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Date Sent: 2012-07-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, July 17, 2012 PM edition |
On the Verge of An All Out War? Massive Military Build-Up in the Persian Gulf
This Is The Best Theory We've Heard Yet For Why Mitt Romney Won't Show His Taxes -- AT&T's Next Ridiculous Move Is Going To Outrage iPhone Users -- Iceland Has Hired An Ex-Cop To Hunt Down The Bankers That Wrecked Its Economy -- Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel -- How the Navy’s Incompetence Sank the ‘Green Fleet’ -- Witnesses Accuse Houston Police Of Responding To Call By Killing The Alleged Unarmed Victim... -- Startup Uses a Smartphone Compass to Track People Indoors -- NSA's Accumulo -- Baltic Dry Index Implodes, Signals Global Economic Collapse -- Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots -- Buying weed with Mountain Hours alternative currency at Breckenridge Cannabis Club -- 'Avengers' Director Whedon Goes On Anti-Capitalist Rant -- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Hammered over the Libor Scandal -- Ben Bernanke pushes Congress to avoid fiscal cliff --
Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
-- Blackwater illegally paid millions in taxpayer money -- Air Force spends $59 per gallon on
biofuel -- Ron Paul: Lost Nebraska, But Can He Still Speak
in Tampa? Or Be Nominated for VP? -- Carville: Romney can’t be
president with Swiss bank accounts -- The Military Draft is ‘Slavery Pure and Simple’ --
Ecuador Should Grant Political Asylum to Wikileaks Founder -- Fukushima
Radiation Could Be 10 Times Higher On The West Coast -- United Nations LOST Treaty Is Another
Step Toward World Government -- Key Ingredient In Rocket
Fuel Found In Food And Water -- A
Short List Of Republican Sex Offenders -- West is using
'blackmail' in new draft of UN resolution on Syria - Lavrov -- TSA to plug UK Olympics security holes -- Mexican 'democracy', US-Style (Op-Ed) -- Nothing Civil About
Washington's War on Syria -- World
Economies on Life Support
Ed Vallejo Tampa Chip-In
Freedom's Phoenix Digital
Magazine READY FOR DOWNLOAD, July 2012 Edition
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News Link • WAR: About that War
On the Verge of An All Out War? Massive Military Build-Up in the Persian Gulf
07-17-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Ben Schreiner
The familiar menace of U.S. war drums have resumed at a fevered pitch, as Iran finds itself once again firmly within the Pentagon’s cross hairs.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Inflation is a Monetary Phenomenon
07-17-2012
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http://paul.house.gov
Later this month Congress will have an unprecedented opportunity to force the Federal Reserve to provide meaningful transparency to lawmakers and taxpayers. HR 459, my bill known as “Audit the Fed,” is scheduled for a vote before the full Congress in
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News Link • Surveillance
Drones Overseas Lead to Drones at Home
07-17-2012
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antiwar.com/Philip Giraldi
The principal function of government since 9/11, even if unintentional, has been to develop strategies to reduce individual liberties and transfer power to the government while not appearing to do so.
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News Link • Government
Why NOT Make Olympic Uniforms in China?
07-17-2012
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http://www.cato.org, by Daniel J. Ikenson
Patriotism, it has been said, is the last refuge of scoundrels. Indeed, with 86% of the American public disapproving of Congress' performance, refuge-seeking politicians have wrapped themselves in the flag to denounce the fact that the U.S. Olympic t
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Empire of Bases Grows
07-17-2012
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www.antiwar.com
It was Jan. 15, 2004, and TomDispatch had only been in existence for a year when Chalmers Johnson, author of the prophetic book Blowback (published in 2000 and a bestseller after the 9/11 attacks), did a piece for this site titled “America’s Empire o
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
This Is The Best Theory We've Heard Yet For Why Mitt Romney Won't Show His Taxes
07-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
It's not clear if voters really care about the fact that Mitt Romney hasn't revealed more than one year of taxes, but the talk surrounding this issue is so loud that it's a "win" for Obama because it's a topic other than the economy and jobs
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News Link • Communications
AT&T's Next Ridiculous Move Is Going To Outrage iPhone Users
07-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
News broke today that AT&T will likely charge iPhone users extra to use FaceTime video chat over cellular (3G or 4G) networks.
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News Link • Economy - International
Iceland Has Hired An Ex-Cop To Hunt Down The Bankers That Wrecked Its Economy
07-17-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
If you were involved in Icelandic high finance in the run-up to the recession, you might want to start watching your back.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel
07-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
Who knew that when the Messiah arrived to herald the Day of Judgment he’d first root through computers to steal documents and record conversations?
