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Date Sent: 2012-04-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, April 8, 2012 |
'Cyber Czar' wants Homeland Security to patrol America's Internet borders
Friends of Syria Subvert Peaceful Resolution - by Stephen Lendman -- The drug legalization debate heats up -- True Freedom - by Christine Smith -- Amazon conservation agreement reached -- Venezuelan President says
he will travel to Cuba for a third round of treatment to beat his
cancer. -- Photo Artists Use Filter "Normally Used by NASA" to Remove
People -- Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Invests $300 Million Into Mapping the Brain --
SushiBot Rolls Out 3,600 Sushi Pieces per Hour -- Unexplained Melting
at the Askja Crater Lake in Iceland -- Why Tech Billionaires Can’t Get
Enough of the Deep Ocean -- 5 Charged in Case of Chinese Teen Selling Kidney for iDevices -- Controversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Collapse -- Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif. -- How to Eat the Abundance Around You -- Ease into South America in Santiago -- Judge Suspends Construction
License for Controversial Teles Pires Dam in the Brazilian Amazon --
Proposed Satellite Would Beam Solar Power to Earth -- Ron Paul: I Want to Live in a Free Country -- Occupy SF Evicted from Vacant Building, But Members Say Occupations Will Spread -- Canada to Mint Its Own Crypto-Currency -- ‘Public Transportation is a Human Right’: Demonstrators in 18 Cities Occupy Transit -- The Never-Ending Crusade -- Revealed: Recent quakes in US 'almost certainly man-made' -- Confession: Infiltrator who spied on Muslims reveals FBI techniques -- Bout sentence ‘unacceptable, politically motivated’ – Russia -- Viktor Bout: Victimized by US Injustice -- F-18 jet crashes into apartments in Virginia next to elementary school (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
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News Link • Homeland Security
'Cyber Czar' wants Homeland Security to patrol America's Internet borders
04-07-2012
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http://rt.com
Lawmakers in Washington are divided as to how to implement cybersecurity legislation to protect against infiltration from hackers, but one insider says the answer is simple: just establish border patrol for the Internet in America.
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News Link • Drug War
The drug legalization debate heats up
04-07-2012
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http://lapress.org, Edgardo Ayala
Guatemalan president’s proposal stirs up controversy in the region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
True Freedom
04-07-2012
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Christine Smith's Blog
Some share of freedom and its blessings in society from a strong standpoint recognizing the spiritual foundation. The aware are passionate educators about political/societal freedom, but even they succumb to anxiety and worry in their personal lives.
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News Link • Government
Amazon conservation agreement reached
04-07-2012
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http://lapress.org
Governments promise to search for sustainable use of Amazon region.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Venezuelan President says he will travel to Cuba for a third round of treatment to beat his cancer.
04-07-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Venezuelan President says he will travel to Cuba for a third round of treatment to beat his cancer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Art
Photo Artists Use Filter "Normally Used by NASA" to Remove People From Crowded Urban Place
04-07-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Dan Nosowitz
"Silent World," a photography project by Parisian artists Lucie & Simon
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
SushiBot Rolls Out 3,600 Pieces per Hour
04-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Daniela Hernandez
Would-be sushi moguls take note: Suzumo has a line of sushi robots that might fulfill your 24-7 maki-making fantasies. The Japanese company is displaying its machines at the World Food and Beverage Great Expo 2012 in Tokyo this week.
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News Link • Geology
Unexplained Melting at the Askja Crater Lake in Iceland
04-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Erik Klemetti
A few news reports (in Icelandic) have been talking about the crater lake on Askja caldera having mysteriously become ice-free over the last month while lakes around it (that aren’t on volcanoes) and at lower elevations are still ice-covered
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Why Tech Billionaires Can’t Get Enough of the Deep Ocean
04-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jeffrey Marlow
If you had a few billion dollars of extra cash, how would you spend it? Over the last few years, the outlet of choice has become deep ocean exploration
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
5 Charged in Case of Chinese Teen Selling Kidney for iDevices
04-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Christina Bonnington
Five people have been charged with intentional injury in the case of a Chinese teenager’s obsessive quest for Apple products.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Controversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Collapse
04-07-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Brandon Keim
A controversial new study of honeybee deaths has deepened a bitter dispute over whether the developed world’s most popular pesticides are causing an ecological catastrophe.
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News Link • Art
Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif.
