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Date Sent: 2012-05-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, May 21, 2012 AM edition |
40 Fed Agencies Man Secret Command Center Outside Chicago
School pulls boy from class for black face costume -- Quebec passes law to restrict protests, ban wearing masks -- Videos Exonerate Arrested Photographers On Both Coasts -- Police raid and charge beer makers with terrorism --
White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry --
Afghanistan’s Karzai thanks Obama for ‘your taxpayers’ money’ -- Gunbattle in Beirut amid fears of Syria spillover --
9th Circuit Takes Plush Maui Vacation At Taxpayer Expense, As Others
Cut Back -- N.C. Teacher Tells Student He Could Be Arrested for Talking
Badly About Obama -- Indefinite Detention: the Courts, the Congress & the Chicago PD -- Delaware LP Recognizes Ron Paul’s Achievements Advancing Liberty -- Reality Check: Liberty Movement Taking Over GOP -- Ron Paul WINNING AZ! 05 20 2012! -- Prepping: We have an app for
that -- Baby Gives Back: The Fetus Is Capable of Saving Mum’s Life --
Derby Winner "I'll Have Another" Captures Preakness -- Tough on Crime,
Tough on Justice -- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Quiet Drama in Philadelphia -- Deadly earthquake rocks northern Italy
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News Link • Homeland Security
40 Fed Agencies Man Secret Command Center Outside Chicago
05-20-2012
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InfoWars
Chicago cops, the FBI, Homeland Security, Secret Service and a large number of unnamed others have established a high-tech secret command center to surveil people exercising their First Amendment right in Chicago as the NATO war council unfolds this
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School pulls boy from class for black face costume
05-20-2012
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A white Colorado second-grade student who wore black face paint as part of a Martin Luther King costume has drawn criticism from school officials.
Sean King was pulled out of class Wednesday after donning the makeup for a project requiring student
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The Secret Celebrities Passengers to be Launched on SpaceX Falcon Rocket
05-20-2012
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ABC News
When SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket it will secretly be carrying celebrities. Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the original "Star Trek" series, died in 2005. His ashes will be on board this mission -- as will those of Mercury astronaut G
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hidden Fingerprint of Weapons-Grade Plutonium Finally Found
05-20-2012
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LiveScience
"When someone has a nuclear reactor, with plutonium sitting there for a long time, you don't really know how much is in there," said study researcher Georgios Koutroulakis of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The researchers also suggest the fin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Particles Walk Through Walls While Physicists Watch
05-20-2012
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LiveScience
The process is called quantum tunneling, and occurs when a particle passes through a barrier that it seemingly shouldn't be able to. Scientists measured electrons escaping from atoms without having the necessary energy to do so.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Quebec passes law to restrict protests, ban wearing masks
05-20-2012
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Rawstory
The francophone province’s assembly passed a law after a marathon two-day session requiring groups of more than 10 people to inform police in advance when they plan to hold a demonstration, and provide the location, time and duration of the event.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Videos Exonerate Arrested Photographers On Both Coasts
05-20-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
lexander Arbuckle, a 21-year-old New York University journalism student, believed police were being portrayed unfairly in media stories about the Occupy Wall Street protests. He ended up getting arrested.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Police raid and charge beer makers with terrorism
05-20-2012
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CBS News (video)
For 18 hours, we were handcuffed to a bench and our legs were shackled together,” he said. “Some of our cries for the bathroom were either ignored or met with silence.”
Annusek was released Friday morning along with four others reportedly suspecte
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry
05-20-2012
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Washington Post
Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama’s jobs council, to be checked in for a roundtable with the president.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Karzai thanks Obama for ‘your taxpayers’ money’
05-20-2012
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The Ticket
"I'm bringing to you and to the people of the United States the gratitude of the Afghan people for the support that your taxpayers' money has provided Afghanistan over the past decade and for the difference that it has made to the well-being of the A
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Gunbattle in Beirut amid fears of Syria spillover
05-20-2012
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AP
Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns early Monday in intense street battles in the Lebanese capital, wounding six people as fears mounted that the conflict in neighboring Syria was bleeding across the border.
The fighting appear
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
9th Circuit Takes Plush Maui Vacation At Taxpayer Expense, As Others Cut Back
05-20-2012
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Breitbart
Judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal district and bankruptcy courts in nine Western states and two Pacific island territories, along with lawyers practicing in those courts, and court staff, will gather at the luxurious Hyatt Regen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
N.C. Teacher Tells Student He Could Be Arrested for Talking Badly About Obama
05-20-2012
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The Blaze
A high school student engaged his social studies teacher in a heated debate about politics and the teacher accused him of disrespecting the president. She told him he could be jailed for speaking ill of Obama.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Martial Law
Indefinite Detention: the Courts, the Congress & the Chicago PD
05-20-2012
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Free Patriot Press
Recently, there has been a victory and a defeat regarding the indefinite detention provision of the Fiscal Year (FY)2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges filed a lawsuit against President Obama
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Ron Paul, Jim Duensing, Freedom
Delaware LP Recognizes Ron Paul’s Achievements Advancing Liberty
05/20/2012
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Liberty Underground/Delaware LP
The Libertarian Party of Delaware wishes to recognize the achievements of Dr Ron Paul in promoting libertarian principles.
For decades, Dr Paul has been a principled advocate for smaller, more efficient and less intrusive government, and he has ch
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Matt Schnackenberg
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Reality Check: Liberty Movement Taking Over GOP
05/20/2012
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ChrisInMaryville.net
Ben Swann takes a look at the hidden story that the Grand Old Party is becoming a whole new party. Why Rep. Ron Paul may only be a messenger of a movement that has already scored major victories this primary season. All parts 1 - 3.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Activism
Ron Paul WINNING AZ! 05 20 2012!
