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Date Sent: 2012-03-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 30, 2012 PM edition |
Foreign Troops Inside Syria: The Failed UN Brokered "Peace Plan" Sets the Stage for War?
03-30-12 -- Jun Dam - Ken Schoolland -- Barry Hess Named in TOP 50 Arizona Statesmen as an Activist. -- Will India Stop Buying Gold? -- 4409: Mesa Police Lynch a Ron Paul Sign -- Forest Service fines man for hunting Bigfoot without a permit -- "Rock Star" treatment for Ron Paul -- Challenging Israeli State
Terror -- Labor group finds poor working
conditions at Apple supplier Foxconn -- Ron Paul greeted by
receptive Wis. student crowd -- Ron
Paul Statement on House Passage of Paul Ryan Budget --
UNAC: A Real Anti-War Movement in the Belly of the Beast -- McCain,
Lieberman and Graham: The Senate’s three war-crazed amigos -- Obama Told Pakistan: US ‘Not Ready’ to
Stop Drone Strikes -- At Least 20 Killed in Ambush on NATO
Supply Convoy -- US Military
‘Can’t Access’ Massacre Site to Collect Evidence -- Afghan
Witnesses Say Sgt. Robert Bales Did Not Act Alone -- The Right's Obama Martial Law #Fail --
‘Hostility in the air’: West African delegation makes U-turn over
Mali -- Oil on troubled waters? US, France want to calm voter rage
by releasing strategic reserves -- New
French nationalism: Toulouse gunman at heart of presidential race -- London: 'We always get our oil… No matter what!’ -- The UK has
announced it will allocate some £500,000 to supply aid to the Syrian
opposition. -- Chicago bans
anti-war march during NATO Summit -- Egypt bans porn sites
for ‘destroying religious belief’ -- Pentagon Director Had Family Money in Bomb-Detection
Boondoggle -- Arizona Outdoes Everyone With New
Anti-Abortion Bill -- EDUCATION AND THE DEBT CRISIS: Austerity in
the Mind Factory -- "NUCLEAR TERRORISM": Obama’s Nuclear Disarmament
Hoax -- Double Speak from Benjamin
Netanyahu -- The Art of Warfare : Iran and The Gas Pipeline
Battle" -- SYRIA PEACE PLAN:
West Moves To Kill Off "Important First Step" To End Violence --
'Global March to Jerusalem': Israel's Borders on High Alert as Huge
Protests Loom
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News Link • Syria
Foreign Troops Inside Syria: The Failed UN Brokered "Peace Plan" Sets the Stage for War?
03-30-2012
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www.globalresearch.ca, by Michel Chossudovsky
In late February, 13 French military officers were arrrested in Homs at the height of the armed insurrection, pointing to the presence of foreign troops on Syrian soil in derogation of international law.
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
03-30-12 -- Jun Dam - Ken Schoolland
Jun Dam of RP2012.org Ron Paul Third Party Run While Still On GOP Ticket? - Ken Schoolland http://www.jonathangullible.com/ "Philosophy of Liberty" in many languages.... BONUS SHOW with Ken Schoolland about FreedomsPhoenix helping WORLDWIDE.
