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Date Sent: 2012-05-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, May 14, 2012 AM edition |
New York police tout improving crime numbers to defend frisking policy
US military officers taught to target civilians and wage ‘total war’ on Islam -- 4-Year-Old’s Overdue Library Books Returned After Police Sent To Family’s House -- Metra Unveils Commuter Rail Security Restrictions For NATO -- US spy agency can keep mum on Google ties: court -- Oklahoma GOP Convention Update -- London Olympics 2012 Is Psychological Warfare -- To Hell With Public Schools - by L. Neil Smith -- Arizona prisoners rarely granted clemency -- Disposable People -- 05-14-12-- Judge Jim Gray - Barry Dyke - John Cruz - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Karen Kwiatkowski for Congress -- Brown pushes tax hike as California's money woes deepen -- Unemployment numbers Scam -- Obama, Romney and Marriage -- AZ GOP state convention was a total disgrace
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News Link • Police State
New York police tout improving crime numbers to defend frisking policy
05-13-2012
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CNN.com
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...or something like that...
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Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Military
US military officers taught to target civilians and wage ‘total war’ on Islam
05-13-2012
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Over the past decade, fringe ideas about Muslims and Islam have seeped into law enforcement agencies across the country. Now we know the details about what some members of the US military have been learning about Muslims. It’s not pretty.
Wired’s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
4-Year-Old’s Overdue Library Books Returned After Police Sent To Family’s House
05-13-2012
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CBS News (video)
Four-year-old Katelyn Jageman’s books were due back to the Freeport Area Library on Oct. 19, 2011. Until Thursday, they were still in her possession. Library officials turned over to police, who made a courtesy call to the child’s home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Metra Unveils Commuter Rail Security Restrictions For NATO
05-13-2012
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CBS News
All Metra passengers"not just those on the Electric Line"will also face carry-on restrictions and security screenings from May 19-21. Riders will be allowed one briefcase-sized bag up to 15 by 15 inches and four inches deep. Riders will not be allowe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Former Obama Speechwriter to Pen White House Sitcom
05-13-2012
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Time
How closely will art imitate life? NBC says it’s rolling out a new sitcom next season about life in the White House, written by former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett, the BBC reports.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Police State
US spy agency can keep mum on Google ties: court
05-13-2012
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AFP
The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ruled. The US Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a lower court decision that said the NSA
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Oklahoma GOP Convention Update
05-13-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Chaos at the convention, police called to assist; After complaints about "illegal" activity, Ron Paul faction takes GOP convention to parking lot; GOP Establishment makes a mockery of the democratic process in Oklahoma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
London 2012 Is Psychological Warfare
05-13-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
The London 2012 Olympics have barely anything to do with sport. Not only is Britain continuing pagan/Nazi traditions and symbolism, the event is also a police state showcase and a psychological warfare attack on the people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
To Hell With Public Schools - by L. Neil Smith
05-13-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
It is time to end the public schools. I just heard about a little boy"a six-year-old in First Grade"who is being treated like a sex criminal by the drooling half-wits who run the Aurora (Colorado) school system because he quoted an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Watch Them Explode
05-13-2012
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The Agitator
Suddenly, flashing lights bathe the front lawn in red and blue. More than a dozen cops in light-gray polos, dark-gray cargo pants, and black vests flood out of the Chrysler and other unmarked cars, storming through the front gate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona prisoners rarely granted clemency
05-13-2012
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Arizona Republic
By his 14th birthday, Tommy Londo was addicted to crack cocaine. With both parents in prison, he grew up on the streets of Phoenix, homeless and uneducated. He spent his teens in and out of mental hospitals and shelters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Disposable People
05-13-2012
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The Agitator
Had she been facing the death penalty, she would have had the right to introduce mitigating evidence, but no such right extended to defendants facing mandatory life sentences.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Brown pushes tax hike as California's money woes deepen
05-13-2012
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Reuters
California Governor Brown was elected in 2010 on a promise to fix the state's chronic fiscal crisis. His announcement of a much bigger-than-expected shortfall in the state budget signals how far he still has to go.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Suicide Euphoria