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News Link • Future Predictions
Where Do We Go From Here?
07-17-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/ButlerShaffer
Operating on the assumptions (1) that Ron Paul will not be the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, and (2) that he is likely to retire from future presidential campaigns, I focus on the question: where are those who advocate peace and liberty to now direc
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News Link • Energy
How the Navy’s Incompetence Sank the ‘Green Fleet’
07-17-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman
In October of 2009, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus took the stage at a hotel ballroom in Virginia to announce the military’s most ambitious energy plan in decades: a break with the U.S. fleet’s strict dependence on oil.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Drug shown to improve memory in those with Down syndrome
07-17-2012
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Jacque Montgomery
Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found a drug that boosts memory function in those with Down syndrome, a major milestone in the treatment of this genetic disorder that could significantly improve quality of life.
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News Link • Healthcare
Hospitals for Poor May Struggle Further Under Health Care Reform
07-17-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, By Randy Dotinga
A new study finds that so-called "safety-net" hospitals that serve the poor do a worse job overall than other hospitals, a potentially big problem as health care reform boosts the number of people who have insurance and more choice about where they c
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Genetic link to rapid weight gain from antipsychotics discovered
07-17-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Michael Torres
Toronto Scientists have discovered two genetic variants associated with the substantial, rapid weight gain occurring in nearly half the patients treated with antipsychotic medications, according to two studies involving the Centre for Addiction and M
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News Link • Police State
Witnesses Accuse Houston Police Of Responding To Call By Killing The Alleged Unarmed Victim...
07-17-2012
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www.jonathanturley.org
...And Seizing His Friend’s Camera
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
Glyphosate-resistant 'superweeds' may be less susceptible to diseases
07-17-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Brian Wallheimer
Scientists searching for clues to understand how superweeds obtain resistance to the popular herbicide glyphosate may have been missing a critical piece of information, a Purdue University study shows.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Startup Uses a Smartphone Compass to Track People Indoors
07-17-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Jessica Leber
Indoor Atlas says its technology for indoor positioning is highly accurate.
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News Link • Economy - International
Baltic Dry Index Implodes, Signals Global Economic Collapse
07-17-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
The mainstream media attempted to write off the implosion of the index as a fluke tied to the “overproductions of cargo ships” instead of a warning sign of deteriorating demand. The past six months have proven that assertion to be entirely false.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Artificial photosynthesis system gets efficiency boost from graphene
07-17-2012
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http://phys.org, by Lisa Zyga
By converting sunlight into chemical energy, artificial photosynthesis systems could potentially produce renewable, nonpolluting fuels and chemicals for a wide variety of uses. But developing an efficient solar-to-fuel conversion process has turned o
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanoscale scaffolds and stem cells show promise in cartilage repair
07-17-2012
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byJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins tissue engineers have used tiny, artificial fiber scaffolds thousands of times smaller than a human hair to help coax stem cells into developing into cartilage, the shock-absorbing lining of elbows and knees that often wears thin from i
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
First snow leopards collared in Afghanistan
07-17-2012
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http://phys.org,by Wildlife Conservation Society
Two snow leopards were captured, fitted with satellite collars, and released for the first time in Afghanistan by a team of Wildlife Conservation Society conservationists and Afghan veterinarians conducting research during a recent expedition.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Avengers' Director Whedon Goes On Anti-Capitalist Rant
07-17-2012
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www.breitbart.com
So says the guy probably worth somewhere around a gajillion dollars and who likely made somewhere around a thousand times more money from "Avengers" than anyone on the crew. But Whedon's obviously talking about socialism for, you know, other people:
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Nuclear "Regulatory Capture" -- A Global Pattern
07-17-2012
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www.huffingtonpost.com/Karl Grossman
The conclusion of a report of a Japanese parliamentary panel issued last week that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster was rooted in government-industry "collusion" and thus was "man-made" is mirrored throughout the world.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Hammered over the Libor Scandal
07-17-2012
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www.youtube.com
Ben Bernanke says that if you where smart you would have known what was going on and that it's not his job to let people know about global monetary scandals that he may aware of.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ben Bernanke pushes Congress to avoid fiscal cliff
07-17-2012
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www.politico.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday implored Congress to act quickly to pull the country back from the “fiscal cliff” set to go into effect at the end of the year, warning that a failure to do so will further dampen the sluggish economic
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Electro Optical Graphene
07-17-2012
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arclein
. With the placement of a sheet of graphene just one-carbon-atom-thick, the researchers transformed the originally passive device into an active one that generated microwave photonic signals and performed parametric wavelength conversion at telecommu
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News Link • Science
Sea Bed Mining Begins
07-17-2012
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arclein