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News Link • Government
Forest Service fines man for hunting Bigfoot without a permit
03-30-2012
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FOX News
A man who led tour groups on a hunt for Bigfoot met up with the long arm of the law instead, and got fined for doing business on federal lands without a permit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Labor group finds poor working conditions at Apple supplier Foxconn
03-30-2012
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http://www.computerworld.com, By Agam Shah
Fair Labor Association investigation reveals compensation issues and health and safety risks in a widespread survey
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul greeted by receptive Wis. student crowd
03-30-2012
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http://www.nola.com, AP
Republican Texas Rep. Ron Paul used his only planned campaign stop in Wisconsin on Thursday to speak to a receptive crowd largely composed of college students who braved chilly temperatures to cheer on his message of personal liberty on the campus of
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Ron Paul Statement on House Passage of Paul Ryan Budget
03-30-2012
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http://www.marketwatch.com,
“The Ryan budget reduces the federal government’s debt burden by trillions of dollars yet it does so in decades and not immediately, as our severe debt crisis warrants.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
UNAC: A Real Anti-War Movement in the Belly of the Beast
03-30-2012
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http://blackagendareport.com, Glen Ford
The United States finally has an anti-war movement that can’t be bamboozled by President Obama’s “humanitarian” mass murder.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
McCain, Lieberman and Graham: The Senate’s three war-crazed amigos
03-30-2012
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http://www.salon.com, By Alex Pareene
John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham have an exciting new idea (spoiler: It's war)
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
At Least 20 Killed in Ambush on NATO Supply Convoy
03-30-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
At least 20 people were killed in a major battle in western Afghanistan’s Farah Province, when attackers ambushed a NATO supply convoy in the mountains.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US Military ‘Can’t Access’ Massacre Site to Collect Evidence
03-30-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
The Obama Administration’s promises to prosecute Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales over the Kandahar massacre seem to be in serious doubt today, as US military officials revealed that they haven’t been able to access the sites of any of the killings.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Witnesses Say Sgt. Robert Bales Did Not Act Alone
03-30-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Child witnesses to the massacre of 17 Afghan civilians by Staff Sgt. Robert Bales say there was more than one U.S. soldier party to the crime, contradicting the story told by the Pentagon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Right's Obama Martial Law #Fail
03-30-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Asawin Suebsaeng
No, President Obama is not coming to steal your house and take all the food out of your fridge.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
‘Hostility in the air’: West African delegation makes U-turn over Mali
03-30-2012
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http://rt.com
A delegation of West African leaders was prevented from landing in Mali after pro-junta demonstrators flooded the airport.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Oil on troubled waters? US, France want to calm voter rage by releasing strategic reserves
03-30-2012
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http://rt.com
The French prime minister has said that there's a “good chance” the United States and Europe will agree to release oil reserves into the market to drive down crude prices, but discussions are still ongoing.
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News Link • TERRORISM
New French nationalism: Toulouse gunman at heart of presidential race
03-30-2012
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http://rt.com
The Toulouse gunman may be dead and buried, but his dark legacy continues to stir up national passions in France.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
London: 'We always get our oil… No matter what!’
03-30-2012
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http://rt.com,
With the threat of a British tanker strike threatening to paralyze 90 per cent of gas stations, the government’s decision to train 200 military teams to get behind the wheel shouldn’t come as a surprise given the UK’s sordid history with oil.
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News Link • Syria
The UK has announced it will allocate some £500,000 to supply aid to the Syrian opposition.
03-30-2012
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http://rt.com
The UK has announced it will allocate some £500,000 ($795,000) to supply non-military aid to the Syrian opposition.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
Chicago bans anti-war march during NATO Summit
03-30-2012
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http://rt.com
A judge has rejected the demands of anti-war activists for a march to be held in Chicago during a NATO summit planned for November.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Egypt bans porn sites for ‘destroying religious belief’
03-30-2012
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http://rt.com
An Egyptian administrative court has banned internet porn sites, describing them as "poisons in spreading immorality.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
Pentagon Director Had Family Money in Bomb-Detection Boondoggle
03-30-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Adam Weinstein
The military's top-secret research agency threw millions of dollars at a bomb-detection system that worked no better than a coin toss, according to military sources.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona Laws and Arizona Founding Documents
Arizona Outdoes Everyone With New Anti-Abortion Bill
03-30-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Kate Sheppard
Bills limiting the time period during which abortion is legal have proliferated in recent years as other states have followed Nebraska's lead and banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
EDUCATION AND THE DEBT CRISIS: Austerity in the Mind Factory
03-30-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Alan Sears
In March 2012, over 200,000 Quebec students are waging a general strike against tuition increases and have faced brutal police repression.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
"NUCLEAR TERRORISM": Obama’s Nuclear Disarmament Hoax
03-30-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Peter Symonds
This week’s gathering of world leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit in South Korea was the occasion for a great deal of cynical posturing about nuclear disarmament and world peace.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Double Speak from Benjamin Netanyahu
03-30-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Philip Giraldi
The New York Times’ Isabel Kershner reporting from Jerusalem on March 20th described Israeli government rage at a comment made by the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton relating to the killing of three Jewish children in Toulouse
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News Link • Iran
The Art of Warfare : Iran and The Gas Pipeline Battle"
03-30-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Manlio Dinucci
Two major pipeline projects are at present vying to secure future energy supplies to Pakistan, India and China. One originates in Iran while the second one draws on reserves in Turkmenistan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
SYRIA PEACE PLAN: West Moves To Kill Off "Important First Step" To End Violence
03-30-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Finian Cunningham
No sooner had Kofi Annan, the special United Nations envoy to Syria, announced scoring “an important first step” towards implementing a peace plan in the war-torn country, the US and Western powers were scrambling to scupper the goalposts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney (Hearts) Elevators For Cars, Not So Much For People With Disabilities
03-30-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
Okay, so first Mitt Romney told that hilarious story about his dad laying off all those workers.
