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Date Sent: 2012-04-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 26, 2012 PM edition |
With Al Qaeda Bogeyman Gone, US Turns to China -- Blast in Syria's Hama kills many
Where Do We Go From Here in the Freedom Movement? - by Ron Holland -- 04-26-12 - Tarrin Lupo - Wes Wagner - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Gold rebounds post-Fed as dollar slips to three-week low -- Gold standard inevitable, $10k/oz looms, says new book (5:18) -- Euro zone woes keep banks wary after Q1 bounce -- Senate Passes Plan To Keep Post Offices Running -- For Some, 'Frustration' Over Mortgage Settlement -- Liberia's Charles Taylor Aided And Abetted War Crimes, Court Finds -- Could Iran Wage A Cyberwar On The U.S.? --
Ecuador Ready To Face Possible Fallout From Global Crisis:Minister --
WSJ: Black Boxes Are Real, But Alex Jones Is “Paranoid” -- Obama Opposes CISPA, But Will Sign It Anyway -- The Next US President Will Be…. -- 5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People -- Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence -- CIVIL LIBERTIES, REMOTE SPYING AND THE DRONE LOBBY: Opening US Domestic Airspace to Unmanned Drones -- ECHELON: Exposing the Global Surveillance System -- CHINA'S RENMINBI VERSUS THE US DOLLAR: People's Bank of China widens trading range of the yu -- MILITARIZATION OF THE BALKANS: Directed against Russia? --
Bank CEOs Gain as Millions Lose Dreams, Retirement to Foreclosure --
ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules
-- Bradley Manning's Trial To Begin September 21 -- Sayef's Story and the Forgotten Children of Fallujah -- GE Annual Meeting Interrupted by 99 Percent Protesters -- 'Mad Cow' Finding Highlights Food Safety Gaps, Say Critics -- How
Employment and Economic Growth are Hindered by Politics -- Romney takes
beating on immigration as Supreme Court hears Arizona challenge -- Young men in Mexico say the U.S. no longer offers them a better future -- Trampling on the tribes: ‘The Corporate Way’ -- Corrupted magic: Interior Ministry ‘alchemist’ caught with $1mln bribe
NH: PorcFest 2012, you don't want to miss this one (Video & Web Banners)
Schulz Answers Judge Napolitano:
See the VIDEO & the PLAN: Live WEBINARs tonight
NV: Freedom Fest 2012, July 11-14, 2012, Bally's Las Vegas
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News Link • Syria
Blast in Syria's Hama kills many
04-26-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com,
An explosion has destroyed a building in Syria's central city of Hama, reportedly killing up to 69 people, many of them children.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
04-26-12 - Tarrin Lupo - Wes Wagner (Video & MP3 Loaded)
Tarrin Lupo discusses kid farming - Wes Wagner, Chairperson, Libertarian Party of Oregon, discusses region formation, the National Chair race, and what is going on with the Libertarian Party and the build up to May 2012 Nat. Convention.
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News Link • Events: America
Freedom Fest 2012, July 11-14, 2012, Bally's Las Vegas
04-26-2012
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FreedomFest.Com
FreedomFest is an annual festival where free minds meet to celebrate “great books, great ideas, and great thinkers” in an open-minded society. It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Future Predictions
Where Do We Go From Here in the Freedom Movement? by Ron Holland
04-26-2012
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www.thedailybell.com
The Feds Prepare for Social Unrest . . . Shouldn't You?