05-13-2012
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arclein
One of the most common items heard from sports newscasters and sports talk radio personalities when talking about the topic of Junior Seau's suicidality has been this kind of comment, "All those who knew him said he has been so cheerful in recent w
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unemployment numbers Scam
05-13-2012
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arclein
Since 2010, and directly coinciding with the time millions of Americans used up their 99 weeks of unemployment insurance, disability claims have risen by 2.2 million. And precisely like Americans who have given up looking for work, those receiving di
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robert klein
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News Link • Marriage
Obama, Romney and Marriage
05-13-2012
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Free Patriot Press
President Obama and presumed GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney have both made public statements about marriage recently. Obama claims that his views have evolved over the years. Romney's position may be consistent, however it is not historically
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Events: Arizona
AZ GOP state convention was a total disgrace
05/12/2012
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Madeline Haselhoff
Chairman Morrissey was pathetic. That he allowed the American Indian speaker and Josh Romney to promote the Romney slate and do nothing about it; that he allowed ballots with asterisks to push forward a delegate “supposedly” endorsed by Romney which
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Renee Houlihan
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News Link • Secret Societies
Sources Inside Bilderberg Spill Cabal’s Secret Plans
05-13-2012
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www.infowars.com
Jones said he was “contacted by somebody inside Bilderberg” two years ago and that he also developed another source intimately connected to the organization within the last week.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Air Force Document: Drones Can Be Used To Spy On Americans
05-13-2012
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www.infowars.com
A newly discovered Air Force intelligence brief states that should fleets of unmanned drones accidentally capture surveillance footage of Americans, the data can be stored and analyzed by the Pentagon for up to 90 days.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Shortfall in California’s Budget Swells to $16 Billion
05-13-2012
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www.nytimes.com
Gov. Jerry Brown, disclosing the development in a video posted on YouTube, said that California’s shortfall was now projected to be $16 billion, up from $9.2 billion in January.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Radioactive man? Milford resident pulled over by state police
05-13-2012
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www.ctpost.com
Mike Apatow works as firefighter. Apatow, who had a radioactive stress test Wednesday, was pulled over later in the day, in Newtown, by a state police trooper after a radioactivity detector in the trooper's car was set off when Apatow passed.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
How Does Ben Swann Get Away With Broadcasting the Truth?
05-13-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Because his TV station is NOT owned and manipulated by the Big (Lie) Media Corps! Fox 19 is owned by Raycom, which is an Employee owned company.
Here's the link: http://www.raycommedia.com/about/
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
BREAKING: HISTORIC JUDGMENT. Bush & Associates Found Guilty of Torture
05-13-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Mathaba
A solid case for the prosecution of Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Cheney, their legal counsel and others, for war crimes, crimes against the peace, torture, and crimes against humanity has been established at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal with a guil
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
JPMorgan loses $2bn in hedging 'error'
05-13-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com, Agencies
Investment bank blames "sloppiness and bad judgment" as loss wipes seven per cent off stocks in after-hours trading.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US military under fire for 'anti-Islam class'
05-13-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com,
Pentagon orders review of all training classes after exposure of course presenting negative views of Muslims.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Arizona Ron Paul supporters boo Romney's son off stage
05/12/2012
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AZ central
Supporters of Ron Paul booed the son of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney off the stage Saturday at the Arizona Republican Party convention as he sought to solidify support for his father's nomination.
Hundreds of state GOP members were gathered a
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Bailouts
JP Morgan loss begs the question! How much do you know about CDS and CDO? (Video)
05-13-2012
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The Political Commentator
The JP Morgan "surprise" $2 billion loss may be the tip of the iceberg, making an understanding of CDS and CDO an imperative for even the most novice of investor!
Because the reality is that through mutual funds, pension funds and other investm
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
AZ GOP state convention shenanigans
05-12-2012
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youtube
4409 and a some others are told they have to leave the mezzanine where CD9 was meeting for not having credentials, despite no rules being posted or cited.