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News Link • Activism
'Global March to Jerusalem': Israel's Borders on High Alert as Huge Protests Loom
03-30-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org,Common Dreams staff
Palestinian organizers are calling for massive demonstrations on Friday to mark Land Day, an annual event that commemorates the killing of six Arabs who were protesting Israeli land policies on March 30, 1976.
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News Link • Activism
Spanish Workers, Students Mass in General Strike
03-30-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
Labor unions shut down transportation, businesses, and government offices to protest austerity measures, unemployment
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
MER as Fraud
03-30-2012
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arclein
It was simply too expensive to compete with Jimmy Stewart thrifts. It required fraud to show profits. (As Bill Black always says: fraud is a sure thing. It is always the most profitable way to run a business"until you get caught.)
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fusion Simulation Infers High Gain Energy Output
03-30-2012
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arclein
Such fusion eventually could produce reliable electricity from seawater, the most plentiful material on earth, rather than from the raw materials used by other methods: uranium, coal, oil, gas, sun or wind. In the simulations, the output demonstrated
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Oceanography Enters the Iron Age
03-30-2012
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arclein
The most widely accepted explanation for the tiny proportion of organic carbon preserved, says Gélinas, is that it's protected by sorption on clay mineral surfaces in the water column and in sediments.
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robert klein
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News Link • Corruption
Exposing Political Lies
03-29-2012
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Marc Stevens
As long as politicians continue lying, I’ll keep pointing them out and exposing them. This is another video I did regarding the lies politicians and bureaucrats use everyday.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Health Care and the Supremes: So Much for the Revolution
03-29-2012
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Charles Goyette at American Breaking Point
... look at the education bubble instead. Student loan debt is now over a trillion dollars, even larger than total U.S. credit card debt. And it keeps growing. All that State guaranteed loan money has simply blown up the cost of higher education, tra
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Charles Goyette
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Official Silver Circle Trailer
03-29-12
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Silver Circle Movie
Silver Circle is coming to theaters in August!
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Megan Duffield
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Daily Paul Silver Dime Card Drive by Freedom's Phoenix
03-29-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Ernest Hancock of Freedom's Phoenix has created a special collectors edition Daily Paul Silver Dime Cards. Freedom's Phoenix is offering these amazing cards for $5.00 each as a fundraiser to support the Daily Paul.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Racism
The Never-Ending Crusade
03-29-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Patrick Glennon
No Americans were killed on U.S. soil by Islamic extremists in 2011. Why does Islamophobia persist?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
Offline Saturday? Anonymous to shut down Internet over SOPA, Wall St.
03-29-2012
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http://rt.com
Anonymous have declared they are shutting the internet down on March 31 in protest against SOPA, Wall Street, and "irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun."
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News Link • European Union
EU declares war on hackers, threatens long jail terms
03-29-2012
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http://rt.com
Internet hackers will face significantly tougher criminal penalties after a new draft resolution was passed in the European Parliament with an overwhelming majority.
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News Link • Military
Mali coup: African Spring
03-29-2012
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http://rt.com
The situation in Mali remains tense as neighbors threaten sanctions against the country taken over by a military junta.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Canada's prostitution laws struck down
03-29-2012
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United Press International
A five-judge panel of the Canadian province of Ontario's Court of Appeal ruled Monday that several elements of the country's prostitution laws are unconstitutional.