the seabed authority adopted rules for sulfide prospecting in May 2010, Beijing’s representative filed the country’s application on the same day.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Asteroid Crashes Likely Gave Earth Its Water
07-17-2012
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arclein
In general, bodies that took shape farther from the sun have relatively higher concentrations of deuterium, researchers said.[interesting assertion that I do not trust]
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Beige Fat Cells Discovered
07-17-2012
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arclein
A 2008 paper out of the Dana-Farber lab of Bruce Spiegelman, PhD, had proposed the existence of a third type of fat cell, and now Spiegelman and his team have become the first to isolate them and determine beige fat’s unique genetic profile. They fou
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News Link • Drug War
Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
07-17-2012
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Forbes
After decriminalizing all drugs and opting to treat addicts instead of imprisoning them, Portugal has seen a dramatic decrease in use among her people. The radical notion that we should be caring for those suffering from addiction instead of kidnappi
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Corruption
Blackwater illegally paid millions in taxpayer money
07-17-2012
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http://rt.com
For half a decade, American taxpayers unknowingly spent millions of dollars every year to fund private security agency Blackwater’s so-called “democracy building” missions in Iraq.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Waste
Air Force spends $59 per gallon on biofuel
07-17-2012
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http://rt.com
If you were mad about $4 per gallon of gas, think about this: the Air Force is spending $59 per gallon on "green biofuel" that supposedly has to compete with traditional petroleum jet fuel.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: Lost Nebraska, But Can He Still Speak in Tampa? Or Be Nominated for VP?
07-17-2012
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http://reason.com, Brian Doherty
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) failed to pull a delegate strategy last-minute save of his GOP presidential run in Nebraska over the weekend---failed big, with Paul pulling just two of the state's 35 delegates.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Carville: Romney can’t be president with Swiss bank accounts
07-17-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Eric W. Dolan
Democratic strategist James Carville on Monday wondered why Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney thought he could “get away” with having offshore investments.
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News Link • Military
The Military Draft is ‘Slavery Pure and Simple’
07-17-2012
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http://antiwar.com, John Glaser
Thomas Ricks argues in the New York Times that we should reinstate military conscription (via Chris Preble). He quotes Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who thinks risk of death ought to be thrust on all Americans if the criminals in government decide they wa
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ecuador Should Grant Political Asylum to Wikileaks Founder
07-17-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Mark Weisbrot
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London, where according to Ecuadorian authorities he is “under the protection of the Ecuadorian state,” as he awaits the government’s decision on his application for political
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima Radiation Could Be 10 Times Higher On The West Coast
07-17-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Wahsingtons Blog
We’ve extensively documented the fact that ocean currents bring Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America, and that " rather than adequate ocean dilution - there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation.
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News Link • United Nations
United Nations LOST Treaty Is Another Step Toward World Government
07-17-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Vice Adm. Robert R. Monroe
Ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) would be a giant step toward World Government.
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News Link • Environment
Key Ingredient In Rocket Fuel Found In Food And Water
07-17-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Lisa Garber
There’s nothing quite like an ice-cold glass of rocket fuel on a summer afternoon.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
A Short List Of Republican Sex Offenders
07-17-2012
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http://govtslaves.info
GOP Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
West is using 'blackmail' in new draft of UN resolution on Syria - Lavrov
07-17-2012
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http://www.rt.com/news/blackmail-resolution-syria-
Western governments are trying to blackmail Russia into supporting their interpretation of the Syrian resolution, said Russia’s Foreign Minister.
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News Link • Homeland Security
US agents to plug UK Olympics security holes
07-17-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The US Transport Security Administration has reportedly prepared its personnel to be deployed in UK airports for the Olympic Games.
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News Link • Mexico
Mexican 'democracy', US-Style (Op-Ed)
07-17-2012
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http://www.rt.com
The newly-elected Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto, has started his term by announcing a number of reforms, such as opening the energy sector to private investments.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon sending aircraft carrier to Mideast early
07-16-2012
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AP
The Pentagon is sending an aircraft carrier to the Middle East several months early to make sure at least two carriers will constantly be present in the troubled region.
There are two carriers in the area now, but one was scheduled to leave before
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Navy Fires on Ship in Persian Gulf, One Dead
07-16-2012
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abcnews.go.com
security team aboard the oil supply ship U.S.N.S. Rappahannock fired a .50 caliber machine gun at a "small motor vessel after it disregarded warnings and rapidly approached the U.S. ship" off the coast 30 miles from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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News Link • Activism
Ed Vallejo Tampa Chip-In
07-09-2012
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Ed Vallejo/Daily Paul
As the 2012 RNC looms large on the horizon, preparations are being made...
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