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Events: Arizona
Gathering storm (and smaller squalls)
04-26-2012
Becky Fenger
When Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne returns from watching the U.S. Supreme Court in action on SB1070 at the end of the week, his world will explode. And the pieces will scatter far and wide in scope. It's a pity, since Horne did some good work.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold rebounds post-Fed as dollar slips to three-week low
04-26-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Jan Harvey
Gold prices rose towards $1,650 an ounce in Europe on Thursday as the dollar sank to a three-week low against the euro, coming under pressure after the Federal Reserve opted to keep interest rates at rock bottom.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold standard inevitable, $10k/oz looms, says new book (5:18)
04-26-2012
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http://www.reuters.com,
A return to the gold standard is inevitable, perhaps as early as next year. And gold prices could hit $10,000/oz.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Euro zone woes keep banks wary after Q1 bounce
04-26-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, LONDON/MADRID
Quarterly reports from some of Europe's top banks showed the scars of the euro zone crisis on Thursday, with big losses on Spanish property, and fragile markets casting a shadow over the rest of the year despite an early investment banking rebound.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United States Postal Service
Senate Passes Plan To Keep Post Offices Running
04-26-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by David Welna
The U.S. Postal Service is so much a part of this country, it's in the Constitution.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
For Some, 'Frustration' Over Mortgage Settlement
04-26-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Yuki Noguchi
Earlier this month, a judge approved a settlement between five major banks and nearly all of the state attorneys general.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Liberia's Charles Taylor Aided And Abetted War Crimes, Court Finds
04-26-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Mark Memmott
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is guilty of "aiding and abetting" forces in Sierra Leone that committed war crimes and other atrocities during a war that lasted more than a decade and left more than 50,000 people dead.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Could Iran Wage A Cyberwar On The U.S.?
04-26-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Tom Gjelten
Security professionals in both the U.S. government and in private industry have long feared the prospect of a cyberwar with China or Russia.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Ecuador Ready To Face Possible Fallout From Global Crisis:Minister
04-26-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, By Mercedes Alvaro
Ecuador is ready for any possible fallout from the European debt crisis and a slowdown in global growth, and if necessary can access a contingency line of credit valued at $1 billion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
WSJ: Black Boxes Are Real, But Alex Jones Is “Paranoid”
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Sam Favate
The Wall Street Journal admits that mandatory black boxes will be spying on us but then labels Infowars “paranoid” for being concerned about the intrusion.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Opposes CISPA, But Will Sign It Anyway
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Get ready for another NDAA-style bait and switch
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting and Elections
The Next US President Will Be….
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Tony Cartalucci
President George Bush, President Barack Obama, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all work for the exact same handful of corporate-financier interests.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, The Economic Collapse
The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay. The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence
04-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Craig Roberts
Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the US government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Domestic Policy
CIVIL LIBERTIES, REMOTE SPYING AND THE DRONE LOBBY: Opening US Domestic Airspace to Unmanned Drones
04-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca
The repercussions of the drone lobby’s success in forcing opening US domestic airspace to unmanned drones by 2015 are beginning to be felt across the US as civil liberties groups and politicians wake up to the implications for safety and privacy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
ECHELON: Exposing the Global Surveillance System
04-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Nicky Hagar
This important article was published more than 15 years ago (February 1997) in Covert Action Quarterly
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
CHINA'S RENMINBI VERSUS THE US DOLLAR: People's Bank of China widens trading range of the yu
04-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by John Chan
The People’s Bank of China last week widened the yuan’s daily trading band from 0.5 percent to 1 percent. In the short term, the Chinese central bank will continue to intervene in currency markets to ensure that no major fluctuations damage China’s s
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
MILITARIZATION OF THE BALKANS: Directed against Russia?