04-07-2012
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http://www.google.com,By JOHN S. MARSHALL AP
Artist Thomas Kinkade once said that he had something in common with Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell: He wanted to make people happy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
How to Eat the Abundance Around You
04-07-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Linda Runyon
Long before the days of supermarkets and organized agriculture, people lived. We are the evidence. They lived in small groups and even alone as hunter gatherers.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Ease into South America in Santiago
04-07-2012
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http://www.theaustralian.com, By Anthony Dennis
IF SINGAPORE is Asia for beginners, Santiago is surely South America for starters. But therein end the similarities.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Suspends Construction License for Controversial Teles Pires Dam in the Brazilian Amazon
04-07-2012
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http://amazonwatch.org
Public Prosecutors and Federal Judge cite violations of indigenous peoples' rights, guaranteed by Brazilian Constitution and international law
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Proposed Satellite Would Beam Solar Power to Earth
04-07-2012
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http://www.space.com, Leonard David
An energy-hungry Earth is in need of transformational and sustainable energy solutions, experts say.
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News Link • Environment
Dilma Government Backsliding on Environment
04-07-2012
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http://amazonwatch.org, Christian Poirier
As Rio+20 nears, Brazil’s Dilma shouts down critics and undermines her case
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Occupy SF Evicted from Vacant Building, But Members Say Occupations Will Spread
04-07-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, By Rebecca Burns
Police yesterday arrested nearly 80 Occupy San Francisco demonstrators who had inhabited a building belonging to the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco less than 24 hours before.
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News Link • Transportation
‘Public Transportation is a Human Right’: Demonstrators in 18 Cities Occupy Transit
04-07-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, By Rebecca Burns
Following a March 28 "fare strike" in New York City, during which members of Occupy Wall Street chained open subway entrances and posted fake notices, 18 cities participated in a National Day of Action for Public Transportation on April 4.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Racism
The Never-Ending Crusade
04-07-2012
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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 • Feminism
Feminists and Immigrants
04-07-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Sady Doyle
Why don’t many women’s rights advocates see attacks on immigrants as part of their struggle?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Google's Search for Clean Energy
04-07-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica Leber
The Internet giant thought it could help invent cheap renewable power. That wasn't so easy.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Promises Broken, Promises Kept
04-07-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Theo Anderson
President Obama has fulfilled many campaign promises. But that’s cold comfort to progressives.
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News Link • Biofuel
Sapphire Energy Raises $144 Million for an Algae Farm
04-07-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin Bullis
But is the company scaling up its technology too fast? This week, algae-biofuel startup Sapphire Energy announced it has received $144 million in new funding, which brings its total to over $300 million.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Highlights of the Brandywine Peace Community's Good Friday Protest at Lockheed Martin (video)
04-06-2012
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The International Libertarian
Highlights of the Brandywine Peace Community's Good Friday Protest and Civil Disobedience at Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, PA
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Environment
Revealed: Recent quakes in US 'almost certainly man-made'
04-07-2012
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http://rt.com
A US Geological Survey research team says a remarkable increase in earthquake occurrence in the US in the past decade is “almost certainly man-made.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul rocks UC Berkeley
04-07-2012
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http://rt.com
Ronald Reagan, the golden calf of the GOP, called it "a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters and sex deviants." At the University of California, Berkley this week, though, students showed up in droves to support a Republican: Ron Paul.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Eau de toilette: Bill Gates pays to turn sewage into drinking water
04-07-2012
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http://rt.com
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has won worldwide respect for battling disease and starvation in the developing world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Ultimate 'zombie' mind control: Myths and facts about weapons of the future
04-07-2012
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http://rt.com
A speech by the Russian Defense Minister promising to modernize his army caused a firestorm in the Western media " which accused Russia of developing mind control weapons that turn people into zombies.
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News Link • World News
Bout sentence ‘unacceptable, politically motivated’ " Russia
04-07-2012
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http://rt.com
The Russian Foreign Ministry has lashed out at the sentence of Viktor Bout, who was given a 25-year jail term by a US court.
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News Link • Military
F-18 jet crashes into apartments in Virginia next to elementary school (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
04-07-2012
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http://rt.com
Both pilots safely ejected from the plane that moments later crashed into a residential area in Virginia Beach.
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News Link • World News
Ecuador's immigration policy does not help terrorists
04-07-2012
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http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com, By Nathalie Cely
Otto Reich and Ezequiel Vázquez Ger's reckless and illogical column ("How Ecuador's immigration policy helps al Qaeda") says more about the authors' desire to baselessly attack the government of Ecuador than their ability to offer readers any substan
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
April 8, 2012 Edition
04-07-2012
John Semmens
President Claims Court Ruling Against Health Care Law Would Be Unprecedented
In an effort to try to nudge the Supreme Court toward a favorable decision on his signature legislative accomplishment, President Obama argued that overturning the Afford
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News Link • Gun Rights
“Brandishing a Weapon will Bring a Tense Situation to a Complete Halt”
04-06-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Aaron Dykes Interviews Sheriff Richard Mack about what will it take to get big government out of our lives.