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News Link • Iran
Rand Paul Stands Between US War With Iran
03-29-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Senator blocks sanctions bill saying it could be used as a means to go to war
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
McCain Resolution Calls for Arming Syrian Opposition, Safe Zones
03-29-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Obama has already begun intervening in Syria to a considerable degree, holding out military support until the rebels organize
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Kurt Wallace of Daily Paul interviews Ernest Hancock about the Silver Dime Card Project
03-29-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Daily Paul Silver Dime Card Drive by Freedom's Phoenix
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News Link • Obama Administration
IRS seeks 4,000 agents, $303 million for Obamacare
03-29-2012
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http://washingtonexaminer.com, Paul Bedard
The Internal Revenue Service wants to add about 4,000 agents to hunt down tax cheats and still plans to spend $303 million building a system to oversee Obamacare even though its future looks bleak in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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News Link • Healthcare
First wheat, now healthcare
03-28-2012
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www.latimes.com By James Bovard
1942 Wickard vs. Filburn, "it is hardly lack of due process for the government to regulate that which it subsidizes." A vast increase in political-bureaucratic control over American life, even though the court's ruling rested on mind-boggling econom
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Off to jail in cuffs, student who tweeted abuse about heart failure footballer Fabrice Muamba
03-28-2012
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Daily Mail
A student who posted a series of racist comments on Twitter following footballer Fabrice Muamba’s cardiac arrest has begun a prison sentence of 56 days.
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News Link • Iraq
A Gruesome Hate Murder and No One Cares
03-28-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Shaima Al Awada, an Iraqi mother of five and a devout Muslim, was brutally beaten to death with a tire iron in her own California home, her body left beside a note telling her to "Go back to your country, you terrorist."
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
But for Audio this woman would be in prison
03-28-2012
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The Agitator
An incidental recording taken while a Florida woman was on the phone with her insurance company shows that the police who arrested her and charged her with a felony for resisting arrest lied in their reports, and then again under questioning.
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. trial program would spy on Internet users to prevent animal abuse
03-28-2012
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Rawstory
In other words, the U.S. government is preparing to spend taxpayer money to spy on Americans’ Internet use, so that it can better protect animals and ensure their handlers have paid for all the proper licenses.
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News Link • NATO
Migrants left to die by NATO after catalog of failures, says report into boat tragedy
03-28-2012
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The Guardian
A catalog of failures by NATO warships and European coastguards led to the deaths of dozens of migrants left adrift at sea, according to a damning official report into the fate of a refugee boat in the Mediterranean whose distress calls went unanswer
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News Link • Police State
FBI Islamic training materials gave OK to infringe on targets' civil rights
03-28-2012
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The Guardian
Training materials used by the FBI for dealing with American Muslims and other Islamic communities have advised agents they can break the law and impinge on some of their targets' civil rights.
The instructions were contained in confidential mater
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
US acted to conceal evidence of intelligence failure before 9/11
03-28-2012
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The Guardian
The US government shut down a series of court cases arising from a multimillion pound business dispute in order to conceal evidence of a damning intelligence failure shortly before the 9/11 attacks, MPs were told.
Moreover, the UK government is no
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News Link • Internet
Lulz Security ‘reborn’ with military dating site hack
03-28-2012
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AFP
A Lulz Security hacker group that bade farewell to the world last year appeared to make a comeback with a trove of data looted from a dating website for soldiers. Hackers referring to themselves as “LulzSec Reborn” made a cache of information evident
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News Link • Military
US gears up for land operation in Persian Gulf?
03-28-2012
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http://rt.com
The US is sending an amphibious assault group and a couple of thousand US Marines to the Persian Gulf.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
DRONE WARFARE: US Military Releases Information on Drone Slaughter of Afghan "Non-combatants'
03-28-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
Centcom.mil released on 22 March 2012 a declassified 2,100-page report on slaughter of 23 Afghan non-combatants " men, women, children " in February 2010, blamed on Creech drone pilots over-enthusiastically calling in Hellfires on a 3-vehicle civilia
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News Link • Drug War
Cocaine Unwrapped: The "War on Drugs" Today (Trailer)
03-28-2012
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http://tv.globalresearch.ca, by grtv
Following the trail of the drug from South American coca leaf farmer to the western consumer
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Demand for U.S. Debt Is Not Limitless
03-28-2012
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http://online.wsj.com
Last year the Fed purchased a stunning 61% of the total net Treasury issuance, up from negligible amounts prior to the 2008 financial crisis.
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Feature Article • Books
Obama Doesn’t Want You to Read This
Ernest Hancock
"No government will want its citizens to read this book. Because, in a nutshell, Goyette’s thesis for how individuals are to once again become prosperous: ‘The government must stop.’" - Powell Gammill, Freedom’s Phoenix
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News Link • Healthcare
Medicare and the Ryan Budget
03-28-2012
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http://www.batr.org, James Hall
Health care is on the mind of many Americans. The Supreme Court is taking up Obamacare. Costs are going up at an alarming pace.
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