05-20-2012
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Chris Haskell - Real News Tucson
Ron Paul WINNING AZ! 05 20 2012! Some individuals think the Ron Paul Campaign is over......not even close! I've just started the Ron Paul President 2012 Tucson Campaign!!!!!! Get ready because now we got all the Democrats and Independants as well!!
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The Miracle of Cloves and Clove Oil
05-20-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Gaye Levy
Here’s the deal. It’s the weekend (or, like me, you are on vacation in the middle of the ocean) and your tooth starts to hurt.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Baby Gives Back: The Fetus Is Capable of Saving Mum’s Life
05-20-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Sayer Ji
It has been known for some time that during pregnancy, the placenta enables a two-way trafficking of immune cells between mother and fetus.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Derby Winner I'll Have Another Captures Preakness
05-20-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Steve Mullis
In a near carbon copy of this year's Kentucky Derby, I'll Have Another raced from behind on a deep stretch to defeat Bodemeister at the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Tough on Crime, Tough on Justice
05-20-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Leonard Pitts Jr.
So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Quiet Drama in Philadelphia
05-20-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Ellen Brown
Last week, the city of Philadelphia's school system announced that it expects to close 40 public schools next year, and 64 schools by 2017.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Deadly earthquake rocks northern Italy
05-20-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com,
At least seven people killed and many historical buildings damaged in 6.0-magnitude quake near city of Bologna.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
U.S., allies accelerating plans to secure chemical arsenal as Syrian crisis worsens
05-19-2012
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Washington Post
The Obama administration is accelerating its planning with Middle Eastern allies for a series of potentially fast-moving crises in Syria including the possible loss of government control over some of the country’s chemical weapons
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Applying the Six-Day War to Iran
05-18-2012
Ray McGovern
With the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967 coming early next month, pro-Israel pundits like syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer are again promoting Israel’s faux-narrative on the reasons behind Israel’s decision to attack its neig
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News Link • Drug War
Hondurans Attack Government Buildings, Demand US Leave
05-18-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
American security forces are "persona non grata," say angry Honduran activists
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House Rejects Effort to End Afghan War
05-18-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
One of 142 different amendments to the House military spending bill for 2014, Rep. Barbara Lee (D " CA)’s amendment that would effective end the Afghan War, allowing spending only for the “safe and orderly withdrawal of US troops and military contrac
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Dangerous Legislation
05-18-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Rep. Ron Paul
I strongly oppose H Res 568, a resolution "expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of preventing the Government of Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
1991 Obama Booklet Leaked “Born In Kenya”
05-18-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Federal court enjoins NDAA
05-18-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Glenn Greenwald
A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
US seeks extra $70m for Israel defence shield
05-18-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Pentagon requests Congress to provide Israel with additional funding for its "Iron Dome" missile defence programme.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Spanish Banks’ Bonds Slide After Moody’s Downgrades Ratings
05-18-2012
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By John Glover
Bonds of Spanish banks fell after Moody’s Investors Service downgraded 16 of the nation’s lenders and said it may cut seven of them again because of the state of the economy and the government’s deteriorating credit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libertopia
30 days until PorcFest (schedule now online) smart phone app
05-18-2012
The PorcFest.com online schedule is shaping up, get the "EverNote" app to stay connected. or get more at http://happyporcupine.info
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Drew
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Senators to Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax '
05-17-2012
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ABC News
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Wall Street Editorial Page: If the Government Claims You Are a Terrorist, Then You ARE a Terrorist
05-17-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Cheering on every lie and abuse has been the neocon (emphasis on "con") Wall Street Journal editorial page and today we see the Journal's viewpoint in all its evil: the government should not have to face any restrictions at all when it comes to pursu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Watchdog blasts ‘excessive’ policing at G20 Toronto summit
05-17-2012
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AFP
Canadian police used “excessive force,” ignored civil rights and made “unlawful” mass arrests in cracking down on unruly protests at a G20 summit in Toronto two years ago, a watchdog said Wednesday.
Gerry McNeilly, head of the Office of the Indepe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.S. is still vulnerable
05-17-2012
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Pro Publia
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical damage. But security experts worry it may only be a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Plaintiff in NDAA case: U.S. has ‘gone insane’ in its war on terror
05-17-2012
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Rawstory
Journalist Tangerine Bolen, who along with other activists and writers filed suit over an indefinite detention law, said Thursday that the citizens United States had become indifferent about their rights.
“This panoply of laws and circumstances ov
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Cost of Greek exit from euro put at $1tn
05-17-2012
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The Guardian
The British government is making urgent preparations to cope with the fallout of a possible Greek exit from the single currency, after the governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, warned that Europe was "tearing itself apart".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
North Carolina Man Arrested For Trying To Report Suspected Crime
05-17-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
John Nix pulled out his cell phone after spotting what he thought was a gang of thugs mugging a man in the parking lot of a North Carolina shopping mall last week.
The former city council candidate ended up in jail after the men who were in street
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Trayvon Martin autopsy indicates hand-to-hand struggle with George Zimmerman
05-17-2012
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Washington Post
Includes laboratory reports that show traces of blood in Martin’s fingernails, Zimmerman’s blood on Martin’s sweatshirt and Martin’s blood on Zimmerman’s red jacket. Martin’s autopsy report shows that he had a small abrasion on his left fourth finger
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