04-26-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Rick Rozoff
On April 18 U.S. Air Forces in Europe began the largest air exercise in the history of Bulgaria, no doubt in that of the Balkans as a whole, when 24-32 American F-16 fighter jets and 500 airmen joined Bulgarian counterparts for the opening of the alm
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank CEOs Gain as Millions Lose Dreams, Retirement to Foreclosure
04-26-2012
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commondreams.org, by John Cavanagh and Scott Kling
Inside and outside of Wells Fargo’s annual meeting in San Francisco yesterday, thousands of angry protesters decried the bank’s leading role in the loss of millions of American homes to foreclosure.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules
04-26-2012
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commondreams.org, by Cora Currier, ProPublica
One of the key controversies about fracking is the chemical makeup of the fluid that is pumped deep into the ground to break apart rock and release natural gas.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Bradley Manning's Trial To Begin September 21
04-26-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Presiding Judge, Colonel Denise Lind, order prosecution to present official "damage assessment" reports
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Sayef's Story and the Forgotten Children of Fallujah
04-26-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Robert Fisk
The phosphorus shells that devastated this city were fired in 2004. But are the victims of America's dirty war still being born?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
GE Annual Meeting Interrupted by 99 Percent Protesters
04-26-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Hundreds of protesters affiliated with the "99 Percent" movement disrupted the start of General Electric Co's annual shareholders' meeting in Detroit on Wednesday, in an attack on the largest U.S. conglomerate's low tax rate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
'Mad Cow' Finding Highlights Food Safety Gaps, Say Critics
04-26-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
The announcement on Tuesday that a California dairy cow had mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), highlights shortcomings of the country's food safety system, say critics.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US 'expands Yemen drone strikes policy'
04-26-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com,
CIA and Pentagon given right to launch attacks even when identity of those in harm's way is not known, reports say.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Chavez returns to Venezuela after treatment
04-26-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
President who plans to run in October elections returns from Cuba, where he has been receiving cancer treatment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
How Employment and Economic Growth are Hindered by Politics
04-26-2012
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http://dailyreckoning.com, By Bill Bonner
Nothing special in yesterday’s financial news. So let’s turn from farce to fraud…that is, to politics.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Ben Bernanke’s Paper Dollar Embodies Systemic Risk
04-26-2012
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http://dailyreckoning.com, By Charles Kadlec
The paper dollar is now the single most important source of systemic risk to the financial system, the world economy, and the security of the American people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
New Hampshire House approves medical marijuana bill
04-26-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
The Republican-led New Hampshire House on Wednesday passed legislation that would allow seriously ill patients to use marijuana.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney takes beating on immigration as Supreme Court hears Arizona challenge
04-26-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Stephen C. Webster
As the U.S. Supreme Court finally takes up a lawsuit over Arizona’s restrictive immigration law, there are some leading immigration reform activists who are calling Mitt Romney’s stated position of supporting policies that encourage “self-deportation
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Young men in Mexico say the U.S. no longer offers them a better future
04-26-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Edward Helmore
In a typical year, the young men in this agricultural region of western Mexico would have made the journey north to America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Trampling on the tribes: ‘The Corporate Way’
04-26-2012
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http://rt.com
You might think Man has come a long way from the Dutch and English slave masters of the 18th Century selling work-able men and women from Africa at “markets” in North, Central and South America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Egypt’s voters perplexed which president to choose
04-26-2012
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http://rt.com
Egyptian society is facing an uneasy choice in the forthcoming presidential election.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Corrupted magic: Interior Ministry ‘alchemist’ caught with $1mln bribe
04-26-2012
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http://rt.com
Corruption can do magic in Russia, proved an "alchemist" from the Interior Ministry, known for "transforming" diamonds into glass and heroin into detergent at the country’s customs.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in EU parliament rejects ACTA
04-26-2012
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http://rt.com
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) in the European parliament has announced it cannot support the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran halts ‘cyber attack’ on its oil servers
04-25-2012
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AFP
Iran said it had halted the spread of a data-deleting virus targeting computer servers in its oil sector, and hoped to have all systems back and running within days.
Hamdolah Mohammadnejad, a deputy oil minister heading up a crisis committee to co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
White House approves broader Yemen drone campaign
04-25-2012
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Washington Post
The US is launching drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under approval by President Obama that allows the CIA and the military to fire even when the identity of those to be killed is not known.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Future Predictions
MIT PROFESSOR: 10 Predictions About The World My Grandchildren Will Inherit
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
What will the world look like in 100 years?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
These 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
A chart we found on Reddit.com today shows that most products we buy are controlled by just a few companies. It's called "The Illusion of Choice."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Australia's Credit Bubble Is Built On An Even Bigger Chinese Credit Bubble
04-25-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Concerns of a slowdown in China have caused investors to grow even more cautious about Australia.
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