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News Link • TERRORISM
US Trains And Facilitates MEK Terror Attacks In Iran
04-06-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Richard Silverstein
When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When he’s OUR terrorist.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Misguided Faith in an Economic Recovery
04-06-2012
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http://dailyreckoning.com, By Joel Bowman
We watched last night the rows of cars below our balcony, snaking their way out of the pollution and congestion of South America’s second largest metropolis, out into the peace and calm of the surrounding campos and estancias.
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News Link • Activism
Make Your Own Dime Cards...
04-06-2012
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www.freedomsphoenix.com
Links to laminators, laminator pockets,, front and back templates (photoshop and PDF files)
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Our Comic is Nearing its End. Time to Start Digging In...
04-06-12
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Silver Circle Movie
Our full length comic book that was adapted from the movie's script is almost fully published online. We will be celebrating its last page published soon...followed by printing of the entire book.
Time to dig in, however I should warn you of the
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News Link • Military
Military board says Marine should be dismissed
04-06-2012
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AP
Stein's lawyers argued the 9-year Marine, whose service was to end in 4 months, was expressing his personal views and exercising his First Amendment rights. "We're truly surprised and disappointed but it was an honor to fight for a hero like Sgt. Ste
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News Link • Technology: Software
Half a million Mac computers 'infected with malware'
04-06-2012
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BBC News
More than half a million Apple computers have been infected with the Flashback Trojan, according to a Russian anti-virus firm.
Its report claims that about 600,000 Macs have installed the malware - potentially allowing them to be hijacked and used
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News Link • Government
Twitter, the FBI, and You
04-06-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Asawin Suebsaeng
Government officials want to data-mine social media to scan for criminal activity. But are their efforts just a complete waste of time?
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News Link • Food
Ammonia used in many foods, not just "pink slime"
04-06-2012
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Reuters
What they may not have known is that ammonia - often associated with cleaning products - was cleared by U.S. health officials nearly 40 years ago and is used in making many foods, including cheese. Related compounds have a role in baked goods and cho
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News Link • Gun Rights
Three plead guilty in botched "Fast and Furious" gun-running sting
04-06-2012
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Reuters
Three men pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of trafficking high-powered rifles and other guns to Mexico from Arizona under the botched "Fast and Furious" federal sting operation tied to the murder of a U.S. federal agent.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Why We Should End Handouts to Oil and Gas Companies
04-06-2012
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http://motherjones.com, By Bill McKibben
The fossil fuel business is wrecking our planet, and we're paying them a multibillion dollar bonus to do it.
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News Link • China
Has China ALREADY Surpassed the U.S. as the World’s Largest Economy?
04-06-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Washington's
While the IMF forecasts that China will surpass America as the world’s top economy in 2016, it may have already become dog top.
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News Link • Imperialism
From the Cold War to NATO's "Humanitarian Wars" - The Complicity of the United Nations
04-06-2012
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www.globalresearch.ca, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Humanitarian wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” are a modern form of imperialism.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US-Israel War on Iran : The Myth of Limited Warfare
04-06-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. James
The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including:
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Not A Unique Day: Skunk Truck, Sound Bomb, Rubber-Coated Bullets
04-06-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org,
A disturbing first-person account of Israeli soldiers assaulting peaceful protesters during the Global March to Jerusalem with weapons - from tear gas and deafening "siren" to live ammunition and breaking down doors to make random arrests
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News Link • Economy - International
Canada to Mint Its Own Crypto-Currency
04-05-2012
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Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.com
The Royal Canadian Mint has invented a new, digital currency called MintChip intended to be an alternative to using debit and credit cards.
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News Link • Housing
Americans brace for next foreclosure wave
04-05-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Nick Carey
Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hoping the crisis is finally nearing its end.
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. Pressing Interpol to Deny Egypt's Request to Arrest NGO Workers
04-05-2012
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http://www.nationaljournal.com, By Sara Sorcher
The Obama administration is petitioning Interpol to deny Egypt’s request for the arrest of American and other nongovernmental workers accused of illegally operating democracy programs and stirring unrest
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News Link • Police State
'Necessary Force'
04-05-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by William Norman Grigg
"I always thought police were nothing but good and were there to protect people," testifies Elizabeth Polak, a registered nurse from Phoenix
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver Circle on the Silver Doctor's Podcast
04-05-12
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Silver Underground
The Silver Doctors have a hit blog that will keep you up to date on the latest silver news from the top leaders in the community along with their own useful commentary. They even sell silver...Silver Circle Silver! Our interview covers the film's cl
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Owe The IRS? Bill Would Suspend Passport Rights For Delinquent Taxpayers
04-05-2012
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losangeles.cbslocal.com
A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law.
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