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Date Sent: 2012-06-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, June 3, 2012 |
Debt Up $1.59T Under GOP House—More in 15 Months Than First 97 Congresses Combined
VW Passat 78.5 MPG in the UK -- Delegate Recounts State (LA) GOP Convention Antics -- Amelia Earhart: New evidence tells of her last days on a Pacific atoll (+video) -- Opposing Doctrines: Putin v. Obama - by Stephen Lendman -- Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies about Houla Massacre -- Cop Threatens to Seize Camera as "Evidence" After Cops Manhandle Ron Paul Supporter -- Judge Should go to Jail, Not Pastor Who Taught Discipline of Children! - by Pastor Greg J. Dixon -- Graphene Solar Cell Efficiency at 8.6% -- Florida cemetery buries veteran in a cardboard box -- Bilderberg meeting 2012: Everyone not invited -- Ron Paul and The Many – LibertyPac -- Separation of Business and State -- 70-year IRS tax scam swindling millions of Americans started with a Donald Duck movie in 1942! -- Donald Duck fills out 1040 -- NDAA legalizes War Propaganda -- Regulators Gone Wild -- The Legend of the Spat-Upon Veteran -- Bilderbergers commit a felony? -- Olympic battle: Londoners to form human shield to keep missiles from homes -- "Our Elections Are Being Poisoned" -- Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gets life in prison -- Everything you need to know about The Transit of Venus. Plus free eBook giveaway.
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine Ready for Download - Edition 13 June 2012
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt Up $1.59T Under GOP House"More in 15 Months Than First 97 Congresses Combined
06-03-2012
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CNS News
In the 15 months that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has effectively enjoyed a constitutional veto over federal spending, the federal government’s debt has increased by about $1.59 trillion.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
VW Passat 78.5 MPG in the UK (Publisher Recommended!)
06-03-2012
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Luke Rudkowski via Twitter
Brian fills us in on his European Vacation - and the consternation it brought him after getting phenominal mileage in his UK rental, and finding it NOT AVAILABLE in the U. S.!
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
EXCLUSIVE: Delegate Recounts State (LA) GOP Convention Antics
06-03-2012
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The Dead Pelican via RonPaulForums
"For an insider's perspective and a first-person account of what happened, we tracked down Mr. Jason Stern, a Delegate from Congressional District 6. The following is Mr. Stern's recollection of the day's events."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • History
Amelia Earhart: New evidence tells of her last days on a Pacific atoll (+video)
06-03-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
New information gives a clearer picture of what happened 75 years ago to Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan, where they came down and how they likely survived " for a while, at least " as castaways on a remote island.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Threatens to Seize Camera as "Evidence" After Cops Manhandle Ron Paul Supporter
06-02-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A video has surfaced on Youtube showing a group of Shreveport police officers manhandling a Ron Paul supporter at the Republican State Convention in Louisiana Saturday until he falls down and demands medical assistance.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Mangrove Husbandry
06-02-2012
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arclein
In a bottom-up approach to fighting climate change, the indigenous use of mangroves is now leading local and national plans to stem the destruction of land and communities by coastal flooding an
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Deep Ocean Changes in Southern Ocean
06-02-2012
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arclein
scientists estimate there has been as much as a 60 per cent reduction in the volume of Antarctic Bottom Water, the cold dense water that drives global ocean currents.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphene Solar Cell Efficiency at 8.6%
06-02-2012
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arclein
Graphene solar cells are one of industry's great hopes for cheaper, durable solar power cells in the future. But previous attempts to use graphene, a single-atom-thick honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, in solar cells have only managed power convers
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Bronze Age Plant Exchange
06-02-2012
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arclein
This is an astonishing piece of scholarship which covers a very wide variety of organisms involved in Precolumbian tranOceanic two-way exchanges. If anybody should have qualms about the publication coming out of Brigham Young University ["Mormons"]
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robert klein
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News Link • Military
Florida cemetery buries veteran in a cardboard box
06/02/2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Members of Congress are fuming at the discovery of a WWII veteran who was buried in a cardboard box at Florida National Cemetery in 2004. Sadly, Lawrence Davis Jr. had no loved ones to see him off, so Veteran Affairs buried his remains in the same co
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Chris Menke
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News Link • New World Order
Bilderberg meeting 2012: Everyone not invited
06/02/2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Near Washington, D.C., the Bilderberg meeting started Thursday, May 31 at Chantilly, Virginia, USA at the Marriott Hotel and will end June 3, 2012. Peasants like you and me are not allowed in that hotel. A concerned citizen booked a room way in advan
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Chris Menke
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul and The Many " LibertyPac
06/02/2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Touching on the cornerstone of his monetary policy, Dr. Paul explained how current economic policies hurt the purchasing power of the middle class, how to solve the inflation issues of today, and how freedom can bring people together to create prospe
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Separation of Business and State
06-02-2012
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Becky Chandler
A modest proposal: 28th Amendment, U.S. Constitution: "There shall be a wall of separation between business and state......"