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G Cone
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News Link • TERRORISM
The spectacle of terror and its vested interests: entrapment feeds a $$Mn surveillance industry
05-9-2012
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Naomi Wolf, Guardian UK
What the FBI and CIA and the Pentagon are up against is that people " including Americans " are waking up to the fact that there would be no enemy if we weren't manufacturing new terrorists by taking out civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Retired general named receiver for Harrisburg, Penn
05-12-2012
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Reuters
Pennsylvania Governor Corbett named a retired Air Force Major General who led the state's military affairs department as the receiver for Harrisburg, the state's debt-laden capital. This follows the unexpected resignation of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Counter-Economics
Eduardo Saverin Renounces U.S. Citizenship Ahead Of Mega Facebook IPO
05-11-2012
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Brian Solomon, Forbes Staff
Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder immortalized by his falling out with Mark Zuckerberg in the movie The Social Network, has renounced his U.S. citizenship ahead of the company’s IPO.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan commanders show new defiance in dealings with Americans
05-11-2012
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Washington Post
Afghan commanders have refused more than a dozen times within the past two months to act on U.S. intelligence regarding high-level insurgents, arguing that night-time operations to target the men would result in civilian casualties, Afghan officials
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors
05-11-2012
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Washington Post
The Pentagon is expanding and making permanent a trial program that teams the government with Internet carriers to protect defense firms’ computer networks against data theft by foreign adversaries.
It is part of a larger effort to broaden the sha
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
May 13, 2012
05-11-2012
John Semmens
President Admits He Sometimes Forgets the Magnitude of the Recession
President Obama asked voters to forgive him if he sometimes fails to feel their pain over lost employment, foreclosed homes, and mounting personal debt.
“I've led kind of a sh
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Charles Goyette on Gary Johnson, Libertarians, and Ron Paul
05-11-2012
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Charles Goyette on American Breaking Point
It says something when the Libertarian Party nominates a presidential candidate who is less libertarian than one of the remaining Republican presidential candidates.
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Charles Goyette
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News Link • Police State
Cop Boots Pregnant Woman In Stomach; Dept. Says It’s Fine
05-11-2012
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Alexander Higgins
I can't speak for others, but I sure do feel much safer when cops beat pregnant women for asking questions and then the department says it's fine. State sanctioned violence is...violent.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Beaumont, California Woman Blinded for 'Contempt of Cop'
05-11-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Thanks to police officer Enoch Clark, Beaumont, California resident Monique Hernandez will never see her ten-year-old daughter again. On February 21, Clark conducted a traffic stop involving Hernandez, who was suspected of drunk driving. When Clark a
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
What Constitutes a Fair Trial? - by Andrew P. Napolitano
05-11-2012
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Lew Rockwell
The trial of the alleged masterminds of 9/11, which began last week at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will address some of the most profound issues of our era. Are natural rights truly inalienable, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Decla
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News Link • Voting and Elections
France's Hollande: Sarkozy underplayed budget woes
05-11-2012
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http://news.yahoo.com, Associated Press
French President-elect Francois Hollande suggested Friday that the government of outgoing leader Nicolas Sarkozy underestimated the country's budget problems and wants a new audit of France's books.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Israel
Norman Finkelstein - Political scientist - BBC HARDtalk, May 2012
05-11-2012
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http://www.gilad.co, Gilad Atzmon
According to Norman Finkelstein, American Jews fall out of love with Israel? In this BBC Hardtalk exchange he argues that they are now so unhappy with what Israel is doing that they want to distance them from the country.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Military Conducts ‘Realistic Urban Training’ Exercise in Miami
05-11-2012
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http://theintelhub.com, By Madison Ruppert
Miami residents were startled to hear the sound of low-flying military helicopters and explosions emanating from the abandoned Grand Bay Hotel in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
'It will lead to war' - Ron Paul fights to end military aid for Israel
05-11-2012
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http://rt.com
Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has condemned a plan being considered in the United States House of Representatives that would allow for the US to continue aiding in the defense of Israel by equipping the Jewish state’s military with added weaponry.
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