and the ever-complicit Obama regime constructed an elaborate cover-up, exposing the Administration up to charges of conspiracy to suppress the essential fac
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
New Counterorrism Guidelines Gives Authorities Vast Access to Private Info of Innocent Americans
03-27-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Trevor Timm
On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signed expansive new guidelines for terrorism analysts, allowing the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) to mirror entire federal databases containing personal information and hold onto the informat
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Healthcare Showdown: Supreme Court Hears Arguments over Legality of 'Obamacare'
03-27-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
Supreme Court may determine the fate of Obama's landmark health reform
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Sanford Police Department: 10 k Could Attend Trayvon Martin Rally in Florida
03-27-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
Anger grows across nation on the one-month anniversary of the shooting
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Psychology and the Soul
03-27-2012
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arclein
Yale, she and study co-author Paul Bloom designed their experiment after a conversation in which they discussed intuitively feeling as if their consciousnesses were "located" near their eyes, and that objects seemed closest to them when near their
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Vesta Surface Features
03-27-2012
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arclein
"Our analysis finds this bright material originates from Vesta and has undergone little change since the formation of Vesta over 4 billion years ago," said Jian-Yang Li, a Dawn participating scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park. "
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mercury Poles Hint at Water
03-27-2012
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arclein
The planet's diameter is 4,880km - about one-third the size of Earth
It is the second densest planet in Solar System; 5.3 times that of water
The Caloris Basin is the largest known feature (1,300km in diameter)
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Supersonic Biplane Slashes Drag
03-27-2012
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arclein
a modified biplane can, in fact, produce significantly less drag than a conventional single-wing aircraft at supersonic cruise speeds. The group will publish their results in the Journal of Aircraft.
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Feature Article • Ron Paul Says...
A Fistful of Euros - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
Examine how the Federal Reserve bails out European banks, propping up spendthrift European governments in the process. Unfortunately this bailout comes at the expense of American citizens, in the form of higher prices and diminished savings down the
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver Now Outpacing Gold & Fed Frightened
03-26-2012
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http://kingworldnews.com, Richard Russell
With gold holding near the $1,650 level, today the Godfather of newsletter writers, Richard Russell, had this to say about what is happening in the gold, silver and stock markets:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Feds Buying Up All Surplus Ammo, Ordering Stores To Cease Sales?
03-26-2012
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http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com
Following a DHS order for 450 million rounds of .40 caliber shells a source says the Feds are buying up all military surplus ammo and ordering stores to cease sales.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Final Four 2012: Louisville's Road To The Final Four
03-26-2012
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http://indiana.sbnation.com, by Chris White
This certainly isn't as intriguing as the two straight championship game runs by the Butler Bulldogs or last year's run to the Final Four by VCU, but the Louisville Cardinals are taking on the role of the underdog in the end game of this year's NCAA
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Battered Baltic tiger craves a bailout
03-26-2012
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http://rt.com
Just a few years ago Latvia showed rapid economic growth in the forefront of the EU accession, but the recent economic rollercoaster ride has reduced unjustified expectations to begging for a bailout.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
Too many powers wanted Gaddafi dead - NTC head
03-26-2012
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http://rt.com
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was wanted dead so his secrets would die with him.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US, Turkey Agree on ‘Non-Lethal’ Aid to Syrian Rebels
03-26-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
US Claims to Be 'Uncertain' About Sending Arms
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Ernest Hancock on Libertarianism and 'Living Free in an Unfree World'
03-25-2012
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DailyBell.com Exclusive Interview
Introduction: Ernest Hancock is publisher of the online news, investigative reporting and opinion web portal www.FreedomsPhoenix.com that began in 2005 and hosts the radio show “Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Manipulation of the "Paper Gold" Market
03-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Bob Chapman
The Value of "Worthless" Paper Gold versus Physical Gold
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
Thirteen Years Later: NATO Conducts "Mopping Up Operations" In the Balkans
03-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Dr. Yelena Guskov
Does Serbia Remember the NATO Bombings?
Serbia remained the only Balkan country which did not seek to join NATO.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
YUGOSLAVIA, 78 DAYS 1999 NATO AIR RAIDS : Thirteenth Anniversary Of NATO As Global War Machine
03-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca,
Wreaths were laid at memorials Saturday as a tribute paid to the victims of the 1999 NATO bombing in the city of Nis, southern Serbia, where 56 people were killed and over 200 were injured in 78 days of NATO air raids.
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