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Becky Chandler
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Feature Article • Propaganda
Donald Duck fills out 1040
Thomas Costanzo
The film begins with Donald Duck, flush with the contemporary patriotic spirit present with the United States' full entry into World War II, dancing to a patriotic song. A radio announcer tells about the new patriotic spirit and asks Donald if he is
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News Link • Police State
NDAA legalizes War Propaganda
06-02-2012
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www.antiwar.com/
Michael Hastings reports at BuzzFeed that an amendment has been inserted into the latest version of the NDAA that would nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987, both of which ban domestic propaganda. It is
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Regulators Gone Wild
06-02-2012
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Gary Jason, American Thinker
How do we explain a government regulatory agency gone wild, turning viciously on its subject and seeking to destroy or impair it, regardless of the harm.
Economists developed a realistic description of political behavior called "public choice theory
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military
The Legend of the Spat-Upon Veteran
06-02-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY David Sirota
It’s a disproven myth, but politicians, keen on dispelling opposition and maintaining militarism, continue to feed the fable.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Deploying Urban Space
06-02-2012
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http://www.inthesetimes.org, BY Maggie Garb
In Rebel Cities, David Harvey says places like Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park are key tools for revolution.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
See Venus Pass the Sun on Tuesday
06-02-2012
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http://www.space.com
Thought the solar eclipse was cool? The Transit of Venus on June 5 really is a once-in-a lifetime experience, occurring every 120 years"and astronomers are getting ready.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Bilderbergers commit a felony?
06-02-2012
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http://rt.com
International lawmakers and other world figureheads are deep in discussion near Washington, DC this week at the 2012 Bilderberg Conference.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Olympic battle: Londoners to form human shield to keep missiles from homes
06-02-2012
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http://www.rt.com
Residents in east London have threatened to form human barricades to prevent missiles being installed on the rooftops of their homes for the Olympic Games.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
‘This is not about China’: US to move majority of warships to Asia-Pacific
06-02-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The US is set to reposition its Navy fleet with the majority of its warships to be assigned to the Asia-Pacific by 2020.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
"Our Elections Are Being Poisoned"
06-02-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Andy Kroll
Have the dark money, front groups, and corporate cash flooding Scott Walker's recall corrupted the state of Wisconsin?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Busting the Myth: There are No Happy Cows
06-02-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Gaye Levy
Over the course of the past few months, I have spent a good deal of time reflecting on my mostly healthy diet, my relatively good health, and the possible if not probable relationship between the two.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gets life in prison
6/2/12
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The Hals Report
Hosni Mubarak, one of the most recent dictators to fall from grace in the middle east was handed down a sentence of life in prison today by judge Ahmed Refaat in a Cairo court for ordering the killings of hundreds of protestors during last summers up
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The Real News
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News Link • World News
Juice Rap News: Episode XIII - A NEWS HOPE.
3-30-2012
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Juice Media
Is an honest Fourth Estate the only Force than can restore peace and balance to the Galaxy? To find out, we consult two of journalism's most influential and inflammatory figures: Rebel journalist, enfant terrible, Julian Assange, who awaits a verdic
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Thane Eichenauer
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Everything you need to know about The Transit of Venus. Plus free eBook giveaway.
06-02-2012
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Tarrin Lupo and Ruby Hilliard
FREE for the next 24 hours! Read our new short story "The Transit of Venus" so you are ready for the super rare event occurring in just a few days. Check out our new blog for a link to the FREE eBook. Also feel free to share this link on Facebook
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentine official denies devaluation planned
06-02-2012
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AP
A top Argentine official denied on Friday that the government plans to devalue the peso amid rumors that drastic official actions are looming.
"We are not going to take any explosive measures," Deputy Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said at a news
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
‘Human barcode’ could make society more organized, but invades privacy, civil liberties
06-02-2012
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New York Daily News
"I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached " a barcode if you will " an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals,” she said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Bilderberg Protester Arrested For Crossing Street
06-02-2012
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InfoWars
The security crackdown surrounding the Bilderberg Group confab in Chantilly, Virginia intensified today after a protester was arrested for little more than crossing the street. The incident followed the arrest of two activists yesterday for taking ph
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Leftist Lawyer Who Doesn't See Any Case Against Zimmerman
06-02-2012
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TalkLeft
Unless the state has packed some good stuff in this next round of discovery, I'm not seeing much of a case. Most of the state's witnesses seem to help George Zimmerman's self-defense case, and the others don't hurt it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. Secret Service Agent Caught on Camera in Road Rage Incident
06-02-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Just as the U.S. Secret Service was getting over the international prostitution scandal from April, another agent was caught on video in a case of road rage this week.
The agent, who has not been identified, was speeding down a North Carolina free
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Head of World Bank warns Europe is heading for 'danger zone' as world markets suffer
06-02-2012
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Daily Mail
Mr Zoellick, after 5 years in charge of the watchdog, said it was ‘far from clear that eurozone leaders have steeled themselves’ for the looming catastrophe amid fears of a Greek exit from the single currency and meltdown in Spain.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Five Years Without a Trial
06-01-2012
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The Agitator
And he might be innocent. “It’s very frustrating when there are bloody footprints at a murder scene and five years go by without any real investigation into the circumstances,” the Judge told the prosecutor who made the request.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Florida judge revokes bond for Trayvon Martin killer
06-01-2012
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Reuters
A Florida judge revoked bail for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, and ordered him to surrender within 48 hours.
The bail revocation came a
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
June 3, 2012 Edition
06-01-2012
John Semmens
DOJ Orders Florida to Cease Voter Purge
The Obama Administration's Department of Justice told Florida election officials that they must halt their efforts to purge non-citizens from the State's voter registration rolls.
T. Christian Herren Jr.,
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Soviet find of water on the Moon in the 1970s ignored by the West
06-01-2012
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http://phys.org, by Lin Edwards
In August 1976 Luna 24 landed on the moon and returned to Earth with samples of rocks, which were found to contain water, but this finding was ignored by scientists in the West.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Books
The Secrets to Nonviolent Prosperity: The Principles of Liberty by Trevor Gamble
06-01-2012
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www.thrivemovement.com
Trevor Gamble is Foster Gamble’s son and has played important roles in the research and coherence of much of the key information in THRIVE - in particular in the areas of true, free-market economics and the liberty perspective.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Icelandic Recovery on Track for a Bounce
06-01-2012
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arclein
This has directly lifted the crushing burden of debt form the shoulders of over one quarter of the Icelandic population, something which many people around the world " but especially in the United States, Greece, Spain, Italy and other nations strugg
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Free To Choose: Refusal is the Ultimate Liberty
06-01-2012
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www.zerogov.com/Bill Buppert
“Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered.” " Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
RNC tries to block Ron Paul Festival!
06-01-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by ausscyn
I took part in my first Ron Paul Festival conference call tonight. It was a real pleasure to meet organizer Bryan Siemon on the telephone, & catch his excitement.
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News Link • Iran
Obama ‘sped up cyber-attacks’ on Iran’s nuclear program
06-01-2012
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New York Times
From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first use of cyberweapons, according to
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’
05-30-2012
Ray McGovern
Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan has been called President Obama’s “priest” as they wrestle with the moral dilemma of assembling a “kill list” of “bad guys,” a role that recalls how established religions have justified slaughters over the centur
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Ingalls Shipbuilding Awarded $2.38 Billion Contract for Detail Design and Construction of LHA 7
05-31-2012
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Market Watch
"Large-deck amphibious ship construction is an important component of our business plan, and we are pleased to have reached agreement with the Navy on this contract," said Ingalls Shipbuilding President Irwin F. Edenzon.
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